Magical Girls Then and Now 

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the only way to afford being alive in the modern era: happening to have rich parents (don't have rich parents? you're screwed, have fun working till you're 80 then dying without ever paying off your debts)

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@@haileyelliott3676 OH FRICK NO

Every one with elipsey: what about us

The ultimate proof that magical girls are actually villains

@@DArtCat PLOT TWIST?!?

_Caramelldansen intensifies_

@@SonOfAFridge_ the normal one? Or the version from another room at 0.5x Speed?

Millenial and gen x magical girls vs zoomer magical girls.

Besides hunter x hunter that actually turned out a good remake

@@meethindocha1824 Bruh

Magic of Friendship: OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU!

Princess Tutu and Utena: same

u have a point cus sailor moon may be deprived of all of the blood spilling and crap but imagine having to watch everyone u love get killed in front of you and your not able to do anything and ntm she kills hers short after!

have you ever read the manga? I got the first 2 books when I was 13 ... and it was hard. The last 6 books are just brutal and then I was like 16. I never told my mum about it, because I wanted the rest of the books, but damn. That is no Kids material. The last books should be marked PG18 in my opinion. The TV-Show was sooooo mellowed down compared to it.

@@coronastern i have actually and yea its wayyyy darker but the og anime is still fucked up when compared to other modern magical girl animes (except madoka magica) tht try way too hard to be edgy

​@@coronasternthe manga was always meant for young teenage girls and young women though tbh, it was never meant for small children. even the original anime wasn't meant for small kids even though the dic dub made it come off that way, and even though it's toned down, i think it was still more suitable for preteens at youngest to watch it esp since the series progressively gets darker in all incarnations

Truth. Literally all the Inner Senshi (all there were at the time) *died* at the end of the first series. True, re-incarnation is part of their destiny but they didn't know that at the time and they all (temporarily?) lost their memories of each-other.

= Depression.

They're child soldiers, but it's magic so it's ok 🙂

Yeah, because it’s always some dumb pet from a different universe forcing some random kids to fight aliens for them.

@@supakku exactly

THIS DESERVES AT LEAST 1K LIKES LMAOO

Bean?! What the heck?! How did I find you here-

@@pen_doodles8826 oh wow XD *fate?* lol

Haha plot armor go bye bye

Well hello there-

Litteral or actual ?

You know that literal and actual mean the same thing right?

@@ReyOfLight727 yes

Yes

How tf did I get so many likes in 5 days

Wtf, even sailor Moon is dark ?!

I checked the end of sailor Moon and I found that even if all magical girl except sailor Moon died, they all resurrected, so it isn't this dark, but for a "kids show" it's weird that there are deaths...

@@papyrusse. well it was intended for teenagers

Woah,, really!?

Não intendo inglês mesmo

@MellO The Brothers Grimm did them good?

@@dakotagordon8756 Yeah 😂

@@dakotagordon8756 yaaa 👍

*And Why the hell is this comment so damn UNDERRATED 😭🤞*

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Madoka Magica in a nutshell

😂

Dammit thanks to you now all my juice is on the floor

Correct

Lol

HELP

Still cant believe that thing managed to get an anime adaptation. Not that im complaining though. Studio fkin delivers with the adaptation

​@@ajinurfajri1952From what I've heard the manga is more tame than the anime by comparison.

I watched it and it was fire but not the gay sexs and transformations and the rape scenes

Heheheh AAAAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Especially after that last Azure scene.

You can say the boys

​@@dvreauxThe Boys doesn't really try to be all that deep outside of its social commentary though. It's superheroes in a dark and gritty world, but it doesn't take itself seriously. The setting and adult situations are used as a means of creating funny and entertaining scenarios

@@cosmicpanda7043 I'm talking about the comics

​@@dvreauxwhat happened in the comics now?

Yes, right, i would say the only onw who actually kinda acuieved it was invincible, and i didn't like it all that much either tbh

HEY HEY HOMURA HEY PA DIG HOMURA

Hey hey monika

Oh shi

@@mgh7634 what? are you calling Homura a pig? if so you didnt understand the series-

o-oh..

Tanya fon Degurshaff: Ha-ha. *YES!*

Merica

@@artemsgameschannel727 they also use stand

BOOSTED 1327 guns and junk food

*'merica*

This video is overstating the change. Yes, the grim dark magical girl copycats are a dime a dozen now but there were plenty of mature magical girl shows back in the day too. And they did not all depend on the same death gimmick Madoka and it’s clones did.

