than a few skyscrapers getting blown up.

That's a funny way of saying "unknown number of lives lost and ruined". After Chelation Land, they lost all right to facile forgiveness.

Yep, I am glad you can see that, the MagiReco subreddit has still been a nightmare when discussing story since 10-3 dropped because it hugely split people on how they feel about Touka and Nemu, and I have seen no shortage of comparisons between them and Hitler and how they still want to see them in a pool of their own blood, and I am here like "Jesus christ people, calm down, they are 11...", along with everyone else who is jumping to their defense.

It's probably Touka's line about not regretting it that's got people riled up. If they at least felt bad about it, I think a lot more people would accept the argument that they're just children.

I wouldn't necessarily call the faces "grotesque", but they're definitely at odds with the art style of the rest. I'll grant that it manages to work for Wriggle, though.

In general, I liked the plot(even if it's not particularly Touhou-like), but that ending makes it seem a lot like the author was simply unable to figure out a natural way to give it a good ending(at least not without inflating the page count even more) and just went with the first thing that came to mind that didn't involve destroying the human village.

The sudden appearance of Alina was indeed pretty jarring. Like she appeared in middle of very important scene and we're just supposed to assume they know each other and are close friends or something. Also I'm not entirely clear which part is the truth and which is fiction, because it's kinda implied the jumping from rooftop and meeting Touka and Nemu was what lead Alina to be admitted to hospital instead of Ui and that's how they bonded. I didn't watch her episode story yet, but I guess it might help making a bit more sense unless the story that is told there is the fake one.

Alina's side story explains it: Touka and Nemu are the ones who found Alina after she jumped; Alina had no real interactions with Ui, but was aware she was their friend.

I understand that as Kyuubey is emotionless, it allows him to collect impurities without being affected by it whatsoever, while human would feel all the despair present in it, leading to them experiencing it and in turn starting to product their own impurities. What I don't understand is why as soon as Ui gained the power, she started collecting them unconsciously. Other Magius clearly had 100% control over their power and didn't use it unwillingly, so I don't understand why Ui is the only exception.

Except their plan more-or-less relied on Ui's being a passive power. Also, they explicitly stated they wanted Kyubey's powers, one of which was passively vacuuming up the despair energy needed to counter entropy.

On that topic, I don't understand why she started collecting them asap, but also then why she didn't start collecting them as soon as she woke up and instead now seems to be in full control?

One reason: Alina's barrier is still up, so there aren't anywhere near as many impurieties to deal with as when she first transformed, especially with Eve locking so many of them away.

I liked the touch with origins of small Kyuubey and I see one of theories I heard turned out to be semi-true with him not exactly being Ui, but rather possessing her soul. On that topic, next inconsistency is, that why Iroha was the only one who regained her memories after touching small Kyuubey, but not Magius. Would think that would solve all the problems.

The reason for using the small Kyubey was to cut off Ui completely from her fate. Since Nemu and Touka were a direct part of that fate, it stands to reason there would be a stronger barrier between them and the wall they themselves constructed.

So, what was up with that Ui showing up before Homura telling her to come to Kamihama?

I always saw this as an abandoned plot thread: they promised Madoka would go looking for Homura, so they had to set up a situation where that'd happen.

From other stuff, what was up with Mifuyu supposedly losing her power? It was mentioned multiple times through out the story, so I thought it'll be significant, but turns out when it mattered the most (defeating Fendt Hope) it didn't really matter?

It actually did matter plenty, but just not in that context. It was very much Mifuyu's motivation for a lot of what she did.

It really does feel very fitting for Girl's Last Tour, despite it being a Vocaloid crossover of all things.

Miku's original concept was "an android diva in a future where songs are forgotten", so she actually fits into the world quite well.

That teleportation does open a can of worms. If it was necessarily swapping, that would leave a few answers unneeded, but the fact that both Marikas can exist in a single universe seems to undermine the initial premise(and still doesn't explain why Marika-B didn't so much as leave Marika-A a crash course in her new world).

Don't forget the exaggerated, repeated shouting of "It's so good" or "It feels good right?" plus dramatically announcing "I'm going to cum~!".

It's just not hentai without the shouts of "iku iku IIKUUUUUUUUU!!!".

Well, I've now caught up to 10-2, we had some interesting bits like Alina pointing out the inconsistency with the Magius that she views as supporting Iroha's memories(while Touka and Nemu are still in denial about it)

This does make its own sense: Alina is the only one not affected by Iroha's memories being true; Touka and Nemu both have a personal connection, so they're a lot more invested in their "your memories are wrong" position.

Presumably they mean chapter 8, Mitama 5. It isn't anywhere near that negative in my reading, though.

This was all good until Marika went world hopping, but it didn't exactly stick the landing with its final pages. It really needed one more full chapter to tie everything into a neat bow.

Well, if you want false hope, the artist posted something to their Pixiv in late April.

Love and seeing Yasuna coming. A successful stealth mission would've resulted in broken wrists and a chokehold at the very least, Sonya's feelings be damned.

define official

The release post says it's from volume five of Kirara Magica.

The art style is just adorable. And is it just me or does Hitomi have a bigger role in this than in the actual series?

What I meant is that the school nurse(whatever level of training she has) doesn't have much control over the students' academic life, whereas fooling around with a teacher whose class you take gives them undue leverage(eg, giving lower grades because of a lovers' spat). It's why the rule persists even into higher education.

All the bad ends give magia stones as well, so getting them is worth it.

Sucking Madoka's blood is probably the last thing vampire Homu would do if she could help it.

It should really stick to college if it has to.

As far as I know, it's forbidden by most colleges/universities as well. But this seems to be the nurse instead of a classroom teacher, so most of the problems shouldn't apply.

Rereading the thread, there's a certain amusing irony to the posts made before the last chapter dropped.

Yasuna's lucky she has infinite lives.

Madoka's feelings towards Homura weren't really revealed before HomuHomu went loco, so it's not possible to say whether they'll end up together in canon - either circumstances could dictate that Homura's actions made getting together impossible or we Madoka could reveal she meant it when she said "very best friend".

Pretty sure I've seen this somewhere...

The release post link leads to Sad Panda, so there's a possibility if you frequent there.

omg I love Homura x Madoka-wait a minute...

It appears the author actually has done MadoHomu("my sweet heart"), but I can't find the thing digitally.

And if you mean christmas, she wanted to go around stealing life from people and gave 0 fucks if it hurt them or not. Only because Rumor she was fused with happened to be mixed with positive, santa like, Rumor, everything she did ended up on positive note, but she was actually furious at those outcomes.

Alina was ticked she wasn't getting life force for the Uwasa of the Fur God, not that the endings were happy(her whole shtick was supposed to be warming cold hearts in exchange for those years she took, after all).

Alina has a fleshed-out character in events and side stories, but that's about the only place you'll see that side of her. She's in full psycho mode pretty much 100% of the time in the main plot.

Unless Marika is a unique case?

If she's not, then whoever else has the ability is keeping it secret enough that someone could run an involved experiment with just one success without knowing it's redundant.

Imagine if she does that and sees that other!Marika has already settled in and taken over protagonist!Marika's spot with her boyfriend, making protagonist!Marika's trip utterly pointless.

I want to see an inter-dimensional phonecall between the two Marikas so they can finally settle things.

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