▲ Pink, pink, hot pink! It’s a symbol of magical girls. 

 

Magical girls, who drives out villains with their beautiful power in the name of the justice, were idols for girls and love for boys.

Miss Guillotine, today I’m going to introduce, would be the most uncommon story among stories of magical girls. 

 

 

 

Miss Guillotine is a popular thriller / school days serial webtoon on Lezhin Comics. Its story is by Gaje and drawing is by stego.

The magical girls with fancy costumes and abilities surely appear in the work, but if you’re looking for familiar freshness of magical girls you know, it is recommended to find something else.

 

 

 World-saving Magical girls also have their school life. From outside, they look like heroes and idols, but in school they are absolutely strong, arrogant students.

And the one who is bullied by them is the protagonist of this webtoon. 

 

▲ True nature of the magical girls. The protagonist is getting bullied.

 

 One day, sister of the protagonist is killed by the magical girls. Her sister’s death is treated as an accident in a fighting among the magical girls, then eventually the timid and cowardly protagonist starts her vengeance against them.

 

 

 

▲ Even a killing is excused: this is what magical girls are.

 

 What is a magical girl? You may easily understand that a magical girl isn’t merely ‘a girl who uses magic’, from Lina Inverse in Slayers or from the Sorceress in Diablo.

A magical girl is the one who drives out various monsters and villains in the name of love and justice, in a dress full of laces and ribbons. And the webtoon Miss Guillotine focuses on their private life.

 

 

 It’s not only in this webtoon that a group which rose to power thanks to their contribution to the society becomes a tyrant by using the power. This corruption which is seen in the society in general, like school, military, and workplaces, comes more cruelly to us with a magical girl, the symbol of the justice.

It would be cliché: a structure of the bullied being changing for a certain chance and growing strong to avenge, and a story of the magical girl beloved by anyone. The two stories are excellently blended and the story is made as an unpredictable one. Moreover, the drawing maximizing the colors of magical girls and a unique and grotesque directing is added. All of them combined, this is a masterwork.