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Modern/Adventure/Mahou Shoujo Titles

(/Magic Girl/) These are titles which feature young girls who are given magical powers by a powerful entity or come from a realm where magic is the norm. Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon is a classic example of the genre and Ultra Maniac TV is a modern version of the genre.

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Cardcaptor Sakura the Movie Buy See Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie

Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie
Buy

After Sakura captures her latest card, The Arrow, she begins to have dreams of a woman and place she does not know. She returns to school where report cards are being handed out prior to the winter break. Going with Tomoyo-chan to buy a notebook, Sakura wins a trip to Hong Kong. Going there with Tomoyo-chan, Touya, Yukito-san, and Kero-chan, Sakura-chan continues to have her odd dreams and Kero-chan detects the presence of evil. Hooking up with Li-kun and Meiling-chan, Sakura-tachi are invited to spend the night at Li-kun's mansion where his mother proves to be a powerful magic user. Who--or what--is the mysterious figure in Sakura's dreams? And what is the connection with Clow and his cards?

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Demashitaa! Powerpuff Girls Z

From ANN: Accidentally a rice cake falls into Chemical X, and becomes Chemical Z. When Ken shoots chemical Z as a beam, it splits into white and black lights. The white lights hit the three normal junior high school girls, Momoko, Miyako, and Kaoru, and they become the Powerpuff Girls Z. The black light hits a monkey who becomes Mojo Jojo. Now the Girls fight to save the world from evil.

Divine Wind Thief Jeanne Buy See Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
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Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
Buy 16 year old Marron goes to high school with her best friend Miyako, lives in an apartment by herself, and just so happens to have to soul of Jeanne D'Arc (Joan Of Arc). She moonlights as a thief named Jeanne who vanquishes demons that possess works of art and the people that admire them. To do this, she must steal the actual object, which is why people think she's more of a thief than a heroine. To makes things a bit more interesting, Miyako's father is the head detective on catching Jeanne, and Miyako is just as determined to catch her. Smooth talking Chiaki moves into the apartment next door to Marron, and also turns out to be a rival thief, Katiou Sinbad. Can rival thieves fulfill their purpose while falling in love?
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Buy See Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha
Buy

Takamachi Nanoha is a 3rd grader elementary school girl, who lives with her parents and her older sister and brother (last seen in Triangle Heart). One day after school, she hears a voice in mind, which leads her to rescue a small animal (a ferret?) in the forest. The animal is actually an archeologist-mage from another world, named Yuuno-kun, who is attempting recover 21 dangerous Jewels Seeds that are scattered across the Earth. Yuuno had been fighting a loosing and desperate battle with a magic beast that emerged from an activated Jewel Seed, and he asks for Nanoha's help (and magic) in assisting him to defeat the beast and in recovering the other Seeds. So, with Yuuno-kun's help, and by activating the magic in the jewel raging heart', Naoha can transform into a magic girl, complete with a magic-power-staff, to save her city from the dangers of the Jewel Seeds.

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Nurse Witch Komugi Rent See Nurse Witch Komugi-chan Magikarte

Nurse Witch Komugi-chan Magikarte
Rent

Komugi-chan is a highschool girl who loves to cosplay. So she got the perfect job with an agency where she goes to events as a cosplay girl and even does some acting on the side. She is selected to be a magic girl nurse witch with a special task to defend the city against invading organisms. Equipped with a magic-anti-virus syringe, she will take on any (strange or bizarre) virus.

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Phantom Wind Thief Jeanne Buy See Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
Powerpuff Girls Z See Demashitaa! Powerpuff Girls Z
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Thief of the Heavenly Wind Joan of Arc Buy See Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
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Ultra Maniac Buy See Ultra Maniac TV

Ultra Maniac TV
Buy Nina Sakura is a girl from a realm known as the Magic Kingdom. Here, magic is the norm, but sadly, Nina isn't very good with magic. So her grandfather arranges for her to come to Earth (and specifically Japan) to study and to try to improve her magic skills. Here she befriends the very popular Ayu Tatesishi whom she soon reveals her secret identity to, that of a magic girl. Together with fellow (male) friends and classmates Kaji-kun and Tsujia-kun, this foursome embarks on a year of adventure, fun, study, and even romance at their middle school. All the while, Nina must contend with fellow magic girl Maya on a quest to collect the five magical 'Holy Stones'.
Release Year
2006(1) 2004(2) 2003(1) 2000(1) 1999(2)
Type
Movie(1) OVA(1) TV(4)
Setting
Fantasy(1) Sci-Fi(1)
Keywords
Action(2) Action Comedy(1) All Ages(3) Animals(1)
Children(1) Comedy(4) Drama(1) Elementary School(1)
Fan Service(1) Fighting(1) Magic(1) Middle School(2)
Parody(1) Romance(1) Romantic Comedy(1) Sequel(1)
Shoujo(3) Silly-funny(1) Spinoff(3) Supernatural(1)

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