Chihaya is your average... No, Wait! She isn't! Chihaya is a reject from Card Captor Sakura's casting call. She's your typical petite-sized, pantyshot-prone tomboy who has three friends and works at a diner with her mother. She also saves a strange bunny-like creature and nurses it back to health.
Now this is where the hentai stage of the "Magical Girl Syndrome" kicks in: You see, said bunny-like creature is named Natsuki and comes from the magical kingdom "Ever Green" to retrieve the "Seeds." These seeds ended up on Earth and has been turning humans into sex-crazed monsters. Natsuki transforms Chihaya into "Magical Warrior Carmine."
But it gets better. Natsuki can magically transform as well; into a human male, a handsome and horny human male. (As if he wasn't perverted enough in magical animal form.) He gets it on with the school nurse, Chihaya when she's not ticked off at him, Sayaka (actually Cerulean Blue, another magical warrior), Mafuyu, and unfortunately Septem the sexy enemy. The problem for him, besides a ticked-off Chihaya, is that he reverts back to that bunny thingy whenever he "finishes" because he loses his powers. OUCH!
The series is actally pretty good despite switching animation. (The use of "old school" animating in the first 2 volumes and CG in the last two and the 2-part special.) The show takes a break from monster-fighting to deal with serious issues like the after-affects of rape and the "jealous girlfriend cliche." Not enough blast-blast gooey-gooey, but is a good series to begin with. I assume that Pioneer had finally lent their voice actresses to do the English dubbing of this series...
(3.5)
