"Dan Da Dan": If you've been missing something with a gonzo plotline and animation more along the lines of Kill la Kill or FLCL. Here you go.

"Acro Trip" Ep. 02: Seems the magical world in this town is really small. It's just Berry Blossom and Chrome fighting over minor stuff. And the rules are that you can't do magic on the mundanes. So when a robber with a knife invades the convenience store where we last left our characters, The pink-haired girl who is BB is left hiding behind the chips, while Kuroma's natural talent for talking people into evil changes a simple robbery into a hostage situation. Chizuko is miffed at Kuroma for not being able to use his powers (Which are?) to fight back, which is how we find out that magic is limited to the people involved in this world. In the meantime, Chizuko's hero-worship of Berry Blossom shames her into sneaking into the back room and transforming. She comes out in typical Magical Girl fashion, but then takes down the robber with a clothesline to the neck. After untying the two, she excuses herself, saying that she and the police don't get along so well....

In the second half, I turns out that Chrome and Grandpa know each other. They're having snacks when Chizuko gets home (She's in a rush because there's a Berry Blossom special on TV she desperately wants to see). But Chrome teleports her into his lair in order to show off. While showing her around, he leads her into a storage room, and the door gets stuck from the outside due to a suspiciously out of place broom propped up against the sliding door. Chrome then claims that the teleport used up his magic for the month, since it's like data on a phone plan, and he's throttled now. And uses that as a pretext to get Chizuko to sign the magical contract which is conveniently in a box there in the store room. He tries to teach her how to use the magic to remove the obstruction - which is funny, because he explains that he just uses it, he doesn't understand it. (Hello Clarke's third law, or Niven's corollary) He just tells her to grunt and imagine pushing it. But then suddenly the door opens, and... It's Grandpa! What's he doing there? Turns out some time ago Gramps found a dejected villain sitting by the side of the road and decided to take him home, and let him live in the crawlspace (how kind...) although this huge base is a lot bigger than he remembers the crawlspace being. And here Chrome had told Chizuko that it was extra-dimensional, it's actually under the house. So they climb the stairs into Grampa's place and she gets to see her show.

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