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milkyy



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 12:56 pm Reply with quote
It kinda breaks my heart that Gushing and Acro are going to be talked about in the same sentence for the rest of their relevancy. Especially for younger anime fans, it's unfortunate. I absolutely love both shows, but it's equivalent to r34 images popping up next to coloring book pages when a kid looks up My Little Pony... (using kid here to mean really anyone under 18 here who doesn't need to interact with extreme BDSM practices)
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StarFan13



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 1:18 pm Reply with quote
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Just look back at the Sailor Moon anime.
for those of you that watches it or remembers it. it's on Adult Swim's Toonami Rewind Block. If You Guys have Cable TV you can Catch it (Sailor Moon) every Friday at 5pm.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 4:42 pm Reply with quote
I kind of feel like the light novel A Magical Girl Retires by Korean author Park Seolyeon belongs in this conversation about adult magical girls. The protagonist is buried by credit card debt, works a crappy job at a convenience store, gets a magical credit card as her talisman, and the villain’s plan is to spoiler[rapidly accelerate time so that global warming happens faster, causing humanity to die by its own hand.] Short book, but still gives you plenty to think about.
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purplepolecat



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cheeky and fun, rather than cruel and tragic.

Evil magical girl shenanigans!
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harminia



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 7:39 pm Reply with quote
It gets written off as a Madoka wannabe but Magical Girl Raising Project has stuff for adults beyond "adult (violent) content".
Magical Girls exist under the "Magical World" which is not so much a separate world as it is a giant organisation. There are different factions at war with each other, and there are departments such as Magical Girl Department, Resources, inspection etc. Some of these departments don't get along with others, and Magical Girls often aim to get a job within a one (or a faction). Every so often you'll get random stories from within the business side of Magical Girl-ing. It's a lot of fun (for example, the staff members that have to find a way to let a technologically inept magical girl read their biography, which was only published digitally...) and surprisingly deep.
There's also plenty of adults in it. There's the mages who live alongside Magical Girls (and some hate MGs) who are all different ages, and the magical girls themselves span different ages. (The aforementioned tech confused magical girl is implied to be an old lady).

Unfortunately this stuff is really only in the novels and not in the anime (been a while since I read the 2nd book but I don't think there'll be much about it in the upcoming anime)

It's kind of similar to Magilumiere, world building wise at least. It's just not so much of a focus.
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