Mahou Shoujo Site

Came in reading this because if was interesting. But Jesus Christ what the fuck? This is absolutely fucking insane. I don't even really know how to spoil it if I wanted because I was just left confused a lot. Some crazy shit right here. But yeah overall it was pretty good. I think one flaw I have with it though is (Might be spoilers??? Idk, I'll just put it really far down in case)









You need to be read the spin offs and other work in order to truly understand this. I wish I was told that sooner, but I only learned that when I was quite a bit into the manga because there were characters from the other Mahou Shoujo mangas.

I've been reading this manga for years, and it started off with some potential. Over time though, it went downhill.

The manga started off as an edgy magical girl series about Asagiri Aya and and how unfortunate she was. It continues with her journey of learning about the magical stick and learning more about the magical girl site. Once they introduced the tempest, it was interesting, but the interest faded away through out the years because the idea of the tempest was introduced so early in the series, but it wasn't a plot until the end.

The amount of characters through out the series is insane. I couldn't keep up with the characters, especially in the end of the series. Though the manga had new chapters weekly, it felt like it took forever to convey the message.

The ending was one of the worst I've ever read. It just felt so rushed and made little sense. The actions the characters took was not explained well and made me confused every week.

Overall, I would not recommend this, especially if you're looking for something with a good story.

This author has a thing for mahou shoujos and extremelly disgusting characters. I found Mahou Shoujo Site after reading Mahou Shoujo of the End. The similarities: a lot of gore, a twisted vision of mahou shoujos and one extremely disgusting character.

While MSotE relies a lot of on its very complicated plot and gore scenes (being a trully horror manga), MSSis all about the characters and their developments. The plot (at least so far) is a lot simplier and less dramatic and the characters are overall way more likeable. There is also way less gore. However, its very enigmatic as well. Why are they given the wands to become mahou shoujos? Whats the tempest really about? Why men can become mahou shoujos as well? Whats the real intentions behind the sites admins? And what are they?

The art style is decent. He know how to draw in cute way for cute moments, and how to change the style into something darker for the twisted moments. However, like in MSotE, he just cant draw a sexy woman body. They all look weird when waring more showing clothes, maybe its intentional.

It's an overall extremelly enjoyable manga. I've read all the currently available chapters in one go.If you're into darker stories and art ( i'm currently all about these), this manga is for you.

**spoiler warning**

The idea/concept is really nice, but all the writing is very horrible and overall disgusting.

Who makes the protagonist and love-interest lesbians and fall in love, only 50-100 chapters in to reveal that they are blood-related twins? Are we romanticizing incest now? Is literally everyone just ignoring that they're twin sisters??

Next is the male characters, I gotta be honest there is no positive male character that isnt disgusting at all. Most of the men are all abusive. Every gay male character was seen as a sexual harasser/rapist. And the only black man in the ENTIRE manga is shown to be a pedophilic gay rapist. And the way he's drawn uses racist stereotypes which is not good!!!

The nongay male character, Aya's brother? Sexually abused her. And he was redeemed at the end. Why was he redeemed?? Why are we supposed to sympathize with a sexually abusive brother who apparently has a god complex?

And the boy who had a crush on Aya in the beginning of the manga?? That was her actual blood-related father in disguise!! What! Why would you write that!

The only good thing about this manga was making one of the main characters a transgirl. She's seen as a girl and not a boy. Her best friend genders her correctly and so does her mom. Her mom is accepting and loving. I didnt like that she was used for the "only boys can defeat the King" but she didnt defeat the king as another magical girl used a sex-change magical girl ability to defeat the king.

Shit writing!!! Excessive usage of shock means that the writer hasnt thought out or fleshed out the story good enough, and has to resort to shock value.

Oh man. How do i even begin in expressing my thoughts regarding this story ? As in like, regarding ALL of it ?

This manga story was picturing itself as the NEXT Puella Magi Madoka Magica but in reality, this manga is the magical girl equivalent of that Nutcracker movie. You know, the one where the rats are Nazis aka Nutcracker The Untold Story/3D.

