株式会社マジルミエ 第2期

Show ‘em what’s what, Hitomi! Ooh, a younger Hitomi’s magical girl design? And it looks like her chasing down that one Kaii is what made Shigemoto interested in recruiting her, huh. Hah, that sounds like Hitomi alright. I bet that’s exactly what she needed to hear. I see the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Oh wow, it was that easy to get her to stop. Kana’s not wrong. That laptop sure looks like Shigemoto’s alright. So the real fight starts next week.

Honestly Hitomi has way more valid reason to dismiss her father than her dad did for disowning her. For her it's empowering, for him it's just him being a rigid dick. About this, there is a certain cultural context they're likely going for here. In Asian society, "separate private and business matters" is an idiom and principle one should aspire towards, that one ought to be fair and impartial when conducting business and not carry personal bias or private favour with conflicts of interest. Even your friends and family ought to be treated like any other customer. (Well, too bad not enough people heed that these days) So when the Koshigayas say they have no family while they're on the job , that's what they're all about. So outsiders shan't try using their family ties to hamstring their judgment and extermination.

That was an awful lot of talking and not dealing with the giant monster, but I guess they have all next episode for that. And we did get some good backstory information at last for Koshigaya and Magilumiere. Good on Koshigaya's old man for rejecting the administrative cheating and forcing the test back to the original plan. It's nice to see some jolly cooperation at last with the kuudere magical girl.

I thought they'd have more time until Tsuchiba showed up...but alas, no. She's here to formally take over exterminating the Class C and kick all the other Magical Girls out. But Koshigaya's not giving up yet! Oh snap! Koshigaya flashback! Back during her early days as a Magical Girl back when she had short hair and a short fuse when it came to all the restrictions to doing her job! Though the uniform with the beret and thigh-high boots looked GREAT on her! And luckily she got noticed by Shigemoto back when HE had short hair who saw potential in her style. Koshigaya had no interest in getting headhunted, even if on some level she had given up on being the Magical Girl she wanted, but she was serious enough to accept being disowned by her father if it meant she could be one. And luckily Kaede didn't give up on her and was able to help her realize that Magilumiere would be the best place for her to go wild and strut her stuff! Where they wouldn't treat her like glass or special because of her family connections, where she could truly be a Magical Girl on the cutting edge of the industry! And take down all the Kaii she could want! Ordinarily it would be sad how both father/daughter are so driven by their professions/ideals that they have to treat the other like they don't exist...but I guess if this gets AST to back down, it's for the best? It's nice of Koshigaya to still want Tsuchiba to be involved, even if Tsuchiba won't do anything without her companies' approval and, even beyond that, she personally just doesn't want to work with Koshigaya. They get along like oil and water and only Kana's mediation is able to get Tsuchiba to realize the benefit of working with them...for now. We've got four Magical Girls operating at the same time, who better to handle it than Shigemoto himself? Iroha definitely approves! Time to nip this Class-C Kaii in the bud!

Koshigaya's old magical girl outfit is really interesting. Still in the rough draft stage of analyzing/giving opinions on all the magical girl outfits we see in the animated series, but here's what I have so far on this outfit: We see how much of it just isn't Koshigaya: the outfit feels fitted, tight, and more like a military uniform; Koshigaya prefers breathability and comfortability I feel like the beret also feels like an addition to the aforementioned point: sure, magical girl innovation probably allows for it to stay on regardless of what a magical girl is doing, but it still feels impractical Every part of her is covered up, so I hc that underneath the outfit there may also be some bruises, callouses, or other such marks of "roughness" I also hc that part of the company policy is to keep her hair short since she can't tie it back because of her piercings

I guess my feeling from last episode got partially confirmed. Someone is going to die and unfortunately it might be Koshigaya. For those who don't get why, in most TV, Anime, Manga series it is common trope to put Flashback sequence in the episode or as whole episode before Mayor tone shift for one of the characters. Most of the time it is Death related. Which now that i think 🤔 about it might lead to introduction of one of the characters from the opening and ending.