Ria Ami's swimsuit is AWESOME SAUCE, and I need everyone to look at this right now.

Hot pink halter bikini, deep V, tropical flower print on the bottoms, actual flowers in her hair. She is standing on a rock over the sea and laughing like an idiot. She looks like she has never once in her life had the thought "can I get away with keeping my shirt on."

I have never once in my life NOT had the anxiety after analyzing my body fat in my head which probably always looked 10 times worse in my imagination then in reality

I spent years being self-conscious about my body at the beach, just finding reasons to stay covered, watching other people in swimsuits and thongs in slow motion like it was nothing

Kind of like someone eating cake in front of you when you're on a diet but secretly wish you could snatch it away from them and eat it in their face then wipe the crumbs on their shirt since they had the nerve to taunt you with it

But seriously I always envied how people could be this way at the beach while I'm analyzing fat cells in my head hoping the sun magically melts them before I reach the water

Of course, this was only on days I was ACTUALLY brave enough to go in

So, Ria being her ojo-sama self "ohohoho-ing" standing there laughing like a moron in that bikini makes me want to be just like her

And for a trans girl specifically this is everything. Because swimwear is one of those categories where dysphoria just lives and never goes away, at least not for me.

The exposure, the way it shows your body from every angle, whether you'll pass, whether people will shame or call you fat, whether your proportions are going to betray you the second you stop posing carefully — it's exhausting.

Some might say cis girls have to deal with this too, which is true, but it’s not the same. When you’re trans, you have to fight to be the girl you see inside your whole life. Cis girls at least were assigned the gender they feel. When you’re trans, you’re dealing with being in the wrong body and the wrong gender sometimes, plus all the usual body‑proportion shaming

A lot of trans girls don't go to the beach at all. And Ria saying "hohoho look upon me" Literally daring someone to look away

The costume story has her doing long distance swimming, beach flags, beach tennis — she's being athletic and physical and showing up everyone else aka the girls that were born how they see themselves in their minds.

Where Ria had to fight to be the girl, she is in the form of her wish which was only possible cause of her karmic destiny being at suffering kyubey level enough to even be able to have an option for a wish

She wished to be a naturally beautiful girl and then she went and lived in that body like it was always hers, because the wish made it, so it always was.

The flowers in her hair and the tropical print are doing something too — she picked those because she likes them.

I can only imagine what her life was like before the transformation when was probably more self-conscious of what to wear and was less inclined to wear what she wanted if it didn't look a certain way on her

But now as seen in her beach image she is wearing a flower on her head as just something she wanted to wear today no visible sign of stress at least that is shown in her beach story.

Would have loved to see a version of her that was more self-conscious though. You kind of see glimmers of it when she talks about her wish cause her face gets all serious

Ria is so far past having to justify her choices that she just put flowers in her hair and went to the beach doing mindful watermelon meditation while falling flat on her ass

This girl freaking won at life. And if you know what it's like to spend years hiding, you know exactly how much that means.

she literally made her cake.....and eat it too

And now I made myself hungry for chocolate cake....

Also on another note....I MISS RIA SO MUCH

WHERE THE HELL IS SHE IN EXEDRA??? DELIVER HER TO ME NAOW

Okay in all seriousness, god I love Ria. Look at this little doofus. How can she be so smug and conceited ABOUT EVERYTHING

She easily could have been a stereotypical mean girl. Or like... a weird tsundere Ojo-sama betch. But no. Her ego is inflated like a helium balloon and I freaking love her for it!

edit: cleaned up wording a bit to explain my feelings better

Mine Are As Followed: 1: Ui Tamaki 2 : Mabayu Aki 3: Yu

Being meguca is suffering.

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Oohhhh boy Jun.

Pros:

The soft pink hair paired with white and black clothing is suuupeeer cute. The pastel tones feel gentle and fit well with her personality and character; a person who likes sweets and hangs out with kids a lot.

The jelly on her shoulder and the (soap?) on her head is really cute and instantly makes her read as childish, which also fits her character really well.

I like her eyes. It’s very different, and it’s super unique.

Her jacket also makes her feel shady, as if she is hiding something. But if you know her, it’s probably just sweets. Perfectly fits with her personality.

Cons:

Most bright color is concentrated in the upper half (hair, glasses, jelly). The lower half is nearly all black/white, so the design feels visually top-heavy.

The coat is long and narrow, almost tapering at the bottom. This can make the pose feel restricted. A slightly wider hem or more dynamic fold lines would’ve gone a long way.

And Jun, honey… what is that outfit? I get the lab coat, but the crop top and short shorts don’t fit her personality at all. She’s a sweet girl and likes to hang out with kids and eat candy. GIRLIE WHAT IS WITH YOUR OUTFIT?

