The Magical Girl Site manga and anime series features a cast of characters designed by Kentarō Satō.
Magical Girls Magical girls are unfortunate girls who are chosen through Magical Girl Sites. The managers of the sites give them weapons, known as . The usage of these wands shorten their lifespan. Initially, the magical girls were created to fight amongst each other and collect negative energy with their wand, in order to survive the Tempest. The more magical wands they used, the more negative energy is collected. These magical girls appearance physically changes while using their wand, such as their hair color changing, emblems appear on their eyes, lifespan emblem on their skin, and blood flows out of a body part. Which body part bleeds is unique to each girl as they bleed from the same body part each time, no matter which wand they use.
Main characters
Aya is a fourteen-year-old middle school girl with long black hair. She has had a hard life being bullied at school, and abused at home by her brother wishing multiple times that she were better off dead. However she has a gentle and kind personality which is shown when she takes care of an abandoned cat that is later killed by her bullies. After she receives her wand, she is reluctant in using it as she doesn't want to kill people anymore. When her own life is in danger though, she finds that she has no choice in order to stay alive. Her wand is a toy-like pistol that shoots a large heart, that teleports the target to any location she has been before. However, after Tsuyuno's death, her wand became able to transfer memories and lifespan between the magical girls. Every time she uses her wand, her hair grows longer and turns from black to red while blood flows from her eyes. The emblem on her weapon, and in her eyes when she uses it is a red heart. Her special skill is reading, and her advantage is her warm personality. Aya's favorite things include fruit, chocolate, stuffed toys, and meaty foods. It is recently revealed that she is the adoptive daughter of her parents that she's live with, while Tsuyuno is her twin sister. At the end of the series, Aya and Tsuyuno became a couple despite being siblings.
Tsuyuno is Aya's classmate, and reveals herself to be another magical girl when she saves her from being injured by her bully. Tsuyuno has also had a traumatic life, after her parents and unborn sibling were killed by a burglar in a home invasion when she was a small child. The burglar spared her life saying that he would be back for her when she got older. She lived in fear until the same website that later appeared for Aya pops up granting her magical powers. She is later able to track down her parents' killer, and takes her revenge by keeping him in her apartment and tortures him each day. After meeting Aya, she offers to help her out, comforting her when she gets scared which in turn forms a strong friendship between the two. After her apartment collapsed because of the battle she and Aya had against Sarina, she lives in Aya's house. She tells Aya though that each time they use their magical wands their lifespan is shortened. Tsuyuno can freeze time with her wand, a smartphone. When she uses her wand, the emblem in her eyes is a yellow crescent moon, her hair which is normally blonde fades into orange while blood flows out of her mouth. In chapter 54, Tsuyuno died and her body is surrounded by black smoke after overusing her wand. She might have been reincarnated as Ni, a site manager. Her favorite things are vegetables, mobile games, honey, yogurt, cute things and mascot characters. It shown that Tsuyuno's family is adopted and that she is actually Aya's twin sister. In the anime, Tsuyuno was somehow resurrected and continued to stay with Aya after defeating Site Administrator Nana. At the end of the series, Tsuyuno and Aya became a couple despite being siblings.
Rina is a thirteen-year-old girl who is currently taking on the appearance of Sarina's older sister due to using a magical wand in the form a camera. Tsuyuno met Rina online while trying to figure out what the countdown clock on the website meant. Rina was initially collecting information about other magical girls when she disappeared at the same time a magical girl killing spree started. It is later revealed that she is in fact the killer, and has been killing fellow magical girls in order to obtain their wands to stay alive. Her own wand is a hammer, her emblem being a blue diamond in her eyes, her pink hair fades into light blue and blood flows out of her nose when she uses it. Before becoming a magical girl, she was bullied at her school and attempted to hang herself to die. Due to said bullying, she harbors a fear of cicadas. Rina informs Tsuyuno and Aya that she had discovered that the countdown clock is ticking down to the end of humanity. The two are able to subdue Rina, but before she is able to tell her source she falls into a coma due to overusing the wands she collected. The doctors who later examined her are perplexed as while she looks youthful, her organs operate like those of a 70 year old. She recovers from her coma thanks to Kosame, and later becomes an ally. Rina's favorite things include pancakes, computers, and avocados.
