Mew and Mica are two alien super hero magical girls who are unwittingly sent to Earth to defend it from evil aliens who are trying to invade it. They pose as normal high school students as their cover and when the bad guys show up they presto-chango into their real personalities and save the day. Their classmate and hapless friend Akai is the only one who knows their secret identity and tries as hard as he can to make up for their lackadaisical ways to keep them hidden.
This is a crazed mid 90's style satire on the magical girl genre. The main characters are complete slackers and sexual vixens. The comedy comes from the odd aliens they have to battle, the situations they find themselves in and their torment of Akai. The animation is pretty good for this time period, as to be expected from an OAV. I was thoroughly entertained with it when it came out, but am not sure how much i would enjoy it these days. Either way, it was a fun romp and at the price the DVD' are going for online it wouldn't hurt to add it to your collection if you enjoy inane comedies. The English dub is painful but hilarious at the same time.
This titles was licensed pretty quickly in North America and while out of print still appears to be readily available.
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