Magical Play is a satire of "Magical Girl" animes. Padudu and her traveling companion/fish suit, Okochi travel around the world trying to gain flower marks. As she proceeds through her journey to become a magical girl, she meets up with rivals/friends Miss Pippin and Myumyu and general wackiness ensues. Anyway, that's the basic plot, the colors are bomb, the music light and absurd. And the show is really funny. I know most Anime dorks hate Magical Play, but it really is a great parody of all of those blah Magic Girl shows. The stories are vignette style and they all connect, yet don't connect.(another genius move by the show.) It is truly worth seeing and all 4 episodes are great.(The bonus 3-D episode is not as good.) More Magical Play needs to be made!

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