This is... Frustrating, is the best way to put it. I'm not a massive fan of "bad things/trauma happening for the sake of trauma", yet that's basically what the story has been so far. Every time you think that there's a glimmer of hope, that something could perhaps go right, everything inevitably winds up going as badly as possible.

I'm not against grimdark stories, but there has to be some element of hope to them in my personal opinion. Even a story like "The Main Heroines Want to Kill Me" has... more>> other characters figuring out what's going on and providing *some* measure of support. This story, so far, simply has everyone turning against the main character; a main character that is *powerless and helpless* to do anything to change the status quo. If she at least were able to do things on her own initiative, even *that* would provide some amount of optimism that things can change; instead, she's entirely beholden to other, stronger characters being willing to help her.

I'll also add that the author repeats themselves quite a bit from chapter to chapter. They hammer home how magical girls are driven insane over time (which is important!), but they also tend to spend a lot of time repeating already-known information chapter to chapter. This means that the pace of the story is pretty slow, which doesn't help my previous points about optimism and hope in a grimdark setting. <<less