Murder, Mayhem, and Magical Girls
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Dear Diary,
Hell is Magical Girls.
The golden idols of truth, love, and justice. Whose saccharine smiles spread like mold over every screen and surface imaginable. Whose siren songs hypnotize humanity into mass hysteria.When they walk onstage the entire world cheers in unconditional surrender. They have everyone trapped in the dark, mesmerized by their shining light.
But I know what the light can hide. I'm not fooled by the pretty pictures. I know what they really are.
They’re out of time.
H.
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- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2022
- Author
- HalahanTheFan
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- 4.5/ 5.0
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- 39
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- 4,183
Chapters(4 total)
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- Autumnal StarRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Murder, Mayhem, and Magical Girls Chapter 5 is PEAK fiction.
Hell is Eternal is the greatest chapter to have been written by man. Its style, substance, and salacious tone show a true mastery of the English language, the likes of which have never been seen before. If Shakespeare himself had known that Helena and Karin would team up to beat Old Monday Star and Celestial Moon, he would have dropped his quill right then and there. If only I could see the look on that sham’s face, realizing that no project he could accomplish would even merit standing next to this gem, the shadows masking his face grim like the reaper. I had to re-read the chapter for the fifty-sixth time and acquaint myself with the body of Ancient Greek classics before I could truly begin to absorb everything it had to offer. In my euphoria I had to print out the chapter and rush to HalahanTheFan’s house for his autograph. There I nervously gushed my enthusiasm to this giant of literature, to which he humbly replied “I haven’t even published the chapter yet” and “Who gave you my address?” The author reflected his work, nary a flaw. Masterpiece, Icon, Legend. If Murder, Mayhem, and Magical Girls Chapter 5 could be summed up in one word it would be this:
Superb. - JeffersonSighsRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0mucho poggers amirite too little to write a advanced review but seems very cool pace is very quickc rn which is very much suited for the character's current mindset and the various situations she has placed herself in, as well very cool in terms of style cuz it does allow us to get a view of what the character is thinking and her very intense feelings
- KleptoKoboldRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0So, first off I don't usually do reviews. By the time I get to them most fictions already have plenty of good ones. This one doesn't have any yet. And it deserves a good one.
It's early yet, only the one chapter, but boy does it have promise. It reads like a classic noir, the Spirit, or watchmen. And the writing flow is impeccable.
Still, it's only one chapter. Hopefully this fiction keeps going and this review helps with that. - clegclegRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Some people have 5-packs of stars to hand out for everything they read, watch, or eat. I don't. I can't even find my way down to the review or comment section. That's for other, more invested people. Then came this. I couldn't last three chapters.
Murder, Mayhem, and Magical Girls is the story of an avenging killer lurking in the seedy underbelly of a setting designed to sell merchandise to little girls. It is the real world leaking through the candy coating, a scream muffled by an upbeat J-pop opening. It is Frank Miller's run of Sailor Moon. If you don't think that's a fun idea, I don't know what you'd call 'fun'. It's probably weird and alien to me.
But ideas are cheap and execution is everything. That's where this story shines: glorious bloody execution. The author is a genuine artist, a quality inherited by his narrator. Artists have a way of capturing the heart, doubly so when they've got an axe in one hand and a spiked bat in the other. The primal emotions underlying everything Helena says and does are just delicious. She pursues with the desperate intensity of a drug addict and I am there, doing the same.
Anyone can think of mashing up a lighthearted setting with dark noir tones. I've tried myself. I've failed. I've even seen specific "Magical Girl Noir" adventures that didn't capture it. But you might think it was effortless from the way the author pulls it off here. I can't articulate it better than reading a few paragraphs would. It's dripping with style, and while that style is thicker in some parts than others it doesn't run dry.
This excels. The prose is lovingly crafted, the characters are vivid, and the premise is compelling. Why isn't this more popular? Do people not know it exists? Somebody tell them. - crimeladRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0It's a damn shame this is so short, because It's got everything you could want. Set in the grim underbelly of a world ruled by magical girls, where the pretty princess act covers the fact that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The prose is absurdly noir and I can't get enough of it.