Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete

A team of three magical girls known as Tres Magia protects the town where Utena Hiiragi lives. Like many others, Utena loves these magical girls who valiantly fight in the name of justice. One day, a mysterious black mascot character appears before Utena and grants her the opportunity of a lifetime: a chance to transform into a magical girl.

However, the offer is not what it seems, as Utena has been recruited for an evil organization to fight the magical girls she has always admired. Utena is then forced to confront Tres Magia in battle; but instead of feeling remorse, she unexpectedly finds pleasure in inflicting pain on the magical girls. Completely giving in to her desires, Utena embraces her role as a villain, slowly transforming her adoration for magical girls into a new sadistic obsession.

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Hiiragi, Utena Main

Izumi, Fuuka Japanese

Araga, Kiwi Main

Koga, Aoi Japanese

Morino, Korisu Main

Sugiura, Shiori Japanese

Tenkawa, Kaoruko Supporting

Ikeda, Misaki Japanese

Minakami, Sayo Supporting

Kazama, Mayuko Japanese

Akoya, Matama Supporting

Aisaka, Yuuka Japanese

Anemo, Nemo Supporting

Tsuda, Minami Japanese

Hanabishi, Haruka Supporting

Maeda, Kaori Japanese

Venalita Supporting

Fukuen, Misato Japanese

Sister Gigant Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko Japanese

Kouchiyama, Takashi Producer

Nishimae, Ayaka Producer

Usukura, Ryuutarou Producer

Matsuda, Taiyou Producer

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Jun 29, 2025

Teramol

Recommended

I'm someone who generally doesn't understand the appeal of ecchi anime. Now don't get me wrong, I'm definitely a degen myself but I've always found them to exist solely for the fan service part because they usually just toss the actual plot out the window and at that point I'd rather just go browse some actual full-blown adult works. And I'm also not very familiar with Yuri anime. So needless to say I felt a bit frisky checking this out.

MahoAko is a story about girls' self-discovery, but not the kind you would normally expect in the medium of anime. This show is straight up a ... degenerate fantasy where the writers wanted to see how much they can get away with on TV and I'm very much surprised this ever even got to air. It is fully shameless and self-aware. The entire thing felt like a straight up hentai doujinshi.

As I expected the plot is straight up trash. It only exists for the sexual themes. And speaking of which, we have a full on pokedex of fetishes on this one. There's a lot of tame stuff but some kinkier ones too so everyone can probably find something that works for them, or something that completely turns them off on the flipside.

Besides the degen stuff, the characters are the other main focus of the show. Utena is certainly a main character that will get a lot of mixed feelings from people I'm sure. Personally, I feel like if you are watching a show that's as blatantly messed up as MahoAko, you shouldn't be too surprised in the first place. Outside of her sexual self-discovery, she even goes through some actual character development too, much to my surprise.

In addition to Utena we have the other villains of Enormita and of course the Tres Magia magical girls aka the good guys. The show definitely didn't try to hide the fact that even the magical girls are absolute perverts. I think the cast overall is fine and works for what the show wants to be. Still not sure how I feel about Korisu though. They toned down the stuff with her but I still feel like I'm going to end up on a list after finishing this.

I honestly struggled with rating this show. The story is bad so it all basically comes down to how much enjoyment you get out of the lewdness. Considering how impressive this feat was to get this on TV and I'll admit, opening my eyes more to the genre and some fetishes, I overall still liked it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Nov 25, 2025

caneandtie

Mixed Feelings

This show tries to both be a serious, meaningful mahou-shoujo romp and a plotless ecchi at the same time. Needless to say, it doesn't work. It is incredibly jarring when scenes where the characters have deep interactions with one another are followed by inexplicable sexuality, and this juxtaposition happens repeatedly throughout the show, muddling any gravity the character interactions actually had. It feels like the writers haphazardly mixed together elements from standard magical girl anime and hentai without any attempt to reconcile the differences between the two genres.