There are many problems with the story.

1) I know humans are supposed to be evil as not each or every one of us is a perfect saint but is mankind really supposed to be THIS evil ??????

Most of the antagonists or in layman terms, villains, in OTHER more well-known magical girls are evil ENOUGH but the acts that these girls had to suffer through just seems like OVERKILL !!!

One has to wonder whether the creator of this manga feels DIRTY in writing or illustrating all of THIS !!!!

2) I know that this manga was considered by many right now as a contender to Puella Magi but i truly am sorry as i find this manga absolutely disgusting !!! All of the chapters are legitimately disgusting !!!!!

Seeing all of those cute and innocent young girls either turn into psychotic and insane monsters or losing their will to be happy and enjoy life just makes me sick to my stomach !!!!!

Also, the implied idea that other manga artists would be potentially inspired by this, as in like other people would want to replicate it, it's just.....just.....GAH !!!!!!!!!!

3) For a manga that's all about magical girls, people who read this complete story are NOT gonna think about young and cute teenage girls using magic to fight the bad guys and save the day !

They're just gonna think about all the terrible things that the worst of humanity are capable of doing !!!!!

Now, one might wanna argue that the creators of this manga are trying to take people into the darkest regions of humanity so that the happy scenes seem happier. A true vision and work of a great and up and coming artist.

But sadly, i find that the manga is coming across LESS like he wants to make the readers feel good and MORE like he just wants to stand out by using shock tactics.

4) I just wish that this manga and its related side story need to add a lot more substance to itself than just shock value.

Shock is nothing without some form of intelligence behind it, and that's what draws everyone in. I know that the author is not REALLY trying to draw "everyone" in. Only just the gifted few who can see how unique he is.

But honestly, by trying to be "unique" instead of being himself, he might be like everyone else trying to do the same.

Conclusion

While one might like to point out that the author just wanted to dive into the dark moments so that the happy moments seemed all the more important but judging from the content, i could see that the author didn't understand the happy moments. Heck, he didn't really understand the dark ones.

Shock value is fine if the purpose outweighs the offense. It's supposed to provoke the viewers, giving way to a positive idea or even make readers feel better by laughing at how shocking it is.

However, it takes a lot of thought and a lot of skill to pull off correctly. When you focus too much on the negative without really exploring or understanding it, you get something that makes people not only feel dumber but also kind of dirty. The intent to bring something positive gets lost in the need to make yourself feel important.

But honestly, the same can be said for also being TOO positive. That can come across as mockingly condescending. Somewhere in-between, there's a balance that's tricky to hold, but can still be accomplished.

How will one know what negative things and what positive things to focus on? Well, to be honest, i don't actually know the answer to that question.

But i DO know is that It's different to everyone. People always go through different experiences, so they're always inspired by different things. Even those things ALWAYS change. People, ideas, even places. Just always do your best and make an effort in trying to get inspired by those who understand said concepts better than you.

Before i dive into spoiler zone, here is a spoiler-less review of the story so far.

Story:

The story centers around magical girls who all become eligible to be made into one after living a life resembling a hell.
Now i know there is a lot of injustice happening all around the world, but if you consider level of cruelty and/or hardships these girls (from elementary up to high school age) must have gone through, plus the always increasing number of such ill-fated GIRLS, one might wonder what kind of f-d up world they live in?! (Story is set in modern japan)

Speaking of cruelty and various wrongdoings, the way the story shows these elements is simply non-believable! I've seen many sad, bullying-involved, abuse related stories, but there is a point when you feel bad for the character since the hardships they go through seem real, and then there's this story where cruelty is so over the top, it simply can not be left hidden or unnoticed! Yet here they do! And this once again makes you wonder if there is any justice and good left in this world! You hardly believe that such cruelty is possible, that there are so many wicked people around you. Despite the level of suffering girls go through, it's hardly touching since it's so unbelievable and cliched.

