History VideoGame / IMGCM

* BleachedUnderpants: Studio [=MGCM=] maintains two versions of the game: an [=SFW=] version and an {{NSFW}} DX version. The [=SFW=] version differs only in its lack of [[{{hentai}} pornographic cutscenes and dialogues]], making it more general audience-oriented. However, even the SFW version is full of FanService, SexComedy like Marianne's [=NSFW=] doujin gags and [[BoobBasedGaf jokes about boobs]], UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} subtexts (in Marianne's, Lilly's and Seira's Sadistic Succubus' dress stories) and {{visual innuendo}}. And there's no getting around the demons' [[BarbieDollAnatomy featureless]] yet [[HotAsHell very suggestive designs]] and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything all of the Demon Realm's flora and fauna being shaped like women's breasts, male and female sexual organs and other lewd things]]. Besides that, the limited-time event title and logo of Valentines Day 2021 is a parody of one of [[UsefulNotes/{{Pornography}} [=JAV=]s, ''Oishinbo'']], yet that event is available in a regular and a [=DX=] version.

''"I=MGCM"'', or ''I AM MAGICAMI'' (read: “Ai-Em-Ma-Jhee-Ka-Mee”), is a Japanese indie [[ScienceFantasy Science]] UrbanFantasy TurnBasedStrategy MagicalGirl game by Studio [=MGCM=], which was released in 26th June 2019 on PC and 11th June 2020 on smartphones. The English version was released on 1st September 2020 on Nutaku and Johren. Play the regular [[http://pc-play.games.dmm.com/play/magicami/ Japanese version here]] and the [[https://www.johren.net/games/mgcm-en/ English version here]].

The game also has a LightNovel adaptation titled [[https://www.amazon.co.jp/%25E3%2583%259E%25E3%2582%25B8%25E3%2582%25AB%25E3%2583%259F-%25E3%2582%25A4%25E3%2583%2593%25E3%2583%25AB%25E3%2582%25AA%25E3%2583%2596%25E3%2583%2586%25E3%2582%25A4%25E3%2583%25AB%25E3%2582%25B3%25E3%2583%25BC%25E3%2583%2588-%25E3%2583%2595%25E3%2582%25A1%25E3%2583%259F%25E9%2580%259A%25E6%2596%2587%25E5%25BA%25AB-Studio-MGCM/dp/4047361879 "Magicami ~Evil of Tail Court~"]] with added original side-story episodes coming out 30th September 2020. The second light novel ''Magicami: Evil of Flower Bad'' will be released soon. A FightingGame spinoff, ''MGCM Combat Edition'', has been released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

Unfortunately, service for the Japanese server for I=MGCM shut down on October 31st, 2023, and despite a funding project for an offline version without battles reaching its goal in just a few days, there are no plans to bring this version to a global audience. On January 9th, 2024, an announcement that I=MGCM will be reaching end of service for its global server on January 29th was released.

'''Editor's note:''' There's an official {{NSFW}} version of the game called ''I=MGCM DX''. However, this version of the game has sexually explicit content, which we cannot discuss in detail due to our Administrivia/ContentPolicy and Administrivia/NoLewdnessNoPrudishness policy. Please use only the broadest and most general of references when listing examples that cannot do without taking features from that version into account.

Unfortunately, service for the Japanese server for I=MGCM shut down on October 31st, 2023, and despite a funding project for an offling version without battles reaching its goal in just a few days, there are no plans to bring this version to a global audience. On January 9th, 2024, an announcement that I=MGCM will be reaching end of service for its global server on January 29th was released.

Unfortunately, service for the Japanese server for I=MGCM shut down on October 31st, and despite a funding project for an offling version without battles, there are no plans to bring this version to a global audience. On January 9th, 2024, an announcement that I=MGCM will be reaching end of service for its global server on January 29th was released.

Unfortunately, service for the Japanese server for I=MGCM shut down on October 31st, and despite a funding project for an offling version without battles, there are no plans to bring this version to a global audience. On January 9th, 2024, an announcement that I=MGCM will be reaching end of service for its global server was released, scheduled for January 29th.

Unfortunately, service for the Japanese server for I=MGCM shut down on October 31st, and despite a funding project for an offling version without battles, there are no plans to bring this version to a global audience. On January 9th, 2024, an announcement that I-MGCM will be reaching end of service for its global server was put out, scheduled for January 29th.

