Märchen Mädchen

Hazuki Kagimura is a socially awkward girl with no friends; and having been recently adopted, she struggles to connect with her new family as well. Her only refuge from this painful reality is between the pages of stories where her vivid imagination allows her to live out her dreams of friendship and adventure. However, one day, an old and mysterious text appears in her book bag. On her way back to the library to return it, Hazuki sees a familiar girl who is seemingly invisible to everyone but her. Deciding to follow her, Hazuki is led a hidden library where a world she thought only existed in her dreams awaits her.

Märchen Mädchen tells the story of Hazuki's meeting with Shizuka Tsuchimikado, her very first friend, and discovering she has been chosen by the original print of Cinderella to become a powerful mage known as an Origin Master. Hazuki enrolls at Kuzunoha Girl's Magic Academy where she learns to conquer her fears and believe in her ability to create her own amazing story.

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Kagimura, Hazuki Main

Kusunoki, Tomori Japanese

Qazan, Yumilia Main

Lynn Japanese

Tsuchimikado, Shizuka Main

Suegara, Rie Japanese

Mahakali ing

Kamakura, Yuna Japanese

Boyarskii, Tatiana ing

Ozawa, Ari Japanese

Sadohara, Mai ing

Nitta, Hiyori Japanese

Verhoeven, Drew ing

Koichi, Makoto Japanese

Sugami, Ichiyo ing

Okamura, Akemi Japanese

Upierzyca ing

Akao, Hikaru Japanese

Rasputin, Maria ing

Ohtsu, Airi Japanese

Yoshie, Terushige Producer

Nagai, Masaru Producer, Planning

Isogai, Noritomo Producer

Hattori, Kentarou Producer

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Nov 6, 2022

Maxkarl100

Recommended

This anime is the best combination of CGDCT and action. It doesn't have perfect graphics, but the story is amazing. I bought the light novel! It is my favourite! It is a perfect combination of moe and action.

You will how the protagonist enters the magic world. Don't forget watching the specials. Originally they were episodes 11 and 12. I had to wait 1 year to see the end of storie.

Maybe one more volume can be released. I send a message for one of responsibles and he said the volume 4 is not the end. We must wait. Storyworks is one of authors.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jan 19, 2024

DesolatePsyche

Mixed Feelings

Review (short ver):
In a nutshell: Socially awkward lesbo idiot stalks wizard to magical world
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PROS
+Cute magical girls
+Storybooks magic designs
+Strong side still being cute girls doing cute stuff
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CONS
-Story feels fairly weak
... -Rest of the most part feels meh
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Review (comments/longer ver):
-Story
The “serious” part of the story felt the most moronic part somehow. Half of the time the “round table” hags purpose and what they were doing felt just pointless and questionable, the “big villain” purpose and existence was the same. Most plot elements felt like “premises/themes” for general gist/idea but without actual story. So as far as serious plot points went, they were pretty bad.

But the cute girls doing cute stuff, their school life drama and character interactions story telling and such was pretty pleasant and enjoyable.

What I did like a lot was how they decided to go with magic designs. Magic powers are essentially designed, idea/concept wise after various story books. “Cinderella, little red riding hood, match girl” etc…. Various culture story books essentially. Which as concept was pretty neat.

-Character
I mean we have plenty of cute stereotypes, but I were not particularly big fan of the main character. Didn’t mind her social awkwardness and closeted yuri aspect. But damn, she was such a damn idiot. We had a side kicks idiots as well, which seems to be running theme. But overall there are plenty of cute characters but sadly not all of them get enough screen time. While the “Japan” school characters get the main focus and for the most part enough time to grow into them, other characters are pretty much dice roll.

Overall… once okay as whole the “character” side was okay. Nothing too amazing nor would say particularly bad.
-Art & Sound
Ending video nice I guess. But yeah, Animation, music, OST etc… was okay I guess. For the genre and content we got it was fitting enough. Nothing too impressive.

-Enjoyment & Overall
In the end I did enjoy it for the most part. Although the serious part of the story was quite iffy and lacking and everything else felt fairly average, but as whole it had it’s own charm which made it enjoyable cute magical girls doing cute stuff with cool magic type of Anime. And I have a habit rating Anime a bit higher usually people do. Would I recommend it? Eh… I’m neutral on it, like that type of genres and content, watch it, otherwise, find something better.
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Total Score 6/10
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Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Oct 31, 2018

IHaveNoLifeHelp

Not Recommended

The time I watched Märchen Mädchen was when I felt that there was no good anime elsewhere because they are all (well, a lot of them I meant) are mediocre at best. Boy was I right. This anime wasn't particularly dreadful, the art was ok, and the soundtrack was tolerable. But the story and the characters were just so plain and so boring! I'm surprised that I managed to finish all 10 episodes in actuality. I didn't have a care for the main character (I even forgot her name, wow) and I didn't have a care for any of her relationships with the ing characters. ... I kinda did like the whole book idea and that everyone had their own little cute outfits from those books. But when we found out that the main character had one of the "special~" versions of the book I literally face palmed and said "of course! she'd be the "chosen one". I found this very cliche, but if you enjoyed it then I won't judge you.This show was clearly not meant for me.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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