Won't you play with them?
In spite of its colorful, lighthearted, and mostly comedic tone, the series can get very dark and grim at times.In General
- The Magical Monster's designs can be very cute, colorful, and almost cartoonish. Yet time and again we're shown that they can, will, and regularly do kill trained witches and raze entire townships to the ground in only a matter of days.
Episode 6
- Maryberry's disappearance is incredibly unsettling. The units are already there to investigate the mysterious phenomenon in the forest and suddenly one of their friends goes missing overnight. Even Salsa can't find her when her scent just mysteriously stops at some point.
- The Doll Room scene. First, there's the creepy baby's cries coming from a doll. Champe finds it and shuts it off, puts it back on the shelf where it should have been, then there's a Scare Chord as a doll randomly falls on the piano keys. Champe and Tiara look up and find the page image.
- Marianne was legitimately trying to murder Champe and Tiara by dropping the ceiling on them. If α wasn't there to intercept it the two of them would have likely become Garnet's new friends forever.
Episode 9
- Ashley's undergoing Meatgrinder Surgery to remove her wisdom tooth. She's strapped down to the operating table with rope, there is no anesthetic, and her friends can only wait outside horrified and traumatized until Lavie shuts the door to mute the screaming.
- As Tiara is traveling to Bristol from Mamuceaster, we get to see in detail the kind of horror the magical monsters can inflict: the town of Leicascar reduced to smoldering ruins by an attack just a few days earlier. What's even more unnerving is how casually Tiara's attendant mentions the refugees needing to be taken all the way to Bristol, which takes somewhere around 3 days to arrive at by carriage. Just how many people were displaced, one has to wonder?
Episode 10
- For the first time, we see the grim future that awaits most of Flora Girls' Academy's graduates: members of the Monster Extermination Squads, marching off in uniform with magical staffs in hand, grim expressions on their faces, and heavily-armored mercenaries in almost full plate armor. For how much the series focuses on the cute, colorful antics, it's easy to forget that the witch academies are first and foremost soldiers against total annihilation by magical monsters.
Episode 12
- We finally see how horrifying a horde of Magical Monsters can be. Even with one of the most powerful witches who had ever lived on their side, an army of trained adult witches, and well-armed and trained mercenaries, the defense force at Mamuceaster still suffers several casualties as they're crushed to death, vacuumed up and swallowed whole, or being visibly digested and drained of their mana. One could only imagine the chaos and horror that would have happened if LiGHTs hadn't shown up and all those unsuspecting civilians suddenly had to flee through tightly packed streets.
