[IC] SA Magica - GB MARCH 16th - Prices, renders, updates!

[misononyan]

"I want you to make a contract with me and become a Magical Girl!"

SA Magica is a sculpted SA set based on the popular Magical Girl series, Madoka Magica. The colorway is inspired by the series protagonist, Akemi Homura, as well as Walpurgisnacht's barrier.

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General Info:
- To be manufactured by MAXKEY
- 12343 sculpted profile
- Doubleshot ABS
- Purple on grey alphas, grey on purple mods, grey on white accents


Update 2021/02/1

We now have a GB date, and I got the authorization to publish kitting prices! The groupbuy will begin on March 16th with the vendors listed below
Ortho/40 now supports most boards with 1.75 backspace! It is listed as R4, but bear in mind that R4 and R2 are symmetrical given that these are blanks
US: Kono
CA: AlphaKeys
UK/EU: Prototypist
Asia: Monstargear
AU/OCE: Daily Clack

As well as this, here are the prices of each kit (in USD)
Alphas - $39.99
Mods - $47.99
Ortho/40 - $24.99
Numpad - $26.99
ISO - $15.99
Novelties - $29.99
Spacebars - $16.99
Accent Spacebars - $18.99


Kitting








(For those out of the loop about novelties:
R1: Grief Seed, MadoHomu Soul Gem, Demon Homura's Grief Gem, Homura's shield, Kyubey
R1 (2U): Homura's Pistol (M1911)
R3 (1.25u): Homura's Soul Gem, Grief Seed
R3 (1.5u): Homura's Soul Gem, Madoka's Soul Gem
R3 (1.75u): Kyubey
R3 (2.25u/ISO): Contract
R3 (6.25u): Kyubey
Renders
TKC1800



RAMA U60-A



MisonoWorks Ribbon


Deskmats
Shield Deskmat


(Woah, a center graphic design that works! TKC1800 displayed as it is the tallest board I have a model for.)

Akemi Deskmat (Obligatory weeb set weeb mat)
Art by @wahyu_lanang_97 on Twitter, made for SA Magica!

Vendors
US: Kono
CA: AlphaKeys
UK/EU: Prototypist
Asia: Monstargear
AU/OCE: Daily Clack


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Special thanks to:
The 100+ responses on the initial IC giving great feedback!
The numerous people on the Keyset Designers discord for teaching me how to render!
@wahyu_lanang_97 on Twitter for drawing one of the deskmats!


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"I want you to make a contract with me and become a Magical Girl!"



Update 11/11: There is a very real chance that this set may be produced by MaxKey instead. Progress on getting this on the road has been pretty slow going, but we're getting there...


SA Magica is a design that I had bouncing around in my head after seeing DSA Magic Girl. Hearing about the potential second run of it, I decided it would be time to throw my own twist on a set like that-- of course, with the twistiest magical girl anime there is! This entire project has served as my excuse to learn vector graphics, the entire process that keycap designers go through in order to get their design published, and generally, just something to keep me occupied during the COVID lockdown.
The set's color scheme is based on Homura Akemi, the (mostly) main character of the series.


I would have loved to do the other members of the Holy Quintet, but each member provided barriers that would probably kill much of the set's uniquity, colorway, or cost. Maybe, if this set strikes a chord with people, I'll do some other character keysets, but for now, this is the one!

Here are some pretty renders! I'm still bouncing between a couple of design decisions (which are listed in the IC form), hence the differences in the renders.

General info:
- To be manufactured by Signature Plastics

- Doubleshot

- ABS Plastic

- R3 Uniform Sculpt

IC FORM:
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Gray mods, Standard Legends



Purple mods, Mono legends

apologies for the crusty renders, I had to downscale these in GIMP to upload them to imgur.

Currently I'm deciding between mono legends and standard legends, as well as gray mods or purple mods. Be sure to fill that question out on the IC form!

Kits:








SA Magica's kitting is designed with utmost compatibility in mind. Combined with a uniform keycap profile, along with stocking non standard keys by the buckets, I hope to support many of the non-standard keyboards out there. As a 40% user, and someone who is in the process of designing a non-standard keyboard myself, I love seeing sets that are able to support the multitudes of beautifully unique designs provided by the community.

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[halocantkb]

cute set - maybe consider alpha or accent colored spacebars?

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[jdylanmc]

Needs matching dark mods imo, but cool concept!

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[BapoDonu]

Black spacebars ? 2nd B?

[kajahtaa]

Would enjoy ortho separated from 40s. Totally love it. I'm in.

