Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka

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Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka Blu-Ray cover. Country Japan Language Japanese Channel MBS, TBS, BS-TBS, AT-X, CBC, Crunchyroll (Streaming, subtitled) Creator Makoto Fukami (Author) Hideyo Yamamoto (Director) Genre Military Fantasy Broadcast January 12 - March 30, 2019 No. of Seasons 1 Main Cast Character Actor Asuka Otori Aya Suzaki (Japanese)

Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka (Japanese: 魔法少女特殊戦あすか Hepburn: Mahō Shōjo Tokushusen Asuka) is a Japanese magical girl/military seinen manga series written by Makoto Fukami and illustrated by Seigo Tokiya. Naoya Tamura is the series' military advisor. It began publication in June 2015 in the manga magazine Monthly Big Gangan, published by Square Enix, and has five tankōbon volumes slated for North America Release as of January 2018. The series is published in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment. An anime television series adaptation by Liden Films began airing on January 12, 2019; the anime series is licensed in North America under Crunchyroll-Funimation partnership.

The following weapons were used in the anime series Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka:

Pistols

MP-443 Grach

GRU Operative Constantine Asimov points what appears to be an MP-443 "Grach" on Iizuka Yoshiaki in the battlefield outside Mt. Aso in "The Magical Girl Comes Back". This would make sense as the MP-443 is the standard service pistol of the Russian military and law enforcement.

MP-443 "Grach" - 9x19mm

GRU Operative Asimov and his pistol at Mt. Aso in "The Magical Girl Comes Back".

Derringer

Magical Girl Just Cause Mia's magical artifact is a two shot derringer of indeterminate manufacture that can transform into various firearms, most notably an HK416.

Cobra C22m Standard Derringer - .22 WMR

Magical Girl Just Mia armed with her magical artifact about to transform into her HK416 in "A More Terrible War".

A shot of the derringer used by Mia.

Mia takes out her derringer while on a black op raid in Japan in "Wish Upon a Star". Of all the places where she drew it from...

You can see that Mia's cleaning the derringer in "The Lid of Hell", even though the animation in this shot is mediocre.

FN Five-seveN

Magical Girl Just Cause Mia's magical artifact is a two shot derringer that can transform into various firearms. She is seen using what appears to be an FN Five-seveN before it changes to her derringer in order to transform as her main sidearm. Her fellow CIA SAD agents Aaron and Julia also use it on occasions.

FN Five-seveN USG fitted with Gemtech SFN-57 suppressor - 5.7×28mm

Mia armed with her magical artifact seemingly taking the form of an FN Five-seveN fitted with a suppressor in "A More Terrible War".

Mia taking cover while stacking up.

Aaron confronts a Halloween-class monster while firing magic enhanced 5.7x28mm rounds in "Wish Upon a Star".

Note the live round being ejected as Aaron and Julia switched their full magazines for magic enhanced ammunition magazines, a nice detail by the animators.

Close up detail shot of the Five-seveN.

FN Five-seveN Mark 2 - FN 5.7×28mm.

Mia takes out the Goblin-type Disas in "Each of Their Own Battles".

Kimber Custom TLE II

A Kimber Custom TLE II is seen in the eyecatch for "Daily Life and Comrades in Arms" with Kurumi Mugen.

Kimber Custom TLE II - .45 ACP

Kurumi with the Warrior in the "Daily Life and Comrades in Arms" eyecatch. Note that the photo appears to be taken from the manga.

Makarov PM

A Makarov PM is seen in "A Very Realistic Way of Dealing with a Problem" with a Russian wizard mercenary named Povar.

Commercial imported Makarov by Baikal, called the IJ-70 - 9x18mm Makarov.

The PM fired at Asuka, loaded with enhanced ammo in "A Very Realistic Way of Dealing with a Problem".

CZ 100

The CZ 100 is seen with Lau Peipei aka Shantoulon Peipei as her sidearm.

CZ 100 - 9x19mm Parabellum

Dual CZ 100s are used by Lau in "If This Battle Ever Ends".