Nicknamed Nijimin, she is the most popular idol of the national idol group 'Inu Asobi' (Puppy Play). Aya and Tsuyuno try to meet her after finding her photo in a Slaughter Note of magical girls Rina was carrying. Though her normal demeanor is very perky and friendly, when she is shown a picture of Rina, she becomes very upset, hot-tempered and homicidal. She wants to avenge the death of her best friend and fellow magical girl, , who was murdered by Rina in order to steal her mechanical pencil wand. After becoming allies with Aya and Tsuyuno, she quits Inu Asobi and transfers to Aya's school. She later feels betrayed when she learned that Aya and Tsuyuno had been keeping Rina's location a secret from her as she doesn't know that they need Rina's help regarding the Tempest. Nijimin can control anyone's mind with her wand, a pair of panties. The emblem on them, and in her eyes when she uses it, is a purple spade. Her physical changes when using her wand are concealed, such as wearing contact lens to hide the emblem in her eyes, dying her hair to conceal her hair color changing, applying concealer on her wrist to cover her lifespan emblem and where she bleeds is a secret. Nijimin falls in love with Aya's older brother, Kaname, thus she trusts him very much; but he ended up stealing her wand that was temporarily taken by Tsuyuno and tells him about the other's wands abilities. However, Kaname instead uses her wand to completely control her mind and ambushed the others. She is later killed by Kaname with Sayuki's wand while trying to get back her wand, but she managed to injure him with the last of her strength. Before becoming a magical girl, Nijimin's family had a financial crisis and lived in fear when loan sharks kept on coming to their house and threatening her father to pay for his debts. Unable to pay for his debts, her father later committed suicide by hanging himself.
Sarina is the leader of a trio of bullies (School bullying) who have mercilessly tormented Aya since she transferred to their school as she sees her as a weak girl. When one of her friends in the trio, dies because of Aya's wand, she is immediately suspicious of her which leads to a threatening confrontation with a box cutter in the girls bathroom at school. Aya is saved by Tsuyuno who slits Sarina's throat with her own box cutter while time was frozen. Sarina survives the wound and winds up at the same hospital that Rina was taken to. She soon learns that Aya and Tsuyuno were responsible for her injury, and overhears them talking about the existence of magical girls, leading to her grudge against them. Unlike other magical girls, Sarina later receives a wand directly from Nana (a magical girl site administrator) in the form of a yo-yo with the emblem of an orange phi (Φ) that has the ability to slice objects in half. Her red hair fades to yellowish-orange and blood flows out of her ears when she uses her wand. She is then sent to complete Rina's mission of collecting wands. Sarina is allegedly killed by Nana in the third manga volume when she asks if being the only survivor is worth it once the tempest is completed. At the end of the fifth manga volume though, it is revealed that she survived because Alice saved by turning back time with her wand. She partnered with Alice, and later teamed up with Aya and the rest of the magical girls in order to help with the destruction of the Magical Girl Site Administrators. Sarina began developing friendlier and more reliable personalities after Aya saved her from Tsuyuno's apartment collapsing. In the final battle, Sarina sacrificed herself to help Aya and died in her arms, but she and everyone who died was resurrected in the new timeline at the end of the series.
Kosame's team
Kosame first appears at the end of the third manga volume when she heals Rina's injuries and wakes her from her coma and introduces herself as "a magical girl from another magical girl site". She wears an eyepatch over her left eye and often carries with her a puppy plushie. Her wand is a box cutter which she can use to heal her friends by cutting herself, and letting her blood flow into their mouth or open wounds. Kosame suffers from terminal cancer and the doctor told her that she only had six more months left to live. Heavily depressed by the statement, she began practicing self-harming by cutting her wrist. Her emblem is the letter Q located on the right side of her neck. Kosame's hair fades from silver to pale pink when she uses her wand. She is nicknamed 'Mental Girl' by Rina because of her sudden insane personality that makes her obsessively want to cut herself, and needs to take medication to suppress it.
A transgender girl who attends the same school as Kosame. Kiyoharu is recognized as female by the magical girl site, thus she is chosen as a magical girl. She was bullied at her school by the people who learned of her assigned gender. She has expressed her utter distaste for her peers to Kosame in private, and plans to exact vengeance on her bullies only after they had found happiness, just so she could feel the satisfaction of "throwing them from paradise into hell." Her wand takes the form of a ring with the power to link directly within her target's sensory system to control their body and experience their senses remotely. Her emblem is the letter S. Blood flows out of her forehead and her blonde hair fades into pink purple when using her wand.
Voiced by: Lynn Asahi is a seemingly popular and athletic girl that goes to a different school than Kosame's group, but received her wand from the same site. She is often seen in the city with many males surrounding her. Her wand is a necklace that grants her super human speed and strength. Her emblem is the letter H. While using her wand, her orange hair fades into magenta colour. Asahi's unfortunate background that caused her to be chosen as a magical girl is caused by the fact that she was a victim of domestic violence on the part of her father, who beat her, along with her mother and her little siblings, later, the girl killed him, and she was able to resume a normal life together with her mother and siblings.
Voiced by: Kaede Hondo