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Main Comic

Chapter 1

• Sally swinging her arms at Sylvia while Sylvia holds her At Arm's Length with one hand and checks herself in a mirror with the other.
  Sally: You think I don't know how ta be all lady-ish 'n junk? I'm like a damn graceful gazelle!
• Gwen's Establishing Character Moment: she pulls a Stealth Hi/Bye on Undine, saying she has been there for a while.
• The Alt Text jokes that Undine and Gwen's combo attack is "Soggy Dirt!"

Chapter 2

• Gwen's notes for the class? "MAGIC." Sally says she's disgusted Gwen has better grades than her.
  • Later, when the girls are at a cafe, Gwen's book says "Conclusion: Math is HARD!"
• While waiting for the night, we see glimpses of how the girls kill their time. Sally, the resident Fiery Redhead, is spotted watching a soap opera or chick flick and tearing up.
• The name of Gwen and Sally's attack combo is "Lava Whatever." When Sylvia says they really should come up with something better, Gwen just shrugs.
  Alt Text: Sally's not very creative, and Gwen doesn't care
• Sally, being the only one who has no way of flying or similar, first having to climb then having to be carried by Sylvia bridal style, with a huge frown on her face.
• The Alt Text of the page provides the explanation why Sally cannot fly: she apparently tried to use her powers like a jetboot once, but "never again."
• After she's smacked back to the ground after taking off to "check for bad guys from the sky", Sylvia flatly announces:
  Sylvia: Report. Bad guys are in the sky.

Chapter 3

• Heartful Punch's Heh Heh, You Said "X" reaction to Undine's Verbal Backspace.
  Undine (referring to the Purple One): ...Then maybe sh—it's gone after all. For now.
  Heartful Punch: *snort* Sorry, you said shits.
  Undine: ...

Guest comics

• An interviewer asks who the strongest team member is other than Tessa. Tessa grimaces and declines to answer, Sally shouts challenges at Sylvia from off-screen, and Gwen deadpan declares "I would destroy Sally."
  Sylvia: It would depend on the circumstances... Any one of us could probably take the others out if we had the element of surprise.
  Alt Text: Surprise is the strongest of the five elements

Chapter 4

• Heartful Punch finds out about Team Alchemical and the next panel is a big "WHAAAAAAAT" from down the hall.
• Heartful Punch agonizing over how she must have come across to Undine, slumping against a locker and sliding onto the floor, while Undine just wonders if the cafeteria is serving turkey.
• As Heartful Punch offers to treat Undine to lunch, a couple of her fangirls in the background look very interested in the proceedings. Then HP clarifies why, and one of the fangirls goes "Oh, lame" while the other shushes her. Later, as the fangirls are talking to two others, the one who spoke earlier says that HP is "on some kinda sorrow date."
• Heartful Punch's real name turns out to be Kokoro. Undine calls it cute, which makes HP recoil, saying this is exactly why she almost never uses it.

Chapter 5

• Team Forte's greenhaired, energetic member immediately thinks Undine wants an autograph and is excited.
• The Alt Text gets meta regarding its tendency to disappear when things get serious.
  Alt Text: ...Is that weirdo gone? Phew, I can talk again.
• Undine's mental process as to why she couldn't team up with Team Melty is a picture of three wheels — two, on fire and frozen, are together with a heart floating next to them, and on the other side is a wet wheel. To wit; Undine's painfully aware that she's a third wheel.
• The interstitial page with Team Melty starring in an appliance commercial and being their overly dramatic selves.
  • The Alt Text also gives us the following gem
  Alt Text: They both live with their parents still... don't be fooled.

Chapter 6

• nonsense nonsense
• This guest-drawn comic, in which two of Those Four Girls (Bud and Harley, for the record) make up ridiculous names for themselves, then when Zoe steps in, decide to call her "Iris".
  Zoe: M-My name's been established… You can't do this to me…
  • The pale-purple-haired girl spontaneously turning into a stick figure.

