Magical Girl Raising Project is a light novel series by Asari Endou. Featuring illustrations by artist Marui-no, each story arc focuses on a group of characters, mostly Magical Girls, who are stuck in a dangerous situation that requires them to either work together or turn against each other to survive. Magical Girl Raising Project: breakdown is a side story to the main series originally published online and printed as books 14 and 15.
To whom it may concern,
We regret to inform you that the great mage, Lyr Cuem Sataborn, has died in a laboratory accident in his private island research lab. Those who have been named in his will are cordially invited to this island for a reading of the will. They must come to the island in person, accompanied by no more than two Magical Girls.
Sincerest Regards
Magical Girls are young women with superhuman physical abilities, unnatural beauty, and a magical power. Any human, regardless of age or gender, can become a Magical Girl if they have a particular type of magical potential. There are also some animals with the potential to become Magical Girls. A Magical Girl only has one magical power, but skilled Magical Girls can use their power in a variety of ways by taking advantage of ambiguous semantics in the magic's wording.
The Magical Kingdom finds people with the potential to become Magical Girls, empowers them, and assigns them territory throughout the world, tasking them to perform "good deeds". Because of the vagueness of this assignment, there is very little oversight to Magical Girl activity, creating a lot of problems that the Magical Kingdom cannot fix due to infighting amongst different departments and factions.
Mages are people who are able to use magical spells and formulas for a variety of purposes. Mages are not Magical Girls, but some mages do have the potential to become Magical Girls. Mages have only one name at birth and receive a second name once they reach a certain level of renown. The rare few who reach the pinnacle of magic are given a third name as a sign of respect.
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