Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Adv Films
• DVD Release Date: December 4, 2007
• Run Time: 125 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000WDTNYE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #230,857 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Haruo Yoshikawa was your run-of-the-mill middle school student: great attendance record no real plans for the future and three adorable loving sisters. Normal right? Wrong. Haruo and his sisters are by blood magic-users. However Haruo is seemingly unaware of his powers. So his three witch sisters - Maika Chiaki and Fuyono - keep him in the dark in the hopes that he'll live a normal life. And they have succeeded... until now!In the blink of an eye Haruo's "normal" life does a 180-degree turn into the insane with the appearance of another witch Ayumi who for some reason is very interested in turning him into a "real man"... As well as awakening his dormant powers!Contains episodes 1-5System Requirements:Running Time: 125 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION/ANIME UPC: 702727177125 Manufacturer No: DMGK/001

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a tried and true formula, December 20, 2007

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Anime Lover "D" (Parma, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magikano, Vol. 1: A New Witch in Town (DVD)

this series is a mix of Negima and Maburaho (both of which are great series). it is the story of one young man who is trying to get by day to day until a beautiful transfer student arrives. and not to mention she is living with him and his three younger sisters as a maid. but there are secrets as is it appears that the sisters and Ayuma (the maid) are actually witches and he is the only one in the family that does not appear to have any magic (and when he finds out they pull out these HUGE memory erasure hammers and whack him with them). And the reason Auyma is there is she is under a curse and must make him a man....and bring out any magic he may have.

It is a tried and true formula for a harem comedy...throw in a cute rival for Auyma (also a witch), a witch hunter, a bunch of goofy friends and crazy mail order devices and there you are.....it is great with the dubbing, the animation is awesome and it gets good at the right times....

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars cute, December 4, 2007

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Laura A. Vaught "llark" (Corpus Christi, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magikano, Vol. 1: A New Witch in Town (DVD)

it was your typical girls trying to get the guy anime but has funny action as well. a little like maburaho in that there is amgic and just one main guy. the animation is nice and the dubbing is well done. there's plenty of laughs to keep it interesting.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Funny but Terribly Unoriginal, June 18, 2008

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L. B. Bryant "Webmaster of OtakuReview.net" (Astoria, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magikano, Vol. 1: A New Witch in Town (DVD)

If I were to judge this series based purely on how much I enjoyed this opening volume, it would be receiving incredibly high marks. From start to finish I really found myself laughing at this series. The characters are very nicely drawn, the pacing is well done and the jokes are over the top but still very funny.

While terribly funny and entertaining, it's just not original enough to get high marks. If you're willing to look past that though, what you're going to find is a highly entertaining series that will absolutely have you rolling.