Chapter 7

• Page 6
  HP: Welcome to the Magical Girl Power Training Club! Name subject to change.
  Alt text: We call it Mgptc *spit flies out of mouth* for short
• The reactions when Bud pairs up with Harley for training.
  Harley: I'm not letting you use me for target practice again after last time. Especially just so you can push your s—
  Bud: [shushing her] Oh don't worry it'll be the best let's go ol' buddy.
  Vedika: Your sacrifice is appreciated, Harley.
  Cassidy: We'll never forget you.
  Alt text: Finally, another character death

Chapter 8

• In the interstitial section, "Anemone" breaks the fourth wall even more than usual.
  Anemone: ...What? You want to know why I have a bunch of weird dolls of all the girls?
  (Anemone glares at the reader)
  Anemone: I have a lot of time on my hands.

Chapter 9

• The alt text after Sally calls Undine "Undies" in the flashback:
  Alt text: Sally was the only one allowed to use that nickname, because she just refused to stop.
• Undine's reaction to Team Outrageous' attacks after her initial curiosity. Apple's is her yelling "Awesome Apple Ollie" while ollieing into an enemy with her skateboard.
  Undine: [thinking] Ah… they're that kind of team…
  Alt text: the shameful kind
• After falling asleep due to exhaustion from the last battle, Undine wakes up in a hospital bed Heartful Punch found for her. Her immediate reaction upon realizing what happened is to declare the situation utterly embarrassing.
• Heartful Punch leaves Undine a note after the nurse forces her to leave during the night. In it, she's drawn a picture of the nurse, with devil horns, arms crossed and going "HARUMPH". The nurse didn't look at the note but is still pretty sure she drew that picture. The Alt Text goes one step further.
  Kokoro: *Rapidly looking between her note and the nurse while scribbling feverishly*
• HP has a... unique way of calling the hospital staff to open the door.
  Kokoro: YOOOO SAFETY PEOPLE! [making wild stabbing motions] YOYOYOYOYOYO!

Chapter 10

• Undine when having breakfast with her mother who also seems to think she is romantically involved with Heartful Punch and is totally supportive.
• Zoe works up the nerve to speak to Heartful Punch, only to realize after trying to get her attention she doesn't know H.P.'s real name and, being unsure if calling her by her title would be rude, compromises by calling her "Miss Punch". H.P. gives Zoe a confused smile while pointing at herself.
• The Alt Text for page 20, which features a baby Kokoro:
  All powerful mahous began as poopy diaper babies, true story
• Undine failing to pronounce naginata and guandao (the weapons of Moonlight and Starlight Spear), leading to HP saying all she needs to know is they are different kinds of spears. Apparently, everyone knows what a halberd is, as the Alt Text points out.
• HP: "But— um, stuff happened, y'know... and then I happened, y'know?" Undine: "I am aware of the process..."
• Moonlight Spear/Mitsuki announces to her team she is pregnant. The reactions?
  Sunlight Spear: Wait, how many months?!
  Starlight Spear: Like a baby baby?!
• Starlight Spear complains of the homework, saying the teachers can't really expect them to do it after patrol. Sunlight Spear reminds her that she is supposed to do it before.
• Heartful Punch admits she used to have black in her magical girl outfit. Undine has as much trouble imagining it as anyone else.

Chapter 11

• Cassidy's reaction when she realizes she's been left with Bud for training.
  Cassidy: Wait, that leaves me with…
  Bud: [arm around her] Let's do our best, buddy. [paps her head]
  Cassidy: >8(
• Several good bits of Alt Text:
  • Poking fun at HP's first appearance in the comic:
    HP back when her bangs were unacceptably normal.
  • After Vedika telepathically "hangs up" on Undine:
    *20 seconds later* Yo new brain who dis
  • When Undine mentions the M.G.S.I.:
    In case you forgot, MGSI stands for Mega Girly Sexy Iguanas

Chapter 12

• This guest comic portraying Zoe's magical girl form (which had yet to be shown at the time) as an eyepatch-wearing delinquent titled Magical Girl Hard Edge. And then there's her weapon turning out to be a handgun, and Undine's reaction to that.
  Zoe: [holding gun] I'm not sure what it is, but it seems pretty strong.
• This guest comic, where HP shoots up out of bed after dreaming of an Undine that can only be described as swole. The best part? According to the Alt Text, it's technically canon.
  HP: This fills me with many mixed emotions.

