#Machikado Mazoku Season 2

[littlemisspinky]

ive been watching "the demon girl next door," or "machikado mazoku," and its really cute and funny! i like it a lot! heres yuko and momo!

[thefigureresource]

Mikan Hinatsuki [The Demon Girl Next Door 2nd Season] 1/7 scale from Medicos Entertainment coming October 2023.

[animenekos]

Machikado Mazoku: 2-Choume; The Demon Girl Next Door Season 2 - Episode 11 at 09:39

[my-anime-goods]

Machikado Mazoku: 2-choume (The Demon Girl Next Door 2) - Pop Up Shop featuring goods by Seasonal Plants with new illustrations from 8 to 23 June 2024 at Volks Akihabara Hobby Paradise and Volks Osaka Showroom.

[nbmahoushoujo]

Characters you should vote for according to me and my objectively correct opinion:

Bea

I literally got Hero Hours Contract days ago after receiving a single submission for the main character, and it’s so cute and charming I added her in! Bea is a magical girl who fights zombies, but is also on strike against the magical creatures that employ magical girls. She has no chance in the polls I'm sure, but a vote for her would be nice anyway!

Kokoro / Heartful Punch

I was surprised by how many submissions she got, amazingly the same amount as Doremi who she's up against. Y'know, THE Doremi. Some things to know about Kokoro:

She punches monsters

She's dating the main character Undine and they're peak awkward teenagers trying to figure out their feelings together

She has a pet cat called Kicks

She has good life advice

Momo Chiyoda

No one ever talks about this anime it's so good why does no one ever talk about it I have to tell you about it-

Machikado Mazoku is an anime about a girl called yuko who wakes up one day to learn that she is a demon, descended from a line of demons, when she sees she suddenly has horns and a tail. Her mom tells her that their family is cursed and to break the curse she needs the blood of a magical girl. Luckily there just so happens to be a magical girl who goes to her school, Momo. Unluckily, Yuko is incredibly weak (physically and magically), has no clue what she's doing, and couldn't hurt a fly. Additionally, Momo is inhumanly strong and offers to help Yuko train out of pity, with no real fear that she'll ever be an actual threat. Naturally they're very in love and every episode of the 2 seasons that are out it gets more and more obvious. It’s one of the best comedy anime I’ve ever seen!

Momo is a stoic girl who really cares about protecting other people but doesn't always take care of herself properly. She's been a magical girl for years and is tired of the whole acting cute thing, usually trying to resolve conflicts without transforming where possible.

Some things I love about Momo:

She’s obsessed with her city’s mascot character and can be bribed into anything with merch for it.

She gets embarrassed about transforming and saying her attack names and stuff. Not in a way that would imply the show is making fun of magical girls as a concept, but more like regular teenage embarrassment at your younger self in a magical girl context.

Her cats is essentially a retired magical companion who used to be able to talk but now just occasionally says the phrase “the time hath come” for no particular reason.

She literally turns to the dark side to save Yuko from an upsetting few days stuck in a magic nightmare. Not like mortal danger, just that she’d be unhappy for a bit and then wake up. Momo wouldn’t let that happen and literally turned to the dark side for a while to get her out.

She’s so bad at cooking she just like me for real.

Momoko / Hyper Blossom

Powerpuff Girls Z feels like a fever dream from my childhood. I totally forgot about it for a while because just the existence of an actual Powerpuff Girls magical girl anime is so funny. But I remember really enjoying it and it’s genuinely so cute!

[mahou-furbies]

It is time for

This year the event will be hosted by Snow Miku! Not exactly magical girls but close enough design wise.

Here is the magical girl media consumed on this blog this year:

(Delicious Party Precure, Futari wa Precure Max Heart, Magia Record s3, Machikado Mazoku s2, Tokyo Mew Mew New, Magic Users' Club! (OVA), Magic User's Club! (Tv), Tropical Rouge! Precure season movie, Futari wa Precure Max Heart season movies 1 & 2)

At first it looked like I barely read any magical girl manga this year, but then ended up reading a couple in the final few weeks of the year:

(Magilumiere co ltd, Time Stranger Kyoko (reread), The Life After Retirement of Magical Girls, No Match for Aoi-kun, Magical Lollipop)

Also I read a lot of magical girl webcomics!

