Part of the reason I want to see a straight-up college setting magical girl show is that I legitimately think a lot of the standard storylines would work better that way, but another part of it is that I just want to witness the drama of trying to balance magical girl antics with a full courseload. All staggering into Calculus 200 looking like hell because they were fighting zombie squid all night. Striking up a friendship with another girl based on a mutual misunderstanding where they think she’s a fellow magical girl, but she thinks they’re just really into the party scene, which eventually arouses her suspicions because they’re rolling up every morning totally wrecked from the night before, but she never sees them at any of the same parties.
“On the prowl again last night?”
“Is it that obvious? It was a hell of a time.”
“I feel you, sis. Here, I have something that’ll fix you right up…. I must have just missed you, where did you end up? Not on campus for sure.”
“What? No, there’s never anything going on here. The railway yard is the current hotspot.”
“Oh damn, yeah that makes a lot more sense, I saw the lights from downtown.”
“You did? I’ll have to tone it down next time I guess.”
“Don’t even! Give it your all, girl, you inspire me to push myself just as hard.”
and then they decide to go out together some night, but before they can commit to either clubbing (wherein magical girl is hella surprised) or monsterfighting (in which party girl is hella surprised), some zombie squid attack and magical girl does the transformation thing and party girl doesn’t even notice because she’s beating zombie squid away with a sidewalk sandwich-board sign, and once the zombie squid are taken care of they’re eyeing each other in utter shock because 1) party girl can fight pretty good without transforming (”my sister was really into karate and I had to keep up”) and 2) magical girl looks AMAZEBALLS in her sudden magical superhero outfit (“WHAT THE FUCK SHOW ME HOW”) and, yeah, they end up partners-in-crime and also girlfriends

























