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Revision as of 06:33, 20 February 2015
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Puella Magi Suzune Magica (魔法少女すずね☆マギカ Mahō Shōjo Suzune Magika) is the fourth spin-off manga in the Puella Magi franchise, written and illustrated by GAN. It is one of three spin-offs that have been released after Rebellion, with the other two being Puella Magi Oriko Magica: Sadness Prayer and Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc".
Unusually for a manga series, Suzune Magica was initially released as a single volume, with all other chapters being serialized in Kirara Forward. The first volume containing chapters 1 - 4 was released on November 12, 2013, and it began serialization with chapter 5 in Manga Time Kirara Forward on November 22, 2013, with serialization finishing a year later on November 22, 2014. The second volume containing chapters 5 - 10 was released on June 25, 2014. The third volume containing chapters 11 - 16 was released on December 12, 2014.
Synopsis
Note: These are all fan translations.
- Volume 1
- The admirable junior high school student who works as a live-in employee, Suzune. The girl who lives her everyday life always smiling has a hidden side. That is, she's a magical girl assassin. What's the fate of the four girls she ambushes? And the existence of magical girls, is it good or bad? This is the spin-off's first volume!
- Volume 2
- The admirable junior high school student who works as a live-in employee, Suzune. The girl who lives her everyday life always smiling has a hidden side. That is, she's a magical girl assassin. As the magical girls of the city are wiped out one by one, what's the way that's left to go amidst the despair and frustration...?
- Volume 3
- The admirable junior high school student who works as a live-in employee, Suzune. The girl who lives her everyday life always smiling has a hidden side. That is, she's a magical girl assassin. Confronted with the appearance of a new magical girl, Suzune is exposed to the anguish she kept hidden until now. Now she will invite in the final outcome...
Plot
Characters
Note: As all chapters post-volume 1 are currently only available in Japanese, most of the post-volume 1 info below comes from rough translation and interpretation of events. Thus, some of the information may be incorrect, so please do not treat anything as 100% accurate.
Main characters
- Suzune Amano (天乃 鈴音 Amano Suzune)
- Arisa Narumi (成見 亜里紗 Narumi Arisa)
- Chisato Shion (詩音 千里 Shion Chisato)
- Haruka Kanade (奏 遥香 Kanade Haruka)
- Matsuri Hinata (日向 茉莉 Hinata Matsuri)
- Kagari Hinata (日向 華々莉 Hinata Kagari)
Supporting characters
- Tsubaki Mikoto (美琴 椿 Mikoto Tsubaki)
- Kanami (カナミ Kanami)
- A minor character from the first chapter, Kanami is a lone magical girl with a cheerful and friendly personality who dual wields knives with hand guards; her powers and wish are unknown. Her attack power seems to be rather weak. She was saved from a witch by Suzune, but was promptly killed after telling Suzune her name. She was wowed by Suzune's fire-elemental magic.
- Mika Nishinaka (西中 ミカ Nishinaka Mika)
- The leader of a group of bullies that targeted Arisa in the past, until Arisa made her wish and scared them off with a display of strength. She then proceeded to put them in the hospital as revenge; it can be assumed that they left her alone after that.
- Kanata Kanade (奏 カナタ Kanade Kanata)
- Haruka's older sister. She was a kindly person who was good at everything she did, leading to her being constantly praised by others and called a genius; however, her little sister Haruka was jealous and envious of her, as she thought no one expected anything of her due to Kanata. Kanata tried to be friendly with Haruka, telling her that she "could tell her big sister anything", but Haruka kept rejecting her and claiming that Kanata didn't understand her feelings. Haruka's immense jealousy eventually led to her wishing to erase Kanata from existence; Kanata appears to have been wiped from others' memories as well.
- Kyubey (キュゥべえ Kyūbē)
- A reappearing character from Madoka Magica.
