#just as the main magireco tag is

[raposarealm]

Here are the quest victory quotes for Inoue Takina! Credit to @muffinrecord for the screenshots.

Top: We Lycolis are authorized to eliminate murderers! Middle: I suppose with this, we’re even. Bottom: Thanks, you helped me out.

As always, friendly disclaimer that my Japanese isn’t the best, as I’m still learning. If you spot a mistake, please let me know, and I’ll fix it!

[chairteeth]

Well folks, it's time!

Here's the first chapter for my @magireco-minibang fic. Updates will be once a week, and each one is longer than the last, so you'll have something to chew on. It uses the setting of the horror game Ib, replacing each of the three main characters from that and adding some stuff before and after the gallery, but don't worry, you don't need to have played Ib to understand the fic.

It is rated M, but that's just to be on the safe side because The Girls have their moments (i.e. Touka is thrilled at the prospect of bleeding in bed and very much talks about her desire to bleed, for science).

Project partner: @karinmisono

Tag for all my posts related to this: #minibang24

[magireco-minibang]

Here’s an ongoing list of all the fanfiction and fanart created for the Magia Record Mini Bang! Check back throughout April (or follow @magireco-minibang) to see new stories and art as they’re posted!

Planning to enjoy these fanworks? Make sure you also check out our comment drive (which gives you a chance to earn prizes like fanart for commenting!)

Title: A Wish to Understand

Author: @gorochuva

Artist: @puellamagiholyquintet (artwork here)

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Iroha, Madoka, Homura, Kyubey

Pairings: Kaede/Rena, Sana/Ren, Homura/Mabayu

Warnings: None

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Ending, what if, Hypothetical Character Development, Musical References

Summary: "Kyubey, I have some questions about the wish you supposedly granted for me when I became a Magical Girl." What if Ui Tamaki didn't exist? What would be the truth behind Iroha's wish? As it turns out, a few simple words at the right time changed everything...

"I wish you could understand how they felt!"

Title: Cage of Briars

Author: @chairteeth

Artist: @sicksweetcreamy (artwork here)

Additional art by @karinmisono (here)

Rating: M for Mature

Major Characters: Nemu Hiiragi, Touka Satomi

Pairings: Nemu/Touka, minor/background relationships

Warnings: no archive warnings apply

Tags: Psychological Horror, Adventure, Puzzles, Eldritch Art Gallery, Medical Trauma, Aged Up Characters, Alternate Universe - Ib, Violence, Canon Typical Child Neglect, Mentions of Nemu's Past Flings, Purple Prose, Banter, Flirting, Angst, Romantic Fluff, Drama, Minor Character Death, additional tags on AO3

Summary: The primary reason that a rose grows thorns is self-defense. Nemu likes to think the same applies to herself. When her good friend Alina Gray offers entry tickets to an art gallery for her nineteenth birthday, likely out of pity, she hopes to have a quiet afternoon to herself, away from her family, only for the gallery to go empty during her visit and swallow her into its depths. Now trapped with no way home and her very life tied to a flower, Nemu is sure she can find an exit before the homicidal artwork does her in. (And if possible, Alina Gray is going to court with a broken spine for the worst prank in history.)

But inside the gallery, there is something else, someone else. A shrike. And a shrike doesn’t let its prey know when it’s watching.

Title: Manaka★Magica : Chaotic Supper

Author: @shitposterxdxdxd

Artist: @sicksweetcreamy (artwork here)

Rating: M for Mature

Major Characters: Manaka, Ria, Tsumugi, OCs: Ichigo, Ringo, Momo

Pairings: none

Warnings: Graphic depictions of Violence, Major Character Death

Tags: Canon Universe, Action/Adventure, Magical Girls, Doppels (Magia Record), Canon: Magia Record, Being Meguca Is Suffering

Summary: Do you know "Peanut's Fast Food Restaurant"? Or Peanut's for short? You know,the restaurant that is just across the road from "Walnut's restaurant".

Well lately Peanut's has been gaining a lot of popularity and Manaka Kurumi doesn't like that at all! She is the daughter of the owner of Walnut's and she decides to investigate the recent and surprising popularity of Peanut's. Since she suspects that this is due to a special miracle that she knows very well...

