
eBook by Aest Belequa
Anika DuPont — Magical Girl Understudy — is a small-town superhero heading to Tokyexico University, where the real action is. Every superhero on Earth is competing for better roles in a global reality show created for the amusement of alien children, and Annie is determined to work her way out of dead-end little-league slots. Balancing coursework, supervillains, rivals, and a budding romance with her drama classmate Bianca, Annie levels up through the Style System while questioning whether the entire Superhero System is actually worth fighting for.

Magical Girl Understudy Anika DuPont arrives at Tokyexico University ready to fight her way out of little-league superhero roles. Every hero on Earth is competing on a reality show for alien children, and Annie wants a major spot. Between coursework, supervillains, a high school rival, and an unexpected connection with drama classmate Bianca, she starts leveling up through the Style System — one episode at a time.

There is one minor-league timeslot available for Magical Girls, and Annie needs to claim it before Magical Boy Vigilant Vow does. But she is on campus probation after a destructive series finale, an anti-superhero organization has it out for her, and her friend Su-Bin is leading the charge against the whole System. A wild spring semester lies ahead.

Annie and her girlfriend Bianca have made the minor leagues and enrolled in an elite associate's program that could be their ticket to the major leagues. But failure means handing the supervillain group 3V1L control of whole districts. As the Third Power War erupts, Annie must grow her skills and figure out whose side she is actually on.

Entering her final semester, Annie wants a quiet Christmas — instead she is drawn back into the Power War, tasked with defeating 3V1L and unmasking the powerful hero-turned-villain leading them. Meanwhile, an organization fighting for Extras' rights is starting to make uncomfortable sense, and a bombshell book is about to change everything humanity knows about the alien reality show they live inside.