the great filmmaker's grandkids were a Super Sentai squadron! with magic! (okay just kidding. pretty sure the "Magiranger" family is only very distantly related)
in all seriousness, why watch "Harry Potter" anything? this Sentai series (clearly a cash-in on the HP trend) is much more fun. so much less bullying for one thing!
Kris—our host, and someone you may have encountered in a recent Toby Fox game—wants to learn magic. like, human magic. this is something we've talked about and I've collected some information and tools on Kris's behalf. for complicated reasons, I can't do anything with the stuff myself. that has to be Kris's initiative. there's probably some deep plurality business going on there that we don't quite understand yet.
"pop culture magic" is a known thing. people have used spells and implements in their magical practice that are inspired by magical fiction, and we're totally sympathetic. for one thing, such stuff tends to be very simple, and Kris could probably use "simple".
and we're watching "Magiranger" to get some ideas. and we get this far: the basic henshin. Ozu Miyuki here (MagiMother) is striking her magical posture before entering a fight. and I think, "easy thing to adapt for our own use, right Kris?" or something like that.
and I get hit with a wave of reluctance: it seems Kris has issues with wanting to say anything like a spell aloud, even something as basic as this. there's a clear undertow of aversion.
this is how we've been slowly piecing together our traumatic damage, by the way—we need to test ourselves constantly. "do we have some aversion to doing this simple task? if so why?" I wish it were a quicker process; so far it's been very hit and miss—we've been trying to select relevant media in hopes of uncovering these pitfalls.
~Chara of Pnictogen