This game was previously named ''MGCM''. But Studio MGCM announced the rename to ''I=MGCM'' (also known as ''I AM MAGICAMI'') on 23rd June 2021, with more in-game features and main story expansions. Unfortunately, they have also announced that I=MGCM will be reaching End of Service on January 29, 2024.

This game was previously named ''MGCM''. But Studio MGCM announced the rename to ''I=MGCM'' (also known as ''I AM MAGICAMI'') on 23rd June 2021, with more in-game features and main story expansions. Unfortunately, they have also announced that I=MGCM will be reaching End of Service at the end of January 2024.

This game was previously named ''MGCM''. But Studio MGCM announces the rename to ''I=MGCM'' (also known as ''I AM MAGICAMI'') on 23rd June 2021, with more in-game features and main story expansions.

The game also has a LightNovel adaptation titled [[https://www.amazon.co.jp/%25E3%2583%259E%25E3%2582%25B8%25E3%2582%25AB%25E3%2583%259F-%25E3%2582%25A4%25E3%2583%2593%25E3%2583%25AB%25E3%2582%25AA%25E3%2583%2596%25E3%2583%2586%25E3%2582%25A4%25E3%2583%25AB%25E3%2582%25B3%25E3%2583%25BC%25E3%2583%2588-%25E3%2583%2595%25E3%2582%25A1%25E3%2583%259F%25E9%2580%259A%25E6%2596%2587%25E5%25BA%25AB-Studio-MGCM/dp/4047361879 "Magicami ~Evil of Tail Court~"]] with added original side-story episodes coming out 30th September 2020. The second light novel ''Magicami: Evil of Flower Bad'' will be released soon.

''"I=MGCM"'', or ''I AM MAGICAMI''(read: “Ai-Em-Ma-Jhee-Ka-Mee”), is a Japanese indie [[ScienceFantasy Science]] UrbanFantasy TurnBasedStrategy MagicalGirl game by Studio [=MGCM=], which was released in 26th June 2019 on PC and 11th June 2020 on smartphones. The English version was released on 1st September 2020 on Nutaku and Johren. Play the regular [[http://pc-play.games.dmm.com/play/magicami/ Japanese version here]] and the [[https://www.johren.net/games/mgcm-en/ English version here]].

* ComicBookTime: The heroines don't age or graduate from school, although they have birthday celebrations every year. The heroines' alternate selves in some dress episodes don't age, although they're pirates, brides or [[KrakenAndLeviathan leviathans]] in those [[AlternateUniverse parallel worlds]], while Tobio has his aged versions in those universes. Unfortunately there are fans who are trying to find any reasons why they never graduate, which leads to several [[PoisonOakEpilepticTrees unpleasant theories]].

* ShapeshifterWeapon: Kamisaman’s Dynamisphere technology transform the heroines’ smartphones into "Magical Instruments" based on their personal traits. In a nutshell, it’s a weapon equivalent of [[VideoGame/{{Persona}} Persona companions]].

* OffModel: The 2D character artworks (except Tobio) have legs that are too thin, unlike the rest of their body parts.

* FourElementEnsemble: At most, four units can participate in a Magicame battle - and all magical girl dresses, as noted above, have an element they're associated with. While ElementalRockPaperScissors sometimes make it desirable to have one element dominate in a party or have all dresses correspond to it, oftentimes the demon force ''also'' fields different elements, and it's very likely that the player's party will end up playing this trope straight.
** In addition to this, the main dress line (the Magica meta-series) is coded to a specific element per girl, which happens to clearly correspond to that girl's personality traits, their elements directly reflecting their temperaments. While it's possible to end up with multiple of the same element in a party of Magica dresses, their roles also split up so that it's not very common.

[[NoTimeToExplain Before Tobio can ask why and how he ended up here saddled with this knowledge]], as if on cue, Kamisaman reveals that [[DamselInDistress two prospective magical girls are about to be attacked by a demon]] [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse and are doomed without Tobio's intervention]]. He cannot go to help them directly, but he can still interact with the world as we know it using [[RemoteBody a proxy avatar]] in the shape of a blob-like cat-eared MentorMascot called Omnis, controlled from a likeness of his computer. [[TheDulcineaEffect Unable to bear leaving innocent girls to die]], Tobio readily accepts this mission, becomes an Executor and, armed with instructions on how to awaken the girls' potential, rushes to their aid, unaware of [[TheMultiverse just]] [[RealityWarper how]] [[SurpriseCreepy deep]] [[CerebusSyndrome this]] [[MindScrew rabbit]] [[FateWorseThanDeath hole]] [[HeroicBSOD can]] [[EvilDoppelganger go]]...

