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Magic Users Club (Maho Tsukai Tai), Volume 1 - I'll Follow You - Episodes 1 and 2

Magic Users Club (Maho Tsukai Tai), Volume 1 - I'll Follow You - Episodes 1 and 2

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An excellent series but it's not Card Captor Sakura.etc type
Review: ...This series is nothing like Card Captor Sakura, SailorMoon...etc. This is a sort of a romantic comedy. I have seen thisserie but and it is great. Too bad this is the TV series version Ithink and only 2 episodes per volume?...that is just bad. I wouldreally like to see the Entire OVA series releases on 1 singlepackage. That would be sweet.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great show!
Review: I can't recommend this one highly enough! Terrific animation, great voice actors and a really original story make this DVD a must have. I waited breathlessly for the US dub and I was not disapointed. The US voice actors really capture the spirit of the characters, especially Aburetsubo. :-)

The music in this show is outstanding as well, on a par with Rurouni Kenshin. This is a fun show with just the right touch of ecchi humour.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A very very good anime!
Review: I have alse seen the TV-episodes, and they're much better, but the OAVs introduce every character! If you are going to buy the TV-episodes, buy these first. You will really enjoy it! Isaki apam mehinam eto caffe nam!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An Amazing OAV!
Review: If you look past the perversion as just FUN FUN FUN, then the series is for you!

This is one of my favorite OAVs series (Oh! My Goddess being another)! This tells the story of a Magic Users Club at a high school. Now this club only has.. 5 people (including the president), not to mention that one of them rarely comes. In this day and age, there is an alien object that came from space which people call the 'bell.' The world couldn't destroy it at all and then they just let it be because they thought the bell was harmless. They had all these things come out to join society (which just look like big round balls). They appeared normal, I mean, they even stopped at crosswalks with the other pedestrians!

Well, the Magic Users Club is headed by a big pervert who just wanted to look cool to the other underclassmen (who are all girls). He said that he was going to take out that bell and our naive main character, Sae, always believed him. So they all actually went to try to go after the bell but difficulties arrived. Anyway, I don't want to spoil anymore, just wanted to give you some background info. This is a really fun, great anime. It's simply magical and I think anyone would like it.

The OAVs have 6 episodes in all with a TV series to continue it which Media Blasters will release after the OAV.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Be warned
Review: Lots of people like this series, but I can't personally call it better than "mildly amusing." In fact, it's generally so "fan service" and insipid humor based that it's barely even watchable. If you like "Those Who Hunt Elves" you'll probably like this. If not, don't plan on being able to stomach this more than once at best. Buyer beware.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Underrated Anime
Review: Magic User's Club (Maho Tsukai Tai) is one of those anime titles that hasn't really made a big name for itself. Which is a shame as the animation is top notch on the OVA episodes. (1-6 on DVDs 1, 2 and 3) This is thanks to the input of Ikuko Ito (Sailor Moon , R, S and SuperS) This is the work she made instead of staying to work on Sailor Moon Stars. The colours are bold and cheerful and the animation is smooth and fun.
The series itself comes in two parts; The OVA episodes and the TV episodes. The OVA is far better visually and by means of storyline, but both are funny and follow the exploits of humourous and loveable characters.
This is a series that should be more popular but isn't. Something I attribute to the 'more mature' content and the sub-standard english language version. Luckily the japanese dialogue version with english subtitles is selectable.
Anyone who enjoys the likeable aspects of Sailor Moon and the adult humour of Uncut episodes of Tenchi Muyo! will love this series. (and the subbed version features the voice talent of Masaya Onosaka who has played Jadeite in Sailor Moon and Vash The Stampede from Trigun)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Very funny, but too cliched for 5 stars
Review: Magic User's Club is a silly, goofy story which works well, but suffers from too many cliches. The premise is simple: Takakura heads the struggling high school magic user's club; in a foolish effort to impress the three new female members, he decides to use magic to defeat an invicible alien invader. Takakura's constant fantasies about the girls, even in the midst of fighting aliens, is the core of the show's humor--along with his embarrassment at the constant advances of the club's male vice-president, Aburatsubo. The main female character is Sae, the typical earnest, pure-hearted klutz. These characters are simply too familiar, straight from the anime cookie cutter.

Fortunately, the characters do exhibit some growth, and the execution of the show rises above the generic elements. The show's humor constantly skirts a good taste boundary, particularly when Takakura's thoughts run away with him, but it never crosses the line. I would suggest a higher age rating than the 13+ indicated on the disc, given the sheer volume of imagined undressing and staring (but note, there's no actual nudity on this disc).

One peculiarity with these discs: this series spans 7 discs, but it's actually two shows. The first three discs each contain 2 half-hour episodes--this is the original Magic User's Club direct-to-video series. The last four discs contain 4 or 3 episodes each (of about 23 minutes) of a followup TV series. There isn't a whole lot of show packed onto this first disc, but I still recommend it if you're looking for goofy, undemanding humor.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Very funny, but too cliched for 5 stars
Review: Magic User's Club is a silly, goofy story which works well, but suffers from too many cliches. The premise is simple: Takakura heads the struggling high school magic user's club; in a foolish effort to impress the three new female members, he decides to use magic to defeat an invicible alien invader. Takakura's constant fantasies about the girls, even in the midst of fighting aliens, is the core of the show's humor--along with his embarrassment at the constant advances of the club's male vice-president, Aburatsubo. The main female character is Sae, the typical earnest, pure-hearted klutz. These characters are simply too familiar, straight from the anime cookie cutter.

Fortunately, the characters do exhibit some growth, and the execution of the show rises above the generic elements. The show's humor constantly skirts a good taste boundary, particularly when Takakura's thoughts run away with him, but it never crosses the line. I would suggest a higher age rating than the 13+ indicated on the disc, given the sheer volume of imagined undressing and staring (but note, there's no actual nudity on this disc).

One peculiarity with these discs: this series spans 7 discs, but it's actually two shows. The first three discs each contain 2 half-hour episodes--this is the original Magic User's Club direct-to-video series. The last four discs contain 4 or 3 episodes each (of about 23 minutes) of a followup TV series. There isn't a whole lot of show packed onto this first disc, but I still recommend it if you're looking for goofy, undemanding humor.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Magic Users Club takes the cake!
Review: Magic Users Club gives off the feeling that its going to be a cheap anime, with some good laughs. Actually, the animation is great, and it's insanely funny. It's always a bit weird, but they manage to pull everything together to make it great. This is the best new anime out there and a MUST SEE! Everyone I know that has watched it LOVES it, and it's growing in popularity!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: cute and funny - but there are only two episodes per DVD!
Review: Takakura Takeo, Aburatsubo Ayanojou, Sawanoguchi Sae, Nakatomi Nanaka, and Aikawa Akane are the members of the Kitanohashi High School Magic Club: five misfits bent on saving the world. Sae likes Takeo; Nanaka likes Ayanojou, but he only has eyes for Takeo. And Takeo likes.. well, anything in a skirt. Mahou Tsukai Tai is very cute and *very* funny. I especially like Ayanojou - he's way hot, and his attempts to get Takeo to notice him [and to thwart Sae] are hilarious. I see several reviewers likening Mahou Tsukai Tai to other shoujo anime like Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, etc.; and while it's definitely shoujo anime, if you're not too fond of Sailor Moon [like me] you may like Mahou Tsukai Tai anyway. My only complaint is that there are only *TWO* episodes per DVD [?!!], and that seems like kind of a rip-off.


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