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Koyomi Morishita is an [[Ordinary High School Student]] who can't do anything right. Figuring that magic could help her out, she follows an old pamphlet to the Anehara Cross School of Magic. Misa Anehara, who lives there with her younger brother, says that the building hasn't been a proper school for years, but she agrees to take on Koyomi anyhow and teach her in the ways of Modern Magic. Koyomi's classmate, Kaho, and a descendant of a powerful magician, Yumiko, end up learning from Misa as well.

Based on a series of [[Light Novels]], the show received an anime adaptation in the summer of 2009. The anime adaptation is currently airing on [http://www.theanimenetwork.com/Anime/Modern-Magic-Made-Simple/Watch The Anime Network.] as [[Modern Magic Made Simple]] and on [http://www.crunchyroll.com/yokuwakaru-gendai-maho Crunchyroll] as Yokuwakaru Gendai Maho.

Based on a series of [[Light Novels]], the show received an anime adaptation in the summer of 2009. The anime adaptation is currently{{when}} airing on [http://www.theanimenetwork.com/Anime/Modern-Magic-Made-Simple/Watch The Anime Network.] as [[Modern Magic Made Simple]] and on [http://www.crunchyroll.com/yokuwakaru-gendai-maho Crunchyroll] as Yokuwakaru Gendai Maho.

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* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Koyomi is fascinated by Yumiko's bras, panties, and frequent lack thereof. She [[Ms. Fanservice|frequently gets into situations that reveal this]].

* [[Acquired Poison Immunity]]: A magical version with {{spoiler|Soshiro}}. Having been unknowingly exposed to magic through {{spoiler|Misa's cooking}} his entire life, nothing [[Anti-Magic|magical]] affects him.

** This is how the [[Church Militant]] trains their [[Mage Killer|Mage Killers]]. It usually kills the person who does it. {{spoiler|Soshiro and Misa}} lucked out. ({{spoiler|And Misa}} luckily avoided being responsible for the death of ''another'' family member.) No, {{spoiler|Soshiro}} is not a member of the [[Church Militant]]; but enemy mages confuse him for one. (Said Church never actually appears in the anime)

** This is how the [[Church Militant]] trains their [[Mage Killer|Mage Killers]]. It usually kills the person who does it. {{spoiler|Soshiro and Misa}} lucked out. ({{spoiler|And Misa}} luckily avoided being responsible for the death of ''another'' family member.) No, {{spoiler|Soshiro}} is not a member of the [[Church Militant]]; but enemy mages confuse him for one. (Said Church never actually appears in the anime.)

* [[Anvil on Head]]: Or [[Drop the Washtub|the nearest equivalent]], several falling basins from Koyomi.

* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: Soshiro refuses to believe magic exists, and thinks all the supposed mages around him are nuts. This is partly because of ~~his~~ {{spoiler|magic immunity}} preventing him from seeing the spells, but it's not clear how he rationalizes the huge washbasins that keep appearing out of thin air right in front of him.

* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: Soshiro refuses to believe magic exists, and thinks all the supposed mages around him are nuts. This is partly because of {{spoiler|his magic immunity preventing him from seeing the spells}}, but it's not clear how he rationalizes the huge washbasins that keep appearing out of thin air right in front of him.

* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]: Misa stops a crashing plane by summoning a {{spoiler|''giant teddy bear''.}}

* [[Badass Normal]]: Kaho. She is the most normal person in the main cast, class representative, and badass modern-time magician. She is probably on par with Misa in understanding modern magic and was able to upgrade Misa's pendant and use a miniature version of Misa's Christmas Shopper (a program that gives her access to all computers on the world) ''with her cell phone''. What makes it even more impressing is the fact [[Invisible to Normals|that she can't even SEE most of the stuff the others are talking/fighting about]].

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* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Guibarthez.

* [[Funbag Airbag]]: How Yumiko and Koyomi first meet.

* [[The Fool]]

* [[The Fool]]:

{{quote|'''Kaho''': Our secret weapon is a [[Dojikko|klutzy crybaby]] who will [[Take a Third Option|walk the unknown highwire]], crying and tripping all the way, [[The Messiah|to save us all.]]}}

* [[Furo Scene]]: The bonus episode 0 ends with one of these.

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* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Overlaps with [[Shown Their Work]], as every episode title is related to computer programming in some way, beginning with the first episode ("[[wikipedia:Hello world program|Hello, World]]").

* [[Inept Mage]]: Koyomi, who only knows ''one'' spell. [[Drop the Washtub|Wear your helmet when she performs it]].

** It could be seen as a case of [[Blessed with Suck]]: she transforms every ~~spells~~ into falling basins, including spells being cast ''on her''.

** It could be seen as a case of [[Blessed with Suck]]: she transforms every spell into falling basins, including spells being cast ''on her''.

** To be fair, it's not the only spell she ''knows'', but the only spell she can perform, as any spell cast by and on her are transformed into this.

* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]].

* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]].{{context}}

* [[Invisible to Normals]]: Daemons, Jinis and Ghostscripts can't be seen by those who can't detect magic, which leaves Kaho unable to see most of what everyone's talking about.

* [[Lethal Chef]]: Misa's cooking looks terrible, but she cheats around the trope by infusing her cooking with magic.

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* [[Light Is Good]]: Yumiko

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Guibarthez he wears white and has a white glow

* [[Ho Yay|Les Yay]]: So much. Especially Koyomi/Yumiko--see [[Accidental Pervert]].

* [[Ho Yay|Les Yay]]: So much. Especially Koyomi/Yumiko -- see [[Accidental Pervert]].

* [[Magitek]]: Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology, since it all works on electronic pulses, whether those are from a computer (Modern Day Magic) or a person (Classical Magic).

* [[Male Gaze]]: In the anime, the camera often pauses on female characters' breasts or rear ends.

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* [[Powers Via Possession]]: Yumiko becomes the vessel for a legendary sorceress, effectively being taken over. This crosses over with [[Power Gives You Wings]] as well.

* [[Real Place Background]]: The series takes place in some clearly recognizable Tokyo locales, Akihabara first and foremost.

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* [[~~Red Baron~~]]: Misa is "The Modern Day Mage."

* [[Smoke Shield]]: Misa is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to know this did ''not'' kill the [[Big Bad]] and says she's waiting for them to come out.

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* [[Sobriquet]]: Misa is "The Modern Day Mage."

* [[Stable Time Loop]]: Koyomi returns to the time when Yumiko is still a kid and met Misa for the first time, originally the cat that Yumiko befriends died and become a ghostscript, but thanks to Koyomi it survives and Yumiko ends up admiring the girl she met that day without knowing it's Koyomi all along.

* [[Storm of Blades]]: Yumiko and Guibarthez

* [[Take My Hand]]

* [[Take My Hand]]{{context}}

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Misa

* [[Time Stands Still]]: {{spoiler|The destructive fire-mage}} has this power, although it looks like teleportation at first.

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* [[Woman in White]]: Yumiko

* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: Koyomi spends three episodes, spread over the course of a few hours, in the past. It translates to 23 seconds in the present.

* [[You Shall Not Pass]]

* [[You Shall Not Pass]]{{context}}

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Yumiko who is 15 but looks closer to an adult.

* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: When Koyomi time travels by writing herself into the Code of the past, she has to be careful not to be harmed in the past, as it could damage her future self as well.

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