Mahou Shoujo Kazumi Magica the Innocent Malice chapter 18

Hello there my lovely readers! Happy New Year's Eve. Even though in some parts of the country it is New Years Day. As usually I had plans for the day and they got a little bit off track with random other things. Which is okay since I am going to work on being more spontaneous and getting as much done as possible during other times to make room for said spontaneous times. Plus I obviously need to buy more Christmas ornaments DUH! XD

I see that I have not blogged about Mahou Shoujo Kazumi Magica in a while. So maybe I should try to blog about that before the series ends. The way things are going that might be in a few more chapters. So lets get back into the swing of things and read about girls dying all over the place shall we?

Um so Nico.....whatyadoing?

When we last saw our heroes things were not looking good for Saki. Nico has trapped Kazumi in a tube to protect her from the other girls while Mirai is slowly losing her mind. Things went from bad to really bad in a blink of an eye for these girls. Of course this is what readers were expecting right? With Madoka as the model how could things end with kisses and rainbows? In fact I think Kazumi Magica is trying to out do the horror in Madoka. So for now lets assume everything is going to be horrible shall we?

Me thinks it is a bit too late for that.

Mirai begs Jubey to heal Saki, to clean her soul gem. Nico has sped up the witch process so Jubey is like um no she is dead dude. Since Mirai is in love with Saki and was going to kill Kazumi to protect Saki she clings to her and cry as the other girls (which are few in numbers by now) look on. There is a brief scene of Mirai thinking back to when she and Saki first became magical girls. Apparently one of the reasons why Mirai didn't have any friends is because she used male pronouns. Saki smiles and says she did that too and they can be the same. Now I really don't find anything odd with that but I am not Japanese so what do I know? But I think it would be like talking in the third person in English. Would it be annoying/special all the time? Yes. But that wouldn't stop me from being friends with anyone. Poor Mirai as Saki is turned into a witch.

Looks slightly familiar....

And by poor Mirai I really mean poor Mirai. Yeah the girl was a bit mentally unstable and maybe her powers kinda sucked compared to everyone else's. But....she went out like Mami. Apparently if your name starts with an M your head will get bitten off. I thought it was a bit....lame since they already used that death before. When Mami died it was a real shock as Mirai's was meant to be gory. Still it is sad. Mirai holds the dead Saki as she says she loves her and off with her head.

Can someone explain what the hell is going on here?!

The only magical girls left are Kazumi, Kaoru, and Umika. Fitting as those are the two girls that “found” Kazumi at the beginning of the series. The other girls were just fillers. Kaoru and Umika are the real deal. XD Okay I kid I kid. But I think it was obvious who was going to be last to die in this bloodbath. Kazumi seems to be under the protection of Nico so that leaves Kaoru and Umika to fight the Saki witch. Only...Nico is able to stop the witch with magic? Just what is going on here folks?!

Time for a boom shell folks! The real reason behind the evil nuts and all the other magical girls going crazy is explained. Remember how we never heard of her wish before? Well we all know that Nico had a gun accident when she was a kid and killed two people. She became a withdrawn girl playing the what if game. What if that never happened? What kind of person would I be? What would my life be like?

Perhaps Nico should have left town...but then she couldn't look in on Kanna.

So when Jubey rolled into town that is what Nico wished for. That her imaginary self would become real. And this girl, Kanna, was born. She was raised in a normal family and had a perfect like lalaing all the way home. But since this is a Madoka spinoff the good times were not to last forever. One day Kanna came across the real Nico after fighting a wish. Of course Jubey was nearby to break the news to Kanna because he is lovely and evil that way.

And then a crazy was born.

You really have to hand it to Jubey. He just tells the truth but the words he uses cut so deep. He makes Kanna feel like a doll, that Nico was just using her to experience happiness in the world. Which could be true. But without Nico Kanna would not exist at all. Kanna was living a happy life and had she gone on not knowing the truth who would it be hurting? But since the truth was slowly being exposed Jubey made sure to twist that knife into a young girl's heart.

Seems like the logical course of action......

And the rest is magical girl history of course. Because when someone finds out the truth about something awful the truth finder takes the path of most pain to solve said issue. Now I can understand being upset. I wouldn't want to exist just to be an organ donor/bone marrow transplant to an older sibling. I wouldn't want to exist so someone could get more out of their trust fund. The list goes on and on. But after dealing with all the pain and hurt I would think that I would move on with my life. Maybe be angry but certainly say HEY this is my life and I am going to live it out the best I can, even I came into this world by special means. But since this is magical girl world obviously Kanna wants to become a magical girl so she can kill Nico, even if that means killing herself. DUH!

This all makes perfect sense of course.

The episode ends with Kanna explaining how she used Airi and Ayase in her evil plans. Because Kanna originally just wanted to destroy Nico. But after Kazumi was made Nico became even more angry. I can see her point of view, in thinking that the girls were having power over life and death and were using their powers to make fake people without thinking how that would affect said fake people. “Fake people” obviously. The whole reason behind that was to make all the girls use too much magic so she could create an army of witches. Because Nico wants to become a real human and to do that she needs to kill all the “regular humans”. X____X Well how is that for logic? It gets a bit iffy talking about why Airi took the suitcase full of Kazumi and the names but overall that was a LONG chapter with many WFT moments. Guess I will have to continue this is another post. XO