[misononyan]

Would enjoy ortho separated from 40s. Totally love it. I'm in.

Was originally going to do that, but had MOQ concerns.

Black spacebars ? 2nd B?

black spacebars will happen, along with another B

Needs matching dark mods imo, but cool concept!

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The design constraint with this set was to use stock colors from SP to keep the price as low as possible. I'll see what I can do

[Tyson]

Set looks nice, if I were you I would include a alpha color spacebars in the mod kit and spacebars kit, not too many people use mod colored spacebars for sets. IMO it makes a set look like it has a chin strap. Another thing I would do is change the F-row to be alpha color too. It helps the look of the set, if you had mod colored alphas then it would make more sense to run a mod colored F-row. Another idea I just had would be to include this alpha colored F-row in the alphas kit, that way you wouldn't need to include them in both grey mod kit and purple mod kit, just an idea idk if it is a good one though, I've never ran a SA set before.

[misononyan]

Set looks nice, if I were you I would include a alpha color spacebars in the mod kit and spacebars kit, not too many people use mod colored spacebars for sets. IMO it makes a set look like it has a chin strap. Another thing I would do is change the F-row to be alpha color too. It helps the look of the set, if you had mod colored alphas then it would make more sense to run a mod colored F-row. Another idea I just had would be to include this alpha colored F-row in the alphas kit, that way you wouldn't need to include them in both grey mod kit and purple mod kit, just an idea idk if it is a good one though, I've never ran a SA set before.

There's only gonna be one color of mod kit for MOQ reasons, but thanks for the advice on the F row! Noted. The black spacebar will be included with alphas and hiragana when I get to fixing the set design.

[misononyan]

oh, also, please feel free to throw me ideas for novelties! I currently feel that they're not as interesting as they could be, given the source material.

[digid3ar]

love the hiragana with purple mods. would like more grey accents.

[Kookiekurls]

Definitely purple mods, would buy those!

[misononyan]

love the hiragana with purple mods. would like more grey accents.

Definitely purple mods, would buy those!

seems like everyone likes purple mods, haha. will be sure to go for those in the final edition, especially given the IC results.

[sartori24]

R3 SA BEST

[Inathren]

Saw this on Reddit, very excited to see the progress on it! In for those hiragana alphas with purple alphas.

[misononyan]

R3 SA BEST

as a 40% user, hard agree

Saw this on Reddit, very excited to see the progress on it! In for those hiragana alphas with purple alphas.

glad to hear! still working on everything with the set.

[misononyan]

changed the accent color to white, what do y'all think?

also edited the set to accomodate the most common requests, that being:
- purple mods
- alpha color spacebar
- extra B
- novs remake
- 1.75u return for HHKB
no change to mono or standard legends yet due to the response on that being literally 50/50

and also, novelties are great pain. would still very much appreciate suggestions, lolol

[noorejji]

Looks more like SA Homu than SA Meduka.

[yorsem]

Absolutely love this set, please consider an alpha colored spacebar!

[misononyan]

Looks more like SA Homu than SA Meduka.

gotta avoid Aniplex's copyright hammer, unless I went with SA Hameru or something

Absolutely love this set, please consider an alpha colored spacebar!

check the most recent update

[noorejji]

Looks more like SA Homu than SA Meduka.

gotta avoid Aniplex's copyright hammer, unless I went with SA Hameru or something

Fair point. Copyright evasion is suffering.

[HoodrowThrillson]

Missing a 7U in the modifier set (you included WKL mods but no 7U)

[Willtato]

Glad purple mods.  Like the new 40s kit.

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[misononyan]

Missing a 7U in the modifier set (you included WKL mods but no 7U)

noted

Glad purple mods.  Like the new 40s kit.

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glad to hear!

[misononyan]

New:
6/7u spacebars moved to mods
Alt gr and ISO Shift no longer accents
Novelty spacebar now an accent
Font switched over to Gorton from Engravers Gothic
Akuma Homura Soul Gem novelty added
Ultimate Madoka Soul Gem novelty added
Ai Yo! Novelty pair added

[FinalEleven]

Damn, that QB Spacebar is a must get.

[bd_slade]

I'm not even a big Homu fan but I LOVE this set! Great work--following!

[misononyan]

Damn, that QB Spacebar is a must get.

I'm not even a big Homu fan but I LOVE this set! Great work--following!

awesome to hear, you all! I'm currently in the process of lining up a vendor for this now, and I'm also finalizing all of the kitting and novelties. ofc, any suggestions are appreciated!

[heyitsqi]

I love it but would prefer sculpted.