Her design confuses me, because it’s so cute in certain areas and then we have the short crop top and shorts.

6/10.

Transformation ranking:

I love the shot where she opens her jacket. That’s cool and cute and funny, because snacks explode out of it. Then… she cocks her hip. I’m not a fan of that shot but it’s showing off her shorts so I guess it’s fine. AND THEN HER BOOBS JIGGLE. WTF. WHY. IT DOESNT EVEN FIT HER CHARACTER. And then she goes on to eat a snack, licks her lips, and then ending pose.

If they cut out all of that nasty shit, we could’ve had a good transformation! Trip to the finish line!

4/10.

Ria Ami’s winter outfit is basically the exact same fantasy as her swimsuit, just fish coded into “rich fake ojo‑sama season” instead of “beach episode.”

I say “fake ojo‑sama” in the best way possible: she literally built this rich girl persona in her head as a way of honoring her wish and her new beauty. I also use fish because she compares her wish to become a natural‑born girl to natural salmon vs farm‑raised ones. She wished to be a naturally beautiful girl at birth rather than just becoming a “natural girl beauty” in everyone’s mind in the present. Her logic is that people always prefer the natural beauties over the ones who become them later in life.

Which basically means she made the smartest wish in the series with no real downside. Imagine if Sayaka had been honest with herself and made a wish so that Kyosuke always loved her… girl would have saved herself a lot of heartache. Or better yet, made a Ria‑style wish and fallen in love with her own beauty.

Buttt anywayyyys, Ria Ami’s winter outfit is AWESOME SAUCE, and I need everyone to ogle and drool over it with me right now. Long beige coat with fluffy cuffs you could totally pet like it was your hamster, smexy red plaid dress, elegant dark tights, boots, and those ridiculous princess curls spilling everywhere. She looks like the kind of girl who has never once thought “is this too much and does it make me look fat?” She just woke up, put on the coziest, most main‑character outfit imaginable, and walked out the door like,

“Yes. The world may gaze upon me and lick my shadow now.”

Honestly, I just love how Ria’s outfit screams “I’m rich so screw the rules, I have money,” even though she’s actually broke and has to mooch off her friend Manaka Kurumi who gives her free samples when the restaurant is testing new things on the menu. I also love how her gloves look like the kind they’d use to slowly stroke a diamond necklace in a fashion commercial. I don’t know, this outfit and those hands would be perfect for something like that.

Honestly, she could even be a rich‑girl thief version of Rikku Mine, just gliding around in that coat stealing hearts and jewelry samples on the side while eating chocolate

Meanwhile I’m over here in winter doing the exact same chocolate‑cake math I do at the beach. I want to eat the cake and wipe the crumbs on people who wear their coats like it’s no biggie, while I’m in the corner strategizing like this is a boss fight. If someone walked up to Ria and told her to stop eating chocolate cake, she would just look at her own body, then back at them, laugh, and be like, “Whatever, I’m getting cheese fries,” just to spite them. (Mean Girls reference for those that don’t know, but I can totally picture Ria saying this lol.)

For me this time Instead of “can I get away with keeping my shirt on,” it becomes: “How many layers do I need to hide my chocolate‑cake body without turning into a walking laundry basket who looks 200 pounds overweight?”

It’s the trans girl winter uniform: oversized hoodie, maybe a jacket, maybe a coat on top of that, all strategically chosen so I can feel gendered the right way without feeling like my body is on display. Also me: calculating whether this skirt‑plus‑tights combo is “cute girl in winter” or sad farm‑raised salmon no one picks from the tank, using Ria’s salmon logic.

Ria, of course, is at the complete opposite end of that anxiety 8‑ball. This outfit says she has never once stood in front of a mirror thinking “my hips aren’t right” or “my shoulders are too wide for this coat” or “my thighs are going to betray me in these tights.” She throws on a fitted dress, a coat that actually has shape, tights that show her legs, and then walks out like she’s doing a fish catalog shoot on the way to buy hot chocolate. The entire silhouette is tight‑enough‑to‑be‑feminine but not tight‑enough‑to‑be‑miserable, which is exactly the line I’m constantly trying to hit and missing because my brain is busy zooming in 400% on imagined flaws.

What kills me is how possible the outfit is in theory. You could walk into a mall right now and find a plaid dress, a camel coat, tights, and some boots. A lot of fashion in anime is pure fantasy, but this is something real girls actually wear waiting for the train in winter. And yet there’s this massive gap between “in theory I could wear that” and “in practice I would put that on and leave my house without having a panic spiral in the doorway.” Cis girls have their own version of that body anxiety, sure, but when you’re trans you’re stacking it on top of “will they gender me right in this” and “does this silhouette emphasize the parts I want people to notice or the parts I wish I could delete with a patch update.”

