![]() The setup is a fun one, but the show seems to be taking itself so damn seriously that I feel like any fun I had is going to be completely drained out by another twenty minutes. This show is total pulpy trash – I actually enjoyed the first episode a fair bit – but I spent most of the runtime laughing at the show and not with it. Probably best to go watch something else. Iro’s verdict: Trashy Beyond that, I don’t think there’s much else going on here. There are buckets of blood and severed limbs and that doesn’t do anything for me. I guess the action is mildly entertaining, although I personally don’t enjoy watching extreme violence. Add that all up and the show doesn’t seem very interesting. And the guns just seem to be there for an extra layer of EDGE. I mean, I don’t really want another dark and gritty deconstruction of Magical Girl shows, but why even bother bringing them up if you’re not going to toy with genre conventions a bit? The Magical Girl angle just seems like an excuse to give the girls super powers, which they could have obtained in any number of ways. At least from what I’m seeing in the first episode and projecting for the rest of the series, I don’t think they’re fulling taking advantage of the premise. ![]() This is a good concept with average execution at best. I wouldn’t say Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka is good, but if you’re like me and in the mood for some anime junk food tailor made to your love of modern military aesthetics and gun porn, it might be worth a look. Even if the anime takes itself completely seriously, you can’t help but laugh at its audacity. The story and characters themselves are nothing to write home about, but it leans into its specific gimmick in a way you just don’t see that often. There’s some pretty jarring CG in the crowd shots but otherwise it’s acceptable on a technical level. There honestly isn’t much else to say about the anime. At least for now, I’m choosing the former. When your main character is a conventionally attractive anime magical girl spouting lines that are indistinguishable from Solid Snake while cutting a bloody swath through a bunch of generic terrorists, you either have to give yourself up to it or get out entirely. It’s edgy and stupid in the sort of inoffensive way that thankfully makes you laugh more than cringe. It might be that I once drew a similar take on the idea, or that modern military things are kind of my brand of bullshit, but Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka revels in its trashiness so much you almost have to give it credit. This might be the trashiest anime I’ve watched in a while…and yet I found myself genuinely entertained by it. Gee’s verdict: Mahou Shoujo Sans Frontieres But when a new threat appears to endanger the world, she may be forced to once again take up arms to protect humanity. Having left that life behind, she struggles to fit into peacetime. Alternative title(s): Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka, Gee Came Up With This Idea TooĪsuka Otori is the former leader of the Magical Five, a squad of magical girls who saved the world from a supernatural menace.
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