I mean Magical Girl Ore is a whole different level to Madoka

I got a 666

​@@lenleon3699 I agree, madoka spawned clones (wixoss anyone?) in attempts to milk it, some poorer than others (mahou shoujo site feels like someone saw madoka and thought death was all that it was about, and decided to do only that but more edgy. At least wixoss tried to play at the same themes of despair as madoka did, even if subpar and lacking any of the surprise the unexpected genre-shift in madoka had). But there were dark parts of even the most iconic earlier ones shown in this video (though I don't remember enough of cardcaptor and sailor to actually point out anything specific). Nanoha and her friends might have still had plot armor (so not that much death), but they still encountered tragedies, and side characters lacked it. And the spinoff were literally about bully-victim with superhuman strength snapping and crushing skulls in school.

It's free real estate

iS ThIs a MOtHeRFUcKiNG JOJO REFERENCE ?

These magical girls when from Jonathan to jotaro real quick

I am very sorry but "Let the *JOY* of love give you cancer".

@@richrock5307 I am very sorry but you are gay

@@nimphilia I have literally corrected the person in line from JoJo op. How can I physically be *not* gay?

A man of culture I see

​@@minhkimnguyen8140Very much so

@@minhkimnguyen8140 it's a lesbian anime lol

At least the darker twists on magical girls didn't go THAT direction geez

I agree, it isn't to make it darker, it's for make you sympathize with the characters and have good writing (sorry for the english)

You do know about this! 👌

Madoka is a good anime, even without it being a magical girl. Like I Madoka tried to portray innocent but with "adult hardship", Like how is it moral to tell little girls to fight monster? So yeah I agree, lots of Magical girl show now miss the point. it's not about being edgy or gory... it's having a good theme/message/story first and that happen to be a bit dark.

Honestly their endings doesn't make any sense at all-

@Nico :3 I knoww that doesn't make any sense with all of those weird writings dbsjskssh it's not even dark enough to do it like the promised neverland or another the promised neverland (shadows house)

Hahaha hahahahaahaha!!! Wow dude

@@ricothenerdybee9090 thanks

For some reason, I got reminded happy tree friends

@@NariNon that's often in the case dude

Rico the Nerdybee Oh shit you responded

"Given a bit of darkness"? I think that's "a little more" than a bit

Ah good ol' "what if superman, but bad" cliche.

@@dereenaldoambun9158 Yeah not really. More like, throwing young people into a situation at their woefully unprepared for, and while the expectation is to remain pure and happy, the reality of the situation wouldn’t blame you for using your frustration, confusion, or sadness to warp your perspective on the reality that you’re in. It’s not at all as simple as you’re trying to paint it.

The only good magical girl anime that subverted the trope is madoka magica. Just about everything else forgot about having good writing..lol

They give you more mami in rebellion. It is that homura vs mami scene. Totally epic.

@@laulau2020 Funny part about this fight scene is that the storyboard artist was told to make a very short fight scene so they can get on with the movie, but the artist loved Homura's character so much that he made a 100 page storyboard until the directors had to tell him to stop and cut out a ton of the writing Needless to say, he's a chad.

I must disagree with you there, personally i think homura has the best weapon(s) because they are real firearm. i love Mami's guns but they r still just fictional, magic-based weapons. Homuras is just based, her firearms are american-based, and it truly brings a gritty feel for the scene. You can outright cosplay her and bring your favorite M4 and its canon.

Actually there is the "Magical Girl Spec-ops" anime which is exactly like you said

@@avtomat4 and is dark, not that dark as madoka magica but still pretty dark

@@alan0004 I would say that is more realistically dark than Madoka. It's like what would actually happen if magical girls come to existence in our world.

The only “kawaii” magical girl anime these days that I can think of is Precure.

Yeah; precure is the closest series now to classic magical girls, other then that it's about 90% m rated and 10% parody.

Wrestling and magical girls? Why not!

Monsieur Naggert don’t worry it’s coming in 2021 bet you what. With a mild side of mecha fever.

Monsieur Naggert I would Watch that

Ohhhh God ur hilarious i couldn't stop laughing at ur comment

I love this, and it's original lol

That's right motherfucker!

🤣

@C H E R R Y W I N D its Japanese

nightcore girl literature is not Japanese lol

@@gamernanami914 the game : doki doki literature club, is a Japanese dark game

@@marie6817 the comment said they didn't know what literature meant, not what doki doki literature club is. also it was Japanese based but doesn't come from japan as far as I know

Trying hard to be edgy.

That's totally true

theres actually a really neat video comparing magical girl site and madoka magica, and it basically talks about how the two animes handled dark subject matters, and how madoka magica seemed to handle it much more effectively. ill link the video if i can find it again

@@theguidancecounselor491 I would love to see that video actually, do you have the link?

