>>719776012
Cute girls
Mostly lolis
Giant lasers
and most importantly
all the cute lolis are ambiguously gay for each other.
The first season is easy to bounce off of because it starts out like the most generic Mahou Shoujo ever and then picks up at the end when they're throwing city-destroying lasers at each other. Which, at the time, was novel.
A's is what everyone agrees is peak and they've been searching for that ever since, making carbon copies of A's in hopes to catching lightning in a bottle.