* CerebusRollercoaster: The game starts as a colorful, vivid and fairly lighthearted demon-exterminating action game liberally seasoned with FanService. However, the story gets [[SurpriseCreepy abruptly dark]] in Chapter 4 Episode 5 onwards with [[spoiler:one of the heroines getting brutally killed and [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie corrupted into a demon after her death]]. Omnis, desperately wishing for a do-over, unwittingly starts a GroundhogDayLoop, where [[RippleEffectProofMemory he's the only one who remembers the previous time-loops]], and quickly begins to suffer from heavy TimeLoopFatigue as he keeps seeing his beloved heroines die all over again]]. After [[spoiler:they finally break the time-loop stalemate with all heroines surviving]], the levels of grimdark go down a little, but things never get as lighthearted as they were before, with the magical girls constantly having to deal with weird demonic incursions, deadly bosses, the heroines' {{evil doppelganger}}s [[spoiler:(some of them are already bad, not just corrupted ones)]], [[spoiler:facing the revelation of the Multiverse and having Omnis trapped in a dark alternate universe where the girls' alternate selves are killing each other]], etc.

* SurpriseCreepy:

** ''[=MGCM=]'' collaborates with ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', featuring Omnis and the heroines stranded in the world of the latter and meeting Bell, Hestia and other characters of ''Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?''

* BleachedUnderpants: Studio [=MGCM=] maintains two versions of the game: an [=SFW=] version and an {{NSFW}} DX version. The [=SFW=] version differs only in its lack of [[{{hentai}} pornographic cutscenes and dialogues]], making it more general audience-oriented. However, even the SFW version is full of FanService, SexComedy like Marianne's [=NSFW=] doujin gags and [[ACupAngst jokes about]] [[GagBoobs boobs]], UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} subtexts (in Marianne's, Lilly's and Seira's Sadistic Succubus' dress stories) and {{visual innuendo}}. And there's no getting around the demons' [[BarbieDollAnatomy featureless]] yet [[HotAsHell very suggestive designs]] and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything all of the Demon Realm's flora and fauna being shaped like women's breasts, male and female sexual organs and other lewd things]]. Besides that, the limited-time event title and logo of Valentines Day 2021 is a parody of one of [[UsefulNotes/{{Pornography}} [=JAV=]s, ''Oishinbo'']], yet that event is available in a regular and a [=DX=] version.

* BustContrastDuo: Iroha and Kaori, two lifelong best friends, one with a great combination of generous size and non-overstated shape and the other afflicted with a perpetual ACupAngst.

* CoitusEnsues: It appears that the DX version's {{NSFW}} cutscenes in the main story and bond romance arcs were inserted into already complete SFW sequences. As a result, while some of them fit in organically with the story and seem to tie in well with what's said and done by the characters outside of it, quite a few other cases are more awkward and not very well-fitted-in, making a lot less sense for the situation and in dissonance with the dialogue outside of themselves.

See ''Anime/{{Noein}}'', ''Anime/TheGirlInTwilight'' and ''Manga/MurasakiiroNoQualia'' for similar mind-screwy concepts; compare ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'', a broadly similar franchise but themed around ninjas.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Ao and Aka being twins born at the same time yet having different fathers seems impossible. However, this phenomenon, known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfecundation "Heteropaternal Superfecundation"]], is a documented occurrence, although an extremely rare one.

** The ImageSong album cover for Top 3 popular heroines has Cocoa, Aka and Akisa completely naked and are NippleAndDimed by paint splats. Bonus points for Akisa being a TokenMiniMoe and "sandwiched" between Cocoa and Aka, [[BuxomIsBetter both of whom have big breasts]].

When ''Anime/PrettyCure'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'', ''Anime/TheGirlInTwilight'', ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'', ''Anime/{{Promare}}'', ''VideoGame/MuseDash'' and ''VideoGame/SummonersWarSkyArena'' and some male tilitating-{{fanservice}} and [[TheMultiverse a multiverse]] [[MindScrew mind-screwiness]] are thrown in.