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Suzune Amano
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Arisa Narumi
Chisato Shion
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Haruka Kanade
Matsuri Hinata
Kagari Hinata
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Tsubaki Mikoto
Kanami
Mika Nishinaka
Kanata Kanade
Observations
- The theme of "hating someone so much you wanted to kill them" appears quite a bit in Suzune. Haruka wished for Kanata to be erased out of her jealousy, Arisa hated Suzune for killing Chisato and challenged her to a duel to the death, and the whole story happened because Kagari hated Suzune for killing Tsubaki and crafted a plot to make her life miserable, prior to killing her at the "climax".
- Suzune's overall story is similar to the original request that became Madoka Magica, with the request asking for a bloody story where the girls dropped off one by one.
- Kyubey says at one point in volume 1, regarding Suzune hunting other magical girls, that from one point on, she suddenly started targeting magical girls and that he didn't know why. This seems inconsistent with a flashback in volume 2 where Suzune inherits Tsubaki's pendant and vows to kill all magical girls, a scene in which Kyubey is present for... until it's revealed in volume 3 that Suzune's memories were altered by Kagari, which Kyubey was not present for; so to Kyubey, it would seem that Suzune's hunting of magical girls was sudden.
Speculation
- It is speculated that Suzune Magica had such an odd release life due to poor sales. After volume 1 sold poorly, it was given a chance to get more attention via serialization alongside volume releases. Due to volume 2's poor sales, however, Suzune is speculated to have been cancelled, resulting in the rushed final third where everything is wrapped up and concluded at a fast pace. However, since there has been no word by GAN on this, it is all merely speculation.
Trivia
- Matsuri, Kagari and Tsubaki are all named after flowers.
- All the characters' first names are spelt with katakana in the story, with kanji only appearing in the profiles at the end of the collected volumes. The only exceptions are Tsubaki, whose kanji name appears in a speech bubble in volume 3, and Kagari, whose kanji name was revealed in a tweet by GAN.
Gallery
Front covers
Volume 1 cover art
Volume 2 cover art
Volume 3 cover art
Official art
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Special Arisa image drawn by GAN, and a stripped version of volume 2's cover.
Art of Suzune.
Art of Arisa. Note that Arisa has blue eyes here, even though the manga covers give her pink eyes.
Art of Chisato.
Art of Haruka.
Art of Matsuri.
Art of Kagari.
Art of Tsubaki in a maid outfit.
Art of Kanami.
Power ranking and elements of all characters for a hypothetical game situation. From this tweet.
Manga pages
Suzune's profile.
Yunagi girls' profiles.
Volume 1 bonus colour page.
Chapter 10 colour page.
Chapter 13 colour page 1.
Chapter 13 colour page 2.
Yunagi magical girls.
Volume 1 bonus end page.
Kanami's weapons.
A vision of Kanata.
The two women who work at Yunagi Newspaper with Suzune.
The Yunagi quartet transforming.
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The Hinata twins' father. He's a minor character, only appearing in about three pages.
Chisato's father.
Arisa's mother.
Mika's friends and fellow bullies.
Suzune killing Kanami.
Silhouettes of magical girls Suzune has killed.
Yunagi girls whose deaths Suzune was responsible for; Kanami; and a few other silhouettes.
Miscellaneous
Kirara Magica series announcement pages, with the initial character designs for some of the series' characters.
Page two of the announcement.
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Volume 3 bonus material.
See also
External links
- The first twelve pages of Suzune are available for official preview here. Click on the orange button. (Japanese)
- Various download links for Suzune Magica on Walpurgischan.
- GAN's pixiv account. (Japanese)
- GAN's twitter account. (Japanese)
- Set of official art by GAN on pixiv. (Japanese)
- Tumblr post containing trivia tweets and art of the characters from GAN. (Japanese)
- Tumblr post containing the more art and trivia from GAN. (Japanese)
- Unofficial Tumblr for everything Suzune related.
- Walpurgischan's Suzune thread.
- Puella Magi Suzune Magica on TV Tropes.