Created by Chloe Sayasane. How easily do you trust people? After getting to know them, I will trust them. I'd never trust anyone. Not very easily, but it's possible. Right away. How's your self esteem? I love myself! I guess I'm kind okay. I'm horrible. I'm great. Are you friendly? Not really. What would happen if someone gotten on your bad side? I don't have one, but if I do, I'm really calm about it. Hold a Grudge. Would you sacrifice your life for a friend?
Do you miss someone who was once in your life? I miss them, and think about them sometimes. I think about them all the time. Easily startled! By anything! If you had the power to grant powers to anyone, what would you do? Show off. Give power for someone's life. Give power for a small sacrifice.
Give power for free. To list each of these would take too long. And when they actually come to fighting evil, they usually do so through unorthodox and impractical means and have to have their powers boosted in order to be successful. Onegai My Melody has a twist in that the lead magical girl and her arch-nemesis are anthropomorphic rabbits. Princess Comet a. Cosmic Baton Girl Comet-san. Pretty Cure 5 , Fresh Pretty Cure!
Pretty Cure Sailor Moon , perhaps the most famous outside and inside! Many misinformed people will call any other magical girl series a "ripoff" of Sailor Moon , which isn't true in the slightest. Codename: Sailor V , the manga which led to the creation of Sailor Moon. Sarutobi Ecchan features a girl with ninja powers. Shugo Chara! They are two young witches from the Magical World, the best of friends despite being polar opposites. The characters Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi use their Yume Kira bags to become people of specific occupations fisherwomen, baseball players, firefighters, etc.
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes combines this with the detective genre. Telepathy Shoujo Ran , if you consider Psychic Powers magical. Time Stranger Kyoko Tokimeki Tonight , while not generally considered a magical girl series, does feature a heroine with magical powers namely, the ability to transform herself into a copy of an object by biting that object.
Tokyo Mew Mew has an environmentalist theme. It focuses on five girls infused with the DNA of rare animals that gives them special powers and allows them to transform into "Mew Mews. It begins as a Cute Witch series, given their antics and how they help, and slowly evolves into Magical Girl Warrior , cementing the latter position with the second season.
Ultra Maniac Umi Monogatari is unusual among Magical Girl Warrior shows in that the focus is more on emotional development of the characters, the fights are fairly long, the girls' mentor is completely wrong about some things, most of the music is gentle piano music, and the revelation of what the Big Bad really is allows for a conclusion that's more true to life than most shows of this nature.
Vividred Operation is, bizarrely enough, a Magical Girl show where the girls gain their powers through pure science. Mind you, the science in question is so advanced that it's practically indistinguishable from magic. Wedding Peach has a wedding theme. They are called "Love Angels" but they have the frilly superpower costumes and such. Deconstructions, Dramas and parodies. Only after a surprisingly-realistic pink wombat gives them superpowers do they start living up to their club's name.
As you might have guessed, the show is very much an Affectionate Parody of Magical Girl anime and their associated tropes. Black Lagoon featured an OVA-only Alternate Universe omake that turned Villain Protagonist Revy into a magical girl called Radical Girl Revy-Chan, who solves all the loser protagonist's problems with guns before returning to the magical land of Hestonworld. This gets him arrested. Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan is another comedic deconstruction. It's also a parody of the Magical girl genre.
Deconstructive Parody : Magical Witch Punie-chan. The series is a parody of magical princess shows and often uses the juxtaposition of cute characters with brutal violence for humor. Affectionately parodied in Powerpuff Girls Z. This manga takes that notion and runs with it, but Illyasviel von Einzbern , with a side dish of Adaptational Nice Guy and Adaptational Heroism , is the protagonist. The series started out as a parody, but eventually started shifting to a straighter example by 3rei!
The Nasuverse loves to play around with this. Arcueid has 3 different magical girl alter-egos, Caren has one, and both Hisui and Kohaku have one.
All are jokes. Saber Lily could be considered to be one as well, but Saber's powers are already kinda magical-girl-ish to begin with. Jungle de Ikou! Kamichama Karin started out as a one-shot parody of the genre, but was popular enough to become a series in its own right.
Magical Play. It's an affectionate parody of the genre, especially the warrior variety. Magical Girl Apocalypse gives a horror example of the genre, with the Magical Girls as the monsters. They are Humanoid Abominations with the ability to raise any person they kill as a zombie, who unleash a Zombie Apocalypse upon the city. Magical Girl Ore is a Super Gender-Bender manga with a twist: it's the heroine that turns into a magical boy.
