Mahou shoujo now 100% for adult audience!

I have been watching the anime for this one for a while and I really like it. Yes, at times it is a bit uncomfortable given the scenes, but you also just cannot stop watching it. So I thought I would start reading the manga as well, especially since some people mentioned that the manga just captures the story/the scenes a bit better, that there is more impact. So I was curious!

The manga and the anime are quite close actually, so I was a tad bit bored. And the manga is definitely at points a bit tamer than the anime (and some scenes shortened), which surprised me, I had expected that the manga was also like this, but no.

In this one we meet a girl named Hiiragi Utena. She LOVES magical girls, collects all of their merchandise, and fawns over them when they save the world. She also would like to be a magical girl.. but instead she gets recruited by the evil counterpart, the villains. Enormita/Enormeeta. At first you see she is very hesitant about her outfit (and who can blame her, I mean, it seems that if you are the villain the less fabric you have), and also about her part in fighting cough the magical girls. But as the story continues and she discovers something else inside of her we see her change bit by bit. I definitely liked how her evil villain/transformation to evil and her normal counterpart are so different but slowly things mingle. It was quite funny to see her go from gushing over the magical girls to see how far she could go with fighting, or well, coughs torturing the girls she loves so much. Because this girl? With each step she gets more of a dominatrix. In the anime she has almost zero restraints anymore, but here she is still a bit hesitant, though her inner lust takes over quite bit.

Yes, a warning for the peeps at home. This is a mature read. With BDSM stuff. I don’t mind that at all, well, OK, this wouldn’t have been a read or a watch from me 10+ years ago, but now? I am fine.

I loved that this manga also introduced Kiwi-chan already! I just adore Kiwi-chan, first with her big mouth and trying to assert dominance… only to get totally fried (literally) by Utena and then becoming her friend? Lover? Fangirl? Either way, I just adore Kiwi-chan. She is a craycray girl, but so kick-ass.

I also like that we get some bits with the mahou shoujo. Yes, they are not my favourite bits, but I still like them. I see that my watching the anime has already influenced how I see these girls. Magenta is fine. Azure… well, she has her issues (though is discovering your sexuality really an issue?). Sulfur is just horrendous and the one I dislike the most with her attitude.

The art is pretty good. I like the style and it fits well.

So, if you are an adult and like a more mature mahou shoujo and don’t mind BDSM, be sure to check this one out. I will be reading this one again after the anime because for now it is mostly the same and it is all just too fresh for me.