Manga: Magical Girl Raising Project 2

Magical Girl Raising Project Vol 2
Rating: 4/5
Buy or Borrow: Buy
Source: Copy courtesy of the publisher! 

What started as a beautiful dream has become a bloody nightmare. Seven magical girls have been struck down so far-and it only gets worse from here! Wracked with grief over the deaths of her closest friends, Snow White has vowed to quit being a magical girl. But if the fairest maiden of all gives up, who will keep the dream alive? Is all hope lost for N City...? 

The volume starts off by throwing us straight back in from when we left off, and Snow White is having quite the meltdown, not that I don't feel for her. Ripple is also having a bit of a crisis of her own, an identity crisis, if you will. The killing and death is definitely taking a toll on our characters. Meanwhile Calamity Mary is loving life and ready to throw down! I should pre-warn you guys, if you didn't expect it already...there's a lot more casualties this volume! 

I really love the art for this series, and I particularly loved the scene where Fav was delivering the news of the cuts and that there'd need to be three more and it was interspersed with scenes of the girls dealing with the aftermath of some of the deaths. It was really nicely done and kind of slightly chilling at the same time! 

I have to say, most of the characters aren't the nicest, but Swim Swim is truly vile, as is Cranberry. But it was nice to see them get what was coming to them. I'm not going to lie...I cheered a little bit. 

This volume is fast paced and full of action, and the battle sequences are wonderfully drawn. With this volume we see the end of the story arc, as everything gets resolved and wrapped up neatly! I still think Snow White was a little bit useless throughout this but she added some humanity to the story and was authentic in her reactions to everything. 

Manga: Magical Girl Raising Project

Magical Girl Raising Project
Rating: 5/5
Buy or Borrow: Buy
Source: Copy courtesy of the publisher! 

Magical girls like Snow White and La Pucelle have dreamed of the day they'd become one of the lucky few chosen to protect N City. But their dreams quickly turn into a nightmare when the Magical Girl Raising Project Management Office issues a decree--there are simply TOO MANY magical girls! Oops! Time to cull the number by...half? Half sounds good. Don't worry, retirement just means...you die. Good luck, girls!

Okaaaaay, the art is completely gorgeous, let me say that first off! The characters are so cute and the colour pages are bright and have a nice colour scheme to them. There's such rich, pretty parts when showing some of the magical girls and the settings and backgrounds are detailed. The battles/fights and magic where drawn fantastically too! 

This volume is fast paced, and we get thrown straight in to the story with a brief flashback to explain what's going on. There's plenty of action throughout the volume, and the story is dark with plenty of blood. We get introduced to a lot of the main characters in just this one volume, and there's a couple of deaths too.....like I said, it's fast paced and it doesn't mess around. 

We even get quite a bit of background on Ripple! I think she might be my favourite of all the magical girls, I'm not going to lie! Some of the magical girls are just plain unhinged though, it has to be said. But this is such a brilliant, and fresh take on magical girls. 

There's magic, and cuteness but it's also dark and bloody and kind of like a magical girl Hunger Games! It really pulls you in and the pace doesn't let up!