Machimaho

Machimaho: I Messed Up and Made the Wrong Person Into a Magical Girl! (Japanese: 間違った子を魔法少女にしてしまった, Hepburn: Machigatta Ko o Mahō Shōjo ni Shiteshimatta) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Souryu. It has been serialized on Shinchosha's Kurage Bunch website since October 2016; as of January 2025, thirteen volumes have been released. The story, set on modern day Japan follows main protagonist Kayo Majiba, a chain-smoking delinquent highschool girl who was turned into an all-powerful magical girl by a creature named Kyu in her walk to school.

Machimaho: I Messed Up and Made the Wrong Person Into a Magical Girl!
Cover of the first volume
間違った子を魔法少女にしてしまった (Machigatta Ko o Mahō Shōjo ni Shiteshimatta)
Genre	Magical girl[1] Parody[2] Yankī[1]
Manga
Written by	Souryu [ja]
Published by	Shinchosha
English publisher	NA: Seven Seas Entertainment
Imprint	Bunch Comics
Magazine	Kurage Bunch
Original run	October 7, 2016 – present
Volumes	13

Publication

Written and illustrated by Souryu, the series began serialization on Shinchosha's Kurage Bunch website on October 7, 2016.^[3] As of January 2025, the series' individual chapters have been collected into thirteen tankōbon volumes.^[4]

In March 2018, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they licensed the series for English publication.^[5]

Volume list

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	May 9, 2017[6]	978-4-10-771974-4	October 23, 2018[7]	978-1-62692-933-3
2	September 8, 2017[8]	978-4-10-772006-1	March 12, 2019[9]	978-1-64275-000-3
3	March 9, 2018[10]	978-4-10-772057-3	August 13, 2019[11]	978-1-64275-121-5
4	July 9, 2018[12]	978-4-10-772097-9	December 31, 2019[13]	978-1-64275-744-6
5	December 7, 2018[14]	978-4-10-772141-9	March 24, 2020[15]	978-1-64505-216-6
6	May 9, 2019[16]	978-4-10-772187-7	August 11, 2020[17]	978-1-64505-520-4
7	September 9, 2019[18]	978-4-10-772215-7	January 5, 2021[19]	978-1-64505-947-9
8	April 9, 2020[20]	978-4-10-772273-7	November 2, 2021[21]	978-1-64827-334-6
9	September 9, 2020[22]	978-4-10-772318-5	April 5, 2022[23]	978-1-63858-177-2
10	May 8, 2021[24]	978-4-10-772389-5	May 31, 2022[25]	978-1-63858-270-0
11	January 8, 2022[26]	978-4-10-772463-2	January 10, 2023[27]	978-1-63858-716-3
12	August 8, 2023[28]	978-4-10-772633-9	June 25, 2024[29]	978-1-68579-554-2
13	January 8, 2025[4]	978-4-10-772786-2	October 21, 2025[30]	979-8-89373-278-8

Reception

Faye Hopper, Amy McNulty, Rebecca Silverman, and Teresa Navarro of Anime News Network praised the artwork, though they had mixed feelings on the story. Silverman and Navarro praised the parody elements, though Navarro felt it was unoriginal compared to similar works. However, they both felt it was overwhelming to read; McNulty and Hopper were more critical, describing the story as "repetitive" and "unpleasant and boring" respectively.^[2] Koiwai of Manga News liked the humor, though Koiwai felt it quickly got repetitive. Koiwai also praised the artwork and character designs.^[31]

The series ranked sixth on the "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics" by the Honya Club website in 2018.^[32]

The series has 300,000 copies in circulation.^[1]

See also

• Kō Iu no ga Ii, another manga series by the same author