* MagicalGirlGenreDeconstruction: Effectively a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts to [[VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory Magia Record]], and displays clear influences from multiple other deconstructions, such as ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'' and ''Manga/MagicalGirlSite''. It tends to be less dark than most of the above, with a much less CosmicHorror-esque premise, but still goes for a critical examination of the fates of magical girls and has them discover grim truths about the world. That said, it's much more optimistic and hopeful than many deconstructions.

* DebutQueue: Overlaps with RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude. Iroha ([[NamesTheSame no, not that]] [[VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory Iroha]]) and Kaori form the foundation of the team, being recruited by Omnis as part of their rescue in the very beginning. As the story progresses, they meet others who display potential to become magical girls, and all of them eventually wind up joining the party little by little over the course of the first arc, with the final girl joining shortly before the conclusion.

** The Sabbath battles seem to imply this as the way to determine the winners, applying ''[[KillEmAll both to the magical girls and to Omnis/Tobio]]''... all the way to ThereCanBeOnlyOne. Since this happens to be just an ExcusePlot for the game's PlayerVersusPlayer mode, and it is [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment brought up only briefly before vanishing from the story again]], it's not uncommon among fans to ignore this concept and come up with [[AllianceOfAlternates a less horrifically violent and dark solution to the multiverse's issues]]. [[spoiler:Subverted, as the first episode in the first chapter of I AM MAGICAMI Arc 1 reveals that defeated heroines will be deported into the White Room instead of dying.]]

** Iroha's skirt is fairly short, with its rear reaching only just below hers. When she sits down in her customary legs-extended-forward pose, [[ShesGotLegs it's easy to see all the way along their shapely length]]. Kaori and Seira wear their skirts similarly short, but tend to assume more modest poses and not show off as much as Iroha does, [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl consciously]] or [[InnocentFanserviceGirl not]].

** Seira's first seconds as a magical girl come with a drawn splash screen depicting her sudden OneHitKO of an attacker ([[{{Fanservice}} and a generous view]] up her [[ShesGotLegs leg]] and skirt).

** Several of the girls are [[WorldOfBuxom very generously endowed for their age]], and those who aren't are [[HartmanHips very shapely]] in [[PetitePride their]] own [[ShesGotLegs ways]]. Either way, all of them are more than easy on the eyes. The home screen set at the karaoke bar booth can result in plenty of fanservice due to this. Depending on which girls are chosen for the screen and in which order, they can end up giving quite a view with the relaxed sitting positions they assume -- after all, from their perspective, nobody's looking.

* BleachedUnderpants: Studio [=MGCM=] maintains two versions of the game: an [=SFW=] version and an {{NSFW}} DX version. The [=SFW=] version differs only in its lack of [[{{hentai}} pornographic cutscenes and dialogues]], making it more general audience-oriented. However, even the SFW version is full of FanService, SexComedy like Marianne's [=NSFW=] doujin gags and [[ACupAngst jokes about]] [[GagBoobs boobs]], UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} subtexts (in Marianne's, Lilly's and Seira's Sadistic Succubus' dress stories) and {{visual innuendo}}. And there's no getting around the demons' [[BarbieDollAnatomy featureless]] yet [[HornyDevils very suggestive designs]] and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything all of the Demon Realm's flora and fauna being shaped like women's breasts, male and female sexual organs and other lewd things]]. Besides that, the limited-time event title and logo of Valentines Day 2021 is a parody of one of [[UsefulNotes/{{Pornography}} [=JAV=]s, ''Oishinbo'']], yet that event is available in a regular and a [=DX=] version.

** [[OneGenderRace All demons are female]], [[HornyDevils shaped like lush women]] and have BarbieDollAnatomy. Normal demons are humanlike, while boss types look like [[FreudWasRight progressively worsening walking/floating Freudian nightmares]].

** The original soundtrack album has a detailed [[HornyDevils Arachne demon]], whose breasts are [[NippleAndDimed covered with]] GodivaHair.

* WeaponOfChoice: Kamisaman’s Dynamisphere technology transform the heroines’ smartphones into "Magical Instruments" based on their personal traits. In a nutshell, it’s a weapon equivalent of [[VideoGame/{{Persona}} Persona companions]].