Chapter 29:

[Manga Review] - Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. (Magilumiere)

Am I losing Interest in Writing?


This is my review of a manga called Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. (Magilumiere)
(Spoiler ahead)

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It's been a while since I finished a manga, and dang, I'm glad to finish this one.
This is probably one of my anticipated Tuesday night reads. It's really fun to see this company's journey from just a small company to one of the most recognizable ones. I am glad it ended with such amazing notes that brought you back to the beginning of the series. Now I can't wait for season 2 of the anime. I know it's coming.

How did I find this?
It was literally the first manga I discovered when I first used the MangaPlus app.

Appealing (Why did I get into the anime?)
Magical girl in the workplace.
Idk if there was a concept like this before this series, but I've always known that the magical girl genre always shows the teenage girl as the hero and not the adults. If there were, this is my first exposure to an adult magical girl story, and I was there for it.

Platform
I've mentioned MangaPlus, but I believe it is also available on Bookwalker and Amazon Kindle. I'm not too sure. 
Edit: I just saw the MAL page of this manga. Apparently, Manga Mirai, the new online book provider, has it too. So, you can buy it from there also.

The review;
Story/plot
A woman in search of a job for weeks ended up not getting any. Then she met with a magical girl, and that magical girl said she was worthy to be a magical girl. Hmm, I'm feeling deja vu here. (MHA)
And thus the story began, the woman, Kana Sakuragi, who thinks she is not worthy to be anything, suddenly gets a job at Magilumiere as a magical girl to save people's lives.
See! This is like one of the unique takes on the magical girl genre. I never even heard about an adult magical girl, let alone a magical girl job. That's a very interesting premise, right?

Illustration
Not too bad, but also not too insanely amazing. There were some scenes that went hard, but that was like one or two times. So, for that, I'm just going to give 2 thumbs up to the Illustrator. Well done, Yuu Aoki sensei, good job on the illustration.

Characters
Man, the characters in this manga go hard. Their arc is one of the most exciting things I've ever read. Like our beloved CEO, Shigemoto, I love this man so much. He's such a sweetheart, and I can relate to him so much.
Then, Manao. Man, this guy is a menace, but then when you finally read his motivation to be this evil guy, then you realize, man just wants to be noticed, but got shut down multiple times. If only he had been noticed, and someone had considered him to be a magical girl. He wouldn't become this evil. Such a tragic character. (And yes, I'm sorry for the spoiler. But you should already have seen that I put a spoiler warning, so why did you read this?)

Proportions of the manga
This is a nitpick, so take it with a grain of salt. I hate it whenever they explain a scene, like the whole page just a wall of text. I needed to postpone reading it and read it when I woke up, so I would understand the context fully. My brain was about to shut down, but then suddenly, BAM! A wall of text.
Like I said, this is just a nitpick. It doesn't matter to people who read it in their afternoon or morning. It's just personal problems. 😂

Conclusion
The good
I am so happy to read this manga from the beginning to the end.
The bad
This is probably the only manga in this genre that I would find. Idk though. Maybe in the future there will be more.

Gratitude
Thanks, MangaPlus, for providing this manga to read for free. Though I have already become their deluxe member, I still want to thank them for providing this for people to read for free.

Overall 8.9/10
Would recommend, especially for people who want to read an adult magical girl story.

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