Genuinely surprised this is available for free. It's so good???
It looks great, the characters are SO expressive, the character designs are simple but powerful, THERE ARE ACTUAL ANIMATED MAGICAL GIRL TRANSFORMATIONS???? (NOT ONE TRANSFORMATION. MULTIPLE. WHAT)
The story is very fun, and I think Tabby is genuinely the star of it. I love her character - I love the fact that she is far from the usual happy and kind magical girl protagonist but also that she is not _evil_ either. She is an angsty teen who is a little too stuck inside her head and is kind of self-centered (and honestly so are most teens imho), and that leads her to behaving like, well, a B⭐tch. But also the fact that her own flaws an actions get confronted,that her worldview gets challenged. And ALSO the fact that even when it's challenged and even when she does try to do better, it's still not ideal.
I also really like the more western-cartoony take on the magical girl genre; this vn feels like it sits in about the same niche as Powerpuff Girls and especially the more recent Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl, both of which are amazing (and so is tmgiab). And that leads me to voice acting. I'm usually meh about voice acting - cool if it's there, as long as it's good, completely fine if it isn't - but I think here it adds a LOT and really helps embrace this cartoony vibe, like I am actually watching a show on Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network and not reading an indie visual novel. And, obviously, the performance of VAs is sooo good.
All in all, I look forward to the following episodes and can't wait to find out what happens next!