Magical girls get magical "sticks". Some are OP (overpowered), and some are average or even sh@t. No skill or talent, guess it all comes to "luck", don't expect balance patch or something.

There will be predictable plot twists, some minor drama, but in the end you will have more wtf's than actual answers.

Characters:

just like the story, characters are not completely dull, but usually leave you with an urge to slap them very hard for all the stupidity. There are Many characters, their actions predictable, roles predictable, tastes predictable... Boring.

Art:

Unlike his previous work, art clearly improved in MSS, but pile of SH.. is still a pile of SH.. No matter how realistically drawn. There is blood, there is gore, but only sometimes. I'd hardly recommend it for those few scenes solely.

Enjoyment:

The weird part. I'm still reading this, not because i'm forcing myself, but because i really want to see where it goes and how it ends. (Mostly, how much worse can the story get?) If you read few chapters and FEEL like wanting to know more, do read it, but DON'T HAVE HIGH HOPES.


******SPOILERS AHEAD*************


So far the society in the world shown here is incredibly (and by this i mean "over the top") insensitive, intolerant, cruel, stupid, evil and unjust. Same methods of bullying at schools, same levels of "nobody gives a damn", unimaginable cruelty from very young children... the author clearly hit his head on something blunt at a young age, and/or must be smoking some weird stuff to come up with a setting like this.

Back to the story. It seems girls main goal is to stop or survive the *cough* walpurgis nicht *cough* Tempest, or to say otherwise, the end of all the things. WHY would they want to survive? Most of the girls have short lifespan left. Surviving the end most likely means being alone while everybody else dies - no logic in that.
Prevent tempest and save the world? Why would anyone want to save such shitty world. At this point i'm rooting for the tempest to end this miserable world together with soon-to-dead-anyway-magical girls.

Stupidest plot so far: why give away sticks if you take them back shortly after?
Why only girls, since boys can use sticks too?
Why not just wait for the tempest to just happen? What's the point of this circus?
Should we care for magical girls? They're nuts!

In the beginning I wasn't convinced of this manga after reading Mahou shoujo of the end and knowing the style of this mangaka I felt that it would be more of the same even so I decided to give it a try and I don't regret

The way of carrying the story was very good and there were many scenes that I didn't see coming and it really surprised me and that is something that I love

The style of drawing is classic of this mangaka with some really good scenes of Gore besides that I love how he transmits the feelings of the characters on their faces

There is really unique characters but most of all I loved the evolution that Aya (The protagonist) had !!!

In short it is a manga that I really enjoy and that I am glad I gave it a chance and although the end was not what I expected it was good and gave the closure that deserved the story.

I found Mahou Shoujo Site while reading Mahou Shoujo of the end and honestly it's been almost, if not at times, better than mahou shoujo of the end. The artwork is detailed and the shadow work draws you into the dark world of this series.

The plot isn't as strong as Mahou Shoujo of the end, which has multiple questions looming at once. Mahou Shoujo site keeps it simple with, why were teenage girls given weapons and what does the countdown mean? So in regards to the story, this manga does rely on it to sell itself.

No, where this series really shines is it's characters from the adorable, yet slowly growing MC asagiri, the cool kuudere yatsumura, the psychopathic shioi, the cute yet crazy nijimin, nijimins hopeless biggest fan, the vengeful bully, the abusive big brother, the cutter, the swordswoman and the sadist. Truly this series excels at introducing and developing a wide array of characters and that is what has set it so high in my opinion.

I have a strange relationship with "edgy" anime. By edgy I mean, anime full of gore, violence and mature themes like rape, death and abuse. And by "strange relationship" I mean, I don't really like watching them, but I do have a morbid curiosity for it. Anime for me is a form of escapism, I watch it to forget about my shitty life and problems, so I like to watch lighthearted, fun shows, but I can't deny that anime and manga like Mahou Shoujo Site pick my interest by their premise alone.

