This one doesn't score its fights, it sings them. Kamitsubaki City exists because five virtual voices made it exist first, and the anime knows it: the Witchling don't swing weapons, they open their mouths, and the Tesseractor, monsters congealed out of human darkness, come apart on the note. That's the trick that makes it more than a magical girl retread. The darkness is literally other people's, so every kill is also a confession, and the gleaming science city built seven years after the disaster looks a lot less clean once you clock what's pooling under it. It was announced onstage at V.W.P's second one-man live, which tells you exactly who this was made for and how little it cares about easing anyone else in. Come for the worldbuilding, stay because a song lands and you realize the city is the wound.

Seven years after a great disaster left humanity in ruins, Kamitsubaki City has risen as a symbol of scientific advancement and prosperity. Yet something darker lurks in its shadows: Tesseractor, monsters that spring from the darkness within people. Opposing them are the Witchling, five girls whose voices hold magical power. With each note they sing, they battle to keep the city at peace and to help heal a shattered world, in a music-driven mystery with supernatural foes.