Smile!
In Magia Record's re-run of the Nagisa's Wish event, Yuu has at long last been given a canon design, and she's adorable.
In the past, I drew a design for her myself (here, and here) based on the old silhouette they used and I talked a bit then about the similarities I saw between her and Nagisa's appearances. Have a look at those for context if you'd like, because I'm going to revisit that again here with her new look. Below the cut ↓
To start with, some of the things I pointed out on Yuu's silhouette as being shared with Nagisa's magical girl outfit did not survive to her final appearance, such as the fuzz around the edge of her neck frill, the shorts she wears, and the bows along her tails and across her frill.
Though the tails themselves which I compared to the pompoms hanging from Nagisa's hat did survive, that alone isn't enough to draw a connection.
So it seems unlikely that when Nagisa made her wish, her appearance was influenced by Yuu being the first and only magical girl she'd met up to that point.
We can scrap that idea.
However, the parts of Yuu that I noted as resembling Nagisa's witch form, Charlotte... those do still hold up. When you look closely at Yuu, she has rings in her eyes which aren't present when she isn't transformed, and we now know that she uses her horn as her weapon.
Charlotte has a pure white face and a split open mouth, like Nagisa's mother described her killer. This is the strongest piece of evidence which the rest of it is built upon.
Charlotte attacks with her face as well.
And admittedly, perhaps reaching a little here, Charlotte as a worm has a cone-shaped pointy nose that might resemble Yuu's horn.
They also just both have clown energy.
Huh. Looking at these pictures I'm now wondering if I could draw a comparison between Charlotte's head wings and the bundles of cloth hanging from either side of Yuu's head.
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Yuu was instrumental in Nagisa's transformation over the course of the story, from someone accepting of the abuse she experienced every day into a person seeking to cut ties with her family and create her own freedom, and then Yuu played the part of the person who mistakenly took Nagisa's agency away from her at the end which is what tipped Nagisa over the edge, so I like the idea a lot that Nagisa's grief made manifest from that event took a form that recognises the significance of the Sleepwalking Ghost.
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According to the original JP text for Beachside Bonds, Yuu and Kei were 18 when they attempted suicide, and it's been a few years since then. This means that Yuu is in her 20s now.
I am so glad that one of our rare few adult magical girls is this towering indestructible unicorn vigilante with a single braincell who has survived for years not because of emotional resilience, but because the wish she made at 18 has made her so forgetful that she's physically incapable of worrying. Yuu is out here gaming the system and having a good time doing it.
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HEY if anyone out there has a madoka magica/magia record OC they’d like to see drawn, I’ve got the urge to draw some magical girls. No promises as to which OCs I will or won’t draw (probably depends on if anyone submits anything) but if you have a meguca you made feel free to show me their design and a short description of personality (for expression and posing), and I’ll try and whip up something fun, even if it’s just a sketch :3
And also I just like seeing other madoka magica OCs
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Took a shot at Morfine’s magical witch. I definitely wanted her to be on all fours cause Yuu kills it. But she can stand on two legs and look horrifying too <3
I didnt feel like colouring but I want her to be bright, ugly and clashing. Her weapon will be acidic spit, I suppose her insides are strong enough to resist it
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Doppel Description: Iroha Tamaki
Giovanna
Doppel of Silence
Calling Bird Shaped
The master of this emotion is aware of how pitiful her Doppel is, and refuses to look at it. This Doppel wordlessly wraps around and strangles anything it doesn't want to hear as it continues its search for something to fill the hole in its heart. While it should be calling for someone, it is cowardly and afraid of acknowledging the reality it has concealed, and so it remains, silently covering its ears.
Translator: NA Localization
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i've seen ppl say mami would look good in cottagecore bc of her colors, and i don't disagree, but y'all are seriously sleeping on dark academia mami
anyway, pmmm au where everything is the same except that one grown-up mami manga isn't weird and it's about her being a fiftysomething veteran academic librarian studying...genealogy...or some shit? i feel like helping people find out about their family history would be important to her, idk
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The event "From There to You" (Aka the new apartment trio event) was translated by an anonymous individual, and they're currently looking for reviews!
BST had this to say for what the anonymous translator is looking for specifically,
"...aside from whatever's noted directly in the document, the translator has asked for feedback on the usual spelling and grammar concerns, and also on continuity with the names - some places or characters are introduced early on but don't get a proper name until later, so we gotta make sure they're all lined up properly."
Let's help the Apartment Trio get their event fully up to snuff and able to be put into the Rayshift app-- and then recorded for all to see!
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Don't often talk about relating to MagiReco characters if ever, but Yuu really got my number.
Constantly forgetting what we're saying in the middle of saying it
Perpetually living in a state of now
Frequently worrying if you're a bad person or not
Wanting to forget the past and everything you've done wrong
I could go on, but I won't. Definite S tier character for me.
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