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  2. History of anime - Wikipedia

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    The history of anime can be traced back to the start of the 20th century, with the earliest verifiable films dating from 1917. [1] Before the advent of film, Japan already had a rich tradition of entertainment with colourful painted figures moving across the projection screen in utsushi-e (写し絵), a particular Japanese type of magic lantern show popular in the 19th century.

  3. Magical girl - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia anthropomorph Wikipe-tan as a majokko, the original magical girl archetype. Magical girl (Japanese: 魔法少女, Hepburn: mahō shōjo) is a subgenre of primarily Japanese fantasy media (including anime, manga, light novels, and live-action media) centered on young girls who possess magical abilities, which they typically use through an ideal alter ego into which they can transform.

  4. Shōjo manga - Wikipedia

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    Shōjo manga (少女漫画, lit. "girls' comics ", also romanized as shojo or shoujo) is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent females and young adult women. It is, along with shōnen manga (targeting adolescent boys), seinen manga (targeting young adult and adult men), and josei manga (targeting adult ...

  5. List of magical girl works - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Magical girl (魔法少女, mahō shōjo) is a subgenre of Japanese fantasy media centered around young girls who use magic, often through an alter ego into which they can transform. Since the genre's emergence in the 1960s, media including anime, manga, OVAs, ONAs, films, and live-action series have been produced.

  6. Pretty Cure - Wikipedia

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    S.H. Figuarts, dolls, bracelets. The Pretty Cure series (プリキュアシリーズ, Purikyua Shirīzu, also titled PreCure) is a Japanese magical girl anime franchise created by Izumi Todo and produced by ABC Television, Asatsu-DK and Toei Animation. [1] Each series revolves around a group of magical girls known as Pretty Cures who battle ...

  7. Anime - Wikipedia

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    Anime (Japanese: アニメ, IPA: [aꜜɲime] ⓘ) (a term derived from a shortening of the English word animation) is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, anime refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. [1] However, in Japan and in Japanese, anime describes all animated ...

  8. History of anime in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of anime in the United States began in 1961, when Magic Boy and The White Snake Enchantress, both produced by Toei Animation, became the first and second anime films to receive documented releases in the country. [1] Anime has since found success with a growing audience in the region, with Astro Boy often being noted as the first ...

  9. History of manga - Wikipedia

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    However, by the 1980s, girls and women began to play increasingly important roles in shōnen; for example, the main character in Toriyama's Dr. Slump (1980) is the mischievous and powerful girl robot Arale Norimaki. The role of girls and women in manga for male readers has evolved considerably since Arale. One class is the "beautiful girl" .