#mahou index

[mew-cake]

I've decided to plumb the depths of the TV Tropes magical girl genre index to bring you some of the most obscure crappy and obscure magical girl shows around for your potential viewing displeasure:

Black Rock Shooter

Blue Reflection Ray

The Cosmopolitan Prayers

Fantasista Doll

Getsumento no Heiki Mina

Gonna Be the Twintail!!

Granbelm

Happy Seven

Is This a Zombie?

Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel

Kampfert

Leviathan: The Last Defense

Magical Girl Ore

Magical Play

Magical Pokaan

Magical Witch Punie-chan

Magikano

Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara

Marchen Madchen

Modern Magic Made Simple

Nurse Witch Komugi (including the reboot)

Rakugo Tennyo Oyui

Robot Girls Z

Saint October

Tantei Opera Milky Holmes

Uta Kata

Yumeria

I've seen a few of these, actually!! Others are already on my radar but here's minor reviews of the ones I've seen~

Blue Reflection Ray: I watched the first 3 episodes as it aired but didn't get past there. No reason for dropping it just kinda didn't keep up. It seemed interesting! Def has some potential that I'll def be diving into sometime in the future!

Granblem: A cult classic anime to the people who've seen it. Same character designer as the Re:Zero anime! It's confusing, absolutely, and feels a bit esoteric. But I'd still call it good. It was a fun watch, and I was never bored while watching it. It's like, mecha meets magical girls.

Magical Girl Ore: Pretty standard parody magical girl show. The same joke is "you think THIS is gonna happen?? Well actually THIS HAPPENS INSTEAD!!!!" but even then, I think there's still something to enjoy if you can just. Enjoy a stupid fun time.

Uta Kata: Review incoming :)

[myucornerorg]

So the other day I read the first volume of a manga called Magilumiere: Magical Girls Inc., which is set in a world where, kinda like MHA with superheroes, magical girls are a common sight, and being a magical girl is treated like a normal job. Basically, they function as exterminators for these monsters called kaii, and there are multiple companies, of all sizes, that employ magical girls for this purpose.

Anyway, the manga was really cool, but we all know that magical girl transformations (especially techno-magic ones like in this series) look best animated. So naturally, I looked it up to see if there was an anime adaptation. And there is - just not yet. This manga only came out in 2022 in Japan (and it's running in Shonen Jump+, no less), under the title Magilumiere Co. Ltd (Kabushiki Gaisha Majirumie in Japanese) and it only started being released in English by Viz in March of this year. And while an anime version is planned, it's not due out till Q4 of 2024. So I have to wait.

The cast and staff seem pretty good, though. The anime is being made by J.C. Staff (the studio behind many well-known animes, like Azumanga Daioh, the A Certain Magical Index franchise, Saiki K, Food Wars, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Shakugan no Shana), alongside Studio Moe, which seems to be a pretty new studio with not that many credits. The composer, Makoto Miyazaki, also did the music for One Punch Man and Spy x Family. The script writer Shingo Nagai has also written for Symphogear (so he's no stranger to mahou shoujo). The director, Masahiro Hiraoka, doesn't seem to have much directorial experience (most of his credits on ANN are for artist work, most of which seem to be tied to Studio Moe, which as I mentioned, doesn't have very many credits), but I can overlook that. (Interestingly, a lot of his artist work has been in CG art, including CG for both HeartCatch and Suite PreCure, which makes me think the transformations and maybe attacks will involve CG, though I guess that's expected nowadays).

The cast is interesting too. The two main girls, Kana and Hiromi, are being voiced by Fairouz Ai and Yumiri Hanamori respectively. They previously appeared together in Tropical Rouge PreCure as Cures Summer and Coral respectively (and just last year reprised those roles in the movie PreCure All Stars F), although interestingly here Coral's actress is playing the energetic Hiromi, while Summer's actress is playing the much more reserved and intelligent Kana, which if you know Tropical Rouge is a complete opposite of their Cure characters. But then they have range - Fairouz is also the voice of Jolyne from JoJo and Alisa in Pokémon Concierge, while Yumiri has also played Hayasaka from Kaguya-sama (a character with a varied personality, apparently). So I'm not worried.

