Maburaho

Has far as anime goes, Maburaho scrapes the bottom of the barrel, and is the type of show that gives the medium a bad name in some circles. Plot wise it's similar to Negima (add your own punctuation at the end) or The Familiar of Zero in the fact that it primarily takes place at magical school/school of magic and has a mild mannered male protagonist with latent powers surrounded by gorgeous women. A Harry Potter Harem if you will. In this case we have the ridiculously bland spineless nice guy protagonist who is the black sheep of his school, seeing how he can only use magic a handful of times before he dies. It is surprising then(actually, no not really) when the school hotties throw themselves at him because, as it turns out he has the blood of the greatest wizards in history running through him, so if he were to produce an offspring with a one of the girls.......yeah I think you see were this is going. What follows is an utterly pointless fanservice comedy with obnoxious characters that are nothing more than cardboard cut outs of genre staples and some of the most lazy writing and storytelling Ive witnessed in anime(that is really saying something...).
The only appeal I can see this show having is for it's fan service, which isn't that titillating to begin with. If its a fanservice/ecchi/harem show your looking for you can do so much better.

Grade: F

Reviewed: episodes 12/24 Format: English Dub, DVD.