Title: Kamihama Ultra Beast Files

Author: @abarero

Artist: @kyrakyrakitty (artwork here)

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Iroha Tamaki, Sana Futaba, Mikoto Sena, Hanna Sarasa, Mitsune Miwa, Yachiyo Nanami

Pairings: Main Pairings: Iroha Tamaki/Sana Futaba, Mikoto Sena/Hanna Sarasa, Yachiyo Nanami/Tsuruno Yui, Jun Kazari/Mitsune Miwa

Side Pairings: Rena Minami/Kaede Akino, Rika Ayano/Ren Isuzu, Masara Kagami/Kokoro Awane, Touka Satomi/Nemu Hiiragi, Momoko Togame/Mitama Yakumo/Kanagi Izumi

Warnings: none

Tags: Alternate Universe- Pokemon Fusion, Action/Adventure, Action & Romance, I put Arc 1 of the Game Magia Record story in a blender with Pokemon Sun/Moon+Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon enjoy, also there’s some Arc 2 girls here bc I love them

Summary: Welcome to the Kamihama region! Join Iroha on her Pokemon journey as she travels the land, meets new friends, encounters the mysterious Winchester Foundation, and searches for her missing sister Ui.

However, not all is as it seems. Something strange is happening in Kamihama- wormholes appearing in the sky, creatures attacking that are more beast than Pokemon, and people and Pokemon going missing. And it turns out these odd occurrences across the region are more closely connected than one might think...

Title: 5 times Yachiyo got someone a mug and 1 time she got one instead

Author: @automatic-purification-system

Artist: @rwbypro

Rating: G for General

Major Characters: Nanami Yachiyo, Azusa Mifuyu, Anna Mel, Minami Rena, Mitsuki Felicia, Sakurako | Uwasa of the Eternal Sakura

Pairings: none

Warnings: none

Tags: 5+1, Found Family, Friendship, Yachiyo's love language is mugs, refrences to canonical character death, takes place from Yachiyo's backstory to early arc 2, Minor Angst, Fluff

Summary: After Yachiyo moved into Mikazuki Villa, the first thing her Grandmother had done was take her to buy a mug for herself. "If you're going to be living here, then you can hardly use a guest mug!"

It'd taken her a while to pick one, but after she did, the fear and trepidation from the move, and from her new modeling job all went away. Going back to her Grandmother's boarding house afterwards, she truly felt like she was going home.

Ever since then, making sure that the people who stay at her house have mugs of their own has been a topmost priority.

Title: The Book of Wishes

Author: @enderprophet

Artist: @automatic-purification-system (artwork here)

Rating: M for Mature

Major Characters: Ui Tamaki, Iroha Tamaki, Touka Satomi, Nemu Hiiragi

Pairings: none

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Tags: Angst, Hospitals, Religious Imagery & Symbolism (But not in the first couple of chapters), Near Death, Make A Wish Foundation (Kinda), Terminal Illnesses, (Not if Iroha has anything to say about that AND SHE DOES)

Summary: Ui is saved from near-certain death, and proceeds to learn many things about the world. The beginning of a tragedy.

Title: Calcite Connection

Author: lilaclegionnaire

Artist: @garnetsandroses (artwork here)

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Ren Isuzu and Rika Ayano

Pairings: Rika/Ren

Warnings: None

Tags: canon compliant, witch shenanigans, dream logic, takes place during Arc 1, hospital imagery, implied/referenced self-harm

Summary: After an attempt to practice a new connect technique goes unexpectedly wrong, Ren finds herself waking up on a brilliant, technicolor beach. Meanwhile, Rika finds herself a new resident of a strange, colorless city. The two try their best to figure out what's going on and find their way back to one another.

Title: Abyss of Leaves

Author: @shaymeme

Artist: @harunakonomi (artwork here)

Rating: M for Mature

Major Characters: Kuroe, Ashley Taylor, Iroha Tamaki, Konomi Haruna, Mami Tomoe

Pairings: Ashley Taylor/Kuroe

Warnings: Severe bullying and xenophobia

Tags: Alternate Universe, Crossover and Fandom Fusion, Black Clover Manga Spoilers, Alternate Universe, Crossover, Angst, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort

Summary: “The leaves of a clover are each said to contain one thing.”

That was what they had told her when she asked them about their magical texts, about "grimoires".

"The first three are given over to faith, hope and love. The fourth is given over to good luck, and in the fifth… there lives the Devil."

