Magical Girl Site 1

Magical Girl Site #1

by Kentarō Satō

Asagiri Aya is a young girl who has fallen victim to bullies at her school. Looking for a way to escape her troubles, she looks to the internet for distraction, when a mysterious website called "Magical Girl Site" appears. Simply viewing the page is all it takes to hurtle Aya headlong into the deadly world of the Magical Girl Apocalypse. There, it's fight or die, against a seemingly endless array of savagely adorable, frilly-skirted killing machines, each armed with magical powers and an unquenchable thirst for blood and chaos.

Genres: Manga, Horror, Fantasy, Mystery, Comics, Graphic Novels, Dark

208 pages, Paperback

First published March 7, 2014

About the author

Born December 1st in the prefecture of Osaka. He began his career in 2008 with a short story called "Kui King Omega" pre-published in the pages of Akamaru Jump (Shueisha).
Subsequently, he signed up for a few short stories in the Weekly Champion before starting “Magical Girl of the End” for Monthly Champion in 2012. The series was so popular that it launched a spin-off, “Magical Girl Site” which is pre-published on the website “Champion Tap!”, in July 2013.
But his success did not, however, go to his head and he remains extremely helpful for readers. He is also active on the internet and on Twitter, often sharing sketches and answering questions for his fans. He participates at Comicket, where he sells directly its original productions as fanzines.

His circle name is known as おさげ (pigtails), most known to attend Comiket to fans.

Reviews

[Wiktoria (^˵◕ω◕˵^) · Rating 4 out of 5]

{4.4}

[KillerBunny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love how dark this is, but sadly the story is a bit strange by moments and some questions are never answered.

[Virginja ↢ 99% imp · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super grim and super cool! I love the art style!

[Mehsi · Rating 4 out of 5]

So apparently the author from that gruesome Mahou Shoujo of the End also wrote/drawn this one. I decided to check it out and see if it was better than MSofE. And yes. It is still disturbing at times. There is a bit of gore. But it is much less gore than in the other series. I am also really interested in how the sticks work, how the mahou shoujo stuff works, what is up with the Tempest and much more. So I will keep reading. :) Also the art is quite pretty.

Review for the first 2 volumes is found here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Nathan Fox · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very sad disturbing fucked up original story. One of my favorite anime and can’t wait to see if they went even farther with the story in the manga. Art style is one of my favs. To my Karin slaughter hive who might wanting to dip their toe into the manga world, this might be the one for you :-)

[Whitney (The Cover Collector) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rereading to finish series.

[Izabela Noga · Rating 4 out of 5]

Klimat niepowtarzalny 🌚

[Yousra Obeid · Rating 4 out of 5]

Story:

This story revolves around a 14 years old girl who has been living an unfortunate life. Bullied severely at school by a group of girls who happened to be her classmates & abused mercilessly at home by her stressed brother who is trying to live up to his father's expectations, Aya felt hopeless & thought of suicide lingers through her mind.

One day, after a long rough & abusive treatment, laying on bed whilst rethinking of the hell she's living in, her laptop switched on by itself and an eerie mysterious looking being appeared on the screen before her pitying Aya granting her magical powers by sending her a magic stick that can take her out of her misery if used correctly.

Spoilers starts from here:

Aya's life has totally changed after receiving the magical stick at school. Her magic stick (To be more specific, a gun shaped magical stick.) contains magical ability of teleportation by shooting her target, teleporting them to the previous location she was in, where she had a change of heart.

After the first usage of her stick, Aya was able to teleport her bullies causing an instant death to them & a grudge from the remaining bullies.

She also made a first friend after the incident who also happened to be a Mahou Shoujo, Tsuyuno Yatsumura. Tsuyuno has witnessed the event of the first usage of Aya's stick & decided to approach Aya later on at school.

Aya along with Tsuyuno, planned to discover more about the Mahou shoujo site and want to get more knowledge about the "day of tempest". And then the story begins... meeting more and more mahou girls of similar goal.

