Sarina Shizukume

Sarina Shizukume (Japanese: 雫芽 さりな, Shizukume Sarina) is an antagonist of the psychological horror magical series, Magical Girl Site. She was introduced as the school's bully of Aya Asagiri, the main protagonist of the series at school. At the beginning of the series, Sarina has a sadistic pleasure in tormenting Aya for seemingly no reason and ruining her belongings at school while being the sole reason why Aya discovered the Magical Girl Site to become a magical girl.

When she tried getting revenge on Aya for inadvertently killing 2 of her 3 cronies and Aya pleading with her that it’s wrong to bully her, Sarina now becomes an ally to Aya and the girls to stop the Magical Girl Site’s system once and for all.

Why She’s Intentionally Ungrateful

 * 1) To get the cat out of the box, she is just another generic clichéd ”pretty rude mean girl” who verbally bullies her classmate and protagonist, Aya, and behaves unsympathetically to the point that she and her classmate’s brother, Kaname (who also torments Aya, too) are the sole reason why Aya became a magical girl when she discovers the Magical Girl Site because of them.
 * 2) She is an unexpected villain who first appeared at the beginning of the series and is shown to be a mean-spirited bully who goes way too far from what she did to Aya.
 * 3) *She is way too juvenile as well (see below).
 * 4) Speaking of the first chapter and anime episode, she has a cliche terrible introduction where Sarina and her friends laugh at Aya in front of the locker room (while the anime just has her talking to her friends about her schemes and forcing Aya to open her vandalized locker).
 * 5) She uses her friends Erika Kajima, Ai Kawano, and an older muscular upperclassman, Shota Arai to bully Aya and hope that she is better off tortured, dead and beaten in no clear reason while having no punishment at all.
 * 6) The manga and anime never bothers to give her and her friends backstories of why they became bullies and is quickly forgotten or addressed, instead in the final chapter of the manga, Aya, who went back in time to prevent anyone from ever discovering the Magical Girl Site for some reason “rewrote” their memories “with good ones” which is rather extremely forced in order for Aya to create a peaceful happy world without the existence of the Magical Girl Site.
 * 7) Her delinquency and juvenile behavior make her one of the worst examples of the “mean girl” stereotype and a “bullying” trope as well. No wonder later chapters would have her redeemed and join Aya and the magical girls.
 * 8) Her personality just consists of being lazy, sadistic, cruel, and a liar to most other antagonist behaviors.
 * 9) After recovering from the hospital and receiving a yo-yo magic stick from Nana, she doesn’t receive any repercussions for her actions when she went back to school with Ai, which means that she and Sarina would proceed to continue ruining Aya’s life forever until her redemption at least.
 * 10) Similar to Kyler from Cobra Kai, she constantly acts like the victim and spreads lies so that said victims would be unable to expose the bullies.
 * 11) She barely has any character development at all until later chapters when she redeemed herself to join Aya and the magical girls (in WSIU# 5).
 * 12) She is mostly similar to Aya's brother Kaname, who both beat up Aya and are proud of their actions.
 * 13) She treats Aya like a poor puppy who doesn't deserve good treatment even whenever she is very depressed. Making her an unsympathetic mean girl and a remorseless one at best.
 * 14) She may be 14 years old, but Sarina bullies Aya nonstop, doing sadistically cruel things like:
 * 15) * Throwing a dodgeballs on Aya.
 * 16) * Putting bugs inside Aya's desk.
 * 17) * Throwing darts on Aya's phone.
 * 18) * Vandalizing her class locker, shoes, desk, and chair.
 * 19) * Throwing Aya's school lunch on the ground.
 * 20) * Drowning her face inside a toilet.
 * 21) * Killing a cat.
 * 22) * Sending an older male student to deal with Aya.
 * 23) * Scarring her with a box cutter.
 * 24) * Telling Nijimi about where Rina Shioi is.
 * 25) * Attempted to kill Aya and her other classmate, Tsuyuno Yatsumura for causing her trouble.
 * 26) She's a villainous Mary Sue and Karma Houdini, which Sarina is taken very seriously to be cartoonish psychotic and evil.
 * 27) Worst of all, she seems to act like a one-dimensional creep just like Aya's older brother, Kaname, but more than that.
 * 28) She and her friends act as selfish bullies of themselves who cruelly torment Aya and forced her to the point of committing suicide. If that happened, they would have shown no remorse or care for their repercussions.
 * 29) Her dialogue is incredibly painful to the nerve like she pretends to seriously say the "stop please (‘gamete kudusai’)" line and just swears way too much (which was in the translations of the manga.).
 * 30) She is also a female rip off of Katsuki Bakugo from mh:besttvshows:My Hero Acadamia, who is also mean-spirited as well and redeems as well while being short-tempered brats.
 * 31) Her cruelty is way too similar to Tomoo, from Elfen Lied (who is also an animal killer just like her), Henry Bowers, from IT, and even Chris Hargensen from Carrie, who are also just like her.
 * 32) After Erika and Shota was killed by the train, Sarina became much more of a deranged killer despite her age and going as far as to use a box cutter to scar Aya for revenge for murdering them, while her crony, Ai realized what’s she is doing and forces her to stop, but yelled at her friend by ignoring her warnings.
 * 33) *Since then, she sliced the half of Soji Udano’s body (murderer of Tsuyuno Yatsumura's parents) with her Yo-Yo magic stick and shows no remorse of killing.
 * 34) HYPOCRISY: She may have come across as a vengeful girl, but she is no less than a pathetic liar pretending to be the victim who just sent Shota Arai to assault Aya and teleport him with Erika to death in a train and thinks Aya was the reason she murdered them.
 * 35) Similar to Linus from The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, her redemption from Aya is forced and only exists for her to realize her past actions and wants Sarina to be happy while not being cruel.
 * 36) IDIOT MOVE: She tells Aya to shoot the site admin, INSTEAD of turning it back into a human.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) She does indeed regret her actions when Aya tries to stand up to herself saying she is done being tormented by her and rescuing her from a falling building.
 * 2) In later chapters, she started having good terms and became much more likable when she teamed up with Aya and her friends to fight the site admins.
 * 3) We're supposed to hate her for that.
 * 4) Her voice acting is good trying to intimidate her like a tomboy.
 * 5) She did have character development in later chapters.
 * 6) In the new timeline, Sarina does get her memories rewritten and seemingly remembers the parts from the original timeline. As such, she no longer bullies Aya.
 * 7) Her design looks so adorable than she was.

