Magia Record Story Mixed Summer! ~ The Phantom Best Shot ~
The following is a summary posted on 4chan's /pmmm/ general by Anon.
Rena Minami, Kaede Akino, and Momoko Togame are out of school and talking about how hot it is. Rena says there's one thing she wants to eat when it's this hot. Kaede suggests nagashi soumen but Rena is obviously talking about ice cream. Kaede comments on a new ice cream parlor and ice maker in Sakae ward she read about in a SNS exclusive for students called Tomosa for tomodachi circle (friend's circle). The ice cream parlor is running a promotion in Tomosa, submit a short movie about summer to the SNS to win a prize. The movie needs to be about things that happen in summer and needs to be done in teams of 6 students. The movie that gets the most likes will get a prize of their choice. The prizes are free ice cream for a whole year, a high quality camera, a commemorative hoodie and towel and a stuffed doll of the ice maker's mascot, the Sweetie Bunny.
Momoko finds the bunny cute so Rena suggests entering the contest to win it. Momoko objects as she finds it embarrassing uploading a movie of them to a SNS with strangers on it. Not to mention it's dangerous because they don't know what kind of people are on there, to which Rena says the security has to be tight as the app is for students only and it's the app's selling point so there's nothing to worry about. Momoko is not fully convinced but Rena and Kaede will participate and win the stuffed doll for Momoko. Kaede and Rena review the rules: the movie must be 10 minutes long, creative works are more likely to get likes, and you can use the app's new automatic matchmaking function to find members if the team is less than 6.
Momoko wonders if it isn't dangerous to be matched with strangers with that app, to which Rena says it's not because it's only for students, it uses the phone's GPS to match you to students near you and make a private group with them. Rena creates a group with her and Kaede and uses the app to get the missing people for the movie. She immediately gets 4 people to join the group (the initial greetings she gets don't have any distinctive speech patterns, just generic greetings). She suggests they meet at once to which the others agree. Momoko offers to go with them but Rena says they will run away if things look fishy. Rena and Kaede go to meet the others without Momoko.
At the meeting point the see Hikaru Kirari, Ao Kasane, and Yozuru Sasame. Hikaru tells them to buzz off as they're meeting with someone called "Nami". Rena clarifies this is her username. Hikaru cannot believe it, saying it's unacceptable for her to shoot a movie with Magical Girls from Kamihama. Rena is also not happy with it. Ao asks them to stop the bickering. Kaede asks them why did they respond to the matchmaking request. Ao answers the contest seemed interesting but they didn't have enough people. For Yozuru, it was a suggestion from Livia Medeiros as part of a special training, though she expected to be matching with normal people.
There's one person missing, although they never heard back from the person that agreed to meet with them. Yozuru suggests going inside a store to not be a nuisance in the street, but Hikaru is angry about the situation. Rena is about to start a fight but Kaede calms her down, and they go into a hamburger place to discuss the details of the contest.
Inside, Hikaru is not happy that Rena is leading the meeting but she says it's obvious she should as she's the one that gathered them. She suggests they start shooting tomorrow, but Ao quickly disagrees as they don't have a script, locations, props or anything prepared. It looks like Ao and Hikaru looked up things needed to shoot a movie. Kaede admits to them that they didn't investigate anything about filming a movie beforehand, Hikaru is surprised that Rena was leading the whole thing without any preparation whatsoever. As they only have 5 people right now, Yozuru suggests thinking about a theme before ironing out any technicalities. Ao asks how they will decide on the theme of the movie, to which Rena suggests something trendy and creative to get likes. Yozuru suggests looking at the videos that are already up to make sure they don't overlap with anyone, most of the videos are prank videos and comedy, their theme seems to be mostly to get laughs.
Rena wonders what are the staples of summer. Kaede suggest swimsuits, Hikaru ice cream, Ao tests of courage and Yozuru fireworks. They're all correct but they're not things that get someone fired up, Rena comes with the idea of a drama at the beach, a dramatic story at the beach. Yozuru can't think of a story set on the beach on the spot, so they decide to go to the beach to scout out locations and to also get ideas for their story.
The next day Kaede and Rena are at the beach one hour earlier than the agreed time. Rena wants to eat at the beach house and then play in the ocean. However they bump into Hikaru and Ao who are also there early, as they also wanted to play before the meeting time. Yozuru is also there already, apparently Livia had to tell her that she had to use a swimsuit at the beach. She suggests they start scouting for locations. Since everyone is already there and Rena can't imagine them all having fun together or parting ways to play by themselves and then meeting again, she agrees.
Yozuru suggests going to the tourist spots near the swimming area, as there are a famous lighthouse and a beach house nearby, she looked up places in the area the night before. Ao suggests going to see the caves and rocky area of the beach to which Yozuru says there's a legend of a mermaid that is related to the rocky area on the beach. Hikaru is thrilled by word legend. Yozuru also advises them that the place is tricky so they need to be careful. Ao, Hikaru and Kaede want to go to the rocky area, Yozuru is fine with what the group decides and Rena wanted to go to the beach house. Hikaru says that by popular vote they should go to the rocky area to which Rena is about to pick a fight with her. Kaede reminds her that they're doing it to get Momoko the stuffed doll so she calms down.