What attracted me to this manga was the miserable tragic lives of these girls. It manifested the cruelty of the world & it's inhabitants. Humans can be merciless monsters at times but it also proves that there are merciful human beings out there.

- I will continue reviewing it afterwards -

[CatNg ChoiEn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an overall review.

I spent 3 days in a row to read this entire series and I like it a lot. Mahou Shoujo (Magical Girl) genre is not my favorite but this is one of the few exceptions. It's dark and serious, not that many happy moments, and the fight scenes are so epic. I love both the protagonists and antagonists. The dynamics and chemistry work really well to me. Only a few minor supporting characters that I truly hate because they are nonredeemable. The graphic and gore art is somehow drawn really clean and I admire that. The characters' motivations and goals are straightforward and no one is making much dumb decisions (I can appreciate that). In short, I enjoy it although the last battle/arc was kinda anti climatic to me but I had fun reading it all till the end.

[Nina Tran · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really love this book because of how dark it was and how they depict revenge. I really like the idea of having a magical girl website for high school girls that have to suffer. I really like the author way of storytelling also and have me on edge every chapter.

[Sroka · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
pierwsza manga takiego typu która czytam więc nie mam za bardzo jak porównać, ale sądzę że jest w miarę oki. Nie mogę się doczekać aż dowiemy się więcej o postaciach, ich supermocach oraz tempest

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

So far it's very good! The story is very interesting and I also like the art style.

[cynthia ✨ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was recommended by Hay Thi! A good friend of mine from ISY. I was expecting lots of fairies/pixies/and pink girl stuff, but NOOOOOOOO!

There were so much blood and death, I LOVE IT. I totally didn't cry when one of the characters died...

Only read/watch if you can handle mature topics and language.












By the way Mr. Brett, I'm doing this book/manga for Book Talk for the next time I get chosen (in the 4th round)

[flycheee · Rating 1 out of 5]

10 tomes lus • abandonné.
les premiers tomes de ce manga, c'est une nostalgie de tumblr emo en 2014.
la suite, c'est une descente aux enfers autant pour les personnages que pour le lecteur.

j'en ai lu des mangas problématiques, mais ici on tient un chef-d’œuvre du genre : il y a de tout, racisme, sexisme, male gaze, transphobie, fantasmes glauques, fétichisme, hypersexualisation de mineures (elles ont 13-14 ans par pitié), grooming.... et toute la panoplie des pires thèmes possibles à aborder comme simple rebondissements du scénario et que j'ai même pas envie de citer ici parce qu'ils mériteraient 15 tw, évidemment absents du manga

n'est pas gen urobushi qui veut on dirait

[Ella · Rating 3 out of 5]

-6/10, another okay horror series
-Went into this after reading and strongly disliking the authors other series Magical Girl Apocalypse
-I can safely say this series is better than that one so far
-The plot twist in the middle of this was something I predicted ahead of time but the story has so many mysteries
-The art style is nothing special but is able to get the point across

[Teresa Sporrer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ich pack nur die Szene mit der Katze net. Da muss ich immer heulen. Die ganzen Menschen bzw. Magical Girls, die draufgehen, sind mir egal xD

[Vendea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dost creepy a realistic. Not sure if I like it or not. Ale potenciál to má...

3.5/5*

[Tumazino · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mahou Shoujo Site, or also known as Magical Girl Site written by Sato Kentaro is a sequel to Mahou Shoujo of the end or also called Magical Girl Apocalypse. Mahou Shoujo Site is a fictional story in a manga format with genres such as dark fantasy, supernatural, psychological horror and drama residing in it. This story was created since the author probably wanted their magical girl franchise to continue for a while longer but don’t expect that to be entirely true. I think the theme for this story is “To never give up.” The theme I thought up is pretty vague but it’s the basic premise of the story and yes, there are other stories with the same theme that I thought of. This story is set in Japan just like the last book but this time it revolves around a young girl by the name of Asagiri Aya who is getting bullied at school. She thinks of committing suicide but refrains from doing so as she doesn’t have the courage to do it. Fallen into a deep darkness, depression taking over with no way out or is there? She is chosen as another magical girl by a suspicious website called “Mahou Shoujo Site/Magical Girl Site.” With these powers, her life will finally change but this backfires as it changes for the worse and now she has to face off other magical beings and discover the secret behind this mysterious website with the help of others.

