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3	''Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desu Kara'' (roughly translates to "I've Had Enough Of Being A Magical Girl") is a parody of the MagicalGirl genre that began publication in 2015. An anime adaptation aired as part of the Winter 2016 season, followed by a second season in Fall 2016.
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5	One day, Yuzuka Hanami comes across a [[MentorMascot mysterious creature]] foraging in the garbage. The creature, calling itself Miton, tells Yuzuka she has the makings of a MagicalGirl and grants her powerful magical abilities. The catch? Her magical girl outfit is a two-piece swimsuit. Even Miton doesn't know why this is (it's meant to be "best fit" the wearer, though he doesn't seem to mind), but Yuzuka is mortified. Thus begins her career as a magical girl...
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7	The Anime has two seasons, and each episode is about four minutes long, and are available to watch on Website/{{Crunchyroll}}.
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11	!! This series contains the following tropes:
12	* AmusingInjuries: Basically anything that happens to Miton. He's been struck with frying pans, taped to a washing line and clawed at by cats, half-drowned, scalded, and goodness knows what else, but it's all PlayedForLaughs and never seems to do any lasting damage.
13	* AnimationBump: Season 2's animation is far sharper, as well as more complex than Season 1's.
14	* BagOfHolding: When transformed, Mafuyu gains a magic Santa sack that she can float in mid-air and can control the size of, allowing her to store as much or as little as she wants inside of it without physically carrying it. It's currently unknown there's a limit to what it can hold, or what happens to the contents once she de-transforms.
15	* BarbieDollAnatomy: Both Yuzuka and Mafuyu during their respective {{transformation sequence}}s. It's especially noticeable during Mafuyu's transformation, as her dress is almost the last thing to manifest, so she's left effectively "naked" for roughly 8 seconds.
16	* {{BFS}}: Yuzuka's dad wields one in In Season 2, Episode 9.
17	* BeachEpisode: Season 2, Episode 10, 11 and 12 all have the crew on a beach.
18	* BequeathedPower: A non-lethal variant. Mafuyu has stated that she intends to pass Pochi (and by extention, her powers) on to Chiya once she comes of age and retires.
19	* BlessedWithSuck: The central theme of the show. Yuzuka may be a MagicalGirl with the power to [[MakingASplash create and control water]], but her magical girl outfit is a swimsuit and her MentorMascot is somewhat of a pervert. She's quite understandably reluctant to transform at all, let alone in public.
20	* BlushSticker: Yuzuka has these almost permanently on her face. Miton gets these after eating food in episode 4, and laughing at Pochi in episode 9.
21	* ButtMonkey: Miton. To be fair, he brings it on himself most of the time.
22	* ByThePowerOfGrayskull: Both girls transform by simply touching their [[TransformationTrinket bracelet]] and saying, "Transform!"
23	* CallBack:
24	** Episode 10 has Miton callback to Episode 7 when the two suggest using clothes to hide her swimsuit, but as Miton points out, this did not go well in Episode 7, briefly leaving her pantsless. Season 2, Episode 1 also calls back to this moment.
25	** Daiya mentions getting better at swimming in Season one, and learns to swim in the tenth episode of season 2.
26	* ChivalrousPervert: Miton borders on this and an actual pervert. When Yuzuka tries to change into something ''other'' than her swimsuit costume in Episode 2, he does put on a blindfold, and only takes it off after mentoring to use her water powers.
27	* ClingyJealousGirl: Chiya gives off this sort of vibe when around Yuzuka. ''Especially'' if Miton is also around, in which case she occasionally veers towards outright {{Yandere}}.
28	* ComedicSociopathy: Yuzuka and Chiya often show a lack of concern for Miton and are occasionally outright abusive towards him (particularly [[ClingyJealousGirl Chiya]]).
29	* CovertPervert: Chiya is this towards Yuzuka. After a glitch in her TransformationSequence causes her swimsuit to fly off, Chiya is seen covertly stuffing Yuzuka's swimsuit top into her bag.
30	* CrackIsCheaper: Mafuyu's grandfather is an avid online gamer, and his bar is closed temporarily due to being part of an online guild.
31	* CrazyPrepared: Season 2, Episode 6 has Chiya wear a swimsuit underneath her actual clothes just in case Yuzuka also transformed, so the latter doesn't feel embaressed in a swimsuit.
32	* CursedWithAwesome: Upside of being a magical girl is you get awesome powers, but the drawback is that you wear a swimsuit. Yuzuka takes issue with the latter part.
33	* CutenessProximity: Pretty much the only time Chiya shows any kind of emotion other than disdain for Miton is when she's around Daiya.
34	** In Episode 11 Yuzuka's mother [[{{Squee}} squees loudly]] upon seeing Yuzuka transform into her swimsuit and excitedly examines it from all angles.
