I am five minutes into this game and I'm moderately disturbed.

Magia Records Online has to be good if it unsettled me (expand for unsettling imagery).

I'm hooked.

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[Jakub the Reshiram]

???

[Marcthelightspark2004]

I................what? What the fuck is that?!

[FanOfMostEverything]

It's been a while since I last watched Madoka, but I know that witch is canon. Not sure if Mami was heading the team at the time, though.

[Herald of Opera]

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I previously happened across it on TvTropes, but after checking Google to make sure: it's a Puella Magi Madoka Magica spinoff. I shouldn't need to say anything else because you're on the Internet and can therefore look up the series I just mentioned it was related to and answer all your questions except "What the fuck, Japan?" which has been asked roughly 1.63 zillion times in various contexts with no answer forthcoming.

[Herald of Opera]

5207151
Google "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" and you'll get... I guess it might technically qualify as an answer if you squint a bit? Japan is weird.

[Marcthelightspark2004]

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If anime is anything to go by, its..........bizarre.

[Herald of Opera]

5207158
Yeah, I just realized that your avatar is supposed to be Hellsing Alucard as a pony, and given his canonical combination of shapeshifting and refusing to take fights seriously, it would be absolutely in-character for him to do something like that. Point is, you know what's up with anime. (As an aside, I've said before "when Japan feels the need to put 'bizarre' right in the title, you know you're in for a trip")

[Marcthelightspark2004]

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Yare yare daze.
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[CapNTilfy]

Huh. That's some Earthbound-level trippy shit there.

[Necrogen Lord]

Pretty sure I saw an anime of that at one point. Someone gets their head ripped off by a giant monster and we see her decapitated body flop around while her brain's getting munched.

[Herald of Opera]

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As I mentioned to two different people above, this is a spinoff mobile game for exactly that anime. And then I derailed the conversation with a throwaway reference to the anime you're from.

[Silent Whisper]

why is the detached lower half as tall as the other girls? That was one tall theoretical third girl

[Aotrs Commander]

I mean, it's Madoka, what were you expecting, really?

5207158

I dunno, I just finished watching Girls und Panzer, and I think that might be even more of a What Is Even The Frack situation (I mean the premise of "Japanese high-school girls drive tanks in competative battles as an elective" is crazy enough, but in terms of world-building, it just gest even crazier the more you look at it. (And perhaps the oddest part of it is the fanservice is more or less totally confined to the tanks, rather than the girls...!)

(It's bloody awesome, though, and I highly recommend it...)

I really wish we could get some decent RPGs and stuff out of the anime spin-off games, rather than just all the online/platform/beat-em-ups etc etc. Who do I have to kill to get some sort of Infinity Engine/Old Bioware style RPG out of one of these properties, honestly...?