#majokko adjacent

[showamagicalgirls]

Incredible drawing of pirate Honey from the back cover of my new second volume of Honey Honey’s Great Adventure (ハニーハニーのすてきな冒険).

#honey honey #honey honey's great adventure #ハニーハニー #ハニーハニーのすてきな冒険 #vintage manga #昭和 #showa era #manga #comics #retro shoujo #majokko adjacent #vintage shojo #vintage shojo manga #vintage shoujo

[prettywarriors]

What magical girls series are out right now ?

Hey there! The short answer is... :/// not a lot. 

Healin Good Precure’s last episode is next Sunday, and will be followed up by Tropical Rogue Precure, plus the Healin Good Movie is set for March

Mewkledreamy is still airing at the moment

The Sailor Moon Dream Arc Movies 1 and 2 have just released in japan, and hopefully will find an easy way for a global release soon

I Guess? There’s a third season of  Seizei Ganbare! Mahou Shoujo Kurumi airing right now which is a parody series (4 minute episodes)

Next season, so in about 6-7 weeks,  Fairy Ranmaru: Anata no Kokoro Otasuke Shimasu starts which is a magical man series so take that how you will

Show by Rock really had more One character who fit the Magical Girl bill imo, but there’s another season of that on right now, and another series for Wixoss which is not a magical girl series but if you like Puella-level dark and card games, it’s a decent MG Adjacent series

America is also giving us Owl House and while the second season isn’t scheduled for a specific date yet, it is a fish out of water witch reversal series like Little Witch Academia and Tweeny Witches, rather than the classic ‘witch comes to human world’ plot of the earliest majokko series

Crunchyroll has also apparently finished High Guardian Spice which looked like a MG series to some from the trailer, but for dumb reasons the release is postponed until ???

Korea has Catch! Teenieping, and another season (series?) of Flowering Heart  년: 3기 - 우수하 구출 스토리

Miraculous Ladybug is still going

For live action, Police x Heroine Lovepatrina! is still airing at the moment and I wouldn’t be surprised if we got another Girl x Heroine series once that is complete.

Then for the future uhhh. There’s another season of Magia Record planned, Machikado Mazoku season 2, a third Yuki Yuna, a new Tokyo Mew Mew anime, and the Sailor Moon Crystal Stars ???adaptation all planned for... ?the future? And I would expect them to so a second season of Card Captor Sakura Clear Card when the manga wraps up

Oh and a second season of Etotama if you count that as a MG series? And Luminous Witches which is a more music leaning Strike Witches spin off? Still seems more MG than SW

It’s also the 10′th anniversary of Puella Magi Madoka Magica and they have a big ol website about with with. No real info on it but maybe? Perhaps? The big project for celebration is the follow up to the Rebellion movie? Maybe. Eventually. Maybe.

And then for manga except for the TMM special (not Au Lait) ending, I don’t think anything else has really changed from last year’s list of series

Of course. this is all a bit subjective since what Is a magical girl varies person to person (and country to country- do we mean Majokko or Henshin Heroine?). Generally, people are looking for The Aesthetics of fun outfits, Characters who are driven by helping people and/or bettering themselves (usually to become a good queen), and a Story that uses conflicts to improve the characters (be it a man vs self classic majokko episodic series, or a girls vs monsters sentai-inspired series) If you just want the aesthetics, there’s plenty of idol series like Aikatsu and PriPara which are still going strong. If you want a metaphorical story that feels MG even if the aesthetics aren’t, Wonder Egg Priority is very very good, as long as you look up the CW beforehand (suicide is the main theme).  And then if you want magical girl type characters in a non magical girl series, well, I don’t think there’s any like that at this moment, but they crop up often enough, with varying results. 

So uhh. Yep. There are the current and upcoming series. If I missed any, feel free to drop a line!

#text #anonymous #magical girl #magical girls #mahou shoujo #magical girls 2021 #I sure can type a lot of words to say 2 precures mewkledreamy a parody series and live action cop girls #Anonymous

[bunnymajo]

Losing my mind over your Tabitha and Adam and the WHAT post because that was my exact reaction too. I watched the whole thing a while back and it is A Time. I ultimately elected not to include on my list of magical girl cartoons because iirc Tabitha actually doesn't use her magic all that much in it what with all the... clownery going on, but tbh that was just a technicality I was using to yeet it off the list so I would never have to think about it again lmao.

Oh she doesn't actually use magic in it, that's a relief shame.

I included on the blog because it's at least magical girl adjacent/related to Bewitched and I have to respect the majokko elders. And also because it's just so.... Out There that I had to let people know haha

But yeah, I would love to know the story of how someone went "Hey why don't we make a cartoon movie about those witch kids from Bewitched at the circus and they help a clown rock band" Like how??

I'd blame the success of The Partridge Family show but it predates that. The 70's were just like that I guess.

#amainoyuki #magical girl chat

[showamagicalgirls]

This image is from the Akemi Takada (高田明美) art book YGG-DRASIL (世界樹). Takada is most notable in the world of magical girls as the character designer for Magical Angel Creamy Mami (魔法の天使クリィミーマミ) and Magic Stage Fancy Lala (魔法のステージ・ファンシーララ). She also worked on the magical girlfriend series, Urusei Yatsura (うる星やつら).