That was what they said, and that was what scared her so much. Hikari Kuroe is not from the Clover Kingdom, but tomorrow, she will receive her grimoire, and she has no idea what she will do in the future. Grappling with the love she left in her home country and her past, and the friendship she has in the Clover Kingdom and her present that is filled with difficulties and strife, but beauty of its own, Kuroe is torn between her two halves, past and present, love and hate, light and dark… abyss and ascent. What choices will she make? Where will they lead her?

If the leaves of a clover are each said to contain one thing… then what leaf is she?

Title: Farewell, Felicia Mitsuki (Well… Not For Long-)

Author: thatcloveplant

Artist: Dinugs (art posts here and here)

Rating: G for General Audiences

Major Characters: Felicia, Sana, Iroha, Mokyu, Tsuruno and Yachiyo

Pairings: Felicia/Sana

Warnings: none

Tags: slice of life, fluff, friendship, romance

Summary: After a petty argument with Yachiyo, Felicia decides she’s had enough and ‘runs away’ from Mikazuki Villa. Sana follows her to make sure she doesn’t get into trouble, almost certain that she’ll calm down and come back home by the end of the day. After trying to calm her down and uhh many a Lesbian Moment ™, Felicia seems to come to her senses. They stay out just a bit too long for everyone else’s liking and Tsuruno is sent out to find the two of them and bring them back home.

Title: Knight Errant

Author: @garnetsandroses

Artist: @woogie-g (artwork here)

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Rena Minami, Kaede Akino, Momoko Togame

Pairings: Rena/Kaede, Rena/Momoko, Kaede/Momoko, Rena/Kaede/Momoko

Warnings: none

Tags: Alternate Universe - Medieval, Fantasy, Historical Fantasy, Chivalry, Chivalric Romance, Action/Adventure, Romance, Historical Inaccuracy, Knights- freeform, Witches (Madoka Magica)

Summary: Rena Minami is a knight fallen from grace, Kaede Akino is a scribe longing to escape her court life, and Momoko is a lady-in-waiting who just wants the two to reconnect. When Rena is sent on a suicide mission through the witch-infested forests of legend to deliver a message to the neighboring kingdom, Kaede joins her on her doomed quest.

Title: Growing Pains

Author: @azusamifuyu

Artist: @randomartsideblog (artwork here)

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Felicia, Yachiyo, Juri

Pairings: Side Pairings: Yachiyo Nanami/Azusa Mifuyu

Warnings: none

Tags: Time Skip - a couple years after Arc 2, Slice of Life

Summary: Several years after the conclusion of Arc 2, a 17 year old Felicia encounters Juri Ooba, now sporting a face full of piercings. Deciding that this look is totally badass, she endeavors to get piercings of her own, come hell or high water. The only thing standing in her way? Yachiyo Nanami. Remembering the age-old maxim, "It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission," Felicia goes and gets her first piercing without asking Yachiyo. Hijinks ensue as she tries to hide it.

Title: A Couple’s Dance for Three

Author: GoggleLad

Artist: @rinasatsu (artwork here)

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Himena Aika, Alexandra Kurusu, Hiko (Magia Record)

Pairings: Aika Himena/Alexandra Kurusu, Aika Himena/Hiko, Aika Himena/Alexandra Kurusu/Hiko

Warnings: None

Tags: Fluff, Romance, Polyfidelity, Introspection, Mild Angst, Love Confessions, Dance Metaphors, actual dancing, Sharing a Body

Summary: Himena knows her own feelings, and Sasha knows her own feelings, and Hiko knows his own feelings. But as long as they keep dancing around the issue, they're never going to be able to untangle this web they've made for themselves. Still, if they can stay true to themselves, they can take it one step at a time, and just maybe they'll be able to get that happy ending they're all after.

Sometimes a relationship is a girl, her bestie, and the disembodied boy in her head, and that's okay.

Title: Layers of Paint

Author: @mjlol52

Artist: @solsis-equone (artwork here)

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Alina Gray, Azusa Mifuyu, Misono Karin

Pairings: Alina Gray/Azusa Mifuyu, Alina Gray/Misono Karin

Warnings: None

Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Doppels (Magia Record), Addiction (doppels)

Summary: After a day of capturing witches goes wrong, Mifuyu is left to take care of Alina alone, but it seems like she may be able to get some help from this so called in Alina's phone contacts.

