{"id":107,"date":"2008-04-27T14:20:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T14:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=107"},"modified":"2008-05-06T21:27:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T21:27:42","slug":"dai-mahou-touge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Dai Mahou Touge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/punie11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-109\" title=\"punie11\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/punie11.jpg\" alt=\"Punie wrestling with mascot\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> Punie wrestling with mascot<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This parody of magical-girl anime is more like  magical-princess anime on crack, as  sweet-looking  Magical Princess Punie from the Magic Kingdom joins a Japanese school for a year on Earth.  She has to do this to prove herself worthy of becoming Queen. Punie, in a flashback to how she acquired her mascot, looks more like a brutal and evil witch.<\/p>\n<p>A schoolgirl gang, a frightening collection of burly and well-armed freaks, take an instant dislike to Punie, but when they try to sort her out, she invokes her magic, with the call of &#8220;Magical Tokarev, kill them all&#8221;, and unleashes a swarm of fighting vegetables. In a later sequence, Punie, with her magic temporarily blocked, demonstrates wrestling skills which are equally dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost a shame to tell you all this, as if you watched it as I did with only the vaguest idea what to expect, you might almost fall out of your chair in surprise.<\/p>\n<p>So, is it worth watching? Certainly the first pair of mini-episodes are a lot of fun, and I&#8217;ll probably follow it  a bit longer to see how it  develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punie wrestling with mascot This parody of magical-girl anime is more like magical-princess anime on crack, as sweet-looking Magical Princess Punie from the Magic Kingdom joins a Japanese school for a year on Earth. She has to do this to prove herself worthy of becoming Queen. Punie, in a flashback to how she acquired her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dai Mahou Touge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}