#Trouble Magia

[cleaetpauline60]

♡ Heroine Otome Game ♡

❥ Lucia Yuan [ Trouble Magia ]

[satoshi-mochida]

Dessert de Otomate 2024 announcements roundup – Fuyuzono Sacrifice, Honey Vibes, Hakuoki Ibun: Berezinskii no Majo, more

From Gematsu

Idea Factory‘s Otomate brand announced new titles, updates on existing titles, and ports during its Dessert de Otomate 2024 event in Tokyo today.

Get the full roundup of announcements below.

New Titles

Fuyuzono Sacrifice

Platform: Switch

Genre: Otome romance visual novel

Tagline: A wish for a bride (sacrifice) in a frozen world.

Keywords: Heartrending Love, Western-Style Fantasy

Staff: Tsunekiyo Fujisawa (producer), Atori Shiina (director), Manuka Midou (character design), Sachi Arino (scenario writer)

Honey Vibes

Platform: Switch

Release Date: 2024

Genre: Otome romance visual novel

Tagline: In a tropical land where beasts (lust) and humans (reason) mesh, a hot and exciting love story awaits you.

Keywords: Beast Ears, Suits, and Three Factions

Staff: Kurage Ichi (character design), Yusuke Takahama (sound), Momoko Terashima (producer), Asami Saitou (director)

Hakuoki Ibun: Berezinskii no Majo

Platform: Switch

Genre: Otome dramatic visual novel

Tagline: “That” makes her both an angel and a demon.

Keywords: Rejuvenating Water, Hakuoki, Napoleon

Staff: Tsunekiyo Fujisawa (director), Sakigumi Shiki (character design), Kagero Usuba (guest designer)

Updates

Moeyo! Otome Doushi: Kayu Koigatari

Platform: Switch

Release Date: 2024

Genre: Otome romance visual novel

Keywords: Battle, Love Comedy, Manga

Staff: Tsunekiyo Fujisawa (producer), Chouko Tsuyuri (director), Ayu Nekoi (original design), Maro Sasaki (scenario), Ririka Yoshimura (scenario), and Satomi Nakayama (scenario)

Voice Cast: Shogo Sakata, Kazuki Ura, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, etc.

Official Website: otomate.jp

Trouble Magia: Wakeari Shoujo wa Mirai o Kachitoru Tame ni Ikoku no Mahou Gakkou e Ryougaku Shimasu

Platform: Switch

Genre: Magic academy visual novel full of trouble

Tagline: Girl meets boy in this adolescent tale of magic. Your year to seize the future is about to begin!

Keywords: Magic, Animals, Student Council

Staff: Suzunosuke (original design), Akira Natsuno (scenario writer), and Akira Ouse (director)

Voice Cast: Tomoaki Maeno, Atsushi Abe, Ryouta Oosaka, Yuuto Uemura, Kazuyuki Okitsu, etc.

Official Website: otomate.jp

Otomate Graffit: New Titles

Hiiro no Kakera Tamayori-hime Kitan: Omoi Iro no Kioku for Nintendo Switch

Platform: Switch

Release Date: June 20, 2024

Genre: Otome romance visual novel

Tagline: Destiny is with you once again…

Keyword: Swords, Guardians, Seals

Staff: Tsunekiyo Fujisawa (producer)

Voice Cast: Tomokazu Sugita, Kousuke Okano, Daisuke Namikawa, Daisuke Hirakawa, Hiroki Shimowada, Kazunori Nomiya, etc.

Official Website: otomate.jp

7’scarlet for Nintendo Switch

Platform: Switch

Release Date: 2024

Genre: Otome romance visual novel

Tagline: The truth of this town is illuminated by the moonlight.

Keyword: Mystery, Incidents

Staff: Chinatsu Kurahana (character design)

Voice Cast: Nobunaga Shimazaki, Tetsuya Kakihara, Showtaro Morikubo, Chiharu Sawashiro, Shinichiro Miki, etc.

Official Website: otomate.jp

Natsuzora no Monologue: Another Memory

Platform: Switch

Release Date: 2024

Genre: Summer-themed time loop visual novel

Tagline: We see “dreams” in the summer sky.

Staff: Ijou (director), Yuu Nishimura (scenario writer), Rokumaru (original design)

Voice Cast: Atsushi Abe, Naozumi Takahashi, Shinya Takahashi, Tsubasa Yonaga, Kazuhiko Inoue, Nobuhiko Okamoto, etc.

Official Website: otomate.jp

Altergear: New Titles

Hypnosis Mic: Alternative Rap Battle – 1st Period / Hypnosis Mic: Alternative Rap Battle – 2nd Period

Platform: Switch

Genre: Rhythm and visual novel game

Tagline: This time the battle of right and wrong comes to Nintendo Switch!

