Pretty Guardian Stress Magical Girl Manga One Shot by Black Pink Artist

Shueisha’s new Shonen Jump+ magical girl manga one shot story by Black Pink artist is called Pretty Guardian Stress. The story focuses on the reality of the life of a heroine and her encounter with a young girl more accustomed to traditional magical girls. The full story dropped on MangaPlus on December 3, 2024 and is free-to-read. 

Pretty Guardian Stress begins with a kaiju attacking a city. A magical girl known as Pretty Guardian Aika steps up to stop them. However, while her initial introduction seems like the typical poppy and perky one you’d expect from that kind of heroine, she quickly drops the act. She then gives the monster the finger, blames them for her having to do that job, and brutally beats the creature up. However, a magical girl-loving young girl named Mei hears the commotion, comes over, stops Aika from killing the monster’s baby, and then ends up getting a firsthand look at what life as a heroine is really like. This includes the toll it takes on the woman who has to perform that job.

Miyaumi Tomotaka is known for only one other work so far. That’s the one shot manga known as Black Pink, which also appeared in Shonen Jump+. It isn’t available through MangaPlus, though the original Japanese is version is still online. That debuted in 2022 and followed an assassin named Momo who just wants to marry her boyfriend. That story was a Monthly Rookie Grand Prix winner at the time, winning the silver award.

There have been a number of full series recently launching in Shonen Jump. In the middle of November 2024, Bug Ego and Syd Craft started their runs. Drama Queen also debuted on December 1, 2024.

The Pretty Guardian Stress one shot manga is available to read now worldwide, and it is unknown if it could end up spinning off eventually to a full magical girl series.