Still, I rarely watch them to completion, finding their content too much for my delicate sensibilities. That's what I thought it was gonna happen when I started reading MSS. I just wanted to see what the story was all about and didn't plan to read too much. It was late anyway. But once I started, I didn't stop until almost 60 chapters later.

Violence and gore are predominant, but what really gripped me was the plot. It's full of mystery, twists and turns. I'm not sure why this isn't tagged as a Thriller here in MyAnimeList because MSS it's an incredibly effective one. Once you start, it's very hard to stop, each chapter being well-paced and feeding you enough questions and answers to keep you satisfied but still craving for more.

That aside, one of my favorite things about it, it's how they implemented the special powers. Each girl is given a different object which grant them distinctive powers. I can't explain exactly why, but I just love it when a series does that. Sakura Card Captors did something similar with each card giving her a different power-up, as did several other shows, it's not exactly original but it never stops being entertaining to me. Each time a new one is introduced I'm filled with wonder about their capabilities and techniques which enhances the entire experience of reading this manga.

I have read all the current released chapters, and it seems to be close to the end, which is great because I don't think they would manage to stretch this one much longer. Now I'm just hoping for a satisfying conclusion, and this will be a manga I'll recommend for years to come.

This came out around the same time as Madoka Magica and has a similar premise. Despite Madoka's popularity, I would have to say I prefer Mahou Shoujo Site.
While it didn't impress me much at first, the story becomes more and more intriguing and fleshed-out as it progresses. Many of the characters, which read as tropes initially, are given interesting character development. Aya, for example, appears to be a typical "sad, abused loli," but she proves to be very cunning and capable in the right situation. She still hasn't completely avoided the stereotype (largely because her backstory is too pitiful and dramatic to be believable), but her character seems to be going in a good direction. I was also surprised that Sarina, the "typical bully", became such an important character. I also like the
As for the art - I like it, but at times the anatomy gets a little weird. However, it's pleasing to look at most of the time.
As I said, the story shares many similarities to Madoka, but I think it's a little more complex and well-thought-out. It also has some themes that are unusual for a manga of this type, like revenge. It's true that the story has many tropes, like the "mysterious website" and the "manifold misunderstanding" between Sarina and Aya; however, while it follows some tropes, the story also avoids others.
I've given this an 7 tentatively. I feel like the story right now (at ch. 17) is at a tipping point where it will either flourish or fall short.

*SPOILER WARNING*

Note that I'll use [] to put something that could be an spoiler, though I won't reveal major plot parts.

From the same dude who did Mahou Shoujo of the End (a godawful story), here comes Mahou Shoujo Site, a somewhat linked manga.
This is actually a big improvement after that shitty manga. It's still bad, though.

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Mahou Shoujo Site is like that kid from your class who tries hard to be edgy, but fails miserably. It constantly introduces shocking elements to make you think how dark and depressing everything is, but it barely manages to impress you when those resources have already been used somewhere else, or are clearly over exaggerated. [How am I supposed to take seriously a middle-school girl who had kidnapped an old man just for the sake of torturing him everyday for years?] Futhermore, characters take killing WAAAAAAY too lightly. I mean, c'mon. At least worry about getting arrested for murder.

Aside from that, the turn out of events goes in good direction most of the time. I'm not exclaiming "what a coincidence!" every page, and the mystery involving the Mahou Shoujo Site is actually interesting. Futhermore, is actually nice to see how the girls deal with the problems that the plot gives.
Sadly, everything loses its shine when the story constantly uses cliches, asspulls and the characters grow a plot armor. Srly, that girl should be dead FOR YEARS for overusing the sticks.

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Though the characters are generally bland and one dimensional, the main characters has, surprisingly, a good development. She actually manages to do something for herself instead of crying in front of her bully. Aya is not a 10/10 written character, but she isn't bad.

Then we had Yatsumura. I like her, and even so I know that she's too unrealistic. Remember when I said that characters took killing way too lightly? Well, she's the embodiment of that. She wasn't that bad at the beginning, but then the author had the brilliant idea of giving her a dark secret. The good thing is that she has good chemistry with Aya, so they do a somewhat likable duo.

