Magical Girl is a well-known and well-used character stereotype/template in Japanese Animation, Manga and related fictional material. Known as Mahou Shoujo ("magical girl") or just Majokko ("witch-girl"), Magical Girl characters are typically young girls or women who are empowered with fantastic/magical powers that both assist and complicate their lives.
First appearing in the late 1960's, the first two anime/manga series to feature the character type (Sally The Witch and Himitsu No Akko-chan) credited their inspiration for the character from the American live-action series Bewitched.
The genre gradually evolved, with Codename: Sailor V (later known as Sailor Moon (1992)) and Cardcaptor Sakura (1996) becoming the modern examples of the typical Magical Girl stereotype.
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- The two attires of the Jack O Lantern Ran in Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls Online are themed after the typical attire of a Magical Girl.
- Miia had always wanted to play the role of a Magical Girl, so she was quite jealous that Ils Nineta instead took on the role of the Magical girl at the Tokusatsu Show with Kimihito and Rachnera, while Miia had to play the role of the villain instead.[1]
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