Trivia

 * Sarina can be compared to Katsuki Bakugo from My Hero Academia, with the bullying persona and redemption arcs:
 * Both are extremely mean-spirited along with their friends, insult and disrespect people to everyone they know, even bullying Aya Asagiri and mh:greatcharacters:Izuku Midoriya by discouraging them during their first day of school.
 * Both have a difference where Katsuki desired to become a number one hero and prove himself despite his egotistical-narcissitic attitude along with his unheroic actions, while Sarina cares about bullying Aya for no reason.
 * They threatened their victims to contemplate suicide.
 * Katsuki's actions are unheroic and villainous, while Sarina's actions are unjustifiable and even more villainous.
 * They are depicted to be delinquents.
 * However, they do redeem themselves and are aware of their actions and mistakes.


 * Sarina can also be compared to the bully Henry Bowers from Stephen King's novel IT:
 * Both are rapidly developed into hateful, loathing, insufferable individuals who would often display exccessive negative and stereotypical feelings toward those around them (particularly their classmates). And they often caused some troubles that are highly juvenile.
 * They both used knives to scar their victims.
 * Both lost one of their friends when they tried to chase their bullying victims, but the difference is that Sarina lost her friend, Erika Kajima, and older student Shota Arai when they were trying to torture Aya, their friend's classmate. But, of course, Sarina and Ai Kawano did witness their friends' deaths. In Henry's case, he and his gang tried to chase an obese student named Ben Hanscom when they tried to scar his body, and by that, one of their gang members, Patrick Hockstetter (in the 2017 film version of the novel and miniseries), is killed by It, or Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Unlike Sarina, Henry doesn't care or is even aware that Patrick died.
 * Henry doesn't apologize while Sarina does.
 * Both treat their friends very poorly.
 * They showed no remorse in killing people.
 * There is a difference in their fates where Sarina was revived in a new timeline where no one is misfortuned and still have good terms despite Aya rewriting her memories of herself in the original timeline. While Henry, as an adult, is killed by one of the adult losers, Richie Tozier.
 * Sarina is the only student of Aya's class to not wear a red bow tie.