Ballistic Knife Pistol

A ballistic knife pistol is seen in "Magical Girl Operations Development Unit" with Tamara, using it as her handheld weapon. It appears to be enhanced to take on magical enemies.

Tamara draws out the BK in Wakkanai near the end of "Magical Girl Operations Development Unit".

A first person view of Tamara aiming the BK at a modified Halloween-class Disas in "Each of Their Own Battles".

Revolvers

Nambu Model 60

The Nambu Model 60 is the issue revolver of the Tokyo Metropolitan/Okinawa Prefectural Police aren't as well detailed.

Nambu Model 60 snub nose - .38 Special.

A pair of TMPD officers are gunned down before they could fire their standard issue revolvers in "The Magical Girl Comes Back".

OPP officers engage Disas beasts at downtown Naha in the middle of "The Lid of Hell".

Submachine Guns

IMI Uzi

A full sized IMI Uzi is used by a Colombian terrorist named Crescent Moon Sandino to attack Magical Girl "Just Cause" and her fellow CIA operatives in "Wish Upon a Star".

IMI Uzi with buttstock collapsed - 9x19mm

Sandino shows up in "Wish Upon a Star".

The Uzi being fired.

Assault Rifles

Howa Type 89

Yoshiaki Iizuka of the JGSDF's Special Forces Group contingent at Mt. Aso, is armed with the Howa Type 89 Assault Rifle in in "The Magical Girl Comes Back". He appears to be using 20 round magazines. The JGSDF's 15th Brigade are armed with the Type 89, but with 30 round magazines, first seen in "The Lid of Hell".

Howa Type 89 with integral bipod - 5.56x45mm.

Iizuka holding his Howa Type 89 with his remaining arm in "The Magical Girl Comes Back". Seems to be loaded with a 20 round magazine.

JGSDF Soldiers of the 15th Brigade defend JGSDF Naha Garrison with their Type 89 rifles and a mounted machine gun on the Komatsu LAV during the episode "The Lid of Hell".

A JGSDF soldier from the 15th Brigade fires at the attacking Disas Beasts. This is seen as stock footage in "Each of Their Own Battles" and "The Magical Girls and This Beautiful World".

15B soldiers holding the line inside JGSDF Naha in "Each of Their Own Battles".

AKM

The East Asia United Front terrorists in the first episode are all using AKMs with the rescued terrorist leader using one with an underslung GP-25 grenade launcher in "The Magical Girl Comes Back". They're later seen first in "Daily Life and Comrades in Arms", confirming that the EAUF uses them as their weapon of choice. They're also seen with other bad guys in other episodes.

AKM - 7.62x39mm

Kim Kanth leads EAUF terrorists on the run in the streets of Tokyo, armed with AKMs in "The Magical Girl Comes Back".

Detail of the AKM's receiver. Note that it's loaded with a bakelite mag.

An Oboroten Boyevik is shot by M-Squad in "Magical Girl Operations Development Unit".

Airsoft LCT AKM

EAUF terrorists smuggle unassembled AKMs from oil drums in "Daily Life and Comrades in Arms".

An EAUF terrorist with the AKM outfitted with black synthetic furniture.

EAUF terrorists encounter Abigail aka Pick Scissors Abby.

Armed sicarios confront Mia in "A More Terrible War".

Asuka disarms an EAUF terrorist in "Babel Brigade - Combat Begins".

Oboroten Boyeviks load up crates in "Magical Girl Operations Development Unit".

Heckler & Koch HK416

Magical Girl Just Cause Mia's magical artifact is a two shot derringer that can transform into various firearms. The most common form it takes is a HK416 with magically enhanced ammunition.

Heckler & Koch HK416 with 10.4 inch barrel - 5.56x45mm NATO.

A shot from the OP sequence, KODO, Just Cause Mia shooting at some enemies with her assault rifle. Note the thumb over bore grip Mia uses in order to control her rifle.

A shot of the carbine's receiver withe fire selector in the ED sequence, Rebellion.

A shot of the carbine's receiver with the loaded 30-round mag.

Mia with her HK416 during the fight with the King Dias monster in "The Magical Girl Comes Back".

