Magical Girl Site

Magical Girl Site

Front cover of volume 1 featuring Aya Asagiri as a "magical girl"
魔法少女サイト
(Mahō Shōjo Saito)
Genre Magical girl, horror
Manga
Magical Girl Site
Written by Kentarō Satō
Published by Akita Shoten
English publisher
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Champion Tap!
Original run July 4, 2013 – present
Volumes 6

Magical Girl Site (魔法少女サイト, Mahō Shōjo Saito) is a Japanese magical girl, horror shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Kentarō Satō. The series is a spinoff of Magical Girl Apocalypse, and has been published in Champion Tap! since July 2013. It is also licensed by Seven Seas.

Plot

Asagiri Aya is a middle school girl who has problems both at school with bullying, and at home from physical abuse by her brother. While browsing online, a website pops up on her computer featuring a creepy looking person. This person appears to take pity on her, and announces that she has granted Asagiri magical powers. Later at school she is cornered by bullies, and with nothing to lose fires a gun that had mysteriously appeared in her locker earlier that day at them. The shot causes the bullies to disappear, but to her horror she finds out that they somehow had been hit by a train nearby. Asagiri feels as though she had killed them somehow, and is confused to find herself with longer red hair with eyes that flow blood. She later finds that she is not alone when a classmate reveals that she is also a magical girl. Asagiri learns about magical girls, and the power she has acquired from her new friend who has offered to help her. The two girls though can't explain why there is something that looks like a countdown clock on the website, and fear it might be something bad.

Characters

Aya Asagiri (朝霧 彩, Asan Aya)
Aya is the main heroine of the story, she is short fourteen year old middle school girl with long black hair. She has had a hard life being bullied at school, and abused at home by her brother wishing multiple times that she were better off dead. Under her skin though she has a gentle kind personality which is shown when she takes care of an abandoned cat that later dies. After she gets her wand (in the shape of a gun), she is reluctant to use it as she doesn't want to kill people anymore. When her own life is in danger though, she finds that she has no choice in order to stay alive. Her wand is a pistol type weapon that can teleport objects to places where she has already been. Aya's hair grows longer and turns from black to red when she uses her weapon, and causes blood to flow from her eyes. The emblem on her weapon, and in her eyes when she uses it is a heart. Her special skill is reading, and her advantage is her warm personality. Aya also likes chocolate, stuffed toys, and meaty foods.[1]
Yutsumura Tsuyuno (奴村 露乃, Tamura Atsune)
Tamura is Aya's classmate, and reveals herself to be another magical girl when she saves her from another bully attack. Tamura has also had a traumatic life having had her parents killed in a home invasion when she was a small child. The killer spared her life saying that he would be back for her when she got older. She lived in fear until the same website that later appears for Aya pops up granting her magical powers. She later is able to track her parent's killer down, and take her revenge. After meeting Aya, she offers to help her out comforting her when she gets scared which in turn forms a friendship between the two. She tells Aya though that each time they use their magical wands their lifespans are shortened. Tamura can control time with her weapon that looks like a smartphone. The emblem on her weapon, and in her eyes when she uses it is a crescent moon.[1]
Shioi Rina (魔法少女狩り, Renei Shiori)
Tamura met Rina online while trying to figure out what the countdown clock on the website meant. Rina was initially collecting information about other magical girls when she disappeared at the same time a magical girl killing spree started. It is later revealed that she is in fact the killer, and has been killing fellow magical girls in order to obtain their wands to stay alive. She informs Tamura, and Aya that she had discovered that the countdown clock is ticking down to the end of humanity. The two are able to subdue Rina, but before she is able to tell her source she lapses into a coma. The doctors who later examine her are perplexed as while she looks youthful, her organs operate at those of a 70 year old. Her current appearance is the result of her camera wand that allowed her to copy the appearance of anyone she took a picture of, and the appearance she copied is Sarina's older sister.
Anazawa Nijimi
Nijimin is the most popular idol of the idol group 'Puppy Play', and Aya and Tamura try to meet her based on the Kill List of wands Rina was carrying. Though her normal demeanor is very perky and friendly, when shown a picture of Rina she becomes upset and expresses her desire to kill her in the worst ways possible, a condition she calls her 'poisoned apple' because her friend Mikado, a fellow magical girl, was murdered by Rina in order to steal her hammer wand. Nijimin can make anyone, including magical girls, do what she says with her wand that is a pair of panties. The emblem on them, and in her eyes when she uses it, is a spade.
Shizukume Sarina
Sarina is the leader of a trio of bullies who have mercilessly tormented Aya since she transferred to their school because she hates people who drag down everyone else. When one of the bullies, Kaijima Erika, dies due to Aya's wand, she is immediately suspicious of Aya and threatens her with a snap-off cutter in the girls bathroom at school. Aya is saved by Tamura when she freezes time, who uses Sarina's cutter to slit her own throat. Sarina survives, and is at the same hospital as Rina, which is where she learns that Aya and Tamura are responsible for her injury and about the existence of magical girls. She is given a wand by Nana, a yo-yo with the emblem of a circle with a horizontal line through it that has the ability to slice objects in half, and charged with taking up Rina's mission of collecting wands. She is killed by Nana in the third manga volume when she asks her if being the sole survivor after the tempest is done is worth it.
Nana
Nana is the being who is seen on the first page of the Magical Girl Site. She wears a Catholic school jumper with a short sleeved collared shirt underneath, and has pigtails. Her face is odd, with prominent eyes, cheekbones and mouth, she speaks primarily in rhyme and she gives out wands to new magical girls. However, she is also behind Rina's, now Sarina's, quest to collect the wands of other magical girls. She claims the giving of wands is all for the purpose of the Tempest, and directs Sarina to a hidden page within the Magical Girl Site that explains about the Tempest.

