Review Fantasista Doll

Uzume Uno is a pretty normal middle school girl who was into card games as an elementary school student. One day she had a strange looking cellphone put inside of her school bag and then she is confronted by a girl but manages to fight her of when a girl that comes from the cellphone defeats her. It turns out that she is only one of five girls, or dolls, that can be summoned from her cellphone and now refer to Uzume as their master. 

As I have stated before Fantasista Doll is a magical girl show which is aimed at a male audience even though it kind of pretends it is aimed at girls. It has an uneven amount of fan service that is slightly too much for something like Sailor Moon or Pretty Cure but inadequate for something labeled as an ecchi or fan service show. Other than it’s summoning and battling gimmicks this feels like a fairly bog standard magical girl show.

If this show can be said to have a philosophical leaning to it, it has an internal discussion on the meaning of friendship. In particular there is some thought placed on the relationship between Uzume and her dolls. It is made clear that even though they are called dolls, the girls summoned from Uzume’s phone are not poke-slaves (episode 4 makes this very clear) and it is very clear that they have abandonment issues. These give this show a small amount of intellectual weight.

 Let me make this clear, this is not a very serious show. This show interspersed with things such as whale punch, Uzume turning to half a tank and of course the team attack, the friendship cannon. This show is often stupid, but it is a fun kind of stupid.

Overall this is show you might want to watch if you like the magical girl genre but it isn’t one of my top picks in said genre.

Rating bronze The bronze Icchan (Angelic Layer) for pleasant diversion in the magical girl battling genre.

Mid season review Fantasista Doll

Well I don't want to commit myself to the arduous schedule of being an episode blogger I feel the need to talk about some of the shows I've watched. I was thinking the first show I should talk about is Fantatista Doll one of the shows I've been watching this season. I'll be honest in saying that it isn't one that shows that I have seen recently or overall but I can say is an interesting show.

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Fantatista Doll Stars Uzume Uno the prototypical normal schoolgirl who one day happens upon some amazing powers just like in most Anime in this case being a magical cell phone which allows her to summon five girls to fight for her. Most of the show so far has centered on either Uzume and her new magical friends called dolls fighting the villain of the week or Uzume bonding with said magical friends.

Almost every magical girl show has some sort of team attack. I think it is a rule or something.

To be honest I don't think this is a really good show and if I would have to rate it right now I would hover around either a bronze or tin rating. However I'm not watching the show entirely for the quality but for how the ID very idea of the show place out. When I first saw the show I was suddenly intrigued in the fact that it was a show that attempts to look like it is a show for girls while in fact is aimed at the male audience.

Somehow I don't think she would make it into a normal magical girl show.

This show has a strange amount of fan service as there is it not enough to properly label it as a fan service (and the fan service is definitely aimed at guys) show but there's definitely too much to really call it a show designed for girls. Other than that this show tries to emulate a straightforward magical girl show and for the most part does so. I would probably say that I am more intrigued about the idea of the show than its actual execution. However I find the show mildly amusing and therefore I will probably stick with it until the end.