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Magical Girl Raising Project Manga #1
Magical Girl Raising Project, Vol. 1
Sugar and spice--but not playing nice! The manga based on the hit novel series!
Magical girls like Snow White and La Pucelle have dreamed of the day they'd become one of the lucky few chosen to protect N City. But their dreams quickly turn into a nightmare when the Magical Girl Raising Project Management Office issues a decree--there are simply TOO MANY magical girls! Oops! Time to cull the number by...half? Half sounds good. Don't worry, retirement just means...you die. Good luck, girls!
Magical girls like Snow White and La Pucelle have dreamed of the day they'd become one of the lucky few chosen to protect N City. But their dreams quickly turn into a nightmare when the Magical Girl Raising Project Management Office issues a decree--there are simply TOO MANY magical girls! Oops! Time to cull the number by...half? Half sounds good. Don't worry, retirement just means...you die. Good luck, girls!
196 pages, Paperback
Published December 19, 2017
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January 8, 2018
Before u buy this I like u guys to know I think this series is aimed more to boys.theres some panty shots and lots of cleavage.i normally love magical girl stories but this one just bored me.it through u right into it with hardly any explanation.theres blood and girls dying which is a plus :) any way I guess it's up to you to decide
April 17, 2024
I've had the manga, but I haven't read it. I did watch the anime though! I'll be honest shit goes down quick in the manga compared to the anime.
November 30, 2018
I really enjoyed the anime (I didn't check the genres on the anime, so I was extremely surprised/shocked when I found out that it involved magical girls killing each other, but that surprise made it even more enjoyable), but I was kind of disappointed with the manga. It jumped right into the deaths and left out a lot of details. I think that it should have spent more time building up the story and it should have also allowed you to have more time to become more emotionally attached to the characters before the series begins to kill them off because it isn't as enjoyable if you don't really care about the characters in the first place.
May 9, 2021
A group of magical girls are told they will be culled down based on how many magical candy points they have collected.
It took me forever to get this book from interlibrary loan (the light novel vs. manga confused them) and then I ended up not loving it. There's no chance to become familiar with the magical girls before they're killed so I didn't feel bad when they died. I see this ended up being a manga complete in two volumes, so I'll assume the second is more deaths, little story, and skip it.
It took me forever to get this book from interlibrary loan (the light novel vs. manga confused them) and then I ended up not loving it. There's no chance to become familiar with the magical girls before they're killed so I didn't feel bad when they died. I see this ended up being a manga complete in two volumes, so I'll assume the second is more deaths, little story, and skip it.
January 3, 2023
Read this in one sitting as the visual art was so appealing!!! Love the character costumes. Going into this not knowing much about the series, it was enjoyable enough with a fast-paced storyline. I think there are only two volumes of manga, so maybe I also rushed through reading this a bit too quickly. However, it was super fun and turned out a lot differently from what I was expecting.
Magical girls with pretty outfits, special hidden powers and action and drama to keep you on the edge of your seat!
Magical girls with pretty outfits, special hidden powers and action and drama to keep you on the edge of your seat!
December 26, 2017
Not at all what I was expecting, but I know the teens are going to love it. A good fit for fans of Deadman Wonderland, Battle Royal and the Hunger Games.
May 19, 2018
violent twisted.
September 8, 2021
Was a little disappointed, the anime is definitely better and way more detailed. The story in this feels incredibly rushed
September 11, 2021
Also der Manga ist cool aber etwas arg schnell. Da mochte ich den Anime mehr und von dem hätte ich gerne schon mehr gehabt.
December 30, 2017
Okaaaaay, the art is completely gorgeous, let me say that first off! The characters are so cute and the colour pages are bright and have a nice colour scheme to them. There's such rich, pretty parts when showing some of the magical girls and the settings and backgrounds are detailed. The battles/fights and magic where drawn fantastically too!
This volume is fast paced, and we get thrown straight in to the story with a brief flashback to explain what's going on. There's plenty of action throughout the volume, and the story is dark with plenty of blood. We get introduced to a lot of the main characters in just this one volume, and there's a couple of deaths too.....like I said, it's fast paced and it doesn't mess around.
We even get quite a bit of background on Ripple! I think she might be my favourite of all the magical girls, I'm not going to lie! Some of the magical girls are just plain unhinged though, it has to be said. But this is such a brilliant, and fresh take on magical girls.
There's magic, and cuteness but it's also dark and bloody and kind of like a magical girl Hunger Games! It really pulls you in and the pace doesn't let up!
This volume is fast paced, and we get thrown straight in to the story with a brief flashback to explain what's going on. There's plenty of action throughout the volume, and the story is dark with plenty of blood. We get introduced to a lot of the main characters in just this one volume, and there's a couple of deaths too.....like I said, it's fast paced and it doesn't mess around.
We even get quite a bit of background on Ripple! I think she might be my favourite of all the magical girls, I'm not going to lie! Some of the magical girls are just plain unhinged though, it has to be said. But this is such a brilliant, and fresh take on magical girls.
