Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls

After the Ice Queen brings eternal winter to the land of Nariadia, the only hope to restore balance is to gather human warriors and give them the power of Naria crystals. For this reason, Animaru has chosen the middle schoolers Urara, Inaho, and Hanabi as warriors. The girls, however, are much more focused on mocking the events happening around them and trying to earn money as idols.

When the Ice Queen's familiars appear, they use the "Ice Mirror" to trick the girls into performing ridiculous skits. Will Urara, Inaho, and Hanabi ever step up and embrace their roles as magical girls, or will their antics prove too distracting to themselves?

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Hanabi Main

Koga, Aoi Japanese

Animaru Main

Ishidate, Koutarou Japanese

Inaho Main

Kuwahara, Yuuki Japanese

Urara Main

Fukagawa, Seria Japanese

Urara's Mom Supporting

Pink no Majuu Supporting

Mimori, Suzuko Japanese

Ishidate, Koutarou Director, Series Composition

Koga, Aoi Theme Song Performance

Kuwahara, Yuuki Theme Song Performance

Fukagawa, Seria Theme Song Performance

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Jan 6, 2017

NQ2Resq

Recommended

"Vatican Carrots!"

Look at all of the bad reviews. How many episodes have they seen? 1 or 2 episodes is undoubtedly not enough to give this anime a holistic and comprehensive review.

Don't let this anime's synopsis fool you. If you take this anime seriously, then its score of 3.91 will be no shock to you. But this anime is not meant to be taken seriously. Its story is actually just a background for the refreshingly candid and original humor. The animation and voice acting are deliberately this way to perfectly fit the anime's theme. It's just satirically hilarious.

Granted, its humor is not for everyone. Mahou Shoujo ... Naria Girls' humor is very particular, and it expects the audience to have some kind of prior understanding/experience with its type of humor. It's not at all a generic comedy, and it's definitely not everyone's cup of tea.

Each episode is kind of structured in a certain way. The three Naria girls start out in some situation, to which there is often some impromptu comedic conversation. They then encounter a monster, and this monster leads them to enact a scenario impromptu, and as a result of the spontaneity, hilarity ensues. I really cannot praise the voice actors enough. From what I saw, each of their comedic skits was almost totally impromptu, with maybe some minimal guide-lining to make sure that they at least advance the plot a little bit. To be able to come up with this kind of humor on the spot is pretty impressive.

There is also the "main" story, in which the Naria girls need to fill up their Naria power to defeat the evil Ice Queen. The story itself has its moments, and if the comedy was not included, then it might have had the potential to become a compelling short story. It truly wasn't a terrible story. Cliche, but decently interesting.

I think the main thing that is very off-putting at first is the art, animation, and conversational style. To me, it seemed like the voice actors were actually video-recorded, and then they were reskinned in production to become the anime characters. So as a result, the animation seems strange and it doesn't seem well-planned. Most of the time there isn't really animation at all, it's just a still picture with sound effects and a narrative voice-over. And at first, the unfamiliar comedy is a bit jarring because the girls tend to all talk at once with seemingly no direction and no script. But all of these things actually are what contribute so much to the humor: all of the comedy seems impromptu and very candid. The bad animation style, the random conversations; each piece deliberately emphasizes this anime's satirical nature.

Don't take this anime seriously. Don't watch it expecting an emotional, inspiring story. Don't watch it expecting the battle scenes to blow you away with beautiful animation. Don't watch it expecting to learn a deeper moral lesson than its surface implies.

If you want a laugh, and if you want some quality, refreshing, candid humor, this is the anime to watch.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jan 14, 2024

TheSparkledash

Mixed Feelings

If you go into this show expecting a "normal" anime, you're going to be very disappointed. This is not a normal anime. The best way I can describe it is a couple VTubers doing improv sketch comedy in VR chat. There was an attempt at an overarching story, but it's so cliche that it really isn't worth paying attention to for the most part (with the exception of the final episode where everything suddenly gets way more serious out of nowhere, which gave me some serious tonal whiplash. In a good way that is)

I don't think I even need to say anything about the animation. ... It's bad. Probably the worst I've seen in anime so far. Just some bad motion capture on ugly, static backgrounds. Although I will admit, the fact that their outfits don't change even a little bit when they transform is kinda funny.

Despite all that tho, I can't bring myself to hate this anime. It's clear that the people who made this had a lot of fun and it clearly wasn't meant to be a "good" show anyway. So if you're looking for an actual anime to watch, please avoid this show. But if you just pretend it's a vtuber stream you can probably get some enjoyment out of this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Aug 7, 2016

LIQfilms

Not Recommended

Naria Girls is perhaps one of the worst anime I have ever seen and is definitely the worst title from this year thus far, even worse than other pieces of dookie such as "Big Order" or "Mayogia". It's that bad!

Everything about this anime reeks of laziness from the opening credits, to the animation to the voice acting. Nothing in this show is remotely decent and everything makes me want to throw up into a basket of puppies.

The plot makes no sense and I won't even try to explain it in this review. It's about three girls that become magical girls and have to fight the ... forces of evil or some crap like that. Boring and generic. What really makes this anime so bad, however, is the atrocious "script"...if you could even call it that. Most of the dialogue between the three girls is improvisation and none of what they say is funny or even makes sense half the time. Every joke falls flat and the topics they talk about don't even make any sense with no consistency or flow between what each person is saying. It's like these voice actresses got drunk, spoke some random trash which was recorded and lazily dubbed over animated girls. If there is some 'deep' symbolism behind what they're saying, I have no clue what it is (and let's face it, there is none)

The animation is terrible. It consists of either still frames, which you'd think would at least have some good quality artwork, but NOPE! These frames are badly drawn and look like aids. The other half is made up of CGI (ohhhhh my favourite!) which look terrible. The models have no texture and look like they were ripped from a PS1 game and the characters are constantly moving around or jumping. It's almost as bad as the film 'Food Fight'. Not only that, the mouths don't sync up to what they're saying and often, the two character models will walk into each other, passing through one another entirely. This extremely lazy and I wonder how the hell in 2016 could this be played on television?

I'm not even sure who this anime is marketed at. Even with all the pandering and the such, I'm sure no sweaty otaku in Japan would even go near this show with a 50-foot pole. It's the worst anime of this year and you should stay far away from it unless you're one of this sick twats like me who enjoy watching garbage anime.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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