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Chuuni Dreams – When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace Spoiler Review

You’ve seen the story before: All of a sudden, some high school students gain fabulous secret powers, giving them radically more agency. Really, this can be anything, from mechas to magical girls. It doesn’t matter – the point is that you have this setup where people who at least know each other and possibly are somewhat close are thrust into a new and more wonderful adventure.

What if they weren’t?

Thrust into an adventure, that is. What if a bunch of teenagers gained supernatural abilities but no world-threatening evil or really anything else to do with those abilities actually appeared, and the group had to just go about their lives, now with powers? As you might have guessed, you’d get When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace.

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