The Demon Girl Next Door

The-Observer95★ 9

There was same nature of anime this year called Endro, its like that anime but with better comedy. The whole anime basically revolves around just two characters, and that is lot of burden of on those characters. They have to be funny and show chemistry between them to carry the show. Lucky for us Yuuko (as known as shamiko) and Momo are the cutest things I have laid my eyes on this whole year. The funny moments between them keep the anime fresh and want to make me come back for more, specially yuuko is so funny and cute and momo's laid-back attitude is what drivesthis whole anime. There are others characters too but they for me do not come as important or are funny for the most part. I do not know how but this anime looks visually this good and have decent animation despite its coming from the same studio who gave us abomination called OPM S2, thats right studio J.C staff is behind this anime. Maybe it looks and have best animation because director knew what was he doing and kudos to that director. The only problem I have is that, characters talk fast, I mean really fast that I had to stop 2 times for a single sentence. I do not know why characters talk so fast, maybe budget was narrow thin or director wanted to add more into the single episode. This anime is at core is what people call cute girls doing cute things, if you like that kind of anime then you will enjoy this one too.

SanaeK10★ 4

Machikado Mazoku is incredibly cute and at times brings a warm smile onto my face. Now this sentence doesn't explain my score on the show and you'll see why in a moment. It's a cute show, don't get me wrong. But the contents and delivery of said contents are difficult to swallow. The direction and pacing are all over the place. Sometimes its too slow and scenes/jokes drag on for far too long, and other times its too fast giving you hardly any time to take in the information. The story itself (or premise at least) is cute but it's nothing special. Honestly most of these sliceof life with fantastical elements type show have some basic structure and predictable plot elements to them, with the delivery and execution of its contents differentiating them from one another. Like, Endro had a very similar premise (with a switch in perspective), but that show at least felt good to watch and was pleasant to sit through. Machikado on the other hand felt downright claustrophobic at times. The characters are fine, but I never really liked Shamiko. Her being the tsukkomi to most situations just boil down to her explaining what just happened to the audience. A very lousy way of setting up jokes. I quite liked Mikan breaking up the monotony but she appeared far too late into the series by which I was already exhausted. Similar shows would typically incorporate characters like these somewhere in the middle as that's usually the point where they would exhaust the standard jokes and setups with the existing cast. In either case, the narrator is surprisingly my favourite character of the bunch. His optimistic "Ganbare Shamiko!" never fails to make me smile and out of all the cast, he is the only one to receive any payoff by the end of the show. The music was surprisingly nice, although maybe I tend to notice it more since I usually zone out watching the show and start paying attention to the background elements. I deliberately didn't include any paragraph spacing just now to demonstrate how it felt watching the show. 4/10 Ganbare Shamiko! May you receive better adaptations in the future.