The two characters above are the resident programmer at and the boss of the titular Magilumiere. (Yes, the boss is a middle-aged male cosplayer. He's just weird like that). The programmer's name is Kazuo Nikoyama, and rather hilariously given his design, he's going to be voiced by Daiki Yamashita, the same actor who voices Izuku in MHA (I guess the resemblance to Izuku may not have been a coincidence 😂). As for the boss, his name is Kouji Shigemoto, and his planned actor is Rikiya Koyama (Kogorō Mori/Richard Moore in Detective Conan/Case Closed, Jōichiro in Food Wars, and Emiya in the Fate franchise).

Rounding out the currently known cast is nice-guy office worker Midorikawa, who is going to be voiced by Ryota Ohsaka (Keiji in Haikyuu, Sadao/Satan in The Devil is a Part-Timer, and the Japanese voice of Cat Noir).

Anyway, sounds like an interesting series! Unfortunately, Volume 2 of the manga doesn't come out in English until June, so I'll have to wait for that too.

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[mahou-furbies]

MANGA / RANOBE / COMICS / GAMES:

(Had to split the review index in two since I don't want to risk the links breaking)

Anime reviews here

Apricot Cookie(s)!

Can You Become A Magical Girl?

Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card

Cloudy Wondrous

Colorful Macchiato Mahou Shoujo wa Tatakawanai

Magical Girl Dandelion (first impressions)

Magical Girl Raising Project

general

Restart

Aces

Magical Girl Site

Magical Girl Tsubame: I Will (Not) Save The World (first impressions)

Magical Lollipop

Magical Mom

Magilumiere co Ltd

Miss Guillotine

No Match for Aoi-kun

Precure

Smile Precure! novel

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Manga adaptation

Rebellion manga

Homura Tamura

Kazumi Magica

Oriko spinoffs

Suzune Magica

Tart Magica

Null Magical Girl

Magia Record Scene 0

Magia Record (Moka)

Saint Tail

Sakura Hime Kaden

Shugo Chara! Jewel Joker (first impressions)

Sleepless Domain

Stellar Witch Lips

Strawberry Seafoam

Sugar Sugar Rune

The Life After Retirement of Magical Girls

The Magical Girl and the Evil Officer

Time Stranger Kyoko

Tokyo Mew Mew 2020 Re-Turn

W.i.t.c.h. reboot

Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero

Nogi Wakaba is a Hero

Zodiac P.I.

[tokudocu]

A list of things that Gotchard reminds me of.

Yu-Gi-Oh (sentient cards)

Card Captor Sakura (collecting sentient cards)

Kamen Rider Ghost (collecting)

Showa Era Kamen Rider (suit and inspiration)

Kamen Rider Fourze (set in high school)

Kamen Rider Geats (succeeded this show)

Akashic Records (magic high school)

A Certain Magical Index (magic high school)

Zero no Tsukaima (magic high school)

Irregular at Magic High School (magic high school)

Shuriken Sentai Ninnninger (learning new things)

Reshha Sentai ToQger (the suit is what Houtaro imagined his form was going to be)

Kamen Rider Den-O (train motif)

Kamen Rider Ichigo (grasshopper motif)

Kamen Rider Zero-One (grass hopper motif)

Mahou Sentai Magiranger (magic)

Shokugeki no Soma (Houtaro literally experimenting with food)

Kamen Rider OOO (alchemy)

as this is a toku blog, I will only be tagging the toku properties listed here.

[oleskyfm]

2B has featured in: Monster Hunter Frontier Z Phantasy Star Online 2 Gravity Rush 2 Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (shut down 2024) War Of The Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (shut down 2025) Star Ocean: Anamnesis (shut down 2019) Final Fantasy 14 Dead Cells Soulcalibur VI Valkyrie Anatomia (shut down in 2020) SINoALICE (shut down 2023) Punishing: Gray Raven Fall Guys Spelunker World (shut down 2020) Last Cloudia Dragon Quest Keshi Keshi (shut down 2024) 8 Gothic Wa Mahou Otome Toji No Miko: Kizamishi Issen No Tomoshibi Bravely Default: Fairy's Effect Servant Of Thrones Babylon's Fall (shut down 2023) PUBG New State Mobile Toaru Majutsu No Index: Imaginary Fest Shadowverse D4DJ Groovy Mix Rainbow Six: Siege Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent NARAKA: Bladepoint Goddess of Victory: NIKKE Dragon Quest X Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Stellar Blade Foamstars #Compass The First Descendant Call of Duty Mobile

Hate opening twitter to see that 2B is strutting her stuff in some more interminable dogshit. That shit was 8 years ago and all they've got in the interim is that washed up goonbait showing up as a costume in anything and everything. I don't care funny or irreverent Yoko Taro might be in some interview, I've had enough of seeing this broad, her game, all that - enough. No more. Have you not pulled enough cash out of people's wallets with your crossmedia franchise to actually make something new and worthwhile yet?

