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== Magical Girl Works ==

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', perhaps the most famous outside (and inside!) of Japan. 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''.

* ''[[Asagiri no Miko]]''

* ''[[Ask Dr. Rin]]!''

* ''[[Corrector Yui]]''

* ''[[Cos Prayers]]''

* ''[[Uta Kata]]''

* ''[[Yadamon]]''

* ''[[Zodiac P.I.]]''

* ''[[Mei No Naisho]]'' is an unusual example - although it's considered a magical ''girl'' series, the manga is the story of a young ''boy'' who was raised as a girl by his witch mother, and possesses witch powers, a wand and a talking cat familiar. It also features a perverted ''girl'', as opposed to the usual perverted ''boy''.

* ''[[Kidou Shinsengumi Moeyo Ken]]'' - [[X Meets Y|the magical girl genre meets the]] [[Shinsengumi]].

 

* ''[[Petit Petit Muse]]'' is a Korean Magical Girl TV show.

 

 

* The [[Hentai]] video game ''[[Jewel Knights Crusaders]]''.

* ''[[Magical Battle Arena]]''.

* ''[[Magical Cannon Wars]]'' is about Akira (also a magical girl) trying to stop all of the other magical girls from fighting.

 

=== [[Web Original]] ===

** ''[[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. Some featured deconstructions include [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Sailor H]], [[Eldritch Abomination|the Sailor Shoggoths]], and the 64 (later 128) [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|Crayola Knights]].

** ''[[Do Gooders]]''—Two members of the eponymous band are magical girls. Several other magical girls appear in the series, including Sailor Becky who wields the power of the Otaku (ripping off attacks from various anime) and Sailor Exposition who holds the power of being able to put people to sleep by extremely long explanations. There are even two different flavors of [[Dark Magical Girl]].

* So far in ''[[Arcana Magi]]'', Alysia Morales is a magical girl under unfortunate circumstances. Meanwhile in ''[[Arcana Magi Zero]]'', Alysia Perez and Megumi Miyazaki are magical girls complete with [[Transformation Sequence]], [[Impossibly Cool Clothes|magical outfits]] , and [[Calling Your Attacks|random attack names]].

** The entire ''[[Arcana Magi Universe]]'' feature Magical Girls.

* ''[[Hachimitsu no Kissu]]''

* ''[[Kawaii Battle Stars]]''

 

=== [[Web Comics]] ===

* ''[http://shinsengumi-fan-girl.deviantart.com/gallery/24141978 Magical Boys!]'', another parody of the genre - the main character is a boy who is given magical girl powers (although he retains his gender) to battle against [[Dark Magical Girl]]s who want to kill retired magical girls. As the story progresses, more magical boys are revealed.

* Also parodied in ''[[Mahou Shounen Fight]]''.

 

=== [[Western Animation]] ===

 

== Magical Girl trope referred to in other works ==

* ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' is a forerunner of ''[[Magical Girl Warrior]]'' version, which blended [[Fan Service]] and fun battles in one tongue-in-cheek package. Fans are divided whether she counts as a true magical girl or a superhero.

** ''[[New Cutey Honey]]'' is the sequel, set 100 years after the original.

* ''[[Yurara No Tsuki]]'' has elements of this, as the main character is able to transform and battle evil spirits with powerful magic.

* The plot of one episode of ''[[They Are My Noble Masters]]'' is started when Ren discovers that Yume has written a story starring herself as a magical girl.

* Pokomi from ''[[Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]''

* In an episode of ''[[Best Student Council]]'', one character is suspected of being a magical girl; both the [[Magical Girl Warrior]] and the [[Cute Witch]] (complete with [[Older Alter Ego]]) versions are brought up.

* Dark Magician Girl in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'' is largely based on this idea, with several of her summoning scenes looking similar to magical girl transformation sequences. Despite the name, she is ''not'' a [[Dark Magical Girl]].

** Yugi himself uses a lot of tropes that usually indicate a magical girl—a [[Transformation Trinket]], at least one confirmed [[Calling Your Attacks|named attack]] (Mind Crush), and a [[Transformation Sequence]]—that if it weren't for the [[Super-Powered Alter Ego]], one could almost classify him as a "magical boy".

** She now has a spin-off manga, ''[[The Alternative Cure Magical Girl Behoimi Chan]]'', where she is an actual magical girl.

* ''[[Barajou no Kiss]]'' has Anise, who summons the magical members of her [[Unwanted Harem]] via magical cards.

* Episode 7 of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei|[Zoku] Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'' focused on [[Art Shift]]s, with the title sequence and parts of the episode devoted to Kafuka, Chiri, and Meru as the magical girl team Model Warrior Lily Cure, and Nozomu Itoshiki as the [[Big Bad]], The Teacher Of Despair. It even closes with an [["On the Next..."]] continuing the plot. This is a drastic change from the usual format of the show.

* ''[[To LOVE-Ru]]'' combines this with an [[Expy]]. Kyoko Kirisaki from ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' is turned into ''[[Show Within a Show|Magical Flame Kyoko]]'', a pyromaniac magical girl.

* Raichou from ''[[Kyouran Kazoku Nikki]]'' claims to be a magical girl.

* The [[Show Within a Show]] ''Puru Puru Pururin'' of the anime version of ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]''. Only a few snippets are shown, in which we see that Pururin is accompained by a number of animated household objects, including a vacuum cleaner upon which she flies, and that her trademark is to randomly append the word "Purin" to the end of sentences.

* Parodied in ''[[Bleach]]'' with Charlotte Cuuhlhourne who tries very, very hard to be one of these and fails spectacularly.

* Key of ''[[Key the Metal Idol]]'' becomes more of a Magical Girl as the series progresses, though this used primarily to deconstruct the trope as Key's transformations into her more human form show just how harrowing the powers of a magical girl can be in unwitting (read Naive) hands.

