Puni Puni Poemi
Ohh gawd I hate this one soo much. This is ignoring the implied rape of a small child (and implied sex between two children).
Though if you want to understand most of the jokes you actually have to watch the entire Pretty Cure series.
Not a small feat since Pretty Cure is made up of about five separate continuities. Though I wouldn't say it's necessary, since the entire thing is basically a parody/troll of every magical girl trope ever.
I actually just learned from the wiki page that Puni is banned from New Zealand and Australia for the reasons you mentioned.
Though I can only imagine director Shinichi Watanabe laughing in the distance as they make that decision.
Possibly especially if you know the implied rape scene.
Those arn't actually the reasons I hate it it is just reasons I can say without getting into an arguement. (Afterall if I just said that it is a load of nonsense that tries to be funny but isn't most of the time, I'd be called out. It feels more like what would happen if someone tried to condense a whole comedy series into a single episode badly. Which is odd given that even Excell Saga managed to condense an entire anime series before into a single episode quite well, and was one of my favorite episodes).
Though I wouldn't say it's necessary, since the entire thing is basically a parody/troll of every magical girl trope ever
Not exactly. It is more of a parody of Magical Girls who are essentially the "Chick"/Girl. The ones who get stuck with purely supportive powers or are just outright useless.
Outside of those it doesn't do a lot to parody magic girls (even if the main character is sort of like Cutey Honey the creator of the magical girl genre). TO ADMIT it could just be because there is too little time to actually properly parody it. I will refrain from examples for spoiler sake.
I almost get the impression it was supposed to be a longer series given its start up (which is such a tease compared that the start could easily be translated to a deep story)
I will admit if it was an outright parody of Magical Girls it would be a bit more interesting. I can just imagine the jokes one can make about uhhhh, that animal one that is really bad... Tokyo Mewmew there we go.
Dang it now I want to watch a Magical Girl Parody... There is just so much that could be done. Oooh or a magical girl anime that puts a whole bunch of different types of magical girls together (Nagima 1000 though is close. It is an anime with EVERY SINGLE TYPE OF ANIME GIRL EVER! though most are unimportant)