Keywords: Rhythm Game, Hypnosis Mic, Rap

Staff: Kazui (character design and original draft), Otomate, King Records (original work), Evil Line Records (original world)

Voice Cast: Subaru Kimura, Haruki Ishiya, Kouhei Amasaki, Shintarou Asanuma, Wataru Komada, Shinichiro Kamio, Yuusuke Shirai, Soma Saito, Yukihiro Nozuyama, Show Hayami, Ryuichi Kijima, Kento Itou, Ryota Iwasaki, Kengo Kawanishi, Takaya Kuroda, Shota Hayama, Yuki Sakakihara, Eiji Takeuchi, etc.

Official Website: otomate.jp

Altergear: Updates

Rashomon of Shinjuku

Platform: Switch

Release Date: August 8, 2024

Genre: A bakumatsu reincarnation story visual novel refreshed for the modern age.

Tagline: Sever the everlasting karma on the road to carnage.

Staff: Sonoe Kazenomiya (planning, original draft, producer, script), Kanna Natsumi (script), Karin Entertainment (work), Jirou Suzuki (character design)

Voice Cast: Hiromu Mineta, Yukari Shimotsuki, Junichi Yanagita, Kouji Okino, Kouhei Amasaki, Chikahiro Kobayashi, Sho Karino, Atsushi Abe, Kentaro Kumagai, Kenta Nobe, Rowa Kamiie, Takeo Otsuka, Yoshitaka Yamaya, etc.

Official Website: otomate.jp

[ikemenfangirl]

Trouble Magia : Otome game (Nintendo Switch) JP

A girl goes abroad to study at a magical school in a foreign country in order to win her future.

Title: Trouble Magia

By: Idea Factory

Platform: Nintendo Switch

Language: Japanese

Website: https://www.otomate.jp/trouble-magia/

PV: https://youtu.be/l8i07A8S6qI

หญิงสาวผู้ไปเรียนต่อที่โรงเรียนเวทมนตร์ในต่างประเทศเพื่อเอาชนะอนาคตของเธอ

CAST

Lucia Yuan (Protagonist)

A student with a curse

Status: Adopted daughter of the Viscount family.

Department: Magic Knight

Element aptitude: Water 💧

💙 Isaiah Klein - A reliable childhood friend

Status: Son of the Head of the chamber of commerce

Department: Magical Equipment

Elemental aptitude: Wind💨

💛 Lars Klotz - a foul-mouthed guy who hates people

Status: Earl’s son

Department: Magic Biology

Elemental Aptitude: Earth ⛰️

❤️ Ricardo Sante - Competitive Oresama

Status: Son of a former knight leader.

Department: Magic Knight

Elemental aptitude: Fire 🔥

💚 Alexei Eldiel - Social feminist

Status: Second Prince of the kingdom

Department: History of Magic

Elemental aptitude: Light ✨

💜 Sion Caldo - Strict Student Council President

Status: Duke's son

Department: Magical Medicine and Magical Forensic Medicine

Elemental aptitude: Dark 🌑

X: https://x.com/t_magia_otomate

[otomebunny]

Otomate Party 2023 Roundup

Otomate Party--one of the biggest yearly events for otome fans across the globe and this year Otomate announced 6 new titles! Lets check a look, shall we?

Otomate Party 2023 New Games Announcement Line Up:

Matsurika no Kei -kEi- Tenmeiin Iden - Ancient China x High Fantasy Romance

Mistonia no Kibou -The Lost Delight- - Revenge x Fairy Tale

Trouble Magia ~Wakeari Shoujo wa Mirai o Kachitoru Tame ni Ikoku no Mahou Gakkou e Ryuugaku Shimasu~ - Magic School x Animal Transformation

Moeyo! Otome Doushi ~Hana Yuu Koi-go~ - Martial Arts x An Otome Searching for Love

MIX DUNK -KING OF BASKETBALL- - Collaborations with real life basketball team Kawasaki Brave Thunders x idol group AKB48

OVER REQUIEMZ - Wizard of Oz x Dark Fantasy

Otomate Party 2023 Announcements / Updates:

Hakuouki 15th Anniversary Celebration - Possible new prequel in the works, Switch port of mini-game bundle "Hakuouki Yuugiroku"

My9Swallows TOPSTARS LEAGUE - Voice actors revealed, 2024 release window

DIG-ROCK -Documentary of Youthful Sounds - 2024 release window announced

👇 Check out the post down below👇

[ladies-of-fiction]

Lucia Yuan

[chairteeth]

So I realized that maybe the wider fandom should see at least some of the TouNemu memes I've made over time, starting with kitten scrunch face. You will get more on my next break from writing.

[muffinrecord]

Scene 0 is fun but...

Okay, now that we have an official translation and all (of course, I mean no offense to 29udon who did it before), I've got some more opinions on Scene 0.

It's fun imo. It's strength lies in Mabayu and she's a pretty funny, relatable character without being too obnoxious. I like that she's sort of a relatable sneaky lil kid who just wants to watch movies and mumble to herself. Her relationship with her aunt is super cute too and I love the dialogue between them.

However...

The weakest parts of the story have to be Mabayu sitting back and watching the PMMM girlies do their thing, mostly because:

we've already seen it all before really

it's less Mabayu content, which is the whole draw

The story really starts to drag once Mabayu hangs in the back and observes, occasionally quipping commentary. I vaguely remember that she goes through an entire loop and then finally starts interacting with the main cast for realsies later on, so hopefully we're not stuck here in recap land for too long.

