Let’s have an April Halloween With Karin Misono! You know what it means Magical Girl Explains #14!

(General Info)

Karin Misono, is a 14 year old magical girl, she 154 cm in hight, her eye color and Hair are Both Purple, and she originates from Sakae Ward in Kamihama City, Karin’s Soul gem are Yellow Stars on her Witch's Hat, Karin Wields a Scythe as a Weapon, A Scythe you might better knowing to be a death scythe that grim reaper’s use, they are actually use mostly in the 15th century in Old English that used in to Mow down and cut crops, as of a Grim Reaper the Scythe is shown as the weapon of the reaper of death in Mythology when a soul is needed to be collected.

Karin’s Witch and Doppel is Mcdougal, Karin’s Wish was to Cure her  Grandmother’s kleptomania, “Cure Grandmother”, Karin’s Known Relatives is her Unnamed Grandmother.
Karin’s Magical Girl Element is the Fire Element is her Ability is to Steal Things, Karin Attends Sakae General School, and she is in the 8th Grade.

(Karin’s Summary)

The "Magical Girl born of Halloween". Or that's what she says at least... Karin loves reading and drawing manga so much that she's even created her own Magical Girl persona. She's heavily influenced by her favorite manga, "Phantom Thief Magical Kirin".

(McDougel’s Info)

The Doppel of larceny. Its form is a mortsafe. The master of this Doppel is cowardly by nature, which is why she gave birth to this stubborn Doppel. It fears losing anything and is fixated on obtaining more. It shares its proclivity for thievery with its master, and will pilfer anything it can get its hands on, even if those items belong to an ally. This Doppel is extremely greedy and refuses to give up on anything once it has it in its possession.

(Karin’s Side Story)

Karin is a second year student at Sakae General School. She's also the only member of the school's Manga Research Club, after all the third year students graduated. Currently she shares a club room with Alina Gray, a member of the Arts club. Alina is a 16 year old artistic genius who is always drawing. In exchange for using this classroom, she teaches Karin how to draw. The story begins with Alina criticizing Karin's manga. As punishment, she takes Karin's strawberry milk. She asks if Karin will make a comic for the cultural festival. Karin claims that according to Alina, she can't draw anything good, but Alina says that's just because Karin's work is poor. She tells Karin to keep working harder. Karin resolves to one day impress her. After going home, Karin sees her grandma, who is also a manga fan. The two discuss the new issue of their favorite comic "Phantom Thief Girl Magical Kirin".

However Karin lives a secret life as "the magical girl born from Halloween: 'Phantom Thief Karin'". Karin selects her target for the night. She looks at Masara Kagami, who she dismisses as a target because she thinks Masara's not pitiful. She then goes to Nanaka Tokiwa, and dismisses her for having a team to watch her back. Then she turns to Yachiyo Nanami, a six year veteran who hunts by herself. Karin picks Nanami as her target, and then chooses a magical girl to save. She quickly decides on "Kamihama's incompetent magical girl", Kaede Akino.

Yachiyo finishes fighting a witch when she hears a voice call out "Trick or Treat". Karin then attacks her from behind. Yachiyo dodges and reveals she knows who Karin is. Yachiyo says she doesn't want to fight, but Karin only has eyes on her Grief Seeds. Yachiyo defends against Karin's attack, but Karin claims she has fallen prey to her "Jack Death Scythe" and departs. Yachiyo then finds that her Grief Seeds are gone. Karin narrates that she steals Grief Seeds from strong magical girls and gives them to weaker ones. Elsewhere, Kaede finds her Soul Gem is getting dark. She doesn't want to contact Momoko Togame because she thinks Rena Minami will scold her. (Funnily enough, in Kaede's thoughts Rena says she relies too much on Momoko and should rely on Rena more). Kaede decides to go hunt for a witch, but then hears a voice saying it won't be necessary. The voice is Karin's, who gives Kaede another "Trick or Treat" greeting.

Kaede is initially scared, but Karin says she's only here to offer her a Grief Seed. Karin then claims she messed up, and says she'll cause mischief if she is given candy. She asks Kaede to give her a pebble or something similar, and then says she will cause mischief by giving Kaede a Grief Seed. Kaede is confused as she receives the Seed. Karin then bids the "incompetent magical girl" goodbye, annoying Kaede. Karin narrates her success as if it were the end of an anime episode. Sometime later, Yachiyo appears before Karin and demands the Grief Seed back. When Karin says she doesn't have it, Yachiyo reveals that she deliberately let Karin steal the Seed to see what she would do with it. She tells Karin to stop stealing Grief Seeds.

