Favorite Magical Girl Anime!
Kind of a spiritual successor to My Favorite Anime Series (you can look at this page and that list under the Navigation Page above).
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Midyear Freakout Tag. 2026 Edition
I do this tag every year sometime in June. Check out my answers for the previous years on the Navigation page! 1. Best book you read so far this year? I've got two: The Witch Who Chases the Sun by Dawn Chen and Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura 2. Best sequel you read so far this year? Amari and the Metalwork Menace by BB Alston and Under All the Lights by Maya Ameyaw. 3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to. Smash or Pass by Birdie Schae 4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year. This is actually a revised edition of a book originally published in 2009, but The Diaries of Emily the Strange: The Lost Days is coming out in September 2026. Another one is the second book of the Kiki's Delivery Service series (yes, it's a whole series) titled Kiki and the New Magic . The author is Eiko Kadono. The book was originally published in Japanese back in 1993 and getting an English release i...
I READ THE MADOKA MAGICA MANGA FOR THE FIRST TIME!
It's such a great feeling when you finally get around to reading a popular manga you've know about for a long time, and end up liking it! This is the omnibus edition (they combined all the manga volumes into one big one). Puella Magi Madoka Magica by Magical Quartet is about teenage girl Madoka, who gets pulled into a magical girl contract by a mysterious creature named Kyubey. The contract guarantees that one wish of theirs will be granted, but they have to fight these monsters called "witches" in order to maintain balance in the universe. Madoka wishes to protect everyone she loves. Madoka's best friend Sayaka gets pulled into to a contract, too, and she wishes to see her childhood friend Kyousuke get better after an accident. While this is all going on, a mysterious girl named Homura keeps showing up and tries to get the girls (mostly Madoka) to stop doing magical girl duties. Well, the girls find out very quickly part of the reason why that is. The...