[sevendays-art]

I drew Rito from Urahara for Mahou Index! <3 It's an honour to participate in this project again,, I love Urahara sm!

[lovinglapislazuli]

I did another girl for the Magical Girl Index, it’s Taranee from w.i.t.c.h.! :D This is my first time making a transparent, woohoo! It’s going to be a downhill from here for the editing XD

[boring-mio]

Mai for Magical Girl Index !

[kierawaffles]

The third drawing i did for the Magical Girl Index, Aroma Kurosu from Pripara!

Aroma is a chuuni idol, a character type that seems surprisingly common now that i’ve been watching more idol anime which is great bc i love it

[resvrie]

negi and mikoto are both voiced by satou rina, and all three of them share the same birthday! happy birthday! 🎉

[magicalgirljeririn]

Index to Nakayoshi August 2005

(personal collection)

[ligbi]

Another entry for Magical Girl Index, this time Baba Kanon from Carat! I was like. 80% done when I remembered I had last done Kanon from Umi Monogatari so I clearly have a favorite magical girl name???

[marshmeadow12]

Suggestions Underway - Right Now. 

If you need Randomness in your life.

- The Ancient Magus Bride (anime and manga)

- Overlord Season 1, 2, 3 (anime and light novel, I think)

- Kamikami Kaeshi (manga)

- Kamisama Kiss (anime and manga)

- Isekai Mahou Wa Okuteru! (novel) (Manga)

- Shokugeki no Soma (anime, manga)

- The Devil Is A Part-Timer (manga and anime and Light Novel)

- Qualidea Code (anime)

- Sorry For My Familiar (manga)

- Tensei Slime Shitara Datta Kun (manga and anime)

- Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi (anime)

- The Rising Of The Shield Hero (manga, light novel, anime)

- A Certain Magic Index (anime)

- Big Order (anime)

- Arcana Famiglia (anime I think, and there is a manga)

- Assassination Classroom (anime, live action?, manga)

That’s it. I hope you enjoyed my favorable mentions. Please recommend me some anime, manga, or webtoons. Thanks for reading!!

Bye - Meow

[rickyriddle]

Anime/Manga sociopathic characters

Hi! Here’s a new list of characters in anime and manga with a mental disorder, this time it’s sociopathy. In my psychopath characters list, I talked about the differences between a psychopath and a sociopath. I highly suggest you if you didn’t already do it, to go read it before looking at that list. It was harder to find sociopath characters, since it seems to be easier for an author to unconsciously create a psychopathic character than a sociopathic one. Some of them might not be entirely sociopath, but they all have sociopathic traits since sociopathy (anti-social personality disorder) might be a spectrum, therefore, someone could have sociopathic traits without being 100% a sociopath. It’s probably because usually, in order to be diagnosis sociopath, one needs to be 18 years old and over (while a psychopath is born that way, and sociopath is something that is developed). So a character under 18 might have the potential to become a sociopath, without being able to be diagnosis yet. Anyway, without further ado, here’s my list of sociopathic characters.

Full-fledge sociopath

Togane Sakuya (Psycho-pass)

Once again with a Psycho-pass character. For those of you who had seen the second season, you must know that Togane was created as an experience to create an artificial asymptomatic criminal, which I already linked to psychopathy. But Togane failed to keep is psycho-pass clear and thus, became the latent criminal with the darkest psycho-pass. So by that logic, he can’t be a psychopath, but he still has some traits similar to one, such as the ability to put a facade to make himself look friendly, lack of empathy, manipulative, liar, cruel. But those can also fit a sociopath. Since both psychopathy and sociopathy are part of the anti-social personality disorder, I think it’s possible that the experiment he underwent as a kid half worked, since he does show sign of having an anti-social personality disorder, but not the “good type”. He also lacks the ambitious and control desire of a psychopath, as well as hurting others for his own pleasure. Most of his actions are under the order of his mother.

