#yuusa yumeno

[leafbladie]

Thanks to bigscarythings for making this for me based on a dumb joke I made. I love it!

[abyranss]

Smile!

In Magia Record's re-run of the Nagisa's Wish event, Yuu has at long last been given a canon design, and she's adorable.

In the past, I drew a design for her myself (here, and here) based on the old silhouette they used and I talked a bit then about the similarities I saw between her and Nagisa's appearances. Have a look at those for context if you'd like, because I'm going to revisit that again here with her new look. Below the cut ↓

To start with, some of the things I pointed out on Yuu's silhouette as being shared with Nagisa's magical girl outfit did not survive to her final appearance, such as the fuzz around the edge of her neck frill, the shorts she wears, and the bows along her tails and across her frill.

Though the tails themselves which I compared to the pompoms hanging from Nagisa's hat did survive, that alone isn't enough to draw a connection.

So it seems unlikely that when Nagisa made her wish, her appearance was influenced by Yuu being the first and only magical girl she'd met up to that point.

We can scrap that idea.

However, the parts of Yuu that I noted as resembling Nagisa's witch form, Charlotte... those do still hold up. When you look closely at Yuu, she has rings in her eyes which aren't present when she isn't transformed, and we now know that she uses her horn as her weapon.

Charlotte has a pure white face and a split open mouth, like Nagisa's mother described her killer. This is the strongest piece of evidence which the rest of it is built upon.

Charlotte attacks with her face as well.

And admittedly, perhaps reaching a little here, Charlotte as a worm has a cone-shaped pointy nose that might resemble Yuu's horn.

They also just both have clown energy.

Huh. Looking at these pictures I'm now wondering if I could draw a comparison between Charlotte's head wings and the bundles of cloth hanging from either side of Yuu's head.

...

Yuu was instrumental in Nagisa's transformation over the course of the story, from someone accepting of the abuse she experienced every day into a person seeking to cut ties with her family and create her own freedom, and then Yuu played the part of the person who mistakenly took Nagisa's agency away from her at the end which is what tipped Nagisa over the edge, so I like the idea a lot that Nagisa's grief made manifest from that event took a form that recognises the significance of the Sleepwalking Ghost.

[muffinrecord]

I don't have Yuu but I've been dying to know what she looks like in live2d. Vivi posted these images in the discord last night but I wanted to see her for myself in motion. Luckily she does indeed appear in the event, so

I think it's interesting that unlike every other magical girl so far, she has this crooked neck. Even more interesting, it's present also outside of her magical girl form.

There's something a little off about it. I know this gal is like, 2edgy4me but I genuinely really like a lot of the design decisions made for her. She just comes across as otherwordly, from her witch-like magical girl design to how she stands differently from other magical girls, to her blank eyes and hidden mouth. I just really like it.

If any girl deserves to be void: it's her. I can genuinely believe she snapped when she made her wish and that whatever we're seeing now is someone very different from the person she was before. It's almost like she's an animated doll walking around, a body that doesn't know it's dead yet. I'm fascinated.

[ashleytaylormemoria]

Ashley Meets Yuu

Art by kashi_neco

[crystalkokoro]

Here's some screenshots from Yuu's transformation video

[zero-ek]

As soon as Yuu was released the first thing i did was to listen to her voice lines, not only because of who is voicing her (the Sailor Moon!!) but because i was very curious as to what sort of dimension her voice would add to her character.

And it's particularly interesting the way that her voice sells how... empty she is, like not only in that losing her memories destroyed her sense of self and her morality (like i had initially expected), but in that she doesn't seem to have a firm grasp of anything beyond the ideas of "Yuu", Shii, the list, Magical Girls and Witches. Like, it's like she doesn't even know what being a human even is.

That much is obvious just in the way she speaks, like she keeps switching back and forth between multiple voices and running over her own words, like she speaks out of muscle memory and can't control the sounds that her mouth makes. But also, some of the stuff she says is... concerning, here's a few lines:

(I got these from her F*ndom quotes page i didn't know where else to find them)

"We're together today too... is that the same as yesterday? Does that mean tomorrow's gonna be the same!? And two days ago too? I guess after tomorrow too... wait so even today too!?"

From her first login, notice how by the end of the sentence she forgot about whay she said at the start completely. Also it's hard to convey through written text but, not only her sense of object and spacial permanence is nonexistent, she seems to genuinely have a hard time undertanding the concept of time:

"Did you just say good morning? Oh that must mean it's morning nowiseewaitdid i... did i sleep? I'm bummed... no i'm not, aha! Morning!"

Her morning login.

