まどか☆えんがわ 1

by Magica Quartet

『まんがタイムきらら☆マギカ』の読者を癒し系笑いの渦に巻き込み大人気のまどか☆マギカ4コマ『まどか☆えんがわ』がついにコミックス化!まどか達姉妹のまだ見ぬ一面を愛し、癒され、きっとあなたも縁側に。

120 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 27, 2013

About the author

A group collaboration consisting of director Akiyuki Shinbou, writer Gen Urobuchi, the original character designer Ume Aoki, and the producer Atsuhiro Iwakami.

Reviews

[Christopher Saunders · Rating 3 out of 5]

Madoka Magica fans have no shortage of spinoff materials to choose from, some of them reasonably substantial, others fluffy, disposable fanservice. The Veranda of Madoka is very much the latter. One of many comedy manga serialized in Kirara Magica, a semi-official fanzine, Veranda is an AU imagining Madoka and her fellow Puella Magi as sisters living an idyllic life on an expansive estate. And that's about it. The story is standard slice-of-life fare showing our favorite Magical Girls having silly, insubstantial adventures, riffing off their personalities and in-jokes from the series (Sayaka, for instance, keeps forgetting her Soul Gem and blacking out when she tries to leave home). That I've read and reviewed a bunch of these manga already shows there's an appeal here; the Puella Magi suffer so much in the canon show and movies that it's nice to see them in a relaxed, peril-free setting, living their best lives. A few of the Kirara serials, like the endearing spoof Homura Tamura, offer enough clever humor to commend themselves even to casual manga readers. But it's impossible to recommend a series like Veranda to non-Madoka fans, who are already surfeited with slice-of-life anime and manga that are far more original and creative. It's basically fanfiction, and rather run-of-the-mill fanfiction at that.