「十五歳の船出」 (Jyuugo Sai No Funade) "The 15 Year Old Sets Sail" Would this reboot of a franchise from the previous decade be JC Staff's attempted take on Flip Flappers? The post Twin Angel [...]
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The Gist: Amatsuki Meguru is a rural island girl who’s moved to Tokyo. She dreams of becoming a super hero. Kisaragi Sumire is a tsundere who’s secretly already a hero fighting power ranger style [...]
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Initial impression – boring and formulaic Haruka and Aoi are the magic girl heroine duo Twin Angel.  During the day they’re just normal jr. high school students, but at night when evildoers come out, they transform into Twin Angel and save the day.  Tomorrow, their school is hosting the presentation of a mystical tiara at [...]
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Unless one is going for something Darker and Edgier, magical girls, by their very nature, have to exist in a sort of simplified version of Real Life, where Improbable Aiming Skills are de rigeur, and indeed on the lower end of the power spectrum. It is a world where teenage (and younger) girls can go [...]
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