I played the Sega Saturn port via emulation, which has a fan-translated english language patch available.

This is an extremely solid shmup. You're a little witch girl whois very rude, and aside from various elemental magics you can also grab nearly any enemy or object and chuck it at other enemies. It rules and more shmups should do this. If you play well and avoid damage, you'll level up and you can get to the point where your magic just has these super powerful effects, like the ice chaining to nearby enemies. The story is also super well presented with like these really high energy animated manga panels/portraits of the characters that zoom around and bounce off and slap each other. The art is big time goofy 90s anime, real fun stuff. The in-game art is also really detailed, nice 2D. The monsters are full of cartoon liveliness, especially the bosses.

Overall a fun and cute shmup with some really fun mechanics and a mountain of personality.