The initial sale of these switches, as well as all Magic Girl themed products, ended on December 4th of 2020 after having been open for roughly one month’s time. In these boards, and released shortly thereafter, were a set of matching colored, tactile SP Star switches to match the light and dark themes of the Porticos. In addition to the release of these, and seemingly in tandem with Novelkeys’ decision to release custom themed NK65s as entry-level boards to bring more people into the hobby with, TKC also announced Magic Girl themed Portico keyboards, which are their own entry level 65% keyboards. In Q4 of 2020, TKC re-released the original DSA Magic Girl keycap set but also brought with it a whole slew of new products including a dark-themed Magic Girl keycap set, deskmats, artisans, cables, and just about everything that you could possibly color-scheme in a keyboard except for PCBs. While the sales of the light-themed only version of these keycaps caught plenty enough attention, and even some by 50 Cent in a relatively memorable social media post, it wasn’t until the end of 2020 when the Magic Girl line of products and keycaps really took off to where they are today. First designed by Mintlodica, former COO of TKC and creator of CuteKeyboard.Club, DSA Magic Girl was released in 2019 as a best selling keycap set for TKC reportedly based on a 90’s anime that I refuse to look into further because I’m not a weeb.

While the SP Star Magic Girl Classic and Dark switches from TheKe圜ompany (TKC) have quite a bit more history surrounding them than most of the soon-to-release or prototype switches I’ve been reviewing over the past few months, their inspiration and thematic design actually have an even deeper history. Thank you to all of you who are sending me stuff, and doubly so to all of you continuing to support and read my articles week in and out. I’ve been slowly picking up more and more exciting packs of switches from people over the last few weeks – both vendors and private sales – and I’m steadily chugging along towards 1500 switches and slowly increasing the reviews, scorecards, and measurements out there for you all to read.

All jokes aside, I was really happy to get to announce passing the 1000 mark for switches last weekend and even more happy with all of the warm reception from my social media posts about the collection.

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