"Did you just tell me good night...? 'Good night' is what you say when you're done for the day!? So if we keep repeating 'good night' forever, can we stop tomorrow from coming...?"

Her night login

A couple of her lines showing her extremely short memory, and how it affects her fundamental understanding of things:

"Man, i'm so hungry... WAIT! I think i was just full...! Which was it! Doesn't it really suck how you can never tell what's inside of your tummy?"

Noon login.

"Sorry! I...! What was i thinking about? Do you know? Can you tell me? What a bummer, what a bummer... Wait, what was i bummed about?"

Her standard login (honestly same).

"I gotta get goinghmm...? Where was i going again?"

Story end 3

"If your arms or your legs get really old, then why not just rip 'em off? It's gonna grow new ones so it's okay, here, lemme help you!"

Tap 4.

"Nagisa-chan loves cheese, meanwhile i have 'someone'... 'someone' is me! So don't forget about cheese and 'someone' even when tomorrow comes, alright?"

Magical release 1

"Y'see, ghosts only come from the past, they don't be coming from the future! So why... can i only go to tomorrow?"

Magical release 2

Also this one is just, man...

"No matter how many times time turns back, i'll keep doing the same thing! 'Cause i don't wanna pretend that all the times i messed up and all the times i was sad weren't real!"

Tap 8

It's also extremely unnerving how genuinely childlike and innocent her "main", higher pitched voice is, like i can't explain why but it really sells that she does what she does all because she genuinely doesn't know any other way to live, not least because it seems she wholeheartedly doesn't seem to be able to think beyond the current moment, like she just goes with the flow of time without having anything to ground herself on.

I think that, while having a fully fledged design added to her "inhuman" factor in a creepy manner, like, compounding to the idea of this beastly Magical Girl that rips people's organs off, her voice made her "inhuman" in a much crueler and sad way, in that it served to illustrate that she is the way she is because it's quite literally the only way of living that she knows.

[cafeaubandage]

None of you will understand how much this line means to me the raw energy of this line now that we KNOW what Yuu looks like...

the fucking ETHOS. Do you see that smile, next to Nagisas dull eyes, you can clearly tell, Yuu has no idea what she has done is wrong, in fact she things throught the entire rerun that she is in the RIGHT. It feels so different now that Yuu has...a face? You can almost feel her cheerfulness, her joy sharing that she will lways support nagisa, always being by her side, Despite us knowing this only makes Nagisa witch out Nagisa says before, she wants her mom to die, because she didn't wish her illness away, And Yuu took that, Without realizing what she did, Only to say shes by her side Its pain staking to see! But thats what i love about Yuu! The cheerful pain, because we know what happens next, It makes me think of beachside bonds too, Yuu saying she will be by Nagisa side, only for Nagisa to witch out... making Yus statement false. How many times has this happened? How many times has Yu unknowingly said this lie?

[wyfy-meltdown]

My favourite part of Nagisa's sidestory is when Nagisa, Yuu, and Inui had a lovely tea party with Nagisa's homemade cheesecake and emotional support for Inui to break up with her shitty boyfriend and emotional support for Nagisa dealing with her shitty mom's death and nothing bad happened!

[concrete-3ater]

Forgot to post this

my girly Yuu! She’s very fun to draw so I did a bunch of doodles of her while I was in Germany

not very proud of how these look but they’re a few months old so they get a pass

[kiwisandpearls]

while I think yu is a breath of fresh air i do worry that the magireco might lean into being too dark with her. Like with the placement of her soul gem. It probably fits thematically with her story and the event story but also like…it gives me the same feeling as magical girl anime that are pure shock value with no substance. And it’s probably completely unjustified but I’ve been feeling that way about everything yu, from her list, to how she takes organs. Like it’s not horrible but it’s just on that cusp of being dark with no substance for me.

[m00nb04rd5]

can you please do a mood board of Yuu ( Magia record ) ?

Yuu/Yusa Yumeno (Magia Record)

[leafbladie]

Yuu is so fucking tall! Thank you based Doro Inu!

[abyranss]

"Nagisa? Nagisa?" "Are you there? It's so dark I can't see." "Call the doctor... I was stabbed by a scary monster..." "It looked human... but it was all white, and its mouth was split open."

I find it so fascinating that when responsibility for her mother's death was taken from her, Nagisa ended up changing to match the description given of the killer

That way it's almost like she can pretend to be responsible for it.

I want to see Yu and Nagisa meet again.

[muffinrecord]

CGs of Yuu from the latest update

[ashleytaylormemoria]

Thinking about it, Ash would probably love Yuu's Magical Girl outfit.

[crystalkokoro]

The latest Magia☆Report features Ren, Nagisa, Yuu and Rika!