Tejina's stage fright turns every magic trick into a disaster, and the comedy lives entirely in watching her panic while the MC stays silent and baffled. The show knows its joke is thin. It leans into that thinness completely, stretching twelve minutes of pure awkwardness into something that works because it refuses to pretend it's anything more. You're not here for the magic. You're here to watch a girl fail in increasingly specific ways while someone else just stands there.
An unmotivated first-year at Tanenashi High School has to join a club, so he hunts for one that asks as little of him as possible. His search leads him to the magic clubroom, where an upperclassman known as Tejina Senpai is practicing her tricks. There's just one problem: she has severe stage fright, and once someone is watching, her acts fall apart. Her slip-ups tend to land her in thoroughly embarrassing situations. He has little interest in a club led by such a hapless magician, yet he ends up as its newest member. Short episodes of comedy, slice of life and ecchi humor follow the pair through one awkward moment after another, adapted from a seinen manga by Azu.
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