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Akihiro Ononaka's Gushing Over Magical Girls Manga Resumes on October 17

The official X (formerly Twitter) account for Takeshobo's Storia Dash web platform announced on Friday Akihiro Ononaka's Gushing Over Magical Girls (Mahō Shōjo ni Akogarete) manga will resume serialization with chapter 59 on October 17 on Takeshobo's new Takecomi! website.

The series entered a hiatus in March 2024 due to Ononaka's health.

J-Novel Club licensed the manga, and it describes the story:

Hi, I'm Hiiragi Utena. I'm a normal magical-girl-loving middle school girl—or at least I was, but then some talking mascot showed up out of the blue and cast a spell on me! Now's my chance to join my beloved magical girls as...a villain? Hang on, something's wrong with my outfit! This can't be happening!

Watch this shy magical-girl fan transform into a sadistic dominatrix! When good and evil collide, who will be the one to submit?!

Ononaka launched the manga in Takeshobo's Manga Life Storia magazine in 2019. After the magazine ceased publication in July 2019, the manga moved to the Storia Dash website. Takeshobo published the manga's 11th volume in January 2024.

The manga's television anime adaptation premiered on the AT-X channel in January 2024, and the series also aired on Tokyo MX, BS11, Sun TV, and KBS Kyoto. The anime has three different versions: the TV broadcast version, the "gushing" version on streaming services, and the "ultra-gushing" version on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. The TV broadcast version censors the audio and visuals, the "gushing" version censors the audio and some of the visuals, and the "ultra-gushing" version does not censor either.

HIDIVE streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and has the series' "gushing" version available for streaming.

An event for the anime announced in October 2024 the series will get a second season.

Source: Storia Dash's X/Twitter account