Maebashi Witches

As expected, Mai tries to butter Yua up, her former best friend, to convince her that magic can fix her problems. However, after Mai handed over her Kumai account, things didn’t quite go as planned. Yua showed no appreciation as she took the account as her own, hoping she could make it to the top of the beauty pageant. Even after overhearing that nobody cares about beauty pageants unless an influencer participates.

The funny thing is that Yua used the Kumai account to get ahead, but it didn’t quite work out. Everyone became suspicious of her, thinking she was not the real Kumai. After all, Mai was managing that account. As they say, cheating leads to failure when they get caught. After all, we find out that Yua only got into video games to use Mai’s sister’s makeup and stuff. She pretends to be Mai’s friend, and Mai thinks she is best friends with her and will do anything to help her, although Yua takes advantage of her. Even Mai used the magic points to help Yua receive more votes, but Yua is still ungrateful

As for the magic point situation, they went to the barebones as the count goes below 1 to .7. If it goes to zero, the girls no longer become witches. It’s probably not something Azu wants for apparent reasons. Thankfully, they managed to get Yua back into the shop to perform. She wished to return everything to the status quo before Mai handed over the Kumai account. Maybe it’s for the best that Mai and Yua remain distant until the time comes to make up. At least the Magic Point is back to where it was, as the girls get two new customers. Maybe the tides are turning? We’ll see.

Now that Azu has finally loosened up, it comes to Mai. It’s funny to see all the video game references, even the inverted Konami code. That said, it’s weird how the girls realize that their magic points balance appears very low, wiping out all the gains. Mai eventually fesses up to using all the points for a temporary power boost. That means the girls are almost back where they started.

The primary focus is on Mai. Mai used to play video games and write strategy guides but eventually tried to follow in the footsteps of her older sister, Yua, who is quite fashionable. She works as an influencer. Sure, Mai is trying to pretend who tries to be like her sister. She even tries to impress her with magic and convince Yuina to use magical points to impress her. Mai and Yuina did things like summoning drinks and nice stuff like an air purifier. That is so she would ask to allow the girls to grant a wish.

The thing is, when it comes to revealing follower counts on social media, this is where things take a turn for the worse. Yua only has 6800 followers, which is good, but not as much as she stated, especially for an influencer. When Yua finds out that Mai has 10k followers, she gets angry that her little sister has more followers than her. She even goes to the apartment demanding Mai’s social media account. Maybe Mai should set her path instead of following her. Either way, wasting magic points to brownnose Yua into asking Mai to grant a wish didn’t quite work out now that they are in the red. I guess they won’t become completely fledged witches at this rate.

One of the aspects I missed from the last episode after the credits is what Azu is hiding. Azu is cold and acts like a mean girl. She lashes out at Rinko for assuming she wants to take the easy way out to lose weight. We find out that students in her school fat-shamed Azu, which caused her self-esteem to go down, which is not surprising. Fat shaming does not help get people to lose weight but instead makes the problem worse. Even at a clothing shop, when the shop employee tells her she doesn’t have her size, Azu becomes upset.

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Note: Since many shows are airing this season, I can’t possibly cover them all. The only shows I will cover in full are Slime Taoshite 300, mono, Rock wa Lady no Tashinami deshite, Aru Majo ga Shinu Made, and Zatsu Tabi. Any other shows I watch will have short impressions every week at Kireina Yuri (this blog). Impressions are usually less than 300-400 words.

As expected, Azu remains cold towards Yuina as they look for their second customer. After all, they only got 3 points out of 30,000. Unless they improve, they will be old ladies at the rate they are going.

Besides that, the primary focus is on clothes, as Azu doesn’t like the kimono uniform the frog mascot offers despite Yuina thinking they are cute. Azu even lambasted Yuina over her clothing choices. I know that fast fashion, from the likes of Shein, has a lot of ethical issues, such as safety issues, exploitation of workers, and even stolen designs. I’m against Shein and even Temu because the stuff they make is usually of poor quality and, as a result, ends up in landfills, thus ruining the environment.

Sure, Azu’s insults get to Yuina, but with Kyoka and Choco, they go to an upscale clothing store to try stuff on, but of course, they find out how expensive it is. Azu acts this way since she can afford designer clothing while normal girls can’t. What shows how mean Azu is when a plus-sized model, Mitsuba Rinko, comes to the shop. When the others came back, Azu won’t perform because she outright stated she hates fat people. Azu is probably the most prejudiced person as she shames people who can’t wear expensive clothing and now outright admits she hates fat people, perhaps from past experiences. It makes me wonder if Azu can ever redeem herself. I guess we’ll only find out next time.

The problem with Fast Fashion like Shein and Temu in a nutshell.