Magical Idol Pastel Yumi Streaming – Review

Welcome back to 1986, when Studio Pierrot‘s fourth magical girl series was on the air. Magical Idol Pastel Yumi is very much of its time period, from the sort of ruffled dress that shows up in a thousand school pictures to the Rainbow Brite color scheme. And even if you weren’t a little kid in the 80s, it’s the kind of show that can make you nostalgic for the sort of world that, if we’re honest, never really existed. It’s also an interesting departure from what we think of as magical girl shows – if we’re being technical, Yumi is more of a magic-using girl than an outright magical girl. By this I mean that she’s more in the vein of Card Captor Sakura than Sailor Moon; while Yumi can use magical tools (a wand-and-locket combo), she never actually transforms, and only uses her magical powers on her own appearance once, in episode twenty-five. She also doesn’t fight villains,…