The Love We Lost

When Meg Momozono moved to Kamogawa, Japan, to attend a university of the arts, her only real worries had been whether she'd get on okay with her studies, if she could speak the language without embarrassing slip-ups, and whether she could cook a basic meal without poisoning herself.

But when she has a chance run-in with a demonic-looking magma golem, her life takes a drastic turn. Receiving the help of a mysterious young woman dressed in an outfit Meg can't help but associate with the magical girl shows she watched as a child, she must make the toughest decision of her life: to become a magical girl herself and reveal a world she never knew existed...

Or choose the safe option and go back to her life as a university student.

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My love letter to Japan's magical girl genre, The Love We Lost is similarly light in tone to the likes of Precure, albeit with characters who are in their early twenties, and will be a trilogy of novels with at least one planned sequel series.