I’ve read Mahou Shoujo of the End previously and to compare it to the sequel which is this book, I’d say this one has the same effect that I got from the first book and that is that I got surprised. In this story, you get the same amount of plot twists just like the prequel but the plot twists in this book definitely intrigued me way more. In this story, I couldn’t predict what would happen next at all and everything took me by surprise. Since this story is a sequel, we can see the aftermath of what happened in the prequel but through a different person’s view. The main conflict of this story is how the main character was getting bullied and then she got a temporary solution just for it to lead to another conflict which is now the world she has to get accustomed to and that is the “Magical Girl Apocalypse.” Of course throughout the story, there will be side conflicts but for now that’s the main one. This author likes to have us see different peoples’ perspectives and it’s not for a quick second but they’re decently long segments of watching other characters that are not the main character’s situations. As for the characters, they all have very distinct personalities but they’re not that very off from each other as all of them have something in common and that is trauma from past experiences. For example, Aya who is suicidal is a result of the bullying and her brother Kaname who acts in a very sadistic and psychotic way towards her is the result of his pent up anger as his dad is unbelievably strict towards only him. All of these magical powers are only given to girls who experience misfortunate events such as your whole family being murdered or you have a family member that is very toxic towards the household and much more misfortunate things. Since this is a fictional topic, the author can mess around with the story however they like or they could research some things to implement in the story that enhances it as well. As for the mood, it’s always dark and even if they try to make it funny or the plot twists are intentionally funny, the meaning behind the actions are still very dark which makes you end up laughing nervously. Surprisingly, this story doesn’t do a bunch of flashbacks so I don’t think you would get confused that much opposed to the prequel but since the story was made by the same author as the first book then expect it to still be decently confusing. I find the plot development flows pretty smoothly and you can really see the character development for the main character, Aya Asagiri. This isn’t really a spoiler but kind of is so anyway, at first we know her as the very broken, shy, quiet girl but once you progress through the story at a certain point where things get out of hand, she becomes super determined towards one motive and that is to be able to protect everyone. You can probably guess what the special event leading to this development might be but if not, I won’t be saying anything. If you read my review on “Mahou Shoujo of the End” then you would surely know that I tell you how you would have to read the author’s books in the correct order from how I see it but I’ll remind you again. You read “Mahou Shoujo of the End” first and then this book, “Mahou Shoujo Site” but when you reach chapter 80 for this story, you go read, “Mahou Shoujo Site : Sept.” After finishing that book, then you can continue with the rest of the story for “Mahou Shoujo Site.”

In the end, I must warn once more that this is a fictional story and isn’t based upon any true stories. This book is less gory and graphic than the author’s first manga “Mahou Shoujo of the end.” I guarantee more people can tolerate this book than the first if you’re slightly squeamish to gore. I would still say though that this book isn’t intended for children and probably 16+. This book also contains a bunch of mature themes such as violence, sensitive topics, a lot of vulgar language and there’s little to no nudity. I’d recommend this story to people who like to see very abstract plot twists and those of who finished the prequel to this one. If you didn’t like the first book and are contemplating if you want to read this one then I’d say give it a try but of course, this is my opinion and I like this author’s style of writing. This manga is definitely less confusing than the first and the plot twists are more on the unexpected side from what I think. Now onto my star rating and that would be 4.5/5. I rated the prequel a 4/5 and the reason that this book scores just .5 higher is because I liked the book story wise way better than the first. Though I did find the action in the prequel was better. This manga didn’t get a full 5 stars because there was a slight hint of incest and no, before you ask me if it’s between Aya and Kaname, it’s not. That is my only reason it’s not a 5 star but overall, it was a very fun journey seeing everything unfold. The ending to this story was just as dull as the first book’s ending as I said before in my other review but this ending made it feel more complete unlike the other one if that makes sense. Once again, I recommend this book to anyone who's already read the prequel or is planning to start their long journey of a world full of magical girls that aren’t as innocent as they are perceived. Thank you for reading my review!

