Karina never asked to be a magical girl. A sarcastic teenager from a working-class family, her life is already stretched to the breaking point when tragedy strikes. Only hours after her beloved grandmother's sudden death, a mysterious boy confronts her on the street and demands she transform to fight. Still in her school uniform with a piece of seaweed stuck to it from cleaning up her grandmother's last spilled breakfast, she is called out of class to identify the body at the hospital. Between managing her grief, keeping up with schoolwork, and showing up for her hourly waitressing job at a family restaurant, she has no room for magical battles. Yet on her way home, a glittering, elephant-like creature appears floating in the sky, and the teenage boy pushes her out of the path of its attack. Death is stalking Karina's town in a form that only she can see. The boy gives her an ultimatum: die or transform and fight. Though she can barely comprehend what is happening, her clothes change and a heavy staff materializes in her hands—a weapon with enough heft to do serious damage. The series follows Karina Nogata as she struggles to balance her ordinary life with her extraordinary new duty, questioning whether there is any space left for revenge against the forces that took her grandmother or for fighting monsters when she is already at her limit. Created by Coyuri Tono, the manga is a heartfelt action series that puts a poignant spin on the magical girl formula, with the first volume released in Japan in July 2024 on the Comic Days web service before being licensed for English publication by Kodansha Comics.