Tuesday, January 28, 2020

How they compare: Punie-chan (Dai Mahou Touge)


In another dimension is the kingdom of "Magical Land". There the crown princess Punie-chan is sent to live a year on Earth as a test to become the queen of Magical Land. However unlike most magical girls with a similar premise, Magical Land is actually a Fascist Empire and Punie-chan despite her cute looks is really a sadistic psychopath who plans to eventually add Earth to her magical empire as the queen.

Punie-chan lives out a year on the planet Earth, living as a normal school age girl, but when she needs to she can invoke her magic wand with her magical incantation "Lyrical Tokarev, Kill Them All!" and perform her magic to...usually the detriment to all around her.


Punie-chan is very physically capable to the point to the point that with her magic sealed she ran up the arm of a dark god and snapped his finger, which had previously tanked creating a punch that shattered the ground and ripped through a nearby building as a consequence. The dark god then recogized Punie-chan and ran away in fear.

Punie-chan is durable enough that when her twin little sisters who seek to assassinate her for the throne amped themselves and punched Punie-chan into the nearby school destroying it, she continued to fight just fine. Even when she was younger she could survive numerous blows capable of shattering her bones hitting her skull.

She is also able to superleap fast enough to escape a massive pit trap that was created to kill her and leap up onto the arm of a dark god summoned to kill her. 


As might be expected, Punie-chan's most notable ability is her magic. Her magic seems to include general all purpose reality warping or at the very least being able to heavily modify matter and space, as well as large scale summoning. To help out one of her classmates on a date she modified the rides with her magic to be scarier, including causing a roller coaster to go so high as to reach the clouds and turning the inside of a haunted mansion into an entire city.

She can grand animacy to things as she did to an entire army of vegetables commanding them to kill her schoolyard bullies and has summoning abilities able to summon up not just a city but also a giant squid monster larger then buildings. It is strongly implied she conjured up off screen horses, spears and guns for her cavalry. 

She is probably most well known for what she calls her "cuteness charm" though I'm not clear if this is actual magic or literally just her being so cute in-universe that it acts like a form of mindhax but her presence is cute enough to cause dozens of boys at her school to adore her as super cute even as she is commanding a vegetable army to kill people and was even able to make them gun down their fellow classmates for the sake of winning the school sports festival. Her vegetable army is also so loyal to her that they will willingly kill themselves or allow themselves to be turned into curry for her will. 

She can travel through dimensions and even was able to bring one of her classmates with her to show her magical land showing she can dimensionally bfr.

She also one time, afraid of failing a math exam, summoned a magical nuclear device capable of blowing up everything in 1 ASTRONOMICAL UNIT requiring energy comparable to a supernova.

Punie-chan is actually very skilled in "princess submission holds" which involves grappling with an enemy and pinning them down before painfully and sadistically break each joint of their body. Her "princess headlock" was even successful against an opponent whose joints can spin 360 degrees. Her skill is enough to successfully fight master fighters like Captain Paya Livingston, who was a grizzled war veteran, in hand to hand and as mentioned before defeated a dark gob by jumping on his arm, running up it and snapping one of his fingers, making him run away in fear.

Punie-chan is very manipulative, able to easily pit her twin sisters against each other and is also very aware of cute witch tropes and during a dramatic love confession mouthed the appropriate lines from a distance as they were being said. She is very good at avoiding traps due to a lifetime of dodging assassination attempts and has also memorized her multiplication tables!

She doesn't have much in the way of weaknesses outside of being not very good at math. The one notable thing is that her speed isn't actually notably higher then a normal humans outside of leaping speed. This has notably given her particular trouble fighting numerous opponents on her relative level at once, as demonstrated when her two little sisters amped themselves and almost beat her. She has beaten numerous opponents before, but only when they were signifigantly physically weaker then her, meaning abilities like summoning and duplication would probably be relatively strong. 

Name: Punie-chan, Magical Princess Punie-chan, Punie Tanaka
Origin: Magical Witch Punie-chan 
Classification: Cute Witch, Magical Princess from another dimension, Sadistic psychopath
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman strength and durability, magic, spatial manipulation/reality-warping/summoning (city scale), can summon a magical nuclear device capable of wiping out everything in an astronomical unit, animacy, mind hax (Cuteness charm, can control dozens of people at once at least), Inter-Dimensional Travel/Dimensional BFR, is a skilled and intelligent fighter
Weaknesses: Not good at fighting multiple enemies at once, math
Destructive Capacity: Building level physically, likely city level with magic, large star level with magical nuclear device
Range: City. Inter-Dimensional with teleportation
Speed: Athletic Human, superhuman leaping speed
Durability: Building level
Stamina: Unknown
Standard Equipment: Magic Wand (can summon at any time)
Intelligence: Good manipulator and skilled fighter, aware of cute witch tropes



So how would she do in other verses?