35	* EmbarrassingButEmpoweringOutfit: Yuzuka is not a fan of her outfit, even if it comes with magical powers.
36	* EmbarrassingNickname: Pochi hates being called Pochi and prefers to be called by her real name... which unfortunately is [[OverlyLongName so long]] that everyone just calls her Pochi instead. The "embarrassing" part is hammered home when [[ButtMonkey Miton]] laughs at the name Pochi ''twice''.
37	* FinalSpeech: Miton gives one in Episode 7 while Yuzuka is inadvertently drowning him. Instead of, you know, telling her that she's accidentally drowning him. He gets better.
38	* ForcedKiss: Chiya does this to Miton and Pochi as punishment for bad mouther her behavior.
39	* {{Foreshadowing}}: In Season 2, Episode 6, Mafuyu turns off the generator to save electricity, which was alluded to as the batteries for the air conditioning remote were removed.
40	* {{Foil}}: Mafuyu is much less concerning to Pochi than Yuzuka is to Miton, and the latter constantly interrupts her. To be fair, Pchi doesn't help himself by going all SesquipedalianLoquaciousness on various topics.
41	* HappinessInSlavery: Yuzuka's father, to a very worrying degree.
42	* HowDoIShotWeb: Episode 2 has Yuzuka try and work out what powers she has, and Episode 5 has her attempt to control her water powers in the bath.
43	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Yuzuka verges on this at times; it's even hinted at by the show's title.
44	* InvisibleToNormals: Miton can't be seen by most people, nor does he show up in photographs (as seen in Episode 8). The fact that Yuzuka can see him is what makes him realize that she has potential as a MagicalGirl. Miton can also create magical barriers that make Yuzuka InvisibleToNormals as well. Miton ''can'' choose to make himself visible, but this requires a large amount of magic, meaning Yuzuka has to transform first.
45	* ISeeDeadPeople: Daiya can see and talk to ghosts. She acts as though this is a perfectly normal thing to do. Miton explains that it's a similar kind of magic to that used by magical girls. In prior episodes, she comes off as a CloudCuckoolander as she was talking to nobody from the view of everyone else.
46	* LampshadeHanging: Miton in Episode 7 doesn't know where her regular clothes go when Yuzuka transforms into her swimsuit. Chiya suggests trying wearing her clothes over her swimsuit, and then transforming, but her skirt does not play ball. Yuzuka attempts to transform back, but her swimsuit and regular panties fall off instead, much to her embarrassment.
47	* LateForSchool: Discussed, but averted: Miton cites Yuzuka's ability to wake up and get to school on time as one of the reasons she's a very atypical magical girl.
48	* LethalChef: According to Miton, being a MagicalGirl usually means that they're bad at cooking. Yuzuka is actually quite good at cooking, much to his surprise.
49	* LensFlareCensor: Briefly used in Episode 7 after Yuzuka's panties fall off after an attempted transformation back into her regular clothes while said clothes were already being worn.
50	* MakingASplash: This is Yuzuka's primary ability. According to Miton, the reason her outfit manifests as a swimsuit is so that it won't matter if she gets wet while using her powers: a [[PimpedOutDress regular]] MagicalGirl [[FrillsOfJustice outfit]] would get soaked quickly and would weigh her down.
51	* TheMasquerade: Discussed and ultimately enforced in Episode 6. Yuzuka wants to tell her father about Miton, but Miton claims that if normal people find out about him, he'll end up being captured by scientists and subjected to all kinds of horrible experiments. The pair compromise by bewitching Yuzuka's father so that he thinks Miton is a pet parrot, thus upholding TheMasquerade while still letting him in on Miton's existence.
52	** Averted in Episode 11 when Yuzuka's mother finds out about her transformation. Yuzuka decides that since her mother is a pretty carefree person, it's okay not to wipe her memory.
53	** [[BrokenMasquerade Gets broken]] in Series 2 Episode 11. Mafuyu and Yuzuka transform at a (seemingly empty) beach in order to rescue Daiya, but Miton and Pochi are too weak to sustain the barrier, and it turns out there are dozens of other people there...
54	* MentorMascot: Yuzuka has Miton, a strange sort of bird creature, whereas Mafuyu has Pochi, a talking penguin.
55	* MundaneUtility: There are no monsters for the girls to fight, so anything they use their magic for will inevitably be this trope. Season 2 has Yuzuka use her water powers to cooldown in both episode 1 and 6.
56	* NoAntagonist: Almost uniquely for a MagicalGirl series; since all the world's monsters had already been defeated by other magical girls prior to the start of the series, Yuzuka has no-one to fight. Miton ultimately admits there wasn't really any point in making Yuzuka a magical girl in the first place.
