M-Magical Girl?
M-Magical Girl?
[Title: Honestly, Puripan was doomed to fail after White Lily]
They threw away all the fundamentals and are just milking the characters, and they can't even do that right. The production team only cares about selling merchandise.
[Comments]
ㄴ Isn't just milking the characters enough? Honestly, it's hot.
ㄴ It is hot, though.
ㄴ Are you a boomer? Always going on about "back in my day".
ㄴ The art style of the old stuff is a barrier to entry, so why tell people to watch it? If you tell newbies to watch the old stuff, they all get scared and run away, lol.
Here we go again. It's all the same series, so why do they start these waifu wars every single day whenever they're bored?
I looked away from the computer screen.
Countless figures and merchandise displayed inside an acrylic display case.
Magical Girl Prism Fantasia series. Puripan for short.
Over the 20 years since the first series, more than ten works have continued to come out.
It gained immense popularity among people of all ages and genders and was called the Queen of Sunday Morning. It was so popular that most other broadcasts avoided that time slot.
But that's a thing of the past now. As time went on, complaints like "the character designs are reused" and "the story is bad" started to pile up, and the anime's popularity began to cool down. Now, it's become a niche thing that only the people who are into it still watch.
Wiiing-!
Just then, a loud siren sound rang out from my phone.
"It's especially bad lately."
I glanced at my phone to see the same emergency alert text as always.
[Gate occurrence in the Guro Station area. Residents in the area, please evacuate to a safe indoor location immediately and refrain from using nearby roads.]
Just three years after the first Gate appeared, the world had completely changed.
Monsters that popped out of the Gates couldn't be defeated with conventional firearms, and countless people lost their lives.
If Hunters who awakened their abilities hadn't appeared, humanity might have been wiped out.
I, too, once hoped that I might finally be able to use superpowers... but that's a thing of the past now.
For an ordinary person who hasn't awakened any abilities, the most helpful thing to do is just not go outside and stay holed up at home.
Since a Gate burst and I can't go outside today anyway, I have nothing to do... I might as well rewatch my Lily's best scenes and go to sleep.
Opinions are divided among fans when it comes to picking the best scene, but this one scene was always mentioned without fail.
The scene where, in a moment of crisis, the protagonist of the previous series, Ice Bluebell, appears to save White Lily, and White Lily finally unleashes her potential.
I've already rewatched it dozens of times, so I've memorized it all, but... it's just good no matter how many times I watch it.
So, please, can't some other company just put out a new work?
[Title: Day 1000 of praying for a new work announcement]
Author: LilyIsMyWife
[Comments]
ㄴ Hahaha, this guy still hasn't given up.
ㄴ They!!! Will!!! Never!!! Release it!!
ㄴ If they were going to release it, they would have announced it at the 25th-anniversary broadcast, yeah;
ㄴ For real lol. What do you expect from guys who only sell 25th-anniversary merchandise under the guise of a "major announcement"?
That is true.
I was also super excited when they said they were doing a broadcast, but they didn't have any new info and just did home shopping, so I turned it off immediately.
Even though I ended up not being able to resist and bought the 25th-anniversary limited edition merchandise.
I mean, come on, right? They hold an illustration of all the series' Magical Girls gathered in one place for the 25th anniversary hostage—how can I not buy it?
Plus, the illustration wasn't reused; they drew it all from scratch. They sure know how to do business.
Anyway, I finished my last routine before bed, which is posting my daily thread, so now I should really just go to sleep.
Kwa-kwang-!
With a sudden loud roar, the window shattered.
"What the?!"
A blinding flash of light erupted, covering my vision, and I lost consciousness right there.
"Gasp!"
I feel like I had some kind of crazy dream.
I looked around as soon as I opened my eyes, but there was no difference from my usual room.
"Whew... it really was a dream."
I mean, there's no way my perfectly fine house would suddenly get smashed. That makes no sense.
"What a truly terrible dream..."
Even if it was a dream, to have a dream where my collection I've gathered for years gets completely destroyed.
Still, just in case, I got up to check the display case.
But for some reason, the display case felt much higher than usual.
The display case that I could clearly see at a glance was now out of my field of vision.
I hurriedly dragged a chair over to check the state of the display case.
"Still, everything is fine..."
Just then, I noticed a faint layer of dust settling on the White Lily figure.
I immediately picked up the air duster I kept next to it and blew the dust off.
