Hello everyone today we are going over the fortune telling magical girl; Mel Anna so let's begin.

(General Info)

Mel Anna is a 14 year old Support Type Magical Girl, her eyes and hair are both green, and she is 151 cm in height.

Mel's soul gem is a green leaf located on her chest as an accessory in her Magical girl form.

Her weapon is a deck of tarot cards, her Doppel and witch is called Etteilla.

Mel's wish to become a magical girl was to have her predictions always be 100% true; "I want to be a great fortune teller."

Her known relatives are her unnamed mother and father who are seen absent in her Life, she originally comes from Daito Ward and attends Daito Academy in the 8th Grade.

Her magical girl element is the Forest Element and her Ability is Future Guidance.

(Summary)

A Magical Girl who lives by her daily divinations which she tells every morning. If the fortune's good, she's very optimistic. If it's bad, she'll lock herself in her room and won't even go out to hunt Witches. She loves fortune-telling, but as her predictions always come true, she's forbidden to do it by other Magical Girls.

(Etteilla Info)

The Doppel of disclosure. Its form is a fortune teller. The master of this emotion is both client and contractor.

She believes her Doppel, which predicts one's destiny in perfect clarity, to be her true inner power, and she does not deny any of the destinies it predicts. This Doppel is connected to its master's wrist and back, and constantly measures her pulse in order to synchronize with it. By fully synchronizing their movements and senses, the two of them can predict an utterly unshakable destiny. The result of the prediction is displayed in the Doppel's eye, and is determined by the type and direction of the tarot card shown within its pupil. Barring a truly extraordinary effort, it's impossible for the master and Doppel to escape from a destiny they've predicted.

The witch side of the Doppel says; The witch of fortune tellers. Her nature is disclosure. A witch who single-mindedly attempts to uncover the truth within the various destinies that are consolidated in her barrier. Able to gaze across past, present and future, she feels joy at the fact that all destinies are hers alone to know, and ceaselessly turns over the tarot cards atop her table. If a visitor were to arrive, she would believe them to be someone who'd recognize her power, and would gladly unveil the truths enclosed within them. But the truths that become visible aren't always happy– and on top of that, accepting them as truth will prompt the witch to turn you into her apprentice, rendering escape impossible. If you were to oppose her, it's said that she would show you every suffering imaginable.

(Side Story)

Mel introduced herself as a fortune teller from the East region of Kamihama, boasting her readings are 100% accurate. She read her fortune today and decided to stay at home since it warns her of lethal danger. Her mom is used to it and is preparing to phone the school when Kanagi drops by. Kanagi laughs at Mel's insistence on the outcomes of her reading and says that bad stuff only comes because she believes her readings are true and drags her off to school as usual. On the way, they sense the presence of a witch, and Kanagi dragged the unwilling Mel into the barrier to deal with the witch.

The witch and familiars only target Mel during the fight, and in a panic she lets it run away. She apologizes to Kanagi for wasting her mana and says that this is proof of the accuracy of her reading, but Kanagi brushes it off as superstition. Suddenly, a car rushes towards Mel in an attempt to run her down. She managed to dodge, but the girls realize that it is possessed by the witch, and it is targeting Mel only. The poor girl runs off screaming that she hates Kanagi for this.

In panic, Mel has run west and into the Mizuno region. Yachiyo saves her, but Mel was frightful at first since she remembered Kanagi warning her not to get close to the west and to minimize contact with Magical Girls belonging to the west since many look down on people from the East side of town due to class discrimination. Luckily the soothing atmosphere and kind personality of Yachiyo has calmed Mel down and she thinks she is in luck since the Magical Girl she encountered is kind. However, Mel begins to panic when she realizes she is a long distance away from home which is safe and worried that she might really die on the way back. Seeing her worry, Yachiyo comforts the girl with soothing words and invites her to her place. Mel accepts the offer with some worry, but she understands Yachiyo's intentions once they reach her place and Yachiyo tells her to treat this as her home.

Her readings advised her to stay home, so Yachiyo's offer to let Mel stay for the day essentially gave her a lifesaving shelter. Overwhelmed by gratitude and at Yachiyo's trust of her readings, Mel requests to join her team. While Yachiyo is fine with this, she worries about unnecessary misunderstandings since Mel is from the East, so she calls Kanagi and informs her of the situation. Kanagi gives her permission and thinks that joining Yachiyo will be a good experience for Mel. From this day on, Mel became part of the Yachiyo team. She quickly bonds with Yachiyo, Mifuyu, Tsuruno, and Momoko.

One day, Mel visited the Nanami household as usual, but more excited than normal. She explains that her readings for today were all positive and solved all the problems of her clients.

She offered to help read the team's fortune. Yachiyo is skeptical since they have no idea how Mel's readings work, so Mel forcefully coaxes Yachiyo into a fortune-telling session. The readings say there will be a breakthrough in her career, and the team takes the news with suspicion.

That evening, Yachiyo announces with disbelief that she was chosen by a nationwide famous magazine to pose for their special issue on the cafes of Kamihama. Yachiyo was chosen mainly because she is a local. Other than Tsuruno, who decides to heed Yachiyo's advice, Mifuyu and Momoko ask Mel for a reading. Mifuyu is worried about the upcoming matchmaking arranged by her family while Momoko is worried about her results. Both receive positive readings from Mel.

