Lalabel doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is: a girl learning the human world one day at a time, with a magic wand and a talking cat, while an evil wizard lurks in the background. The show trusts that watching her genuinely befriend her host family and figure out school is enough. It is. The magic is real, but it's never the point, the point is a kid discovering what matters when she has to live like everyone else.

Lalabel is a magical girl who comes to the human world to keep an evil wizard from stealing an assortment of magical objects. She carries a magic wand and has a cat as her companion. By chance she arrives on the doorstep of a couple named Tachibana, and she lives with them for as long as she stays among humans. She goes to the local school and gradually learns about the many unfamiliar things in the human world. The show is a comedic magical girl series running 49 episodes, blending her mission against the wizard with her everyday discoveries.