Nice. :D

yes the name is 荒谷の魔宮 aratani no makyuu,they're not actual words so some interpretation is needed

the first bit is 荒谷 which is the kanji for "wild/rough/crude" and "valley/ravine", together they might also be read as a last name, "Aratani".
the second part is 魔宮 which are "devil/demon/evil" and "(imperial) palace/shrine", it could also be wordplay with 迷宮 meikyuu aka labyrinth/maze

another interpretation might be "Aratani's Demon Palace" but who knows! definitely something that needs a revisit once we get more info

an alternate translation of the preamble would have been "known only as"

i have stolen this thank you

I'm rather interested that Hana started wearing gloves after the time skip. She did not before the time skip and when they were presumably enemies at the time.

I'm curious about Hana's non-skin-showing clothes: she's got an undershirt, hose, and gloves. The only skin she's showing is neck and up. What is she concealing? Is she sporting scars from her time as a mahou? Does she have some awesome magical tattoos as part of being a magical knight when she's in her civilian form? Or is it just to tease me and make me create all kinds of increasingly wild theories?

This series is simple but cute - I like it. As others have said, I really want to know more about the context of Junna's heel-face-turn. Also, I want to see the rest of Hana's team. Magical knights are my weakness...

This is why forums can be useful... I hadn't noticed! But yeah, she's consistently covered, from short turtleneck to hose and gloves. Odd!

That is a staple of the genre going back at least as far as Sailor Moon.

It's true, magical girls just get new outfits all the time, like in Madoka and many others. I was in the precure headspace where their hairstyles are often differently colored and wildly more extravagant than when they aren't transformed.

The Clark Kent school of secret identity works wonders for Magical Girls

^ Some series are starting to explicitly state they have a spell up all the time that prevents people recognizing them.

Hm...Juana doesn't really look anything like her executive form. That's probably why she hasn't been caught. But also. I didn't notice that most of Hana's skin was covered. Interesting.

OK, I'm officially addicted. A few pages don't cut it anymore. I want a full 10 volumes serialization.

Please Kumalia-sama make it happen.

Junna form has never been seen by anyone (Except for her pink hair waifu who obviously knows...I am going to be shock and surprised if pinky doesn't actually know her waifu's true identity...All the text and their interaction plus author text dialog implies they both know) by the public so no one knows her identity except possibly her possible close aides/generals (Assuming she even has any lol)...RIP to those poor stupid grunt that were cut off screen by their former boss [didn't even shown their dead bodies~] XD

Juuna still in weaken form state but more than enough to slaughter some random grunts/goons~
(A whole 1+ year of relationship already between the two already confirmed.)

(" I will be the only one to defeat that magical girl") Juuna obviously just want her full abilities and power back so she can TOP her waifu 100%, she might win none-transformed but get BOTTOM 100% when using magic/transformed lol

Also anti recognition magic
(Standard stuff in magical girl genre/magic aspect...Though sometimes not always the case...For example gushing over magical/Looking up to magical girls has this magic auto applied when transforming while puella magi does not...Though that is kyubey just being a lazy @sshole despite having the ability to alter people minds.)

I am just going to laugh if there is actually no special reason for Hana just covering up her body with gloves and stuff except for fashion reason XD
(POINT AT CHAPTER 2 THEN Hana other appearances. So yeah...Unless Hana got intense battle scars or anything unique/unusual during that 1 year of being becoming magical girl then it probably just for fashion reasons.)

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man they;re cuteee

let me read my notes
hmmmmm
oh here it is
it checks out

I just absolutely adore the character designs

Junna form has never been seen by anyone (Except for her pink hair waifu who obviously knows...I am going to be shock and surprised if pinky doesn't actually know her waifu's true identity...All the text and their interaction plus author text dialog implies they both know)

I wanted to ask eariler if Hana knew about who Juuna is, and for what it's worth the series has kept this aspect pretty vague at first but Chapter 4 seems to confirm that Hana knows. I only just realized the dialogue throughout page 4 of that chapter was between the two OLs.

The magical girl has huge alpha energy and I'm all here for it

I am just going to laugh if there is actually no special reason for Hana just covering up her body with gloves and stuff except for fashion reason XD

"Hey Hana why have you been covering your skin recently?"

"My girlfriend thinks it's hot"

I am pretty sure the reason for why Hana now wears all black with gloves and Juuna has a more lax style to before is because each of them influenced the other in their romance. Juuna has become softer and kinder, while Hana has become more closed off and fiercer (and a little more fake with formal speech) than before.

Nice! :D

I need to know what happened during that 1 year. I hope the author actually makes a story out of this.

Damn...Junna fell hard despite knowing the other person(Pinky/leader of magical girls)...was a magical girl XD

Hana become innocent, cute and bright puppy energy to slightly mature Ara-Ara big dog (1 year later)

Guess they might have influence each other a little bit like that one comment above said/suggested.

"Hey Hana why have you been covering your skin recently?"

"My girlfriend thinks it's hot"

XD

The magical girl has huge alpha energy and I'm all here for it

I am just going to laugh if there is actually no special reason for Hana just covering up her body with gloves and stuff except for fashion reason XD

"Hey Hana why have you been covering your skin recently?"

"My girlfriend thinks it's hot"

Stockings/gloves + cute anime girl is peak ngl

Extrovert character arc: go from "cute and plucky" to "alpha as fuck".

Introvert character arc: go from "kinda jerkass" to "mumbling and sweating".

...yup, checks out.

The magical girl has huge alpha energy and I'm all here for it

This manga is giving what I've been missing in Nanoha since 2013.