On the evening where Mifuyu has attended the matchmaking, she announces joyfully that the person introduced is a man of integrity and is glad that she has attended that session. While she still is a high-schooler and has no intention of marriage, she is relieved that at least the partner is a good person. Momoko also passed her mid-terms with flying colors and is relieved since her grades were falling due to witch-hunting. Seeing good results from the others, Tsuruno finally breaks her resolve and asks Mel for a reading. Mel declines for the day since her own reading says that any further reading will only cause negative results, but Tsuruno insists that her luck will negate any negative results. Reluctantly, Mel reads Tsuruno's fortune for tomorrow, and the results are negative. She will be plagued with stomach ache the next day, so she advises her to be careful with what she eats and drinks the next day.

On the evening of the next day, Mel arrives at Yachiyo's place as usual and sees Tsuruno lying flat from eating too much. Yachiyo and Momoko inform her that Tsuruno has not eaten or drank the whole day out of fear, and finally broke her resolve due to hunger, deciding to eat at Yachiyo's place where at least she can be safe if anything happens. Mel warns her that it is hard to prevent the future that she has read, and Mifuyu wonders if the event would be related to people around Tsuruno.

The team enters an uncomfortable silence and Tsuruno realizes that it might be related to Banbanzai, and having stomach aches at a restaurant would usually mean food poisoning, and that would be disastrous. The team rushed to Banbanzai immediately.

For some reason, the shop is filled with customers and Tsuruno's dad is glad that she returned on time since he is so busy that he didn't even have the free time to call her. The team wonder if this is influenced by the reading since a busy shop that has a lack of hands might lead to hygiene accidents.

Tsuruno shows some skills, like catching flies with chopsticks and carrying multiple plates of food, but she caught sight of Momoko slipping and pushing something into a bowl of ramen that Yachiyo has taken away to serve. She asked her dad about the object, and her dad answered that it was laxative that was prescribed to him by the doctor. He wondered why it was there since he remembered leaving it at home.

Tsuruno realized they would be in deep trouble if the customer eats the ramen, so she interrupted the serving and ate the ramen herself. The laxative comes into effect and she is stuck on the toilet for the rest of the day.

As the rest of the team are returning to Yachiyo's place, Yachiyo asks Mel why she became a Magical Girl, but tells her it is okay if she does not want to answer if she feels it is personal.

Mel answers that she wasn't a big fan of fortune-telling actually. However, she just happened to read one day that she would be in trouble and the lucky item, an umbrella, would save her. As she foretold, while she was returning an umbrella, she was nearly hit by a falling object, but she opened the umbrella which managed to save her. She was surprised by the effectiveness and wanted to learn the art to help others.

Unfortunately, what she learned was not exactly accurate, and some of her school mates even made fun of her. One case had a group of them ignoring her advice and insisting on buying crepes after school, and they got harassed that day by a delinquent who was notorious citywide due to crepes.

Mel wanted to help people but realized she can only go so far from books, and Kyubey took the opportunity to get her to contract. She wished to have the ability to read fortunes at 100% accuracy, and realized she can do it using her own method when she lay her hands on her tarot cards.

The next day, Mel sees a sign which forbade fortune-telling at Yachiyo's place. She is indignant at first, but mellows down in understanding after Yachiyo analyzes that her magic is not 100% accurate at predicting the future, but instead has the ability to twist the future into the result of her readings. Mel laments that she made the wish to help others avoid trouble, but never expected that it would cause trouble instead. Thus, she accepts Yachiyo's request not to read fortunes anymore since she cannot control the outcome.

However, she made a reading in secret, and saw a circle formed by Magical Girls. The keystone to the formation is entering Yachiyo's life in the form of a star, and she prayed that the star will light Yachiyo's path into the future, and that the future will be a warm and comfortable one.

Back in the modern day, Yachiyo smiles as her family had their emotions being led around by the results of fortune-telling on TV and then happily looking for a lucky item for Felicia who has the worst fortune, and realizing that she already has it: a hammer.

Yachiyo wonders with a smile if Mel will agree that this level of fortune-telling is enough to bring joy to the reader, and we end the story with the memory card featuring Mel and Kanae, but with just Mel shown.

(Abilities)

Mel is able to use her unique style of fortune telling to affect the future. However, she appears to have no control over whether she gets a good or a bad outcome.

(Etymology)

It's hard to find what Mel's name means in Japanese, but what it could mean is "Expresses the idea of making or causing someone to do something." which can make some sense to her character as being a fortune teller with 100% predictions and considering that as an example from her side story, her last name "Anna" means "safe" or "cheap" and "name" respectively.

(5 facts about Mel Anna)

Fact #1: Her Doppel name; Etteilla was the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette, a French occultist who was the first to popularize tarot divination to a wide audience in 1785, and therefore the first professional tarot occultist known to history who made his living by card divination. The Doppel name is the inverse of his name.

Fact #2: Her Soul Gem appears to be missing in her 5 star art. If this is a reference to her death or simply an error, remains unknown.

Fact #3: Etteilla's tarot cards are written in runes, and the art is slightly changed as well compared to the tarot deck Mel uses. The design on the back of the cards is also upside down.

Fact #4: She shares the same voice actress with Kagome Satori; another character and magical girl in Magia Record.

Fact #5: Mel's voice actor is Kanon Takao who you may know as Hermit Mio in Eden Zero, The Japanese Voice of Milky Way Cookie in Cookie Run Kingdom and Noelle in Genshin Impact.

She even has a english voice actor who voiced her in the Magia Record Anime she is Faye Mata who you may know for voicing; Linaria in Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, Tiare in Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Aqua in Konosuba, the new english voice of Sailor Aluminum Siren in the Sailor Moon Series and Kagami Tsurug aka Ryuko in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir with a bunch more other roles.

(Ending)

And that's Mel Anna. Next time I will talk about one magical girl in a History Research club who can make anyone follow what she writes into a script that being; Temari Kira, so see you next time.