But yeah, Mabayu is fun and I can't wait to see her pal around with Homura again. I never finished Scene 0 due to having trouble with my attention span and its slow release, but I did like parts of it.

Opinions on this story seem split between "worst thing invented ever" or "best creation with the amazing homobayu ship." I wonder if it depends on how much you like Mabayu as a character or not. If you read through a bit of it and find her amusing then you'll like it, if you read through it and don't find her compelling/interesting then you won't.

As for the translation, well I can't read Japanese so I can't compare. But it amused me. I like that Kyoko called Mabayu "the girl with the emo haircut." That's great. Also there is something kind of exciting about getting original Magia Record content into the game and seeing what an official translation for it would have looked like.

I dunno, I just feel really excited overall though. This made me miss Magia Record so much, especially when Mami popped up with her scene 0 outfit. God, what I wouldn't give to have an option for homescreen characters in live2d.

[wendigovertigo]

Magia Exedra Info: Kamihama Magia Union Information (all in JP, translated by Google Translate and mistranslations corrected)

Iroha Tamaki

CV: Momo Asakura

A magical girl who came to Kamihama City to find out the truth behind a mysterious dream. She has a kind personality and is often overly considerate. She is not familiar with the latest trends and is awkward with smartphones. She is usually reserved, but shows her inner strength when it matters most.

“The warmth in my chest when I thought of my sister felt real.”

Yachiyo Nanami

CV: Sora Amamiya

A veteran magical girl who has been fighting witches in Kamihama City for seven years. She is well versed in information about Kamihama City and magical girls. She keeps her distance from other magical girls and keeps a life of “rumors” occuring in Kamihama City.

“I won’t suffer anymore… I will take with me the feelings they left behind.”

Tsuruno Yui

CV: Shina Natsukawa

A lively and reckless magical girl. She has great respect for her grandfather who led her family to prosperity and her noble and distinguished history. However, she is currently struggling to somehow retrieve the fallen Yui family, and in order to do so, she aims to become the strongest magical girl.

“Wow! This is me at my strongest! Yes!”

Felicia Mitsuki

CV: Ayane Sakura

A lively, headstrong, and free-spirited magical girl. She hates witches with all her heart, as they are the murderers of her parents and for that reason, she works as a “mercenary” and fights witches all over Kamihama. Her wild way of speaking is influenced by battle manga for boys (shonen). However, she is kind-hearted and loves animals.

“It’s my turn as a mercenary! I’ll give them a good thumping!”

Sana Futaba

CV: Yui Ogura

A magical girl who always thinks negatively. Rejected by her family and those around her, she has no confidence in herself at all, but she is kind to others and obedient to those who need her, and when she trusts someone, she will always quietly stay by their side.

“I hate not being able to overcome my past self… That’s why I’m going to break out of my shell…!”

(Momoko, Rena and Kaede are confirmed, making this post subject of change)

Ren Isuzu

CV: Yuka Ozaki

A magical girl who has been shy since she was little and has difficulty talking to people. She was isolated and struggled to survive, pushing herself into a corner, but then she discovered the world of magical girls and was able to pull herself out of rock bottom. She has grown mentally, but she still has timid moments.

“I’ve decided to live in this world…!”

Momoko Togame

CV: Mikako Komatsu

She is a big sister type magical girl who saves the novice magical girls when they are in trouble. She is sandwiched between two brothers and she has a straightforward and boyish personality. However, she actually likes cute things such as stuffed toys. She is also a fan of female idols.

“I won’t let bad timing get the better of me. From now on, I’ll take my chances!”

Rena Minami

CV: Ishihara Natsuori

A clumsy magical girl who can’t express her feeling honestly. She usually hides her lack of confidence behind a headstrong attitude, so she is easily misunderstood when you first get to know her. In contrast to her cold attitude, she has a sweet tooth. Her hobby is chasing female idols.

“Don’t hold me back, I’ll finish this in a matter of seconds!”

Kaede Akino

CV: Ayaka Ohashi

A very timid and anxious magical girl. However, she is kind and caring towards her friends, and will face difficulties for the sake of her team members. She loves nature, including animals, plants and insects, and is devoted to gardening at home. Also, one of her hobbies is crane games, although she is not very good at them.

“Because there’s something I want to protect, I’ve become a little stronger… Yes, I’ll continue to do my best at my own pace…!”

(Origin of pictures came from Magia Exedra’s official JP X/Twitter account.)

[honestlyboringperson]

I Tried My Hand at Designing the Full Witches of the Main Cast of Magia Record.

CAMPANELLA (Yachiyo Nanami)

The ticket puncher witch. Her nature is admittance. From not only beneath her dress, but under her hat and as well as the multitude of eyes on her tail, black watery tears spill forth with such intensity that her entire barrier is flooded with her tears. She eternally waits for a train for her board on and be reunited with her friends, but she struggles to find the train station itself. Using her lantern, she will eternally wander her ever flooded barrier to find her way to the station. If one were to be harmed by the ticket puncher at the end of her scorpion like tail, great devastation and tragedy awaits them in the near future.

