And what about Season 2?
Summary:
- Gushing Over Magical Girls Season 1 finished airing.
- It ended with Chapter 24 of the manga.
- Season 2 hasn’t been confirmed, but fans are confident it’s coming.
Gushing Over Magical Girls (Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete) Season 1 finished airing on March 27, 2024, with Episode 13. Ecchi fans have been having a great time this season, but now they need to decide what to do with their lives next.
Gushing Over Magical Girls became a very popular anime for an ecchi series, and fans were expecting a Season 2 announcement to come after the finale of the first one. Unfortunately, it never happened.
No details about a possible sequel have been revealed, and there haven’t even been any hints at it ever happening. Even if it does happen, there will be some significant waiting until it’s out. So, if you’re not ready to say goodbye to the series right now, the manga is your savior.
Where to start reading the manga?
Gushing over Magical Girls is written and illustrated by Akihiro Ononaka. It began serialization in March 2019 and is still ongoing. There are 58 chapters as of now, and new chapters come out once a month, so you have to be quite patient if you want to see more of Utena and magical girls.
If you’ve finished Season 1 and want to start with the moment it ended on, you should go to Chapter 24. However, manga readers say that Chapter 22 was skipped in the anime adaptation (hopefully to be animated in Season 2), so if you don’t want to miss any parts of the story, start with Chapter 22.
But of course, the most common advice among fans is to start reading the manga from the beginning. The original art style is incredible, and it’s only 22 chapters that you’ll need to read. It’s basically a one-day job, but it will make your experience better.
The only thing is that the manga is less unhinged and lewd than the anime, so get ready to experience some censorship.
Is Season 2 coming?
As we’ve said, there hasn’t been an official confirmation of Season 2, but Gushing Over Magical Girls fans are confident: it’s coming. There are still a lot of things to adapt, and the manga is a wonderful experience, so there just has to be a sequel.
Moreover, the series has become very popular, which is not something that happens to every other ecchi series, so Gushing Over Magical Girls is truly a special project. It would be just smart to keep it going.