Magical Girl Mechanical Heart Vol 1
by Natalie Maher
read date: 2025/03/15
So this is the first thing I read by Maher (also known as Thundamoo), who writes a lot of web serials, and it quickly got me looking at everything else she's done.
Maher does mostly body horror with people becoming inhuman things and maybe realizing they were never human in the first place. Unsurprisingly, it all reads as extremely trans.
This one specifically is about Luna, a college student who has always wanted to be a magical girl but she's sadly too old.
But she has an encounter with a very villain coded woman, and wakes up trapped as a robot slave with no way to communicate.
So this story is mostly about depersonalization, child soldiers , and PTSD; and I legit love it all.
..doesn't hurt that I've always wanted to be an android girl lmao