(Magical Mom, Sleepless Domain, Cloudy Wondrous, Apricot Cookie(s)!, Miss Guillotine, Strawberry Seafoam)

Then let's go through the events that happened this year. We had a tournament for the favourite Precure, and Cure Milky was the winner! This time it has taken even longer to draw the celebratory art for the winners than last year and I'm still not done, but I guess nobody but me really cares about that so all is well.

We also had a poll for most/least favourite magical girl elements, which I used to compile the most liked and least liked magical girls (though I think the least liked one turned out to be more popular). I really liked this idea and would like to do something more with it one day, or at least just get statistics on people's opinions on different magical girl tropes for fun.

I also did both Mermay and Witchtober this year (and Adorkastock Draw Everything June which I've done every year since its inception), which included a lot of magical girl content. I like these monthly drawing challenges since I enjoy drawing a set of themed characters, and usually the results are a lot more varied than the stuff I usually draw. So next year I'd like to do some more, but I'll have to find different challenges so it won't get repetitive, this was the second Mermay I did and while it mostly involved characters I never draw otherwise, I'd still like to give that spot to something else next time.

Saban Moon was unleashed to the public this year, which did not affect me that much since I have very little relationship with Sailor Moon, but I can still appreciate unearthing a secret alternative version of a well known character (also it was my most popular drawing this year)

This year I started and exercise project by trying to motivate myself with the reward of buying a Miku Nendoroid each time I exercise a certain amount of times. It has been mostly successful, or there are breaks but they are a lot shorter than they would ever be without a prize looming in the future. Much recommended!

Finally one thing that's different from last year that I didn't draw a lot of characters for my magical girl chibi series, because I was busy drawing a different kind of chibi series (hundreds of Pokemon chibis on my other blog). And this chibi style spread to several of my other fandoms too, I used it on the Witchtober, and I've done four (I think) sets of requests in it.

Finally a mention to my frustration on the lack of green Precures culminating in a series of green Precure OCs. 

Then onto the awards!

Best Henshin Design goes to Cloudy Wondrous! A solid design where everything works together (I’m especially a fan of the cloud motif used in different places), and the unique details (crown, wing eyepatch thing) make it more memorable.

Best Team Design goes to Tokyo Mew Mew New! Granted I think I like the original designs more, but TMM team design is still strong here as well, it's recognisable as TMM but highly customisable for OCs.

Best Powerup Design goes to Strawberry Seafoam! Or they should probably rather be called separate forms on the same level with different purposes rather than increasing in power, but who's counting. They are all pretty (as are the other mermaids' transformations) but let's say the jellyfish one is my favourite, it has such warm glowing palette (but also an illuminated dark mode!) and it creates a unique silhouette.

Also a shoutout to Cure Spicy's Party Up Style "hat".

Best Civilian Design goes to Amane's winter look from Delicious Party Precure! It just looks so comfy...

Best Hair goes to Sae from Magic User's Club! It's pretty simple compared to the usual absurd magical girl hairstyles, but I like how the angular shapes make it memorable.

Best Magical Item goes to Bijou's pen from Strawberry Seafoam! It looks pretty, and I like magic where you actually draw your spells. And it's fun to see her style evolve!

Best Henshin Scene goes to the dresser henshin in Magilumiere! Overall it has a lot of creative henshin and I really hope it gets animated some day!

Best Fan Creation is the catch-all award for everything that's not from, like, a big corporation, and this year the competition is really tough with all these highly polished webcomics, on a normal year any one of them would have been the winner but now I have to pick one. And it is also this year's Best Work, so more on that later! 

Best Relationship goes to the group in Magic Users' Club! Their relationships feel very natural, and everyone has something different going on with the other characters. And while there is a little drama, the overall vibe is delightfully positive.

Best Mascot goes to Kome-Kome from Delicious Party Precure! Personality or plot-wise there's nothing that interests me about her, but it must be said that I'm a sucker for progressively aging designs and she's also stupidly cute.

Best Supporting Character goes to the 4th wall breaking Director of Darkness, from Apricot Cookie(s)! He just cracks me up every time he is on panel with his friendly and welcoming attitude. 

