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[[File:sally-img00308930587_1101.jpg|frame|Top: Sally in 1966; Bottom: Sally in 1989]]

 

 

''Sally the Witch'' (or ''Mahoutsukai Sally'') is thought to be one of the earliest examples of [[Magical Girl]] [[Manga]] and [[Anime]].

The series follows Sally, princess of the 'witch world' Astoria (no, not [[The Goonies|that]] one). One day she teleports to mid-world (Earth) to make friends. She quickly makes two new friends as she uses her magic to scare off a criminal menacing two schoolgirls. The series consists mostly of the episodic misadventures of Sally and friends as she faces the world and a plethora of problems it has in store for her, with the help of magic.

 

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* [[Adult Child]]: Sally's magic teacher, Sherry. She reaches [[Too Dumb to Live]] extremes when {{spoiler|she reverses the age of Sally's neighbor and is slated for execution because, when she did it, she broke one of the cardinal laws of the Magical World: not interferring directly to change a human's destiny.}}

* [[An Ice Person]]: Sally's best friend from the magical worlds, Selene the Ice Princess.

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Sally and Selene.

* [[Healing Hands]]: Subverted. Sally is ''not'' a healer, so if she needs to heal people, she must either follow quests (first series - one {{spoiler|one of the Hanamura triplets}} is seriously injured, and she has to go searching for the cure) or learn special and complicated spells (second series - she has to combine [[Elemental Powers]] to even think of healing {{spoiler|a young dancer's leg before a special performance}}).

* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Sumire, before she befriends Yoshiko and Sally. A whole episode of the 1989 series focuses on the possibility of her being sent off to a [[Boarding School]] and losing her friends.

* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]: Sorta. When Poron gets upset and starts screaming and crying out loud, she loses control of her magical powers [[Reality Warper|and things start getting weird.]]

** Sally also gets one when her adoptive siblings Cab and Poron go to live with her. In fact, a whole episode in the second series is dedicated to Sally trying to hide this when it's time for Yamada-sensei to talk to her parents. {{spoiler|The Royal Couple shows up later in human disguises and convince the teacher that they're the "workaholic but caring" type (which they ''are'', just... not the way he expects). It works.}}

* [[Mundane Utility]]: Once in a while Sally used her powers for housework. One 1989 episode has her getting in trouble for it, and the punishment involves an [[Evil Twin]].

** 1989 series: [[Yuriko Yamamoto]] (Sally), [[Aya Hisakawa]] (Sumire), [[Maria Kawamura]] (Sally's friend Azami), [[Miki Ito]] (Karen), [[Minori Matsushima]] (Shelly), [[Chieko Honda]] (Kabu), [[Kumiko Nishihara]] (Poron), [[Yusaku Yara]] (the King), [[Chiyoko Kawashima]] (the Queen), [[Hiromi Tsuru]] (Selene), [[Sumi Shimamoto]] (Sumire's mother).

* [[The Ojou]]: Sumire is the "kind and quiet, almost [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]" type. Azami is more of the "bossy and spoiled, but not evil" one.

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