Tokyo Magic Star is a fanime created by kawaiiouija247
on YouTube. It follows Sakura, a girl who has dreamed of being an idol ever since she was a kid. When she and her sorta-friend Umi audition for an idol group called Mahoshi, and get accepted, it looks like her dreams will become reality. But a rival agency plans to fill the world with despair using their own idols, and the trio Mahoshi is actually meant to combat this, as magical girls!
Just a typical Magical Girl Fanime... or not.
Tokyo Magic Star provides examples of the following tropes:
- Animation Bump: The episodes gradually improve, and look amazing in more recent installments. The artwork gets better and more detailed, too.
- Anime Theme Song: The opening and endings, and a few insert songs.
- Art Evolution: Hand in hand with Animation Bump; the first episodes look very simplistic, almost chibi-like, and as it goes on the character models become more complicated, with more lines and details to them.
- Body Horror: Our Big Bad appears to have cracks all over her skin. A few more form while she's talking.
- By the Power of Grayskull!: "Mahou Change! Star -insert name here-!"
- Cerebus Retcon: The genre of the entire series went from Stealth Parody to straight up Magical Girl horror.
- Darker and Edgier: Minor example in episode 2, with a nighttime conversation suddenly getting eerie, quiet music as a Dark Magical Girl with a distorted voice stalking the terrified girls appears... But then the series itself starts doing this from episode 3 onwards.
- Dark Magical Girl: Risako
- Deconstruction: Of a typical magical girl show.
- Eerie Paleskinned Brunette: Half our villains are this, including the Big Bad.
- Expy: Umi looks and acts a lot like Mint/Corina. Given the Stealth Parody the show started as, it's likely intentional.
- Eye Scream: Episode 4; Sakura attacks a villain with magic. Seems standard for Magical Girl... until it makes his eyes bleed. In the next episode, when we see him his eyes are bandaged.
- Jump Scare: The third OP will be this, if you're not expecting it. The girls are screaming.
- Late for Practice: Episode 2
- Limited Animation: Early episodes had a lot of this, with a lot of still shots and two repeating frames for a lot of movement.
- Shout-Out: Possibly? Episode 2 has Sakura say "I gotta go fast!"
- Umi herself seems to be a shout-out to Mint Aizawa.
- Stealth Parody: By the creator's admission, the show started at this, before evolving into a more serious project.
- Technicolor Eyes: Sakura has pink eyes
- Tempting Fate: "Well, [the battle] hasn't taken any drastic turns yet, has it?"
- The Undead: The villains seem to be some form of this...Umi: You not even alive, are you?
- Wham Episode: Episode 5. The villains come from Hell itself, and the girls aren't just warriors, but blood sacrifices as well.