YU HONG (Tsuruno Yui)

The witch of ham. Her nature is harmonious. Both great fortune and great success are the ingredients used by this witch in her kitchen, but all that she ends up producing is dubious meals that may or may not cause harm to the human body. She detests any form of household tensions and if she senses even the slightest resentment of a family member, she will force her victim into eating a feast of her aforementioned dubious cooking. Only those who don’t hide themselves from family troubles or conflict can defeat her.

BEATRICE (Felicia Mitsuki)

The eyelid witch. Her nature is tumultuous. A witch who spends most, if not all her time completely asleep within her barrier, and will almost never actively hunt humans when awake. On the other hand, this witch for whatever reason harbours a complete and utter hatred for other witches and whenever she is awake, will mercilessly locate and smash other witches flat with her mallet like hands. If there is something positive that catches her attention however, she will fear that they will somehow leave her and attempt to bury them in her concrete like tears that she spews forth from her eyes.

THERESIA (Sana Futaba)

The inquisition chair witch. Her nature is transparency. Eternally sitting atop a chair with a mind of its own, this innocent witch lives in perpetual torment and agony. The chair itself is not a part of the witch, and carries out its duty to keep the witch chained to its spiked body and weaponize the truly staggering amount of torture devices it has at its disposal. The witch desires not to hurt anyone and is further tormented by the acts of intense violence that unfold before her. Due to being invisible, her sobs are the only clue where to strike if one wants to hunt this pitiful witch. When the witch dies, a single innocuous sound of a cat meowing will echo through the barrier.

ZOLA (Kaede Akino)

The witch of plot lands. Her nature is to be territorial. Within this witches’ head is planted the simple goal of expanding her territory. When she arrives to an urban area, she desires nothing but to return it to nature and covers it completely in rotten moss. She doesn’t tolerate any form of pest, as she sees them as encroaching on her property and will mercilessly destroy anything that steps into her barrier. Despite this outwardly aggressive behaviour, she is gentle towards the plant life in her barrier, which she grows herself. For some odd reason, these plants moan and can move on their own like zombies, so it’s best not to approach them at all.

CENDRILLION (Rena Minami)

The glass slipper witch. Her nature is transformative. This witch detests herself, and desires to change no matter what. When she senses someone in her barrier, she rush up to them and tear their face off. These faces are then turned into masks, and the witch can freely transform into them. However, she cannot imitate the soul of her victims and usually just ends up acting like a wild animal. If one were to gaze into the mirror on her arm like appendage for too long, she will steal their soul. When the witch dies, a single glass slipper will fall out of no where and shatter to pieces.

ELFRIEDE (Momoko Togame)

The witch of manicured nails. Her nature is self-discipline. This witch cares not where it’s power flies. It continually and proudly displays and decorates the fingers and nails that not only make up her body, but also fly around her as well. It takes great care of its shoddy manicures, but when someone insults it’s nails it becomes quite depressed and either attempts to pierce the victim with her razor sharp nails, or becomes paralyzed with insecurity. Only those who can get up again and again even after misfortune can successfully defeat this witch.

TOTENTANZ (Mitama Yakumo)

The witch of flower petals. Her nature is forewarning. This witch doesn’t forget that no matter what, death comes to all things. It resents its environment and desires nothing but it’s untimely destruction. It is strangely gentlemanly, and escorts those who enter her barrier with pure white gloves, but her terrifying power that is connected to the untimely end of all things often ends up decaying anything that her petals fall upon. Even if you manage to defeat this witch, the sheer amount of pent up curses will often end up taint a soul gem to its limit and will end with a new witch springing up in her place.

[atamascolily]

when less is more

One thing that surprised me when I was watching the Magia Record anime was how much sensory overload I experienced, especially in the Inu Curry animation sequences. There was just so much to look at in any given shot, it was impossible to take it all in at standard viewing speed, especially since I was also reading subtitles at the same time (which means my eyes are naturally drawn to the bottom of the screen a good chunk of the time, so it's easy to miss certain details).

It's not purely my imagination--the MR anime has a lot more going on in these shots than Rebellion, which already has a lot compared to the original Madoka Magica anime. Compare:

this one was the worst and I don't know why. Was it the fog? the pastel background? The Japanese characters shifting in and out in the background? Different animation style?

This is one of those things that is difficult to fully convey in screenshots, but I have a much harder time following the action in the MR labyrinths because there's so much going on and the animation style has changed to the point where it becomes more difficult to distinguish the "normal" magical girls from the background. And I say this as someone who loves witch labyrinths and surreal animation! It's not that there's no excess/overload in the original--the Gertrud labyrinth has a lot going on, for instance--but for the most part, not in a way where I had trouble distinguishing Mami or following the action.

My experience in watching the Magia Record anime is basically me begging the production team to slow down, you're moving too fast, this is really cool and I want to appreciate it and meanwhile we're already moving on to the next thing.