* [[Show Within a Show]] ''Majokko Mirakurun'' in ''[[Yuru-Yuri]]''.

 

* Comic book [[Superhero]]ine [[Shazam|Mary Marvel]], who first appeared in 1942, possessed several similar characteristics to the [[Magical Girl Warrior]] sub-type: skimpy costume, magical [[Transformation Sequence]] into a super-powered form, a Destiny, and (if you stretch it to include Tawky Tawny) a [[Talking Animal]] friend.

* [[Suicide Squad|The Enchantress]] created by [[DC Comics]] in 1966, comes very close to being a proto-[[Magical Girl Warrior]]. Young woman June Moone goes with her slightly older boyfried to an alledgedly haunted castle for a party. Turns out that there are actual spooks. June stumbles into a secret chamber, where a mysterious being tells her she is [[The Chosen One]] and gives her a transformation word. June says it and gets magical powers, an appearance makeover (blonde to dark red), a miniskirted costume, and [[Cool Hat|a kickin' witch hat.]] The Enchantress then battles a [[Monster of the Week]] and evacuates the civilians before the castle collapses. June reappears with a weak excuse and her boyfriend expresses an interest in her alter ego. There were two more stories where Enchantress fought random menaces, but the writers didn't have a good story arc beyond that, so she went into obscurity for years, including a phase as a [[Dark Magical Girl]].

* ''[[Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld]]'' combines Magical Girl with [[Changeling Fantasy]] and [[High Fantasy]].

* The ''[[Gen 13]]'' miniseries ''Magical Drama Queen Roxy'', which reinvents Freefall as a Magical Girl, is a parody of the genre. Turned out to be [[All Just a Dream]].

 

=== [[Fan Works]] ===

* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Nonoko<ref>[[No Name Given|Kyon's little sister]] from the original</ref> [[Daydream Believer|believes]] she will become a Magical Girl after her school trip. It actually happens even earlier, with Kyon's [[Badass Longcoat]] and [[Morph Weapon]] substituting for a dress and [[Magic Wand]], and [[Fun Size|Achakura]] for [[Mentor Mascot]].

* Every single [[Fuku Fic]] in existence.

* [[Family Guy|Meg]] {{spoiler|as well as her daughter Rosie}} in ''[[The Spellbook]]''.

* In ''[[Keepers of the Elements]]'', [[Total Drama Island|Gwen, Bridgette, Izzy, Heather and Lindsay]].

 

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', oddly enough, can be seen as a [[Magical Girl Warrior]] show. The first season in particular looks quite a bit like a classic Magical Girl series viewed through a funhouse mirror. This is probably not a coincidence, since [[Joss Whedon]] is known to be a fan of ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.

* Even ''[[Super Sentai]]'' has an example. ''Carranger'', the parody series, had the kid sister of the series' main villainess transforming into White Racer, a racing-themed magical girl, to occasionally help out the heroes. Also, she had a cat/car-based mecha. ''Carranger'' was an odd year.

* The toku series ''[[Seishoujo Senshi Saint Valkyrie]]'', which appears to have been inspired by ''[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]''.

 

 

* The character MOMO from the ''[[Xenosaga]]'' series gains two different Magical Girl forms, each with their own extended (and fortunately skippable) [[Transformation Sequence]].

* ''[[Battle Moon Wars]]'' features several characters from various Type-Moon shows dressed as magical girls.

* ''[[Magical Girl Kirara And Sarara Dioskroi Of Starlit Sky]]''

 

* ''[[Megatokyo]]'' contains several of these, though the only ones seen so far are Meimi (retired), {{spoiler|Yuki}}, and possibly Miho. It's been shown by the Tokyo Police and their actions that an unlicensed Magical Girl is a serious threat.

* Parodied in ''[http://www.sgvy.com/ Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]'', where the ''male'' main character is [[Gender Bender|turned into a]] [[Magical Girl Warrior|valkyrie]] by a [[Norse Mythology|Norse god]] hiding inside a Magical Girl anime, who had assumed that anyone watching it would ''already'' be female.

* ''[[Tsunami Channel]]'' has Magical Mina, a magical girl who, like Nanoha, has strong influences from shounen manga.

* [[Footloose (webcomic)|Footloose]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20150114005316/http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=29 At the school]

* In ''[[Nip and Tuck]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20110923165450/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00651.html one girl acted as one.]

 

* In ''[[The Impossible Man]]'' Yuki Shimizu is a Magical Girl, sent by her mother who leads a mysterious village of Magical Girls and Magical Women, to work as Michael Garcia's bodyguard at his store.

* In ''[[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]]'', magical girl appear to be a class of heroine, with ''Fallen Maidens'' book features a magical girl named Mimiru Miltie. As hinted by name of the book, [[Fallen Hero|she got corrupted and become a witch of Subbath cult]].

 

* ''[[Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic]]''

* ''[[P.J. Sparkles]]''

* Miss Tickle from ''[[Mission: Magic!]]''.

* Manny Rivera, the hero of ''[[El Tigre]]'', is essentially a Magical Boy.

* Morgana from ''[[Darkwing Duck]]''.

 

* The German audio drama series ''[[Bibi Blocksberg]]'' is about a 13 year old witch living in a small German town and going to school with other regular kids. The series started in 1980, long before anime shows or manga became popular in Germany.

* The German book series ''[[Lilly The Witch]]'' is about a girl named Lilly who finds a magical book which turns her into a witch, as well as a [[Mentor Mascot]] in the form of a little green dragon named Hector, and who has many adventures all over the world. The books have been made into an animated series on CBBC, as well as an animated movie.

* ''[[Milky Way and The Galaxy Girls]]''.

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