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"Behold! Lisannia, princess of the Light Kingdom!" shouted the man as he showed her to the group. "Fact is, they were looking for us, we deserted, we stole something of great value in case we needed to negotiate, and fled to this little backwater reality." said the woman as she indicated something to her male compatriot, who removed a twisted black crystal and drew what looked vaguely like a door, which created a portal of black light, he then inserted his arm into it and pulled. Turning around Himiko looked on in horror as there were two individuals present that according to her artifact's power, were two Dark Empire Warlords. Well, someones." said a very deep masculine voice, and a feminine voice. "True, they actually seemed to be looking for something, rather than actively trying to conquer this place." said Serisanna as her magical aura died down so that she wasn't blinding to look at. Anyone notice that these guys seemed to surprised to see us here? Like they weren't expecting magical girls?" asked her friend Mariko, the de facto leader of the group according to Serisanna. She didn't have anything that suited her to combat, so she had to hang back and give boosts to her friends, and Serisanna. Toshinori Himiko looked on as she watched her friends and the fairy Serisanna fight the soldiers, and monsters of the Dark Empire. Magical girl and War as a genre can happen mind, hell a good number of war stories as we get them, especially when focused on the young, ARE coming of age tales so you got half it baked right in, but it takes more than the aesthetics of it to function as such. Instead we've got a war story with a dude trapped in a magocracy that has themed magic troops. The Maturation and Femininity aspects aren't at play here, just the trappings of magical girl warriors. Thing is with the story as presented here is that this isn't focused on the magical girls and their development. Might change later after where I kind of drifted out of watching but even the early bits work fine there) If it wanted to be Ballet, it'd work just as well (and we have an example of THAT with Princess Tutu, which is near as i've seen from the bits I've watched literally them dancing dancing and dancing to fight.
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That it's a fighty competition really doesn't matter. Or to take an example still within continuity and not stripping out the fighty bits, Nanoha Vivid is still pretty unambiguously a magical girl story (I think) but it's all focused around competetion, bettering yourself and comparing yourself to others. Fights are basically them trying to get through to each other and only occasionally coming to understand each other up til the end when they realize, more or less, that the mom is utterly ruining Transfer student's life because she fails to be her older sister and the mom just never got over her death and just being kind of generally a toxic person because she really truly could not deal with that for one reason or another (on top of being a single mom both times? Just.Ouch man. It's fundamentally a story about a math nerd who's kind of feeling the midlife crisis like a decade early making friends with a reclusive transfer student with a big friendly dog and an abusive mother. Magical Warriors as done via Nanoha, sailor moon and madoka and other super popular easy to point to ARE unquestionably magical girls, but the fighting aspects are ancillary.Īs an example, Nanoha and it's various spinoff/sequels can function pretty comfortably without the fighting. But key to them both is a story of maturation in some form or another. I mean hell, some of the genre origins are about a girl becoming a popstar, or the girls just going around helping people. Kind of need both of those at the core otherwise it's not really part of the genre, because the entire point is basically young girls metamorphosing into young women, but with a keen super power of some sort. They don't even need to be young girls being honest. A magical girl without an animal mascot, transformation scene, girly outfit, cheesey attacks, theme specialization, evil monsters to slay, dark kingdoms, fallen magical girls, ignorant governments, masquerades, etc is still pretty recognizable as a magical girl story.īias where it be, This may just be my view on the genre as a whole, but the big focus is typically around femininity and coming of age in some way or another. Thing is, none of those things are inherently necessary to the genre.