In the DC/Marvel universes Punie-chan would do relatively similar. That is for the most part not great. Her lack of speed and only really street tier power means in terms of raw power means any decent street tier could defeat her physically. That said her magic could threaten a large number of more characters, especially if she uses cuteness charm hax. That said any serious Marvel Psychic or DC Mage should be able to stop her. The Psychics would have better resistance to her charm but the Mages would have better way of countering dimensional abilities. Even if she tried to use her bomb the strongest superheroes could easily stop it. In DC it would basically be the end of Superman: Red Son again. Overall she'd be a lower bound street tier threat with magic hax that could threaten into the meta tiers.

 

Master Blasters who made the Magic Knight Rayearth anime also did Dai Mahou Touge so how would Punie-chan do in Cephiro.

Physically speaking Punie would be roughly comparable to the monsters that sprung up around Cephiro when the Pillar's heart was overtaken being roughly building level, below the strongest fighters of the verse like Lafarga by a good margin meaning she could be taken out early. If she is not however she would rapidly become a massive threat like a minor pillar given her powerful reality warping, amplified by the fact that in Cephiro one's will rules all and Punie has a high willpower, able to fight through numerous blows to the head each strong to break her bones. If she can get into contact with certain key figures of the surrouding figures of worlds near Cephiro like Princess Aska of Fahren or Tatra of Chizeta her manipulation and cuteness charm would allow her to quickly become a threat to the whole of Cephiro and the surronding worlds. Fortunately the Magic Knights willpower is strong enough to resist mindhax and reality-warping on a level surpassing even Punie-chan.


Comparing Punie-chan from the darkest cute witch series vs the characters from Ojamajo Doremi, the brightest cute witch series, Punie would be paradoxically a bottom tier fodder and a god level top tier threat.

On the one hand, Punie's cuteness charm and manipulation would be very effective in Doremi and they would have no idea at first of her insidious psychopathic internal nature. She could very well one-shot the verse with a giant magical nuclear device. Her reality-warping would be strong for the verse.

On the other hand, her power would be below the witch's assistants let alone actual witches as even a witch assistants could turn into a Pseudo-Gundam. Also characters are constantly together and using friendship and teamwork and Punie struggles fighting multiple enemies at once. 

She could solo the verse casually or get completely negged in the very first encounter, depending on starting info, her motivation and her mindset.

 

In another bright cute witch series, Akazukin Chacha, Punie would do interestingly. She would be above all the general fairy tale monsters and youkai of the verse but well below the great wizard Seravy or the evil witch Dorothy or the Devil King who would have easily conjured the magical world if it was not for Seravy. 

In a fight between her and Chacha herself.....so Chacha should win fairly easily on paper due to higher stats and versatility, but Punie is a much better magician then Chacha who often comically messes up spell (for instance conjuring something that sounds like what she was trying to summon). Punie would probably win 8/9 out of 10 times with Chacha winning pretty much due to luckily getting her spells right or her spells going wrong in a way that doesn't advantage her. To put it another way, both Punie and Chacha are meant to be comically overpowered compared to normal humans but Punie is also comically competent to be menacing while Chacha is comically incompetent to be funny.

 

So Sugar Sugar Rune is a magical girl series about witches from Monster World meant to be a playful subversion of normal mg villains being inter-dimensional emotional energy manipulators. How would they do against another darker magical girl inversion with a cute witch being psychopathic instead of innocent.

Punie-chan would fit in really well as a mid to high tier magic user in the Sugar Sugar Rune World. They have direct feats that are building scale for attack potency like Rockin Robin affecting a building and turning it into two buildings each half the size of the original and a powerful Ogre creating an entire beach with reality warping. They can even match her level of emotional manipulation with top tiers being able to steal the hearts (emotional states) of dozens of humans at once. 

Punie chan wouldn't be able the top tiers who have feats like flying between Earth and Moon over 3,000 times or 7 powerful mages creating a whole universe that said against most mages she'd do pretty well, the two being able to match in most categories. She would have a really fair fight against Chocolate or Vanilla unless she gets into melee range which in fair would not be often given their flight. 

Hilariously enough, Monster World views cuteness to be unattractive and ugly but scariness to be cute and attractive meaning Punie-chan's cuteness charm and normal manipulation would be completely ineffective but when she switches to her scarier serious mode she would be seen as adorable and attractive.  

1 comment:

  1. This gal DOES Remind me of a Magical Girl Mandy to say the least, the idea of a totally adorable lookin magical girl actually being a psychopathic fascist murderer IS pretty funny, and she certainly has some very interesting stats, having reality warping abilities FAR above her physical stats and using it in combination with really high secondary stats and a passive emotional mind hax.

    What really impressed me in this blog was how perfectly she seems to fit in a LOT of these verses you compared her too. In MKR she could basically become a 3rd arc villain threatening the whole allied solar system, but still a threat the Main girls could potentially stop. In Dormei how well she does depends purely on chance. In Chacha shes basically the Mandy equivalent to ChaChas Billy.

    But i easily think the BEST one is SSR like HOLY CRAP. i really like the Dichotomy that she is a magical princess from a Magical Candy Dimension, but is pure evil and scary, but SSR has the EXACT opposite, with occult Witches from a Spooky Monster World, but is adorable and sweet.

    Also HER VS VANILLA would be PERFECT, that may be one of my most wanted matches id wanna see you do someday now

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