This is true for other areas of the MR anime as well, like pacing and character arcs--it's not that they're absent, it's just that things rush by so fast that I don't have time to process them and they only make sense when I am re-watching in slow motion or in stills. (This also happened in Rebellion, but not nearly as much or to the same extent--I catch more details I missed in Rebellion this way, but NOT the overall plot or what any given character is doing at any given moment.)

And it's especially true for some of the Magia Record action sequences.

This sequence got praised a lot for its sakuga when it originally aired, (along with jokes about how Sayaka stole the budget for the rest of the anime's run) and while it's certainly slick, I find it incredibly hard to follow. I can, but I have to really work at it, and on first viewing, it all just smeared together into an unintelligible blur. It's all great stuff--I just wish it was a little slower so I could see it!

Iroha and Rena's team-up a few episodes later is even worse in this regard:

While I think that high-speed action or sensory overload can be useful in the sense of conveying the superhuman nature of magical girls and the surreal eldritch horror of witches, it can't be so much that audiences can't follow it. No matter what nifty visual tricks you have up your sleeve, they're far less effective if the audience doesn't even register them in the first place. As an amateur video editor, I've learned the hard way that if you give people too much to process at once, they simply can't manage it.

And I didn't have this problem with the Homura vs. Mami battle from Rebellion, which is, in my incredibly biased opinion, Peak Cinema:

While many of SHAFT's earlier works have a more simplistic style (partially an aesthetic choice, partially a budget one) their later works or works with more budget have a tendency towards visual excess in ways that I don't always love. There are a lot of "updated" shots in the Madoka Magica movies where I actually prefer the earlier version, simply because it's visually too much.

Comparison of the school rooftop scene across the TV, Blu-Ray, and movie versions from the Puella Magi Wiki. Note that the foreground animation doesn't change--this is purely a background shift.

(this is also one reason why Walpurgis no Kaiten is taking so long--they can't wait for the DVD to update their backgrounds; they've got to get it more or less right on the first try in order to release in theaters.)

I can't tell if I prefer the DVD version of the original series because that's the one I saw first, and thus is what I'm used to, but one reason I don't watch the recap movies unless I'm searching for specific clips is because it's just too much sometimes in ways I don't find attractive.

One thing I appreciate about Rebellion is that there's only one definitive version--the Blu-Ray--so it's a lot more consistent in this regard. (This is not to say that there aren't differences between the Blu-Ray and theatrical versions; just that the latter isn't floating around for comparison in the same way as all the different versions of the original anime.) It's visually consistent with the recap movies, so there's a lot of excess, but somehow it still works for me--partially because I'm used to it after watching the film so much, and partially because I think it fits with the whole "fake Mitakihara City" thing, even if that's not the interpretation the creators were intending.

Some of this is probably personal aesthetic preferences, but I think there's a sweet spot between "total simplicity" and "total excess" and I tend to prefer the "less is more" approach, unless there's a good storytelling reason for it. Or maybe rococco for its own sake just isn't my thing, I don't know.

Anyway, while it's normal for animation styles to change over time and technology inevitably marches on, I can't help hoping that Walpurgis no Kaiten will be more like the previous Madoka Magica movies in this regard and less like the MR anime. Based on the production credits and what we've seen in the trailers so far, I'm hopeful, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous.

please SHAFT, just let me able to watch this movie and follow what is happening in real time, I'm begging you

[ouiouimochi]

Part 2 of the Abyss x reader that I wrote a while back.

Part 1 - Part 3

there won't be an mc(you) and abyss reunion just yet

inconsistent and unedited writing. kinda wrote in a rush to destress so it's gonna be short

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synopsis: abyss unexpectedly finds himself a place at easton and becomes busy with magia lupus

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abyss never would have thought that his parents would even send him to school, much less one as prestigious and famous as easton magic academy

although he never understood why, he more or less preferred being in school than live in the same household as his parents

even though there's only little differences to how he gets treated by his peers and his parents

but the worst thing his peers had ever done was talk bad about his cursed eye— not that it actually made the situation much better

at least he managed to get himself into a group that didn't make him feel too out of place

he also found himself admiring a male by the name of abel walker who he swore to serve in gratitude for looking past his evil eye and recruiting him into magia lupus

abyss forgot about meeting the eccentric lady from a few years back since he got busy with wanting to make himself useful to abel in making the goals of magia lupus a reality

the hallways were bustling with more life than usual and abel seemed to be curious what it was about

while walking a bit slower, abyss also tried to listen to the loud whispers but opted to focus his attention to the closest group of girls

“hey, did you hear?”

“are you talking about the new student joining our academy this late into the semester?”

“yeah, yeah. apparently they got in because of family connections”

“ehh… even that kind of thing can't be avoided in easton, huh?”

“well… do you actually know who it is?”

