Saga of Soul

"My name is Watanabe Eriko. I'm an upcoming Nobel Prize laureate, and reality is my bitch."

- Watanabe Eriko, internal monologue at her discovery of magic

Saga of Soul, by troper Sun Tzu, is a take on the Magical Girl genre.

The story begins when Eriko, an introverted bookworm, suffers a near-death experience. Instead of walking toward the Light, she takes it upon heself to perform scientific experiments, which leads to her acquiring magical powers. Soon enough, she finds herself involved in a complex conflict as several factions of mortal and supernatural entities alike make their play.

This story contains examples of the following tropes:


 * The Chessmaster : Steel-Sama and Chancell, to the very least.
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive : Steel-Sama.
 * Determinator : Samsod.
 * Deconstruction : It's no secret that Sailor Nothing was a big inspiration for this story.
 * Reconstruction : On the other hand...
 * The Empire : The Elysium.
 * For Science! : The reason Eriko considers looking for the island of stability physicist try to discover with particle accelerators is as simple as that.
 * How We Got Here
 * Genki Girl : Monsoon.
 * Genre Savvy
 * Kaiju
 * Kidanova : Katsutoshi, who's still in high school, and seems to be accumulating dates. Kazu is a lesser version of this trope.
 * Knife Nut : Murder does have a strong fondness for blades.
 * Magic A Is Magic A : A central trope of the series.
 * Magical Girl : Eriko herself.
 * Magic Idol Singer : The Muramatsu media conglomerate make a big production of their attempt to invoke this trope, if only to generate publicity. Eriko quickly concludes that they haven't thought this through.
 * Meaningful Rename : Done by Downfall to his minion mages.
 * Omake
 * Rage Against the Mentor
 * Secret Keeper : Junko is the first person Eriko tells about her powers. At the time, though, she hadn't yet realized she was going to need a secret identity...
 * The Smart Guy : Eriko herself is a rather intellectual protagonist.
 * Share Phrase: Multiple characters enter inner monologues by introducing themselves to the audience with "My name is..."
 * Shout-Out
 * Spit Take
 * Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe : At least in the early parts of the story.
 * The Watson : Junko. Secano. Hiromasa. And arguably others.
 * This Is Reality: Mentioned multiple times. It is a Deconstruction, after all.
 * Wrong Genre Savvy : Arguably Junko.