Title: White Rose, Blue Rose

Author: @harunakonomi

Artist: @serendark (artwork here)

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Konomi Haruna, Mitama Yakumo, Momoko Togame, Kanagi Izumi

Pairings: Konomi Haruna / Mitama Yakumo

Warnings: None

Tags: Genre - Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Light-Hearted, Light Angst, Fluff, And they were roommates

Summary: An urban renewal project in lower Shinsei means Mitama has to move shop, but she's found a new place to set up; the back room of Flower Shop Blossom! Konomi's favorite spot is now bustling with activity from all the magical girls coming and going, but she now has to adjust to sharing her space with a new partner.

More to come! Follow @magireco-minibang to see the updates as they happen!

[shaymeme]

Abyss of Leaves - a Black Clover x Magia Record fic!

Finally, it's ready - my Magia Record x Black Clover crossover fic for the Magia Record mini bang @magireco-minibang! I would like to thank @harunakonomi for the incredible art in the chapter, and Abarero the mini bang organizer for the beautiful header!

Link to the fic on Ao3!

Title - Abyss of Leaves

Pairings Featured:

Main Pairings: Kuroe (Magia Record)/Ashley Taylor

Side Pairings: None

Genre/Tags:

Magia Record, Black Clover, Alternate Universe, Crossover, angst with comfort.

Major Characters:

Kuroe (Magia Record), Ashley Taylor, Iroha Tamaki, Konomi Haruna, Mami Tomoe.

Rating:

Mature (just in case, honestly)

Potential Warnings:

Severe bullying and xenophobia, sanitary (as in, a character gets covered by filth/feces, but not in a sexual/kink/fetish manner)

Summary:

“The leaves of a clover are each said to contain one thing.”

That was what they had told her when she asked them about their magical texts, about "grimoires".

"The first three are given over to faith, hope and love. The fourth is given over to good luck, and in the fifth… there lives the Devil."

That was what they said, and that was what scared her so much. Hikari Kuroe is not from the Clover Kingdom, but tomorrow, she will receive her grimoire, and she has no idea what she will do in the future. Grappling with the love she left in her home country and her past, and the friendship she has in the Clover Kingdom and her present that is filled with difficulties and strife, but beauty of its own, Kuroe is torn between her two halves, past and present, love and hate, light and dark… abyss and ascent. What choices will she make? Where will they lead her?

If the leaves of a clover are each said to contain one thing… then what leaf is she?

[madoka-in-the-city]

🌹 🌙 ⚔️ 🍎 🍵 🍬

This blog is run by one person pretending to be six people. I'm @evorathesylvurr.

This blog contains spoilers for Madoka Magica, as well as Lobotomy Corporation, Library of Ruina, and Limbus Company. Madoka spoilers will be untagged (aside from Rebellion and eventually Walpurgisnacht spoilers) while all Limbus Company spoilers will be tagged. No Lobotomy Corporation spoilers are tagged, and only some Library of Ruina spoilers will be tagged.

Most of the way these characters act is based on my interpretations of them! Each character is anywhere from 60 to 80% headcanon.

MadoHomu and KyoSaya are canon to me and that is represented here.

Edit: some slightly more comprehensive info below

this blog takes the characters from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, as they are at the end of the movie Rebellion, and puts them into Project Moon's setting of the City

this blog is reliant on a LOT of headcanon, as it has been quite some time since I've watched madoka. i plan on rewatching it soon so i have a refresher, but for the most part, these are very headcanon heavy characters.

i, evora, the mod of this blog, am autistic. thats like the only real important thing i think i need to mention.

Madoka & Homura are the “main” characters of this blog, with Nagisa showing up for silly things. As much as I love Sayaka, Kyoko, and Mami, I am not sure how to write them just yet </3 a rewatch will certainly help

I have not yet watched MagiReco, so any characterizations there will be missed. My eventual marathon of madoka will include MagiReco hopefully.

[wazzuppy]

Besides the main squad, what magia record girls would you like to see in Exedra? I’m really hoping for Nanaka, Ria, Masara, Kokoro, and Karin. They were some of my favorites and I would hate for them to be lost forever due to the shut downs. I also also have to imagine Alina will return, and I am looking forward to that.

Magia record had the coolest side characters and I really wish more people could be exposed to them.

oooh, good question! i never got to play magia record myself so most of my familiarity with the characters comes from the anime, as learning about them through scrolling the tag on tumblr and looking at the puella magi wiki. but i definitely agree with you-- magia record has alot of great characters and i want more people to know about them! and i DO have some that i'd like to see in exedra!

the main two i want to see again are yuna and yu. both of them have such interesting designs, and i think yu especially has a lot of storytelling potential. she only became playable really late into magireco's lifespan and i think it'd be a shame to never see her again. although i would understood if we didn't, since she's probably very difficult to animate.

some other girls i want to see return are miyuri, mabayu, konomi, hotaru, kuroe, shi, and ashley taylor. also, i would LOVE to see the puella care come back. i think each of them are so interesting and i'd love to see them further expanded upon. the concept of magical girls who help others learn to use their powers, but just for the sake of helping kyubey is so so fascinating.