Honourable mention to Mari-chan from Precure who is the best character in the season but who unfortunately doesn’t get to do much.

Best Visual goes to the art style of Strawberry Seafoam! Bold and unique glowing saturated colours that somehow feel nostalgic. Special mention to all the swirly magic.

Honourable mention to the art style shifts Apricot Cookie(s)!, sometimes the art goes to retro manga or anime or 3d idol dance models for fun. And another honourable mention to the visual presentation of the Apricot Cookies website.

Best Audio goes to the Shiny Luminous / Queen theme in Futari wa Precure Splash Star (not the henshin one but the one when she’s doing something epic). Feels very majestic.  

For the Best Scene I don’t have anything specific that comes to mind over everything else this year, so let’s say Kuroe’s fate in MagiReco, Shiny Luminous in the Max Heart finale and Grandma’s fate in Apricot Cookie(s)! can share it.

Innovation Award is for honouring a work doing something new and refreshing for the magical girl genre. This year I read several webcomics (that generally get to be more innovative than commercial anime) and even one actual manga that focused on "magical girls as a job", but each with a little different angle. So a shoutout to Magilumiere Co ltd, Sleepless Domain, Cloudy Wondrous, Apricot Cookie(s)!, Miss Guillotine and Magical Mom! With this many of them it'd feel a little weird to pick any for the "innovation award" over the same topic, so let's reward Magical Mom, for having, well, the magical mom! Magical girls whose mother is also a magical girl are of course a thing, but this time the child is a boy, and the mother also is an active and prominent character (and not just a background mentor), so that is new to me.

Then the Golden Mana Award, that is the dishonourable mention awarded to one thing I didn't like this year! 

This year it goes to Porun from Futari wa Precure Max Heart. Frankly he was probably more annoying in the original Futari wa but I had something else to complain about that year so now it's his turn. For the life of me I can't understand how this would be an appealing character concept even for children, like don't even 5-year-olds get annoyed at a toddler sibling's tantrums interrupting their big kid play? Even his less overtly irritating scenes don't do much for me, since they rely on "aww isn't it cute how the baby wants to be with you" mushiness.

Also another dishonourable mention to downgrading Pudding’s jumpsuit into a dress.

Best Character goes to Kuroe! (from MagiReco) I really like her design (especially how it mirrors Iroha’s), her quiet and hesitant personality and her melancholic story that felt fresh among all the magical girls who excitedly jump into saving every passerby. Or I don’t really like how she fit in the larger narrative, but in isolation I think her story was interesting.

Best Work goes to Apricot Cookie(s)! It's really funny and the art is great, and the character designs are memorable. The heroine is charmingly dumb and everyone in her family is great. And it took a while to grow on me, but in the end the weeb references make me feel at home.

Plans for 2023

I didn't manage to get any of the shorter mg shows from last year's list (though I did watch Magic User’s Club which wasn’t on the list) so those are still there. I'd also like to watch two series from the Precure backlog, this year I only managed one.

Art-wise I plan to do more for the chibi series, and do another "x colour Precure oc" series. And I'd really like to draw more art that has, like, a background or a mood or a composition, but let's see if that goes anywhere.

(also hopefully more Miku Nendoroids)

[magicalgirlagency]

Funny you should mention Mortal Kombat, since the newest game's story mode is basically about a character who ascended to godhood and reset the world in their image/design. Sounds familiar?

Thanks, Captain Obvious. It's not like I have dedicated a large portion of my life as a microblogger to talk about a goddess who ripped off of another goddess that came 2 months or so before her. I remember seeing someone suggest a Magical Girl AU for MK, and I almost replied to OP with a "Just because Liu Kang is God and has rewritten the universe?", but I didn't, because my singular functioning braincell have alerted me like that Animaniacs meme:

"Don't.", to which I've replied with a "Yeah, it's just too easy."

Okay, but snarkiness aside, I am aware of Liu Kang's ascension. And truth be told, I'd much rather trust in a seasoned and experienced warrior with 30+ years of experience in battle than to trust some 14yo who thought the rightest solution to deal with traumatized young girls was to erase them out of existence and have no one mourn for their passings.

