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Color, Part 3: Posses

So my last two posts focused on the colors worn by Magical Girl protagonists. Now it’s time to bring secondary characters into the fold and talk about how colors are doled out amongst the various members of a Magical Girl team.

Pink and red may be popular clothing choices for Magical Girl leads, but they’re even more popular for heroines who are part of a girl-posse. If you’ve got a group of three or more color-coded Magical Girls who work as a team, then it’s practically written in stone that the main girl must wear pink or red. The only posse-leaders I’ve found who flout this law are the heroines of Galaxy Fraulein Yuna (blue/white), Nanoha (blue/white), Ultimate Girls (white), and St. October (black/purple).

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Anonymous asked:

Hi, as someone who LOVES dark magical girls, I was wondering which shows which contain dmg you thought were best. Particularly, which shows which handled the trope best. Thanks~ ^.^

Out of the shows that I’ve seen enough of to make a recommendation:

  • Sailor Saturn - Sailor Moon (manga): Saturn is of the “possessed by evil” variety, and her relationship with Chibiusa is the classic “sunny innocent heroine warms the frozen heart of sad lonely DMG with an evil dad AND ALSO EVERYTHING IS REALLY GAY” story. Plus her weapon is really cool.
  • Rue - Princess Tutu: I still need to watch more of this one, but Rue is a really interesting take on the DMG, because a) she attends school with the heroine, who admires her greatly and b) she’s dating the heroine’s crush, and appears to treat him like crap (though we later find out there’s more to it). Rue isn’t the alien enemy come from far away — she’s the girl who sits next to you in class, who seems totally normal, whom you only later find out has, like, STUFF going on in her life.
  • Vanille - Sugar Sugar Rune (manga): Most DMGs are already gloomy loners when we meet them; Vanille starts out as a fairly stable and normal girl, and we watch her descent into loneliness and despair as her insecurities consume her. Plus, most DMGs just need to get befriended by the warm-hearted heroine in order to turn their lives around. Vanille is already friends with the heroine, Chocolat, when the story starts, and it’s partly because of this that she goes off the deep end — she’s constantly living in the shadow of Chocolat’s outgoing Magical-Girl-Heroine personality, and Chocolat can’t help Vanille until she understands this. But Vanille is an especially awesome example because her friendship with Chocolat is arguably the most important relationship of the whole series. The manga begins and ends with them vowing to stay friends, no matter what.
  • Kuromi - Onegai My Melody: Kuromi is an evil Sanrio bunny plushie and great fun as a comedic DMG. (She does have a more serious side, but I haven’t gotten to those eps yet.) She chews the scenery with enthusiasm, and has a huge chip on her shoulder about the ditzy heroine, My Melo, who is just too darn nice (and stupid) to make a satisfying rival for Kuromi. The two bounce off each other wonderfully.
  • Utau - Shugo Chara: Actually I can’t think of much to say about Utau, just that Shugo Chara is a great manga overall, and so its DMG is worth a look. She’s an idol singer, which is kind of overdone, and she has the hots for her brother, which is HELLA AWKWARD YO, but she and Amu do this cool thing where they steal each other’s mascots, and therefore powers. Utau’s mascots even come to Amu for help when Utau’s going off the rails.
  • Siren - Suite Precure: BAWWWWWW LESBIAN CATS BAWWWWWWWW *sniffle* So anyway, this one’s weird because our DMG gets redeemed not by one of the heroines, but by their mascot, who is a cat. And the DMG is also a cat. It’s pretty great.
  • Homura - PMMM: Cheating! Homura is a bait-and-switch DMG — she looks and acts like one, but she isn’t. Actually she kind of is, in the sense that she’s fighting against the Magical Girl Establishment. Plus she’s a loner with a tragic past that made her all cold and jaded, except instead of abusive parents or social ostracization, her tragic past is a harrowing Groundhog-day loop of existential despair that we get to see in the “Why Homura Is Messed Up” episode. And instead of the heroine trying to redeem the DMG, it’s the other way around, with the DMG trying to rescue the heroine. It gets even more complicated in the latest PMMM film, which I haven’t watched yet. In short: Homura is a very interesting twist on the DMG archetype.
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Anonymous asked:

What are your favourite magical girl lesbians? iirc, Rem had a canon kiss with another girl and the Pretty Cures are like tiny girlfriends sometimes. And of course the Sailor Moons.

