Oku-sama wa Mahō Shōjo: Bewitched Agnes
| Oku-sama wa Mahō Shōjo: Bewitched Agnes | |
Cover of DVD volume 1 featuring Ureshiko Asaba/Agnes Belle
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奥さまは魔法少女 Bewitched Agnes (Oku-sama wa Mahō : Bewitched Agnes) |
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| Genre | Magical girl, Comedy, Romance |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Nishikiori |
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Media Factory J.C.Staff |
| Original network | Kids Station |
| Original run | 4 July 2005 – 25 September 2005 |
| Episodes | 13 |
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| Illustrated by | Tōko Kanno |
| Published by | MediaWorks |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Dengeki Comic Gao! |
| Original run | February 2005 – August 2006 |
| Volumes | 3 |
Oku-sama wa Mahō Shōjo: Bewitched Agnes (奥さまは魔法少女 Bewitched Agnes?, literally My Wife is a Magical Girl: Bewitched Agnes) is a magical girl anime comedy. It was produced by Media Factory, J.C. Staff, and Amber Film Works, and was broadcast on several television channels in Japan between July and September 2005. The series is about a housewife and magical girl who has been assigned a replacement and must come to terms with growing up.
The title of the series pays homage to the popular 1960s sitcom Bewitched, known in Japan as Oku-sama wa Majo ("My Wife is a Witch"), which heavily influenced the first magical girl anime, Sally the Witch.
On the surface, Ureshiko Asaba appears to be a 26-year-old housewife who helps to run a boarding house. In reality she is a magical girl from the world of Realm. When she transforms into her magical girl persona, Ureshiko is called Agnes Bell, and her job is to protect the Wonderland—an artificial town created by her mother, who protected the town in the same way many years ago.
One day another magical girl appears from Realm—Cruje Gapp has been sent to replace Ureshiko as the manager of the town, as Ureshiko has become too old. However, if Agnes relinquishes her responsibility, the town as it stands will vanish and be remade according to Cruje's wishes, which goes against all of Agnes's beliefs. Agnes refuses to hand over the Managerial Ring to Cruje, which is the only item powerful enough to begin the town's transformation. In the end, Cruje is forced to give up, and enrolls in a local middle school under the alias Sayaka Kurenai while biding her time.
However, this is not Ureshiko's only problem—she and her husband have grown distant after a certain incident, and she is developing feelings for Tatsumi Kagura, a young man who is lodging in her home.
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