Magic User’s Club OVA: this is a silly little series. Standard high school romantic [comedy ?] for the most part. The twist is that an alien artifact has settled in off shore. It is basically benign, leaving everyone alone unless acted upon. And, of course, the Earth’s military forces lost a lot of equipment while not harming the artifact or any of its little droids that seem to be sent out to investigate Earth. Since the inhabitants of the artifact, if any, have made no known attempt to communicate with the Earthlings, everyone assumes that the artifact is a BAD thing.

Our plucky band of high school students have been studying magic, and they have decided to go after the artifact (known as the Bell). Flying their broomsticks out to the Bell, they actually manage to destroy some of the little droids that come out to investigate. They also manage to almost destroy themselves since they haven’t mastered their magic. Once they make it back to school, where the magic club has an ongoing battle with the manga club, the Bell starts sending out more droids, looking for these powerful creatures.

Primary protagonist is Sae, a klutzy twit who has a crush on the Magic Club President. She is probably the most powerful Magic user in the group but she doesn’t know it and she can’t control it.

The only reason to stay with this series is to find out what is in the Bell. The production values are shoddy, the storyline and writing are mediocre and the characters haven’t a clue as to what is going on (which is true of most high school animes). Oh yea, there are only two episodes per disk. I don’t know if this a saving grace or a detriment.

I will give this a 5/10 for now. I expect it will be a while before I see the rest of the series.