“Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete” (Gushing over Magical Girls) is an anime that ended its broadcasting some time ago, but its impact on the media was still very big, being that today it is still in the news for different reasons, in this case for the large number of Blu-ray/DVDs that it has sold with its third volume. And the number is so big that it was compared with an anime released almost at the same time as this one and that was believed to be one of the most popular in every sense, Solo Leveling, being that the anime of the magical girls overwhelmingly surpassed the series that ended almost at the same time as this one.
Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete sells a hundred times more Blu-ray/DVDs than Solo Leveling!
With the most recent official information showing the number of Blu-ray/DVDs sold in Japan during the last week, anime fans were surprised for several reasons, one of the most striking being the number of copies sold by the renowned Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete. The series, which introduces us to these magical girls in the most “whimsical” situations, has sold a total of 9,675 copies in its first week of volume 3, a number that has surpassed many important anime.
But undoubtedly the one that shocked fans the most was its comparison with one of the most recent anime, Solo Leveling, which before its release was believed to be one of the best series available. With the release of its third volume, the anime only reached 91 Blu-ray/DVD sales, which led to a comparison in the networks between it and Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete, which sold a hundred times more, demonstrating two very important aspects.
The first of these is the great popularity of Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete, being that even a few weeks after the end of its broadcast, fans either want to have more of the magical girls or also to relive the “spiciest” scenes in a format such as Blu-ray/DVD. And secondly, we have an aspect that has been talked about for some time in the social networks, and this is the disappointment in terms of popularity that has been Solo Leveling, which had promised to be one of the best of the season and which failed to make an impact as expected.
Remember that if you want to live the experience of knowing Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete, you can do it officially from the renowned Anime Onegai platform, where you can not only see why these girls are so loved, but there is an added bonus. From here you will be able to meet the “waifus” in their original language or dubbed into English with a cast of the highest quality and incomparable talent.
For those who do not know the story of Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete, it introduces us to Utena Hiiragi, an ordinary girl whose only hobby is to love the “Magical Girls”, a group of heroines who protect their city from all kinds of evils, being that our protagonist will be closer than she thinks. One day, in front of her, a being that offers her magical powers appears, Utena accepts, but she does not become one of the girls she loves so much, but on the contrary, she is now part of the rival side.
Although at the beginning Utena is reluctant to be part of the enemy organization Enormita, with each combat she has with the “Magical Girls” of her city she will discover that she loves to inflict all kinds of hardships on them, especially those that border on the full-fledged H style. This is why now our protagonist will fight against them with the sole purpose of approaching them and doing all kinds of “dirty” things thanks to her new powers that are precisely focused on domination and control.
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