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Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. is an unexpected gum anime take on the Magical Girl genre that ’s an apologue for office culture and tech startups .
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Magilumiere sorcerous Girls Inc.might be the most underrated Zanzibar copal series of 2024 , partly because it ’s on Prime Video , which does n’t do a good line of promoting the gum anime series they pick up exclusively . It ’s a new take on Magical Girls that ’s unexpected and surprising , taking the genre to young position , and it ’s a Japanese approach to throw superheroes feel relevant . When you remember about it , Sailor Moon and magical girls were really meant to be " Green Lantern for girls , " and this series does that with a comment on technical school startup polish , office relations , and work - life equalizer .
Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.takes topographic point in Japan , where Magical Girls is a privatized diligence of superheroines for hire employed by government agency that are like tech companies . The menaces are fiendish eruptions that are analogues to computer virus , and industrial and natural catastrophe . The Magical Girls here are n’t adolescent girls but adult career cleaning lady with high - visibility and dangerous jobs that are a cross between first answerer and Ghostbusters . Kana Sakuragi is a college grad who joins Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. ,a startup company , to become their latest Magical Girl , and has to voyage being a rookie employee and superheroine as well as the public face of the ship’s company .
Her Centennial State - worker and supervisor of the more veteran Hitomi Koshigaya , a snarky tomboy with an irrepressible gung - ho posture to superheroing , and they ’re gage up by their nerdy tech support Kazuo Nikoyama who indite the codification for their magical spells , cordial position manager Kaede Midorikawa and occult CEO and ace engineer , the cross - tog Koji Shigemoto . This nuts crew progress to the series an emblem for form for an underdog technical school startup with a illusionist CEO who helped found the whole manufacture but opted out of being fat to pursue his ideal of creating a thriving industry . Shigemoto seems to know more than anyone the real dangers of the demons they have to agitate and has his eye on the future . take the Magical Girl part of the story , and this fathom strangely close to the literal - biography myth of the startup economy , does n’t it ?
Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.is surprisingly grownup and political in its comment about the technical school industry and office civilisation while staying all - ages . The late chapters of the manga ( not covered yet in season one of the Zanzibar copal ) get more political about the danger of deregulation on top of a object lesson in employee relations and industry practices , all enfold in a hopeful anime Magical Girl bow . It ’s the most interesting function of the superhero genre to talk about current subject , and it fade the Bechdel Test with no subplots involving a heroine daydream over a well-favoured man . None of the woman in the series show the least bit of interest in romanticism and are more interested with being great at their Book of Job and , well , redeem the earth while look unspoiled . It ’s really about the technical school industry and the geeks who make it tick and how immature woman manage workplace relationships .
Sailor Moonkicked off the Magical Girl genre as superhero Latinian language for giris . The former 2000s’Madoka Magicawas a subversion of the music genre where becoming a Magical Girl is something dark and horrible in an Alan Moore - style deconstruction . Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. does n’t deconstruct the genre but pack it in a more adult and socially witting direction with its apologue for enroll the job market and go under Capitalism .
Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.is pour onPrime Videowith both Nipponese and English dubs available . A 2d season has already been foretell .
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