Chapter 13

• The expression on Rue's face when she pulls out her potion bombs to use against the monsters.
• After Zoe disables one of the monsters, Rue tosses a potion bomb in its mouth and gets a thought bubble of a target board with "NAILED IT" in the center.
• Rue expresses concern that Zoe was fighting alone and it was her first time, and then realizes she's sounding like her mom.
  Rue, thinking: Oh no.
  Alt Text: There is no escape from momification.
• Rue tries to go home without drawing attention from her mom, only to find that her mom is still awake because of baby Dill.
  Rue: [glaring at Dill] Narc.
• The Alt Text for page 31
  yeah yeah Sans yeah yeah HE DOESN'T OWN A COPYRIGHT ON GLOWY EYE
• In the Fright Night comic, Anemone implies that she dresses up and passes herself off as a young child to get candy.
  Anemone: Be safe out there, my fellow children.

Chapter 14

• Cube briefly interrupts the chapter to post this year's Crimmus picture: Rue's siblings decorating her like a Crimmus bush.
• Bud's Big Damn Heroes moment, after one-shotting one of Cassidy's clones in the head (and giving ample reason why Cassidy was so angry/mortified to find herself stuck with Bud as sparring partner earlier).
  Bud: [arches an eyebrow] Sorry, reflex.

Chapter 15

• Perhaps it's a bit of Black Comedy, given the circumstances, but there's the fact that many people left flowers and stuffed animals...right under the sign saying not to leave offerings out of consideration of the residents.

Chapter 16

• Kokoro has a Catapult Nightmare about Undine rejecting her- displacing Kicks, who'd been sleeping on her neck. The cat gives her the evil eye.
• Forte Bass and Outrageous Apple are twin sisters. That was so unexpected it's hilarious.
• Apple calls Bud 'Gossip Girl'. Bud insists that it's Doctor Gossip, thank you.
• HP asks if Zoe hates her. Undine says she'll ask Zoe when she tells her it's okay to join the training club. HP asks if Undine's joking and looks increasingly worried when she realizes Undine's serious (to the point she doesn't notice a ball bouncing off her head).
  We just became partners, but we've already reached Top 10 Anime Betrayals?
• Undine is confused as to how Zoe could find HP intimidating...as she pictures HP at her most Adorkable.
• Bud, despite having Eyes Always Shut, somehow managed to wink at HP.
  I will not be taking questions on how the last panel works GOODBYE
• After Undine's teacher, who's most notable for having a scar on her face, warns her students not to let their guard down:

  Student: Is that how your scar happened?
  Teacher: Go home.

  • The Alt Text suggests she secretly revels in her students guessing how she got her scar.
• In the second Q & A, Bud shows Outrageous Lime why she calls her weaker lasers 'Stinger Mode'. By example. She gets a baseball bat to the face in response.

Chapter 17

• Amidst the flashback to the very serious talk about Goops at the magical girl training club, Zoe has an Imagine Spot of Goops in a phone booth cackling as she calls HP.
  Do the Young People even know what a phone booth is nowadays
• Goops is now a canon nickname for her. Bud named her that. Of course she did.
  • Also check out the looks on Zoe, Harley, Vedika, and (in the next comic) Undine's faces after Bud names her Goops and explains her reasoning.
• Kokoro turns out to have dated Outrageous Lime before either of them became big names. She tells Undine that Lime was a little too "hardcore" for her. Undine's response to the information is to picture Lime offering Kokoro drugs. (With the pack she's holding helpfully labeled 'The Drugs'.) Kokoro remembers reality, which involved Bathroom Stall Graffiti insulting a teacher.
  Undine's imagination:

  Lime: [offering drugs] Check it.
  Kokoro: [trembling] Peer pressure…
  Kokoro's memory:

  Lime: [writing on wall] Check it.
  Kokoro: Permanent marker…
• The look on Mingxing's face when she realizes that Kokoro likes Undine.
• In the Interstitial, Mary apparently interrupted Anemone in the middle of lunch.
• In the main Interstitial, Rue is out with Zoe and drinks a healing potion... but Zoe thinks that it's one of her bomb potions. Rue's face when she realizes what's going on, and Zoe ducking away, are hilarious, especially when Rue says "Boom?" after finishing.

