Komae Nadeshiko Plays Mahou Shoujo no Majo Saiban Episode 8, Expects the Finale Next
The nearly five-hour session took in three bad endings and a trial that ended in an execution.
KEMOMIMI REFLE — Komae Nadeshiko of KEMOMIMI REFLE played the eighth episode of her run of Mahou Shoujo no Majo Saiban (魔法少女ノ魔女裁判) on Friday, streaming for 4 hours 45 minutes. The story game follows girls held in a prison mansion who are drawn into murders and witch trials, and this session moved through chapter 2, including three bad endings and a trial that ended in an execution. She said the next episode will probably be the last.
She opened with a recap of the previous episode, then told viewers she already knew nobody would be saved and predicted that around five characters would die that night. The first scene of the chapter was a game of “magical arm wrestling” proposed by the character Sherry, with magic allowed and no rules, in which the other girls took turns challenging her before Emma finally beat her.
“I know. Nobody gets saved.” — Komae Nadeshiko, during the opening recap
The bad endings came from her choices at three forks. When the protagonist, Hiro, was offered a hand by Leia, Nadeshiko hesitated, saying that taking it looked like a way to get killed. Taking it led to a route in which the two killed the other girls and then took poison themselves. At a lake, she said she was in the mood to pick the choice that would get her killed because no one was going to be saved anyway, and that route ended badly too. A third ending came when Hiro strangled Emma, who turned into a witch and killed her.
On the main route, Emma and Leia were found dead in the mansion’s elevator, and the trial that followed ended with Hanna being revealed as the killer. Hanna was executed as a witch, and Sherry ran into the execution chamber to go with her. Nadeshiko said she became so absorbed that she felt she had turned into Hiro, and that parts of the narration were too hard to read aloud. The stretch ended with Hiro finding a book filled with notes left by the other girls and then using her rewind magic to go back.
Chat filled with tissue jokes and praise for Sherry late in the session. Nadeshiko said the next episode is planned for the 17th at 8 p.m., schedule and health permitting, and that viewers who cannot watch live can catch the archive.
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This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.