[gorochuva]

Fanfiction Tag Game

I love doing these tag things when no one's tagged me

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

32

2) What’s your total AO3 word count?

98,940 as of 2/6/2023

3) How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

21 in total, give or take the site separating things like "Video Game Series" and "All Media Types."

Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica (12)

Fate/Grand Order (9)

Creepypasta - Fandom (5)

Persona 5 (4)

Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types (4)

Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story (3)

Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series) (3)

Jekyll & Hyde - Wildhorn/Wildhorn & Bricusse & Cuden/Bricusse (3)

Tokyo Mew Mew (2)

Digimon - All Media Types (2)

Original Work (2) *(Saki Sanobashi)

Death Note (Anime & Manga) (2)

Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime) (1)

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (1)

Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types (1)

ドキドキ！プリキュア | DokiDoki! PreCure (1)

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) (1)

HuGっと！プリキュア | Hug tto! Precure (1)

Five Nights at Freddy's (1)

Video Blogging RPF (1) *(Twomanyraptors/Eldrisoul)

Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch (1)

4) What are your top five fics by kudos?

Throne (28)

Hand Me Down (27)

The Rose Doesn't Fall Far from the Bush (18)

"Hyde" My Wings Tonight (11)

Magia Record: Transcend Game (10)

The first four of those are from the same series!

5) Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to, but sometimes I don't have anything to say.

6) What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

The Witch of the New World is still a WIP, but I've got a pretty bittersweet ending planned for it.

7) Do you write crossovers? If so, what’s the craziest one you have written?

Most of the stuff I write is crossovers in one sense or the other. I'd say my "craziest" one actually is The Witch of the New World, or my The (Mis)Adventures of Heroic Spirit Madoka series.

8) Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not technically. We don't talk about the Cis Jasper Spitefic.

9) Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I've written three smut stories in my entire career, one is just a series of prompts, and the other two end before anything smutty actually happens.

10) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

A long time ago, someone (who claimed it was their brother that did it) stole one of my old Prideshipping fanfics off of DeviantArt, un-Rule 63'd Yami, and reposted it to Wattpad, and I was very upset.

11) Have you ever had a fic translated?

It would be an honor if someone did.

12) Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Someone on Wattpad tried to ask me to "help" them write a story involving Yugi and Yami Yugi with their OC, and when I turned them down, they decided to be a little crybaby about it. I then blocked and reported them.

I also tried to co-write on Deviantart before, mostly just correcting and English errors because it's not the author's first language, and they never changed anything like I asked them to.

13) What’s your all-time favorite ship?

I mean, it sounds like a crackship, but I do really like Madoka and Yusaku.

14) What’s a WIP you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

There's SO many! The Witch of the New World, Mew Mew Power a la Mode, I made Magia Record: Transcend Game on a whim after I saw the MagiReco anime finale. I'd say the two that I'm least likely to ever pick up again are Digital Monster Yellow Version and Persona 5: The Abolishers of the Masquerade

15) What are your writing strengths?

I guess I'm pretty good at coming up with character interactions and making connections between two unrelated characters. That's really the only reason Magia Record: Transcend Game is a Yu-Gi-Oh! crossover, but I'm not at that chapter yet.

16) What are your writing weaknesses?

Transitions 😭

17) What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

How I did it in Mew Mew Power a la Mode was I wrote the line in English and put it in brackets, then when I copy-pasted the Google Doc into AO3, I used Papago to translate the bracketed line into Spanish. The same chapter also uses basic Japanese words written in romaji.

Oh! You meant my opinion! Uh...

18) What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Technically Yu-Gi-Oh! with the Jumpchain nextgen story Umbra Ludum Renju Magica, but I ended up deleting it.

19) What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

Man, that's a tough one! I'd say, of the ones I've written on AO3, it's a tug-of-war between The Witch of the New World and Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch Soul, but my absolute favorite is my Yu-Gi-Oh! Pharaoh's Revival series on Wattpad. It's the only reason I haven't completely left that rape-kink-infested grammatical war crime yet

[azusamifuyu]

Posting a picture of Mifuyu every day until she gets an alt: Day 8!