@@GlitchyPixExtra ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6kmaba2TopE.html here i found it

It would've been a good anime if they didn't have a 10 years old and the character being 14😰

Only the hentai version was left unexploited💀💀💀💀 And unironically it's entertaining idk how

Ah, the fable "Magical girl hentai" have finally arrived.

F*ckin eh

Peak

This manga was fire🗿

SAYORI

*One word GREAT and underrated 😌💅*

Yes.

@@lonelyfox1893 a bit stolen from the tragical girls comment

Minky momo has left the chat

Lmao 🤣 so true 🤣🤣🤣💀

I'm losing my shit hahaha

*Everyday I'm chickenin'*

Suffering Suffering ~~

Dutchie im your 2000th like

Two of my favorite shows

@@pinksoft39 a person of culture as well, I see

No…. Please. My sides i was no prepared!

Bro I- I don't know if I should laugh or cry

Ah, I see youre a man of culture as well

@@sleepyusag11 you should

@@xdlr22 i think your forgetting that last movie where her stalker defies time, space and death to anti-Jesus the world in order to get back to her.

@@xdlr22 lmao are you a comedian?

_Rise, oh Dark Lord of _*_Despair!_*_ Crush the stars; lay waste to care!_ (I may or may not have tried to ship Void Termina with UKG.)

Madoka and studio shaft on general got inspiration from revolutionary girl utena and ikuhara + yuasa style + a liitle of german expressionism and a Tarantino dialogs

Same-

samee

Same I was like wait a second something doesn’t seem right

wait, they weren't ?!?!

Same ;-;

They should just attack while she's transforming...

@@i-wha-2198 no no no they gotta wait for the dress to dissapear first😏😶

The villain:Welp Imma better do something else than waiting

Your profile picture fits so well with your comment ajababks-

@@sleepysimper6712 (:

A wholesome BDSM magical girl anime/technically a hentai

Got better you mean.

I think ":3" is more accuarte xD

The little shit

Well, I mean, it doesn't exactly feel, so that's kinda expected

Mustache Merlin Kyubey at schools: “delicious, finally some good fucking food”

@@teamprimarina Also Kyubey: The sorrow and despair in here taste immaculate

Holly crap thats actually preety accurate

So true!!!! 😂😂😂😂

Among Doom Crossing

💀

Understanble have a nice day

But why isn't glitter force some where on the list

Precure is technically made before Madoka

@@scorpionerd4298 Precure, not Glitter Force

@@lauraapollodoroshyginuslamer Precure is the Japanese name and Glitter Force is the American name so you can't say that it's not Glitter Force when it's the same thing

Yes,please go back

Well, Sailor Moon had dark scenes in it. "Everyone is happy" is totally wrong.

Please was once an option,

Lol

PANIK (hmmm indo?)

@@WindFromNort meme man

@@WindFromNort yes

Magical girls now: WATCH.SYMPHO.GEAR.NOW

👌

_Seems about right_

Best comment lmao

I love my little pony but the fandom is just fucked up

Yes. XD

That. that right there was the comment I was looking for.

God don't give memories of that thing that my friends watched with her little sister.

Lol yes

switchy boi

good example

The idol in Mahou Shoujo Site literally has her weapon between her legs all the time, lol.

don't forget Panty and Stocking!

Oh you again

I seriously see you on every single anime related vids XD

*Ah shit, here we go agian*

Friendship: Oh crap, I don't feel so good...

Now: lmao what friends?

Oh no, I gotta check on Twilight

*Friendship* ??? never heard of it...

“You are dead not big surprise”

So true

yeah pretty much

the balance between hope and despair

I would rather stay in then.

666th like lol

*too edgy

@@milkeyway7105 indeed!

Actually magical girl anime now are way girlier than before lol, idk what you're talking about. yes they are definitely darker than before, but also girlier, which is why I prefer the old kinds oof, most of them really aren't as girly as the modern kinds

Mustafa Legend 3000 Nanoha made the "magical girl anime for edgy teenage boys" thing a thing.

I think the evolution is kind of skewed like sailor moon it set the trend for magical girl teams and then madoka magica set it for dark but madoka magica was just supposed to be a one off but because of its popularity everyone else tried to copy it

Dang you are right

It feels like they came with various ideas but after can't choosing only one they went with all of them.

I think the coolest thing about Sakura’s outfits were that they weren’t magical. Tomoyo made them.

U mean, madhouse?

@@edgarcross4721 why Madhouse? Doesn't its manga have various outfits too?

