Dear Yuushi your problem is not that you are not an adult your problem is that he's a misogynistic asshole who doesn't respect you regardless of age having saved you from a dog once as a child does not give him a get-out-of-assholery card that means you should forgive him for this in fact, not even having saved you from a demon more recently gives him this card because you saved him too, what with letting him in and giving him refuge and lying to soldiers on his behalf and leading him to the dragon and then letting him hide in the library he owes you more than you owe him like WAY more and now would be a good time to hand him over to authorities btw I should have realized something was wrong with this narrative as soon as I learned the whole story of why Yuushi is so obsessed with him apparently it's because he saved her from a dog as a little kid, then walked with her in the woods until they found a flower she was looking for, then disappeared leaving her alone there without so much as good bye all the while dismissing her own attempts to thank him and help him that's what she's so grateful for that's why she likes him ಠ_ಠ that's kind of a low bar isn't it as it always is with anime girls falling in love with guys and feeling ~eternal gratitude~ to them and all that stuff he's awesome just for that one thing many years ago she has to continuously prove herself to him just to get him to remember her name why why why why okay I'll stop pretending I don't know why now I do ಠ_ಠ frankly, the only magical girl anime I remember explicitly not falling into any of those traps without being ~serious and deconstructive~ is Nanoha Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha that anime is perfect forever

dear Arc sexual assault is not a proper response to a girl asking you to treat her like an adult and in case you were not aware, that's what it's called when you knock a girl off the ladder she was standing on, grab her and kiss her where she has repeatedly asked you not to touch her and not to kiss her yes, she gets that you think her forehead is soft and nice to touch this is not a good reason for you to touch her forehead without permission Arc no Puchi Puri Yuushi, your "perfect anime" badge is thus revoked ew why can't you give a leading guy personality that includes fucking RESPECTING women??????????????????

I also have a soft spot for characters with this habit of just commanding others without a hint of expectation that they will be questioned or defied Miles Vorkosigan Lina Inverse Arc okay Arc is the least awesome of them but still

although I do dislike the trope where one character pretends to sleep to get a genuine reaction out of the other, then reveals they've been awake all along I get pretending to sleep, I get accidentally witnessing something that wasn't meant for the awake you; hell, I even get intentionally spying for something that isn't meant for the awake you but why do you have to tell the other that you've been awake and embarrass them that's mean I guess I just really really really hate pranks as a concept

and how Arc just doesn't think of Yuushi ~that way~, she's just a kid to him, come on, does he look like that kind of pervert but but Yuushi is actually 17 and he's hot and she gets flustered and it's hopelessly one-sided and she takes care that he does not notice and it's not tsundere at all, it's her separating her uncontrollable emotional responses from her logical cautiousness and rational thinking finally identifying myself as aro ace has made me much softer on tropes like this as I finally realized that I don't understand this because I'm just of different orientation, not because of bad writing of course on the other hand, I now consciously notice many many many feminist red flags that I used not to but this anime is perfect and I love it

okay but Arc I am usually wary of obvious love interest candidates for magical girls, they are usually super annoying in all senses but Arc seems amazing so far his character is getting so well defined gosh sneaking in the library getting noticed startling the librarian into falling off the ladder catching the ladder before it falls on top of the librarian it's not often that I am happy to see a guy who could not be there, but Arc, yes more of him please

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i absolutely love this show two girls, one 17 and one I thnk 10-11... best friends and they have magic power to make their clothes look like whatever they want to look like and they get different part time jobs as school assignments and they get super excited about pretty uniforms they get to wear and there isn't any shaming about it in the narrative, no "haha silly girls look at them being silly", just absolutely cute happiness and the uniforms have long (and puffy) skirts, just above the shoes so they don't trip, and high collars, and never any cleavage, which would be super inappropriate on two little girls anyway (yuushi looks 11 too after all) but let's not pretend it stops most anime ever and these are just pretty, practical and comfortable clothes, and the girls revel in this power and giggle and factor uniforms they get into their decision of which jobs to pick and IT IS GLORIOUS

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wait wait wait what IS the difference between Heavenly King and King of Heaven??? what the fuck, Kokoru why are you breaking inner logic of the story, first with Platina candidacy, and now this what when weird things were weird in Madoka: The Rebellion Story, they were meant to be plot-related weird! Clashing art style was a sign of a witch's barrier, as it should have been. is it the same here, or do the writers just no care

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oh my god poor Erumina it's such a surprise to her that not everyone's dads suck poor kid I love her habit of deflecting Glenda's questions by pretending they were for someone else, though they are a good match

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1) the queen is either a huge troll or the worst. principal. ever. "Did I forget to tell you?" yes, yes you did 2) since when exactly is Kokoru a Platina Princess candidate? In literally the previous episode, Glenda and Yuushi were seeking out the Crystal flower as the canindates, CONSPICIOUSLY WITHOUT HER unless she was there all along and we just didn't notice her, which does seem to be a running gag, but... really?

I really hope that at some point down the line Kokoru snaps and gives these two a good beating, or at least yells at them until they cower poor girl has to put up with two "adults" behaving like kindergarteners and it doesn't seem that her sense of humor would enable her to enjoy that as a good show just like mine doesn't T_T

okay so I really like this trope "characters who dislike each other and think themselves each other's opposites talk in unison without noticing it" it even erases the discomfort from the scene itself (accusing each other of being impostors)

also I can hear that "mazoku" translates as "demon" plain as day, and I am side-eyeing the "monster" translation from Slayers SO HARD

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I LOVE YOU, THAT POST I REBLOGGED A WHILE AGO I've been feeling down, so I wanted to watch something to cheer me up. Magical girl genre is ideal for this - cute and powerful girl protagonists! That is, as long as it's not something like PMMM >_< not that it's not amazing, but not really cheering up material and of course, a lot of magical girl animes are really catering to dude audiences, with boring-pov-dude love interest, huge boobs and unnecessary creepy sexualization (LOOKING AT YOU HERE, MAI-HIME) BUUUUT I found a perfect one! A little girl-looking protagonist who is NOT being sexualized (wow that would be gross) (never ever going to google fanart btw) female rival deuteragonist female secondary roles cute art style cute&kind coming of age story thank you for existing <3