Chapter 18

• Kokoro admits that Mingxing means well, but can be a bit much to handle, especially since she wants to be involved with everything.
  Harley: So she's Bud.
• Kokoro and Undine's heart-to-heart on the roof is interrupted by them getting busted by (if the Alt Text is to be believed) the sole member of the Gardening Club.
  Kokoro: Crap, cheese it!
  Gardening Magical Girl: GARDENING! CLUB! ONLY!
• Kokoro's joke about Zoe's powers being pretty metal falls flat because Zoe doesn't realize that was supposed to be a joke.
• Zoe apparently thought Bud's hair resembled octopus tentacles when they're supposed to resemble flower petals. Not that the fans were much better.
  Alt Text: Shoutout to everyone who insisted it was Sausagehair
• Bud does a Noblewoman's Laugh when she lasers Undine's water target.
• Bud's reaction to finding out WaterPunch happened: a shit-eating grin and firing a ton of lasers, confusing Vedika. If Harley's reaction is any indication, Bud does her laser shows a lot.
• Tessa facing her window, fists clenched, as she prepares to confront Goops isn't funny. The Alt Text, however, is.
  Tessa is ready to Fight a Window.
• In the Q&A between Chapters 18 and 19:
  • Mingxing is asked if she's a cop. A perplexed Mingxing says she doesn't think so because she mostly deals with magical girl affairs, while Rue pokes her head in to chime in that she thinks that's close enough.
  • Mingxing talks about her previous prosthetic arm by Steampunk Princess, and how if she lifted something too heavy steam would shoot out of it.
    Beth: None of us wanted to stand too close to it.
    Mingxing: [trollface]
  • Kicks after Kokoro goes to The Catfe:
    "This smells like other cats again! Who are they?"
  • A post-merge Tessa is asked whether she's concerned about her floor-length hair picking up dirt.
    "What do you people think magic is for?"
    Alt Text: Have you ever seen a Precure? She follows a proud tradition

Chapter 19

• 2021's Crimmus comic is an outtake set during Chapter 19, in which Kokoro tells Undine the monster turned her into a ghost...a Ghost of Crimmus Present! She gets a torrent of water to the face in response.
• Tessa-Goops is highly amused the first time Kokoro addresses her as 'Goops'.
  "You're seriously gonna call me that to my face?"
  Alt Text: Please, be respectful and call her Spoops.
• Tessa-Goops idly asks if Anemone can see her, and the alt text notes that it'd be super embarassing if Tessa-Goops was talking to herself the whole time. The very next page, Tessa-Goops admits that it's rude of her to talk to someone who can't respond, but notes that Anemone does that with her "imaginary friends" all the time. Given Anemone's status as a Fourth-Wall Observer, said imaginary friends are most likely the audience.
• Anemone's Major Injury Underreaction.
  "That hurt, you little brat."
• The Interstital, in which the various barriers Anemone generates are called 'creepy' (by Melty Frost), 'eye-hurting' (by Pop Blitz) and 'tacky' (by Forte Keys).
  Anemone: [unamused] ...everyone's a critic.
  • Of particular note: The Barrier pattern that Team Forte complains about is a Mondrian vomit of red, yellow, and blue, with white and black accents. Team Forte has four members, one of which is green-themed and notably absent from the shot. The remaining three are red-, yellow-, and blue-themed, with black-and-white trim.
  Forte Keys: Don't you think it looks a bit... tacky?
• The guest comic: Apparently the 2019 Crimmus comic wasn't the first or only time Rue was mistaken for a bush.
  Rue: You swore we'd never speak of that again.
• To announce a hiatus, Cube shows a panel of the Club Bulletin Board at the school. Among the clubs: Soccer Club, where no powers are allowed, and Magi-Soccer Club, where powers are allowed. The latter's poster has been amended — the word "some" is written on before "powers allowed!"
  • Magi-Soccer advertises itself as "As Fun As It Sounds!" Regular Soccer Club responds with "We Still Have Fun!"
  • The Monster Studies class also has to emphasize it's not a monster fan club and they only want students that will respect that. The fact that they even had to put that disclaimer says something.
• The Interstitial shows a page from an In-Universe pamphlet going over patrol safety protocol, summing it up with the acronym "PARTS". (Patrol a familiar area, Awareness of surroundings, Rest when tired, Team up, and Stay home when needed) According to the Alt Text, somebody wanted to word the first step as "Find a cool place to patrol", but was turned down for obvious reasons.