Oh, and about Twin Goddesses, I have found some other very interesting stuff:

It's said to be the very first fighting game released for the PS1;

The animated combatants were done by J.C. Staff, known for Revoultionary Girl Utena, Machikado Mazoku, Mewkledreamy, WIXOSS, Puni Puni Poemy, Milky Holmes, Galaxy Fraulein Yuna, just to name a few;

Carmilla, the game's Final Boss, was voiced by Megumi Ogata, the legend behind everybody's favourite space sword-wielding butch lesbian, Tenoh "Sailor Uranus" Haruka.

It's moments like this where I don't know if being autistic and getting myself into useless rabbit holes of obscure information is a curse or a blessing.

[curestardust]

Dust Watched: Machikado Mazoku: 2-choume

Genres: Comedy, Magical Girls (and Demons), CGCDT // 12 episodes // S01 (x)

I did go into this one with the right expectations this time! @ my review of season 1

✧  story  ✧

The story continues directly from season 1's so for an overall plot description please read my review of that.

It's now the summer break and both Momo and Mikan move into the delipidated apartment building where Yuuko lives, making their involvement in the story much easier now that we don't have the school for the characters to meet. The first half of the story is looking for clues about Momo's older sister, Sakura. This portion is definitely more tightly paced, while the second half kiiiiind of focuses on Yuuko improving her powers but that usually takes a backdrop in exchange for the comedy.

Speaking of the comedy, it's very safe, cute, ridiculous, and goofy, nothing that would have you on the floor wheezing but good for an occasional chuckle. They also got better at inserting the occasional "grounded moments" inbetween the comedy so it doesn't become too tired too fast.

✧  characters  ✧

Yuuko has a pretty big revelation this season but she changes the least I'd say. Momo's change is more subtle but has a big impact on the story. She doesn't seem to feel the need to keep her defences up around Yuuko anymore and admits to herself that she actually really likes her and wants to spend more time with her and you know, in a perfectly straight way not at all in a "I invited you out on a date but you didn't realize that it was supposed to be a date and brought other people with you so I'll spend the rest of the episode sulking about it" kind of way. (Momo's pining is very cute is what I'm trying to say.)

Khm, anyway, there are 2 (well, I guess 3 but that's a spoiler) new characters, Lico, a Huli Jing, and her ever-suffering boss, Manager Shirosawa, a talking bipedal tapir. They are both demons, and work at Asura Café. They get involved in the story during the search for Sakura where they play a significant part but pretty much disappear in the second half. They're a nice little addition to the cast but don't make too strong of an impression.

And to my dismay, despite Mikan moving to this town, she barely gets any actual screentime. When her magical girl powers don't need using, or her curse isn't used for a gag, she makes no substantial appearance in the story until the last 2 episodes. Probably my biggest disappointment with the show.

✧  art  ✧

It's very cute, the transformations are smooth and pretty, and the visual gags are great too. It goes a little wonky on faraway shots but nothing too distracting.

✧  sound ✧

The music is *also* very cute and fluffy, not particularly my style but went well with the CGCDT comedy vibes. Of course I need to mention how delighted I was when I heard Itou Ayasa's recognizable Kyoto dialect coming out of Lico's mouth (Revstar's Kaoruko). Everyone else did a great job too.

✧  overview ✧

This style of comedy is a bit too weak for me to fully appreciate but nevertheless I had a fun time watching this season!

My Rating: 7/10

[hapuriainen]

Hapuriainen's animation, comics & games of 2022

It feels every year these get shorter and later... but better late than never!

Anime: 

Ranking of Kings, Magia Record s3, Machikado Mazoku s2, Futari wa Precure Max Heart, Delicious Party Precure, Spy x Family (part 1), Tiger & Bunny s2 (part 1), Yashahime s2, Magic User's Club, Tokyo Mew Mew New

Overall Yashahime was a disappointment but at least the Moroha stuff was good. As for Tiger & Bunny it was a delight to have Kotetsu back since this was my number one series back when the first season came out, but the netflix release model really killed all momentum it could have had and I still haven't managed to watch the second half.

