So, "What's this?" that you might be asking towards yourself, for starters, it is a magical girl story that was made outside of Japan (and isn't the first when you lookback at something like Lolirock as an example) and it was created by Marco Albireo... Yes, that very same guy that brought you of bringing back the Sailor Moon 90's anime art style for official merchandise/home media Viz releases as of today (aside from the 2000's and 90's merch). And speaking of Lolirock for one last time, did you know that Marco did the comics for Lolirock and also putting the Lolirock princesses if they had the 90's Sailor Moon art style? Just had to mention that.
Anyway, back to Lady Unicorin!
For those that didn't look up on what this one-shot story is about, here's the synopsis:
Note: Screenshot taken from this site. Not to mention that this one-shot is only in the #3 one.
On what I like about the synopsis is:
1. It's nice to see a magical girl inherit another magical girl's powers when after the original user passed away to make things fresh that you don't usually see the typical magical girl anime do that. But thankfully it also doesn't follow the rules similarly to the whole "Soul Gem" thing in Madoka Magica because, once that Soul Gem breaks, you're dead.
2. The return of the solo magical girl protagonist ever since the days of Shugo Chara or Princess Tutu were considered "new" at the time! But I also know about the much older solo magical girl protagonists like Minky Momo, Creamy Mami, Pastel Yumi, Magical Angel Sweet Mint, Magical Emi, and the Magic Fairy, Persia to say some of them at least. Even though I don't watch any of these animes as much (aside from Princess Tutu being mentioned so far since it was a childhood anime of mine that I should rewatch someday).
3. Should I mention that this is magical girl story that isn't aimed at kids unlike a lot of magical girl anime shows are today? And you'll see on what I've meant about that as I'll get to Lady Unicorn's civilian identity within a second here... Aside from using "magical lipstick" that could be advertised as a kids' toy (as makeup products are still likely a thing within the magical girl genre of today as if you look at Japan on how they treat Sailor Moon and Precure at times), but instead of getting your usual teenage protagonists like with Sailor Moon, Precure (mostly), Cardcaptor Sakura, Nurse Witch Komugi R (not to be confused with the original NWK anime), and etc., you actually get a magical girl protagonist who's actually in their middle 20's! 25, that is. Plus, I should mention that Sarah's a graphic designer who was also coming out of a bad, toxic relationship as she's now single for three years. But she even has thing going on for someone, as she secretly loves on a new marketing director that she saw.
Despite there isn't that much about this one-shot manga story (as it's still new at the same time as I'm writing this out), I thought this was going to worth to be a shot if I actually got to read the whole thing someday! But I saw some pages online (especially one of the pages told us about Sarah like I've just said as it can be viewed online if you wanna translate it yourself through Google reverse image search). But once I get the whole story to share someday, I possibly translate it if it doesn't get translated for some years. Even I think I'm more interested into this than something like: "Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl" since I'm not that interested into it... Especially when that one has one of the laziest Sailor Moon references that I ever did saw before.
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