Magical Girl Raising Project

Magical Girl Raising Project
First light novel volume cover featuring one of the first novel's protagonists, Snow White.
魔法少女育成計画 (Mahō Shōjo Ikusei Keikaku)
Genre	Survival action, Magical girl
Light novel
Written by	Asari Endō
Illustrated by	Maruino
Published by	Takarajimasha
English publisher	Yen Press
Demographic	Male
Imprint	Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Bunko
Original run	June 8, 2012 – present
Volumes	10 (List of volumes)
Manga
Written by	Asari Endō
Illustrated by	Pochi Edoya
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Comp Ace
Original run	September 26, 2014 – October 26, 2015
Volumes	2
Manga
Magical Girl Raising Project: Restart
Written by	Asari Endō
Illustrated by	Nori Senbei
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Comp Ace
Original run	June 2016 – present
Volumes	1
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroyuki Hashimoto
Produced by	Emi Kashimura Minami Ken
Written by	Takao Yoshioka
Music by	Takuro Iga
Studio	Lerche
Licensed by	NA Crunchyroll
Original network	AT-X, Tokyo MX, BS11
Original run	October 1, 2016 – December 17, 2016
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)

Magical Girl Raising Project (魔法少女育成計画, Mahō Shōjo Ikusei Keikaku^?) is a Japanese light novel series written by Asari Endō and illustrated by Maruino. Takarajimasha has published nine volumes since 2012 under their Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Bunko imprint. The series is licensed in English by Yen Press. A manga adaptation with art by Pochi Edoya was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Comp Ace magazine between September 2014 and October 2015. An anime television series adaptation by Lerche aired in Japan between October and December 2016.

A popular social game known as the Magical Girl Raising Project has the ability to grant players a 1-in-10,000 chance of becoming a real-life magical girl. Each of the magical girls possess unique abilities and earn Magical Candies by protecting people and performing good deeds. However, at some point, the administration has decided that sixteen magical girls in a certain city is too many, announcing they will cut the number in half by having the magical girl with the fewest Magical Candies each week lose their powers. As the rules of the game become more twisted, the girls eventually find themselves dragged into a life-or-death battle against each other.

The first light novel volume was published on June 8, 2012 under Takarajimasha's Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Bunko imprint. Ten volumes have been published as of December 2016. Yen Press has licensed the series in English and will release the first novel in Summer 2017.

A manga adaptation illustrated by Pochi Edoya was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Comp Ace magazine between September 26, 2014 and October 26, 2015. It was collected into two tankōbon volumes released between June 26, 2015 and March 26, 2016. An adaptation of Magical Girl Raising Project: Restart, illustrated by Nori Senbei, began serialization in Comp Ace from June 2016. The first tankōbon volume was released on September 30, 2016. A spin-off manga illustrated by Ryouta Yuzuki, Magical Girl Raising Project FTP, began release on the Kono Light Novel wa Sugoi! WEB service from August 29, 2016.