Isekai Mahou Shoujo Radical☆Haruna - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - The Magical Girl from Another World

[cybeast21]

I think it'd be more accurate to label her as closer to a sociopath that happens to have good morality because she wants to be a Magical Girl in all respects.

She herself is genuinely heroic, but there's clear emotional disconnection between her and the people she protects. She's more doing it 'because that's what a Magical Girl does'.

This imo is more interesting than just being psycho/secretly evil. She's not mentally normal, but she's still devoted to being good.



There's nothing to break or traumatize to begin with. Seeing a kid get brutally killed in front of her and being left holding their severed hands only briefly stuns her. Even pre-isekai notice her emphasizing how Magical Girls "should be" rather than any sort of friendship when her friends are bickering: implication is she's always been like this, her teammates just didn't notice.

Exactly, she looks like she has went past beyond breaking point even before all the magical girl things XD

 

[KoffeeStarZ0e]

its terrifying of how optimistic she is.

 

[AstolfoXY]

I think it'd be more accurate to label her as closer to a sociopath that happens to have good morality because she wants to be a Magical Girl in all respects.

She herself is genuinely heroic, but there's clear emotional disconnection between her and the people she protects. She's more doing it 'because that's what a Magical Girl does'.

This imo is more interesting than just being psycho/secretly evil. She's not mentally normal, but she's still devoted to being good.



There's nothing to break or traumatize to begin with. Seeing a kid get brutally killed in front of her and being left holding their severed hands only briefly stuns her. Even pre-isekai notice her emphasizing how Magical Girls "should be" rather than any sort of friendship when her friends are bickering: implication is she's always been like this, her teammates just didn't notice.

Nah I don't even think she's a sociopath or anything, she looked normal as a kid, suggesting that the constant smiling is heritage from her admired predecessor. A style/public PR


Tldr; she's coping by doing what's familiar to her