Mahou Shoujo Kazumi★Magica: The Innocent Malice
Puella Magi Kazumi★Magica: The Innocent Malice

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Uta Kata and Puella Magi Kazumi Magica are two seinen manga series about a girl who gets involved with magic and can transform into a magical girl as a result. Kazumi Magica is longer, but both series are much darker than at first sight, and have similar levels of fan-service. 

Both have a mahou shoujo theme to it. They both have pretty cute artwork as well as start off with an innocent story. There are pretty dark elements introduced as the story progresses. All in all, both stories have an expected dark atmosphere hidden under the art style.  

Both are about seriously messed up magical girls with a hidden agenda. Kazumi Magica is a bit light-hearted as Mahou Shoujo of the Dead is extremely gruesome and guro. The two are both cruel and startling, but Kazumi has a much deeper plot. Both also have really cute art. 

A group of friends with special powers, issues of trauma-inducing truths that are difficult to stomach and overcome, and a couple special surprise similarities that are best discovered as you read the title you're not familiar with. Railgun is the far superior series of the two; Kazumi Magica suffers a lot of blandness in terms of art and story during the first two thirds where everything is still being set up, while Railgun has stupendous art and few issues in terms of the story. That said, someone who is a true fan of the Madoka Magica franchise, if s/he is able to get through the grueling beginning, should still be able to appreciate at least some elements of this manga. Chapters 17-23 are worth it. One other similarity is that these titles are side stories to other, larger series. Railgun is an official spinoff of the Toaru Majutsu no Index novels, and expressly focuses on the viewpoint of Misaka Mikoto, who holds a somewhat smaller role in the novels. Kazumi Magica takes place within the same general universe as Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, and utilizes an almost entirely new cast of characters.  read more