Co-written with Akihide Yanagi, Compass goes around dispelling its mythology in a text-heavy first half: in a nutshell, magicians are being hunted down in secret, speeding up all magic’s demise. Ensuring their survival, the final four clans of sorcerers meet for a “Ceremony of Acension” so they can pass their powers on to the girls they “have deemed worthy of their collected abilities”: snippy Mei Shen, fragile Anneli, wise-looking Lola and total sweetheart Aiyana. Embodying the new age of magic, their abilities are realised when, all of a sudden, the ceremony is interrupted by killer robots which, after ten pages of old-fashioned magic speak, is a welcome surprise. Cue fighting and lots of death. Vowing vengeance, the four girls decide to locate the missing members of their clans and take on the mysterious enemy.