Strangely, the air duster and the figure felt much larger in my hand than usual.
I closed my eyes for a moment and opened them again due to the persistent feeling of unease, but the strange sensation didn't disappear.
"Am I still not fully awake? I should just go wash up..."
The moment I opened the bathroom door.
"...? Is this still a dream..."
Even after closing my eyes and opening them again, there was a girl I had never seen before in the mirror.
Pink hair that was hard to believe belonged to a Korean, and mysterious blue eyes.
But the clothes were the very familiar tracksuit I had been wearing yesterday.
Though it didn't fit and was awkwardly slipping off.
When I carefully raised my hand, the girl in the mirror made the same movement.
"Yeah. It must still be a dream."
Only now did I realize that even the voice coming out was unfamiliar.
Where did my deep voice go? A voice much higher than my own pre-pubescent voice rang out in the bathroom.
Is this what they call a lucid dream? It's a strange feeling now that I'm experiencing it. Knowing that it's a dream.
I went back to bed, covered myself with the blanket, and lay down.
"I'll be back to normal when I wake up."
"What the?!"
I checked the mirror as soon as I woke up, but the girl's reflection was still there.
I picked up my phone to check the time, and the number 4 PM caught my eye.
Since it was 11 AM when I woke up earlier... so I really just slept? A young man who just slept?
......No, am I a girl who had a good sleep now?
Denying this situation won't make me go back to my original form...
Let's organize what happened as best as I can remember.
I clearly remember posting my daily thread before bed like usual yesterday, and the window shattering right after.
But when I woke up, the house was no different from usual. The only thing that changed was me.
"What on earth is this situation..."
I don't even know what's going on, even though I'm the one saying it. The window that was definitely broken is perfectly fine, and I changed gender overnight?
Wiiing-!
As if to mock my situation, a siren rang out from my phone.
[Gate occurrence in the Sindorim area. Residents in the area, please-]
As soon as I saw the three letters "Gate", I turned off my phone screen.
I can't go outside in this state anyway.
"Wait a minute... Gate? Don't tell me... did I awaken?"
I had never heard of such a thing. That awakening as a Hunter would change your appearance, or even change your gender.
I've heard of people getting taller or their physical abilities simply improving.
But other than that, I couldn't think of any other way to explain this situation.
"Hmm... Hunter appearance...?"
I searched the internet just in case. Gender aside, I wanted to see if there were any cases where one's appearance changed.
But even after searching for a long time, I couldn't find any such cases. I occasionally saw community posts, but they were all just clickbait using Photoshop or AI.
"Well, even if one's true appearance changed, there's no reason to tell people about it."
In a way, it's like revealing one's true identity, so there's no reason to go out of one's way to say it.
Rather, what I needed to find out right now was whether I had definitely awakened.
Gulp-
Why am I nervous about this?
"St-Status Window?"
Pat-
【 Job: Magical Girl 】
【 Stats 】
【 Stamina: E | Strength: E 】
【 Agility: E | Magic: E 】
【 Skills 】
【 Magical Girl's Duty: EX 】
【 Magical Girl's Longing: E 】
I was worried about what I would do if it didn't appear... but thankfully, it did.
A blue interface window that you'd only see in a game.
"So I really did awaken..."
Let's say that's that. But...
"Magical Girl...?"
I had seen various jobs through awakening verification posts that occasionally appeared in the gallery, but I had never seen a job called Magical Girl before.
It's natural that my stats are all terrible, since I felt that ever since I became this body, and for some reason, I have two skills I don't understand.
One of them is even EX.
When I pressed the Magical Girl's Duty skill first, a description window appeared.
【 Magical Girl's Duty: EX 】
All stats increase upon transformation.
A Magical Girl must always be a brilliantly shining existence.
A Magical Girl is always an object of attention. Stats increase according to popularity.
A Magical Girl does not ignore the misfortune of the good. Please help the good-hearted. (Random quests will occur / Penalty upon failure)
So... naturally, since I'm a Magical Girl, I can transform, and if my popularity goes up, my stats go up... that makes sense.
The last sentence is a bit concerning. I don't know what the penalty is, but... as long as it's written like that, it definitely won't be good.
It's such a Magical Girl-like description that I feel like I've really become a Magical Girl.
How do I transform? Do I just shout it out?
"Tr-Transformation...?"
Pa-at-!
As soon as I finished speaking, a white flash of light enveloped me.