 manga, gratuitous violence, magical girls, what do you get when you mix all of them together? Well, magical girl apocalypse of course. Hey everybody, welcome back to another exciting episode, another edition of A We Can Get Them Here on YouTube. My name is Giovanna Menendez and yeah, today we're gonna be talking briefly about magical girl apocalypse. Now, I have to warn all of you that I am going to show contents of this book, of this manga series. So yeah, this is extremely not safe for work. I am warning you now ahead of time because there is a lot of bloody violence. There is some brief nudity, some I think brief sexual content or something similar and it's it's disgusting and it's brutal and it's sort of a guilty pleasure. I mean it's, you'll see in a minute when I start talking about it in depth. But yeah, you have been warned. I don't want to see people complaining like, you shouldn't. I've shown that. I'm warning you and I don't know how much time have we recorded. A couple minutes already. So yeah, that's plenty of time. Alright, magical girl apocalypse. I want to thank a friend of mine for gifting me this. I had no idea it existed. I will be completely honest with you. Now I am a person that when it comes to a horror and stuff like that, I tend to lean more towards the like the monsters and the aliens stuff like that. You know, I don't go, I don't do the whole supernatural demonic nonsense. I just like more creature horror. And this is basically an amalgam of things that are of that nature. You've got what is essentially a zombie apocalypse story with an action adventure tale and the magical girl aspect of otaku culture. Now what exactly is magical girl apocalypse? Well, it is a manga by Kintaro Sato that basically in a nutshell you follow the character of Kii Kobami. I think I said that right? Maybe not. He is your average typical manga lead main character and he is bored out of his mind. He hates how dull everything is, how everything's just the same and people behave in the same pattern. You know, living out their lives until one fateful day when this girl right here appears out of nowhere, invades the school and I think it was a gym teacher or somebody was asking her like, what are you doing here? You're not supposed to be here. Get back to class or where you're from. And she proceeds to freaking murder the guy and blow up his head. And what soon follows is an adrenaline fueled adventure of survival and action horror with disgusting, beautifully done visuals. Like the dismemberments and the blood splatter and all that stuff. It is disgusting and it is like shock value. You see that and you're like, oh wow, okay. And yeah, it's just very feverish what soon happens when you have all these characters just having to react as soon as possible because unlike a zombie apocalypse, you know, where zombies are slow or there's a virus and it takes time or aliens or something. These characters that you see here, I have volume one with me here. Volume two. Here we have the cover for volume three. You know, oh, here's a cool one. This is the one for volume four. These really intricate and interesting designs for villains, they start showing up and laying waste to everything before you can blink. And the cool thing about it is that when it will technically not cool for them. But for us, action horror fans, when they take down people, they come back as your straight up zombies like the fast zombies and stuff. So that's that puts an extra element of despair. You soon find out that a portal opened in the middle of Tokyo. I think this is in Tokyo. Correct me in the chat down below in the comment section down below, I should say. And all of these magical girls start showing up and they all say magical, magical, magical. And I thought that was pretty funny. Sort of this key word that all of them are speaking to indicate their blood, I guess war cry, if you will. So yeah, we follow Kogami as he is trying to escape. He soon finds other people to escape with. But this is the type of story where for the first couple chapters, you don't really know who will make it. Eventually you start seeing characters that, you know, recurring characters, I should say, and you sort of get attached to them. But I would warn you do not get attached to anybody because they could go at any second. Of course, you got to have your main lead. There's a plot that forms and eventually you start learning as you go by why this is happening and how they can even begin to comprehend and stop this disaster from spreading worldwide. So on that regard, I thought it was a really fun, exciting read. I'm not done with the series. I got to be honest with you guys. I have the first seven volumes with me. I do believe they are 16. And then there's a follow up or something like that with a magical girl site, I believe. So yeah, technically, I'm not really done with the series, but I've read enough where I can give you an honest feedback on the series. Now, when it comes to stories like this with the violence and how gratuitous it may seem, it can be a little bit hollow. And you might feel like this is just shock value for value sake. There is some questionable things, especially with the whole brief nudity that I mentioned earlier. I was not expecting that it really took me by surprise. And I wasn't a fan of it. But it's there. I get it, you know, this is a what do they call this older teen 16 and up. This is for a demographic of young adults that just want rage incarnate in a manga, you know, taking all the extremes of a zombie apocalypse. However, it's in that chaos. I fear it's not as nuanced as say something like Gantz, for example, which is another manga that's very famous for its brutality, and gory fan service and all that stuff. But from what I know about Gantz, there is a heart to that story. There's a purpose to the the violence and all that stuff in this. This just plays out more of like a typical Western zombie apocalypse movie like you're 28 days later, stuff like that where it's more visceral and you're in it for the experience of these characters surviving. There is a lot of cool elements that play into the whole magical girl aspect, of course, that is a very otaku centric Japanese thing that we don't have here in the West. So seeing that is really cool seeing that mashup of the magical girl with the you know, pardon the magic powers and the zombies and the chaos. They're also like kaiju level monster threats. We have some really interesting concepts about bullying and characters being affected by that. So there are hints of a deeper element to it or a story but I do acknowledge the fact that it's mostly fan service. And you're going to have a fun time if you'd like that sort of thing. I've been showing random images and I was careful selecting a few of them. I didn't want to go overboard with the gore just in case but yeah, it can get bloody it can get gory action packed. And the characters you know kogami he is super bored. He's a really bored character and facing this apocalypse. He sort of realizes what he's made of and of course he's doing his best to survive and save the people that he meets and eventually some friends and potential love interests and stuff like that. There are there are a couple of homages to stuff like the George Romero movies which I thought was pretty cool. There are a couple of references like I said with kaiju like monsters, you know reminded me of Godzilla and stuff like that. So yeah, all in all, most of the characters and most of the situations, even though they're not that complex, you still have fun with the story. Again, if you're into this sort of chaotic violence nature of the story, there is one character, a comp, which is he is one of the worst characters ever. And I absolutely hated that character. So if you've read the story, then you know what I'm referring to. I thought that was it overstays it's welcome like I'm not I have to be careful with what I say here. It's not a character like I get that you want to do something like that, but it's not a character that we should linger on because of the actions that he takes. And I know that aspect will turn off a lot of readers that want to experience something a little bit more chaotic in nature. But overall, the art is probably the best selling point. If you'd like super hyper detailed drawings with the characters and stuff. Yeah, I mean, you're gonna you're gonna enjoy this. And I love me some good zombie apocalypse. I love zombie movies and comics and all that stuff. I mean, if you're okay with this level of violence and debauchery, give it a shot. Maybe you'll like it. There are aspects of it that you probably will hate. But check out the first volume and see if it's something that you would want to continue reading because it does get a little bit sadistic and kind of gross as the series progresses. Think Junji Ito type body horror mixed with zombies, sort of a Western Hollywood take on zombie apocalypse, but in manga form and add the whole magical girl twist. And that's sort of what you're expect when reading magical girl apocalypse. Now, eventually I kind of do want to do a full series review on it. This was just sort of like a first impressions, I guess for this manga, which I honestly it's been out for a couple years. I didn't know about it. So I'm really excited to read the whole thing and give you like my final word on it. But yeah, I have half the series here with me. Hopefully I'll get to reading the later half and doing a comprehensive review on magical girl apocalypse. Thank you everybody for tuning in. Thank you for liking, commenting, subscribing, hit that notification bell so you know when new videos pop up here in this channel. Follow me on social media. I'm on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, all that fun stuff. I've got to go guys. I have more stuff to read, play, view and just geek out over. So I will catch all of you on our next video.