Kizami Yuuya (Corpse Party)

That creep...At first I mistook him for a psychopath, but for my defence, I was young and didn’t know the difference between those two disorders. Kizami used to torture and kill small animals as a kid, which is usually a sign of anti-social personality disorder. Tho it’s more frequent for psychopath kids, it can also be observed in kids who have the potential to grow up as a sociopath. Psychopathic kids usually do that to experiment with killing, while sociopathic kids it’s more a way to express their frustration on a being weaker than them, which was probably the case with Kizami. As a kid, he felt unloved, misunderstood and put down by his family, especially his older siblings. Growing up he became distrustful of others and actually pretty much hate everyone, but put a facade of being normal, kind, friendly and charismatic, and was really popular at school. He never commits any murder, until he got the opportunity when he and his classmates were transported to a haunted school into another dimension. You see, unlike psychopath killers who planned their murders, sociopath killers are opportunist killers. They usually don’t plan their murders, they wait for an occasion to strike, or simply act on impulse. That’s what Kizami did, he ended up in the perfect situation to finally snap and go on a killing spree. Even if Kizami was 17 years, he’s close enough of 18 and would most likely have a sociopath diagnosis.

Asagiri Kaname (Mahou Shoujo Site)

Also known as shitty brother by the fandom, and this surname is well deserving. But Kaname isn’t only a sociopath, he’s also a narcissist. In fact, the perfect disorder to describe him would be a malignant narcissist, which is a mix of narcissistic personality disorder, anti-social personality disorder (sociopathy) and sadistic personality disorder (what a great combination...). It makes him close to a psychopath, but he’s too impulsive and emotional. He had the type of childhood to explain such a disorder. He was mistreated by his father who was completely obsessed about his grades. If Kaname didn’t have perfect grades, his father punched him. Growing up in an unstable or hostile environment can cause sociopathy, while either being put down or used by a parent for their own glory can cause narcissistic personality disorder. Kaname has no sympathy for others, he used them to achieve his goals and has no problem killing them, and he enjoyed abusing his little sister and tormenting others he views as inferior. He considered everyone a scum and view himself as blessed and chosen by gods, or even a god himself. He’s able to make himself look friendly and charming to hide his true self and manipulate others. All of this makes him a major asshole, but he’s not 100% to blame for that. His father is, Kaname is the result of bad parenting, and ended up being so horrible as a way to cope with his father’s abuse.

Grell Sutcliff (Kuroshitsuji)

[note: I’ll use they/them pronoun for Grell, since it’s still unclear if Grell is a homosexual man or a transgender woman. I’m doing this to avoid any conflict, this isn’t my personal view of this character, I’ll keep it for another post]

Grell is shown to lack understanding of compassion and human emotions, especially during the Jack the Ripper arc when they killed Madam Red for not killing Ciel. They have no problem with committing murder, they’re impulsive, violent, show no regret or remorse for there acts, and seems to lack empathy. They are able to fake a harmless persona to trick others, they have difficulties with authorities and keeping their job. I thought at first that it was because they are a shinigami, but we learned that shinigami used to be human and let’s not forget that the other shinigami aren’t acting this way. Interesting fact, the real Jack the Ripper, according to some analysis and studies, might have been a sociopathic serial killer due to their messy murders that didn’t seem to be the crime of a cold a prepared psychopathic serial killer. 

Shioi Rina (Mahou Shoujo Site)

Another MSS character. Shioi does exhibit a lot of sociopathic tendencies. She’s manipulative, cunning, violent, cruel, remorseless, impulsive, lacking regret for her actions and has no problem with killing. I thought at first that it was only in reaction to knowing about Tempest, but we learned later that she was already acting similarly before knowing about Tempest. She seems to have a hatred for others because of the bullying she underwent, which could have caused her to develop an anti-social personality. Even when she’s confronted to those she had harm by killing someone they loved (Najimi), she still shows no remorse or sympathy and even jokes about it. She may have developed some bond with the characters later on, but sociopaths are able to bond with those they feel are similar to them. Since the other characters are magical girls with a tragic past like her, it does make sense. The only thing that goes against it is the fact she’s apparently only 13, and usually such a diagnosis can only be made around 18. It could be because it’s a fictional character and that the author didn’t know about that, but other than the age, Shioi pretty much fits the sociopathic type.