“i heard from someone that it's a girl”

“really? that sucks i was hoping for a cute guy”

“oh stop being delusional already”

“so continuing, she's apparently a double liner”

abel and abyss’ ears immediately noticed and they shared a look

another potential recruit

but before either of them could learn of the new student’s identity, the whispers significantly quieted down, taking notice of abel and abyss' presence

then the gossiping students hurriedly dispersed themselves without further wait

abel calls for abyss to recruit the new student and the masked male only nods in acknowledgement of the task

apparently everyone, even the other fangs, were tasked to try recruiting this new student

one would think it was an easy task with how quick word got around and how many members there were in magia lupus

but alas, none of them were successful in finding even finding out the identity of the new student aside from the information that they were female

none of the gossiping students seem to be spilling anything that could expose the new student's identity despite there being talks about the topic

like a magic spell had prevented anyone from speaking of it— or perhaps it was just a coincidence

some fangs also proposed that maybe the new student is from a very powerful family that anyone who spoke ill or exposed her identity could get in more than just trouble

love cute suggested that maybe news of a new student appearing was fake

at that, everyone also started thinking love’s statement made sense despite a huge percent of the student population buzzing with gossip about this new student

abel then called for the fangs to focus on other objectives instead while keeping an eye out for the new potential recruit

at that, the magia lupus meeting ended

“that's the report, my lady” a maid bows while finishing her report

you sighed at the information you received

“things haven't quieted down yet, huh?”

the maid, your attendant, only nods, dreading what you had schemed in that head of yours

you were due to present yourself in school a few days ago, but then you made a fuss about not wanting to go when the campus would be noisy

your reasoning was that it was bothersome to try and tolerate it

the attendant sighs internally, not even knowing what to expect from her lady anymore

it's pretty obvious this poor attendant should be given a well-deserved vacation at this point

all the while, you were coming up with plans to at the very least entertain yourself in a situation where you got forced by your family to attend easton

you might as well have fun, right?

[lapis-caeli]

CHINESE EMPIRE AU TOKYO REVENGERS

More parts here

Ran Haitani

ENGLISH

Ran, the eldest son of the Haitani family, has spent his entire life under the constant pressure of being the heir to a declining noble family.

His life is marked by pain, violence, and secrets that threaten to unravel his world.

Since childhood, he has been the protector of his mother, Teruko, and his sister, Rindou, due to the violence their father, Takumi, inflicted on all members of the family.

He is truly a calm person, indifferent to appearances, and makes no effort to win anyone's favor—he is simply himself.

However, anger, a constant shadow in his life, arises from his helplessness in the face of his father's oppression and the fear of losing his family. He does everything possible to control himself and not beat his father to death for the sake of his sister and mother.

He has absolute trust in his sister, Rindou, whom he often overprotects, even though he knows she is more than capable of defending herself.

The greatest secret between the Haitani siblings is the existence of Rindou's magic, as she can control water and ice, sometimes freezing a bit of the ground beneath her feet when she gets nervous.

Ran does everything he can to keep their father from discovering this secret, as he knows Takumi would not hesitate to send Rindou away or even turn her over to the authorities to be dealt with for witchcraft.

His mother is a woman who, from his perspective, is very mysterious and hides many secrets. He knows there are many things about his mother that he doesn’t understand, but he is certain that she loves them more than anything and would never harm them.

The family faces enormous financial problems due to the vices of the family patriarch, Takumi. This gives Ran constant headaches, as his father’s incompetence as a leader has forced him to take his place in certain situations.

It was because of these financial problems that he met Hajime Kokonoi. A piece of advice from his friend Yasuhiro Muto led him to contact her, the one known as the "Genius of the Inui Family."

After speaking with her for advice on his financial troubles, they managed to establish a small friendship that, for him, is turning into something more.

A part of him wants to be with her freely, but his father’s existence is a huge wall separating them from having a serious relationship.

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Ran, el hijo mayor de la familia Haitani. Ha vivido toda su vida bajo la presión constante de ser el heredero de una familia noble en decadencia.

Lleva una vida marcada por el dolor, la violencia y los secretos que amenazan con desmoronar su mundo.

Desde su infancia, ha sido el protector de su madre, Teruko, y su hermana, Rindou, debido a la violencia con la que su padre, Takumi, trataba a todos los miembros de la familia.

Él realmente es una persona tranquila, le dan igual las apariencias y no va a hacer esfuerzos en caerle bien a nadie, simplemente es él mismo.

Pero la ira, una sombra constante en su vida, emerge de su impotencia frente a la opresión de su padre y el miedo a perder a su familia. Hace todo lo posible por controlarse y no matar a su padre a golpes, por el bien de su hermana y su madre.

Tiene absoluta confianza en su hermana, Rindou, a quién sobre protege en muchas ocasiones, aún sabiendo que Rindou es más que capaz de defenderse sola.

El mayor secreto entre los hermanos Haitani es la existencia de la magia de Rindou, quien es capaz de controlar el agua y el hielo, congelando, a veces, un poco del suelo bajo sus pies cuando se pone nerviosa.

Ran hace todo lo posible para que su padre no se enteré de dicho secreto, ya que sabe que no tendría miramientos con enviar a Rindou lejos o incluso entregarla a las autoridades para que se ocupasen de ella por brujería.

