Magical Girl Friendship Squad: Origins (2020) User Reviews

A nice, fun series which is underrated

[bhermann-40608 · 10/10 · 16 October 2020]

I know there has been a lot of hate toward this show by some people, but I enjoyed this parody of the magical girl genre and it is a pilot series of the longer-form series, Magical Girl Friendship Squad. This series mostly parodies Sailor Moon and to a lesser extent Cardcaptor Sakura. It is written by Diana McCorry, who created the series Human Kind Of, a show which streamed on Facebook Watch back in 2018. This show is mainly geared toward Millennials, but that is due to the people who created it. As such, the protagonists, medium brown-skinned Alex and pale white-skinned Daisy, are struggling to pay their rent, and are unsure if to become magical heroes. They eventually do so, agreeing to turn into heroes with the help of a familiar (a magical red panda) and end up fighting their landlord. In later episodes, they end up using their powers to benefit themselves, with Daisy revealing she is lesbian as she sleeps with an unidentified black woman, and they fight another villain even when drunk and hung-over. Then in the third episode, we meet the parents of Daisy and Alex, with the latter family biracial, while Daisy's parents are religious extremists who are part of a cult. The biggest complaint I have about this show is the issue in trying to watch it. Three episodes are available on the NBC website, but if you want to watch any more, you need to pay. As such, without a subscription to SYFY, it is hard to watch this series in its entirety. All in all, I would recommend this series and recommend people give it a try. I know not everyone will like it, but you have to remember it is an adult animation, not a family-friendly animation like Steven Universe, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, or Cleopatra in Space, to give three examples. Often critics of the show do not consider the latter.

it's hilarious

[apelsinuke · 18 October 2020]

I find this humour to be 98% funny, and some minor things that i didn't like - ignored, because overall this show is brilliant. i like how they use a bong and a birth control as their special weapons because they are actually so unusable as magic weapons. it's sad this show got some negative comments by some bvtthurt people, but it'll pass. please don't stop this show! keep it rolling.