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3Re-imagining of the 1996 AffectionateParody ''Anime/PrettySammy'' series as a 2006 MagicalGirl {{anime}} of the CuteWitch variety. Sasami Iwakura is a young girl with magical powers of a telekinetic type that her parents forbid her from using. This has led to her feeling isolated due to a belief of herself as some sort of freak. One day, she goes to the newly formed cooking club headed by Washu, a rather eccentric teacher that starts the club off by faking an attempt to kill her pet. After some [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]], it turns out that the cooking club is a front for the magical girls club, with Sasami and Misao as the first members. Through this club, they meet more awakening magical girls and discover a {{masquerade}} involving a magical world.
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5This show manages the impressive feat of applying a LighterAndSofter tone to a pseudo-series that was ''already'' pretty light and soft to begin with. In this case, it cut the over-the-top style of parody in favor of more FantasticComedy DomCom style. For example, Washu still has some shades of her pseudo-AxCrazy characterization, but it gets considerably toned down after her introduction. Because of this, the series most likely won't appeal to people that were expecting a continuation of the parody style, but for those that want a magical girl show of the more traditional kind, this is as good as any.
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10* ACupAngst: Makoto overhears some boys talking about her in episode 2. One of the laments that she's "small" everywhere, and then a fat boy mentions he's got bigger boobs, which doesn't sit well with her.
11* AdultsAreUseless: Played mostly straight with the teachers. Largely averted with Daimon, Washu, and Sasami's parents.
12* AlternateContinuity: To ''Anime/TenchiMuyo''.
13* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Sasami's father seems to hold a lot of sway with Amitav throughout the series, and always seems excited to see him. [[spoiler: Amitav reveals to Sasami in episode 25 that its because her father was the only person who noticed him while he was trapped/imprisoned, and also spent time with him and told him stories.]]
14* BigBad: [[spoiler: The Chief Sorceress]], though the main threat turns out to be [[spoiler: the evil spirit Keura.]]
15* BitchInSheepsClothing:
16** [[spoiler: The Chief Sorceress at first seems to be both a ReasonableAuthorityFigure and the BigGood, but is shown in the second season to be quite the opposite.]].
17** The World of the Witches as a whole. In the first season it's built up to be a true paradise, but the second season shows that [[spoiler: it's like that because they rejected negative emotions and sealed them away in an unwilling Keura, and are willing to destroy the entire Earth.]]
18* BittersweetEnding: In the end, [[spoiler: Keura and the Chief Sorceress have been defeated, and the Shining Team are redeemed, but Amitav performs a HeroicSacrifice that leaves him in a coma for an indefinite amount of time, though Sasami does promise to watch over him, and it's implied TheMagicGoesAway, or at the least becomes much more subdued.]]
19* BlandNameProduct: One of Sasami's friends says she went to [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Des-sen-ney World]] in Florida.
20* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Misao, near the end of the series.]]
21* BreakTheCutie: Misao and Sasami both suffer from this trope.
22* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Some butterflies of impending doom feature in the final events of the series.
23* CantCatchUp: Misao feels this way towards Sasami later in the second season, regarding magic, or Monta.
24* CatSmile: Washu displays one from time to time.
25* CerebusSyndrome: While the first season focuses mostly on character interaction, cute moments, and comedy, the second season deals with a developing conspiracy, a main character's FaceHeelTurn, ''the world nearly being destroyed'', and a pretty BittersweetEnding. It's still not entirely dark, however.
26* ClingyJealousGirl: Anri.
27** Washu acts this way whenever Itoki gets a bit too friendly with Daimon.
28** Sasami falls into this trope during episode 25, when Makoto teases about stealing him away. She also gets jealous at how much Amitav seems to adore her father.
29* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Oh, ''Amitav.''
30* CoversAlwaysLie: The posters and EyeCatch heavily emphasize the magical girl outfits, but the girls rarely if ever wear them. In fact, their stated purpose at the beginning is to ''suppress'' the girls powers!
31* CurbStompBattle: The Shining Team girls deliver one to Anri, Makoto, and Tsukasa in episode 21. Misao at first seems to do one towards Sasami, until the latter breaks free of her imprisonment by her sheer willpower.
32* DebutQueue: The first four episodes introduce the main girls of the show.
33* DemotedToExtra: While never main characters, Sasami's [[{{Muggle}} normal friends]] become ''far'' less important in season 2. The only one with any real importance is Monta, [[spoiler: as he's the one who is the catalyst for her FaceHeelTurn]].
34* DespairEventHorizon: Misao has one in episode 19, [[spoiler: after giving Monta his favorite food, but he keeps thinking of Sasami instead. She then uses the card the other witches gave her earlier and goes to the witch's world with them. This ends up causing Misao's FaceHeelTurn.]]
35* DudeLooksLikeALady: Amitav.
36* EmotionlessGirl: Tsukasa never shows much emotion.
37* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep:
38** The Chief Sorceress is only ever called by her title.
