It's the premiere week ofMysticons, so let's talk about magical girls and their impact on princess mythology. Themagical girl crazebegan in Japan as a genre of anime calledmahou shoujo.No one knows exactly how it started, but it is believed that the first magical girl appeared in 1966 asSally the Witch. Though individual stories vary, all the series in the mahou shoujo genre contain grade school-aged girls who receive sparkly trinkets that allow them to transform into pretty superheroes. They fight bad guys by screaming magical words and releasing different types of spells, usually in a pretty sequence of recycled animation. The concept seems rather silly from an outside perspective, but it definitely sells. Not all magical girls are princesses, but it is a common overlying theme, most likely because the genre was created for the same target audience.
The most princessy magical girl anime would probably have to beGo! Princess Pretty Cure(pictured above), which came out roughly two years ago in 2015. The Pretty Cure, or PreCure, series comes out with a new magical girl show every year or two. Itbegan in 2004, joining a long line of mahou shoujo anime series. Princess PreCure centers around Haruka, a 13-year-old girl, who I personally relate to a great deal. She spent most of her life wishing she could be a fairy tale princess like the one in her favorite book. All of the decisions she made in her life were based around that goal, from what school to attend to how to dress. One day, she met a real fairy tale prince who gave her a magic charm that allowed her to transform into Cure Flora, a magical princess who rescues people whose dreams were locked away by a dark witch. Cure Mermaid, her academy's high-ranking princess and Cure Twinkle, a successful fashion model, soon join her for lots of sparkly princess-powered fun.
One of the most popular mahou shoujo series of all time isSailor Moon, which began in 1991. It had several incarnations including a very well-written live-action series called Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, and the newest anime, Sailor Moon Crystal. The main character, Usagi, eventually learns that she was reincarnated from Princess Serenity, who lived on the moon fell in love with an Earth prince, Endymion. Though the concept of magical girls does not date back to ancient times, Usagi's history is based on an ancient Greek mythabout the moon goddess Selene who fell in love with a human who was also named Endymion. Some versions of Sailor Moon also reference the other sailor soldiers as princesses of their respective planets, but that idea has never been fully explored since Usagi is always the main focus.
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Magical girls are not limited to Japanese animation. In 2004, an Italian animation studio started theWinx Clubseries, about a group of teenage girls who transform into fairies and attend a boarding school similar to Hogwarts, where they learn how to control their powers. Almost all of the girls attending Alfea Academy are princesses, which makes the idea of being a princess seem a lot less important. The first episode follows Bloom, an ordinary girl who learns that she has Winx and gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend the school. She later discovers, to nobody's surprise, that she is actually a long-lost princess. The series lasted a ridiculously long time, with each season becoming more convoluted than the last. I was very sad when it got converted to CGI, a fate shared by The Swan Princess movies.In theory, Winx Club was a fantastic idea for imaginative girls. Who wouldn't want to become a fairy? The concept was adopted for a slightly younger audience in Nick Jr.'s 2011Mia and Me, whichfeatures a girl from the real world who enters a storybook and turns into a fairy, but it isn't exactly a magical girl series.
In 2014, a French studio released their version of a mahou shoujo series calledLoliRock, is about a rock band of three girls who transform into their super princess forms when bad guys show up. It's kind of like an action version ofJem and the Holgrams. There's so much of it that comes from other shows that LoliRock itself can hardly be considered an original idea. Like the PreCures, the LoliRock princesses change their hair colors when they transform, making them harder to identify from their alter egos. Like Winx, the show starts out with a character who doesn't know she's a magical princess, allowing girls to live vicariously through her perspective. Iris, Talia, and Auriana are each princesses of different planets, which we do get to visit in some of the season finales, but very little is actually revealed about their worlds. Most of it takes place on plain old everyday Earth. Though the show is very formulaic, it's a good example of how far the magical girl genre has spread.
As far as American magical girls, the best example, not counting Mysticons, would bePrincess Gwenevere and the Jewel Ridersin 1995. Magical transformations? Check. Sparkly gadgets? Check. Magic attacks powered by catch phrases? Check. Despite the popularity of the genre, there have not been that many American-made magical girl shows, even though they often buy rights to dub series from other countries. Disney started a magical girl show in 2015 calledStar vs. the Forces of Evil, but I personally found it to be rather cringe-worthy, lacking the common themes of friendship and teamwork. It's more like a parody of magical girl shows than anything else.