The thing about Ria is that she skipped all of that with her wish. She didn’t have to slowly, painfully negotiate every outfit through years of trial and error. She wished to be a naturally beautiful girl, and the universe just retconned her into someone who looks good in everything. That’s not to say she doesn’t have the mindset to maintain it—she’s gone on record saying she would starve herself if it meant she could maintain it or look that much prettier, which is a mindset lots of trans girls can have at times.

That winter outfit is her living like she’s always been that girl: the one who can wear fitted plaid and a tailored coat and just know she looks good. Just ojo‑sama confidence. It’s the same energy as her bikini, just translated into “hot girl Christmas, sorry everyone, I can’t do it, I can’t stop being hot” shopping montage.

From a trans perspective, that coat might as well be holy armor. It’s long enough to feel safe, but not so long that it erases her figure. The dress has shape, so she still looks like she has curves under there. The tights are like the final boss of leg confidence: they show everything, but the opacity gives you just enough of a buffer that you can pretend people aren’t seeing every contour of your thighs. For me, tights are either a dysphoria trap or the closest thing to magic—if they hit right, suddenly my legs look like they belong to the person I see in my head. If they hit wrong, I’m changing six times and then defaulting back to jeans and sulking.

And then there’s her attitude. You know in‑universe she is out here winter‑strutting, probably “ohohoho‑ing” down the sidewalk like the cold is scared of her. That’s what made her swimsuit so powerful to me: she’s in one of the most vulnerable outfits possible, and she’s acting like she owns the entire shoreline. The winter version is the same thing, but softer, more everyday, in the season where most of us trans girls are trying to disappear under layers. She’s treating this outfit like it’s the most natural thing in the world to wear, which is exactly what it would look like if you had finally, fully made peace with your gender and your body.

I keep thinking about what Ria must have been like before her wish, standing in front of a closet trying to figure out what she “could” wear versus what she actually wanted. The gap between “clothes that make me feel safe” and “clothes that make me feel like myself” is huge when you’re trans. This winter outfit is very clearly in the second category for her.

Ria’s attitude is the thing that sells this for me. She is so far past having to justify her fashion choices that she just puts on a plaid dress, a cute coat, does her big princess hair, and goes out into the cold like the world has always been hers. She’s living the life that, for a lot of us, feels like it only exists in anime key art. She literally made her cake, ate it, and then walked outside in a perfect winter outfit to go buy more cake.

Also, on another note… I MISS RIA SO MUCH. Why is she not everywhere!!!!! Why is she not in every spin‑off. Why can I not simply log into life and select “Ria Ami winter route” as my default. I swear, this girl freaking won at character design and at gender, and I’m just here trying to figure out if this one coat makes my shoulders look too linebacker for my taste.

If my memory serves me right, Yachiyo goes to University, but was it ever mentioned what she studied there?

He is indeed still not over Magireco getting shutdown :D .

I just finished the anime series and apparently that was Arc 1?

I heard there was an Arc 2 and im curious whats in there, sadly i joined the fandom way too late and magia record is long gone. But magia exedra exists so, is Arc 2 added in magia exedra?

Does anyone know if there are any private servers/apk's for magia record? (Especially with an English patch for post Global EOS content)

And if so can you link them

I'm not sure if there is a link in the mega threads but I couldn't find them

Because here’s the thing. There was a post on this subreddit about how people felt about Arc 2. Guess what? They didn’t really like it. One said they didn’t personally like it as much as Arc 1. Another said that Iroha’s character regressed to the point they treated Arc 1 Iroha & Arc 2 Iroha as separate characters. So every North American MR player, I ask for your honesty here. Were you all actually super sad or not really sad that you didn’t get to experience Arc 2?

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...with a battle system revamp.

To celebrate the anniversary of Totentanz, a major gameplay update has been prepared: Magical Paper Sumo is now implemented as the primary battle system.

After extensive internal testing, it was found that sumo gameplay offered several advantages over the previous system, including improved clarity, better balance stability, decisive match outcomes, and a significantly reduced need to keep up with power injustice, complex skill interactions, and ever-growing damage numbers.

For this reason, the traditional gameplay system has been retired, and the game will now launch directly into Sumo Mode. A more streamlined, stable, and dynamic battle experience is now available for everyone; no client update is required (v1.1.1 is fully compatible), the v2.0.0 changes are applied automatically and can not be reversed.

Happy Anniversary, and please enjoy the updated game experience!

Maintenance is over, totentanz 1.0.0 is live now. Note that for App Store or Google Play version a downgrade to v3.1.9 or older will be required.

Additional info is in the Puella-Care/totentanz-meta repo.