Mahou Shoujo Kazumi Magica the Innocent Malice chapter 19

SEE! Clearly this will be a happy manga. Proof is in the smiles. XD

Must make more posts! XO Must finish a great many things in....3 hours! In three short hours 2012 will be gone forever folks. And judging by the sounds of it most of my neighborhood might be blown up by tomorrow dude to all the fireworks going off. X___X So while I try to concentrate with EXPLOSIONS....here is another exciting chapter in Lets Kill Some Girls. Or Mahou Shoujo Kazumi Magica the Innocent Malice. We are already up to chapter 19 ya'll. ENJOY!

What do you mean you don't want to join me?!

Chapter 19 starts off with Kanna cackling her evil plot. Because all baddies have to cackle. Sometimes my husband practices his evil laugh just to scare the crap out of me but I am pretty sure that doesn't matter. XD But yes Kanna happily tells Kazumi that soon they will be the real humans and these nasty girls will be gone. But Kazumi is like no. Calmly says no. At this point I might be crying or losing my mind. But all that Kazumi has seen she is able to keep it together and say that she wants to be with Kaoru and Umika. Kanna tries to point out HELLO they are using you as a replacement. But Kazumi insists that they are actual friends even if it started out as something else.

Clearly Kanna thinks they need a lesson in suffering.

Kazumi uses her own powers to break free from her confinement. Kaoru and Umika try to comfort her but Kazumi is slowly turning into a witch herself. In the blink of an eye this tight group has been reduced to 3 members. The original Nico clearly died during the battle with Ayase so the actual count is down to 3. Kanna starts getting upset when Umika and Kaoru try to tell Kanna that she is a real girl too even if she came into the world by different means. I understand Kanna is going to be pissed with those words, that since they are “real” they really can't say anything and to shut their mouths. But I can see why Umika and Kaoru want to be reassuring and explain why they “made” these girls.

Umika (or at least I think it was Umika as the art gets a little fuzzy at points) explains that she does know what they did was a hot mess and horrible. It wasn't a fairytale but done to bring back their friend Michuri and to save themselves. Which makes sense. Their friend Michuri was just killed and they became magical girls because of her. I wouldn't have been surprised if there was a mass witchy that night with all of them losing their mind. But they made Kazumi to protect themselves from the awful truth of everything and to remind themselves there has to be hope. Perhaps it started off with Kazumi being a replacement Michuri but this time I think it truly was a real friendship with Kazumi #13.

Something tells me that they don't got this....

Kanna is not pleased that her fake magical friend is not down for the fun and mayhem. She doesn't believe they are made with love so they should bond over this fact. Kanna shows everyone what she has up her sleeve. She has the ability to use other people's magic as Umika can basically do the same thing. It becomes a bit special what with the borrowing people's powers and using their attacks and oh look pages of fighting. Basically it is a two on one fight but the one has more power because...well because she is the baddie.

Did I mention that Kazumi is looking really, really bad?

Kazumi is watching the whole fight and is feeling horrible. Can't blame the girl. It is either her fault for existing or will be her fault because she can't do anything. Or at least that is what Kazumi will think. Because even if she is a created/fake human she is still Japanese and everything is your fault. Turning into a witch will definitely be her fault and her friends turning into witches will be her fault. Kanna probably trying to get Kazumi on her side is Kazumi's fault. Kazumi feels the at faultness and tries to get up despite the fact she is quickly turning into a witch.

You know that you are dying right dude?

Kazumi and her swirling face aren't doing so great. Neither are Umika and Kaoru as they are using tons of their magic up on fighting Kanna. Oh yes that creature remember him? The thing that can clean dirty soul gems? An Incubator that can actually help magical girls? We need your power now! But when Jubey leaps to help....he starts to fall into pieces and basically turns to crumbs. Oh....so the creepy animal that can help us just died. How can any of this get any worse?

Good thing we are remembering these crucial things NOW!

