コスモファミリア＊

COSMO FAMILIA*

MANGA

STATUS
COMPLETE
VOLUMES
3
RELEASE
August 24, 2019
CHAPTERS
22

DESCRIPTION

It’s been six years since Amakawa Alice’s family disappeared, and the cute but destructive creatures called Cosmofs invaded her world. Alice has been holding down the fort, fighting wild Cosmofs and protecting the few humans who have survived, in the hopes that her family will someday return. She refuses to give up on them…even when everyone believes her mother, Raika, caused the Cosmof invasion.

(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

CAST

Alice Amakawa
Laika Amakawa
Imori
Spica
Mira
Shizuki
Akane

CHAPTERS

REVIEWS

Makarin
92/100
Alice and the fluffiest beings I've ever seen
Cosmo familia is a work like few others that manages to bring the easiness and warmth of slice of life shows into the fast and thrilling scenes of the action genre together to create a great mahou shoujo manga.

The story is very simple: there's a girl called Alice, her mother is gone and the fluffy things called "cosmofs" are on a rampage since then. She made a promise tp protect her home (house and city) from the cosmofs until her mother comes back. While cosmofs don't attack people directly, they do destroy a lot of things that end up causing accidents, Alice has to constantly repair things and it doesn't seem to ever come to an end until she meets the group "Nix Force". Nix Force wants to eradicate the cosmofs in order to save humanity and they want Alice's help to do so but Alice holds onto her promise which also includes to protect the cosmofs as good as she can (she does kill cosmofs who are a danger for humans but doesn't go out of her way to kill innocent cosmofs) and refuses to join Nix force. A chase begins and she is led, by a cosmof who looked a young version of her mother, to a well that sends her 20 years back in time.

From that point on she meets her mother and tries to find out why Laika dissappeared so suddenly which kicks off the start of a comfortable, thrilling and emotionally packed story full of hearth-warming but also heart-breaking moments. Alice has to protect her mother and herself from Nix Force while trying to bring light ot the mistery that are the cosmofs in a cute but also serious tale of the hate a child can get because of the sins of her parents. The vilification of her adorable mother by the Nix Force are at the start only defied by Alice's trust and Laika's own silliness throughout the chapters but how true it is can't be said right from the start.

Now to what I call "comfy action": this manga is very cute at the same time as it's serious which means that even when the scene is rather dark and worrying you still get a certain feeling of "don't worry, things will get better for sure" and vice versa, even when it's cute you always have certain undertone of sadness or bitterness, let it be covered by the artsyle as much as it is. That's partly because Alice is adorable but the manga is by no means a slice of life (even if my wording might have made it seem that way), the story moves constantly and one character after the other finds it's place in this short but entertaining work by the author of Madoka Magica. At the end all pieces are combined and we get to witness beautifully drawn panels of sheer warmth and utter happiness to finish this exciting manga that I recommend every magical girl fan, let it be the those who prefer the happy ones or the dark mahou shoujo enjoyers.
Thanks for reading and I hope you'll consider reading this work and enjoy it as much as I did.
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