Webcomics: 

Magical Mom, Cloudy Wondrous, Apricot Cookie(s)!, Strawberry Seafoam, Miss Guillotine

This year I read a lot of webcomics, which has been documented on my magical girl tumblr. On the manga front there wasn't anything new but I still continue with many series from past years. A shoutout to One Piece for having its worst year to date but at least the Wano arc is now finally over.

Movies: 

Encanto, Turning Red, Lightyear, some Precure movies, Children of the Sea

Games: 

Zelda Skyward Sword, Link's Awakening, New Pokemon Snap, Hyrule Warriors DE, Pokemon Let's Go Eevee, Pokemon Scarlet

Overall this has been a Game year (rather than anime or manga). I learned that nowadays games save on the console and not the cartridge so I could borrow games from the library and only buy them myself if I liked them enough (and then continue on the same save file). Unfortunately this was after I spent money on Skyward Sword which was not worth the 60€, meanwhile New Pokemon Snap and Pokemon Let's Go were enjoyable for the price tag of 0€ and Hyrule Warriors I had to get for myself and now I have over 100 hours on it. And Pokemon Scarlet was surprisingly fun too.

The awards:

Best work: I guess I have to give this to Hyrule Warriors since I've played it unexpectedly much, the story was dumb but I'm having a lot of fun in Adventure Mode.

Best music: Tal Tal Heights from Link's Awakening, Hyrule Warriors in general having a lot of good music, Area Zero music from Pokemon. Also the Bruno song.

Best visuals: Strawberry Seafoam for reminding me of retro girl shows

Best character design: Cloudy Wondrous, a very cute and creative magical girl look

Best OP: Spy x Family, the song is mellow and fun and the visuals are great

Best ED: Spy x Family for the visuals, no real standout songs this year

Biggest WTF: Children of the Sea overall, what even happened in that movie??

Best Girl: Kuroe from MagiReco

Best Boy: Ehh let's go with Bruno

Best Side Girl: the queen from Ranking of Kings being a surprising highlight of the whole show

Best Side Boy: Arven from Pokemon seemed super cringe at first sight but his bread storyline turned out to be the best part of the whole game. Also Groose from Zelda

Worst Girl: No total duds this year, let's go with Yui from Precure. Or Yuuko from Machikado Mazoku

Worst Boy: n/a

Worst Side Girl: Cia from Hyrule Warriors with her dumb outfit. Or (I'm sorry I know she's popular) Iono from Pokemon kind of annoys me... Oh right also Fi

Worst Side Boy: Trace from Pokemon Let's Go was a major disappointment for a final boss and it didn't really feel anything beating him. Also Porun from Precure

Best romance: For the first time in years I have a ship (botw Link and Zelda) but since I didn't play it this year, let's say that Loid and Yor are always a delight to see in how positive and respectful their relationship is

Best non-romantic relationship: the Spy x Family family stuff

Worst romance: Hyrule Warriors making it a plot point that the game's Link and Zelda will end up as a couple but giving them zero chemistry or development

Worst non-romantic relationship: Yashahime for keeping the new heroines separate from their parents 99% of the time

Plans for 2023:

Botw 2 can’t come out soon enough

Until then I’ll probably keep playing Hyrule Warriors

Pokemon Arceus

Hirogaru Precure

Overall expecting a very Precure year, since they revealed new sequel seasons and I have to watch the originals by then

Evangelion has been on my watch list since 2014, maybe I’ll eventually get to it if I keep including it.

Tiger & Bunny & Spy x Family part 2

TMM New s2

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My girls are back I missed them so much 😭

I was sooo excited to see their not-date animated after I saw this part of the manga!! It's about the physical closeness for me 😳

THEY'RE IN LOVE YOUR HONOR

[otakutale]

Machikado Mazoku Season 2 Slated for April 2022 - Visual Revealed

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The official website of the TV anime adaptation of Izumo Ito’s Machikado Mazoku (The Demon Girl Next Door) manga has…

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Machikado Mazoku: 2-Choume; The Demon Girl Next Door Season 2 - Episode 1 at 06:17

[my-anime-goods]

Machikado Mazoku: 2-choume (The Demon Girl Next Door 2) - The illustration of Shamiko for new merchandises by Seasonal Plants has been revealed. The visual of Lilith will be revealed on 29 May 2024.

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wake up babe anime of the season just dropped