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Magical girl

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is a subgenre of Japanese fantasy anime and manga which features girls with magical powers or who use magic. [1]

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Angel's Friends

Angel's Friends is an Italian magical girl comic series created by Simona Ferri that debuted in March 2007.

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Anime

Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.

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Anime News Network

Anime News Network (ANN) is an anime industry news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, South East Asia and Japan.

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Anime-influenced animation

Anime-influenced animation or western anime are non-Japanese works of animation that are similar to or inspired by anime.

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Animerica

Animerica was a quarterly digest published by Viz Media.

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Bandai

is a Japanese toy maker and a producer of a large number of plastic model kits as well as a former video game company.

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Bewitched

Bewitched is an American television sitcom fantasy series, originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from September 17, 1964 to March 25, 1972.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Cardcaptor Sakura

, abbreviated as CCS and also known as Cardcaptors, is a Japanese ''shōjo'' manga series written and illustrated by the manga group Clamp.

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Chibiusa

is a fictional character in the Sailor Moon manga series created by Naoko Takeuchi.

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Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel

is a magical girl anime series by Pierrot which aired from 1983 to 1984 on Nippon Television.

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Cross-dressing

Cross-dressing is the act of wearing items of clothing and other accoutrements commonly associated with the opposite sex within a particular society.

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Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!

is a 2015 television magical boy anime series created by Kurari Umatani and produced by Diomedéa.

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Diomedéa

, previously known as, is a Japanese animation studio located in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan.

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Genre

Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.

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Girl Heroes

Girl Heroes: The New Force In Popular Culture is a 2002 text by Susan Hopkins.

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Himitsu no Akko-chan

is a popular pioneering magical girl manga and anime that ran in Japan during the 1960s.

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I Dream of Jeannie

I Dream of Jeannie is an American fantasy sitcom starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and eventually marries.

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Is This a Zombie?

, also known as for short, is a Japanese light novel series by Shinichi Kimura, with illustrations by Kobuichi and Muririn.

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Keele University

Keele University, officially known as the University of Keele, is a public research university located about 3 miles (5 km) from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England.

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LA Weekly

LA Weekly is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California.

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LoliRock

LoliRock is a French animated television series produced by Marathon Media and Zodiak Kids.

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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

is a Japanese anime television series directed by Akiyuki Shinbo, with screenplay written by Masaki Tsuzuki, and produced by Seven Arcs.

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Magical Princess Minky Momo

is a Japanese magical-girl anime franchise by Production Reed.

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Mahōtsukai Chappy

is an anime series that debuted in TV Asahi (then known as NET, or Nihon Educational Television) in 1972.

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Majokko Megu-chan

is a popular magical girl anime series.

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (also known as Miraculous Ladybug or Miraculous) is a CGI action/adventure animated series produced by French studios Zagtoon and Method Animation in collaboration with De Agostini Editore in Italy, Toei Animation in Japan, and SAMG Animation in South Korea.

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Necromancy

Necromancy is a practice of magic involving communication with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge, to bring someone back from the dead, or to use the deceased as a weapon, as the term may sometimes be used in a more general sense to refer to black magic or witchcraft.

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Pretty Cure

, also known as Glitter Force outside of Japan, is a Japanese magical girl anime metaseries created by Izumi Todo and produced by Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Asatsu-DK and Toei Animation.

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Princess Knight

Princess Knight, also known as, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka.

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Princess Princess (band)

was a five-piece Japanese rock/pop girl band active from 1983 to 1996.

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Protagonist

A protagonist In modern usage, a protagonist is the main character of any story (in any medium, including prose, poetry, film, opera and so on).

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Prototype

A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.

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Puella Magi Madoka Magica

, commonly referred to as simply Madoka Magica, is a Japanese anime television series produced by Shaft and Aniplex.

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Ribon

is a monthly Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Shueisha.

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Sailor Moon

is a Japanese ''shōjo'' manga series by Naoko Takeuchi.

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Sailor Moon (character)

, better known as, is a fictional superheroine who is the main protagonist and titular character of the Sailor Moon manga series written by Naoko Takeuchi.

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Sally the Witch

also known as Sunny the Witch is one of the popular anime magical girls of what eventually become a genre in Japan.

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Seiko Matsuda

is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter.

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Shugo Chara!

, also known as My Guardian Characters, is a Japanese ''shōjo'' manga series created by the manga author duo, Peach-Pit.

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Super Sentai

The is a Japanese superhero team franchise of TV series produced by Toei Company, Toei Agency and Bandai, and aired by TV Asahi ("Sentai" is the Japanese word for "task force" or "fighting squadron").

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Superhero

A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero or Super) is a type of heroic stock character, usually possessing supernatural or superhuman powers, who is dedicated to fighting the evil of his/her universe, protecting the public, and usually battling supervillains.

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Takako Doi

was a prominent Japanese politician from 1980 until her retirement in 2005.

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The Journal of Asian Studies

The Journal of Asian Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Asian Studies, covering Asian studies, ranging from history, the arts, social sciences, to philosophy of East, South, and Southeast Asia.

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Tuxedo Mask

, also known as, is a fictional character and one of the primary protagonists of the Sailor Moon media franchise created by Naoko Takeuchi.

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Twelve Olympians

relief (1st century BCendash1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right, Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff), Artemis (bow and quiver), Apollo (lyre), from the Walters Art Museum.Walters Art Museum, http://art.thewalters.org/detail/38764 accession number 23.40. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus.

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Undead

The undead are beings in mythology, legend, or fiction that are deceased but behave as if they were alive.

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Viz Media

VIZ Media LLC is an American manga and anime distribution and entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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W.I.T.C.H.

W.I.T.C.H. is an Italian fantasy comic series written by Elisabetta Gnone, Alessandro Barbucci, and Barbara Canepa.

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W.I.T.C.H. (TV series)

W.I.T.C.H. is a French-American animated television series based on the Italian comic book series of the same name.

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Winx Club

Winx Club is an Italian animated television series directed, created and produced by Iginio Straffi and his company Rainbow S.r.l. in co-production with Rai Fiction.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_girl

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