Karin says she's just trying to save weak girls, but Yachiyo says that Karin should fight witches herself. She points out that even strong magical girls can run out of energy at critical moments, and explains that Karin is putting lives in danger through her actions. Karin tries to deny it, but Yachiyo says Karin should stop relying on others. Yachiyo admits Karin's intentions are wonderful and leaves. Karin wonders if she's responsible for the deaths of magical girls, and if that makes her the villain. "Magical Karin is in peril...What will happen next!"

Karin narrates the plot of "Phantom Thief Magical Kirin". It's about a girl who fights devils and demons while stealing magical foci throughout the world. She fights without relying on anyone else, and brings everyone joy. Karin wanted to be like her fictional idol, but finds she's not bringing joy to anyone. During her next art lesson, Alina says that Karin's manga is pretty decent. While the art is bad, the protagonist is a three-dimensional character who faces adversity. She makes a metaphor about the growth of art, and says Karin's protagonist will find something revolutionary through their conflict. Karin narrates that the manga she's drawing is her own story, and she's the conflicted protagonist. She wonders if she's trying to grow, but thinks she's just regretting her actions. At home, she won't even discuss manga with her grandmother.

As Karin wonders what to do, her grandmother tells her she's always available to talk. Karin's grandmother says she's dealt with poverty, illness, and a struggling business, and claims she will save Karin this time. Karin says it's fine. Later on, Karin tries to fight a witch, but fails and runs away. Karin thinks about stealing a Grief Seed to restore her magic, but realizes she can't do that. Suddenly Kaede appears. Karin says she's the incompetent one now. Kaede then returns the Grief Seed she was given by Karin, saying she didn't think it would be right to use it. The girls formally introduce themselves, with Karin calling herself "Incompetent Karin". Momoko and Rena then arrive. The two introduce themselves and Rena says that Karin is much like Kaede (in a rude fashion). Momoko offers to team up with Karin, who admits she never thought of doing that. Karin says she wants to be strong enough to fight on her own, but Momoko suggests taking just a step first. Karin reluctantly accepts.

The group is able to hunt and defeat a witch. Momoko says Karin looks less burdened, and Karin says she has more confidence. Rena says Karin might overtake Kaede soon. Karin narrates that with Momoko's team she feels safe, and has learned that magical girls can get by just through helping one another. She wonders why she didn't get the idea from the beginning. Karin flashes back to her first fight as a magical girl. When fighting a familiar, she suddenly finds herself holding the familiar's lance. Karin realizes her magic is the "power to steal". Afraid of fighting witches, Karin used her powers to steal Grief Seeds instead. She rationalized her actions by giving Grief Seeds to weaker magical girls and thinking she was like "Phantom Thief Magical Kirin". In the present Karin narrates she was just deceiving herself. Momoko and Kaede are shocked to find Karin burst into tears.

Karin narrates that she's undergone a change of heart, and decides to fight together with her friends as a normal magical girl. However, at Karin's next art lesson, Alina starts yelling at her. Alina says that Karin's manga is garbage and tells her to rip it up. She asks if Karin is really satisfied with the contents. When Karin says yes, Alina says she's lying. Alina reveals she knows Karin is writing about herself, and says that she wants to see Karin be true to herself. Karin asks if Alina knows about magical girls. Alina claims she doesn't know, but thought it was lifelike. She says that this is why it pisses her off, and asks what Karin's protagonist is - what Karin wants to do. She then steals Karin's milk again and leaves angrily.

Later, Karin finishes working with Momoko's team. Momoko offers to get food for everyone, but Karin says she's going to go home. Momoko says it feels like Karin isn't putting her heart into it. Karin is thinking about what Alina said. She feels she wants to be like Magical Kirin, a girl who can fight without relying on anyone. She flashes back to when she made her wish, which was when she first met her grandmother. Karin's father brought his mother to live with his family, and Karin soon loved to hang out with her. In fact, Karin's grandmother started reading "Phantom Thief Magical Kirin" because Karin liked it. However, one day Karin overheard an argument between her parents. It turns out that Karin's grandmother is a compulsive thief, and she came to Karin's house for treatment. When she found out, Karin's mother got angry whenever Karin got close to her grandmother.