#creamy mami #magical angel creamy mami #magic Angel creamy mami #魔法の天使クリィミーマミ #昭和 #showa era #majokko adjacent #魔法のステージ・ファンシーララ #Magic stage fancy Lala #urusei yatsura #うる星やつら #高田明美 #takada akemi #akemi takada

[showamagicalgirls]

I recently became aware of The Star of La Seine (ラ・セーヌの星) from 1975. It seems heavily influenced by The Rose of Versailles (ベルサユのばら). I look forward to exploring it more and seeing if I find it to be “majokko-adjacent”

#majokko adjacent #昭和 #showa era #retro shojo #retro shoujo #tv #tv animation #tv anime #anime #animation #la seine #ラ・セーヌの星

[showamagicalgirls]

Head Detective Momoko (もも子探偵長), 1958

#1950s #昭和 #showa era #魔法少女 #magical girl #majokko #魔女っ子 #retro shoujo #retro shojo #comics #manga #もも子探偵長 #head detective momoko #majokko adjacent

[showamagicalgirls]

The other episode of 1986 Wizard of Oz (オズの魔法使い) anime I watched on the way over on this trip was the thirty-seventh, which is taken from L. Frank Baum's third Oz novel, Ozma of Oz. Apparently the full title of the original book was Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, Billina the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People Too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein. What a name! Anyway, these events may also be familiar to some people because they were included in the 1985 film, Return to Oz.

#wizard of oz #l frank baum #the wizard of oz #the wonderful wizard of oz #wonderful wizard of oz #l. frank baum #オズの魔法使い #tv anime #isekai #異世界 #昭和 #showa era #majokko adjacent #tv #animation #anime #ozma of oz #return to oz

[showamagicalgirls]

A non-majokko image from magical girl all star Akemi Takada.

#akemi takada #高田明美 #昭和 #showa era #retro shoujo #retro shojo #majokko adjacent

[showamagicalgirls]

The scale of the bows in Head Detective Momoko (もも子探偵長) is delightful.

#head detective momoko #昭和 #showa era #魔法少女 #magical girl #majokko #魔女っ子 #retro shoujo #retro shojo #comics #manga #majokko adjacent #もも子探偵長

[showamagicalgirls]

One thing in my magical girl collection that is technically from after the Showa Era but that I love dearly are the light novels that Naoko Takeuchi (武内直子) illustrated. Takeuchi is, of course, most famous for creating Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン) but she was also friends with an author named Marie Koizumi (小泉まりえ) and they collaborated on several works of prose. This one is called I’m Definitely Going To Steal Your Boyfriend (絶対, 彼を奪ってみせる!).

#sailor moon #naoko takeuchi #light novel #heisei era #平成 #majokko adjacent #美少女戦士セーラームーン #セーラームーン #pretty soldier sailor moon

[showamagicalgirls]

Images from the opening of Redhead Ann (赤毛のアン) from 1979.

#redhead anne #redheaded anne #anne of green gables #赤毛のアン #majokko adjacent #昭和 #showa era #retro shojo #retro shoujo #anime #tv anime #animation #tv

[showamagicalgirls]

I’m starting a rewatch of Bewitched, which was a major influence on the Showa magical girl genre—specifically the first one on TV, Sally The Witch (魔法使いサリー).

One of the things that strikes me again from this very first episode is that Darren is so afraid of her magic that his first thought isn’t even to get rich or otherwise take advantage of it. Part of me feels like that would be the most normative American response this revelation, even more than trying to suppress it.

#bewitched #sally the witch #魔法使いサリー #tv #majokko adjacent #昭和 #showa era

[showamagicalgirls]

This is the part in Redhead Anne (赤毛のアン) that adapts the first meeting of Anne and Diana. I keep saying I love seeing any and all scenes from Anne of Green Gables adapted into manga, but this really is one of the best. I’ve always felt like the love between these two is at the heart of the book, even though it’s not presented as romantic per se. I’m so glad to see Igarashi show it as a deep and genuine love.

#redhead anne #majokko adjacent #赤毛のアン #anne of green gables #retro shojo #manga #comics #retro shoujo

[showamagicalgirls]

Mermaids hold an interesting place in the world of magical girls. They’re often relevant, going as far back as Magical Mako-chan (魔法のマコちゃん), which debuted in 1970, but, of course, if there’s no magic, a mermaid alone does not a magical girl story make. Still, as I’ve been casting about for more Osama Tezuka (手塚治虫) works to watch, his animated-short Mermaid (人魚) from 1964 did catch my eye.

Like I said, this is not a magical girl story, but it is fantastic, and manages to take on way more serious themes and achieve more narrative progression in seven minutes than I could ever have anticipated.

#majokko adjacent #昭和 #showa era #film short #anime #animated short #anime film #animation film #film #tezuka osamu #osamu tezuka #mermaid #mermaids #手塚治虫 #手塚 治虫

[showamagicalgirls]

The dramatis personae page from Redheaded Anne (赤毛のアン), Vol. 1, which is an adaptation of Anne of Green Gables.

#赤毛のアン #anne of green gables #majokko adjacent #retro shojo #manga #comics #retro shoujo #vintage manga #retro manga #vintage shoujo manga #vintage shojo manga #vintage shojo #vintage shoujo #retro shojo manga #retro shoujo manga

[showamagicalgirls]

This is the title page for the first volume of Kumon Manga Library’s Heisei manga adaptation of Anne of Green Gables or Redheaded Anne (赤毛のアン).

The artist is Yumiko Igarashi, who is the cousin of Satsuki Igarashi of CLAMP.

#anne of green gables #赤毛のアン #majokko adjacent #retro shojo #manga #comics #retro shoujo