Mia uses her magical girl powers to enhance her ammo during a raid in "A More Terrible War".

The "A More Terrible War" eyecatch with Mia posing with her carbine.

Closeup of the HK416's barrel fired at Goblin-type Disas in downtown Naha in "Each of Their Deadly Battles".

The HK416 being fired at the end of "If This Battle Ever Ends".

Beretta ARX-160

Aaron and Julia are seen with Beretta ARX-160s in "A More Terrible War" while on an anti-cartel op in Mexico. Magical Operations Response Group operators use them during the siege at JGSDF Naha Garrison in "Each of Their Own Battles".

Beretta ARX-160 Coyote brown with 11.89" barrel - 5.56x45mm

Aaron and Julia with the Beretta ARX-160s in "A More Terrible War".

Beretta ARX-160 with 12" barrel - 5.56x45mm

MORG operators engage Halloween-class Disas monsters breaching the Naha Garrison's eastern entrance in "Each of Their Own Battles".

AK-47

The AK-47 is seen with various bad guys in the show.

AK-47 - 7.62x39mm

Armed sicarios with the AK-47 in "A More Terrible War".

IWI CTAR-21

The IWI CTAR-21 is seen in an eyecatch with Lau in an eyecatch.

IMI Tavor CTAR-21 with ITL MARS red dot sight - 5.56x45mm

Lau posing with the CTAR-21 in the "If This Battle Ever Ends" eyecatch.

AK-type rifle

The dropped AK near Giess' body in "You'll Be a Wonderful Magical Girl".

Battle Rifles

LMT LM308MWS Sharpshooter

The LMT LM308MWS Sharpshooter is seen with operators under the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces' Magical Girl Operations Development Unit or M-Squad. Kurumi presumably gets one from the squad in "Each of Their Own Deadly Battles".

LMT Sharpshooter - 7.62x51mm NATO

Kaede and Ise take up combat positions while engaging Pick Scissors Abby in "A Very Realistic Way of Dealing with a Problem".

Shima retrieves a wounded War Nurse Kurumi.

Kaede fires incendiary ammo at Abby to cover her comrades's retrieval of Kurumi.

Ise opens fire on Oboroten Boyeviks in the middle of "Magical Girl Operations Development Unit".

The Sharpshooter seen with Shima, Kaede and Ise when M-Squad is mobilized in "The Lid of Hell".

Shima fires the Sharpshooter from behind sandbags during the siege at JGSDF Naha Garrison in "Each of Their Deadly Battles".

The Sharpshooter fired by Ise.

Kurumi shoulders the Sharpshooter when Giess raids the underground shelter.

Sniper Rifles

OSV-96

GRU Operative Constantine Asimov was initially armed with an OSV-96 during the final battle against the King Disas at Mt. Aso in "The Magical Girl Comes Back".

OSV-96 Vzlomshchik with black stock - 12.7x108mm

The OSV-96 being loaded up during the fight in Mt. Aso in "The Magical Girl Comes Back".

Hearing something approach him from behind, Constantine tosses his OSV-96 away to draw his sidearm.

Accuracy International AS50

The Accuracy International AS50 is used by M-Squad as the anti-materiel rifle of choice. It's usually loaded with Orihalcon-made ammo to weaken magical creatures and girls if a shot is made.

Accuracy International AS50 - .50 BMG

Yoshino aiming the at the enhanced Halloween-class creature in "A Very Realistic Way of Dealing with a Problem".

Another shot of the AS50 aimed at the Queen.

Yoshino goes prone with the AS50 during an anti-magic op somewhere in the Sarobetsu plain in Hokkaido in "Magical Girl Operations Development Unit".

The AS50 seen with Yoshino when M-Squad is mobilized in "The Lid of Hell".

Yoshino takes up a sniper position inside the JGSDF Naha Garrison in "Each of Their Deadly Battles".

Barrett M107

The MORG's sniper rifle of choice is the Barrett M107 as they defend JGSDF Naha Garrison and the Dimensional Bridge from the attacking Disas Beasts

Barrett M107 Long Range Sniper Rifle - .50 BMG.

