![]() ![]() Sempai is also bossy, domineering, and overconfident, so hilarity results when it’s revealed that Assistant has a natural knack for stage magic and none of Sempai’s hang-ups about performing in front of a crowd. She’ll stop at nothing to rope the indifferent Assistant into the “Fun Magic Club,” but-aside from eye candy-she has very little to offer. Sempai, on the other hand, is obsessed with rebuilding the “Fun Magic Club,” which has dwindled down to just her after the previous batch of club members graduated. Assistant is required by his high school curriculum to join an after-school club, but he’d rather just relax and play video games on his portable game console as a club member in name only. The friction between Sempai and Assistant is the primary source for most of the comedy. When the writing, the pacing, the animation, and the voice acting are firing on all cylinders, Magical Sempai is a hilarious little show, combining slapstick, bawdy humor, understatement, and over-exaggeration in a recipe for explosive laughs. At first, I wasn’t convinced that either gag would have the legs to last for the length of a short format anime episode (each episode of Magical Sempai is a brisk 12 minutes long), much less an entire anime season, but after only a single episode, the rapid-fire comic timing of Magical Sempai bedazzled me, and I was hooked. Now You See It…ĭirected by Fumiaki Usui and featuring animation production by Liden Films, Magical Sempai is a show with two recurring gags: (1) Although she is actually quite talented and hard working when it comes to the craft of prestidigitation, Sempai suffers from crippling stage fright, and she always screws up when she performs in front of an audience. Alakazam! Abracadabra! It’s Magical Sempai, a 2019 TV anime based on the humorous and raunchy four-panel seinen manga by Azu. Sempai puts on a show of badly mangled stage magic for her audience of one, throws up out of sheer nervousness, and arbitrarily decides that Assistant is her new on-stage and off-stage helper, so the two of them embark on an impromptu journey through the mystic performing arts. It’s all fun and games until someone loses their lunch, and when the previously anonymous, newly christened Assistant (voiced by Aoi Ichikawa), an ordinary high school student in search of extracurricular activities, wanders into the “Fun Magic Club Room” (actually an unused room adjacent to the high school chemistry lab), he meets Sempai (voiced by Kaede Hondo), a buxom young lady obsessed with the craft of illusion and sleight of hand. Like Assistant, her real name is never mentioned, as many people just call her ‘Sempai’.Meet us in the Fun Magic Club Room right after school for a look at the ridiculously fun Magical Sempai! She has also hinted that she wouldn’t mind dating him, further proving that she may hold romantic feelings for him but doesn’t realize it herself. For example: She was jealous when Assistant seemed to be having fun with the President of the Chemistry Club: Madara. It has been hinted that Sempai may have feelings for Assistant. ![]() For example: He stopped her from trying to escape from being chained up while underwater.afraid that she would drown. He makes sure that she doesn’t accidentally hurt herself while performing a magic trick. He doesn’t want to hurt Sempai or make her hate him. Assistant is attracted to Sempai, but he often tries to deny it. Because she is an airhead, Sempai is unaware that she unintentionally acts lewd around Assistant.though there are moments where she does notice and becomes very embarrassed because of it. ![]() Sempai tries to teach Assistant magic, but he always proves to be better at magic than her, ehich makes her jealous but also fascinated. Sempai is greatly determined to make Assistant a member of her club, even if she has to use force (which she usually does). Sempai is an airhead who is obsessed with magic, and forces Assistant to join her club. Sempai: Sempai is a 3rd year student and the President of the Magic Club. ![]()
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