Magical Girl Apocalypse


Magical Girl Apocalypse, known in Japan as Magical Girl of the End, is a Japanese action-horror magical girl shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Kentarō Satō. It began publication in July 2012 in the manga magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Champion, published by Akita Shoten, and has been compiled into sixteen tankōbon volumes as of 2017. The series is published in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment. A spin-off series called Magical Girl Site was later made that shares the same themes.

Plot

Average high schooler Kii Kogami is bored with everyday life and hopes that something interesting may happen. Things turn from bad to worse when a strange-looking girl arrives and massacres almost everyone in Kogami's class, reanimates them, and begins to take over the rest of the world alongside her minions. Luckily for him, Kogami manages to escape the building along with his childhood friend Tsukune, and teams up with the rest of the survivors to stop the mysterious figure's plots to end humanity, and the world.

Characters

Main characters

; Kii Kogami
; Rintaro Akuta
; Tsukune Fukumoto
; Kaede Sayano
; Yoruka Hanzawa
; Ren Kushiro
; Wataru Himeji
; Mikano Hanakai

Magical Girls

; Explode M / Ribs
;Parasite M / Hana-chan
;Attraction M / Roro
;Repulsion M / Koko

Release

Kentarō Satō began publishing the series in Akita Shoten's Bessatsu Shōnen Champion in July 2012. The series was licensed in English by Seven Seas Entertainment in January 2014. A two-part crossover with Katsutoshi Murase's Karada Sagashi manga, which is published in Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+, was released online as a one-shot in July 2015. Satō launched a brand new series manga, titled Magical Girl Site, on July 4, 2013. It ended in the September issue of Bessatsu Shōnen Champion.

Volumes

Sixteen tankōbon volumes have been released as of 2017, all sixteen volumes have been published in English.

Reception

Volume 8 reached 16th place on the weekly Oricon manga charts and has sold 75,572 copies.
Anime News Network's Jason Thompson placed the manga at number 5 in a list of "10 Great Zombie Manga", stating that the series was "a great manga for Highschool of the Dead fans who want to move on to something rawer and funnier" and was enjoyable "if you hate Magical Girls and have ever wanted to see them dismembered and smashed into pieces by every means imaginable".
Also reviewing the series for Anime News Network, Rebecca Silverman gave the first volume a grade of B+, stating that the reader is "constantly lulled into a false sense of knowing who the survivors are and will be... keeping everyone perpetually on edge." She was critical, however, of the series' fan service, writing "to say that this book is gross might be understating it a little, and that gruesome quality is made somehow the worse for the inclusion of panty shots with a carefully drawn line showing us the vulvas of the girls in question...who may or may not have whole heads at the moment of fanservice." She concluded her review by stating that "if you have the stomach for a lot of splatter and gross fanservice, Magical Girl Apocalypse's first volume is worth checking out."