39** Monta's real name is Toshihiko Saruta. But Sasami always calls him Monta or Monta-head, at least in the English dub.
40* EvolvingCredits: The opening for the second season changes things around but keeps the same song from the first. The ending for the second season changes entirely.
41* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler: The Chief Sorceress, who, even after the executives are healed by Sasami and her friends in episode 24, still wants to follow through with their original plan of destroying and rebuilding Earth as well as the world of the witches. Which seems a bit unusual seeing as how she initially seemed rather happy when the girls heal the executives.]]
42* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler: Misao]] gets a cleavage-tastic outfit when she [[spoiler:gets possessed by Keura]]. She also gets a different outfit when she [[spoiler: joins the Chief Sorceress.]]
43* {{Expy}}: Sasami, Misao, Washu, and Mihoshi.
44* EyeCatch: Shows the main girls in their magical girl outfits.
45* EyesAlwaysShut: Daimon.
46* FaceHeelTurn: For a large part of season 2, [[spoiler: Misao leaves the group and joins the Chief Sorceress and The Shining Team.]]
47* FantasyForbiddingFather: Sasami's father doesn't want her using magic at all initially. But he has a good reason for it. [[spoiler: He was once a watcher of the cauldron, which held all the witch's negative emotions, and because of his proximity to it while guarding it, he was able to utilize some magic, despite being a storyteller, or a human normally unable to utilize magic. He feared Sasami might be able to unlock the cauldron if she ever developed her magic skills enough. He's also ''completely'' in the right not to trust either the Chief Sorceress or the World of the Witches.]] He later averts the trope when he starts to see Sasami making decisions on her own and thinking about possible outcomes based on what she may do.
48* FavouritismFlipFlop: Anri.
49* FieryRedhead: Washu has a rather nasty temper, with at one point admitting she's using teaching the girls to relive stress.
50* GagDub: [[Creator/FUNimation FUNi]]'s English dub hits close to this at times.
51* GenkiGirl: Sasami.
52* GirlishPigtails: Sasami and Anri, to emphasize their GenkiGirl and ClingyJealousGirl traits respectively.
53* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler: Itoki]], which becomes a [[PlotHole bit confusing]] when you consider earlier episodes.
54* HairAntennae: Anri.
55* HeroicBSOD: Sasami goes through two, the first time when Amitav doesn't show up on their last day of camp, and the second [[spoiler: after Misao chooses to go the world of the witches rather than stay with them in the human world.]]
56* HeroicSacrifice: In the finale, [[spoiler: Amitav helps seal Keura away at the cost of being in a seemingly permanent coma.]]
57* HiddenPurposeTest: Washu in the first episode talks about thinning out the crowd of girls in the cooking club, so she pretends to want to kill Ryo-Ohki, who then runs off. Only Sasami and Misao go after it, and after chasing it, they get trapped in a dungeon, and utilize their various magical skills, which is really what Washu wanted to see.
58* HopeSpot: Episode 24 feels like it could be where the show ends with a HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Misao goes through a HeelFaceTurn and reconciles with the Magical Girls Club, the executives are healed, and Amitav is free to come and live on Earth.]] The only thing wrong is that there are still two episodes left, with Sasami's father mentioning that as long as no one messes with [[spoiler: Keura]], [[TemptingFate everything should be fine]]. In the next episode, the Chief Sorceress does exactly that.
59* HugeSchoolGirl: Tsukasa is quite tall compared to the other girls.
60* IdiotHair: Makoto has three idiot hairs going off in unsymmetrical directions.
61* ImportantHaircut: Misao in episode 20, [[spoiler: which solidifies her FaceHeelTurn]], although the ending and opening for season 2 gives it [[SpoilerOpening away in earlier episodes.]]
62* InNameOnly: Sasami and Washu. By contrast, Mihoshi is relatively intact since [[{{Flanderization}} stupidity was her only real defining trait by this time anyway.]] Sasami's cooking skills are quite intact, though.
63* LargeHam: A few of the girls fall into this trope occasionally, usually Makoto or Anri. The gym teacher does it often as well.
64* LateForSchool: Mihoshi (the ''teacher'') in the first episode, to the point where she forgets to put on her skirt.
65* LethalChef: Washu, which is highly ironic considering she's the cooking club's advisor.
66* LonersAreFreaks: Some people assume Misao to be this trope at first.
67* LoveHurts: After meeting Amitav in episode 6, Sasami grows enamored with him. However, he doesn't show up the next day when all of the magical girls were attending a bonfire event, and she goes through a HeroicBSOD until the end of episode 7.
68** Misao goes through this in episode 19, after Monta keeps reminiscing about Sasami despite the food she just made for him.
69* LoveTriangle: Misao loves Monta, Monta loves Sasami, Sasami loves Amitav, and Amitav loves Sasami's dad. It's more like a love square, really.