[promisedbloodbrainrot]

Having a full on JuriYuna brainrot at the moment (and this scene came to mind), even though it's everyday.

[korbensdeliveryservice]

Made some Magia Record wallpapers! Like or rb if you decide to use one please ^0^

[kirikakure]

oh noooooo pwease dont tempt me to pull for himena...ive only been playing for a month i dont have the gems to sustain myself

[dreamerwitches]

IT’S FINALLY DOOOONEEE! Please welcome my witch gijinka maker! Sadly it only features the main series witches because doing all of them in one game would be insane..!

So if you’re disappointed by the magireco anime, come play my cute little dress-up game/character maker! Do share your creations with me! I’d love to see them! Honestly, just clicking the random button (dice) gives great wacky character designs so just use it if you need some inspo XD

I’ll put the link in a comment so it’ll actually show up in the tags :))

[shaymeme]

Abyss of Leaves - a Black Clover x Magia Record fic!

Chapter three is here! The Abyss of Leaves continues for the Magia Record mini bang @magireco-minibang! I would like to thank @harunakonomi for the incredible art in the chapter, and Abarero the mini bang organizer for the beautiful header!

Link to the fourth chapter!

Title - Abyss of Leaves

Pairings Featured:

Main Pairings: Kuroe (Magia Record)/Ashley Taylor

Side Pairings: None

Genre/Tags:

Magia Record, Black Clover, Alternate Universe, Crossover, angst with comfort.

Major Characters:

Kuroe (Magia Record), Ashley Taylor, Iroha Tamaki, Mitama Yakumo, Kyouko Sakura, Asta (Black Clover), Secre Swallowtail/Nero, Liebe, Mark Francois.

Rating:

Mature (just in case, honestly)

Potential Warnings:

Severe bullying and xenophobia, sanitary (as in, a character gets covered by filth/feces, but not in a sexual/kink/fetish manner)

Summary:

“The leaves of a clover are each said to contain one thing.”

That was what they had told her when she asked them about their magical texts, about "grimoires".

"The first three are given over to faith, hope and love. The fourth is given over to good luck, and in the fifth… there lives the Devil."

That was what they said, and that was what scared her so much. Hikari Kuroe is not from the Clover Kingdom, but tomorrow, she will receive her grimoire, and she has no idea what she will do in the future. Grappling with the love she left in her home country and her past, and the friendship she has in the Clover Kingdom and her present that is filled with difficulties and strife, but beauty of its own, Kuroe is torn between her two halves, past and present, love and hate, light and dark… abyss and ascent. What choices will she make? Where will they lead her?

If the leaves of a clover are each said to contain one thing… then what leaf is she?

[muffinrecord]

MagiReco Reading Club?

Something I’ve been thinking about is that, since few of us in the tag can read Japanese, very few of us can react in real time to current events.

Because of this, I feel like we’ve lost a small part of our community, where we’re not all talking about what’s happening currently. And when the translation does come out, not all of us are reading it at once to talk about it either.

I’ve been thinking that maybe we should have something like a book club, where we all watch a translated event (or magical girl story, or costume story), and then have a week where we devote talking about it as if it just released.

I was thinking that I might make a seperate blog for it plus a discord so that:

We’d have a place that will reblog posts to help encourage more posting + help get stuff out there people might not otherwise see

We’d have a dedicated place for people to talk about it in a more back-and-forth setting

Let me know what you all think! I’m thinking that a tentative schedule might be something like the following:

Week One: Selected Arc 2 Event (Example: Green Jasper Diviners)

Week Two: Selected magical girl side story + two selected costume stories (Examples: Chiharu Hiroe MSS + Iroha Winter and Swimsuit costume stories) 

Week Three: Selected Arc 2 Event (Example: Otsukimi is After an Elegant Tea Party)

Week Four: Main Story Arcs (Example: Main Story Arc 2 Chapter One)

That way people have time to read it and a whole week is devoted to to a some stories. A schedule would be posted on a monthly basis so that folks can prepare ahead of time and know what to read, along with links to where people can see the stories on youtube or a pastebin.

This schedule could definitely be worked on though and it might look more like event story + mss + costume story, but that stuff can be looked at in the future.

Let me know if anyone is interested! If you’re interested and want to help mod the discord or with the tumblr blog, let me know too.

