SPOILERS BECAUSE WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT SOME... ISSUES
Kentaro Sato scares me, for good reason. I am fine with making some characters mascots for your series, but making a corrupt cop who is constantly thinking about raping teenage girls the poster child? Uh, no. Fuck off. To be fair Sato's art is serviceable, good even if I dare say so. Yet he is someone who should never be entrusted with writing the story.
I read this in March or so, and I can barely remember the plot. Which is fucking astounding given my photographic memory. A rough outline is as follows. Girls at school, magical zombies attack, oh no! Everyone panic, now survival manga, flee to mall, almost get raped by creepy cop, more magical zombies attack... something... something else... oh female MC is a magical girl. But wait, Sato you stated the zombies were magical girls. No? Well whatever. Action, gore, carnage. Science mumbojumbo that makes me think Sato may be delusional. Try to redeem rapey cop, fail miserably. Apocalypse avoided because more magical girls show up... not the zombie ones... not the human ones... shut up accept it. Think it is ending, but that was just part one. Pray God puts me out of my misery, try to read through this garbage. Somehow becomes less coherent. Oh, witches exist now, don’t ask where that came from, just shut up, accept it. Sergeant Ephebophilia is now a head detective now despite attempting to rape underage girls while on the clock in part one, still into high school girls though. Something about magical girls being born around the world at once? I checked out of the story at this point, I don’t even think Kentaro Sato knew what the fuck he was doing at this point. Drop it, reflect on my actions, try to forget I ever read this garbage… oh that’s why I don’t remember most of it.
Rintaro Akuta is the rapey cop turned hero mentioned in the above summary. I hate him. Certain characters exist to be killed, this is a fact in fiction. One needs to deliver catharsis at some point, especially in an action story. Magical Girl Apocalypse offers no catharsis, the worst scumbag in the series not only survives but thrives. One reads this series hoping Rintaro Akuta is killed off in the most brutal fashion possible, hopefully torn limb from limb. Instead, he becomes the hero of the story. He’s the first to kill a magical zombie girl, the first to figure out how to use the wands. FUCK OFF. No, you cannot do that. Hell, he isn’t even redeemed – he remains a predator throughout the series. Then Sato makes him a head detective in the second part? No. Don’t do that, dear God. Kentaro Sato manages to pull off the opposite of catharsis, each chapter this bastard still lives you become deader inside.
Oh god. Yeah this. Um… as a person with disabilities I think representation is important. So even though I knew this series was a dumpster fire I wanted to see if Sato would at least handle his sole disabled character well. No, he didn’t, he made the big baddie a fucking deaf kid. Jesus Christ man, you lionize the cop who was voted in high school “most likely to become a child predator” and make the quiet deaf kid the main villain? Is Sato saying that being a demented pervert is permissible, but he’ll be damned if the deaf are presented sympathetically. Not only that but the deaf kid is a one-dimensional villain who is only evil to be evil. The story needed a bad guy… but, Kentaro, my brother in Christ, YOU ALREADY HAD A BAD GUY. The cop, Rintaro, is the perfect bad guy and you went out of your way to lionize him. Fine make the deaf kid bad.
For the love of God, don’t read this series. It’s a mess, a trainwreck, an unsatisfactory read that isn’t even so bad that one can ironically enjoy it. Magical Girl Apocalypse is straight up awful. If you want a subversive magical girl experience go read Machimaho, something actually good.
Story: 1 – Utter trash, I’d rather read a manga based on Mein Kampf
Characters: 1 – Garbage, utter garbage
Visuals: 6 – Kentaro Sato’s only redeeming quality is his art
Enjoyment: 2 – It was entertaining for the first three volumes
Worldbuilding: 1 – There is none
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