Karin's grandmother knew her daughter-in-law hated her, and one Halloween told Karin as much. Karin didn't care. Karin's grandmother wonders if someone could exorcise her illness just as Magical Kirin could exorcise demons. Karin offers to exorcise it herself, and says if she gets candy, she'll do mischief where she exorcised the demons. This is also the origin of her catchphrase, "Trick or Treat". Karin knew she couldn't cure her grandmother, but pretended to be Magical Kirin and tried anyway. And then, on Halloween night, she made a contract with Kyubey. She wished to cure her grandmother's illness, and promised to become a magical girl like Magical Kirin. Karin says her feelings haven't changed since then, and wants to fight on her own.

Back in the present, Karin finds the witch she couldn't defeat before. She tries to fight it alone, but is knocked unconscious. She's rescued by Kaede, who went after Karin because she was acting funny. Kaede tells Karin she can't fight by herself yet and says they need to go. Karin wants to be true to herself, and says she's still going to fight. She attacks the witch again, but is quickly overpowered. In an attempt to prevent the witch from going after Kaede, Karin throws rocks at it. Kaede tells Karin to get away and says the rocks won't do anything, but Karin notices the witch is flinching. Karin realizes she imbued the rocks with magic.

Karin asks Kaede to pick up anything she can lay her hands on and wrap it all up. After she does so, Karin imbues the bag's contents with magic, flies above the witch, and opens it up. The hail of "candies" destroys the witch. Afterward, Karin rejoices in her victory, and says she is now Magical Karin, the magical girl she wants to be. She thanks Kaede and says she has to leave Momoko's group, as Magical Karin must fight on her own. Kaede says to just leave that as part of her setting, but Karin says that isn't her. Karin says she's graduated from incompetence first, though Kaede says she will too someday.

With the culture festival coming up, Karin shows Alina her manuscript. Alina leaves and comes back with strawberry milk, saying that Karin has earned it by no longer lying to herself. Karin then asks about the art. Alina appears to ignore her and goes back to work, but then says the art was garbage.

(Karin’s Abilities)

Karin's innate magic is to steal things. This appears to be limited to physical objects. She can also imbue small objects with magic to use as projectiles, and fly on her scythe like the stereotypical witch's broom.

(Karin’s Etymology)

The characters in her last name mean "dominate" and "garden", respectively.
Karin’s first name means, “Pure”.

(5 Facts of Karin Misono)

Fact#1: Since Karin Misono was born on Halloween, her magical girl form resembles a cute witch, with the traditional witch hat and her riding her scythe like a broom in her in-game sprite. Her wielding a scythe, together with her being born on Halloween, could be a reference to the personification of death, (Most Known as The Grim Reaper)

Fact#2: Her Doppel may be named after Helen McDougal, one of the accomplices in the Burke and Hare murders. This is a famous murder case associated with body snatching. And mortsafe, Karin's Doppel's form is a contraption for protecting the grave from body snatchers.

Fact#3: According to the design work, the burning wheels attached to both sides of the Doppel are Kasha. It is a Japanese yokai that steals the corpses of the evil persons from their funerals or graves.

Fact#4: Karin’s Doppel Mcdougal Form is a Mortsafe, which is a Cage Placed over Grave to Protect them from Graverobbers and Prevent Body Snatching, they were mostly used during around the Early-18th Century due to the necessity for medical students to learn anatomy by attending dissections of human subjects, which was frustrated by the very limited allowance of dead bodies – for example the corpses of executed criminals – granted by the government, which controlled the supply.

Fact#5: Karin Misono’s Japanese VA is Hisako Kanemoto. Who voices characters such as Ika Musume in Squid Girl also known as Shinryaku!? Ika Musume in japan, Nozomi Kujo in Bleach, Yayoi Kise / Cure Peace in Smile Pretty Cure, I known her as Gitler Peace and Lily, (That dub got me into pretty cure), Hisako most recent role being in Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki as Aoi Hinami. Karin has no English VA at the Time of This Record & Writing Processes there is no news if Karin will appear in The Magia Record anime at this time, so i won’t be talking about an English VA here for Karin Misiono.

(Ending)

We Have Come to The End of The Info and story of Karin Misono, i am feeling this character is hinting a lot out to you know what, she gives off a lot of persona 5 vibes,
I hope you enjoyed comment down, what you think and give it a like, and I’ll see you next time, the next magical will talk about is Kanagi Izumi, So Hope to see you soon at Magical girl #15 Bye!