Also important: this is for fun, and not homework. It’s just a way to help bring this community together a bit more, since things feel a bit scattered. Don’t feel like you have to participate if you don’t want to-- it’s a game for fun after all!

Credit to @snaamagica for inspiring me with the idea due to the magireco book club she was doing on her own discord server (for arc 1 main story stuff)

[littlepurinsesu]

Give the Magia Record Anime a Chance

(AKA think about it carefully and consider the possibilities before you start complaining)

So not very long after I made my post about possible new ideas for a new Madoka anime, we get this exciting news that the Magia Record mobile game is getting an anime adaptation!

I can’t say that I didn’t see this coming (it was only a matter of time, in my opinion), but what I really didn’t see coming was all the negativity and unhappiness in the fandom. I wasn’t planning on writing anything about this news until we got a bit more information and therefore a bit more to talk about. But from what I’ve seen in the fandom these past few days... man, is there a lot to talk about.

Guys... what’s with all the hate? No, seriously xD We’ve been left in the dark for literally years. And now that they come out from hibernation and announce a new anime project, half the fandom is complaining and spreading hate.

I get it. A lot of us either want the Concept Movie that was teased a while back or some other kind of continuation for Rebellion. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m personally not a huge fan of Rebellion, but I’m going to try and be objective here because I know that there are fans who liked it and I’m not in a position to tell them to forget about the movie or pretend it never happened just because I didn’t find it amazing.

But personally, I would actually dare to say that Rebellion is exactly why we haven’t gotten any new content for so long. If they wanted to write a continuation for Rebellion, it would have happened ages ago. Just the fact that it’s taking them this long to pick up from where they left off is a pretty good indication that they don’t know where to go from here. And apparently even the ideas from the Concept Movie couldn’t really save them or spark any new inspiration. If we’re gonna insist that they drop the Magia Record anime and give us the fourth movie or second anime season, then I hope you all like the idea of waiting for another decade or two. Possibly longer.

The Madoka franchise is finally seeing the light again and y’all are desperate to turn away from it in favour of a candle that has long since burned out. Magia Record is literally the franchise’s saving grace right now, and, if the past few years of waiting haven’t told us already, possibly the only key to reopening the door that Rebellion sealed shut.

I know we’re all attached to the original story/the main timeline/the Holy Quintet, but it’s not like all that will go out the window with the new anime! The Holy Quintet will definitely still play important roles, and since that timeline is exactly the one that’s causing the stunt in production development, then what better idea than to leave it for now and explore the possibilities of another timeline?

I haven’t been playing MagiReco on my phone because of the region issues, but I have been keeping up to date with the story and characters. And I can say that MagiReco has a super interesting plot and a diverse cast of unique and likable new girls. Everything about this game has so much potential, and it really would just be such a shame to keep it all confined to a mobile game that isn’t even internationally released (for now).

Come on, guys! All these adorable new megucas, gorgeous designs, cool new powers and weapons, and interesting backstories! And what else? An alternative storyline that’s different yet still retains the main themes and mechanics of the original anime! New feels, new music, new ships (personally not that into shipping for this series, but eh, it’s what keeps the fandom going at times)... think of all the possibilities! What’s not to love? And the original cast and plot are still relevant; they aren’t going anywhere!

And who knows? Maybe they will still produce a second season eventually. Maybe they will go ahead with the Concept Movie. Maybe they will write a continuation for Rebellion at some point (I may not be a fan, but heck, I wouldn’t mind some proper closure, either!). These things that the fandom has been waiting for and looking forward to haven’t disappeared. But if it’s taking them so long to get motivated and get inspired and to really get going with continuing the franchise, then it’s time for a fresh start. And that fresh start is Magia Record.

Give the Magia Record anime a chance. It’s not the end of the Madoka franchise as we know it, but rather, allowing the creators to turn over a new page and finally pick up their pens once more. Give them a chance to write their story again on a fresh new note! And maybe after they get their creative juices flowing again, they’ll be able to backtrack and finish the story we all fell in love with!

I really can’t think of anything negative about this news. I’m practically throwing confetti and bouncing on the edge of my seat while I count down to its release. And while I can’t force everyone to be as excited as I am, I can and am taking this chance to kindly ask you all to please think about it a bit more before flooding the tag with hate and complaints.

Magia Record is literally reviving the Madoka franchise and fandom and marking the start of a new era for us. Let’s make it a positive and happy one!

