Fairy Ranmaru's a spiritual successor to Boueibu with 10x the confidence. Rather than constantly signaling that it's doing a bit, it's an earnest magical girl show where the cast happens to be lightly dressed dudes. Perfect fit for Masakazu Hishida & his Kinpri/Pretty series pals
Before watching the episode I saw that Tetsuya Ishikawa, an artist with a notoriously bold style who's acting as the action supervisor, was credited for something along the lines of Heavens Space Animation and had no idea what it was
After watching, I still dunno, but it's good
Another neat detail is that the normal and transformed forms don't just have different designers, but also different chief animation directors supervising them across the whole show. Character-specific supervision is unusual in anime but with differences this stark, it's sensible
Also Ryouhei Takeshita's opening sequence is every bit as gaudy and extra as the show deserves to be. Neat ways to present both forms of the main characters and of course I'm going to give a shout out to somewhat integrated credits
Good action relay for the chorus too
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