Magical Girl Raising Project restart

Episode 6

Several days have passed, but our magical girl heroines are still reeling from the shock of Cherna Mouse's death. Trust hasn't completely broken; only trust within the individual groups remains fully intact—well, for the most part, anyway. While Pfle and Shadow Gale remain joined at the hip (literally even) and Pechka's team is carrying on as usual, Nokko is having issues trusting @Meow-Meow and Melville has straight-up quit her former team altogether.

However, it's interesting that, even in this trust-damaged atmosphere, no one even questions Pfle taking command. Part of this is that she is clearly the smartest among them—the one who has opened the new areas again and again. The other part is that she is the most physically helpless. Without her wheelchair or Shadow Gale, she can't even move around. Even Pechka could likely beat her in a fight. And, of course, Pfle plays into this. As we saw in the first episode, she knows that, in a room full of superheroes, being the damsel in distress is the safest thing to be.

This is just one of the ways she manipulates the group this episode. She sits upon Shadow Gale's back, making her the tallest person in the room that everyone has to look up to. She uses Shadow Gale's obvious annoyance as comic relief to lighten the mood. She provides not only information on the dragon and a strategy on how to beat it, but the items to do so as well. She then purposely demands too much of a reward so that she can “reluctantly” be haggled down to getting what she really wants—the Dragon's rare item drop.

Of course, as we see in the post-credits scene, Pfle can't plan for everything—like having a formerly dead magical girl come back to life only to then trick another magical girl into a murder-suicide by dragon fire. Worse still, in the panic following this event, Melville gives orders to everyone that directly conflict with Pfle's own orders, adding even more to the chaos. @Meow-Meow and Genopsyko may have been the first to fall to the dragon, but they may not be the last.

And then, we finally get progression on the other side of the story. Up until now, Keek's stated reason for trapping the other magical girls in the death game has been to test if they deserve to be magical girls or not. However, now we learn that is only one layer to her plan. The other was to have Fal betray her to the Magical Kingdom because she knew there was one person they'd likely send to stop her—the person famous for hunting down and stopping rogue magical girls: Snow White. But what does Keek hope to gain from this meeting with her ideal magical girl? We'll have to come back next week to find out.

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