What is a magical girl?
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The Italian animated series "Winx Club", "PopPixie", "Mia and Me" and "Angel's Friends" use a magical girl concept for their main characters, including transformations for each character. This concept also appears in the Italian comic book series "W.I.T.C.H." and its animated adaptation, featuring five teenage girls with powers over the five classical elements. In 2014, "LoliRock" debuted as a French anime-influenced animation series of the genre, and contains many references to Japanese magical girl franchises. "" blends magical girl conventions with modern superhero action and adventure storytelling. "Ragazze dell'Olimpo" ("Girls of Olympus"), an Italian series by Elena Kedros, portrays a trio of magical girls who are reincarnations of the Olympian goddesses. In American cartoon series, "Star vs. the Forces of Evil", "Steven Universe", "", "Little Charmers", "Shimmer and Shine" and "" franchise use a magical girl concept as a sub themes. For example, the main characters in the "My Little Pony: Equestria Girls" are described as "full-time students and part-time magical pony girls".
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Magical Girl Apocalypse, known in Japan as , is a Japanese action-horror magical girl "shōnen" manga series written and illustrated by Kentarō Satō. It began publication in July 2012 in the manga magazine "Weekly Shōnen Champion", published by Akita Shoten, and has been compiled into sixteen "tankōbon" volumes . The series is published in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment. A spin-off series called "Magical Girl Site" was later made that shares the same themes.
Magical Girl Apocalypse
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Magical Girl is a 2014 Spanish neo-noir film directed by Carlos Vermut. The film was screened at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2014 San Sebastián International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Shell.
Magical Girl (film)
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Black Girl Magic (#BlackGirlMagic) is a concept and movement that was popularized by CaShawn Thompson in 2013. The concept was born as a way to "celebrate the beauty, power and resilience of black women", as described by Julee Wilson from "HuffPost", and to congratulate black women on their accomplishments. Referring to a speech made by Michelle Obama at the Black Girls Rock Awards, Thompson explains that black women around the world persevering despite adversity inspired her to spread the concept of Black Girl Magic. With these women in mind, Thompson created the social media hashtag, clothing campaign, and rallying cry "Black Girl Magic", in the hopes of counteracting negativity society places on black women.
Black Girl Magic
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Magical girls are unfortunate girls who are chosen through Magical Girl Sites. The managers of the sites give them weapons, known as . The usage of these sticks could shorten their lifespan. Initially, the magical girls are created to fight among each other and collect negative energies with their stick, in order to survive "Tempest". The more magical sticks they used, the more negative energies collected. These magical girls would have physical changes while using their stick, such as hair colour change, emblems appear on their eyes, lifespan emblem on their skin, and blood flowing out of their body part.
List of Magical Girl Site characters
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With her 2016 single "Blk Girl Soldier" and its accompanying video, singer, songwriter, and poet Jamila Woods centers Black Girl Magic. Woods draws on the popular understanding of Black Girl Magic as a quality of power and perseverance in Black women and girls that people "don't understand," but she further enriches the concept by centering the historic contributions of Black female revolutionaries such as Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Ella Baker, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and Assata Shakur. With footage of a contemporary #SayHerName protest, Woods draws a line from abolitionism through the civil rights movement and Black feminism to modern day political activism, linking these movements as expressions of Black Girl Magic. With lyrics such as "she scares the gov'ment," and the inclusion of a quote from Black Liberation Army member Shakur to bookend the song, Woods posits that Black Girl Magic is not only about a celebration of Black women, but also their radical and uncompromising fight against oppression. Speaking about the song's video, Woods states "The goal of the ‘Blk Girl Soldier’ video is to lift up the black women throughout history and today who inspire me and who are doing brilliant artistic and activist work. Knowing my history and what my people have survived before me has made me stronger.” In 2018, "NPR" ranked "Blk Girl Soldier" as the #144 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century, writing that the song is "tinged with sadness about injustices committed ‘last century, last week,’ but infused with the beautiful power of those who fought and keep fighting."
Black Girl Magic
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Some series are notable for portraying "magical boys" as protagonists instead of the traditional supporting roles. "Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!" is a 2015 television magical boy anime series created by Kurari Umatani and produced by Diomedéa, which parodies tropes and cliches common to magical girl anime. "Magical Girl Ore" features magical girls who transform into manly-looking forms. In "Is This a Zombie?", a zombie is resurrected by a necromancer after being killed by a serial killer, inadvertently gains "magical girl" powers, and is forced to become a "magical boy" (and thereby crossdress) in the process. In "Shugo Chara!", released in 2006, half of the series' main characters are males that possess the same powers as their female counterparts.
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Unpopular idol and junior high school student Saki Uno discovers that her mother, Sayori, used to be a "magical girl," but, as a result of back problems, found it necessary to pass her position down to Saki. With the help of a Yakuza-like mascot character named Kokoro, Saki is able to transform into "Magical Girl Ore" to fight the cute-faced demons who threaten to kidnap her crush, Mohiro. Unfortunately, her magical girl form is that of a large, muscular man in a small, cute, girlish uniform, causing endless embarrassment to Saki. The situation becomes even more complicated when Mohiro becomes attracted to Saki's manly "Ore" form, and Saki's idol partner Sakuyo reveals her own attraction to Saki.
Magical Girl Ore
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Luis (played by Luis Bermejo), an unemployed literature teacher, tries to fulfill the last wish of his 12-year-old daughter Alicia (Lucía Pollán), who's terminally ill of cancer: owning the official costume of anime series "Magical Girl Yukiko". The elevated price of the costume makes Luis get into an unusual and obscure chain of blackmails that involves Damián (José Sacristán) and Bárbara (Bárbara Lennie), to changing their lives forever.Carlos Vermut states that there are some little parts in the movie influenced by the popular magical girl series "Sailor Moon". However, in terms of story and dark style, they were highly influenced by the anime "Puella Magi Madoka Magica". Carlos stated he liked the story in Madoka, where there is no reward but punishment. He noted "I received inspiration from the dark part of that "Madoka Magica", not just imitating, but matching it with the image I was thinking and putting it in "Magical Girl"."
Magical Girl (film)
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Aya Asagiri is a middle school girl who has problems both at school with bullying, and at home from physical abuse by her brother. One day after getting abused by her brother, a website pops up on her computer screen featuring a creepy-looking person. This person appears to take pity on her, and announces that she will grant Asagiri magical powers. Later at school, she is cornered by bullies, and with nothing to lose fires a gun that had mysteriously appeared in her locker earlier that day at them. The shot causes the bullies to disappear, but to her horror she finds out that they somehow had been hit by a train nearby. Asagiri feels as though she had killed them somehow, and is confused to find herself with longer red hair with eyes that flow with blood. She later finds that she is not alone, when a classmate reveals that she is also a magical girl. Asagiri learns about magical girls, and the power she has acquired, from her new friend who has offered to help her. The two girls, though, can't explain why there is something that looks like a countdown clock on the website, and fear it might be something bad.Second Site
Another series of events that simultaneously occur in the story, unofficially dubbed as "Second Site".
Magical Girl Site