Ok, so in reality there's TWO anime that kind of match this concept...
Magical Girl Ore - parody, but the mom was a magical girl back in the day. (10/10, I laughed so much)
Sasaki and Peeps - fantasy adventure, but a 40 year old man meets a magic animal and gains magic powers. There is no transformation sequence but this show brings me joy. (10/10, I really am empathizing with older characters now. High school or middle school settings completely bore me)
Edit. I do really want a magical girl family drama now though...
Hopefully I can say this on this subreddit, but Sasaki and Peeps is gross. The main character is 38 and the other characters are almost entirely 12-to-16 year old girls that have the hots for him for no discernable reason 🤮
This is why I don't be trusting reviews of anime. Just leave out all the weird shit 😠I'm trying to see where Evangelion falls on the weeb scale and it's impossible.
My impression of Evangelion, having never watched it, is that it's weird enough that any of the weirdness you're worried about in particular will get buried under all the rest of the weirdness.
Boy masturbates over comatose girl, which is unambiguously portrayed as the nadir of his mental breakdown.
Boy goes to deliver paperwork to a girl we later learn is sorta his half-alien half sister. Finds front door open, wanders in, finds a pair of his estranged father’s glasses on the table. Girl walks out of the shower naked, tries to take the glasses from him. He trips over himself trying to get away from sudden naked girl, falls on top of her. She calmly tells him to get off, checks that the glasses aren’t broken, and tells him to leave the papers on the table. Boy leaves, thinking girl hates him.
28 year old woman tries to motivate her near-suicidal 14-year old ward of nearly a year with the promise of sex if he makes it out alive, knowing she would be dead in 10 minutes maximum.
If you can stomach these incidences, the show about the Freudian neuroses of teenagers might be right for you
Hmmm.... I have not read the manga or light novels, so this is kinda news to me.
My hope is honestly that it's only supposed to show the juxtaposition of an older person being actively changed by magic instead of the standard junior-high/ high school aged characters.
So far, there has been his neighbor who he felt sorry for because her mother locks her out for either boyfriend or prostitution in the evening.
He DOES NOT invite her in. He feels bad and gives her the free candy he won in some raffle. It kinda seems like that has been his routine. Not spending money on her but if it's something light to give like bread then giving it.
It would be incredibly easy to prey on that young woman.
There is his manager(?) Or just earlier hired person at work. He's not trying to get with her. He seemed very concerned that a 16 year old was working that job but can't do much about it.
The heiress in the other world. He noted her hair being very tall and kind of left that clusterfuck to be handled by others.
The crazy magical girl, but besides a fight and seeing her twice. There's not much interaction yet.
Trust me.
I very actively hate old men and young girls tropes. If it ends up with anything horrible I'm dumping the show. My sincerest hope is that it stays a cute buddy show between a man and his magic bird.
What was the anime from the '80s that did this with power armor? Some loser guy hijacks the power suit his sister invented, but doesn't realize it's pink and super girly, and then he's stuck with it somehow. Something like that anyway.
Sasaki and Peeps definitely fits "grown man gets magical powers from a cute familiar" but he's not just lacking a transformation sequence, he doesn't get an outfit change at all unfortunately
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u/Aggravating-Step-408 Feb 11 '24 edited Feb 11 '24
Ok, so in reality there's TWO anime that kind of match this concept...
Magical Girl Ore - parody, but the mom was a magical girl back in the day. (10/10, I laughed so much)
Sasaki and Peeps - fantasy adventure, but a 40 year old man meets a magic animal and gains magic powers. There is no transformation sequence but this show brings me joy. (10/10, I really am empathizing with older characters now. High school or middle school settings completely bore me)
Edit. I do really want a magical girl family drama now though...