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I found this title buried in my watch-list and dove right in without looking it up. And binged it in one go.
As others have already pointed out: if you're looking for epic clashes between super heroes, look elsewhere. This is a standard school life harem and the whole magic thing exists mainly as reason for some parts of the plot to happen.
It is overall light-hearted, cute and funny. However, it does play the "more serious" card here and there with characters dealing with their anxieties or breakdowns as well as in the very scarce moments addressing the supernatural background plot.

While the heroines are quite stereotypical, ... I wouldn't call them bland or shallow. They all have their moments. Two of them clearly get more developpement than the others but it doesn't feel like a big problem when looking back.
Now for protag-kun, forget the usual shy loser finding himself in all kinds of involuntary groping situations, he's actually kind of awesome in his own way and doesn't seem to give much thought to the horny stuff. In fact, you could probably remove the romantic feelings and still end up with a nice story about friendships. Tomoyo's secrets would still work the same. The impressive "WAKANAI" speech would still hit home. Kudos to her jp VA for such a powerful delivery. (The dubbed version of this scene falls short to be honest. She sounds like a teen shouting at her parents because she got grounded.)

On the production side, I don't have any critics to formulate: the animation is fine, the musics and FX work well and help set the mood.

When it comes to the supernatural part of the show, it is actually kind of frustrating that we don't get to see more of it but there is a reason for it in this story so it's... acceptable. But I'd say this first season could be a very cute introduction to a second part focusing on the whole other side. Too bad it's not the case.