Extreme Modification Magical Girl Mystic Lune -... — Full & Authentic

I want to talk about a show that premiered quietly last season, got buried under the hype for the new Shonen Jump adaptations, and is already being called "too much" by mainstream critics. I am talking about Extreme Modification Magical Girl Mystic Lune (極限改造魔法少女ミスティックルーン).

Enter our protagonist, Hikari Kirigamine. She is not a chosen one. She is a desperate high school girl who volunteers for the "Lunarian Program." Extreme Modification Magical Girl Mystic Lune -...

The show asks a brutal question: If you have to turn your body into a weapon until nothing original remains, are you still the one fighting? The antagonist, "Dr. Riven," isn't a monster. She is the previous Mystic Lune. She underwent the same modifications ten years ago. Now, she is a floating torso connected to a server farm of discarded limbs. She isn't evil; she is trying to destroy the Lunarian Program to save future girls from her fate. I want to talk about a show that

Have you watched Mystic Lune ? Did you cry during the "Arm Calibration" scene? Let me know in the comments below. Just don't mention the rabbit mascot. We don't talk about what happened to the rabbit mascot. She is not a chosen one

Unlike Madoka Magica , which dealt with psychological despair, Mystic Lune deals with . There is a scene in episode four that will haunt me forever. After a particularly brutal fight against a Gloam Entity that manipulates gravity, Hikari has to "hot-swap" her own crushed ribcage for a prototype model while hiding behind a collapsed freeway. There is no magical healing. There is only a cold, AI voice counting down the seconds until she bleeds out.