A girl who can do anything meets a creature that looks like it escaped from someone's nightmare, and somehow that becomes the least weird part of her day. The magical girl premise gets swallowed whole by slice-of-life comedy that doesn't care about saving the world, it cares about what happens when you're bored at school and your transformation outfit is inexplicably a bathing suit. This show moves slowly enough that you notice when the art actually breathes, something most twelve-minute episodes give up on. The humor lands quieter than you'd expect, less punchline and more the kind of joke that sits with you while nothing happens. It's built for people who'd rather watch a girl figure out her powers over tea than watch her fight anything. By the end, you realize the stranger wasn't suspicious, he was just honest.
Yuzuka Hanami is a young girl with few friends who seems able to handle anything, and she keeps up a cheerful, ordinary life even though her father works constantly and her mother is seldom home. One day she passes Miton, a starving, homeless alien creature living in a garbage pile, who has had no work since enemies grew scarce. He suspiciously tells her she has what it takes to be a magical girl. Yuzuka hesitantly accepts his offer, but when she transforms, her costume turns out to be a swimsuit, and she starts to wonder what she has agreed to. The result is a short-format comedy that mixes slice-of-life moments with a playful take on the magical girl genre.
Streaming Mahou Shoujo Nante Mouiidesukara legally, as of the last catalog refresh. Availability changes by region.
Crunchyroll