Magical Sempai (and that is the
romanization they go with. I’ll try to stick to it.) is a mildly
ecchi comedy about high school students populating a club dedicated
to stage magic. The show mostly follows the point of view of
Assistant (he doesn’t get a name) as he deals with Sempai (she
doesn’t get a name either) and her attempts to put on various magic
tricks despite her many failings. These failures are always
embarrassing in some manner, often involve a self-inflicted wardrobe
malfunction, and I’d be lying if I said they weren’t at least a
little bit funny some of the time.
The center of pretty much all the
show’s comedy is Sempai. She’s the only member of the Magic Club at
the start of the show and… they say she has crippling stage fright,
but it’s more often treated just like she has crippling incompetence
since she has no problems getting up in front of audiences, whether
just Assistant or actual crowds, to fail time and time again.
Whatever the cause, the effect is that Sempai screws up every trick
she attempts, usually in an overwhelmingly pathetic manner. For
instance, she can attempt a rope escape only to end up more securely
hog tied than she started out, throw the coin she wants to make
disappear (at which point she falls over herself trying to get it
back), forget her marked envelopes for a ‘mind reading’ trick, and
the rest of the cast quickly learns to not lend her any money for
bill cuts. When it comes to putting on a really wonderful magic
show, Shiny Chariot she ain’t.
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