Magical Girl Raising Project: Restart

SynergySP

Action / SuspenseTV12 EP/6 Oct 2026

Oshimeter

7.1

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Synopsis

Every three days, sixteen magical girls get pulled into a virtual RPG through their phones. They're supposed to cooperate: fight monsters, solve puzzles, collect Magical Candy, but there's a catch. The ten billion yen prize at the end only goes to whoever lands the finishing blow. You can probably see where this is heading. What starts as an uneasy alliance quickly becomes a powder keg of suspicion, strategy, and betrayal. The mascot running the show, Fal, feels deliberately opaque about the rules, and characters like Pfle, a wheelchair-bound strategist who clearly knows more than she lets on: make you question every interaction from the jump. Pechka just wants to survive, Clantail tries to hold things together as a leader, and meanwhile everyone's doing the math on when cooperation stops being worth it. Each girl has a completely different power set, so the tactical layer here is genuinely interesting: alliances form and dissolve based on who complements who and who's expendable. The tone is dark and action-packed, leaning hard into survival-game tension rather than traditional magical girl warmth. If you liked Puella Magi Madoka Magica's bait-and-switch into despair, or the ruthless elimination stakes of Magical Girl Site, this is in that lineage. It also shares DNA with Yuki Yuna is a Hero in how it examines what being a magical girl actually costs. Studio SynergySP is adapting the Restart arc from the light novels, and the premise alone makes it one of the more compelling setups coming in 2026.

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Characters

Kanoe Hitokouji

Nanjou Yoshino

Mamori Totoyama

Kondou Reina

Chika Tatehara

Inoue Honoka

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Someone and 5 others rated 7.0

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shinobi_ryu235★★★★☆EP 56d

Pechka bringing the bento to that kid at the playground wrecked me more than the death did. She's got somebody waiting on her now

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dono_tengu252★★★☆☆EP 413d

The wheelchair turning into a giant robot got a laugh out of me and then ten minutes later I was stressing about who killed who. This show juggles that tonal switch without dropping either one

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illnes★★★★☆EP 413d

Genopsyko spotted alive in the square with her face cut open and no smell. No body no smell no sense. That's an illusion or a corpse walking and I don't know which one scares me more

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ame_seeker_707★★★★☆EP 413d

I've seen enough magical girl shows to know a samurai who asks 'are you the musician' right before a kill is not the actual killer. The broken device reveal landed so well. Akane got played and now she's the most dangerous loose end in the game

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quincy_quiver★★★★☆EP 413d

Murder via rock to the head in a co op VR game and nobody can explain how. That's the hook. That's the whole thing now

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tanuki_mage★★★★☆EP 413d

Daisy dying in her room from a heart attack at the same second she logged out is the detail that wrecked me. So logging out doesn't save you at all. Everything about this game just got ten times worse

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shirley_fenette★★★★☆EP 56d

That silent beat where Cherna just crumples and the light starts leaving her body. Nobody screams right away. The quiet is what got me

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nemurinavi_neko_470★★★☆☆EP 56d

Melville walking off to hunt the traitor alone is such a suspicious move. Either she's the killer playing the grieving friend or she's about to get herself killed next

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raijin_rider★★★☆☆EP 413d

Detec Bell the literal detective girl accomplishes nothing at the crime scene and Mamori of all people cracks the paper talisman theory first. Embarrassing for the brand

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gilbert_bougainvillea★★★★☆EP 56d

I could not stop thinking about Pfle's face when the count didn't add up. She did everything right and it still was not enough. That's the worst feeling

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