The Shelflife column over at ANN has a brief review of the first Magikano DVD.

It must also be stated how incredibly misogynistic this series is. In the second episode, two of the women face off in a battle for attention in a fashion show that has them coming out dressed up in animal-print lingerie and various fetish outfits. The student council president does feel remorseful afterwards for dirtying herself like that, but Haruo endorses it heartily, saying that he's glad he got to see a different side of her. I realize that some anime series were meant to purely entertain lonely nerds, but this is a little sick. If you're a lonely nerd, then yeah, this show will strike your fancy, but I do hope that you don't have any little sisters around who are getting the wrong idea about how to attract men.

Speak it, brother! How dare they objectify the girls in a fan service harem comedy? They should be more sensitive and portray them as intelligent people and downplay their good looks... Oh, I can't go on.

For crying out loud. That's what this genre is about! If you don't like that, you shouldn't be watching fan service harem comedies. It isn't misogyny, it's pandering -- and entertainment has a centuries-old history of pandering. This series didn't invent it.

Like this is any different from any of the other kinds of pandering that anime does, or other kinds of entertainment do? It's fantasy. It's escapism! What's wrong with that?

Even more to the point, it's farce. Characters in farce are not supposed to be realistic.

Oh, well. At least he got one thing right: Hajime and Sora, the two "nerdy friends", are the funniest thing in the series.

As for my little sister, she's 51. I don't think she's in too much danger from this.

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