If you're just interested for the anime titties, you'll probably like the show. But if you were ... drawn in by the interesting premise, then unfortunately, its insistence on gratuitous eroticism makes the delivery of the plot fall incredibly flat.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Jun 30, 2025

ichigooji

Not Recommended

The Mahou Shoujo (magical girl) theme was a trend between the late ’90s and early 2000s. It was known for its flashy transformation style started by Sailor Moon, and character designs with eye-piercing bright colors. These elements formed a distinct identity for this theme, but over time, the spotlight started to fade and shifted toward isekai. Regardless of the fact that the decline in its popularity is due to the demand moving toward isekai, the magical girl theme, in terms of writing, is restricted by stereotypical constants that are difficult to bypass without losing its identity—compared to isekai, which is considered more flexible in its ... storytelling. The idea of being transported to another world smuggles the writers out of the restrictions of reality and opens limitless possibilities that allow them to build worlds, races, societies, and unique systems of power—even though most of them are lazy and don’t do any of that.

But you know what?
Despite the repetition of ideas and the limitation of this theme, there are those who tried to go against the norm. Some succeeded and gave us a good work like Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magica (based on what those who watched it say, because honestly I haven’t), and some… I wish they hadn’t tried, and produced this garbage that I refuse to name because it’s not fit for human consumption, and because sharing this filth is enough to have me thrown in with Pharaoh.

You should first know that I always give any work its full chance and consume it to the end—even if I don’t like it. But this garbage? I barely finished the first episode, and as soon as it ended, I lost respect for myself. I felt the need to shave my head bald, take a cold shower, and go to the gym to regain what I lost of my manhood before I turn into a Discord Moderator.

I’ll try to summarize what is supposed to be a story, without mentioning character names, just so you understand the hell I went through.

The story is about a girl who admires three magical girls that fight the “Shame Organization” (I named it that). She wishes to be like them. One day, a magical creature appears and offers to turn her into a magical girl, and she accepts his offer. Then she discovers that he was tricking her to make her an evil magical girl and forcibly recruits her into the Shame Organization. She is soon forced to fight those she always loved. It turns out her feelings weren’t innocent or platonic love, but a sadistic pleasure in seeing them suffer and moan. And thus, she exploits her role to derive pleasure from torturing them.

Yes, dear reader, this is not a joke or a late April Fools’ prank.
Someone wrote, directed, animated, and composed this animated rot.
It’s worth mentioning that this anime is adapted from a manga.
Imagine that some businessmen at a production company read it and said: “Hmm, this is a great manga, let’s turn it into an anime.”
And a studio was commissioned to work on it and said: “Hmm, the masterpiece is complete.”
And the strangest part is that it’s getting a second season!
Which means it generated revenue and profit from an audience that watched it and said: “Hmm, this anime is amazing, worth my money.”
And I say: “Hmm, this world is full of degenerates.”

I’d be lying if I said I watched this trash not knowing it had ecchi scenes. But even knowing that, I believe it deserves the classification: “Why isn’t this hentai?” because of how vulgar the scenes are. And it doesn’t stop there—the work glorifies and normalizes blackmail, sadism, and lesbianism as if they’re something comedic, to the point that my facial features wrinkled from how disgusted I was while watching.
All this happens under the guise of a parody of Mahou Shoujo works—I swear if I watched a psychological horror film I wouldn’t have felt such discomfort.
The disaster is that the characters are between 13 and 16 years old, and there’s no story-driven reason for that, which reflects that the work is aimed at deranged lolicon fans.
If this is “comedy,” may God forbid us from it.

But seriously, this depraved work is filth disguised as silly comedy.
It’s a living example of what the anime industry has become—a decline driven by the blind lust of viewers with no care or awareness for the value of what they’re watching.
And this is exactly what pushes them to seek more extreme things to feel pleasure, and then the profit-driven companies come to satisfy these sick desires—even if it’s at the expense of natural human instinct.

So please, don’t watch any nonsense just for pure pleasure.
Think about the value of what you’re watching—before you become one of them.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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