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Girls are enlisted to kill monsters, girls become more monsters, more girls are enlisted to kill those monsters, ad infinitum. Ultimately, all magical girls go haywire, metamorphose into abstract manifestations of their own emotions, generate a pocket reality or 'labyrinth' and begin to hunt people. Specifically, and this is where SPOILERS really kick in, this monster used to be a magical girl herself, like every other witch. Everything in this image is the monster, and she used to be a human being. If you don't think it even looks like there's a monster in this shot, that only goes to show just how 'surreal' we're actually talking here. Just like Sailor Scouts and others of their ilk, these girls must defend the world from monsters that prey unseen upon humans, monsters known as witches. Targeting emotional young girls, Kyubey offers a single wish - anything imaginable - in exchange for life-time service as a 'magical girl' straight out of the anime and manga genre of the same name. Meet Kyubey, an avatar of some cosmic entity whose true form is never shown, but manifests on Earth in a body carefully devised to look and sound as innocent, pleading and endearing as possible to children. So, what kind of monsters are the silver lining to this musty cloud of nerd vapors?

#GIANT MONSTER AND TINY WITCH SERIES#

It also has those surreal monstrosities I mentioned, and they are top-tier surreal monstrosities I've meant to review for almost as long as the series has existed, though it's a good thing I held off on that long enough for a bunch of peripheral games and manga to add so many more of them. And hey, not all of it is about little girls suffering for the sadistic amusement of slimy otaku. So where was I? Yeah, Magica is an anime some people can't stand for some good reasons, but if you ignore a good two thirds of its fans and take the series purely at face value, it's not insufferably boring, which is a staggering advantage over the average anime.

At least, it was, before of course that glorious night when the skeleton regiment arose to harvest the flesh of all the world's loliphiles, a hallowed date which we continue to celebrate every October 31st.

It's a 'darker and edgier' twist on a popular anime genre, it pits emotionally troubled children with immature judgment skills against surreal monstrosities, people are starkly divided on what it's actually supposed to be about and a chunk of its fandom is kind of just in it for their own unsavory interest in animated schoolgirls. Puella Something Something Magica is an anime and manga franchise sharing a great deal in common with Neon Genetic Envelions.

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