April 22, 2023
Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers - First two episodes
This is clearly the series where the animators took ALL the Drugs.
Seriously, it's as coked-up as Gurren Lagan, psychedelic as Flip Flappers, and whatever FLCL was on, they had some of that too.
In two episodes they're still getting the band back together, so they haven't gotten TOO far into who and what the villains are, but basically ten years from their present day, Akihabara was invaded by goons in armor with spherical smiley-face helmets who were confiscating anything Otakus were into, as well as arresting and taking away the Otakus, claiming they were taking them under "Protection" but actually placing them in camps.
In the intervening time, one who escaped their grasp to become Otaku Hero has pulled together a small revolutionary force to fight back, and their first (and largely only) victory was to re-take the ruins of Akihabara. Part of his army were three magical girls, Anarchy, Blue and Pink. But in the last few years a war of attrition has eaten away at Otaku Hero's will to fight. Blue has been captured, Pink disappeared, and Anarchy is trying to keep things going, but can't quite do it without him.
They manage to repel what could have been the final rout, and OH rediscovers his will to fight. But he knows they need all three girls. So they set off to rescue Blue. There's an Otaku prison under the now shuttered Tokyo Big Sight, and Blue is in a 7th level sub-basement, heavily bound and hanging in a spiderweb. When they arrive to free her, a big boss robot emerges from the floor, but it is no match for Anarchy, who is so bored she gets out a kotatsu and tea while it's trying to pummel her into the floor. And once they defeat it, and unbind Blue, well, we learn that Blue is the perverted nympho of the magical trio....
In the second episode, they track down where Pink is running an eternal rave party, and it's practically next door to their headquarters. But persuading her to leave being queen of her followers isn't going to be easy. Understanding her isn't easy either, as she's a small blonde Loli in a pink dress... and a gas mask she never removes, which muffles her words to the extent that only Blue can translate for her. Her condition to rejoin the resistance is that Anarchy and Blue must defeat her on her choice of battlefield - her mind - after giving them pills to bring them into mental unity. Fast forward through the insane kind of crap that goes on in this kind of psychic warfare outside of reality, and they eventually convince Pink to rejoin them.
They're quite a mixed batch, even as Magical girls go. Anarchy uses a wand, Blue a weird demonic-looking scythe, and Pink wields an enormous hypodermic. And don't get me started on their transformations....
Yeah, it's fucking weird as hell, so it interests me enough to stick with it long enough to see if they can make sense out of it.
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