After waking up in a strange room with no memory, Lexar is offered a contract that grants him the power to explore the world of infinity. In exchange, he has to find those with potential to save one world from its impending apocalypse.

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★★★ 2.5

I abhor the idea of giving this novel such a low score, but it would be an act of intellectual dishonesty if I refrained from doing so. The Mahou Shojo genre has me locked in a gaudy castle full of living cotton ball monsters with dapper mustaches, but I’ve no intention of making an escape. Particularly, mutations and deconstructions of it such as Madoka Magica and Magical Girl Rising Project have me spoon feeding them my limited time, no regrets attached. There’s something about the mixture of chuuni and logical extension that sparks my interest. It’s the dissonance that does it, take the moments of humor and relative peace in certain horror or war movies for one and done examples. Deconstructive Mahou Shojo is the longform. Magical Girl Selector’s premise promises the same rainbow unicorn blood slaughterhouse, the macro aspects of the plot are all decently set up, but the ground level execution needs polish.
Sixty, perhaps seventy percent of the issue is mechanical. Not in an overall sense, the perspective shifts are fine and I believe it allows for a greater expansion of reader empathy. Of most concern is the basics; grammer, style construction and the likes. The charecters, while having every hallmark of balanced, personable people who rise just a step above of their archetypes, sound too similar to each other and the narrative. This is only exacerbated by a narrative that could do with some clipping. Right now, a great amount of it feels like the padding put on essays to reach an arbitrary word count requirement. Too much is said, and repeated, about things of too little importance; too much is explained rather than displayed.
The story stars Lexar, a name that our once-dead MC dons upon being transported to another world as a cat with the power to unlock the potential of those who posses an inner light. Essentially, he’s taken on the role of the magical sidekick, a place that’s rarely explored with any depth. That aspect alone is glorious. It places Lexar in

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