![]() ![]() ![]() After all this, the Admin Nana shows up and exploits her hate and misery to get her to become a magical girl. In the manga, she also discovers that Shoi's latest borrowed appearance is that of her own older sister. While she totally deserved all her suffering and brought it all upon herself, her misfortune was caused by Mahou Shoujo's killing her best friend and slitting her throat. This makes Sarina becoming a Mahou Shoujo even more disturbing in hindsight.The Admins have no such excuse, making them, objectively, worse than Kyubey, one of the most hated characters in anime. Say what you will about Kyubey and Pythie Frederica, but at least they had a noble goal to save the world/Magical Kingdom. That's right the Admins are literally turning traumatized and abused young girls into murderers and violent abusers themselves in order to create enough pain and suffering to end the world. The death, pain, and despair that are caused by the Mahou Shoujo's are absorbed by their sticks, which collect all the negative energy to use to power the Tempest. The Admins are basically using the Mahou Shoujos as cattle in order to bring an end to the world. And then there's the truth about The Tempest. Said sticks also happen to eat away at their user's life span until they eventually use it up and die. The Admins purposely seek out girls who are already traumatized and mentally disturbed, give them a magical stick, and tell them to basically go crazy and let out their anger over their misfortune through violence. The whole Mahou Shoujo system in this series is so dark, disturbing, and utterly exploitative that it makes the systems of Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Magical Girl Raising Project seem tame by comparison.As Aya herself says a few chapters in, the Magical Girls were given their powers because they were so unfortunate, but they didn't get them because the Admins wanted to better their lives or make them happier. They act as if the girls are objects that they can use and they will murder the girls who won't play their sick game without a second thought. The Admins' attitude towards the girls they make into Mahou Shoujo's is rather disturbing, as well.When you take into the fact that the Admins seek out broken, desperate girls to manipulate into starting an apocalypse, how they can find the girls that they make into Mahou Shoujos, and the fact that the Mahou Shoujo Site isn't an existing website unless you have a stick, it begs the very disturbing question of what exactly the Admins really are. ![]() They are real and very much able to appear in the physical world. Over the next few chapters, however, it becomes quite clear that the Site Admins aren't just virtual avatars. What makes it even creepier is that, at the beginning of the manga, Yatsumura talks about how she has been unable to find the "real site admins" or trace the origin of the Site, implying that there is an actual human being behind the Site.Even the Incubators weren't this frightening. They have monster strength and abilities, and settle pretty well on the Uncanny Valley with their unnerving, unmoving faces and the deliberate art difference between them and everyone else in the world- they look more like the kind of thing you'd find in a Yume Nikki fangame than a magical girl series. ![]()
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