Su madre es una mujer que, desde su punto de vista, es muy misteriosa y esconde muchos secretos. Él mismo sabe que hay muchas cosas de su propia madre que no conoce, pero sabe que los quiere más que nada y jamás les haría daño.

La familia tiene enormes problemas económicos debido a los vicios del patriarca de la familia, Takumi. Esto hace que a Ran le den enormes dolores de cabeza, ya que la inutilidad de su padre como líder lo ha obligado a ocupar su lugar en ciertas situaciones.

Fue gracias a este problema económico que conoció a Hajime Kokonoi. Un consejo de su amigo Yasuhiro Muto le hizo contactar con ella, la conocida como "Genio de la Familia Inui".

Tras hablar con ella para que le aconsejase con sus problemas económicos, consiguieron entablar una pequeña amistad que para él está tornando en algo más.

Una parte de él quiere poder estar con ella libremente, pero la existencia de su padre es un enorme muro que los separa de tener una relación seria.

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What is a Witch’s Kiss?

In Puella Magi Madoka Magica and related works, a Witch's Kiss is a marking, the personal symbol or calling card of a Witch, used by a Witch and its Familiars (or Minions) to control the minds of humans and to mark their Labyrinth. These markings can be used to exacerbate pre-existing negative emotions and thoughts, change personalities, make people commit crimes or self-harm, or lure them into a Labyrinth to be consumed by the Witch inside. Some of these actions may not necessarily lead humans to being consumed: some Witches may merely desire to spread evil and misfortune regardless if they get sustenance. Furthermore, a ‘kissed’ human may not always die from it. Familiars can also kiss humans well outside of the Labyrinth they hail from in order to bring them to their Witch.

Note: In the magical hero community, I’ve heard these markings referred to as ‘sigils’ as well, but I hesitate to use that terminology for this case because I think it can cause unnecessary confusion for practitioners who regularly use sigils in their own magia. I can acknowledge that a Witch utilizes their Kiss as a sigil for their own gain, however.

If a puella magi or other magical hero is in possession of a Witch’s Kiss, it generally means that they came across it somehow in their day-to-day or astral travels and took note of its components for later exploration into the corresponding Labyrinth. The Kiss can contain visual elements that reveal attributes of the Witch including her appearance, nature, or even aspects of her Labyrinth or Familiars; this information is extremely helpful for any magical hero who is preparing to engage in magical combat with a Witch. The Kiss itself can also be used as a portal into its owner’s Labyrinth.

As a chaos magick practitioner as well, I assert that one can also reverse engineer a Witch’s Kiss for their own spellcraft. Is there something that you want to combat magically? Sigilize components of whatever you want vanquish and create a Kiss. This, in turn, can help conceptualize the trouble you are facing into a Witch and thus easier to focus energy towards defeating.

If you need a template for understanding or documenting a Witch, whether found or created, I recommend this format that was used for many of the Witch Cards that were displayed on the original Japanese website for the Puella Magi Madoka Magica anime:

[NAME], the [DESCRIPTOR, NOUN] Witch with a [DESCRIPTOR, ADJECTIVE] nature. The Witch is mainly colored [COLOR], is [DESCRIPTOR, SIZE], and resembles a/n [NOUN]. This Witch is [DESCRIPTOR, STRENGTH] and her weapon is [NOUN]. Her Labyrinth resembles [NOUN/DESCRIPTION] and her Familiars are named [NAME].

You can also add any additional information that helps you further visualize the Witch and its influence.

This post is part of my Magi Praxis series. If you have any suggestions for future topics, or you have attempted anything I have shared and want you share your experiences, please send me a message! I am always happy to go back and provide further explanation as well. ☆

[mostly-magical-polls]

