Do you have any favorite magical girl weapons?
Oh yeah, tons!
I love every Madoka weapon, Kyouko’s chain spear is just genuinely awesome as fuck, and Mami’s ribbons and muskets get used in really creative ways, something MagiReco did a good job with as well. It’s hard to deny the simple appeal of Madoka’s bow, and Homura just using actual guns is hilariously cool. But Sayaka’s sword takes the cake for me, they’ve got a really sick design that compliments Sayaka’s look ridiculously well, and she already has my favourite design of the bunch so like, yeah. Plus it’s sick seeing her throw them around everywhere and I mean
She has 8 of them, what more could you want?
I’m also a huge fan of Fate Testarossa’s Bardiche, which feels like cheating since it can be all of these and more
But what can I say other than it’s badass as fuck? I really like Nanoha’s design sense of blending mecha elements with more magical girl stuff and these weapons, though they lean more into mecha than magical girl, I think they fit Fate super well and again they’re just so fucking cool, plus Bardiche itself is a neat personality, even if he’s not quite Raising Heart. There’s a reason I popped off for getting a Fate Nendoroid.
Sakura’s Star Wand has a really simple and quintessentially magical girl design that I absolutely adore, it’s mega cute and goes with like every single outfit she wears it with. But moreover I really love the story behind it, that season 2 finale is super sweet and emotional and having Sakura create her own wand from the power of her own Stars, cause she is a little star after all, fuck dude I’m tearing up thinking about it it’s so good.
Sailor Moon has a lot of really awesome weapons but I love the Kaleidomoon Scope the most, Moon Gorgeous Meditation is one of her best attacks for me and moreover it’s kinda sword shaped, being a baton, which if you haven’t gathered by now I love a lot. I also think it manages to have a really elegant design without being too much, plus it’s the most visually distinct of her 90s weapons imo just because it’s a baton rather than some sort of wand or stave.
Also Sailor Moon, I adore the Silence Glaive. It’s such a simple, and elegant, yet unbelievably foreboding tool, one that complements Saturn’s, compared to the others at least, sinister design, it’s so fitting for the Soldier of Destruction and Rebirth.
For similar reasons I do like Ruler, this little halberd from Magical Girl Raising Project. It’s a pretty cool looking weapon in the anime, but I especially like it for how it looks with Snow White
Not something the anime gets to, and I’ve never read any of the novels or manga, I just know that this happens, and it looks so fucking sick. Sure it’d look more sick if I could find art of Snow White with it that wasn’t chibi, but every other option is fanart so I’ll pass. But yeah I love the contrast in someone who looks so ideal as a magical girl wielding, once again, such a sinister looking weapon, yet one that totally befits a magical girl like her given the series she’s in.
I also really like the Scissor Blade, which might be cheating since I don’t know if this is technically a magical girl weapon since they can be used by anyone, but they were built for Ryuuko and she’s a magical girl so I’m counting it. It’s an appropriately ridiculous and funny weapon for a show like Kill la Kill but it does look pretty fuckin’ epic in spite of that, and like it’s another sword so obviously I’m into it.
I’d also be remiss not to mention whatever the fuck this thing from Flip Flappers is. Memorial Booklet just says “bazooka/combined weapon” so it’s not really got an official name, it’s just a thing Papika and Cocona use. But hey I like it, it’s a fun cooperative effort for the pair, an excuse to have a beam struggle in the show, and even if the design is uh, significantly less conventional than everything so far I still like it a lot, it’s got that Flip Flappers appeal.
And then last, and I guess least based on the order of this post but still good enough to make it...
Yuki Yuna’s fists. Yeah it’s not really a weapon but if she’s as strong as she is and she shouts “Yuusha Paanchu!!” every time then I want to count it because like, I just fucking love seeing cute girls and especially cute magical girls punch things, there’s such a raw and unmatched energy to it, it’s so good. I know they have their Mankai (or Bankai? I can’t remember) forms later which are closer to actual weapons, but those ugly as hell, and I also know her friends all have proper weapons but I remember these punches standing out way more, so they win for me.
And that’s that, hope you had fun reading.
Edit: completely forgot to mention, but I’m also a huge fan of Ren Isuzu’s weapon in Magia Record.
Normally it’s that mostly sort of standard battle staff type thing with the wing for some mahou shoujo flair, and already I really like that, but, and I couldn’t find a photo in my 2 seconds of Googling, but it can also project some magic from the top and become this super awesome scythe, which aside from looking sick as fuck works well for Ren because if I know her backstory she like died twice or something so the scythe gives a really cool grim reaper look, while the staff is more her on her way to happiness again, it’s super good.
Yeah now we’re done.