[Loveliest Evaris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally, an interesting psychological/horror manga. There can never be enough of these, seriously!

[𓊆ྀི ⋆｡˚꒰ঌ worm ໒꒱˚｡⋆𓊇ྀི · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is going to be a review for the series as a whole.
I had originally read this series online, and I am not going to re-read this series as individual volumes to leave a review for each one- it is not worth it.

This series would have been a 1 star if not for it's concept.

As a fan of Puella Magi Madoka Magica this series sounded right up my alley- Unfortunate girls being given the opportunity to take back the reigns of their life with the "power" to become a "magical girl". The added aspect of an online site providing that opportunity was supper interesting too- along with the kind of cult-like ideologies that came along with it. Unfortunately, the execution on this concept was abysmal.

While I'm not completely against gore or violence, this felt excessive and boarded on torture porn- especially for the main character Aya who can never seem to catch a break. This series uses shock value for the sake of shock value- and it doesn't tend to go anywhere.
Aya's growth was also made to feel very shallow. She went through so much trauma in the beginning of the series and while she "grew" as a character and changed in personality we don't really see her overcome these traumas- she just does.
The plot is also full of holes and seems to only have twists for the sake of shock value- there is no build up to them and they make no sense for the concepts that are already established. This was my main problem with the end of the series.
There is also an excessive amount of fan service.

*Spoilers Ahead!*

The twists in the series are literally the worst. The most egregious being the relationship between Aya and Tsuyuno Yatsumura. To keep things short- they become friends, fall in love, and then find out they were siblings. Great! ^^ Does this really go anywhere? NO Is there any reason for it? Not that I can see.
The fan service is so incredibly uncomfortable, because again- THEY ARE MINORS especially with the girl who is literally 13 or the "magical stick" that are mind controlling panties- which is unfortunately relevant to the plot.
On another note, since the series is so dark, certain topics should have been handled more sensitively - was I expecting this? No, but it doesn't come across well. Especially with certain topics, characters, or powers. For example, a "magical stick" that is a box cutter where the user has to cut themselves to heal others- and they already have a tendency to self harm. Or the treatment of the one trans character in the series. I was actually happy to see some representation in this series- especially because it was unexpected; but it wasn't handled particularly well as one could expect for a series like this.

Was this series worth the read? No, but I did finish it because I wanted to know where it'd go. The ending certainly did not make it worth it. The concept is cool but that's really the only redeeming aspect of this series- besides the cool art of the site administrators.

[Jossie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jossie's Independent Reading Project:

Magical Girl Site is a horror manga that revolves around a group of middle schoolers who have led unfortunate lives until a site appeared on a screen, and grants them a "stick" that will give them happiness (if they chose to use it). However, it turns out that they are contributing these sticks to many girls who want revenge, and some kill other girls with these sticks to try to stay alive for a catastrophic event labeled "The Tempest". The group of girls come together to stop the Admins from advancing with The Tempest.

