![]() You know, if the series had focused on that point and actually looked at her ongoing struggle and transition this would have been a much better story. No, this is not how you deal with matters as a civilian Asuka. Obviously things aren’t all sunshine and roses for her and she’s very much suffering from PTSD and struggling to make the adjustment back to civilian life. Asuka’s family were tortured and killed, her friends died, and she fought in a war when she was a very young girl. ![]() For once we see the toll on young girls of being thrust into such difficult and dark situations. We are following Asuka, who has chosen to return to a ‘normal’ life though she’s carrying around a lot of emotional baggage from her time as a magical girl. ![]() The series begins with the end of a magical war and then our surviving magical girls go their own ways. Fortunately, Spec-Ops takes a different approach and in theory it has a fairly solid idea. Even before Madoka they existed and after Madoka they flourished giving us a range of hit and miss stories of deranged magical girls fighting each other for various contrived purposes. If ever a title deserved the dubious honour of being celebrated for its concept but questioned about its execution, Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka is definitely one of the top contenders.
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