Innocent Lilies (2013)

Must preface this review with the following: If you are expecting romance; don't watch. If you are squeamish about violence; don't watch. If sexual innuendo gives you the creeps: don't watch. And most of all, if you think this is Sailor Moon, you better damn sure make sure you don't let your kids watch!

Man, I watched this having no idea what it was about. Imagine my shock after the first episode. You doubt me? Watch the first episode and report back to me. I guarantee, your mouth will drop like mine did. But getting past the violence, sometime choppy story line, I had a great time watching it. The action was sensational. I found afterwards that most of the actresses are part of singing groups but then blame it on my ignorance of Asian pop music that I didn't know that. Overall, I was duly impressed with the acting and the action was KICK_A$$!

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Oh my God, I don't even know what to think or say.

But let's forget for a moment about all the cons, and let's focus on the biggest advantage of this drama which is the plot. Because damn, it seriously had some great potential. I like the idea of a school for witches who want to protect all the bullied girls (Why only girls but not also boys though? Gender equality my butt). The plot twist isn't really that unexpected considering that from the very beginning the atmosphere in the White Witch School is kind of fishy and odd. However, I really enjoyed that twist, but to be honest I've always liked such plot twists so I may be a little bit biased here.

Unfortunately, everything gets ruined by the very poor acting, many pervert shots (for example from under a skirt, zooming in on boobs etc.), annoying characters, and the horribly poor production. Also, everything happens definitely too fast, but I assume this drama was meant to be some kind of an experiment. At times it seems that this drama wants to tell us something, something deep even, but it's not really sure how to do it. Oh, and it's really too easy to guess who the mysterious White Witch is.

Overall, in my opinion this is a short experimental drama which lost its potential because of the inefficient and poor production. And it's such a waste because the plot line is pretty interesting.

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There are three possibelties reasons, why you watched the show...
1) You're a teenaged guy, who can fap to the ecchi scene and till now, you haven't finde pages with real porn
2) You're a female person (maybe also a teenager), who doesn't find out, that you're a lesbian and so you don't know, why all the ecchi scene are so interessting for you
3) You like me: Sometimes you're on your way somewhere and then you see an accident. you slow down and look, what happend, even if you know, that you may see something, that will shock you, but you can't but your eyes away.

Innocent lillies isn't a masterpiece or something, that is worth to watch. The Story is transperent and after episode three you already know how it will end.
All the time, you have the feeling, that it tries to make something big, but it don't happend. But it's funny and the whole time you will thing: "Ah, it's again the wird site of the internet" and "WTF?! I am watching!"
But you know, it's japanese staff... You never understand this funny little japanes. Coming up with wird shit.
Some reason to watch it: Kawaiiii Girlies (with bad tooth), fighting, blood and some ecchi scene.
If like the genre, you maybe should look some animes, but if you just want to laugh: go one, it will be funny.

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Where to begin with this... If you're looking for something short, sweet, filled with the girls from Dempagumi.inc, and a lot of fan service up until about episode 4 or 5, this is your drama. This is not a drama for those looking for a good story/plot/acting; it's just for fun. And really more or less aimed at Dempagumi.inc's fans. (Fair warning: It's completely shot in the male gaze.) I started watching based on this ( http://mydramalist.com/article/2016/10/13/30-minutes-or-less-horror-comedy-halloween-edition ) article recommendation. Plus I have a soft spot for idols (especially in this case Moga), and seeing the first season is about an hour worth of time total to watch; why not?

I went in with low expectations, and well, it was about what I expected. The plot is kinda simple, girls who have varied troubled pasts (we're talking a lot of exploitation, bullying issues here) are recruited to Shiromajo Gakuen (White Magic School) in order to become an all powerful 'White Witch'. Of course, all is not what it seems and from there, it turns vaguely into something akin to Battle Royale with magical powers. You can guess (and be correct) about the entire plot by the end of episode 1. It's pretty choppy in delivery too, but it gets the job done.

To be honest; it's a sub par filler drama. The acting isn't great since the main characters are all from Depagumi.inc; they're singers over actors. Although, like I said, I really like Moga and her character here. From what I can tell it was all their first time trying a drama, and a mini drama wasn't a terrible start. The three full fledged witches are all minor talents who didn't have much traction. Kasumi's actress is actually pretty solid, and fleshed out her character as best she could.

The music was all right. The opening and ending are sung by, you guessed it; Dempagumi.inc . The rest of the audio tracks are alright, although the 'witch activation' affects are overdone.

It's not a good drama overall to be completely honest. If you're looking for something a little mind-numbing or you need a drama series to counter act a binge horror watch; this would be it.

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