Magical Girl Site

Magical Girl Site (Japanese: 魔法少女サイト, Mahō Shōjo Saito) is a Japanese magical girl manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Sato. It is a spin-off of Magical Girl Apocalypse. The series follows Aya Asagiri, a severely tormented, abused and suicidal high school student who gains the ability to become a magical girl through a mysterious website. She soon finds friends, who are also magical girls like herself, that provide her strength. Aya and her friends also face enemies. The series becomes a climactic race for Aya because she must keep herself and her friends alive. It was serialized on Akita Shoten's Champion Tap! website from July 2013 to October 2017 and later in the shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion from October 2017 to August 2019, with its chapters collected in sixteen tankōbon volumes. The manga is licensed for English release in North America by Seven Seas. An anime television series adaptation produced by production doA aired from April to June 2018. The story focuses on middle school student Aya Asagiri's tormented life, where she is bullied at school and abused by her brother at home. One day, a suspicious website appears on her computer screen, promising her magical powers. She later finds herself with a magical gun, and accidentally kills her bullies using it. Aya later discovers that she is not alone, and her classmate Tsuyuno Yatsumura is also a magical girl. They form an alliance with other magical girls to uncover the truth behind the Magical Girl Site and to stop an apocalyptic event called "The Tempest." The series is known for its dark tone and depiction of friendship and despair among young girls.