Release

Six volumes have been released as of August 2017.[2]

No.Japanese release dateJapanese ISBNEnglish release dateEnglish ISBN
1 March 7, 2014[3]ISBN 978-4-253-22401-7February 21, 2017[4]ISBN 978-1-626924-76-5
2 September 8, 2014[5]ISBN 978-4-253-22402-4May 2, 2017[4]ISBN 978-1-626924-84-0
3 March 6, 2015[6]ISBN 978-4-253-22403-1August 1, 2017[4]ISBN 978-1-626925-16-8
4 November 6, 2015[7]ISBN 978-4-253-22404-8November 7, 2017[4]ISBN 978-1-626925-80-9
5 April 8, 2016[8]ISBN 978-4-253-22405-5——
6 September 8, 2016[9]ISBN 978-4-253-22406-2——
7 September 8, 2017[10]ISBN 978-4-253-22407-9——

Reception

The English language version of Mahō Shōjo Saito (Magical Girl Site) has received various reviews from critics. Brittany Vincent from Japanator compared the series to Puella Magi Madoka Magica, calling the former "much darker". Vincent said that Magical Girl Site takes away everything someone may find dark about Madoka, and slices it "wide open" with its dark plot.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 Character profiles are mentioned in the 2nd manga volume.
  2. ↑ "Search results: Magical Girl Site". Akita Shoten (in Japanese). Retrieved July 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ 魔法少女サイト 第1巻 [Magical Girl Site Volume 1]. Akita Shoten (in Japanese). Retrieved July 2, 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Magical Girl Site". Seven Seas Entertainment. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
  5. ↑ 魔法少女サイト 第2巻 [Magical Girl Site Volume 2]. Akita Shoten (in Japanese). Retrieved July 2, 2016.
  6. ↑ 魔法少女サイト 第3巻 [Magical Girl Site Volume 3]. Akita Shoten (in Japanese). Retrieved July 2, 2016.
  7. ↑ 魔法少女サイト 第4巻 [Magical Girl Site Volume 4]. Akita Shoten (in Japanese). Retrieved July 2, 2016.
  8. ↑ 魔法少女サイト 第5巻 [Magical Girl Site Volume 5]. Akita Shoten (in Japanese). Retrieved July 2, 2016.
  9. ↑ 魔法少女サイト 第6巻 [Magical Girl Site Volume 6]. Akita Shoten (in Japanese). Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  10. ↑ 魔法少女サイト 第7巻 [Magical Girl Site Volume 7]. Akita Shoten (in Japanese). Retrieved August 11, 2017.
  11. ↑ Brittany Vincent (October 31, 2013). "JapanaTerror 006: Mahou Shoujo Site". Japanator. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
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