{"product_id":"magic-user-s-club-ova-tv-series-dvd","title":"Magic User’s Club (OVA + TV Series) DVD","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn enormous alien spacecraft — a massive black cylinder humanity has taken to calling the Bell — descended on Earth without warning and proceeded to ignore every military response sent against it. It is not hostile in any obvious way. It does not communicate. It simply hovers, deploys smaller probe units that wander the city cataloguing everything they encounter, and makes itself completely at home. Against this backdrop, the Magic Users Club continues to meet after school. There are five members: Takeo Takakura, the well-meaning but constitutionally hopeless club president who has dedicated his life to proving that real magic exists and is, unfortunately, also constitutionally unable to stop noticing girls; Sae Sawanoguchi, a sweet, enthusiastic, profoundly clumsy first-year whose magical potential is enormous and whose ability to actually aim a spell is not; Nanaka Nakatomi, precise and quietly devoted to Takakura in ways she would never admit; Akane Aikawa, the most naturally gifted member, perpetually busy with boyfriends and generally too distracted to attend regularly; and Aburatsubo, the club vice-president, effortlessly talented at everything, completely in love with Takakura, and cheerfully unbothered by the asymmetry of this situation. Together they are going to defeat the alien invader. This is not a straightforward process. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe OVA series — six episodes produced by Triangle Staff and released between 1996 and 1997 — follows the club's increasingly chaotic efforts to engage with the Bell, building toward a finale in which Sae's raw magical power becomes the decisive factor and the alien threat is resolved in a way nobody anticipated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1999 TV series, produced by Madhouse and Triangle Staff and directed once again by Junichi Sato, picks up in the aftermath: the Bell is gone, but it left behind an enormous cherry blossom tree in the middle of the city, and a ghostly presence has taken up residence in its branches. Both series share the same core cast, the same warmly comedic sensibility, and the same rare quality of treating its characters' feelings — including Sae's slow, uncertain emergence into confidence and Aburatsubo's unrequited love — with genuine gentleness. Directed by Junichi Sato, whose credits include the original Sailor Moon and Aria the Animation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally released in North America by Media Blasters (Anime Works) across individual DVD volumes beginning in 2001; later reissued in complete collections by Nozomi Entertainment \/ Right Stuf. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotable Staff \u0026amp; Voice Talent\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDirector:\u003c\/b\u003e Junichi Sato (Sailor Moon, Aria the Animation, Ojamajo Doremi)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries Composition (TV):\u003c\/b\u003e Chiaki J. Konaka (Cardcaptor Sakura movie, Catnapped!, Serial Experiments Lain)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharacter Design:\u003c\/b\u003e Ikuko Itoh (Sailor Moon, Revolutionary Girl Utena)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStudio (OVA):\u003c\/b\u003e Triangle Staff \/ Bandai Visual\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStudio (TV):\u003c\/b\u003e Madhouse \/ Triangle Staff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMusic:\u003c\/b\u003e Michiru Oshima (Fullmetal Alchemist, Little Witch Academia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOVA Opening Theme:\u003c\/b\u003e \"Senobi wo Shite Follow You\" by Mahōtsukai Tai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTV Opening Theme:\u003c\/b\u003e \"I Wanna Do More\" by Amii Ozaki \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJapanese Cast:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Miwa Matsumoto as Sae Sawanoguchi\u003cbr\u003e• Kazuhiko Inoue as Takeo Takakura (Cardcaptor Sakura, Vampire Princess Miyu TV)\u003cbr\u003e• Akira Ishida as Aburatsubo (Gokudo, Slayers, Now and Then Here and There)\u003cbr\u003e• Yuko Miyamura as Nanaka Nakatomi (Evangelion, Apocalypse Zero, Rurouni Kenshin)\u003cbr\u003e• Megumi Hayashibara as Akane Aikawa (Slayers, Evangelion, Battle Athletes, Gestalt)\u003cbr\u003e• Kotono Mitsuishi as additional cast (Dragon Half, Sailor Moon, Steel Angel Kurumi) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDVD Features (Media Blasters Individual Volumes)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• English Dub Blooper Reels (included on original Media Blasters volumes)\u003cbr\u003e• Media Blasters \/ Anime Works Previews \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDVD Features (Nozomi \/ Right Stuf Complete Collections)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Blooper Reels\u003cbr\u003e• Clean Openings \u0026amp; Closings\u003cbr\u003e• Commercials (TV series)\u003cbr\u003e• Special Short Film (TV series) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpoken Languages:\u003c\/b\u003e English \u0026amp; Japanese Audio, English Subtitles \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition Details\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJapanese Title:\u003c\/b\u003e 魔法使いTai! 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