It's even more brutal than Puella Magi Madoka Magica. In Mahou Shoujo Pretty Bell , the magic rod that is supposed to select the next schoolgirl to take up the fight instead chooses a year-old bodybuilder.
He's quite willing to take up the mantle, which is a bit of a problem for the demons used to fighting little girls Mahou Shoujo Ni Akogarete Is about Utena Hiragi, a girl who wanted to become a magical girl but ended up becoming a villainess instead. In a world where Magical Girls and the monsters they fight are common knowledge, the protagonist is a Shell-Shocked Veteran , and there's a bustling Black Market of otherworldly artifacts and weapons.
And the government keep asking her to join their special operations team to deal with the terrorists armed with otherworldly weapons. Mahou X Shounen X Days!!!!! Despite being lumped in the "parody" section, it's probably the straightest take on a Magical Boy series there is. Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World is a lot harder when the school is completely trashed by the midpoint and the people you're trying to save the world from are other magical girls with their own ideas about what "saving the world" means, and The Power of Love can just as easily mean "obsession" as a healthy two-way relationship.
Also, if magic exists in the world, the military will take an interest, which eventually leads to magical girls becoming the spearhead of the world's militaries in Otome. Majokko Tsukune-chan is a surreal parody of the Cute Witch genre.
Menhera-chan is a Darker and Edgier Reconstruction with older, troubled girls transforming using box cutters and pills to fight demons seeking to harvest energy from humans.
Notable for inspiring a Japanese alternative fashion called Yamikawaii. Nurse Angel Ririka SOS is about a ten-year old girl named Ririka who must protect Earth from aliens who want to turn it to ruins like they did their home planet Queen Earth. The manga and anime have rather different plots. It gained a Periphery Demographic from fans who enjoyed its darker approach to magical girls than many other series at the time, but the older fanbase is the reason the show was cut short the toys weren't selling.
For the more mature audience, there is Papillon Rose , an ecchi parody which is part Magical Girl and part adult entertainment. The anime is less so. The Pretty Sammy series which itself is a gentle parody of Sailor Moon. Princess Tutu took the Utena crowd back deeper into Magical Girl territory, though it is still unique. Puella Magi Madoka Magica , another one for the Deconstruction team.
It is often considered to be the Magical girl Neon Genesis Evangelion in terms of Genre Deconstruction and extreme darkness of tone. Puni Puni Poemi viciously satirizes magical girl shows among many other things. Revolutionary Girl Utena is regarded as the first major deconstruction of the genre.
The defining trait of all Super Sentai Magical girl series is that altruism and unconditional love will always save the world. However, the biggest prince in the story became the Big Bad in part because he was incredibly altruistic and could not handle the consequences , plus all of Utena's strength and purity can't save one Damsel in Distress if said Damsel Anthy won't break away from centuries of abusive habits to save herself.
Also, Utena is more of a Magical Warrior than a conventional Magical girl and her efforts to help Anthy were, until almost the end, more based on her own needs and desires than on her will to help Anthy.
The series is very non-linear, starts In Medias Res , and has a lot of mind screw. It panders to both female and male demographics.
Super Pig is a parody and an example at the same time, one of the few perhaps the only parodies actually aimed at the same demographic as straight examples. Its protagonist is a Magical Girl Warrior who transforms not into a glamorous Frills of Justice -clad heroine, but instead, into a superpowered pig in a cape. Uta Kata initially starts off playing this trope straight, but then veers off as the year old main character: develops a hatred towards herself, realizes the world is full of cruelty, and becomes a slave to her emotions.
The latter point causes her to unwillingly transform and use her Djinn-given powers without mercy towards civilians. Yuki Yuna is a Hero rivals Madoka in terms of how dark it gets but is overall more optimistic.
It stars the titular Yuna and her three later four friends. The government has the girls become "heroes" in order to protect Japan from monsters. Asian Animation. Nana Moon , a Chinese series, has Keke being given a special badge that lets her transform into specific occupations such as a makeup artist, for example to help people. Rainbow Ruby is a girl who uses a magical suitcase to transform herself into different job outfits. Eastern European Animation.
Fantasy Patrol ; probably Russia's first example. Comic Books. In Icelandic, the comic was renamed to Magical Girls , since W. Also has an animated adaptation. Wonder Woman and the Star Riders may have been a truncated property but what was made features Wonder woman in a skirt and tights leading a group of gals with magical powers wearing sparkly outfits while protecting and using magic gems. Zodiac Starforce is an American take on a Magical Girl team. Artist Paulina Gauncheau is a huge fan of the genre and especially Sailor Moon , and it shows.
