A Magical Girl Retires

Drowning in credit card debt after losing her job, a depressed millennial in the middle of a breakdown is interrupted, mid-attempt to end her life, by a magical girl looking for the greatest magical girl who ever lived. She soon learns that being a magical girl in the real world has little to do with destiny and a lot to do with paperwork: job fairs, unions, and, in her case, a credit card that doubles as a magic wand.

Instead of monsters, her fight is against climate change, crushing debt, and her own self-esteem, in a story that takes familiar magical-girl tropes and turns them toward the very real end of the world.