In the manga, the main character (Aya Asagiri) meets a girl named "Tsuyuno Yatsumura", whose stick has the ability to stop time. She appears in the second volume, saving Aya from getting stabbed from one of her bullies in school. She becomes deuteragonist of the story, becoming Aya's best friend (and also preventing Aya's brother from causing harm to Aya as a form of releasing stress) and helping Aya discover about The Tempest and learn more about her sticks and threats around them. Tsuyuno is a calm collected character, she is always serious and prioritizes others ahead instead of herself. She is mostly emotionless and cold towards others. In the manga, she is remorseful when she harms people or kills them. She grows soft when she meets Aya, causing her to open up more about her past. I personally love how Tsuyuno was written, and she grows as a character until her death. Tsuyuno dies from overusing her stick, causing her life to end and be reincarnated as one of the Admins (renamed "Ni"). She is a tragic character and I love it. I kind of predicted that she would die, as earlier it was revealed that Tsuyuno wouldn't have long to live, but it did surprise me when she was reincarnated as an Admin.

The manga is definitely a roller coaster, as there are times where the book is heavy on a topic and shows scenes that would be normally frowned upon. However, I would suggest it to those who want to see "cutesy characters" and "horror" mixed all into one. I wouldn't recommend it to those who are sensitive to death, injuries, self-harm, and sexual assault. While reading, I found myself hooked on each page and wanting to know more, the theme of cute characters and horror into one story was already interesting enough but the story wasn't like most magical girl mangas: "The girl who's lonely gets blessed with abilities, and meets girls like her and they have this big villain that only they can defeat!" It was different; original. But I really enjoyed the story and the art, and overall the book is very good.

[Pauline Stout · Rating 3 out of 5]

Trigger warnings: violent bullying and assault, violent sibling abuse, possible sibling sexual assault, attempted rape, blood and gore, torture, violent death, threats of violence and rape, mention of suicide.

This book follows the story of a 14 year old girl who is bullied at school by her classmates and abused at home by her brother to the point of contemplating suicide. Then one night she visits a website that sends her a magical wand because of how full of sorrow she is, transforming her into a “magical girl”. Can she use this to end her torment? She also ends up meeting a second “magical girl” with her own wand and sets in a mission to find another “magical girl” that has been murdering others and stealing their wands.

I picked this up because I am a fan of the authors other series, Magical Girl Apocalypse. I unfortunately didn’t like this as much as I liked that series.

Pretty much everything is touch and go. The art is stellar at points and super dodgy at others. The dialogue is well written at points and over the top and too campy at others. Most of the violence is over the top and unneeded. It is shocking purely to be shocking and nothing else. Also I think the author is trying to tie the plot of this into MGA but I can’t really tell. I do like the overall plot to a degree and look forward to seeing how the main character develops over time.

On another note, it is hard for me to believe that the main character is going through so much abuse and trauma and literally no adult figure notices. Not her teachers or her parents or anyone else around her. Some authority figure should have noticed and the fact that no one has confuses me.

Overall I do think I recommend this despite my complaints. I think you can tell from the massive amount of trigger warnings for such a small book, this is not appropriate for all audiences. If you think you can handle the subject material check this out. Will be continuing with the next in the series soon.

[Amélie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this manga so far. Pretty disturbing a lot of times, it is rated 18+ after all. The story is mysterious and thrilling. Not for the faint-hearted.

You should keep in mind that this manga showcases dark content like sexual assault, abuse, injury and murder.

What bothered me a bit is that these topics aren't really adressed, you just sit there and watch the protagonist suffer through a bunch of traumatic experiences. It does leave me really uncomfortable, because I feel like when these topics are used for certain effects, one should really be aware of how they're used. It doesn't seem like the mangaka gave it a lot of thought, it feels a little like they just used whatever came to mind that would be triggering and horrible to watch.

The main character is helpless and a victim of a lot of abuse, until she gets this weapon and has to decide whether she wants to protect herself, take revenge or just leave it alone and continue this traumatic life. This aspect of the story really made me enjoy it, because it's a big moral dilemma that the mc is dealing with. There is also mystery aspects in the story.

If you enjoy horror and thrilling stories and don't mind the many triggering and disturbing aspects I would suggest giving it a read. It's not for everyone though.

