We have a teaser trailer for Jun Inagawa’s Magical Girl Destroyers and a poster.
It’s an original anime, so we only know what we’ve been told at AnimeJapan 2022 this week, which isn’t much, but we know the three magical girls are Anarchy, Blue and Pink.
The show is set in a world where otaku, geeks, have been outlawed. It turns out, trying to ban geeks creates a backlash of magical girl resistance.
Jun Inagawa is a prodigy, a young designer who spent teenage users in San Diego, part of the stake culture, before moving to Tokyo.
Ryo Tajima has a great interview, which shows a “This Magical Girl Kills Fascists” tee from Jun and Neighborhood. Here’s what the designer had to say about magical girls;
There’s no specific backstory or anything, but you know how most people depict magical girls as these powerful and perfect ideals? I started drawing them because I thought it was better to have magical girls who possess a more human quality and are true to themselves. Before long, these characters were smoking and doing drugs. Whenever I would watch anime featuring magical girls with a strong sense of doing what’s right for others, I would assume weird things about them: “it doesn’t matter if they’re cute because they do bad things in the dark.” So, I decided to draw magical girls with their bad side out in the open. It’s not like I have a message I want to convey through these characters. Nothing deep. I’ve always enjoyed watching anime with girl protagonists and drawing girls, so it’s just an extension of that.
The key visual is just as striking as the teaser video.
Even in Japan, the series is un-dated, but Bibury Animation Studios is working on it.
Via Crunchyroll.
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