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Crystal Fighters by Tyler Bartel, Jen Bartel

emeraldreverie's review against another edition

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3.0

Quick, fun read. I first read on the Stela app, which it was written for and which has a very different format. An interesting look at cross platform comics. Beautiful colors.

snazel's review against another edition

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Me: Well that's one of the more realistic depictions of middle school age I've seen.
You: but isn't it about teenage girls hacking the reality of a VR world via their pure rage, so they can beat the snot out of each other?
Me: like I said, realistic.

theybedax's review against another edition

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4.0

I loved how colorful and full of fight this book is. I appreciate the celebrating girls who just want to kick ass and damn your Suzie Homemaker expectations. This made me laugh, and want to come up with my own battle outfit and super moves. If only I lived in a world nearly as fabulous as the one in the game!

rebar351's review against another edition

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5.0

Picked this up from my library after hearing one of booktubers talk about it. I'm so glad I picked this up and I flew through it. The images are colorful and vibrant and I liked the storyline of this comic book. I need more after that ending, here's hoping we get a second volume. I would absolutely recommend this book to others! Who doesn't love magic fight club with VR and strong females!

koriwatson's review against another edition

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3.0

2.5 stars

I was hyped for this book but the main character is some of the worse aspects of the “not like other girls” character.

The book takes place over less than a week where she barely talks to anyone and only one person is even slightly nice to her.

She has like 4 fights and two opportunities to train that she can barely use and she’s beat the most powerful member of that arena and on the way to the world tournament. And all because she gets angry.

Her power is OP and she was never even taught how to punch.

Like this is the opposite of a filler arc. All plot point no bonding or training or other things going on.

I don’t not if something was wrong with my copy some of the pages hadn’t been separated and some pages looked blurry and I don’t know if that was intentional.

melissarstone's review against another edition

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5.0

This was an interesting take on the magical girl genre. I'm so here for secret badass magical girl fight clubs. I really hope there's going to be more of these eventually.

daringreader13's review against another edition

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4.0

4.5 out of 5 stars

Reminds me of In Real Life in some ways but in a let’s fight kind of way hahaha I enjoyed this a lot though! Definitely need to check out the next one!

diamondxgirl's review against another edition

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3.0

Before I read the back of the book, I was like, THIS IS SAILOR MOON MEETS STREET FIGHTER.

And I was right ha.

becks_books's review against another edition

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3.0

I had fun reading this but it didn't feel particularly original or deep, the art by Jen Bartel is gorgeous though and at one point there's a thing called a decacorn which is a unicorn but with 10 horns/spikes all along its back and it's amazing

jackelz's review against another edition

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4.0

Stella is a bored teen who's part of the first generation to grow up immersed in a world of virtual reality games. Her parents only allow her to play "Crystal Fighters" — a very bubbly and positive world where you assume the role of a magical girl — instead of fighting games. She stumbles upon a magical girl fight club within the game, and finds herself exactly where she wishes to be. The book was a lot of fun, and I hope there will be a sequel one day!!