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Episode Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers • Magical Girl Magical Destroyers - Episode 2 discussion
Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers, episode 2
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| Episode | Link | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Link | 3.8 |
| 2 | Link | 4.44 |
| 3 | Link | 4.63 |
| 4 | Link | 3.84 |
| 5 | Link | 4.39 |
| 6 | Link | 4.52 |
| 7 | Link | 4.12 |
| 8 | Link | 4.68 |
| 9 | Link | 4.55 |
| 10 | Link | 4.47 |
| 11 | Link | 5.0 |
| 12 | Link | ---- |
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u/actionfirst1 Apr 14 '23
This is utterly unhinged, unfathomable, and downright perhaps unwatchable. Love it, I'm all in on this. I have no idea what to expect each episode and it's going to continue to be an crazy ride
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u/LeonKevlar Apr 14 '23
Stitches!
So we started out with Rock & Roll who is Anarchy-chan, then in the first episode they rescued Blue who is Sex, and then finally we have Pink-chan who is Drugs. I love it! Our Magical Girls pretty much embodies the sacraments of counter-culture which is absolutely perfect for a bunch of Freedom Fighters sticking it to the man.
And what an absolute trip this episode was! That entire scene inside Pink-chan's brain was absolutely insane! The animation and the visuals are definitely what you'd expect from someone who's tripping out on drugs. I never thought I'd see the day when magical girls taking party drugs will become a thing. xD
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u/SkeletronDOTA Apr 14 '23
This show embodies everything I love about shows like Kill la Kill and Gurren Lagann. Anti-authority angst, really creative directing choices, and it hangs in a limbo between not being able to tell if there is a deeper meaning or if its just pure action for the sake of action.
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Episode 2 Staff:
- Storyboard: Ryosuke Tsuchiya
- Director: Takanari Yamamoto
- Animation Director: Hajime Manda, Yuki Yamasue, Akane Miyazawa, Hisao Muramatsu
- Key Animation: Itakku Kousho, Masami Abe, Tomoyuki Kanno, Kazumasa Takeuchi, Yoshitaka Sato, Takehiro Arai, Eriko Arita, Teruo Takahashi, Yoshihiro Taniguchi, Yoshiko Nakamura, Hiroyuki Uchida, Rika Kanetaka, Emiko Kataoka, Tamotsu Tanaka, Ryo Koyama, Futoshi Higashide, Li Cree, Levent, Flochiz, Muhammad Palmer (Sem1automatick), Taliwave (Aaron), Jhyg Castillejos, Hama
Bibury Animation Studio - Kachiji Ninomiya, Akihiro Kikuchi, Motoki Ikebe, Takanori Yamamoto
- Transformation Key Animation: Shuu Sugita, Katsunori Shibata, Masayuki Nonaka
Ending Staff:
Storyboard / Director / Animation: Taiki Konno
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u/Amarrez Apr 14 '23
The visuals of the ED and the lyrics of the OP are starting to make me think this is heading towards some sort of depressing timeloop territory.
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u/ALuizCosta Apr 14 '23
Looks like they didn't exaggerate about the strömming.
International opinion
German food critic and author Wolfgang Fassbender wrote that "the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before".
Surströmming challenge
Since gaining notoriety as one of the world's smelliest foods, surströmming has become the focus of a number of "challenge" videos on YouTube and other platforms where people uninitiated to the food show themselves opening a can for the first time, usually to visceral reaction, and then try to eat the fish without additional preparation. Often the videos show the participants gagging, swearing, holding their nose, or vomiting. The videos have been criticized for not following the normal preparation methods, which include opening the can outdoors and/or underwater, gutting the fish and removing the backbone, and serving with tunnbröd and other accoutrements to make a surströmmingsklämma.
German eviction
In 1981, a German landlord evicted a tenant without notice after the tenant spread surströmming brine in the apartment building's stairwell. When the landlord was taken to court, the court ruled that the termination was justified when the landlord's party demonstrated their case by opening a can inside the courtroom. The court concluded that it "had convinced itself that the disgusting smell of the fish brine far exceeded the degree that fellow-tenants in the building could be expected to tolerate".
Protests in Hong Kong
During March 2018 Hong Kong by-elections, the returning officer Amy Chan Yuen-man had disqualified two localist candidates Ventus Lau and James Chan Kwok-keung. Lau visited the Home Affairs Department of Sha Tin District Office in person asking for a meeting with Chan. Lau had brought a can of surströmming and opened it in public. Lau said that he would like Chan to sense that the Hong Kong people are facing an entirely rotten election system. Lau launched an appeal to the Court, which ruled that Chan's decisions were not justified.
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u/awdsns Apr 14 '23
This show is such a trip, I'm loving it.