Magical Beatdown is a hyper violent street harassment revenge fantasy about an average video-game loving schoolgirl who transforms into a foul-mouthed and rage-fuelled Magical girl when provoked. Strange Academy features Emily Bright, a young girl who has had magical abilities of unknown origins ever since she was a baby, and has enrolled in Doctor Strange 's eponymous Wizarding School as a member of its first class.
Films — Live-Action. Sucker Punch is very Animesque to the degree that a lot of people mistook it for a live action Sailor Moon at first. There's a Five-Man Band of girls who can do literally anything in the fantasy sequences, and they seem to fit the Magical Girl Warrior archetypes. Daughters of the Moon a series of novels about five girls who are granted powers by the moon goddess, Selene, in order to fight off an ancient evil called the Atrox, who aims to end all hope and spread darkness across the world.
Hex Hall Twitches twin girls, Cam and Alex, who were separated at birth find each other, and learn that their odd behaviours are in fact the sign of mystical powers that reach their full potential when they're together. They fight off an evil force known as 'The Darkness'.
Live-Action TV. Since it's aimed towards men, expect a lot of Male Gaze and Fanservice. The Girls x Heroine! Series , created by Takashi Miike , is a tokusatsu series centered on middle school Magical Girl Warriors.
Idol x Warrior Miracle Tunes! Magic x Warrior Magi Majo Pures! Puppet Shows. It features Magical Girls who fight monsters and also have no idea what they're doing and will continue to have no idea what they are doing for a while because that's what happens when you spontaneously gain powers. A twenty-thousand-years old superpowered genetic experiment who literally claimed that archetype to become stronger. The omakes where she behaves accordingly are Tabletop Games.
Princesses are charged with improving the world, but doing so is going to take a lot of hard work, struggle, sacrifice, and more varied strategies than The Power of Love. Pathfinder has the gender-neutral Magical Child archetype for the Vigilante class. The Magical Child can cast spells like the Summoner and comes with a familiar, that changes forms as the Child grows in levels, and eventually gets the ability to switch between them. And yes, it has a Transformation Sequence.
Once that starts at thirty seconds, and can get shorter with new talents. Video Games. Magical Cannon Wars is about Akira also a magical girl trying to stop all of the other magical girls from fighting. The Star Guardians are a Magical Girl team existing as a set of alternate champion skins in League of Legends , original just consisting of Lux whose character was Magical Girl-themed from the start but then being expanded to include Jinx , Janna , Poppy and Lulu.
There's a modest amount of additional lore created for the team despite them not being canon with the main story of the game with them apparently being granted their powers to fight against the terrors of the Void. The Teamfight Tactics autobattler spin-off mode featured Star Guardians as a trait in the cosmos-themed Sets 3 and 3. Nearly the entire cast of RosenkreuzStilette are magi, are all part of a team, Calling Your Attacks is common, especially with main character Spiritia, both heroines of the series have a Fairy Companion , and The Power of Friendship is revealed to be the true source of her Mega Man -inspired Power Copying.
Touhou Project skirts being a Magical Girl shmup series, having the aesthetics of being one with Marisa Kirisame cutting it the closest to the Magical Girl archetype, complete with styling her attacks with names such as "Love Sign: Master Spark" and the title of her leitmotif being "Love-Colored Magic," later remixed into "Love-Colored Master Spark" The twist here being that no-one in their right mind would call Marisa a Magical Girl as her personality subverts every single trait endemic to Magical Girls: She is not powered by Love, nor even motivated by it.
No, the source of Marisa's power and what motivates her to save the world is kleptomania , a desire to upstage Reimu Hakurei and the opportunity the kick in the teeth of whomever gets in her way. The habitual lying probably doesn't score her any points, either. The Amnesiac Hero Tobio, who appears to have met the girls before, has to project himself as a Mentor Mascot named Omnis in order to guide the new magical girls and activate magical girls' transformations.
Blue Reflection stars three high school girls who become a trio of magical girls who fight against monsters called Sephira that feed on human emotion. Majokko Mari-chan no Kisekae Monogatari is a fashion adventure game starring a young witch named Mari who has the power to create different outfits actually created by the player which she can then wear.
