History Anime / MagicalPlay

* AffablyEvil: Purulun and Coffee.
* AlienLunch: Mustard and Ketchup have some strange culinary habits.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The girls' magical weapons.

* {{Backstory}}: Purulun and Nonononn share quite an extensive one.
* BalloonBelly: The girls in episodes 5 and 14

* DarkerAndEdgier: The OVA is much grittier in tone than the original series.
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Myumyu
* EdibleThemeNaming: Ketchup, Mustard, and Zucchini.

* GenkiGirl: Padudu has some of this

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Purulun

* IdiotHero: Padudu. Big time.
* IneptMage: Mustard. Also Padudu herself, to some degree.

* LimitedWardrobe
* MacGuffin: The hanamaru aka Flower Marks.
* MagicWand: Padudu's is shaped like, what else, a dead fish.

* MoodWhiplash: Everything turns unexpectedly serious during the Showa Arc.

* NoseBleed: Zucchini is prone to this around Myumyu.
* TheOneGuy: Zucchini
* PowerTrio: Padudu, Pipin & Myumyu.
* TheQuest

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Myumyu's "outfit".

* WalkingTheEarth
* WebAnimation: How this started.
* WidgetSeries: Oh yes.
* YaoiFangirl: Apparently, girls can detect Yaoi by ''smell''.

''Magical Play'' started out as a series of 23 {{web animation}} episodes, released in 2001. It's an {{affectionate parody}} of the {{magical girl}} genre, especially the warrior variety. The character design is by Kiyohiko Azuma, who is better known for his works ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' and ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}''. An {{OVA}} has also been made, using 3D techniques and with a storyline that diverges quite a bit from the original series.

* ConspicuousCG: The {{OVA}} is completely made of this. The flashbacks and some of the {{Imagine Spot}}s are done in this style as well.

* HairDecorations: Pipin's dangley carrot bobbles and Myumyu's cat-paw prints, although it's debatable whether those decs make them look cute or just weird.

One day Padudu, a young girl from Sea Heaven, decides she wants to become a {{magical girl}} and heads out to Sweetland. There she must try to win contests and fight other magical girls candidates to collect "Flower Marks". Once she collects a total of twelve Flower Marks, she has the right to call herself a fully fledged magical girl, with all the fame and privileges that come with the title.

Padudu is accompanied by her comanion Uokichi, a fish that she wears as a cloak. She can also use him as an emergency food supply, even though Uokichi is not too happy about that. Padudu bumps into Pipin and Myumyu, with whom she forms an at times uneasy alliance. There is also Nonononn, a former candidate, who appears to have a score to settle with Purulun, Sweetland's [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen rather cruel queen]]. Add to this Ketchup and Mustard, the inept police officers of Sweetland, plus Zucchini, Queen Purulun's clueless minion, and you have yourself a rather strange bunch of characters indeed.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pipin and Ketchup have actual blue hair and Nonononn's is lavender.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pipin and Ketchup have actual blue hair and Nonononn has lavendar.

Formerly rated as [[SlidingScaleOfAnimeObscurity Level 6 Obscure]], this anime is available on [[http://www.hulu.com/magical-play Hulu]].

* RedHeadedHero: Padudu

{{Magical Play}} started out as a series of 23 {{web animation}} episodes, released in 2001. It's an {{affectionate parody}} of the {{magical girl}} genre, especially the warrior variety. The character design is by Kiyohiko Azuma, who is better known for his works ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' and ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}''. An {{OVA}} has also been made, using 3D techniques and with a storyline that diverges quite a bit from the original series.

!!''Magical Play'' uses these tropes:

{{Magical Play}} started out as a series of 23 {{web animation}} episodes, released in 2001. It's an {{affectionate parody}} of the {{magical girl}} genre, especially the warrior variety. The character design is by Kiyohiko Azuma, who is better known for his works ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' and ''{{Yotsuba}}''. An {{OVA}} has also been made, using 3D techniques and with a storyline that diverges quite a bit from the original series.

* TheMessiah: Padudu. Somewhat.

* EverythingsBetterWithBunnies: Pipin wears a bunny girl costume and has a stuffed bunny for a sidekick.

* ReadingYourRights: In the 3-D episode, when Ketchup and Mustard arrest the girls for [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous being 2-D]], Myumyu demands that they get their rights read to them. Mustard does so, but she forgets how it goes and says the wrong thing.

* AffectionateParody: Especially in Episode 20, where Padudu plays a simulation game that puts her in the role of a MagicalGirl on Earth. A ClicheStorm of MagicalGirlWarrior tropes follows.

* AffectionateParody.

* AlienLunch: Mustard and Ketchup have some strange culinary habits.

* ArtShift: A few episodes are suddenly rendered in 3D, even though Padudu and Myumyu stay 2D.

* ConspicuousCG: The {{OVA}} is completely made of this.

One day Padudu, a young girl from Sea Heaven, decides she wants to become a {{magical girl}} and heads out to Sweetland. There she must try to win contests and fight other magical girls candidates to collect "hanamaru". Once she collects a total of twelve hanamaru, she has the right to call herself a fully fledged magical girl, with all the fame and privileges that come with the title.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pipin and Ketchup have actual blue hair, Mustard has green, and Nonononn has lavendar.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: MyuMyu cheats at the eating contest by feeding all the food to her two cats. She wins, but when she stands up at the end, the cats are so stuffed that they pass out and fall off, leaving her [[ClothingDamage completely nude]].

* MacGuffin: The hanamaru.

* HandOrObjectUnderwear: Myumyu's "cat-bikini".

* DarkerAndEdgier: The OVA is much grittier in tone than the original series.

* NonHumanSidekick: Uokichi for Padudu, Lyka and Akyl for Myumyu, Sekine to Pipin. Nonononn's sidekick is a ''hammerhead shark''.

* TheRival: Purulun to Nonononn. Also Pipin toward Padudu, although technically all girls are each other's rivals.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Myumyu's "outfit".

* TheQuest

Padudu is accompanied by her comanion Uokichi, a fish that she wears as a cloak. She can also use him as an emergency food supply, even though Uokichi is not too happy about that. Padudu bumps into Pipin and Myumyu, with whom she forms an at times uneasy alliance. There is also Nonononn, a former candidate, who appears to have a score to settle with Purulun, Sweetland's rather cruel queen. Add to this Ketchup and Mustard, the inept police officers of Sweetland, plus Zucchini, Queen Purulun's clueless minion, and you have yourself a rather strange bunch of characters indeed.

{{Magical Play}} started out as a series of 23 {{web animation}} episodes, released in 2001. It's an {{affectionate parody}} of the {{magical girl}} genre, especially the warrior variety. The character design is by Kiyohiko Azuma, who is better known for his works ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' and ''[=~Yotsuba&!~=]''. An {{OVA}} has also been made, using 3D techniques and with a storyline that diverges quite a bit from the original series.

* [=~Everything's Better With Bunnies~=]: Pipin wears a bunny girl costume and has a stuffed bunny for a sidekick.
* [=~Everything's Cuter With Kittens~=]: Myumyu basically wears a bikini formed by two cat-like creatures. Really.

{{Magical Play}} started out as a series of 23 {{web animation}} episodes, released in 2001. It's an {{affectionate parody}} of the {{magical girl}} genre, especially the warrior variety. The character design is by Kiyohiko Azuma, who is better known for his works ''AzumangaDaioh'' and ''[=~Yotsuba&!~=]''. An {{OVA}} has also been made, using 3D techniques and with a storyline that diverges quite a bit from the original series.

* LateForSchool: This happens during [[spoiler:one of the magical girl aptitude tests, which take the form of a adventure game]].