Tejina-senpai

Magical Sempai is nothing amazing, but nothing terrible.

Its the story of a school girl who is very enthusiastic about magic.
A new boy reluctantly joins her club and she constantly tries to demonstrate magic tricks to him and constantly fails, leading to a lot of fanservice; panty shots and boob shots.

There isn't much of a story. The episodes are 12 minutes with each episode broken down into even smaller pieces.

Although the characters are not deep or complex they are all fine. No one is annoying.

If you want to watch an anime where a cute clumsy girl tries to do magic tricks and end up ... accidentally showing her panties instead then you can watch this.

This anime looked like it would be a fun comedy anime with some fan service, boy was I wrong. For context, every week I watch a 12-16 episode anime in a single night and since this was on my list, I decided to give it a try, but that's a whole 2 hours and 10 minutes of my time wasted. I never thought that 12 minutes and 30 seconds could be so long.

Firstly, the story is bad. It is about a girl who really wants to revive her old "magicians club" that was being disbanded due to having only 1 member. One day however a ... male named Assistant-kun (I don't remember if his real name was ever mentioned) was searching for a club and stumbled into the room where the magician (she will be called "sempai" now) is at. She forces him to join the club and do magic tricks that she always fails. 3/10


The art is nice; the characters actually look pretty good, especially sempai. It wasn't a pain to look at (at least the art wasn't) and because of that, the art gets the highest score of 7/10.

Characters are bland. Each of them is the exact same and never changes. 1 girl loves making balloon animals but for some reason really loves her brother (like unhealthy type love) and throughout the anime, she doesn't change. It's just the same thing over and over again. 3/10

I really struggled to sit through this anime. Luckily, the episodes were only 12, and a half minutes, but those 12 minutes felt like hours. I nearly fell asleep in my chair from how boring it was. The comedy is completely reliant on Sempai getting herself into classic ecchi positions. She gets put into weird positions that expose her panties; her clothes will be ripped off (in one case, pops); her boobs are constantly being shown, etc. I don't care about fan service, and all that, but when it's all you rely on for comedic value, it is really annoying. I couldn't enjoy this for the life of me. 2/10 for enjoyment.

I will be fair to this anime and give it a 6/10, but I really debating whether or not to put it lower than that. Watch it if you need to fall asleep and you have insomnia, I guarantee you will be out in 5 minutes.

TL:DR
Boring, 5/10.

I don't think this anime is good for quite obvious reasons: the lack of plot and character development. I understand that in 12 episodes of 15 minutes each it is very difficult to make a well-articulated plot, but I don't understand why a person should watch an anime full of comic gags already seen (in other series and repeated in the episodes). The characters don't even seem interested in the main plot, generating a feeling similar to that which certain actors generate when they play a film reluctantly. The idea of explaining magic tricks is nice, but I think the way in which the explanations ... have been attempted is totally wrong, both because they are hasty and because the characters themselves don't seem interested. Tell me, what's the point of explaining things that don't affect history? I'll tell you: nothing. One of those series that you forget the next day; if it wasn't short, I would have definitely dropped it.