![]() I have seen Magical Girl specific tabletop rpg called Magical Burst which is basically Madoka Magica the Table Top RPG. I haven't played Big Eyes Small Mouth, but it sounds interesting. Basically the first thing a person who doesn't watch anime thinks of when they hear "Magical Girl" is a girl in sailor moon cosplay doing a glittery strip tease on screen then attacking tentacle monsters, their chance of victory depending on the age rating of the show which to me feels like judging western animation based on old episodes of scoobie doo. Its just that to me it seems that Magical Girls as a concept has reached a point of cultural osmosis where a lot of people know of it but have never actually seen it but still judge it based on their incomplete mental image. I am a large fan of Magical Girl anime, mostly the shounen and deconstruction ones, and sort of overloaded this with trivia in the notes. This also reminds me of just how little anime I've actually seen, as the local video stores (when they still existed) typically only had the Shonen stuff and the respected movies, and so I've barely even HEARD of stuff like Modoka and Precure, knowing them only by name, and being unable to even recognize their art styles. Pretty Cure is apparently MASSIVELY popular in Japan, and said to be bigger than Sailor Moon ever was, though SM's pop culture influence has spread all over the world in a way that Precure's hasn't. It's too bad, because it's a close contemporary of my beloved Sailor Moon, and the show's director invented Rayearth. ![]() Magic Knight Rayearth is one I've always been interested in, but it's had zero effect and impact on the West. And it also mentioned that SM was the combination of Magical Girls with Sentai, turning it into a action show. I remember the Big Eyes Small Mouth RPG detailing the origins of the Magical Girl genre, and even emphasizing how early on the cliche was for the girl to die saving people at the end of the series- something that was reflected in Sailor Moon's first season ending. I swear I'm reading these, but there's SO MUCH TEXT that I keep getting ADD and forgetting to finish a paragraph and then I do some of my own builds and have to re-check from the beginning again, lol.
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