At the rocky area, they're walking carefully among the rocks. Rena jokes that Kaede should be careful to not fall to the water because a weird animal caught her attention. There they find a signboard saying that it's the place of the legend of the mermaid. Hikaru is excited of thinking what kind of sea monsters roam the area. Rena makes fun of Hikaru for thinking monsters are real, she gets close to bicker with her and both fall into the water. They can't get out by themselves so Kaede helps Rena and Ao helps Hikaru. Yozuru tells them that she can see something in the distance, it's a fin. They believe it's a shark and panic ensues as they try to get the girls out of the water. As the fin gets closer the animal hops in and out of the water, Kaede realizes it's a dolphin as sharks don't do that. With the girls safe and on the rocks again, Yozuru apologizes for causing them trouble. Kaede says it's no big deal. The whole thing gives Rena the idea of making the movie about someone coming to the sea to investigate the legend of a mermaid. That set, they head to the beach house.
The beach house has an octopus on their billboard, the place is famous because a famous drummer is part of the management, apparently the octopus is because said drummer was so good it seemed like he had several arms like an octopus. They like the place to shoot there, but as it's a famous place they plan on doing it outside. Before they ask for permission there's something going on there, the place's mascot has escaped, an octopus called Hacchi. Hikaru thinks it already ran to the ocean, Rena tells her to no say such things and Kaede teases her because she's acting like a big sister here.
Ao suggests catching the octopus so they can get permission to shoot in the beach house. Rena is about to talk to the owner to get permission but Ao stops her, she says that it's better to catch it first so the owner is indebted to them and ask for permission to shoot inside once they offer to repay them for their efforts. Rena is amazed at the sleazebag move she's suggesting but they go with it. Rena goes to the owner to tell him they want to help with the search and to ask if it has any particular traits or something. She plans on going to search for it together, Hikaru suggests to separate and she concedes. She's about to fight with Hikaru again because Hikaru is confident she will find it first but calms down after Kaede stops her.
We jump to Kaede and Rena looking for Hacchi, the octopus has a heart-shaped mark on its head, it's friendly to people and it's big enough to be carried by an adult. They're looking for it near the trees. Rena is hiding behind Kaede as she doesn't handle octopuses well, she also had Kaede look into holes for it by herself. Naturally Kaede thinks octopuses are cute. Kaede promises to catch it if Rena finds it, so Rena sends Kaede to look for it under the rocks while she looks for it under the shade of the trees, Kaede wonders if she's actually going to search for it.
They were unable to find it and as they get back together Hikaru appears, she also failed to find it. After making fun of Rena for because she only looked under the trees, Hikaru says she will help her by shaking the trees themselves and as she does Hacchi falls near Rena and grabs her leg. Ao and Yozuru appear too, Hikaru goes to bring the manager while Kaede grabs Hacchi. The manager is grateful for their help and when Ao asks to use the beach house for their movie he agrees. They also get some kind of octopus snack called tako senpai.
With the crisis resolved they refine some more details of their movie. Among them a falling out between the protagonist and their friends, to which Rena says that even if it's acting they have to get along for the shooting. Hikaru objects saying that's impossible, that she cannot get along with them even if it's acting. She accuses Rena of doing as she pleases with them just because she made the team. Rena then blames Hikaru of causing troubles for her, like when the fell in the water, she told her that she could find the octopus without problem and then she dropped the octopus on her when she shook the tree. She's angry with Hikaru and she challenges her to a volleyball match to vent out her anger. Kaede wants them to talk things over but Rena says that if they could do it that way they would've done so from the beginning.
Ao asks Hikaru if they have to fight, as Yuna told them to avoid meaningless fights. Hikaru doesn't see it that way, she believes that if she beats Rena then Yuna will praise her. Ao gives an annoyed "Alright, alright", maybe she knows she cannot get to Hikaru under that state of mind. Yozuru will be the referee because as an adjuster she must remain neutral, and the teams are perfectly divided that way. Before starting Kaede asks to shuffle the teams, she explains that in filming it's necessary to work together, that rather than fight, they need to cooperate and know more about each other so they can get along. Ao agrees with her as she thinks it's fruitless to always be fighting each other. Rena can understand it as it's not like she wants to fight or anything.
Hikaru chooses Kaede and Ao goes with Rena. Hikaru and Kaede have the lead, despite Kaede not being good at sports their teamwork is good. On the other hand, Rena and Ao aren't doing well as they're not communicating at all. Rena is not happy with this, Ao ask suggests she calms down but Rena angrily replies she's always calm. They ask for another match since Ao just wants everyone to get along. Ao asks for a time out and to shuffle the teams again, making it so Hikaru and Rena have to team up. Hikaru is not happy as if they're in the same team they can't fight to decide who's the best. Rena placed the rule that "the person that scores the most points in this game wins" and the game resumes.
Things don't improve as they bicker over to whom did the ball fly to. Rena asks for a timeout so she can clear her mind. She wants to make Hikaru cry in defeat, but they're on the same team now so she's her ally. Even if they're trying to score there's no point if they can't beat Kaede and Ao. She asks herself how to make Hikaru cooperate. At that moment Hikaru says that she cannot understand what Rena is thinking. Rena says that they don't get along well enough to use telepathy, so she finally realizes that if she wants to work with Hikaru she has to tell her what she wants to do. Rena asks her to alternate the passes and for Hikaru's support when serving. She also calls for a ceasefire to their point fight until they defeat the other team.
Their strategy works and they claim victory. After Rena praises Hikaru's support and Hikaru does the same to Rena's attack things seem to have calmed down. Kaede and Ao wonder if they finally get along and Yozuru remarks that rivals getting along through sports is something that you usually see in dramas, but apparently it also happens in real life. Rena and Hikaru are embarrassed by their remarks. Rena wonders about about what happened and thinks to herself that the dilemma of their protagonist and Rena and co is vastly different, but there's a common point in that working together with someone they can understand each other. Having said that, Rena has found out what their movie lacked. She says it's "youth"