My current faves, including both real lesbians and in-my-dreams lesbians:

  • Saturn/Chibiusa - Sailor Moon manga: Uggggh they’re so cute. T_____T And even though the 3rd arc has a sad ending for them, they get back together in the 5th arc. I need to picspam these two.
  • Madoka/Sayaka - PMMM: Unconventional, I know, but I love a good BFF OTP, and Madoka having to watch Sayaka slip further and further into darkness and not being able to stop her is just bawwwww.
  • Maron/Finn Fish - KKJ: SOB SOB SOB. There’s ~betrayal~ and Finn Fish is like I NEVER LOVED U and Maron is like :C and then Finn’s like OKAY FINE I DID and then awww. What is with me and sad femslash ships? Although the ending makes it kind of awkward.
  • Mitsuki/Meroko - Full Moon: Meroko tries to hate Mitsuki for stealing her man, but she can’t resist Mitsuki’s adorable cancer-child charm, so they end up as friends. Also: this pic. Meroko is officially part of Mitsuki’s harem. Relatedly…
  • Mitsuki’s grandma/Meroko - Full Moon: Again with the sad femslash ships! *sniffle* Tanemura is just really good at writing womances, okay.
  • Amu/Rima - Shugo Chara: Rima’s tsundere-ness and possessive-ness towards Amu is super cute.
  • Chocolat/Vanille - Sugar Sugar Rune manga: Let’s face it, their womance is the emotional core of that story. And the ending, awwww. FRIENDS NO MATTER WHAT. T__T
  • Blossom/Sunshine - Heartcatch Precure: Even after Tsubomi found out that Itsuki was a girl, she was still totally crushin’. You’re not fooling anyone, Tsubomi.
  • Blossom/Marine - Heartcatch Precure: They bounce off each other so well. Out of all the Ambiguously Gay Precure Duos, these two are my favorite.
  • Siren/Hummy - Suite Precure: They are cats. :| Japan makes me ship weird things. But seriously, I did not pull this out of my ass — these two are like if Saturn and Chibiusa were kitties. They do the whole “Magical Girl rescues Dark Magical Girl with the power of luuuuuurve” thing.
  • Mina/Suiren - Getsumen: SOOOOOOOOOO GAAAAAAAAAAY. Oh man, it’s been a while since I watched this show, I’d forgotten about the boob-snuggling. THERE IS BOOB-SNUGGLING. I MEAN REALLY. Can we call this one canon? I think we can.
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Magical Girls and the Men Who Love Them, Part 2 Now that I’ve laid out the history of male-aimed Magical Girl shows and their gradual rise to success and popularity over the past 20 years, the question arises: how has the increased presence of these...

Magical Girls and the Men Who Love Them, Part 2

Now that I’ve laid out the history of male-aimed Magical Girl shows and their gradual rise to success and popularity over the past 20 years, the question arises: how has the increased presence of these shows affected the genre as a whole?

The main thing I’ve noticed when comparing MG shows of the 2000s with those of the 90s is that the visual age of the average heroine has sunk like a stone, especially in Magic Warrior shows. The heroines of 90s girl-aimed shows (Sailor Moon, Rayearth, Wedding Peach, Cutey Honey Flash, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, Corrector Yui) were usually leggy willowy girls who looked to be in their mid-to-late teens, and the heroines of male-aimed shows looked even older, ranging in visual age from late teens to early twenties, since male-aimed shows of that era usually relied on large racks to sell themselves (Moldiver, New Cutey Honey, Hyper Doll, Galaxy Fraulein Yuna, Jewel BEM Hunter Lime, Shamanic Princess). Mixed in with these were a few younger girls (Super Pig, Nurse Angel Ririka, Saint Tail, Pretty Sammy, Cardcaptor Sakura) as well as some younger girls who would transform into older bustier alter egos (Akazukin Chacha, Jungle de Ikou, Cyberteam in Akihabara, Fancy Lala).

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Dark Magical Girls, Part 1

This week on the Magical Girl Project, I’m looking at the genre’s answer to the hot-blooded shonen rivalry: the Dark Magical Girl.

Dark Magical Girls date back to 1974, with Majokko Meg’s blue-haired rival Non as the first one, but the trope didn’t really become a staple of the genre until the 90s. However I have to stop the history lesson almost immediately because as soon as I started examining this subject in depth, I became stuck on a very important question: What exactly is the definition of a “Dark Magical Girl”?

Is it simply as it sounds, a female antagonist with magical powers? That can’t be right because plenty of Magical Girl shows have characters who fit that description but aren’t Dark Magical Girls. For example, Sailor Moon has Queen Beryl and Nehellenia, both of whom are evil, magical, and female but are definitely not Dark Magical Girls, although maybe that’s because they’re adults — Dark Magical Girl implies someone young. But continuing with Sailor Moon, each villain has under his/her employ a team of underlings, most of whom are young women with magical powers — the Weird Sisters, the Witches 5, the Amazoness Quartet, and the Animamates — but none of them are Dark Magical Girls.

After much pondering, I think I’ve hit upon the key ingredient that distinguishes a Dark Magical Girl: parallelism. For a character to qualify as a DMG, the text must set her up as the mirror image of the heroine — strikingly opposite but at the same time undeniably similar. In aid of this parallelism, the heroine and the DMG will often have contrasting color schemes — white vs. black, red vs. blue, etc — and contrasting personalities — extrovert vs. introvert, optimist vs. nihlist, down-to-earth vs. arrogant, red oni vs. blue oni — but they’ll also use the same or similar magic systems and will have a deep, intense, personal rivalry that occupies a large chunk of screentime and nearly always results in the DMG either getting permanently redeemed or at least defrosting a bit and teaming up with the heroine on some missions.

To elaborate, here are a number of common traits I’ve noted amongst Dark Magical Girls:

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