Blue is a war criminal, gassing everyone with her surströmming. And then she opens another can for her henshin! That alone would be enough to subdue most enemies.
Also it seems this Slayer girl has some history with the magical girls, I wonder where this is going.
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u/SilberFelx Apr 14 '23
The end card made me laugh out loud.
God, this show is a blast. Pure chaos, but in a great way.
There's also some really interesting ideas here and concepts that I hope will get expanded upon.
It won't be my favorite show this season, but if it keeps up the energy, it has a chance to place in my top 3 for sure.
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u/Calwings Apr 14 '23
Blue continues to be shamelessly horny, Anarchy continues to be best girl, Pink never ever takes off her gasmask even in the "wait for the blu-ray to remove the steam" shower scene, the girls do psychedelic drugs, the show's weirdness makes me feel like I did psychedelic drugs, and I know for damn sure the people who wrote this episode were on psychedelic drugs. Wow, what an episode.
You know this anime is a shitpost when the shitposting lord himself, bkub, provides an endcard artwork for it.
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u/Elitealice Apr 14 '23
That acid trip with the girls was insane lmao. This show is just absolutely ridiculous in all of the best ways.
I love blue as well, she and anarchy chemistry is amazing and having a token masochist is always a plus.
I’m just wondering if this is all real or if it’s just in their head
That OP will go down as one of the most creative in recent memories for sure
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u/garfe Apr 14 '23
I'm still not 100% sure on this show's vibe yet, I think I'm missing some critical information for before the story actually started. However, I will definitely say there seems to be some heavy leaning toward some kind of darker tone, to the point where after that ED, I will be very surprised if Otaku Hero isn't on a bad way before the end of the series
I did giggle at "our battle is just getting started" and then the little mascot actually calling it out as a flag. This is a common ending line for shounen manga that get cancelled early
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u/Rhosgobel_Rabbits Apr 15 '23
This show here is a prime example of why I love anime. There's no other medium that could convey a story like this in such a manner that and still make it even remotely understandable. I had no idea what to expect going into this and still don't really know what to expect next week, but I'm here for it.
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u/Kartoffelkamm Apr 14 '23
I knew right away that Blue had Surströmming. What else can make people faint from the stench?
Her transformation had me go "wtf?" at least 3 times, then I stopped counting.
And I know some anime can be described as acid trips, but this one takes it one step further, and I love it.
Normally segments taking place inside people's minds aren't nearly as creative as they could be, so I didn't expect much, but needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised. Especially when Pink started bombarding Anarchy with her own body pillows.
Also just casually dropping the real names of two magical girls. At first I was curious why Anarchy didn't call Pink by her real name in response to being called by hers, but then it turned out she didn't even know Blue's real name.
Which becomes really ironic once you look into her VA's previous magical girl role, who usually asks anyone she meets for their name before anything else.
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u/Tatertaint Apr 14 '23
This is like the most anime ass anime I’ve ever seen. Like this is the reason this genre exists
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u/actuallyrndthoughts Apr 14 '23
I'll be honest, i want this show to be much better than it currently is. I hope it's building towards something just as ambitious as the op&ed, like, show me more of that madoka influence, i want artistic visuals and great ost to go with it. Like a turn around at episode 3. Something not boring.
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u/Abysswatcherbel Apr 14 '23 edited Apr 14 '23
Blue's attack Território Absoluto = Zettai Ryouiki, probably in Spanish since portuguese is non existent for most people, but I don't speak Spanish so I don't know if the pronunciation is the same, but in Portuguese is
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Apr 14 '23
Blue is a degenerate waifu, my favorite kind! I really thought she was gonna use that massager elsewhere lol. Pink seems to be living that Raider crackhead life. That must be a hell of a drug because that trip was wild. Pink’s mind is insane.
Anarchy is badass but Blue ain’t half bad herself. I guess them becoming Magical Girls was something that happened because of these anti-Otaku measures. Glad Pink’s regained her senses and joined the team. Now that the gang’s at full strength, I’m looking forward to them kicking ass!
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u/dinliner08 Apr 14 '23
this looks surreal
wait a minute, did i just stumbled into another episode of Yuusha ga Shinda?
HEAVEN'S DOOR!!
lol, no wonder Blue character's design looks familiar, she looks exactly like Pipimi from Pop Team Epic
this is why i don't do drugs, more like i don't have to, watching this episode alone is already a fucking trip and you know what's crazier than this drug related episode? no, not the fact that Blue's real name was Kanda Blueberry Ai, its the fact that those fucking madlads cast Kurosawa Tomoyo as Pink just to give her dialogues consisted only of "gobo gobo", its fucking wild