Not Your Usual Magical Girl

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Susan Hill is your typical, science obsessed high schooler who finds herself kidnapped to another world and changed beyond recognition in a madman’s scheme for power. Breaking free, she returns home but is shocked to find her old world is significantly more magical than she remembered. How will a girl turned dragon live when faced with arrogant vampires, megalomaniacal mice, and a few too many magical girls? An edited version is now available onAmazon.

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2024
Author: RockyRoll

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.6/ 5.0
Followers: 1,516
Views: 382,956

Chapters(39 total)

What readers say about Not Your Usual Magical Girl

“It's a great story, good balance, length and other factors that improve the story. For a novel that has chapters in the thirties each of them have a great amount of content. The story is well thought out with a great dash of comedy in places that need it, a…”
Boxy0708Royal Road5.0 / 5
“This story was very interesting with its interesting moments. What is the narration of the past in the form of flashbacks with prerequisites for the present moment of events in the chapter. This is not often used, at least often. And what I liked the story…”
RocnRocntRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

Boxy0708Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's a great story, good balance, length and other factors that improve the story. For a novel that has chapters in the thirties each of them have a great amount of content. The story is well thought out with a great dash of comedy in places that need it, and the fights have quality balancing.
RocnRocntRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story was very interesting with its interesting moments. What is the narration of the past in the form of flashbacks with prerequisites for the present moment of events in the chapter. This is not often used, at least often. And what I liked the story for the most is the timely completion of the story.
auredRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Wonderful story. Great characters.I'm pretty sure this is the first isekei story I've read that simply skips over the isekei! Ok, not really, we do get some wonderful flashbacks about what the MC did for the 1,000 years she was stuck in a different plane of existence; however, the bulk of the story, and the opening arc, is what happens when she finally makes it back home. Her plan to finally relax, free from magic and magic related politics, doesn't quite work out the way she hoped...
JolteonRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is one of my favorite stories on Royalroad. This is partially because it contains two of my favorite plot points (MC becoming a Dragon and a return to earth after being isekai'd), and partially because the people in thee story feel so alive. While the plot is a bit tropey in places, the characters are amazing and make the tropes that would otherwise detract from the story add to it instead.
Kyley175Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
That first chapter was an excellent hook. I was skeptical at first but I'm glad I gave it a try. I am not glad I did it all in one 6 hour long binge because my eyes kinda hurt now.
Characters were interesting, and there are plenty of action scenes with humor mixed throughout. Kinda reminded me of one punch man at first, except with more scientific jargon and a Mc who just wants to chill with her family and friends.
The title is also pretty fitting. As I read the story I went from thinking it'd be about a magical girl who happens to be a dragon, to thinking it is a dragon who is both a girl and magical, to realizing the dragon can turn into a magical girl when she wants.
s_lettiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I liked the story because:
1. It was different from the dragon stories I've read so far.
2. It was dynamic and didn't have any plot twists where you could predict too far ahead.
3. It flowed smoothly.
4. The concept of dragons being made this way was new to me.
5. And I liked the story.
6. It wasn't too long or too short.
I enjoyed the new concepts and the "lightness" of the story.
I liked the ending. It was concise and well-rounded. Even though I was a little surprised that it was already there.^^
I'm giving it this rating because I enjoyed the story. I don't mind a different writing style, and it brought something new. Maybe there will be a second part later. But it'll be hard to keep up with the power scale then.^^
Mridula RRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Really nice story loved it, the characters, interactions, pacing and world building all were nice to read.
Usually I prefer underdog rises up and its been a while since I read OP MC books and this one was really great. Nothing heavy, grim and dark, light and easy to read, thank you author for a great story!
Eristic VoidRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Simple, but straightforward. No particularly high risks so far, more just chill SoL. A pleasant, relaxing read. Grammar is good, no glaring mistakes, solid plotting with revealed “big bads”. Fast ish plotting, things are going by fairly fast, but it doesn’t feel rushed, the flow is entirely natural. Main character overall seems a little stuck in her teen expdespite the millennium, but that is somewhat called out as due to the stressed environment she was in, and they mention she should hopefully be able to change that.
Ombre37Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The story and character are sometime a little... unbalanced.
But in a whole ? It's a solid 17/20 story in a whole, and a solid 19/20 inside it's own genre (magical girls, yes, even if it's start about dragons). The character are endearing, if sometime hard to swallow and a little to tropy. But you forget it pretty fast in the flow of madness and fast paced events.
It's crazy, it's sweet and wild and take you for the ride. And what ask more ? Sometime, this is exactly what you need to find and read. Something to give you hope about humankind, and good people, doing what is fair and right.
The first chapter, and how she come back is what as sell it for me, and make me push past the little fail there and here, to go until the end. And i don't regret it at all. It's sweet, and lightearted yet don't blind itself to the harsh reality of what a war, and what the cost of be a hero is.
The only bias who is hard for me to read through was the "great and good USA" rose lense all through the story, knowing how this country is really. But the USian exeptionnalism and wilfull blindness is nothing new now. And not too damaging in this story : more like a "if only it was real" kind of hope bleeding throug i think ? Whatever.
LiarbytradeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Both it and the art are super cute. Unfortunately, I can't quite say the same of the opening chapter. It's not... bad? But it doesn't quite capture the magic that made me actually crack the novel open. It probably doesn't help that there was a grammar mistake in your opening line. Specifically, you typed 'on' one too many times; you're also missing a comma that the inbuilt spellchecker would have caught. See below:
"It was late in the evening on a Sunday night as Susan Hill lay sprawled on on her bed staring down at the glowing phone in her hand. Her eyes were starting to grow heavy but she ignored them."
I'm willing to look past all of that, though. I even did, but the rest of the prologue was a bit too bland for me. Like I said, there's nothing 'wrong' there - I just think a more in medias res opening would work better.
That's why I'm skipping the rest and starting from chapter 1. Maybe even chapter 3 or 4. Because with all of that negativity being said? I'm still super hyped to read your book. Honestly, if I'm still disappointed, I'll probably come back around chapter 20 or 30 to see if it gets any better. I think it's got that much promise.
In short? Keep it up. There's definitely something here, and I'm interested to see where it goes.