Characters with sociopathic traits

Pretty much everyone in the Phantom Troupe (Hunter X Hunter)

Even if they do care about each other and are loyal to their group, they never show any compassion, sympathy or empathy for others outside their group and have no problem killing them. They have no consideration for others life and the law. They all seemed to have a rough past that could explain there possible anti-social personality. I don’t have much to say about them since I’m not talking about any of them specifically, but overall they fit the sociopathic type.

Hashiri Nio (Akuma no Riddle)

As you could read above Nio’s name, I’m not saying Nio is a sociopath. But she does have sociopathic traits. She’s acting all friendly and cheerful with people, but in reality, she admitted to hating them (in the manga only). This fake attitude to hide her hatred of others is common among sociopaths, who usually looks friendly and sociable, despite their dislikes for others in general. Nio also seems to lack empathy and sympathy for others, and can even show great cruelty. She does have the type of childhood that could fit the anti-social personality. She has no relative, she seemed to have been raised on the street and didn’t even have a name before she met Yuri. She was also pretty much abused by Yuri while growing up (hitting a kid with a crop and having an implied intimate relationship with them is abuse, in case someone has a doubt). Since Nio is only 15 and that AnR is pretty realistic when it comes to character’s personality and psychology, Nio couldn’t have a diagnosis, and the fact she’s pretty much brainwashed and under Yuri’s queen bee ability is fucking up her brain in a way that could really happen in real life, making it difficult to actually have a clear idea of her mental condition. Without Yuri, Nio would have probably grown up as a sociopath, and even with Yuri, there’s a chance Nio ends up this way while growing up. After all, it’s not like Yuri would care, all she wants is Nio acting polite and obeying to her. So Nio might because as an adult a sociopath with everyone, except with Yuri thanks to the queen bee ability.

Saionji Hiyoko (Danganronpa)

That little...Okay, let’s talk about Hiyoko. Once again, I’m not saying she’s a full-fledged sociopath, but she does show sociopathic traits. She has a liking for killing small creatures, such as ants and crabs. She doesn’t hurt any humans physically, but that’s probably because she’s too physically weak to do so, so she instead hurt weaker creatures then her. She’s verbally abusive to others and likes to torment them. Hiyoko had a terrible past where people were jealous of her, to the point of trying to kill her. The only person she seems to like in her family was her father, and she was separated from him. She grew up in a strict and hostile environment, which are the usual ingredients to create a sociopath. Anti-social behaviour is a way to cope with hostility, a way to protect yourself, but when it’s used to often, it can turn into a mental disorder. But Hiyoko isn’t a lost cause, since she shows signs of changing over the series. She honestly cares for Mahiru and even shows concern for Mikan, her usual victim. It could be because due to her past, Hiyoko couldn’t trust others, but by befriending Mahiru and eventually her other classmates, she learns to trust others and lost some of her anti-social personality, which is possible. Hiyoko is 16-17 years old, she wouldn’t be able to have a diagnosis, and she hasn’t killed anyone. 

Accelerator (Toaru no majutsu no Index)

Once again, I’m not saying Accel is a sociopath, because he isn’t. But he does act in a sociopathic way, especially in the beginning of the story. He was used as a guinea pig all his childhood, which could explain his behaviour that looks really anti-social. He was then asked to kill multiple clones for an experiment, and became ruthless, cruel and even sadistic. But after he got beaten by the level 0 Touma, Accel changes. It looks like it was what he needed to snap out of his sociopathic behaviours. He realized how wrong he was and regret his acts. He still continues to act cruelly with his enemies, but he’s actually trying to change for the best. So Accel may have the potential to become a sociopath (and would probably have become one without Touma’s punch) he isn’t one. He continued to have some anti-social behaviours, but he couldn’t be view as a sociopath because he’s able to have remorse now. 

So that’s it for my sociopathic anime/manga characters list. I’m less confident when it comes to sociopaths than psychopaths, so it was harder for me to make this list. Thanks for reading and next time, I’ll make a second psychopathic list.

[priestess-draws]

I think I said I wasnt gonna do more magical girl index stuff but then they added Symphogear. So I guess I lied.

[erbezdiez]

I drew Beth as my second submission to the Magical Girl Index!

Petite Princess Yucie was one of those anime I watched as a child on TV without really knowing what was going on, and rewatching it for this project was a lot of fun. I really recomend it to anyone who likes fantasy anime!