Animelover875

Motto! Ojamajo Doremi is pretty much the best season thus far, breaking straight through the ambivalence of Sharp and surpassing the first season's high expectations for it. Where to start? Firstly, it succeeded where Sharp failed: an overreliance on Hana as a main character (which led to boring episodes without a satisfying resolution) and second, dispersing the exams for the season almost completely, cutting down the first two seasons' nine and 12 respectively to only seven. This meant that a lot less episodes had to be focused on exams and they could spend more time on character development, particularly for the new and interesting characterMomoko. Furthermore, Hana was removed from the storyline for the most part until the midway point, which cleanly allows plenty of time for the girls to develop as characters and have funny and heartwarming interactions without being overshadowed by a larger plot. The second half of its key to success is based in Momoko, a foreigner to the group and the country overall. Struggling with a language barrier, her actress is pleasing to listen to in her perfectly fluent and natural-sounding English, as well as what Momoko herself brings to the table. For starters, Momoko is an outsider to the group, which means she wasn't around the two seasons and is arguably developed the least. What this allows for is a set of "fresh eyes" (so to speak) to change and warp the group's dynamic, adding her own aura and energy, which allowed lots of character interactions between everyone and setup for some of the series' best jokes, let alone the season's. What this also means is that they get a free pass to set up plots about perceptions of life in America versus Japan, handling topics like discrimination, how people socialize differently, as well as hardships faced in America or Japan and how people think differently of others, or the same. Hana's plot was worked out pretty well this time: she took up a nice (but not excessive) storyline for herself which worked its way into the finale. She has four episodes devoted to her mini-arc, but even then things go on in the background and there's plenty more to focus on than just her plot by itself. One of my favorite aspects of the series is actually the judges for the Patisserie exams: the show (as well as the girls themselves) are able to use food as a medium, which honestly works amazingly well. Food can break through a lot of social barriers set up, convincing someone to trust others and forming a bond that sometimes words can't even express. Plus, the girls don't rely on magic and (adhering to their prior season's principles) make everything by hand, which allows us to see how much care they put into getting everything perfect. The overarching plot with the Cursed Forest is also resolved here, while Alexander has been put to the sidelines. This season is pretty much anything you'd love about the series, and it's the best one thus far. 10/10!

deep3anime

I did like Ojomajo sharp better than this season. Story: The queen of witch world wants to see Doremi and her friends as full-fledged witches so she consults with the senior witches ( 6 members) to give their opinions on this issue and though they were reluctant at first, upon Majo Heart's suggestion to conduct tests, through which these witch apprentices should get the acceptance from these 6 senior witches. So far it was good and the tests were regarding making sweets of preference of each of the senior witches. Since our friends do not know how to make sweets, an Japanese- Americangirl named Momoko, who is also a witch apprentice is given by the queen to help our friends. Characters: Character wise i like onpu and momoko in this series. These try to understand others with good amount of consideration. IN a episode aiko severely scolds momoko " saying you are unfit for a mother' when momoko carefully watched hana ( in specific she tied a rope to her waist and to hana-chan's so that she could not miss her anywhere). Even our clumsy Doremi who too have done more damage to hana-chan than momoko, agrees with her. Moreover, in this series Doremi's behavior seems to impact hana-chan a lot. For example Doremi's mannerisms were shown to be practiced by Hana-chan. Plot development is little in this season. But one can not skip it as it will reveal the sad story of the queen of two generations before. One more interesting plot is that hana-chan hates to eat vegetables because of the 2 generations past queen's curse so the responsibility befalls on our ojomajos. But i liked the way these tried to make hana-chan like the vegetables. Music: Opening songs were seemed to decrease in quality from season 1 onwards. I liked MOmoko-s "ABCDEFG song." Enjoyment: I gave a score of 7 for the ' vegetable' habituation strategies and the song of Momoko.