extended magical girl transformations are lovely and all, but there’s something sort of romantic about a magical girl who transforms in an instantaneous flash of light.
imagine, a magical girl who transforms and detransforms when she’s bored, or mildly stressed. sitting in a waiting room, flash, magical girl, flash, normal girl, flash, magical girl again, and so on. someone enters the room; flash, she’s a mundane girl again. she realizes it’s her enemy; flash, she’s a magical girl again, and this time she has her sword.
In The Demon Girl Next Door, magical girl transformations actually take place in like hundredths of a second we just see a slowed down version
