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Machikado Mazoku is going down as one of my favorite Kirara anime of all time.

The story centers around Shamiko, I mean Shadow Mistress Yuuko, a demon girl trying to challenge a magical girl, Momo to a duel in order to lift the curse on her family. However, Shamiko is extremely weak and Momo has no interest in fighting her. To be honest, this comedy slice-of-life anime actually has a decent storyline and has hints of plot development sprinkled throughout the show.

The humour in this show is your typical boke-tsukkomi comedy, with Shamiko being the tsukkomi in most of the situations. A lot of the gags ... in the show is done through good use of comedic timing, great voice acting and even subtle actions by the characters.

Shamiko and Momo as characters have a good dynamic as both rivals and friends (and as a comedic duo). For a short 12 ep show, their characters develop quite a bit over the course of the show. Even the side characters are unique and enjoyable in their own way. Also, side note: Shamiko's voice actress, Konomi Kohara, did an amazing job bringing Shamiko to life and just made her as a character all the more likable (and meme worthy :p)

The artstyle is nothing note-worthy but it's clean and is nice to look at.
The animation is simplistic and great, sometimes the simplistic character animation makes the joke better in more ways than one
For the soundtrack, background music is fitting to the mood, OP and ED are very catchy (especially the ED... also the animation for the ED, it's so bad it's good)

Overall, I highly recommend this anime if you like Kirara stuff in general or if you're looking for a slice-of-life with an actually interesting story (yes, again, I still can't believe a Kirara anime has story progression)

And last but not least, Ganbare Shamiko! Let's hope you'll get a well deserved Season 2

This is honestly my most favorite anime of all time, but it is definitely far from a masterpiece, even though I love it to death, I genuinely cannot give it more than an 8 (and this is a really biased and generous score).

I found Yuyushiki through mountains of 音MADs that exist for this anime on Youtube and as a fan of Generic-4-koma-Slice-of-Life-with-3-to-4-Highschool-Girls anime/manga, I think this one's enjoyable to watch. The plot of the story (as if there is any) is just 3 girls in a club where they just ask weird questions, look up Wikipedia or just hanging out in or out of school.

For ... the main characters, we got Yuzuko Nonohara - smart girl with a funny personality, Yukari Hinata - rich and kind hearted airhead with a cute laugh, and Yui Ichi - the typical tsukkomi character (aka Best Girl). There is no main topic in each episode, it's just them going about their daily routine and having random conversations which lead to inside jokes and tsukkomi-boke moments.

The art style and animation is simplistic, nothing notable but I find that it helps make the characters themselves standout and be more memorable.

Soundtrack-wise? LOVE IT
The music matches the mood ("Fresh" is a good example) and each character specific song (especially "TekiPaki", use it as your alarm, trust me it works) is very fitting and memorable. The voice acting is also pretty good, they nailed each of the main character's personality and even made some pretty good meme-worthy materials (SEPTEMBAAA)

Some minor drawbacks are that:
1. Unless you are an avid fan of 4-koma/slice-of-life, most of the gags are gonna be a miss because it's just 3 girls doing everyday things and laughing at random comments they make (IE: The "potato" scene, it's pretty good but I just didn't find it funny)
2. Some puns are pretty hard/impossible to translate over to English

Aside from having an amazing soundtrack, a small cast of really likable main and side characters, there really is nothing I can say to recommend this anime. It is without a doubt one of the most generic slice-of-life anime, but I can say that it excels in that genre


TL;DR
You like slice-of-life/4-koma or want somewhere to start? I'd recommend this anime to fans of the genre and newcomers alike (and when you're done with that, go look up: OtoMADs of this anime on Youtube, you're welcome in advance)