Web Animation. Bee from Bee and Puppycat unintentionally finds herself working as one as a part time job. Her response was The series as a whole can be thought of as an Affectionate Parody of the genre. As the series enters Volume 3, it gradually becomes a Darker and Edgier Deconstruction of the genre: it's a life or death war for survival against Eldritch Abominations hellbent on humanity's extinction, the four kingdoms humanity are sequestered into are fractured by past grudges and ideological differences even with the monsters banging on the doors, the Big Good guiding the heroines is a very shady man who the Big Bad might even have legitimate grievances against, and the girls themselves are really in over their heads with just how much more powerful, experienced and dangerous their adversaries are.
Agents of the Realm is clearly inspired by the genre, with parallel worlds, Monster of the Week and eponymous Agents being five Magical Girl Warriors whose Transformation Trinkets are shiny amulets. Americano Exodus is a rather unique take on the genre. Several of the main characters are young girls descended from the nobility of a parallel world, sent to earth in order to hunt down members of the Twilight Dawn organization, who are hiding out on our planet.
While the girls do have magic and costumes, the magical girl elements end there. The main character, Amel, is actually a teenage boy who must pretend to be a girl in order to protect the integrity of his household and his own life. Since only women are supposed to be able to use magic, any men with the ability, while rare, are imprisoned and sometimes executed. Angel Moxie is both a parody and an homage of the genre.
It is about Junior High student Alex a fairly standard magical girl and her two friends each of whom have super powers but otherwise don't have many magical girl characteristics as they fight off Lord Yzin and his servants. It can be found here. The backstory specifies that the magical girl motif was inspired by fiction. Apricot Cookie s! It chronicles the life, loves, and laundry of the titular heroine, the only magical girl in Japan who can't transform.
It also deconstructs many other anime tropes and even some from general fiction. The Artist And The Machine is about a magical girl befriending a robot sent to kill her. Cardcaptor Torika , a doujinshi based on the Cardcaptor Sakura series featuring Sakura's daughter.
On the surface, it's a very cutesy game, which is exactly what Stella doesn't want; she'd sooner play fighting games, but her parents restrict her gaming to titles they consider "suitable for young girls". However, shortly after entering the world of "Crystal Fighters" for the first time, she discovers that a number of players have bypassed the game's controls which penalize any kind of violent act with a time out and set up a secret magical girl fight club.
Dame Daffodil , a webcomic of the neo-classical variety. Inspired by Sailor Moon and Miraculous Ladybug. Presented in a four-panel black and white style and set in the modern day, it plays out like a Slice of Life as the main character, Charo Flores, wants to be a hero and help out others however she can. Evil Diva , a webcomic about a devil girl who can't help doing good deeds for others. Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy , a somewhat violent parody of the genre's conventions - the heroine is somewhat chubby, has an alien disguised as a star-nosed mole for a Mentor Mascot , and is often severely injured in battle luckily, she is a Human Alien with the ability to regenerate her body parts.
The rest of her team are also in their late teens and twenties. M9 Girls! The eponymous girls gain Elemental Powers by means of genetic manipulation. Magical Boys! As the story progresses, more magical boys are revealed. Magical Boy is a Deconstructive Parody that explores the magical boy concept, but with transgender themes.
The main character, Max, is the latest to take on the role of a Goddess, an exclusively female role that spans back to the beginning of creation. However, Max is a transgender boy, and comes out to his parents on his 16th birthday - the very same day his magical powers awaken. Much of the magical girl lore is tongue-in-cheek, especially when it comes to Max's mother, Hikari, but it doubles as a deconstruction as it shows the consequences of dealing with a world-threatening menace, on top of learning to navigate life as a trans teen and being forced into a role that doesn't match one's identity.
In Magical Girl Neil , Neil, the protagonist, becomes an Oni-fighting Magical Girl on his 16th birthday, due to coming from a long line of magical girls - magical boys are only born every years or so. Magical How? Magick Chicks centers around Melissa, a former "queen bee" who finds herself fated to become a magical girl , after being transferred to Artemis Academy. Worse, she now has a mysterious wand for a conscience and a ditzy blonde do-gooder for a mentor, when all she wants is to overthrow Faith and become popular.
What a world! Also parodied in Mahou Shounen Fight! Nexus is about a magical girl chosen by destiny who gets her powers from a mysterious shopkeeper. Princess Chroma is a deconstruction of the genre. Shattered Starlight features an ex-magical girl trying to live her life after the breakup of her team. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is an original work by Bwillett, the author of Cardcaptor Torika , about a girl in New England called Victoria who learns magic with transformations included in order to stop a series of monsters unleashed after she puts on an ancient ring.
It takes a relatively realistic approach to the genre, both in terms of developing the magic system behind the transformations, and its focus on characterization.