*being meguca is suffering*

Lol

- This video is overly silly, generalized, and cherry picked. MGRP has nothing of value, but just because the genre has changed somewhat doesn’t mean it’s dead. If anything, Madoka breathed some sorely needed new life into the genre. The old shows are still available to watch, they haven’t gone anywhere. A new take on our childhood innocence is great, in moderation that people might say doesn’t exist because all we’ve gotten in the 2010s is grimdark and parodies. That’s not true. Lots of old shows like Princess Tutu were dark takes on the genre before Madoka. Even the new shows aren’t so dark, because they often end by tying back to the genre’s roots of the power of love and friendship, even if there may be a tragic twist. I’d argue that Yuki Yuna is a Hero plays closer to tradition than Madoka, and doesn’t deserve to be called an imitator. There’s shows that have existed into the 2010’s that don’t fall into “grim dark” like Precure, Jewelpet, Little Witch Academia, that one series made by a car company, and plenty of other shows if you know where to look. Kids are still capable of watching and enjoying plenty of these new shows; I speak from experience because I grew up on The Last Unicorn, which is not a kids movie. The fact that the magical girl genre has evolved proves it has staying power. And I haven’t even gotten to western magical girl shows, of which there are plenty.

@@diamondminer5459 Holy fuck dude. Kudos to you for writing a 2 page essay under a comment intended to be humorous. Now if you don't mind, I'd like it double-spaced in Times New Roman and with the font at size 12.

@@diamondminer5459 Madoka is an edge-fest. Other magical girls series starts joining the bandwagon and rips off Madoka bcs they got no originality. Honestly, the magical girls genre is ruined nowadays. People just don't get what makes it great anymore.

Besides he miss soo much other magical girls Ohhh come on😓😓😓

Kind of like Minky Momo, she died by a car accident on a kids show. Right there on screen.

agreed, even ojamajo doremi has that episode when the girls are dead

Yeah, just watch Utena, that's plenty dark, all those new Magical girl anime are just edgy

Especially in season five

I see, you are a man of culture

Megucas lost it

*D O N O T T H R O W S O U L S !*

Now I've lost it.

Become meguca For meduka

Yeeeeeaaaaaaa!

Am I the only person who likes the darker magical girls because it has more variety to show to all audiences

Pretty Precure isn't completely rainbow and sunshine either. In one of their episodes, Cure March's siblings were attacked by Majorina as she tried to hit them with a giant orb of energy. Luckily they survive, however they made it seem that they died until the very last moment. In the Glitter Force dub you could here their voices so you already knew they were alive.

yessss lmaoo

i love precure so much lol

" We should talk "

日了狗了

Madoka Magica really did birth the idea of “nothing is right or wrong, only consequences.”

Literally

Consisting the target audience changes, I see why they felt the need.

EXACTLY LMFAO

- This video is overly silly, generalized, and cherry picked. MGRP has nothing of value, but just because the genre has changed somewhat doesn’t mean it’s dead. If anything, Madoka breathed some sorely needed new life into the genre. The old shows are still available to watch, they haven’t gone anywhere. A new take on our childhood innocence is great, in moderation that people might say doesn’t exist because all we’ve gotten in the 2010s is grimdark and parodies. That’s not true. Lots of old shows like Princess Tutu were dark takes on the genre before Madoka. Even the new shows aren’t so dark, because they often end by tying back to the genre’s roots of the power of love and friendship, even if there may be a tragic twist. I’d argue that Yuki Yuna is a Hero plays closer to tradition than Madoka, and doesn’t deserve to be called an imitator. There’s shows that have existed into the 2010’s that don’t fall into “grim dark” like Precure, Jewelpet, Little Witch Academia, that one series made by a car company, and plenty of other shows if you know where to look. Kids are still capable of watching and enjoying plenty of these new shows; I speak from experience because I grew up on The Last Unicorn, which is not a kids movie. The fact that the magical girl genre has evolved proves it has staying power. And I haven’t even gotten to western magical girl shows, of which there are plenty.

@@diamondminer5459 Wait, The Last Unicorn was not a kids movie?! I found it and watched it from the kids section in the library hold up- Edit: Alright its rated G, but has some more adult themes at times in it ok- Now that I think back to the movie, I think that's true.

pretty cure supremacy

wait... pretty cure is still a thing??? Last time I watched this anime was like 15 years ago... xD

Hey, on mangadex there is a new retranslation of the WHOLE Saint Tail manga. It seem to fix a large amount of translation errors too. You should check it out!

Then: "You're destined to save the world!!" Now: "You're destined to destroy the world!!"