Hey there! Question, would you mind linking the full list for the Magical Girl Video Game tourney or something? I’ve honestly been wanting to look into games within the genre but not had much success personally, so I’d love to use it as a vague rec sheet and I don’t want to try Tumblr’s pretense of a search function to look for a post that might not exist.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica - The Battle Pentagram, Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, Grief Syndrome, Futari Wa Pretty Cure Max Heart: Maji? Maji!? Fight de IN Janai, Pretty Cure All Stars Everyone Gather ☆ Let's Dance!, Twinkle Tale, Unwieldy Wand, Witch’s Wish, Potionomics, Syrup and The Ultimate Sweet, Wand of Fortune R, Kokoro Clover, Hello Kitty and the Apron of Magic: Rhythm Cooking, Love Spell: Written in The Stars, Magical Girl Dash, Omega Quintet, Little Witch Parfait, Majestic Majolical, A Hat In Time, Hero Hours Contract, Nanatsuiro Drops: Touch de Hajimaru Hatsukoi Monogatari, Pop n’ Magic, Phantom Rose, Kirara Fantasia, Genso Manege, Blue Reflection, Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery, Magical Battle Arena, Magical Pop’n, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Another Story, This Magical Girl is a B★tch, MAGIC CHAOS, GrimGrimorie, Star Melody: Yumemi Dreamer, Makeruna Makendo, The Songbird Guild, Super Lesbian Animal RPG, Magical Heroines Plus, Style Book: Fushigiboshi no Futagohime Gyu!, Hamster Monogatari GB + Magi Ham Mahou no Shoujo, Dear My Magical Boys, Twinkle Star Sprites: La Petite Princesse, W.I.T.C.H., Vroom in the Night Sky, MaguSphere - Magical Cannon Girls, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s Portable: The Gears of Destiny, A Magical High School Girl, Magical Chaser: Stardust of Dreams, Witch's Talisman, Moco Moco Friends, Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1, Winx Club (gba), Panel de Pon, C.A.T: Cyber Attack Team, Magical Warrior Diamond Heart, Crystar, Witch You Want, Infinity Nikki, Tokyo Mew Mew – Tojo Shin Mew Mew! – Minna Issho ni Gohoshi Suru Nyan, Pripara (Arcade Game), Long Live the Queen, Calico, Princess Peach: Showtime!, Little Goody Two Shoes, Rune Factory, Madoka Magica Mobage, Madoka Magica Online, Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable, Pretty Cure Connection Puzzlun, Yes! Pretty Cure 5, Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo! - Zenin ShūGo! Dream Festival, Sailor Moon Drops, Hello Kitty: Roller Rescue, Berry Berry Mew Mew, Blue Reflection: Second Light, Megadimension Neptunia VII, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha INNOCENT, Winx Club: Rockstars, I Am Magicami, a letter of challenge, Magical Girl Critical, Trouble Witches Origin - Episode1 Daughters of Amalgam, Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero: Bouquet of Brilliance, CopyKat, Life After Magic, Lovely Fracture, Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream, Otocadoll, Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon Misa no Mahou Monogatari Astrune Academy, Community Pom, Cotton 100%, Fantastic Fortune, Fray in Magical Adventuredwellers empty path, Kira Kira Magical Stars, Kurumi Miracle, Little Witch Nobeta, Love and Berry: Dress Up and Dance!Magic Kyun! Renaissance, Magical Battle Festa, Magical Missy Launch, Mahou no Shoujo Silky Lip, Mahou Senshi Cosplay Club, Majokko Mari-chan no Kisekae, Money Puzzle Exchanger, Nova Hearts, Panic in Sweets Land, Paradigm ParadoxPrincess Farmer, SaGa: Emerald Beyond, Star Girl Proxima, StarCrossed, The Five Steps to Ensuring Momo Graduates Successfully!!!, Valis: The Fantasm Soldier, War of Prayers, Witch-Bot Meglilio, WitchSpring R, Wonder Momo, Deathsmiles, Idol Mahou Shoujo Chiruchiru☆Michiru, Magical Girls: Save the school, Pretty Sweet! Healing Guardian, Punchline, Purikura Daisuken, Shantae, White Cat Project

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｢Alec thinks that Sky T. might get into trouble if she keeps feeding her dragon, especially with the poachers she's already defeated. The real question is: Why wouldn't she?

Well, getting into serious and complicated trouble at Hogwarts could lead to a stern summons from the Ministry of Magic. Even though they let her keep the dragon after she proved herself a worthy rider, next time she’ll make sure to feed it sheep...｣

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⃟ Yup, the dragon has been tamed by Sky T., and, just in case it wasn’t obvious, she’s a Targaryen. You’ll understand why she’s able to ride that dragon ( •̀ᄇ• ́)ﻭ✧ I’m a fan of both fictional elements, so I loved combining two things I adore—especially dragons. We’ll be seeing the mighty dragon soon enough.

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｢Alec piensa que Sky T. podrá meterse en problemas, si continúa alimentando a su dragón, con los cazadores furtivos que ha vencido, la verdadera pregunta es: Por qué no lo haría?

Bueno, meterse en serios y complicados problemas en Hogwarts, si le conllevará una citación seria por parte del Ministerio de Magia, ya que, aunque le dejaron conservar el dragón, cuando Sky T. demostró ser una digna jinete. La próxima vez se cerciorará de alimentarlo con ovejas...｣

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⃟ Sep, el dragón ha sido domado por Sky T. pues, por si el detalle no esta demás, es Targaryen, conocerán la razón por la cual ella puede montar al dragón ( •̀ᄇ• ́)ﻭ✧ Soy fan de ambos elementos ficticios, así que me encantó combinar dos cosas que me encantan y especiaaaalmente los dragones. Veremos al imponente dragón próximamente

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[muffinrecord]

hello!! regarding the magia union translations, are there any rules that people that consume the translations *must* follow ?? like, for instance, are we allowed to make a personal copy of a specific google doc to make annotations?? asking this because I was looking into the stories to organise my own reading and im scared of accidentally breaking any rules 🙂‍↕️

Sorry for how late this response is!

There are rules for the server, but I think you should be fine to make a personal google doc for annotations and such? And I mean... even if you weren't, as long as you aren't making the thing public I don't think you'd be in trouble.

I think the best rules to follow atm would be:

don't harass translators (a no brainer)

don't bug people about the [REDACTED] server

don't be too negative on the new game

don't take credit for other folks' work

But a personal document where you annotate things sounds completely fine to me. Have fun!!