Another episode, another Japanese SM fetish, and some surprising character developments in the magical girls…

The scene about the magazines leads me to suspect this was written by an older person.

Certainly sneaking off somewhere quiet like the back of a temple to read them.

Would a Japanese person under 30 know what a SM porn magazine is/was, now that porn is essentially free on their phones?

This series continues to be watchable.

I am probably going to just let this one go. This one walks over the line of how much ecchi I can take in my seasonal shows. I think I could handle the content if they didn’t linger on those scenes for so long, but the direction of how these scenes are handled feels less anime and more H than I would like. I suspect I would be able to handle the manga much more easily because I can just flip through those kinds of scenes at my own pace (and I have seen elsewhere that the manga is less racy than the anime has been).

Edit: This hasn’t been an issue yet, but I would like to preemptively ask future commenters in threads about this show to please refrain from posting any screenshots that are explicit. The characters are canonically minors and therefore the explicit images featuring them would violate ani.social’s terms of use.