There's magic, and cuteness but it's also dark and bloody and kind of like a magical girl Hunger Games! It really pulls you in and the pace doesn't let up!
September 12, 2020
If you like the Puella Magi series, but wish it had even more murder and trauma, then this is the series for you! The premise is twisted, but fascinating. Basically, a mobile game about magical girls has the ability to transform certain people into magical girls in real life. Each of these people now has one magical ability and an elaborate outfit, or even an alternate physical form, that they can take on. They're basically low-key superheroes: if they help people around the city, they earn magical candy. But no pressure - it's all for fun!
That's until sixteen people are transformed into magical girls, and the game decrees that they have too many. Half the magical girls will need to be eliminated. Every week, the game will "cut" whichever girl has the least magical candy. And the girl who is cut dies in real life.
Naturally, many of the girls initially scramble to help more people and earn more candy. However, candy - stored on magical cell phones - can also be transferred between girls . . . or stolen. And they just need to get down to eight living magical girls before the "cuts" stop. So while the game never actually SUGGESTED killing each other, that is another way to get there . . .
I like the designs of the various magical girls, and how they split into groups with different motivations. (They remind me of the "trust groups" we used to have when I played Nerf games in college, haha.) For example (spoilers ahead):
- Snow White and La Pucelle have always wished to be magical girls, and they really just want to help people. La Pucelle is also determined to protect Snow White, as they were childhood friends before becoming magical girls. Their strategy: keep earning candy the honest way, and try not to get murdered.
- Sister Nana wants to find a way for the magical girls to escape this brutal system. Winterprison (LOVE the name) is devoted to Sister Nana - it's pretty easy to read them as a couple. They are attempting to remain neutral and convince all the other girls not to kill each other.
- Ripple didn't even want to be a magical girl, but once she became one, she realized that helping people was important to her. The girl assigned to train and mentor her, Top Speed, is an upbeat sweetheart who initially annoyed Ripple, but they soon became friends. Now, they are determined to fly under the radar and survive the magical girl purge.
- Ruler is the mean-girl leader of a group that includes Swim-swim, Tama (I think that's her name?), and a pair of . . . twins? Similar-looking best friends? . . . named Yunael and Minael. Ruler's plan is to steal candy from other magical girls, focusing on the strongest first.
- Calamity Mary is a violent piece of work who seems to have discovered a candy-earning loophole: if you hurt a person, then heal them, it counts as "helping" them, and you get candy. Which works for her, because she LOVES hurting people, and her sidekick can heal them. That sidekick is Magicaloid 44, the magical girl who Calamity Mary was once assigned to mentor. The two of them are so dangerous that other magical girls avoid the part of town that Calamity Mary has staked out as her turf.
In this first volume, something like six magical girls die, causing trust groups to break and be rearranged. It's all pretty interesting, in a macabre way.
Extra spoilers: I'm hoping La Pucelle isn't really dead! I'm also sad about Winterprison and Sister Nana, as I liked them a lot. Pretty sure they're actually dead, though, while I have more hope for La Pucelle.
You can read my full review of volumes 1-2 on No Flying No Tights.
That's until sixteen people are transformed into magical girls, and the game decrees that they have too many. Half the magical girls will need to be eliminated. Every week, the game will "cut" whichever girl has the least magical candy. And the girl who is cut dies in real life.
Naturally, many of the girls initially scramble to help more people and earn more candy. However, candy - stored on magical cell phones - can also be transferred between girls . . . or stolen. And they just need to get down to eight living magical girls before the "cuts" stop. So while the game never actually SUGGESTED killing each other, that is another way to get there . . .
I like the designs of the various magical girls, and how they split into groups with different motivations. (They remind me of the "trust groups" we used to have when I played Nerf games in college, haha.) For example (spoilers ahead):
- Snow White and La Pucelle have always wished to be magical girls, and they really just want to help people. La Pucelle is also determined to protect Snow White, as they were childhood friends before becoming magical girls. Their strategy: keep earning candy the honest way, and try not to get murdered.
- Sister Nana wants to find a way for the magical girls to escape this brutal system. Winterprison (LOVE the name) is devoted to Sister Nana - it's pretty easy to read them as a couple. They are attempting to remain neutral and convince all the other girls not to kill each other.
- Ripple didn't even want to be a magical girl, but once she became one, she realized that helping people was important to her. The girl assigned to train and mentor her, Top Speed, is an upbeat sweetheart who initially annoyed Ripple, but they soon became friends. Now, they are determined to fly under the radar and survive the magical girl purge.
- Ruler is the mean-girl leader of a group that includes Swim-swim, Tama (I think that's her name?), and a pair of . . . twins? Similar-looking best friends? . . . named Yunael and Minael. Ruler's plan is to steal candy from other magical girls, focusing on the strongest first.
- Calamity Mary is a violent piece of work who seems to have discovered a candy-earning loophole: if you hurt a person, then heal them, it counts as "helping" them, and you get candy. Which works for her, because she LOVES hurting people, and her sidekick can heal them. That sidekick is Magicaloid 44, the magical girl who Calamity Mary was once assigned to mentor. The two of them are so dangerous that other magical girls avoid the part of town that Calamity Mary has staked out as her turf.