Loaded with rare Magical 12.7mm rounds, the American operators hold the defense perimeter at JGSDF NG during the episode "The Lid of Hell".

Machine Guns

Browning M2HB

The Browning M2HB is used the main machine gun on M1 Abrams MBTs.

Browning M2HB - .50 BMG

The wrecked remains of an American M1 Abrams during the fight at Mt. Aso in "The Magical Girl Comes Back".

General Dynamics GAU-17/A

A General Dynamics GAU-17/A is seen used with a JGSDF Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey VTOL deployed to Hokkaido in "Magical Girl Operations Development Unit", which is later used in other M-Squad ops in Japan.

GAU-17/A mounted in Osprey V-22 VTOL fuselage via Remote Guardian System - 7.62x51mm NATO.

The GAU-17/A deployed in "Magical Girl Operations Development Unit".

The M-Squad MV-22B Osprey on standby inside JGSDF Camp Naha in "The Lid of Hell".

M240

The M240 is used as co-axial machine guns on M1 Abrams MBTs.

M240C machine gun - 7.62x51mm NATO.

M240D machine gun - 7.62x51mm NATO.

The wrecked remains of an American M1 Abrams during the fight at Mt. Aso in "The Magical Girl Comes Back".

M134 Minigun

The terrorists seem to have an uparmored Dodge Nitro with a M134 Minigun on a pop-out roof mount in "The Magical Girl Comes Back".

M134 Minigun with a mounted stand.

Seeing their plans foiled, a terrorist tries to shoot Asuka with his vehicle mounted minigun in "The Magical Girl Comes Back". Doesn't work that well against a superhuman magical girl with shield powers and a magical karambit that can slice through anything.

RPK

Russian magical girl Tamara Volkova is holding what is supposedly a magically modified RPK light machine gun with a 40 round magazine.

RPK with cleaning rod removed, folded bipod and 40-round magazine - 7.62x39mm

Tamara at the final battle at Mt. Aso is armed with an RPK in "The Magical Girl Comes Back".

Providing covering fire at Mt. Aso.

An eyecatch of Tamara with her LMG, first seen in "Magical Girl Operations Development Unit".

Tamara holding the line with her RPK at JGSDF Naha Garrison in the episode "Each of Their Deadly Battles".

Sumitomo Minimi

The Komatsu LAVs of the JGSDF's 15th Brigade are armed with the license built Minimi by Sumitomo Heavy Industries. Note that they're animated with a very long barrel.

A Sumitomo Minimi.

A Komatsu LAV of the JGSDF's 15th Brigade at the JGSDF Naha Garrison seems to be fitted with the Sumitomo Minimi in the episode "The Lid of Hell".

The Sumitomo Minimi fired at incoming Disas monsters breaching the main gate in "Each of Their Deadly Battles".

M61 Vulcan

The M61 Vulcan is used on Japanese Air Self-Defense Forces F-15Js stationed at the JASDF Naha Air Base.

GE M61 Vulcan Cannon - 20mm

The F-15Js parked inside JASDF NAB in "The Lid of Hell".

Sumitomo Type 74

The Sumitomo Type 74 in a coaxial machine gun role is utilized by the M-Squad's Type 16 Maneuver Combat Vehicle deployed during the raid on the JGSDF Naha Garrison in "The Lid of Hell".

Type 74 machine gun, vehicle mount version - 7.62x51mm NATO

The Type 16 MCV deployed in "The Lid of Hell" after Babel Brigade lays siege to it.

A Type 16 Maneuver Combat Vehicle attached to the JGSDF's M Squad at JGSDF NG.

Out of the magically enhanced shells and surrounded by Disas beasts, the crew of the Type 16 MCV make a final stand using the MCV's coaxial machine gun in the episode "Each of Their Deadly Battles"

Recoilless Rifles

Howa 84RR

The JGSDF soldiers defending Naha are also equipped with the Japanese licensed copy of the Carl Gustav Recoiless Rifle in "Each of Their Own Deadly Battles.

