Magical Girl Friendship Squad

This show seems like it was going for the same approach as Panty and Stocking a la Sailor Moon. We got one hero using birth control and another who happens to be a lesbian stoner. I mean, she has to be a stoner, look at her design. The main issue is that they tried too hard to pander to the progressives, precisely with the villains in some episodes. If you want to make your original works inspired by anime succeed, take my advice, and don't shoehorn your ideologies into your work, to where it feels like you're forcing us to adopt these same ideologies.

I really tried... but what... what are we doing here? Phoning in pop culture jokes that will age like 3 day old yak milk? Making characters that are supposed to appeal to a specific demographic while also making them as bland as possible? This is a shining example of 'edgy cartoon by boardroom'. There are better ways to waste your time, trust me.

Seriously, by this point, the attempt of making another "deconstruction" (Curse you, Derrida. And curse you, Gen Urobuchi. And also curse all the people who keeps misusing this term) of magical girl cartoons is just as dull, unoriginal, lazy and stale as making "gritty" superhero deconstructions or "subversive" fairy tales where the prince charming is a jerk and the princess is a badass action hero.

And is also as unoriginal as making stories where Superman (Or a character resembling Superman) is evil.

Seriously, by now "subversive" magical girl shows are the norm, not the exception. Try "deconstructing" something else. (I personally suggest deconstructing trite adult cartoons like this.)

Not funny or clever. More than anything it's preachy and unappealing to anyone that's not "woke"

After watching this show I'm not sure what confuses me more, the fact that someone thought that this story worked the way it is written, or the story having been written by anybody to begin with. Nothing flows into the next scene and the art style is incredibly lazy. If you're going to half such lazy designs for the characters at least push above 30 frames per second, this felt like the opening of mad max where there are frames missing or it's just really obvious this was not just made on a small budget, but made by cutting corners.