Finally we have Kaname. Kaname is a walking edgelord who does evil because I'm better than you. If he had a theme song, I'm sure it would be something from Linkin Park. Seriously, what is stopping this guy from killing his family? At least he makes funny faces for reactions.

The rest of the cast is so one dimensional that I can summarize them in one word: the emo, the bully, the transgender, the rich, the samurai, the idol, the busty. Probably they're exactly like what you imagined.

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Not unpleasant to the eyes, but needs to improve.

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Actually fun to read. The pacing is good and the plot constantly goes forward. But you won't enjoy this if you don't tolerate stupidity.

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A bad manga which is fine for casual reading if you are searching just for enjoyment and not an actual deep story.
If you like dark stuff for the sake of being dark, you'll like this (probably). It's like the kind of stuff that girls who call themselves "yanderes" would read.

the story starts with aya asagiri, a girl that lives with her mother, father and his brother that is constantly abusing her, she is also bullied in school by a group of girls and is always feeling sad and alone,but one day a mysterious website appears in her computer, saying they will give her a magical girl stick because of the misfortune she has been living, she can do whatever she wants with it now, what wil she do?
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mahou shoujo site is a really good dark magical girl series, it obviously was inspired by madoka magica but still is an excellent manga, this manga includes a lot of sensitive and triggering topics so if you dont feel like reading that, this manga is not for you, the characters are all interesting in their own way, every one has a backstory and their own contribution to the story, i think the end was kinda shitty in my opinion but anyways this is my review lol

Straightforward to what this manga offers/doesn't offer:

- MC: The main character is your stereotypical whiny girl that can't do anything by herself and cries instead of taking action. She can't stand seeing others get hurt or hurt anyone herself.

- Story: Similar to the author's other work, it's about Mahou Shoujos, also known as Magical Girls, once again. This time, however, from the viewpoint of the Mahou Shoujos.
Similar to their other work, the story of this one also moves at a fast pace. It doesn't overwhelm with a too complex story and instead focuses on creating opportunities for the characters to shine with what they're good at, showing tits, ass, making facial expressions and dying. The last of which is often replaced by bleeding out or being heavily wounded in general, since each character's death also means one cute loli less for the audience to anatomically inspect with utmost thoroughness.
And, well, it just so happens that giving mentally unstable, mistreated girls super powers creates these wanted opportunities.

- Comedy: As is typical for mangas with strongly over-the-top drama and brutality, a lot of scenes tend to take on a comedic nature, whether it be intended or not. Mahou Shoujo Site has this peculiar characteristic as well and it executes these specific scenes mostly with the help of characters whose sole purpose it is to deliver these scenes by being extraordinarily cruel. The protagonist's brother is one of these chosen characters and he does a quite good job at being an evil sadist that constantly tries to make others suffer. To see "Onii-chan" make many of the annoying characters within the story (including the MC) have a hard time is pretty much the highlight of this manga.

To summarize: The manga offers lolis getting slaughtered and getting drenched, it also offers 1 likeable yet completely sadistic character and although it tries it's best to create a story and doesn't do completely horrible at it, the plot still turns out completely negligible and is overshadowed by several better reasons to either enjoy this work or to throw it into the trash can depending on your taste.

Oh god.
This manga really subverted my expectations in the absolute worst way possible.