Cue Alternate History. The story follows a magical girl who believes she must become a Necessarily Evil in order to stop other girls from going too far. Web Original. So far in Arcana Magi , Alysia Morales is a magical girl under unfortunate circumstances. Played with in various Improfanfic series: Magical Girl Hunters — So many girls are empowered as magical girls that they're starting to run out of sensible themes and names, and many magical girl groups are starting to target lesser evils like corporate greed.
The protagonists are the eponymous hunters, hired assassins who eliminate magical girls who have become pests. Raya Saga of Soul - A magical girl tries to apply the scientific method to her newfound powers, while defending her world from demons , the Elysium , the Circle of Wisdom , and more. Deconstructed hard in Sailor Nothing. Web Videos. Western Animation. Amethyst can be considered an early combination of both the Cute Witch and Magical Girl Warrior types.
Gwen from Ben In the first series she found a magical trinket which granted her magic powers, donned a costume and called herself "Lucky Girl". The only thing she was missing was the Transformation Sequence. In Omniverse she replicates the costume with her Andodite powers. Ben himself could be considered a male, more sci-fi-themed version of this trope, complete with his own transformation sequences. Butterbean's Cafe Lily the Witch , an adaptation of a German book series about a girl who discovers a spell book and uses it to learn about the history of the world first-hand.
Miraculous Ladybug , despite looking head-to-toe a CGI anime and is even made by the company that made one of the biggest Magical girl anime today , is created by a French studio and follows superhero tropes along with magical girl ones. It even has a Magical Boy in the mix as well. Miss Tickle from Mission: Magic! My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic starts with a two-part episode in which the six main characters become friends.
They use a powerful ancient artifact to become magical girls and permanently defeat a Sealed Evil in a Can. However, despite gaining fashionable magical jewelry and the gratitude of the god-princess of the realm, the trope is almost completely absent from the rest of the show. Word of God from the show's creator Lauren Faust, worked on her husband Craig McCracken 's Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and The Powerpuff Girls is that good action-adventure episodes are harder to produce on a deadline and budget, and Myth Arcs have to be watched in a specific order, thus the series is more Slice of Life.
The My Little Pony: Equestria Girls franchise plays this much closer, featuring human versions of the ponies gaining powers from magic leaking in from Equestria. From the second movie onwards the cast form a rock band and frequently transform during performances, the same applies to the Dazzlings who assume their siren forms in the climax.
In the third movie, the human version of Twilight Sparkle of all characters becomes a Dark Magical Girl. Mysticons Penny Crayon : Penny, in a fashion - the delivery is very different but she basically has the same power set as Magical Idol Pastel Yumi. Also this makes Tara a Dark Magical Girl albeit a rather petty one. Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders : The Jewel Riders are magical defenders of Avalon and have their equally young male counterparts , the three wolf-riding knights known as The Pack who are however not much more than just sidekicks.
Rainbow Brite was a s series about a girl named Rainbow Brite who was the leader of a gang of kids called the "Color Kids" who controlled colors and nature. Rainbow had magic, rainbow-themed powers.
SheZow note Which is actually an inherited title rather then the main character's actual superhero name, similarly to The Phantom is a Deconstructive Parody of both superheroes as well as magical girls, as well as the legacies of both genres.
The main character, Guy, even has two deliberately outlandish transformation phrases note "You go girl" for transforming into his She Zow form, and "She-yeah" for transforming back. Furthermore, the equipment and powers he uses e. The creator claims that this wasn't his yes, "his" intention, but whether or not this is in fact the case is up for debate.
Sky Dancers , a French series. Star vs. As a sort of Parody of the Magical Girl Queenliness Test , she's sent to Earth just to keep her from harming her home kingdom, since she's a somewhat ditzy Girly Bruiser.
The show is mostly Slice of Life , but as the title suggests, evil forces sometimes intrude. One of the main antagonists is also a very obvious Sailor Senshi Send-Up , but with darker elements to her character.
Steven Universe , about a young, half-human boy with magic powers being raised by magical thousands-of-years-old, mineral-based aliens who just happen to look like women or girls and act as Magical Girl Warriors , defending Earth from the rest of their species and having a lot of emotional struggles.
The Trollz are of the Cute Witch variety, using magic to make life less boring, though they also use it to fight against Simon when necessary. She has the power to turn her friend Shane into different things, and can use magical weapons given to her by a flying octopus to fight.
In the special, upon Bun Bun's provocation, he transforms into a mummy-vampire and gains dark powers. Winx Club where fairies and witches are these. They get several sets of transformation sequences of course. Pop Pixie , a Spin-Off of the former.
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