As Umika and Kaoru sit there upset that their Jubey has....well splatted Kyubey shows up. I am sensing another bombshell folks. Anytime this cat (as a turn of phrase) shows up really bad things happen. He hasn't showed up much in this series, just a few times when Jubey was around. Other than that the two haven't been working together despite the fact they are from the same race and should be connected. Oh and the towns they are in are close together. But yes Kyubey is on the scene and the girls slowly start to remember...wait a minute...grief seeds clean our soul gems, not Jubey. Fine time to start remembering that. 

Kanna is actually a baddie that takes advantage of situations and is like TIME TO ATTACK while the attacking is good. I hate it when baddies spend so much time talking when they could be splatting. She orders the Witch Saki to attack all of the girls. I guess she is tired of Kazumi already. Or maybe she thinks that she can change Kazumi back if she gets turned into a witch. Or that a witch Kazumi would be fun. Either way get them Witch Saki! 

Only some anime magic has taken place. See sometimes when people get turned into monsters they still say themselves. There is a tiny bit left of them so they can protect the ones left behind. In this case Saki loves Kazumi/Michuri so much she is able to kill herself before hurting the others. It is a bit special but given all that has happened in this show maybe it isn't that much of a stretch. But this is just one more thing to show Kanna that the power of friendship can save people in the end. It doesn't have to be all doom and gloom...even though that is all that has gone on with this series. But still a sign to Kanna that they weren't wrong in their thinking.

Hey....maybe things won't end AS terribly as I thought. Maybe only 4 girls will die. And then Madoka resets it all.

Chapter 19 ends with Saki's other reason for killing herself being revealed. Now that Kaoru and Umika remember what really cleans soul gems she can give herself a gift to Kazumi. A grief seed doesn't always fall with a down witch but Saki turned into a special grief seed. Complete with ribbons! And despite the fact that Kaoru and Umika have very dirty soul gems they know what Saki was trying to say. Save Kazumi. Everyone else can die but if they can save Kazumi then it will be all worth it. The power of friendship...to be continued!

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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

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Mahou Shoujo Kazumi Magica- the Innocent Malice chapters 15-17

X__X It has been a while since my last manga post hasn’t it? I am such a slacker. :( What happened to me blogging Legal Drug? Such a bad CLAMP fan.

Look at all the happy!

But the reason why Mahou Shoujo Kazumi Magica- the Innocent Malice hasn’t been blogged in a while is ….no one was translating it. Not sure what happened, maybe real life things got in the way. But recently someone has stepped up and started catching up with the chapters. Which is a good thing because I was turning into a crazy person refreshing the page every day. So without further ado…chapters 15-17 WEEE!

Yay for Satomi saving everyone!!!!!.....

Satomi is still made of crazy. She was cackling when she thought she killed Kazumi and the last clone but surprise Kazumi absorbed that clone too. Kazumi starts walking towards Satomi who freaks out saying witches can’t touch her. Well that might not work as her Soul Gem cracks and she turns into a hairdryer witch. So…so special these witches. I saw something today that reminded me of a Mahou Insert Name Her Magica witch but now I forget what it was. I think it was on cake wrecks, the Sunday edition with the good steampunk cakes. I forget though.

Wft is that?!

Kazumi tries to avoid the now Satomized witch and she turns…sorta into her magical girl self. I say sorta as she looks like a cracked out octopus. I think it is safe to say the good times are official over. Until Madoka shows up and then things will only sorta suck. See Kazumi, wasn’t it better when you had no memories at all?

Aw I am here to eat your soul.

Kazumi ends up fighting a bunch of Satomi familiar which are little tiny critters. Kazumi quickly makes work of them and reveals the “real” Satomi witch. A cute little bunny thing. It might have been cuter had Kazumi’s eyes not been so insane.

Oh hi just passing out despair people. XD

At this point Mirai has arrived to take care of the Saki and her magical growing hair. When they reach Kazumi she is bashing Satomi against a wall. She thought or was bashing the cute bunny thing against the wall but when the other girls arrive it is Satomi the human. I am not sure what this means. Was Kazumi seeing things and it was easier for her to think it was a witch she was bashing against the wall? Like the witch process was stopped before it happened. That makes more sense that Kazumi being able to reverse the progress somehow. Either way I am sure Saki and Mirai were traumatized.

