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lermonysnickers's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Best inversion of the magical girl trope.
brainr0t's review against another edition
challenging
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
tommaso_siligardi's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
rcsreads's review
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
monstergirlreading's review against another edition
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
soph_sol's review against another edition
lighthearted
4.0
This is the first ever magical girl story that I've read, as far as I can remember! though of course I've heard a lot about the genre.
In this comic, Max is a trans teen boy who comes from a long tradition of magical girls on his mother's side of the family. His mom is delighted to see the powers of the goddess Aurora being awakened in the next generation; meanwhile Max is horrified by the frilly dress and the expectation of ladylike grace.
But he can't ignore his magical powers because there's a threat he has to face! With the power of friendship, and of learning to stand up for who he is, Max is able to become the MAGICAL BOY!
It's a charming and delightful story and I enjoyed all the characters. The art is great at communicating feeling and motion, and at keeping all the characters distinct, though sometimes the speech bubbles were arranged in ways where I found it difficult to navigate what order to read them.
It is unfortunately not a story that's complete in one volume, but I had fun reading it, and maybe at some point my library will get the next volume and I'll stumble across it, the way I did this one!
In this comic, Max is a trans teen boy who comes from a long tradition of magical girls on his mother's side of the family. His mom is delighted to see the powers of the goddess Aurora being awakened in the next generation; meanwhile Max is horrified by the frilly dress and the expectation of ladylike grace.
But he can't ignore his magical powers because there's a threat he has to face! With the power of friendship, and of learning to stand up for who he is, Max is able to become the MAGICAL BOY!
It's a charming and delightful story and I enjoyed all the characters. The art is great at communicating feeling and motion, and at keeping all the characters distinct, though sometimes the speech bubbles were arranged in ways where I found it difficult to navigate what order to read them.
It is unfortunately not a story that's complete in one volume, but I had fun reading it, and maybe at some point my library will get the next volume and I'll stumble across it, the way I did this one!
mehsi's review
5.0
I could finally read all of this! About Max who is a boy, or well he wants to be that, and how people react to it, how he struggles with his new role as magical boy because of the clothes, the make-up, the heels, everything, how he tries to make his parents understand. I loved seeing him embrace the magical part more and I love seeing the outfit and all the other parts of it slowly change with each transformation. Less and less girly and more and more boy.
I loved his friends and seeing the group grow. The monsters were scary/awesome.
I did love, hopefully that is right, how Max' old name is censored.
Hopefully mom gets better in the next book, while I did love the dad because he understood, he actually tried. But mom is still in her OMG you need to be a lady. I can understand it may be hard, but you have a son now.
I loved his friends and seeing the group grow. The monsters were scary/awesome.
I did love, hopefully that is right, how Max' old name is censored.
Hopefully mom gets better in the next book, while I did love the dad because he understood, he actually tried. But mom is still in her OMG you need to be a lady. I can understand it may be hard, but you have a son now.