I read this (or more accurately, tried to read this) because my friend, who usually has pretty good taste, said they liked it a while back and i wanted to give it a shot. So that might be part of the reason for my disappointment, while also being part of the reason I gave it a 2 instead of a 1, cuz id feel bad givin a 1 to smth my friend liked

now that all that bullshits outta tha way we get to the Juicy Stuff. and by juicy i mean pussy juice and toilet water because the author decided having the main characters backstory be entirely the worst things possible was a good idea. and to be fair to him, it can be, if all of this stuff is actually explored more in the main character's development, which is what i was expecting. instead the protag just became the same fucking blank slate female protag as we've seen 1000 fucking times before. what was the point of ANY of the bullshit if it was just gonna be swept under the rug after chapter one. and if that wasn't enough, this supposedly hundreds-o'-times rape victim and presumably years-long torture victim, after being constantly dragged into places she didnt want to be by people she didnt want to be with, to be raped and tortured, she, in some miraculous feat of the author's superior intellect, decides to help kidnap a girl without feeling any remorse. i- what. how. i dont. wh

so anyways i dont fucking understand how this bitch yadongburifknf (i dont even remember her name even though it was said 200^50 times) who has supposedly been chasing down magical girls for a long time and was smart enough to create an entire torture machine, who could figure out MC's stick's ability after seeing it used like 3 times, could not think of "lets find a healing stick"

i went into this hoping for a story about the MC's psychological journey through being relentlessly shitted on for years and then being forced into a kill or be killed situation, and instead i got a bucket full o' shock value, disappointment, flat characters, butchered potential, and the most disgusting face anatomy ive ever seen even surpassing kouji mori's neanderthals.

it might be my fault. i might be missing some subtle thing. maybe it gets really good and psychological right after i left off. but thatd almost be worse. if the psychological effects and trauma of constant rape and bullying were just ignored for a while and then suddenly started affecting ass onigiri, then itd just be like they only matter when its convenient. which is just sending the opposite message than things like that should. or maybe it goes further into the direction its already going and it goes so far that it turns into something amazing. but theres no fucking way in hell im ever finding out

Sooo... THIS IS COMPLETE MADNESS, and I wont spoil anything to you, you have to read this manga. If you watched the anime and didnt like it pleeeeease give this a second chance; if you somehow liked the anime or though it was ok you'll like this a lot better; and if you dindt watch the anime just DONT DO IT and read the manga instead (TRUST ME ON THIS ONE).

I read this after watching the anime hopping for another instance of that "so bad its good" kinda feel, but I ended up disappointed. The manga turned out being unironically good (very solid in fact). It has some serious flaws of course (witch I'll leave you to discover), but it shows that the people behind it really cared about it, this project is someone's baby. This is the brainchild of some madman, and the moment you pick it up, you are in someone else's world, its complete insanity, and I LOVE IT.

So, without further to do, lets check the bulletpoints!

Story: Its all over the place, there is a lot of it, and its all just crazy. It starts with a simple enough premise, but as the plot unfolds it derails into complete and utter rampaging clusterf***. The weird thing is that all of this madness was planned from the very beginning, its twists and turns where all planned beforehand witch make it kinda of impressive than this kinda of madfest were not made as it went on. You can never guess what's coming up next, it really throw your expectations out of the window sometimes because of the "no one would be crazy enough to go THAT way" factor. Its entertaining and imaginative for sure.

Art: I would say its very solid. During the first chapters there are some inconsistencies in the art style, but as the series picks up its all pretty good and consistent.

Character: Here is where the anime fails and the manga succeeded. They had their time to grow! You get to care for them not out of artificially forced pity derived from the initial shock value, but out of having the time to get to know them, you want to see them succeed. That apply specially to our protagonist, Aya really does grow as a character.

Enjoyment: What can I say here? Its just really entertaining! I found myself chanting at the screen a couple of time at certain moments, just of how invested I was. For me, it was a blast.

AWARDS TIME!

-JOJO REFERENCES!
Of course, I spoted a few. They are always welcome.

-SOMEBODY CARED!
This is a work of insanity and passion. Thats something I can respect and enjoy.

And the final award:
-SOMEONE FIX THIS!
I think that if some the flaws are ironed out, this could be a genera breaking masterpiece! There is a lot of creativity and good elements in here, there is more value to be made.

So well, this is it.

Esa fue mi reviu de majó yoyo sait para comodor 64, Y espero que les aya gustado.
Chau!