57	** Averted as of the end of Season 2, after [[spoiler:a ghost drags Daiya underwater and tries to drown her, forcing Yuzuka to try and rescue her]].
58	* OhCrap: Yuzuka's reaction after her mother see's her transform at the end of Episode 10.
59	* OrgasmicallyDelicious: Miton in Episode 4 when he eats brand-name sirloin steak.
60	--> '''Miton:'' ''"Everything is right in the world"''
61	* OverlyLongName: Pochi begins to introduce herself in Episode 8 as "Pokenchiss Dil Prafsolaf-" before Mafuyu cuts her off, saying "Just call her Pochi". It's therefore entirely possible that Pochi's full name is even longer still. Pochi is clearly annoyed by it.
62	* ParentalAbandonment: PlayedForLaughs somewhat with Yuzuka's parents. Her dad works at his job so much that he rushes off first thing in the morning and doesn't arrive back until late at night (Miton is convinced he's being used as slave labour, and Yuzuka's flaskback of her father talking about slave workers corroborates this as his face suddenly changes to be deathly serious while claiming he loves working. Series 2 implies that he works that hard for his family's sake, and her mom rarely spends time at home. When Miton reassures her that she'll have his company from now on, Yuzuka retorts that she'd rather be alone.
63	* {{Pixellation}}: The garbage in Episode 2, after Miton tells Yuzuka off for thinking that Garbage is his favorite food.
64	* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: The main reason Yuzuka feels she is CursedWithAwesome is because she's highly embarrassed at having to wear a swimsuit every time she transforms. It's PlayedForLaughs rather than being actual {{Fanservice}} (especially since Yuzuka is fourteen and looks about ten), but it still counts.
65	* ReluctantRetiree: Mafuyu is rapidly approaching the mandatory retirement age for magical girls. She refuses to state what the retirement age is, but given that she's around 15, it should logically be 16 as Miton tells Yuzuka this.
66	* SexySantaDress: Downplayed, as Mafuyu's magical girl outfit is more cute-looking than outright sexy. Comes complete with [[BagOfHolding a magic sack]]. Like Yuzuka's outfit, it comes off as cute rather than sexy, but its short length means it still counts.
67	* ShowerScene: Yuzuka is seen taking one in Episode 12.
68	* SoapPunishment: Miton in Episode 2 after saying the word "fetish" in front of her, and we see a flashback of Yuzuka washing Milton for this reason. Yuzuka warns him that looking at her panties again will also involve this punishment later on the episode. Miton is subject to it again in Episode 10 after suggesting Yuzuka go round naked as her costume.
69	* TitleDrop: Happens once an episode, as the title is a quote from the show (often said by Miton).
70	* TransformationSequence: Naturally. It's a little shorter than in most magical girl anime due to the compressed episode length, only lasting around 15-20 seconds.
71	* TransformationTrinket: Yuzuka and Mafuyu each have a bracelet that they use to transform.
72	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: PlayedForLaughs in one episode in which Yuzuka and Chiya are walking to school; after twenty seconds of normal conversation, Chiya casually asks what the deal is with Miton, revealing that she'd been able to see him the whole time.
73	* WardrobeMalfunction: In Episode 7, Yuzuka tries to transform in such a way that her normal clothes will stay on, over the top of her swimsuit. However, her TransformationTrinket is only able to handle so many clothes at once: while her top half remains fully-clothed, her bottom half is left in just the swimsuit bottoms, and when she tries to transform back, the swimsuit (and her panties) fly off, leaving her exposed and ''highly'' embarrassed.
74	* WeirdnessCensor: Miton is capable of creating a barrier that prevents anyone else from hearing his conversations with Yuzuka. He can also use magic to alter people's memories so they think he's just an ordinary animal: he fools Yuzuka's father into thinking he's a pet parrot. [[spoiler:The barrier fails in Series 2 Episode 11, just as Yuzuka and Mafuyu transform to try and rescue Daiya]].
75	* WorldBuilding: Parodied. In Season 2, Episode 9, Miton tries to explain what their world looks like, and basically parodies the Film/TheHobbit films, saying that a fleet of Miton-esque creatures were all sent to find a bracelet on top of a mountain, and Miton is the only one that survived. Pochi says all of what he said was a lie, and their world is much more advanced and civilised.
76	* TheWorkaholic: Yuzuka's father is an exaggerated example PlayedForLaughs. In one episode, after Miton's magic restores his stamina, he claims he feels like he could work for 200 hours straight--and judging from Yuzuka's reaction, he might actually mean it. In another, he claims that he hasn't taken time off to be with his family in ''over five years''.
77	* YouCanSeeMe: This is one of the first things Miton says to Yuzuka. Since he's InvisibleToNormals, the fact that she can see him marks her out as a potential magical girl. He says something similar to Chiya after she reveals she can see him as well.

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