Anime trends are funny. Sometimes anime overflows with shows about sisters having romantic intentions towards their brothers. Other times we’re inundated with series with super-long titles like I Can’t Understand What My Husband is Saying, So I’ll Become a Villainess In Another World And Kill Slimes for 300 Years. Scanning the winter 2024 anime season for shows I might want to cover for J-List customers, I noticed a new trend of sadistic anime titles. Let’s examine this trend and check out the yuri-tastic new Gushing With Magical Girls show!
Are We Experiencing a Sadistic Anime Boom?
There are a whopping 51 new series being thrown at fans this year. That’s not counting a dozen or so series continuing from the previous season. Scanning through the list of new shows, I see many that might qualify as sadistic anime. At least going by the titles. Some examples:
- First, there’s It’s Time For Torture, Princess. It’s based on a gag manga about a princess who gets captured by an enemy army and tortured. By being fed lots of delicious food.
- Then we have The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil. Its Japanese title Oroka no Tenshi wa Akuma to Odoru sounds slightly darker than the English one. It’s about a demon who goes to high school in the human world only to fall in love with an angel he’s supposed to be fighting.
- Next up is Mato Seihei no Slave, or Slave of the Magic Capital’s Elite Troops. This is based on a seinen story about an average high school boy who becomes magically bound to a supernatural princess. She’s fighting demons, with some sexy results.
- Then there’s Mr. Villains’s Day Off, about an evil demon who wants to destroy all humanity. But on his day off he just wants to go look at pandas at the zoo.
Maybe the trend of sadistic anime titles comes from an increased amount of attention these titles bring in, compared with competing anime. This might be similar to the tendency of light novels (and anime based on light novels) to have ridiculously long titles, which is supposedly because readers want as much information as possible before deciding to start a series.
Gushing Over Magical Girls is the Sadistic Anime We Didn’t Know We Needed
Then there’s the queen of the sadistic anime trend, Mahou Shoujo no Akogarete, or Gushing Over Magical Girls, which made quite an impression on fans with its first episode.
It’s the story of Utena Hiiragi, who has always looked up to magical girls. She secretly wishes she, too, could transform into a magical heroine and fight evil. One day, a mysterious Kyubey-like creature approaches her and tells her she has magical powers dormant inside her. But what happens when she has to fight the town’s trio of magical girls, and discovers that she loves inflicting pain on them?
Utena really gets into her new role as a villain, capturing the three magical girls and subjecting them to everything from tickling to spanking and auto-erotic asphyxiation. And this is just episode one.
You could approach this show from several different angles. If you’re not a fan of sexy fan service in anime, you could write it off as a cheap excuse to show pantyshots. You could accuse it of using the popularity of the magical girl genre to appeal to the base nature of anime fans, for cheap thrills. You might even say (as a reviewer at Anime News Network did) that you’ll need two boiling hot showers to stop feeling unclean after watching the show.
Or you could take my view and realize that Gushing Over Magical Girls is a normal and natural evolution of the magical girl genre. Once Gen Urobuchi took us into the realm of post-modern magical girls with Puella Magi Madoka Magica, anime creators knew things had changed forever. So they began to explore all aspects of the genre. We got violent and innovative offerings like Magical Girl Raising Project. An exploration of guro and revenge themes in Magical Girl Site. Extremely creative offerings like Wonder Egg Priority, and…whatever Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers was trying to be.
And now we have an ironic ecchi comedy anime that appeals to yuri fans, as well as anyone who wants to see magical girls getting tickled and spanked.
Another Reason to Support Gushing Over Magical Girls: It’s Uncensored!
There’s another reason why this fun sadistic anime deserves our love and support this season. It’s uncensored! Without those ridiculous digital images covering up the sexy bits we want to see. And the anime is even more erotic than the manga! We get uncensored magical nipples and everything.
The studio (Asahi Production) and the worldwide distributor (Hidive) both deserve a big shoutout for not giving in to the fear of random people on the Internet complaining about sexualizing fictional characters. Considering the drama and frustration that surrounded the Ayakashi Triangle’s Blu-ray release (which was uncensored), it’s nice to sit back and enjoy a sexy anime each week.
(J-List will definitely be carrying the limited Blu-rays when they come out. Buy them to support more ecchi anime like this!)
Thanks for reading this blog post exploring the recent trend in sadistic anime, and the awesome Gushing Over Magical Girls comedy anime. What do you think about the show? Tell us in the comments below.
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