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mahou shoujo ni akogarete 2024/08/12 @671.55 an extremely surprising show. i don't watch anime as much as i used to, i must be at an age where i start to look to the past more than the present already as most of what i do watch is either stuff i have already seen, or stuff from around that time, but this show managed to find its way into my attention via twitter and a friend of mine. all i had going in was the very basic premise, a girl accidentally joins the side of evil in a magical girl anime but discovers a joy in messing with the heroes. i love a good story from the villains' perspective and i love magical girls, so this was enough to convince me. i expected a clumsy parody, maybe a couple jokes in bad faith but some okay slop to numb my brain while i had nothing else to do. what i did NOT expect, was simultaneously a show so as in love with magical girls as its protagonist to the point of earnestly standing as a modern contemporary in many ways, AND the hottest yuri ecchi i've ever seen? i'm gushing over gushing over magical girls. i'm not really a reviewer but i just had to get this out somewhere, this show is a 10/10 for me. i'm not saying it's literally perfect of course, but that i enjoyed it about as much as i could a show. each and every character is just so loveable, the magical girl story is adorable with all my favourite tropes tweaked enough to seemlessly fit its sexy side, and just, such an amazing exploration of s&m kinks and practices, girls who are each into their own things and how these things are discovered and how they change how they interact with the world around them (including how they fight!). i kind of need you to understand that i largely hate ecchi anime, i don't really have a problem with it, it's just that the way they so often bend over backwards to justify sex stuff never feels real or hot, and the constant feeling like it's trying to pander to the viewer while not having the confidence to actually commit to many of its ideas drives me insane. what i love so much about this show is that while, as an ecchi anime, obviously its sex stuff is in service of the viewer, it doesn't really feel that way. as silly as the idea of the villain helping the magical girls discover kinks is, it feels like a real interaction between these characters, how they bounce off each other and develop their feelings. it's especially helped by the fact that there's genuine love between the characters that develops, there are real lesbian relationships here, and it all interweaves with the battles between them all as metaphors for love and desire. of course, it's a show about high schoolers (and one younger) and has sex every episode, and to begin with at least there is dubious/no consent so if that weirds you out you should probably avoid it, but like. i think it's worth it for its depiction of queer sex in general, and i know what you watch anyway. it's anime, don't act like you haven't seen or enjoyed some lewdness at SOME point before. i'm very much of the opinion that all in fantasy is fair game as long as you know what you're getting into and nobody genuinely gets hurt. it's also part of the idea of the series itself, there's age play! it's porn but it's more intelligent and cute than you think, i promise. anyway show good sorry for my terrible writing
i made blog? 2024/08/12 @526.42 yeah. twitter is and always has been insufficient for these kinds of things and "threads" go against the very core of the site, and while cohost is capable of long-form writing, as the method of engaging with the site is a timeline that borrows culturally from both twitter and tumblr, short-medium form is really what it's about, and i still haven't really figured out how i fit into it as someone who isn't particularly good at "posting" and certainly doesn't make things worthy of a social media timeline outside of youtube. as sites to engage with people, i figure the mind blasts i intend for this place are best kept slightly out of the way, not to ruin peoples' days when it gets negative and clog up their feed if i decide to infodump. likewise, this is a place i can do these things without directly screaming at those close to me who frankly deal with enough of my emotions on the day to day. of course, they're still the target audience. i hope you're reading, friends. i hope i get some messages soon like "i read your blog post, it sounds cool, i'll check it out!" or "i read your blog post, i didn't know you felt that way. do you wanna talk about it?" et cetera. but it's just as well if this is just my screaming void, i suppose. less embarrassing than a twitter profile full of sadposts, i think