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The prevalence of princesses in magical girl shows most likely began as a backlash toolder fairy taleswhere princesses were commonly portrayed as damsels in distress. Magical girls were a big push toward thewarrior princess movement, as they demonstrate that girls are capable of rescuing themselves and can do anything that boys can. Granted, it's a bit of a stretch to consider transforming into frilly dresses and shooting sparkly wands to be a form of fighting, but for us princess lovers, it's certainly preferable to gory action flicks.
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It's been over two years since I shared my review of Saga of Viera , the high fantasy visual novel from Time Princess . At the time, I was excited to see an enchanting fantasy story in the game but disappointed that none of the endings provided a resolution to the protagonist's plight. Since then, the Time Princess app has focused more on urban fantasy with stories that take place in darker worlds that focus on gruesome topics like murder mysteries in more realistic settings. I was beginning to lose hope that the game would ever return to its elegant historical and fantasy roots when out of the blue, they released the second part of this beloved relic. All long last, all of my gripes with Saga of Viera have been resolved, and I can celebrate it as one of the most engaging and aesthetically pleasing visual novels in the game. In the second chapter of Saga of Viera, our heroine, Zoya, continues her journey right where it left off. She prays desperately for her life as the Sacred
In my Queer Princesses post , I mentioned that NBC had announced a potential reboot of Xena: Warrior Princess that would explore Xena's relationship with Gabrielle. Last week, that reboot was officially cancelled . There are many reasons this was the wrong decision for the NBC executives to make. A big one is the recent rise of the warrior princess genre . With the recent releases of Wonder Woman , DC Super Hero Girls , and Mysticons , there is a clear opening for a darker and more mature warrior princess series that Xena would have filled. Also, in the modern age of reboots, now would have been a perfect time to revive this piece of iconic '90s nostalgia. The reason for cancelling the reboot was very vague. In fact, NBC President Jennifer Salke is still open to the possibility of one further in the future , claiming Never say never. Don't forget this is the same network that failed to give The 10th Kingdom a well-deserved sequel and man
Yesterday, the Starz network released the series finale of The Spanish Princess , concluding The White Queen trilogy of miniseries that began in 2013. Based on a book series called The Cousins' War by Phillippa Gregory , the trilogy covers the women who stood behind the men in power in the English monarchy from 1464 to the 1530s, preceding the first two sovereign queens, Mary
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It's been over two years since I shared my review of Saga of Viera , the high fantasy visual novel from Time Princess . At the time, I was excited to see an enchanting fantasy story in the game but disappointed that none of the endings provided a resolution to the protagonist's plight. Since then, the Time Princess app has focused more on urban fantasy with stories that take place in darker worlds that focus on gruesome topics like murder mysteries in more realistic settings. I was beginning to lose hope that the game would ever return to its elegant historical and fantasy roots when out of the blue, they released the second part of this beloved relic. All long last, all of my gripes with Saga of Viera have been resolved, and I can celebrate it as one of the most engaging and aesthetically pleasing visual novels in the game. In the second chapter of Saga of Viera, our heroine, Zoya, continues her journey right where it left off. She prays desperately for her life as the Sacred
In my Queer Princesses post , I mentioned that NBC had announced a potential reboot of Xena: Warrior Princess that would explore Xena's relationship with Gabrielle. Last week, that reboot was officially cancelled . There are many reasons this was the wrong decision for the NBC executives to make. A big one is the recent rise of the warrior princess genre . With the recent releases of Wonder Woman , DC Super Hero Girls , and Mysticons , there is a clear opening for a darker and more mature warrior princess series that Xena would have filled. Also, in the modern age of reboots, now would have been a perfect time to revive this piece of iconic '90s nostalgia. The reason for cancelling the reboot was very vague. In fact, NBC President Jennifer Salke is still open to the possibility of one further in the future , claiming Never say never. Don't forget this is the same network that failed to give The 10th Kingdom a well-deserved sequel and man
Yesterday, the Starz network released the series finale of The Spanish Princess , concluding The White Queen trilogy of miniseries that began in 2013. Based on a book series called The Cousins' War by Phillippa Gregory , the trilogy covers the women who stood behind the men in power in the English monarchy from 1464 to the 1530s, preceding the first two sovereign queens, Mary
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