Carl Gustaf M2 - 84x246mm R

A pair of JGSDF Soldiers prep to fire their Howa 84RR at the attacking Disas Beasts in "Each of Their Deadly Battles".

The JGSDF soldiers fire their Howa 84RR at the attacking Disas Beasts.

The 84mm rocket fired.

Grenade Launchers

GP-25

Kim Kanth, leader of the EAUF, is given an AKM with a GP-25 Grenade Launcher attached in "The Magical Girl Comes Back" with most of the other EAUF terrorists.

AKM with underbarrel GP-25 Grenade Launcher

An EAUF terrorist aims the GP25 at the TMPD Armored Bus in "The Magical Girl Comes Back".

Kim about to fire his GP-25 at Magical Girl Rapture Asuka. She has shields.

Milkor MGL

A Milkor MGL is seen with Mia to clear out large number of Halloween-class Disas monsters in downtown Naha in "Each of Their Own Battles".

ICS-190 GLM, an Airsoft replica of the Milkor MGL Mk 1L

The Milkor MGL on her left hand in "Each of Their Own Battles".

Grenades

Smoke Grenade

A smoke grenade is used by Asuka to cover her escape in "Babel Brigade - Combat Begins".

Asuka using her karambit to get the safety pin in "Babel Brigade - Combat Begins".

Asuka tossing the primed smoke grenade.

M67 frag grenade

The M67 frag grenade is seen with Sacchu when Giess leads a breach to the JGSDF Naha Garrison's underground shelter in "Each of Their Own Battles".

Airsoft "M67 hand grenade" gas bottle

Sacchu is clearly a blood knight who wants to get his Cenobite-class kills in "Each of Their own Battles".

Stielhandgranate

A Stielhandgranate-type grenade is seen with an armed man in "If This Battle Ever Ends".

Model 24 Stielhandgranate "Potato Masher" high-explosive fragmentation hand grenade

The Stielhandgranate in "If This Battle Ever Ends". Somehow, he's trying to pull an invisible string to prime it.

Others

Phoenix Razgromit Luc

Tamara is seen using a giant flamethrower at times, known as Phoenix Razgromit Luc, which also houses a chaingun.

Tamara wielding the flamethrower in the OP sequenece, "KODO".

Tamara shows her flamethrower after she changes to her magical girl form in Wakkanai in "Magical Girl Operations Development Unit".

Enemy Disas airborne beasts roasted by Tamara in "The Lid of Hell".

The flamethrower materialized for what seems to be for the nth time in "Each of Their Deadly Battles".

Grenade Tripwire

A grenade rigged to a tripwire is seen in "Babel Brigade - Combat Begins".

Asuka spots the wired grenade during a raid on a EAUF safehouse in "Babel Brigade - Combat Begins".

Unidentifiable/Vague Guns

Unidentified M1911 Variant

In the opening sequence, Asuka is seen holding what appears to be a compact or officer's model of the M1911 with skeletonized trigger, angled slide serrations, and enlarged beavertail. She is also shown using this as her primary ranged weapon alongside her magical karambit, and it appears to also shoot magically enhanced ammunition.

Asuka's pistol in the opening sequence.

Asuka as Magical Girl Rapture using the unidentifiable M1911 variant against the mercenary wizards from Russia in the episode "Babel Brigade - Combat Begins"

Asuka with her dual pistols in "Magical Girl Operations Development Unit".

The pistols drawn out and held akimbo in "Each of Their Own Battles".

Possible MP5

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Riot Police escorting the terrorist leader and their vaguely recognizable firearms. Possible they are MP5's as the TMPD's SWAT teams are armed with such weapons.

Can vaguely see some details, hinting at the MP5.

Unknown Pistol/1911?

Sacchu, the fairy that helps Asuka and others in Japan, uses a pistol when fighting alongside Asuka and Kurumi at Naha Air Base. He gains two of these when fighting Goblin-types at the underground bunker.

Sacchu hyping himself up before the arrival of Giess and company at the underground bunker.

Sacchu somehow gains a second pistol when confronting Giess and Disas at the underground bunker in the episode "The Magical Girls and This Beautiful World".