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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.
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.
Magical girl anime and manga characters (5 C, 10 P) Magical girl parodies (11 P) C. Cardcaptor Sakura (3 C, 12 P) Cutie Honey (13 P) G. Girls × Heroine! television ...
Pages in category "Magical girl television series" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
This is a list of fantasy anime television series, films, and OVAs. Titles are in alphabetical order. ... Magical girl ...
Shen, Lien Fan (April 4, 2014). "The Dark, Twisted Magical Girls: Shōjo Heroines in Puella Magi Madoka Magica". Heroines of Film and Television: 177–187. Saito, Kumiko (2014). "Magic, Shōjo, and Metamorphosis: Magical Girl Anime and the Challenges of Changing Gender Identities in Japanese Society". The Journal of Asian Studies. 73: 143–164.
Its 1966 anime adaptation was one of the most popular magical girl series of what would eventually become a genre in Japan. Due to its characteristics, it may be considered the first shōjo anime as well; [3] while titles such as Himitsu no Akko-chan predate Sally in manga form, the Sally anime predates Himitsu no Akko-chan 's, which came out ...
It is the fifth magical girl anime in history (the sixth if one counts Osamu Tezuka's Marvelous Melmo), and the fifth produced by the Toei Animation studio. [1] While the show was fairly popular, it was not as popular as Toei's earlier magical-girl series, and is relatively obscure compared to its predecessors.