Magica Wars

• Name — Magica Wars • Ja Kanji — 魔法少女大戦 • Ja Romaji — Mahō Shōjo Taisen • Creator — * Ken Matsui • Momoka Ito • Gainax

• Title — Magica Wars Lock-On • Platforms — iOS • Released — December 20, 2013

• Title — Magica Wars Tactics • Developer — DMM Games • Platforms — Adobe Flash • Released — January 2014

• Title — Magica Wars Zanbatsu • Platforms — PlayStation Vita • Released — March 27, 2014

• Type — tv series • Director — Ayano Ohnoki • Writer — Kazuho Hyodo • Music — Hiroshi Watanabe • Studio — Gainax • Licensee — Crunchyroll (expired) • Network — Tokyo MX, BS11 • First — April 8, 2014 • Last — September 30, 2014 • Episodes — 26 Magica Wars is a media franchise created by the internet television variety show 2.5 Jigen Terebi. It consists of an iOS game titled Magica Wars Lock-On which was released on December 20, 2013; a free-to-play smartphone browser game by DMM Games titled Magica Wars Tactics, released in January 2014; a PlayStation Vita game was released on March 27, 2014; and an anime television series by Gainax that aired on April 8, 2014. The franchise personifies Japan's 47 prefectures, each one being represented by a magical girl. The character designs are determined via a contest on the art website Pixiv. The voice actress for each girl was born in the prefecture that they represent.

A dragon sleeps under ground in the land. When it is asleep, it brings abundance to the harvest on the land, but it brings disaster when awake. In every decade or every hundred years, the dragon moves its body as if it tosses about unconsciously. The movement becomes a distortion and causes impurity. This "impurity" forms the corrupted being known as Magatsuhi, which brings an evil upon people. And now, an Magatsuhi outbreak of distortion spreads across the prefectures of Japan. The disaster was foreseen by the Gods who saw that the greatest harm would happen to Japan. They divided their own power and gave it as a messenger of Shinshi in Japan inorder to gather mediums, or "Magica" who can expel the "impurity" and exorcise Magatsuhi. With the magical weapon, the power of Gods, the "Magica" fight to stop these evils in Japan.

• Naruko Aoba • Miho Arakawa • Representative of Miyagi Prefecture. • Takesuzume • Kōichi Yamadera • Representative of Miyagi Prefecture. • Rin Kobari Kobarin • Rie Murakawa • Representative of Tokyo Prefecture. • Mosuke • Satomi Arai • Representative of Tokyo Prefecture. • Yuri Inuwashi Magia Furumine • Ryōko Shintani • Representative of Ishikawa Prefecture. • Shishiku • Ryōta Takeuchi • Representative of Ishikawa Prefecture. • Matsuri Sengen • Yoshino Nanjō • Representative of Shizuoka Prefecture. • Toro • Mitsuo Iwata • Representative of Shizuoka Prefecture. • Suzuka Kamiki Majikaru Toripuru • Mikako Komatsu • Representative of Mie Prefecture. • Ebizō • Shigeru Chiba • Representative of Mie Prefecture. • Mebuki Konoe • Kotori Koiwai • Representative of Kyoto Prefecture. • Oage-san • Arisa Nishiguchi • Representative of Kyoto Prefecture. • Renka Ariake Ren • Yuka Terasaki • Representative of Kumamoto Prefecture. • Esora • Kappei Yamaguchi • Representative of Kumamoto Prefecture. • Amane Sakaki • Haruna Ikezawa • Main protagonist of Zanbatsu.

Magica Wars is a concept created by the Web-based otaku-oriented news program 2.5 Jigen Terebi as an original content project that aims to create characters based on the 47 prefectures of Japan. It began as a character design contest for each of the 47 prefectures, and is currently composed of three games, an anime series and a manga serialization. The Magica Wars concept started development on June 28, 2012, coinciding the premiere of 2.5 Jigen Terebi. Using the concept of "livening up one's locale", a character design contest was hosted on the illustration SNS Pixiv during June 28 to August 8 wherein each entry consists of a magical girl and her familiar. By the end of the contest, a staggering 3,248 entries from Japan and other countries joined the period. Of these entries, 60 were chosen as official designs for the magical girls that would represent the 47 prefectures of Japan and Taiwan, with 3D sprites especially made for three of these entries, which are representatives for the Miyagi, Aomori and Kanagawa prefectures. After the selection of the 60 entries from the character design contest, three games were green-lit for release. Two of these games, Magica Wars Lock On! and Magica Wars Tactics, were designed for smartphones, while a third, Magica Wars Zanbatsu, is released for the PlayStation Vita handheld console. An anime series and a manga based on the concept were also green-lit. Each project has a different number of cast of Magical Girls, the anime and manga having the fewest featured. The Zanbatsu game featured 47 prefecture magical girls, two original girls, the amnesiac protagonist Sakaki Amane and another original character Maki Inada who gives the amnesiac Amane her name and is the first person who Amane meets; also guest starring in Zanbatsu are some Magatsuhi-corrupted magical girl cast from Lock-On as antagonists. The Zanbatsu game ended service on December 22, 2015 after slightly over a year's run from March 2014.