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So, I'll be honest with you, I was really hyped for this show. Sure, it was being done by a studio that isn't very well known, but the premise pulled me in. Studio Lerche also did a good job with Magical girls fighting to the death. Sure, it probably wouldn't be a masterpiece, but at least it would give me what I expected. A good battle royale, kill-'em-all. Sadly, that wasn't really what I got. Instead I got a boring piece of trash.

Magical Girl Raising Project is about 16 girls who all become magical girls because of this mobile game. What a bunch of ... casual gamer trash! They then have to compete among each other to survive. They compete by collecting magical candies that you get from helping people, although we never actually see these magical girls helping people. Kind of odd. They then turn to murdering each other, and the show forgets that the competition was about magical candies and helping people, not who can murder more people. Honestly, this side of the anime showed much more promise. Sadly, the show can't follow up on the potential and the disappointment was crushing. Despite this, there is one form of entertainment that the story brings to Raising Project. Laughing at how poorly executed it was.

So, I'll be honest with you, again, after my expectations were crushed just like my will to live, at least the fight scenes could be decent, and I could have not TOTALLY wasted my time on this show. To quote Donald Trump-sama, "Wrong". Besides the fact that each and every fight in this anime that is literally about fighting each other is bad, they are also weighed down b the fact that Raising Project crams all of a characters development in ONE EPISODE. Bravo! So, the structure for an episode where someone dies basically goes like this. 2 characters fight. 1 beats the other. Right before said defeated character dies, all of her development is crammed into that 1 episode. To be fair, some characters that die didn't get the privilege of Studio Lerche giving them any development at all.

Ok, so the protagonist probably doesn't deserve her own paragraph, but I don't know how to write so, eh. The protagonist of this instant classic (if you couldn't tell, that was sarcasm) is known as Snow White. As a protagonist, she fills many roles, like helping to move the pilot forward, like any good character. Unless you're a pussy and don't believe in murdering other people. Don't be a pussy like Snow White. She ultimately does nothing to advance the narrative, a horrible trait to have as protagonist. She is super whiny, which becomes a bore to watch after like, 1 second. So, yah, she sucks.

[SPOILER ROUND]

Yah, this show sucks. I think I've established that. What I haven't established is some of the specifics of why this show sucks. Or basically, why the ending sucks. If you haven't seen the show, its best to skip this paragraph and go straight to my closing thoughts and scores. Let me just say, Magical Girl Raising Project was an interesting ride. It will most likely be one I remember for awhile, even if it is for the wrong reasons. I reached the end of the show, and there will only two girls left. Snow White (the whiny bitch), and Ripple (look at those tits!). One thing this show did well was character design. Ripple's design was always mediocre, but in the final scene, she actually looks badass. Of course, this scene takes place months after the events of Magical Girl Raising Project. Apparently, Ripple and Whiny Bitch have been helping people since Monokuma from Dangan Ronpa was destroyed. They fight, and the show ends at that. This is probably the best scene in the entire show, and is actually not half bad. It almost shows some synergy between the girls, and it is the nicest-looking scene in the show. The roller coaster ride is over, and it is now up to us, the community, to give our final judgement on the show.

[CLOSING THOUGHTS]

Magical Girl Raising Project was a clusterfuck that couldn't decide on what it really wanted to be. Did it want to deconstruct the genre, or be a simple battle royale? The character designs look nice, but I can't help feeling there wasn't one true vision behind them. Some look like big-titted hookers, while others look like traditional magical girls. Also, these are the most un-magical girl magical girls ever. Being one seems extremely lame. Wow, I get to jump around on buildings. And I also get to jump on buildings. And I guess murder people? If this show didn't call itself mahou shoujo, I would have never guessed. Slightly off-topic, but damn were there a lot of plot holes. Maybe not SAO-level plot holes, but still. Overall, this show was just kind of average. Nothing stands out as especially horrid, or good. Would I recommend it? Eh, probably not, unless you want to watch everything the Fall 2016 anime season and to offer.

Art: 6/10
Story: 4/10
Sound: 5/10
Characters: 3/10
Enjoyment: 5/10

Favorite character: Ripple
Favorite episode: 12 (The show ends)
Recommendation level: Very low

Overall: 5/10