Looking for the Full Moon review type thoughts

[stepnix]

what a weird show. I'm so glad it exists

Looking for the Full Moon is a throwback: a 2002 magical girl hearkening back to the magical idol series of the 80s. A young girl, Mitsuki, gets a magical chance to become a pop star... because she's dying of throat cancer, and the reapers take pity on her for her last year to live. Genuinely this feels like an edgy web serial mahou premise, not something they would actually put on tv, but here we are.

Unlike Creamy Mami or LuluttoLilly, the other magical idols i'm experienced with, Full Moon takes a fairly limited approach to the supernatural. The shinigami are the source of the magical transformation, and nearly all magical intervention in Mitsuki's life is their doing (compare Yuu/Mami stumbling across a new magical creature every few episodes). This gives Full Moon a pretty unique niche, where it can focus more on the often-brutal realities of the idol industry. It's not quite a neverending misery parade, Mitsuki gets a fair number of wins. But it never quite lets you forget that this is an extremely difficult path to travel, even as Mitsuki frequently succeeds by being the Goodest Girl Ever.

The ultimate ending feels like a sigh of relief, not just a cheap victory. the Child Mortality Magical Girl Show of all time