A giant mess that needs to be destroyed?

Saki makes the grand mistake of referring to Kazumi as Michuri. Very bad idea indeed. Also Saki is a little insane herself right? Making fake Kazumis all to pretend she is her dead friend? I mean it is awful her friend died but continuing to do all of this is just as awful and creepy. In any event Kazumi starts screaming she is Kazumi and asks the others when they finally arrive. Right?! She isn’t totally made from witch meat?! Because at this point there might be a sliver of hope….

Emotions are bad right Nico?

When Kazumi doesn’t get the answers she wants she runs away. Obviously. The other girls meet up and have a weird meeting. The first part of the meeting makes a great deal of sense. It is Saki blaming herself for not killing the clones off and everyone else says it is their fault since they knew how close Saki was to Michuri. That is petty suck ass of them all. They make the Kazumis together they should kill them together. But then the conversation got weird. Nico the ever…calm one is like what are we going to with all these dead girls? Cause we ain’t got enough magic. Ah Nico…so matter of fact. Who needs emotions right? It is decided that they will not stop making Michiru clones but what to do with Kazumi? Can they really give this story an unhappy ending? If Mirai has were way then yes. Yes they can.

Well hello there nonimportant character...

Somewhere on a tall building Kazumi is thinking about how much her life sucks. Or what she thought was her life. I am surprised she didn’t throw herself off the building. I would have at this point. No no now it is time for Misako the cop to return. Remember her? Well for some reason she finds Kazumi and decides to take her somewhere safe. Kazumi is relieved to learn the cop has no memories of the evil nut incident but learns that Misako is actually following up on cases of missing girls. Guess what missing girls those are.

And she's hungry. Can't forgot THAT part.

Things start to get slightly interesting, with Misako talking about how the missing girls sent text messages right before disappearing. Kazumi realizes the messages were about them but different words were used. But before things could get down to the point Kazumi starts crying about how she has nothing and woe is her. Which you know….makes sense. Oh and Kazumi decides she is hungry. Because after all she has gone through she decides it is meal time.

Good thing we are tying that in so late in the game.

Being that it is bring back the useless characters day Misako takes Kazumi to Tachibana’s restaurant. Who puts butter in coffee? Excuse me while I gag. But that is not the point of this trp. While Kazumi sleeps Misako explains why she is a detective. When she was in middle school her best friend went missing and there were never any leads. I wonder what could have happened to her.

What a cute costume AND little sister.

Much to my surprise on the very next page Misako talks about magical girls. I thought this was going to be a talk with adults clued out of this world. But no the best friend’s little sister mumbled something about magical girls at the time and it has stuck with Misako to this day. Of course this has made Misako the laughing stock of the police department which would explain why she is so desperate to prove herself. I don’t know, I guess it is nice for once that some adults have a bit of an idea on what the heck is going on. Tachibana listens like a good little side character and wishes that magic was real too. 

Cut to Kazumi taking a shower with swirls all over her body. Good thing they aren’t anywhere visible or people would be asking questions right? She has been at Tachibana’s place for over a week and has been pretty depressed. Tachibana then gives Kazumi something that Kaoru dropped off. Michiru’s diary. Kazumi flips through it and sees all the fun times Michiru and the others had and that Michiru felt guilty for making all the girls into magical girls aka young witches.

See all these memories that aren't yours? Don't you feel better?!

Then Kaoru says they are going to try again to create a Michiru and Satomi and do to that Kazumi has to die. At first I was like WFT way to be insane Kaoru. But then Kaoru redeems herself and says that she will let Kazumi run away and will kill the others to protect her. Okay maybe that part is still a bit insane but at least Kaoru is giving her a heads up, recognizing that Kazumi deserves to live. I don’t know if I believe that completely as Kazumi keeps on turning into a witch….might be too dangerous to let go. In any event Kazumi is touched by this note and asks Tachibana to make her favorite meal. Well Michiru’s favorite meal. Then she bids him farewell before she contacts the rest of the Pleiades Saints. Hopefully Tachibana will get his memories erased because that is slightly traumatizing.