[Morgan]

I very much feel as i cannot rate this.
This is something i personally already knew going into this series, but it covers a lot of dark stuff. i can not say how well it covers those things but it certainly does cover them.
so if you were looking into reading this series or watching its anime adaption please please look up trigger warnings for it! theres a lot, this series is definitely a lot.

im gonna do my best to list some trigger warnings here for the first volume but i still suggest you look them up for future volumes.

intense bullying, lots of violence and blood, abuse, attempted rape, animal abuse, murder, burglary, and also in the little extra comic at the end of this volume there was an intense of torture.

i could be missing some, but also please remember to look up tws for stuff. stay safe y’all
(also if you still would like to read this please still look up tws cause i do not know what will pop up in future volumes)

[Turnipboys · Rating 2 out of 5]

An interesting premise that feels cheapened by the shlocky gore. The main character essentially goes through torture porn throughout the entire series - and when I say "porn" I really do mean it. The illustrations feel disturbingly sexual for what are genuinely traumatic and horrifying situations for anyone to go through, much less a high school girl.

I'm reading through the rest of the series to see if this improves but I'm already at the halfway point and it doesn't seem so. Which is a shame because the worldbuilding and concept of a "magical girl site" and a bunch of magical girls effectively brutally murdering each other could be very interesting. I just wish that the characters were either aged up or less sexualized.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I must preface this by saying I only started reading Manga seriously last year so technically, I’m a new manga reader. I came across this one at a book sale and thought I’d give it a try.

Trigger: Does have a violent storyline. That was not a hindrance for me specifically.

I felt like the main character was a bit weak for the role she is supposed to play, but understand also why her personality is written this way. Maybe setting her up for hero mode?

I liked the idea of the storyline but it didn’t grab me. Not sure I will continue this series. If I could grab a copy of Vol.2 from the library or friend, I would consider reading it to make sure how I feel now still stands.

[Raaven💖 · Rating 5 out of 5]

The dark magical girl genre has been booming in the last few years and I’m absolutely obsessed with it. Aya is a friendless teenage girl who is bullied at school and tortured at home by her older brother. She is approached by a magical website that offers her the power to get back at those who’ve hurt her if she agrees to be a magical girl. But power always comes at a price. This is such a unique take on the magical girl genre. I deff like this one more than Magical Girl Apocalypse. I would also die for almost everyone in this series. My favorites being Njimi and Kiyo.

[CaptainCassidy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dropping the star rating to two because, personally, nothing pisses me off like killing a cat to show how evil a character is. It’s so cliche… and I just hate seeing it in general! D:

So far this is very different from its origin series, so I’m excited to see where the two will connect! Surely this parallel world existed before the end of MGA?

Also, this series has an anime (which I now remember watching some of in the past), while the origin series does not. Admittedly, from what I remember, I’d probably recommend this one over MGA! It’s… not as… complicated.

[Patrí · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was recommended to me by my cousin because she thinks I will like it.
I do love it. It has most of the things I like: gore, strong female characters, cute idols. The most interesting to me is the main character. She may look and act naive but she's brave and not the empty-head female character that most manga have.
As someone who grew up watching Mahou Shoujo animes, this is a new kind of Mahou Shoujo to me.

[Tesutamento · Rating 2 out of 5]

Zor durumdaki kızların imdadına koşan bir internet sitesi ve yaklaşan yıkım. Magical Girl Site şirin karakterlerine karşın çeşitli zorbalıklar ve ölüm temasının üzerinde duran, talihsiz kızların özel güçler edindiği ve yaklaşan yıkımı durdurmaya çalıştığı bir hikaye sunuyor. Çizimleri maalesef çok tutarsız. Bazen göze hoş gelse de çoğunlukla çirkin buldum. Hikaye de epey zayıf geldi. Üzerine pek düşünülmemiş ve gelişigüzel yazılmış gibi hissettiriyor.