MagiLumiere Co., Ltd. - Ch. 98 - MP-Charge-Kun

[MangaDex]

 

[jaaaace]

Man’s all “you don’t see the big picture of the economy…”

Bro you're just scaling insurance fraud and you want the Nobel prize for economics??

 

[Hicleric]

Pleasing, simple resolution, even with the usual Big Bad Evil Guy stupidity. I think Charge-kun would have been a better name than Rabbit (especially given some of the other cutesy tech we've seen) but Alice connotations aside it seems accurate. Cuz it breeds kaii like rabbits.

The brief glimpse of President-chan's inspiration is a good touch too. I really want to see more of that tragic relationship (whichever form it takes ) soon. I had thought she might have been just a high-tier magical girl but seems like she was pretty high in the company organization too.

I'm like 80% convinced Manao is a solo agent of chaos and the actual BBEG, but we'll see. But doesn't he know you should never bring guns to a magic fight?!

 

[Varpie]

Bringing guns to a magic fight?

 

[zaygr]

He casts bullet.

 

[BreadBunny]

I do love that the big bad of this story is ultimately just the economy and the fact that you can just make more money by being wasteful than you'd make by recycling your waste.

 

[Hicleric]

I do love that the big bad of this story is ultimately just the economy and the fact that you can just make more money by being wasteful than you'd make by recycling your waste.

Capitalism 101. If you can make more money by lying about/hiding the actual costs of your business...totally fine.

 

[Alcion]

You know how they're trying to push people to use electric cars instead of using alternative transportation?
Yeah, just changing your energy method doesnt actually reduce anything. The old saying is "Reduce, reuse, recycle", which doesnt apply to electric cars.

We get reuse/recycle here. Although I guess they arent really reducing either. Unless you mean reducing the kai to dust

 

[Hicleric]

Unless you mean reducing the kai to dust

Good on ya for the dad joke. Need more of these around here.

Screed against electric vehicles aside (FWIW, "reduce" in that context is reducing CO2 equivalent/km...not km overall, but that's correct approach is a separate question), given what little we know about how the power system works, my best guess is that the system formerly known as MP Charge-kun is effectively all three Rs. Just gonna go on a little lore theorizing jaunt here:

Recycle: we know that magic generally leaves waste behind--expressly mentioned here, but a generic residual magic has been raised many times before. We had a mention of "low emission brooms" early on, too. Since we now know that residual magic is normally unusable waste, we see MPCK as a recycler able to convert some/all of that unusable residual back into usable magical energy. Not sure that's the same as the magi-nutrient that was brought up...some time ago.
Reuse: because this system is meant to work in tandem with a magical girl, her expended magic lost from inefficiency is put back to work, and consequently reused.
Reduce: Efficiency gains from the first two means overall need for magic energy is reduced. We haven't heard yet how usable magical energy is actually produced, but there doesn't seem to be any real concern about that part of the process. We do know that magical energy, like electricity and fuel, has a monetary cost with procuring it, reduced expenditures are generally a good thing for the financial side of the company.

Thanks for your patience with the long winded rant, there's something about this series that just gets me excited to talk shop

 

[Alcion]

I suddenly remembered Nanoha's Starlight Breaker. Theres the OG recycling magical girl pow there.