Two episodes is all it gets, and it spends them flexing. This is the kind of magical girl OVA where the visual direction does the talking: a world designed with its own rules of shape and color, powers that manifest in ways the genre hadn't bothered trying yet. At the center is Amane Todoroki, who is the whole thesis. "I don't know how to answer you if you ask me whether this can be done. I just believe it can. If not, then nothing will get started." She thinks in straight lines, gets stuck, and cries at things that would not register for anyone else. Yes, the premise underneath is simple. Reviewers still keep dragging Madoka into the conversation, which tells you where the ambition sits. Slept on because almost nobody found it.
Amane Todoroki lives by a simple philosophy: when faced with the impossible, believe it can be done anyway. Her straightforward approach means she charges into whatever comes her way, rarely stopping to think first. She throws herself at every challenge with full conviction, sure that nothing begins unless someone believes it can. She often gets stuck in her own thinking, yet small things can move her to tears. Amane lives in a world where some people hold a supernatural power known as ISH, and she performs as an idol magician with a troupe called Nought. Her own ability is weak, but her twin sister Lilianne, born without a body, is immensely powerful and lends that strength to Amane on stage. Together they hope to share the joy of ISH through magic shows, until someone from IAM, a rival magic show group secretly running experiments on ISH users, approaches Amane. The two-episode OVA is labeled slice of life.
