Mahou Shounen Fight!
is a webcomic that parodies and pays homage to the Magical Girl genre, written by DustyJack and JadePrince.
Mike Smith is pretty much done with trying new and exciting things. Being raised by the grown up equivalent of a Granola Girl he hopes to avoid the weirdness trend set by his mom by going to a new prestigious private school, the St. Didacus Academy for Upstanding International Achievers, that will look great on his college applications. The first day seems completely fine, except the second day he wakes up and sees the living embodiment of Summer has taken host in his head. Things only get weirder from there.
He finds in his school the other three season spirits inhabiting three other boys, Yuki with Winter, Raji with Autumn and Oliver with Spring. All of them are a part of the Environmental Awareness club with Joe Lachlan, a combination Team Mom and Drill Sergeant Nasty elementary school gym teacher and only other person who can see the spirits as their adviser.
Since April 2016, the series has been on hiatus and promises an irregular publishing schedule, only putting out chapters as they're finished.
This webcomic provides examples of:
- Ambiguously Gay: So far, Joe and Oliver. Raji, surprisingly, is straight.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: The spirits.
- Anthropomorphic Food: Fafa turns all of Anne's baked goods into this but Oliver easily overwhelms them with one sweep attack.
- Author Appeal: The authors love messing with the gender binary.
- Calling Your Attacks
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The spirits again. Summer is yellow, Autumn is red/orange, Winter is light blue-gray and Spring is green.
- Combination Attack: Mike and Yuki.
- Coming-Out Story: Seems to be Yuki's character arc.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Pretty much the Environmental Awareness Club when they transform.
- Culture Equals Costume: Each of the boys' magical costumes are based off their culture: cowboy for American Mike, knight armour for Brit Oliver, samurai for Japanese Yuki and harem-ish for Indian Raji.
- Deconstruction: of Magical Girl and Save the World tropes.
- Dramatic Irony: Main villain Bohai is bound to Yuki's sister Chihiru, who she acknowledges as her Imaginary Friend.
- Elemental Powers: Seasons are a force of nature, after all.
- Fog Feet: Spirits who do not transform the things they possess in the material world are almost always having these.
- Four-Man Band
- Only Sane Man: Yuki
- The Smart Guy: Oliver
- The Casanova Wannabe: Raji
- The Butt-Monkey: Mike
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Note if based on their seasons, Raji's and Mike's temperaments are flipped.
- Sanguine: Oliver
- Choleric: Raji
- Melancholic: Mike
- Phlegmatic: Yuki
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Mike and Yuki. Enough so that Alex asks Mike if they're dating.
This becomes funny when you realize Yuki is gay and Alex might be as well. The "quick thaw" scene has their powers interacting in an, interesting way... - In Medias Res: The first two pages start with Mike, already established as a Magical Boy trying to confront a "bog fairy".
- Invisible to Normals: The spirits which can only be seen by other spirit holders and Joe.
- Jumped at the Call: Oliver and Raji, it seems.
- Marilyn Maneuver: Not quite, but the imagery is there...
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Raji and his fiancée Anjika, they're both crossdressers.
- Multinational Team: Covering the U.S., the U.K., India and Japan.
- Odd Couple: Summer and Mike, Autumn and Raji.
- Only One Name: All the Spirits except the Sky Mother.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: This is a Magical Girl parody. It's a pretty much a LAW.
- Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Nothing's final yet, but Raji and Anjika.
- Red Baron: Raji takes to making these up for the group. Also naming himself the leader.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Autumn is the most masculine looking spirit (and most short tempered) and he is rather upset that he is in the super feminine Raji.
- Shipper on Deck: Mike ( and Raji arguably even moreso) for Alex/Yuki.
- The Smart Guy: Oliver and Anjika, according to the website.
- Symbiotic Possession: The case with the Season Spirits and the Club, unlike the other malevolent spirits they have to deal with.
- The Reveal: Spirits have been causing trouble in the material world by possessing humans and it is the club's duty to fend off said spirits.
- Third-Person Person: Every villainous Spirit of the Chapter at one point.
- Transformation of the Possessed: Spirits can do this anytime once confronted by the club. The efficacy varies, however.
- Transformation Sequence: Elaborate enough to cover a double-page spread.
- Transformation Trinket: Mike has underwear, Raji has a ring, Yuki has his archery glove. Oliver now has a pin of his family crest. A manticore eating a pile of snakes, as Raji puts it. In a word; wow.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Alex and Yuki, pretty obvious to the audience, but it confuses Mike.
- Weirdness Censor: Anne treats the battle in her shop as a "strange centralized earthquake".
- Wham Shot: Dionaea transforming Ryver, a vegan animal rights activist and becoming the first proper opponent for the club about halfway through Chapter 4.