Literally, though

I think it's no different. For adult. .to save the world is hard though. Even they have some power😂😂

It's not just their society though it's the whole universe.

@@wellihavenothingbettertodo9696 According to Kyubey... Who we know is a little arse. Who is to say hes being truthful. 😂 Or that he even knowns what hes talking about.

Man read the manga version of Sailor Stars you haven't seen dark 😭

@@sidekick929 I've read it

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Queen Of Hidden Snow she made herself the queen what!?

The manga of sailor moon is sad I believe mamoru gets kicked by galaxia and kills him in front of sailor moon:(

It's because of Madoka Magica. Everyone wants to copy its popularity but forgot that Madoka isn't about despair or how dark it is, it's all about hope. People try to copy it without the good writing.

If you want a fairly decent one, try "The Demon Girl Next Door""

I guess you could say that this kind of started in video games during the 2000s.

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Didn't know rape was part of highschool lol

@@fylthl funny that it actually is lol

My dude 😭 what highschool did u go to that had all this shit going on 😭😭😭😭

@@fylthl actually tbh it unfortunately can be 😟

do not throw your Kawainess either

Ricoade YOU REPLIED I’M MAGIA SHOOK

MADOKA! DON'T KILL SAYAKA

Being meguka is suffering

Insert Random Name here So? You think i don’t know?

Which is very good, btw

litterally danganronpa smh

H-how DID YOU KNOW!!!? :O!!!?

Now everyone hates the ships

Danganronpa:You are not wrong Copse Party:I agree YTTD:Same DDLC:Always has been Totono:Yup always

@@mega6662 I like ships D:

ya i’m surprised precure is still ongoing after 10 years (2014) and i literally was watching the anniversary of it they celebrated with berryz koubou which sang the ending song for a precure movie back in 2005 of futariwa pretty cute max heart. I was in my magical girl phase in 2013-2014. You can say Why is this a thing that keeps happening? Dark magical girl is almost becoming a genre in its own right, and I am not comfortable with it.

yeah, it's still going on ever since 2004 with futari wa precure :D

I love how Precure keeps the charms and elements of Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura but also with a tint of punching and kicking.

SOMEONE MENTIONED PURIKYUA :)

Precure literally said “fuck that cynicism bullshit, let’s just be Dragon Ball but cute as fuck”. I can get behind that.

Chibiusa. The deaths of the first sailors. Moon kingdom arc. All the deaths of the henchmens etc... Its dark when it HAS to be. Not just cause it has to.

Vordox all the newer series try to “subvert” the genre’s convention by going dark. Not realizing that madoka only worked because the cutesy stuff was the norm.

@@frankwest5388 plus madoka didn't go super overboard with it. And it still was a good story on it's own merits. A lot of the other shows afterwards were just trying to be as edgy as possible

tru

so basically 'Made in Abyss' effect?

annie that’s sounds kinda gross in a way

That and they think making a magical girl show dark like Elfen Lied makes it deep, missing the point on why Madoka Magica even gained popularity. Even anime towards adult women aren’t done right, Sailor Moon Crystal was originally a josei anime.

Thats mega ew

@@kstarnovagal6672 elfen lied is not a magical girl's show wtf lmao It's literally categorized as seinen.

Ugh, creeps are everywhere, calling minors their "waifus" and asking for fanservice, just ew. That's a big flaw of the anime community.

Hetome: I become meguca? Coobie: no

Back then Magical girls also used to suffer, just watch uncensored and japanese version of the precure shows. Even back in the 90' and before the magical shows were pretty dark. One of them involve the main character being hit by a truck (and is also one of the most hated anime in Japan).

@@narudayo5053 Minky Momo!

@@narudayo5053 people believed they were the cause of the terrible earthquakes in japan. Other than that, magical girls were always dark. Young girls fighting crime every week. They're kids, kids aren't ready for these type of things.

Not at all. It's ironic how little the person who made the video knows about Sailor Moon, because it's actually a dark series that the anime tried to lighten up. It's obvious that they were one of the people that got distracted from what actually happened in the series. If you think being a Magical Girl back then stops suffering, I'm guessing you aren't exactly familiar with Sailor Saturn at all.

yeahhh and there was that one episode in season two were the enemies were literally using targeting babies and using them as human shields 🙃

And the manga was basically a straight up cosmic horror story

Especially the stars/galaxia arc. That shit was dark af

If I remember correctly the first enemy was an imposter that knocked out the main characters friends mum and than said she was gonna kill them after she was done. That's honestly what sold me on Sailor Moon, I enjoyed the darker depths of the magical girl genre because I'm a horrible person

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