We’re happy to announce that the novelization of the critically acclaimed visual novel, Magical Girl Witch Trials, will be translated by Alice and hosted on Ave Lilium!
***THIS WORK CONTAINS DEPICTIONS OF SENSITIVE CONTENT INCLUDING BULLYING, DEPRESSION, SELF-HARM, DOMESTIC ABUSE, SUICIDE, MURDER, DRUG ABUSE, AND ABANDONMENT. SOME MAY FIND IT DIFFICULT TO CONSUME SUCH CONTENT. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.***
Title: Magical Girl Witch Trials
Author: Acacia (follow their twitter here)
Cover art: Umemaro (follow their twitter here)
Frontispiece and main illustrations: Sugawara Omu (follow their twitter here) and Maruchi (follow their twitter here)
Other associated names:
ManoSaba
Mahou Shoujo no Majo Saiban
まのさば
魔法少女ノ魔女裁判
Synopsis:
The morning she’s supposed to begin her first year of high school, Sakuraba Ema wakes up in an unfamiliar cell, in the prison of a mansion on a remote island. There, Ema finds herself captive along with twelve other girls. Amidst their confusion, the caretaker of the mansion, an owl, delivers to them an announcement:
“Any of you could become a witch that brings calamity to this world.” Branded as potential witches, Ema and the others are forced into a life of confinement. Despite their anxieties, these girls begin to grow closer — but the fragile peace they maintain is shattered when a murder occurs. The owl assembles the captive girls and declares the start of a witch trial: a brutal game to identify the culprit of the murder — to identify who is to be executed.
Please note: This is a novelization of a visual novel, which is currently being translated into English. If you would like to read the visual novel without spoilers when that translation releases, do not read this for now.
I am working on this in an unofficial capacity and have no connection to the official translation of the visual novel, which you can buy on Steam and the Nintendo Switch.
Additionally, for those of you patiently waiting on the final chunk of WataSochi, never fear – I may be a terminal staller, but it’ll be coming quite soon.
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