Now to flip over to a magical girl I’m less enamoured with, mostly because I’m f***ing terrified of her (and you know my feelings are strong for something when I start swearing, even if I am putting the asterisks in), let’s talk about Kurumi. Yet at the same time we know that this is just going to lead to more pain and anguish for our dear magical girl.
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It gives the series an interesting struggle as we know at some point Asuka is going to be pulled back into the fighting, because narratively we need to get some action in somehow and Asuka can hardly standby while innocent people are put in danger. I just want to wrap her in a hug and take her to a therapist so she can process and deal with everything she’s experienced properly. It’s the little things that this series does so well, the way Asuka will instantly jump into a fighting stance when she hears a loud bang or how she keeps herself in shape because that’s what she’s used to now, always being ready for the next battle.
You want her to have a normal life again and you want her to find happiness, but you can also see all the signs that she is well and truly traumatised by what she’s been through and its not going to be that easy. There are so many series where we have teenage protagonists going through hell as they battle inter-dimensional aliens or parasitic clothes or whatever, but what happens after the world is saved and the end credits have rolled? Do they just go back to their ordinary lives? Is it even that easy? And I realise that stories like this have been done before, but it’s a good idea and with the rise of Dark Magical Girl genre over the past several years, it’s a story that works incredibly well.Īsuka herself is an incredibly likeable and sympathetic main character.
Honestly both are, without doubt, brilliant. Let’s talk about Asuka and the core concept of this series first (because if I keep thinking about the other stuff I’m going to explode and I think I’ll save that for later). It baffles me slightly that Asuka and her trauma are dealt with so effectively by the series and yet this is the same series that is constantly cramming in intrusive fanservice, gore and more torture than I have ever had the misfortune to watch. You see I love Asuka and her journey through the series, but the more I think about it, the more I hate everything else in this series. This time though, that dilemma is dialled up to eleven. Can one good thing save an anime? Usually it crops up with a mediocre series where there’s a character or storyline that I really love, but I’m not too interested in the rest, so I have to decide if I’m willing to go back to the series just for that one thing. No, scratch that, I have several hundred problems with this anime, but it’s brought to mind a particular question that I’ve had to wrestle with from time to time. Yet when her friends’ lives are put on the line, will Asuka return to the fight? The Review: Some of the magical girls have joined up with the military of their home countries in an effort to fight against these criminals, but for Asuka, all she wants is to get back to a normal life, if she can even remember what that is anymore. Despite the war being won, the world was far from at peace, gangs and criminals are on the rise, some of them using weapons left over from those invading monsters. Eventually the war ended, but not everyone survived and for those that did choices had to be made.
What’s the Story?Īfter being invaded by killer cuddly monsters from another dimension (not the strangest invasion I’ve ever seen in anime it has to be said), young women from across the globe were given magical powers in an effort to fight back. Because the best place for a magically super powered teenager is on the front lines.
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