Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku Volume 3 Discussion ( Restart 後 )

kuuderes_shadow said:
The thing that confuses me is, if you're ostensibly trying to test the girls for aptitude for being a magical girl, why have someone who can win if they kill everyone else, and then set the game so that it cannot end until either that one has succeeded or died?

For everything aside from that there had been, at least in theory, a way for everyone to make it through alive. But then suddenly at the end someone has to be killed? It's a fundamental flaw in the structure of the game, and it rather goes against Keek's insistance that she hadn't killed anyone if she had set the game to be unwinnable without at least one of them dying. Maybe there was a way to end the game with everyone still alive. Did anyone at any point say that the Evil King actually needed to be killed?

Then again, games that don't reward the traits they are designed to seek seem to be a recurring theme in this series. That isn't meant as an attack on the story, which was great, but rather as a criticism of the actions of characters within the game.

Before I started volume 2 I looked at the abilities and labelled Nokko and Melville as the two most dangerous based purely on their abilities (and Melville's visual similarity to a certain someone from the first volume was obvious). Strangely enough, though, I then largely forgot about this while reading the story. Nokko barely featured on my suspicions list until the point where she disappeared.

The character I most hoped would survive was of course Lazuline. Who wasn't even supposed to be there, and was clearly different in terms of attitude to the others even before her lack of connection to Cranberry emerged.