In this first volume, something like six magical girls die, causing trust groups to break and be rearranged. It's all pretty interesting, in a macabre way.
Extra spoilers: I'm hoping La Pucelle isn't really dead! I'm also sad about Winterprison and Sister Nana, as I liked them a lot. Pretty sure they're actually dead, though, while I have more hope for La Pucelle.
You can read my full review of volumes 1-2 on No Flying No Tights.
July 15, 2024
I really like the story and characters, but for me personally, it’s a bit fast-paced, I wish there was more time to get to know each of the characters. but then again, I haven’t read the light novel series, and considering how much longer it seems to be, that might have what I’m looking for;)
February 7, 2018
Just okay. The inside artwork isn’t even as lovely as the cover would have you think. I like that it is a dark story, but I do not like that there is very little substance behind the plot or characters. I doubt I will continue this one. Too many other series to enjoy.
February 21, 2018
Well this turned out to be a Puella Magi Madoka Magica rip off / knockoff and there’s not really much to say about it .
March 14, 2018
It was okkkk
March 31, 2019
Okay, so I watched the anime first for Magical Girl Raising Project. While I did LIKE it, I wasn’t particularly impressed either. I did know it was a magical girl Hunger Games battle royale story already. Now my issue was that there were simply too many (16) characters to develop in a 12 episode time frame. It got so I was just like, There goes another one, when yet another character died because I didn’t know enough about them to care much. I picked up v1 of the manga hoping it would flesh out these characters more.
Sadly it has the same problem, if not worse. There are scenes missing that were in the anime. A few things were in a different order which is totally fine, but the Magical Girl Raising Project manga does not fix my main issue with the series. Considering this volume covers half the show, I can’t imagine the second volume fixing it either. I want more character development!
...also the fanservicey stuff is stinking annoying. I don’t have a problem with some of the characters running around in what amounts to bikinis (though I find it stupid and impractical), but WHY HAVE THEY ALL GOT GIANT BOOBS?! Like just what the heck? There’s more fanservice here than in the anime in my opinion. Ripple is one of my favorite characters in this series, and while she does have a pretty revealing outfit, she didn’t seem particularly...”sexy” in the anime. At least not to me. In the manga she’s drawn differently, her little bikini top covers less, and it really bugs me. I know I probably sound touchy but just...why? WHY.
Lastly...Snow White is boring. Her friend La Pucelle is much more interesting. And then s/he gets killed off way too soon. And I am very disappointed Nemurin was the first to die since she is another favorite of mine.
So. Anyways. I still like Nemurin, Ripple, and Alice best. Alice is the epitome of creepy-cute, just saying.
Would I recommend this? I don’t think so, not unless you LOVED the anime, and aren’t irritated by fanservice like I am. The manga feels rushed to me. I still want to read the light novel because I can’t help hoping it is better. While I don’t like the fanservicey mess AT ALL, I do think the characters’ faces are drawn very nicely. That part I like.
If you pick up this series, just go into it expecting a death game with magical girls and nothing more, nothing less. There’s a wide range of character personalities, so there will definitely be a few you like. Just don’t expect major character development and don’t be disappointed when some or all of your favorite characters die.
Sadly it has the same problem, if not worse. There are scenes missing that were in the anime. A few things were in a different order which is totally fine, but the Magical Girl Raising Project manga does not fix my main issue with the series. Considering this volume covers half the show, I can’t imagine the second volume fixing it either. I want more character development!
...also the fanservicey stuff is stinking annoying. I don’t have a problem with some of the characters running around in what amounts to bikinis (though I find it stupid and impractical), but WHY HAVE THEY ALL GOT GIANT BOOBS?! Like just what the heck? There’s more fanservice here than in the anime in my opinion. Ripple is one of my favorite characters in this series, and while she does have a pretty revealing outfit, she didn’t seem particularly...”sexy” in the anime. At least not to me. In the manga she’s drawn differently, her little bikini top covers less, and it really bugs me. I know I probably sound touchy but just...why? WHY.
Lastly...Snow White is boring. Her friend La Pucelle is much more interesting. And then s/he gets killed off way too soon. And I am very disappointed Nemurin was the first to die since she is another favorite of mine.
So. Anyways. I still like Nemurin, Ripple, and Alice best. Alice is the epitome of creepy-cute, just saying.
Would I recommend this? I don’t think so, not unless you LOVED the anime, and aren’t irritated by fanservice like I am. The manga feels rushed to me. I still want to read the light novel because I can’t help hoping it is better. While I don’t like the fanservicey mess AT ALL, I do think the characters’ faces are drawn very nicely. That part I like.
If you pick up this series, just go into it expecting a death game with magical girls and nothing more, nothing less. There’s a wide range of character personalities, so there will definitely be a few you like. Just don’t expect major character development and don’t be disappointed when some or all of your favorite characters die.
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