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Just a while ago, "Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Gaiden" has officially EoS'd after seven years and four main arcs; it had one fucking run. Most of you have likely only heard of it, since it's not as famous as the main series, and gacha games aren't famous for their story.
What makes this worthwhile telling for me is that, when I first saw Iroha, I immediately thought 'muh Madoka OC donut steel' and decided to ignore the whole thing for three years. The main series had left a nice Madoka-shaped hole in me and I didn't want to soil its memory. With all the new Star Wars movies coming out at the moment, which sucked absolute fucking ass (and I shall not respect your opinions in this matter) I felt entitled to simply ignore it and move on.
I had never been so wrong in my entire life.
So, so wrong. Guys, you have NO idea. Beware: little story time coming.
Come the pandemic, my brother couldn't handle the city anymore and so he came to my little house near the beach. He didn't know jack-shit about Magical Girls and to this day he finds the whole thing cringe and kinda pedo, but yet he insisted that I see it, simple because he thought that I would like it. Given that he was going through a very rough patch (he was having a panic attack every day), and that there wasn’t exactly much more to do getting the pox, I agreed just to please him. We saw the anime. Then, I was so fucked beyond my mind that we saw the whole gacha game story together. Long story short, I haven't gone a day without thinking about this story since then, and I cared so much about it that I spent a full year away from it all just to let the translators catch up on Arc 2. As you might have guessed, that was the year of Meguca Royale BA.
So why am I saying all this and in proper grammar, besides to cope inhumanly hard? Because Magia Record was something that I didn't like and I didn't want to see, something I thought as cringe and fanservicey that I felt smart for avoiding. A fiction that today, after 30 years watching cult anime, reading wikis, and reading the serious books of the smart fuckers, remains the most serious and heartfelt universe I was lucky enough to witness, and even now I still have trouble believing it exists- a story about little girls in frilly dresses shooting pink fucking arrows and talking about friendship all the time.
Don't let 'cringe' or shame blind you. There's no telling how much you could lose.
So in short I’ll write a little extra something to both honor and mourn this cheap gacha game with horrendous gameplay. Thanks for reading.