Bringer of happiness!!!!

Instead of running away like Kaoru suggested Kazumi…summons the rest of the girls to the freezer. Show up or I will turn the frozen girls into witches. Now I would like to think that Kazumi is still…well sane. She might not be human but she has feelings and emotions and has read Michiru’s diary. Surely she wouldn’t do that to another girl so it was a bluff right?

Okay Ms. Crazypants....

But Kazumi did have a crazy look on her face when she started talking to the girls. Don’t lie to me anymore or else! She has an important question though. Why did all the other clones have Michiru’s memories and not her? Seems like a very good question if you ask me. If they wanted a Michiru clone it would only make sense to give her the memories. Otherwise it just be someone who looked like Michiru right? 

Different girls take turns explaining that the other clones with memories would start going insane in battle and turning into witches. They took it as a sign that they should stop with the memory part of the clone process. Maybe they should have stopped…the clone process all together? I mean CLEARLY after the 3rd clone things were not going to go right and maybe they should stop. Just saying folks. Everyone is crazy.

Maybe next time it will work out guys!!!!

After learning all of this Kazumi tells the other girls that they can’t allow any girls to die in despair. That no matter how many times it takes to bring back Michiru and Satomi. Again…not following the logic here. Things are not going well with all the other clones so why would Kazumi want this to keep happening? We get it. Hope. But you ain’t Madoka. But just as she is talking about hope…she tells all the girls to start over without her and turns herself into a partial witch. How is that for hope?

Kazumi, as she is transforming into witch, asks everyone if they really could have been friends had she been born a human. Twist that knife in further. Kaoru is the first victim of witch Kazumi. She hits the wall rather hard and is out for a while. Saki is one of the first transform and the girls start the attack on witch Kazumi. It is pretty awful, knowing these girls were all such close friends and now they have been reduced to this. A very paper thin alliance that is falling apart by the second.

The power of love folks...

Oh speaking of alliances falling apart…Kaoru gets up and starts fighting Saki. Or at least trying to stop Saki. Is she doing what she promised to Kazumi, killing the others to protect Kazumi? Nope. Turns out she realized that Kazumi turned herself into a witch on purpose, knowing the other girls wouldn’t kill her if she still looked human. This news is not very comforting to Saki who slowly starts to lose her mind. But despite it all Saki still thinks it is her job to kill Kazumi and is just about to when….

Now do you love me Saki?!?!?!

Remember the insane Mirai? Yeah she is still in love with Saki. So she takes out her gun…I mean sharp weapon thingy and slices Kazumi Witch in half. Now this probably had to be done, should have done. But maybe in a more…gentle manner. With tears in her eyes and not going HAHAH you is in a way. Especially if you want Saki to survive the night.

Oh look a hero. This will last ten seconds....

Oh but this chapter is not over yet folks. The dead Kazumi witch…is a Nico doll. And earlier when Nico got injured in battle. That was a Nico doll too. She is briefly a hero by revealing that she has trapped the real Kazumi like all other magical girls on the brink of dying. Yay Nico!!!

Raise your hand if you are NOT a witch okay?!

Then 5 seconds later she proves that she is insane too. Or not who she says she is. Nico sends out another doll to rush over to Saki who wasn’t handling the death of Kazumi Witch well despite the fact she is not dead. This is the breaking point for Saki, who has been through quite a lot. Her Soul Gem starts to break and the Nico doll decides to quicken the process by shoving an Evil Nut in her forehead. Now Nico might be lacking in the emotion department at times but a killer? Oh snap why is Nico mumbling something about not letting the “humans” kill Saki? Wait what do you mean that is all the chapters we have for now?! Don’t leave me!!!!!!

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