70* TheMagicGoesAway: [[spoiler: Implied at the ending. It's at least become much more subdued.]]
71* TheMasquerade
72* MindControlEyes: Sasami's mother displays them after Chief Sorceress [[spoiler: mind controls her to allow Sasami to go to camp again in the witch's world, along with the other girl's parents.]]
73* MotivationOnAStick: While riding on a cart pulled by an ox-like creature, Anri complains about how slow it is, so Washu pulls out an "Acceleration Device" that turns out to be a bundle of hay hanging from a stick. The ox takes off like a rocket and catches the hay once they reach their destination, with the quick stop flinging everyone out of the cart.
74* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Misao on episode 21, [[spoiler: when she fails to capture Sasami, and overhears some of the witches talking about how disappointed they are in her failure. She begins to regret hurting her friend who was trying to help, which helps start her HeelFaceTurn.]]
75* TheNapoleon: Makoto is very short and very cranky about it.
76* NightmareFuelColoringBook: Misao's drawing of Sasami in episode 5 is pretty creepy.
77* {{Nosebleed}}: Anri has one when she sees a doodle of herself and Tsukasa under an UmbrellaOfTogetherness. She also get one when they discuss the "Magical Girls' Special Assembly" saying that she will get to sleep with Tsukasa.
78* PapaWolf: Tsukasa's father acts this way when she's introduced. He does fall out of the trope however, once he realizes his excessive parenting was causing trouble for her.
79* ParentService: Itoki (that is, if the show even was aimed at kids).
80* ThePowerOfFriendship: A powerful theme in this series, particularly in the second season.
81* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Daimon and Sasami's father most of the time. Washu falls in and out of this trope.
82* TheMole: [[spoiler:Itoki.]]
83* RuleOfSymbolism: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq6RIPU0eRc The Song of the Earth]] is full of it. It's especially blatant in this stanza:
84--> ''[[SelectiveObliviousness Many still choose not to hear]]''
85--> ''[[TheyJustDontGetIt Even with questions made clear]]''
86--> ''[[IgnoranceIsBliss Their comfort lies in silence]]''
87--> ''[[TheDreaded And our songs they fear]]''
88* ShesAManInJapan: In the English dub, Amitav's evil twin has a clearly feminine voice and is referred to as a she, while its more hinted at being a guy in the Japanese dub.
89* ShrinkingViolet: Misao.
90* ShyBlueHairedGirl: Misao.
91* TheStoic: Tsukasa.
92* SpoilerOpening: The updated opening and ending of season show [[spoiler: Misao's haircut, and the ending ''heavily'' hints at her FaceHeelTurn.]]
93* SupremeChef: Unlike [[LethalChef Washu]], Sasami is a pretty good cook. She even cooks for her parents instead of the other way around. And this version is ''not'' ReallySevenHundredYearsOld.
94* TakeAThirdOption: Sasami does this at the end of the series [[spoiler: when she tells the witches and her father not to seal up Amitav again, and instead uses her magic to get rid of the negative emotions storing up inside Keura/Amitav.]]
95* TakeThat: To other MagicalGirl Anime from the get go in the dub.
96-->'''Washu:''' "I'm not telling you to whore it up like [[Anime/SailorMoon high school girls]]..."
97* TerribleArtist: Monta makes fun of Sasami's crude drawing of Misao in episode 5.
98* ThirdPersonPerson: Sasami in the Japanese dub. Averted in the English dub.
99* TimeForPlanB: In episode 16, Daimon is given what looks like a grenade by Sasami's father. He is told to only use it in an emergency. Later, as he tries to escape with Washu and the girls, the Sorceress blocks their escape path. So he utilizes the item Sasami's father gave him. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a portal back into the human world, which they then use to escape from the witch's world.]]
100* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: In episode 9, after the gym teacher threatens to get Washu fired, she ends up leaving despite the girls trying to help her out. Sasami gets overly emotional over it, and begins to [[PowerGlows glow radiantly.]] It causes Washu to reconsider quitting, and Tsukasa bops the gym teacher on the head, then they paint it as AllJustADream so he doesn't get too suspicious about them being witches.
101** It happens again in episode 18, this time with Sasami and Misao while holding hands. They were able to cancel the magic Itoki had been using that episode, which also causes her to flee for the moment.
102* TrueCompanions: Misao and the other girls grow into this late in the second season, after [[spoiler: they are able to [[HeelFaceTurn reconcile with her]]]].
103* WhamEpisode: Episode 16, [[spoiler: when Washu and Daimon learn about the witch's real objective with the girls, to open up the cauldron. While Washu had a sort of rebellious attitude towards the witches before, this is the first time she's openly defied them.]]
104** Episode 19, [[spoiler: when Misao loses all hope regarding the human world, and [[FaceHeelTurn chooses to go back to the witch's world]].]]
105* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the final episode, [[spoiler:it isn't clear if Keura absorbing the Chief Sorceress' "evil energy" killed the Chief Sorceress or not]].

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