This topic needs a good discussion of the history of this genre, with titles, creators, and dates. I ''might'' get around to doing one, but that's a longshot. Help would be much appreciated. -- Brian
Wouldn't 'majoko' be a naturally contraction of MAhoushouJOKOmikku? I don't know the actual origin of the word, but this makes more sense to me and doesn't require English.
:I suspect it's actually 'majokko' (魔女っ子), or "witch girl". -- Paul Richter 16:32, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
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Most of titles on this article is called "Shōjo Batoru(battling girls)" in Japan.
"Shōjo Batoru" is not "Mahō Shōjo" though it is a subgenre of "Mahō Shōjo".
Also magical girl's Animes without an element of battle is included in a genre of Mahō Shōjo in Japan.
For example, Mahoutsukai Sally, Majokko Megu-chan, Minky Momo, Hime-chan No Ribon, Ojamajo Doremi, and many other titles.
These titles seem to have been excepted from Mahō Shōjo's genre in this article.
The magical girl's anime without an element of battle is not Mahō Shōjo in Europe and America?--Kasuga 18:47, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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The following paragraph was by Starlightprince on October 12th, probably to insert a link to the vanity page ''Solar Element Saga'':
:The magical girl phenomenon also has crossed media into printed media as well often in Comics such as Buffy,Electra, Scarlet Witch and Psi-Mage and sometime in novel form is such as Solar_Element_Saga and tamora pierce's Circle of Magic series
The vanity page has since been deleted, the link to it has been removed, and the rest of the text has been cleaned up, but a newer version of it is still in the article:
:The magical girl phenomenon also has crossed into printed media as well often in comics such as Buffy, Elektra, Scarlet Witch and Psi-Mage and sometimes in novel form, e.g. Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic series.
Can somebody verify whether this remaining information is correct?
"buffy" and "elektra" have been unlinked by Morven, with the reasons "Delink buffy, because this is a disambiguation page, none of the links on which mention a comic" and "delink electra, since that also points to an unhelpful disambig page," then capitalized and re-linked by 68.192.217.56. I've never heard about Circle of Magic being inspired by Japanese comics (though I understand the main character of Song of the Lioness, by the same author, was inspired by a comic; I believe it was a Western one, though).
If nobody knows whether this is correct or not, I'm inclined to believe that it's as made-up as the notability of ''Solar Element Saga''. Benja 23:12, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Sorry about the whole Buffy and Elektra thing...I actually thought that the person who wrote that to begin with was giving examples of magical girls in Western comics and literature, so I just went along with it. It pretty much seemed like that was what s/he meant...I'm sorry.
-- Ooks