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Posted by Tom:
Mahou Shoujo Tai #3

   Mahou Shoujo Tai (literally something like "Magical Girl Group"), but
   translated into English as Tweeny Witches, for some unfathomable
   reason, is a show about Alice, a normal human girl who falls into a
   world where people can use magic. There, she meets two witch-girls,
   and finds out that she can do magic (for example, flying on brooms.)
   She accidentally releases a group of sprites, pokemon-like animals for
   which catching them all brings some benefit.

   In the third episode, Alice and the two witches are charged with
   releasing the sprites, and sentenced to collect them all. They go off
   on their quets, pursued by members of the witch council. Alice then
   gets into a broom race with the bossy witch-girl, which she wins by
   riding the brook skateboard-style, as riding it the normal way is
   uncomfortable.

   It's hard to judge this series. It has an odd form factor, consisting
   of 8 minute 30 second long episodes. The animation is beautiful,
   although one can tell in a few places that it was done on a budget in
   some places. If we're lucky, the story will turn into a political one,
   involving the main cast, the witches, and the non-witch people of the
   world. If we're not lucky, this could turn into a "capture the monster
   of the week" show, although it hasn't happened yet.

   It's hard to give a rating to episodes this short. I'll call it pretty
   good, which is somewhere between okay and good. I want to see where
   the series goes. I'll probably wait and batch up a few episodes to
   watch at once, as an 8-minute episode contains only a few seconds of
   recap, making it hard to just pick up again.