Chapter 20

• One of the hospital workers goes out of her way to avoid swearing in front of Vedika, only for Nurse Liu to come in and immediately undermine her efforts.
  Devin: Yeah, I've never seen this shi— uh, something like this.
  [three panels later]
  Liu: [entering] Hey, Devin! Are you seeing this shit!?

Chapter 21

• Kokoro is glad the news that her and Undine are teaming up will be out there soon so people stop asking her if they will or not.
  Nasri: You know people will be asking pretty quick if it's romantic or not.
  Kokoro: [flustered and blushing] W—WELL TOO BAD!!!
  Nasri: ...So it is romantic, then.
  Kokoro: I'M HANGING UP!!! [click]
• Meanwhile, Undine is giving herself a pep talk to prepare herself for the interview tonight...only to get derailed by freaking out over what to wear.
  • And then at the station itself Kokoro asks if Undine didn't just plan to transform into Alchemical Water. Undine is mortified she didn't think of that.
• Bud trying so hard to get Zoe to notice her.
  Bud: Us long-range flower gals gotta stick together.
  Zoe: Yeah?
  Alt Text: But how will people know which one of us is talking? Our text colors are the same!
• The look of shock on Kokoro and Undine's faces after they see Arthur yelling at Leila about poaching his clients.
• It wasn't a surprise but it's still absolutely hilarious that Kokoro technically has Kicks illegally, since the dorm doesn't allow pets.

Chapter 22

• Kicks's hunger overrides her shyness.
  Alt Text: This is also how I am described at parties.
• I can't believe no one said Oh Big Stretch. Very rude!
• Kokoro's counterargument to Undine's worries about making things worse is to shove her face against Undine's cheek and tell her to shaddup.
• When Kicks starts sniffing at Undine, this is Kokoro's thought:
  Go, my child! Distract her with your adorableness!
• Undine's grandmother had once been a magical girl herself. Undine's mom? Nope.
  "I think my mom felt like she got skipped over. She's always seemed a bit self-conscious about it."
• Kokoro dodging the question of how her grades are by hastily pointing out it was almost time to patrol.

