Magical Girl Ore, streaming free and legally on Crunchyroll is simultaneously Yuri and BL, and not really either, all at once.
Saki is in love with her friend, Sakuyo’s, brother Mohiro, an idol singer. She and Sakuyo are aspiring to be an idol group, but frankly, Saki sucks. Saki learns that her mother has recently retired from being a magical girl, and when her crush Mohiro is attacked, her mother’s “mascot,” a vulgur Yakuza dude, encourages Saki to transform to become a magical girl by proclaiming her love.
So, Saki proclaims her love for Mohiro and promptly transforms into a buff handsome guy in a magical girl costume. When she is likewise in distress, Sakuyo proclaims her love for Saki and transforms into an equally buff, handsome young man who saves Saki from the creepy cat-headed demons that are the enemy. The love triangle becomes even messier when Mohiro appears to be crushing on Saki’s boy form.
Sakuyo is very plain about her interest in Saki – she wants her physically she says, (in a boy’s body to Saki as a boy) because of course it’s Saki she’s in love with, not the form.
So kind of Yuri and kind of BL and all goofiness. There’s nothing that can be taken seriously here. Even serious scenes have their own parody built in, and the magical technique they use against the demons are to beat them to a bloody pulp.
Ratings:
Art – Kind of “too good” for this, if you take my meaning
Story – ?????
Characters – I respect Saki’s seiyuu for singing poorly on purpose
Service – Panty shots and chest ogling…when they are magical boys
Yuri – Sakuyo
Overall – 7
I’m not going to say this is “good” but I’m still watching it after three episodes, so…. I can call it “entertaining,” without any judgment about quality. ^_^
The actual reason I started watching this at all was that Ogata Megumi announced she was in the series starting in Episode 3. She is…kinda. ^_^
Well, in this regard, this show reminded me of Hosueki no Kuni, where the story also could be interpreted both as BL and as yuri. However, although yuri was clearly added to this work as part of a parody of mahou shoujo’s tropes, it seems to me that Saki x Sakuyo will eventually become a canon.
This is the first series in a while that made me laugh hard. I’m all in.
Cool.
Why is it that adapting a manga into anime always ruins it? The demons in Magical Girl Ore are supposed to have squirrel heads.SQUIRREL HEADS!!! I understand that there aren’t that many squirrels in Japan (invasive species) but blobbing out the heads and having them make nyan nyan kitty sounds simply ruins the ENTIRE ANIME.
-sigh-
Anyway, far too few F=>M genderswap farces out there, so probably have to keep watching…
LOL Maybe they thought generic squeaking wouldn’t work? They’d be right.