[arlingtonpark]

Winter Anime 2020 Roundup 2

We’re past the half way mark for this season, so I guess I’ll have some thoughts about some of the stuff I’m watching. Or something. 

ID Invaded

ID Invaded is about a police unit that uses future!tech to solve crimes. It is at its best when it is not being about that.

This show suffers from a classic problem of trying to be deep and failing. You can’t try to explore how the mind of a killer works, then throw in some mumbo jumbo about wires getting crossed, and finish with a guy kissing someone they meant to kill.

This show is creative.

There isn’t really much depth here. It’s a show about what drives people to kill, except all the killers are just sadists indulging their impulses. Not much to it.

It’s a good thing then that this show excels in all other areas, including parts of the writing that don’t have to do with the main theme. The animation is great, the mystery aspect of the plot is great, the characters are great.

Episode ten was brilliant. No silly “brilliant detective” crap, no generic platformer/video game obstacles, no nonsense. More of that please.

I think Kaeru is my favorite character this season. Someone get this girl a drink.

 Plunderer

The people writing this show think they’re so smart, don’t they?

This is the worst written major show of the season. It doesn’t shoot itself in the foot, it rips its brain out and throws it in a meat grinder.

One episode: we meet an eager, young, space cadet-type character who is a woman. Her partner conspires with Licht to sexually assault her in as many ways as possible.

Seriously.

This show should have a trigger warning in front of each episode. They play on screen sexual assault as a joke.

I’m not a woman, but if I was, I think Plunderer would piss me off.

Licht’s fun ends when the cadet’s superior arrives. He has the power to conjure iron bars and imprison people.

His name is Lieutenant Jail.

-rubs temples-

In the world of Plunderer, people have counts that go up whenever they perform an action. Counts are exactly like shonen power levels. The higher your count is, the bigger a boss you are. Each person’s count is denoted by a number on their person, be it their body or a tag on their clothes.

Licht’s count is 5,700; Jail’s count is 900.

He fights Lt. Jail and after the usual shonen dicking around, he’s surprised that Jail is beating him.

Then Lt. Jail is like, “Ha Ha, you fool, I was wearing a sticker over my real count the whole time.”

And then Jail just peels the sticker off and his real count is 12,500.

Fuck.

They fight, Jail loses, and now he’s…still enemies with Licht, but they’re also buddies around each other.

I think the writers were going for a dynamic where the two are enemies, but they get along well anyway. It’s not done well.

This show loves having characters bump into each other and spontaneously challenge themselves to food-related competitions.

One episode, all the characters just bump into each other in a random town, and then suddenly we’re having a cooking competition?

Next episode, Jail and Licht meet up by accident and the rest of the ep is a drinking competition.

Everything culminates in the plot twist in the newest episode.

It’s really. Fucking. Stupid.

So stupid, in fact, that I won’t be elaborating on it. Capturing the idiocy of it is impossible.

I still feel sorry for Sarah Wiedenheft. At least she plays Kaeru in ID Invaded.

 Darwin’s Game

Still ugly. Still generic as hell. Why am I watching this?

 MagiReco

Not to sound rude, but if you’re a fan of the original show and you’re not watching this, what are you doing?

MagiReco isn’t as good as the OG show, but everyone who liked the OG show should check it out. This is a show that expands on the lore of the original in a cool way. There are mercenary magical girls, a grief seed black market, magical girl therapy centers, and the villains.

This is really cool.

There’ve been missteps for sure, the latest episode was a step back imo, but there’s been a great escalation over this whole season.

The show follows a pretty generic structure so far. Start off with episodic adventures, introduce new cast members with each one, then transition into more serial storytelling as the cast gets closer to uncovering the Big Conspiracy.

It’s generic, but it does it so well. This is a show that understands mystery and build up.

What I love most about this show is how original it is. The lore expanding has been noted, but I love how the characters aren’t just stand-ins for the OG cast.

Iroha looks like Madoka, and has the same earnestness, but she’s confident and actually self-sufficient right off the bat, as opposed to how Madoka was.

Yachiyo is sort of a combination of Mami’s role and Homura’s personality, which I guess you could say is derivative, but, personally, I find it to be an interesting combination given where the franchise has been.

Felicia is a delinquent like Kyoko, but the details are different enough to overlook the similarities.

Tsurano is just a cheerful dork. That sounds mean, but…I don’t think we’ve seen a character like that in the whole franchise. Madoka never lost heart, but she wasn’t very bouncy.

Very good all around.