Character Polls

• In 2018, the Sleepless Domain Discord ran a poll on the most and least popular characters. Mary Cagle drew a comic about the results. The 'chump zone' has most of Team Forte complaining that they got the least amount of votes (two votes), saying that they had barely any screen time and never got to show their music skills, while Forte Bass (the only one to get more than two votes) gives a V-Sign. Meanwhile, Cassidy (who also only got two votes) is not taking it well that Nico (a rat), Ms. Cable (Mary Cagle's Author Avatar), and Claire (Zoey's cousin, who was a write in vote) got more votes than her.
• 2019 saw another vote, and another comic.
  • Undine's quite overwhelmed at getting first place, Anemone claims she timed her official appearance in the comic to coincide with the vote (in which she got fifth) while sixth place Rue is quite suspicious of 'this narc' next to her. Meanwhile, in the chump corner, Forte Drums is freaking out about getting no points at all.
    Forte Drums: I'm the cute one! I have a bowtie!
  • Among some of the characters that got more votes than Forte Drums: Kokoro's cat Kicks, Undine's fish, a puppet version of Kokoro, and a nameless Team Lancer fan.
• The 2020 poll:
  • In the poll itself, characters who have both known names and magical girl titles have both listed in the form of "[Name] (Magical Girl [Title])", e.g. "Undine (Magical Girl Alchemical Water)". Zoe and Rue, who have no titles, are listed as "Zoe (Magical Girl Just Zoe)" and "Rue (Magical Girl Just Rue)".
  • When the results came in, Rue acts like a complete Tsundere about being bumped up to fourth, Bud, who got fifth, plans on gloating to Harley about it, Tessa (6th) tries to interrogate Anemone (7th) about their graveyard encounter, Cassidy sulks because she only got eighth after she died, and Forte Drums laughs at Roni (Forte Lead), the new resident of the chump zone (the only ones with fewer points were write-in candidates).
  • The Alt Text goes full Dark Comedy by joking that people in the top 10 can't be killed, giving Cassidy's complaints about her votes being too late a whole new meaning.
  • Cassidy's death was a Tear Jerker for many, because she died alone without leaving behind a body with her feats against Goops unrecognized, right after her 'friends' and even her idol shunned her. Even her own team didn't really care about her much. Her reaction to the poll showing people DO care about her comes with the funny implication that she's mostly just annoyed at the whole thing.
  • Characters that got more points than Roni: Kicks (a cat), Zoe's sister Ariana (who technically hasn't appeared yet, only in one photo), and Rue's brother Dill (a baby). Also, despite it premiering the chapter the poll was taken, the staircase where Undine and Kokoro had The Big Damn Kiss still got ten write in votes.
• In the announcement for the 2021 poll, the Alt Text reads:
  The Fortes have been relegated to write-ins, they are finally safe
• In the 2021 poll results:
  • Kokoro and Undine are surprised at the razor-thin margin between their respective first and second place positions, with the author chiming in to say that it went back and forth a lot. Kokoro decides that this means they tied, and declares that no one’s gonna stop it because they're very strong. The author then declares that it's indeed a tie. (Also, Kokoro has those hearts in her eyes again when she declares they're strong.)
    Undine, after the author chimes in: Who's that
  • Rue, who placed fourth behind Zoe in third, wonders if "sticking with this kid" is the key to success.
  • Tessa objects to getting sixth place; since she's merged with Goops now, their votes should also be combined, which would push them into fifth place. Bud, who actually placed fifth, is less than happy:
    Bud: You fiend!
    • The Alt Text jokes that this was Goops’s true Evil Plan all along, also noting that it wasn't very effective.
  • Among some of the write in votes: The Big Damn Kiss staircase, the Alt Text, the Egg Pillow Undine cuddles while talking to Mingxing, Kokoro's scarf, the Elevadeer (the monster that killed Team Alchemical), Goops's missing eye, Sylvia's cameraman, Cassidy's ghost, and the Code.
• 2022: Another year, another vote:
  • Zoe is absolutely MORTIFIED that she won the character poll this year.
    Kokoro: Why is she apologizing?
  • Rue claims Zoe sold out, which just mortifies her more.
  • "Stressa" (the semi official nickname for the fusion of Tessa and Goops) still claims fusing got her as high a spot as she did. The narration claims 'jury's still out' on that.
  • There's an entire image dedicated to how many characters got five and under votes◊. It's amazing. Among the selections: the curse Goops puts on Team Forte to make them the chump squad (currently unproven), Melony (Mary Cagle's VTuber avatar), Outrageous Camerawoman (Team Outrageous's camerawoman), each half of Cassidy's Self-Duplication, Forte Drums's bowtie (they were very specific, JUST the bowtie), the readers, and gun!Zoe from this guest comic.
  • And what's more amazing is The Alt Text just missed the cut. They got six votes.

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