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The magical girl genre is a subgenre of shoujo anime (anime aimed at young girls). Mahou shoujo anime are modern day fairy tales for girls in their adolescence. Stories in this genre are rite of passage stories for young women, filled with symbols and metaphors for puberty. Many images can be feminine that appear in this genre: the moon, flowers, ribbons, etc. Each reoccuring motif in this genre has a meaning. Transformations, for example, are a physical sign of outward and inward changes from childhood to young adulthood.

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Updates

July 23, 2008: I'm behind posting updates but the first two episodes of Precure are available from TOEI through Direct2Drive. The Shugo Chara! anime has been greenlit for a second season. Dai Mahou Touge (one of the funniest magical girl parodies) has been licensed by MediaBlasters.

July 3, 2008: I found out that Singapore has an English language edition of the Fushigi Boshi manga. You can find the two volumes on Ebay. Funimation has rescued the Nanoha license from Geneon. So Nanoha fans will want to keep an eye out.

June 5, 2008: I never thought I'd do this, but I finally made a Wikipedia account. Don't get excited, it's not to contribute. You guys know I already have a book length research project going rewriting the chapter length magical girl history and elements pages and to add in annotated episode guides (hopefully, to be at least somewhat as cool as how Surlalune does their Fairy Tale pages ^.^). Anyway, Wikipedia's editors were kind enough to remove a few sections that were copied word-for-word off Henshin. But I made a couple tweaks myself. Please, in the future, material that is now present and forthcoming, is not for Wikipedia or someone else's website. I love and appreciate links back and am thrilled to link to anyone who has a magical girl related website, but I hate spending money and time only to see research, theories, or simple things like a list or summary copied and pasted.

June 4, 2008: There's a couple new news items. First, the homepage on the Precure movie site has been updated for the new Precure 5 GoGo film found here. I love themes such as a land of sweets, this is very classic and very fitting since we've seen Precure 5 GoGo incorporate children's tale themes this season.

Anime Expo will count Akemi Takada as a guest in July. I'm really sorry I'll miss this as her work is so influential and gorgeous.

For DVD news, in Japan Precure 5 GoGo v. 1 hits shelves. The second boxset of Shugo Chara is up for preorder. And Hime-chan's Ribbon continues its release. Stateside Sasami: Magical Girl Club Set 1 comes out August 12. Still no news from Viz on Full Moon. Let's hope we hear news on a boxset or the continuation of the singles sometime soon. I'd hate to see them not finish the R1 release.

April 27, 2008: I'm locked away this weekend for thesis writing, not fun, but at least it means I'm that much closer to finally being finished. I cheated yesterday and did some stuff for this site. So all is slowly but surely coming together.

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