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I’m looking for magical girl manga where the girls discover and learn magic by themselves instead of it being granted through some contract

Witch Hat Atelier has girls learning magic by being taught it. It's not really the magical girl genre -- and their mentor is a guy and there are plenty of male witches in the background -- but the overall focus is on a small group of young girls learning magic.

Not sure if that's really what you're looking for, but its at least adjacent! (Also, the art is lovely.)

e: Oh, and there's an upcoming anime of it, here's the trailer

Ok, so the MC gets iskei'd into their own Mary Sue story, but as the villainess... now I really want to know if the author based it on something they wrote in middle school!

I thought Frieren was still better at suppressing her mana.

Although, Frieren did state in an earlier episode that Fern was faster at getting off spells, which would definitely be an advantage here.

Sure, that's kind of tangential to the point I'm making. Something can reflect transphobic ideas without explicitly being about trans folk.

I'm curious how these modern takes on One Piece will deal with the Okama and related characters (assuming they get that far!)

I haven't read the manga, but the anime at least comes off super-transphobic in how they're played for laughs at times. I think that'd necessarily be cut from the live action version, but less hopeful about this for another anime adaptation.

I've always read that it's because many light novels started online, and the way they were listed meant you needed the title to really grab folk's attention.

(I actually really like this particular anime; the animation is often iffy but art and story really appeal to me!)

One kind of interesting twist on that is Fincher's The Game. It remains unclear until the very end of the movie whether the main character is in a convoluted game where people are pretending to conspire against him, or an actual conspiracy using the game as cover.

They also tended to say the changes made it 'hard to follow' or 'ruined the pacing' or other things, but as an anime-only that just flat wasn't true. I actually really loved the kind of elliptical feel of the story in S1.

I honestly kind of felt that source readers were border-line brigading posts about the anime on reddit. It certainly didn't make me any more inclined to check it out!

You should probably have made some of the questions optional -- "distribute a 100 points" is just not something I'm going to bother thinking about.

Bofuri is surprisingly good! Not in any way serious in tone, since it all takes place in an MMORPG, but some good action scenes, especially in the first season.

Pretty sure it's completely kid friendly (no fan service or other anime weirdness.)

One issue I've seen is that the bot's empty posts tend to flood out other more interesting stuff from my main feed.

I've thought about removing the community from my feed for that reason, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I think Shield Hero and Goblin Slayer have mixed review because the content/story is much more mature than Frieren.

Hmm, the former two shows always seemed extremely juvenile to me.