[misononyan]

I love it but would prefer sculpted.

woulda loved to do sculpted too, but I felt like that'd really hurt the compat/price of the set, which is one of the big goals for this

[misononyan]

beep beep! new novelties coming through!



feel like this holds up a lot better than the initial novs. any suggestions before I get some more renders done?

[hottrout]

Any chance of UK ISO being added.

[misononyan]

Any chance of UK ISO being added.

UK ISO added, as well as JIS, HHKB, and all of those different layouts.

Check out the final sheet, everyone!

[misononyan]

The set has now been picked up by a vendor! Details in the future ofc, but hopefully this turns out okay.

[EdgeOfInfinity]

this set is very interesting, the uniform R3 really intrigues me. also i really like the grey mods - gives it a SNES feel.
glwic

[misononyan]

huge ic update bump

[Masticccc]

Eh no more hiragana alpha in the kitting? And I didn't see any mention about it either

[digid3ar]

NO hiragana molds?

[misononyan]

Eh no more hiragana alpha in the kitting? And I didn't see any mention about it either

NO hiragana molds?

ah, yeah, my bad, forgot to mention that. Mono hiragana is gone because Maxkey doesn't have molds for them. Signature Plastics has an enormous lead time on all of their SA sets which is why I decided to switch.

[BeachFan69]

Super cute!

[SleepyHako]

Kyubey mods and spacebar? I am interested!
Is there any chance for a Kyubey 7.0 spacebar?

[misononyan]

Kyubey mods and spacebar? I am interested!
Is there any chance for a Kyubey 7.0 spacebar?

I'll see if we can do that
I'm a 7u person as well so i get it lol

[smshark]

Does Maxkey have molds for R2 1.75u backspace? If so, would make sense to include in the 40s kit

[misononyan]

Does Maxkey have molds for R2 1.75u backspace? If so, would make sense to include in the 40s kit

Maxkey unfortunately does not have very many molds for 40%. This is the absolute extent I was able to get out of them for 40s.
I'm a 40s user myself so it makes me sad

[digid3ar]

wouldnt care to wait for signature plastics and hiraganas, but at the end its your choice and i respect it, at least would see if i grab alphas and 40s

[Ciantha]

I'm a bit confused by the ortho/40s. There's two 1u escape in the top row, shouldn't one of them be in the row below it? So that you have the standard choice of esc or tab in the first two rows of an ortho board?

[mirubere]

I'm a bit confused by the ortho/40s. There's two 1u escape in the top row, shouldn't one of them be in the row below it? So that you have the standard choice of esc or tab in the first two rows of an ortho board?

I think the 2 1u esc is in an older version of the kits, the latest kits should be in the main post if I'm not wrong, and has only 1 1u esc

[Ciantha]

I'm a bit confused by the ortho/40s. There's two 1u escape in the top row, shouldn't one of them be in the row below it? So that you have the standard choice of esc or tab in the first two rows of an ortho board?

I think the 2 1u esc is in an older version of the kits, the latest kits should be in the main post if I'm not wrong, and has only 1 1u esc

Huh. The layout in the opening post is, as far as I can tell, assuming a board that's five rows tall (like the preonic) and makes no allowances for four rows tall boards (like the planck) which I thought were the more popular layout for non-split ortho.

I hope the OP might consider making the ortho/40s more like their SA Rose set which has, in my opinion, a far more inclusive ortho.

[treeleaf64]

Weeb SA purple and grey
How do I like it
It's OK

[misononyan]

I'm a bit confused by the ortho/40s. There's two 1u escape in the top row, shouldn't one of them be in the row below it? So that you have the standard choice of esc or tab in the first two rows of an ortho board?

I think the 2 1u esc is in an older version of the kits, the latest kits should be in the main post if I'm not wrong, and has only 1 1u esc

Huh. The layout in the opening post is, as far as I can tell, assuming a board that's five rows tall (like the preonic) and makes no allowances for four rows tall boards (like the planck) which I thought were the more popular layout for non-split ortho.

I hope the OP might consider making the ortho/40s more like their SA Rose set which has, in my opinion, a far more inclusive ortho.

Unfortunately I had to make do with what molds that Maxkey has available right now. The 40s compatibility used to be a lot more like Rose Librarian until I got into contact with MaxKey and we worked out what molds they had and didn't have. I would love to have more 40s support (as I both use and create 40s boards) but it's out of reach right now given the capabilities of Maxkey in this time of the year.

[noorejji]

Well done with the update. I recently watched Rebellion. I think this keyset would remind me of the suffering, but I wish you luck in any case.