Magical Boys: Do They Exist?

Harry Potter has some elements of Cute Witch, and El Tigre, American Dragon Jake Long, and Danny Phantom to me seem like Magical Girl Warrior shows with a boy protagonists.

edited 25th Jul '11 7:59:38 PM by leafeon

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There's the transforming Shounen hero.

Or maybe Light from Death Note.

Nah, I don't know much about magical girls.

If you eat a live frog in the morning, nothing worse will happen to either of you for the rest of the day.

As what's been said earlier in this thread, some Kamen Rider shows are pretty close to magical dude.

edited 26th Jul '11 1:35:44 AM by ThatHuman

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Alessio from the Lemma Soft forums created a freeware, worksafe visual novel called Go! Magical Boy. Here's the relevant thread and downloads for PC/Mac/Linux: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=996

It's been five years since it was made. I'm not sure how many other people making *free or indie* media are using a blatant magical boy theme. Might be easier to use the theme in a media form which requires less money investment than TV anime, and in a media form that doesn't require an established audience.

There were rumours of Gainax making a Magical Boy series.

Then hopefully the Magical Boy genre will become hot around the time I become an author. Let's hope those rumors are true.

For some reason I've begun to wonder just how many actual shojo series there are with a male lead (minus anything CLAMP because they're weird like that and also minus shonen-ai/yaoi). From there we might move to 'Magical Girl' tropes played seriously with a male lead.

Heres a Webcomic called Magical Boys, the premise is that magical girls keep dying the Powers That Be decide to make some Magical Boys: http://magicalboys.smackjeeves.com/comics/757217/ch-1-pg-1/

I'd argue that Timmy of Fairly Odd Parents is a gender-flipped Cute Witch.

But, none of the magic he makes use of is his own. He literally has to get somebody else to make things happen for him.

Anyway uh, would Prince Adam/He-Man count as an uber-masculine example off male Magical Girl?

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OK, not really trying to beat my own chest here (well, maybe a little ), but what you're looking for is exactly what I've been doing with my webseries Rainbow Fighters (full title of the first season Kibou Niji Rengou Rainbow Fighters). Basically, it started back in 1998 when I wondered what Sailor Moon would have been liked if she'd been a boy (and French, and living in Paris, but that's just because that's where I lived then and it's easy to write about places when you're just a metro station away from them ). What I ended up creating was an homage to Sailor Moon rather than a straight up gender-flipped copy, but that just makes it all the better.

Basically, Rainbow Fighters is about Angel (funny that the only other link with a story about a magical boy on this thread also has a protagonist called Angel), an average underachieving high-school student (basically, a gender-flipped Usagi and typical Idiot Hero, although slightly older and a bit more realistic) as he is recruited by a talking bird (as cute a Ridiculously Cute Critter as I could invent at that time ) to become Rain Bow, the Messenger of Hope. As Rain Bow, he is tasked with finding his fellow Fighters so that they can take up the fight against a mysterious evil that seems to come from a very far past.

As a series, my Rainbow Fighters lives and breathes nearly all modern magical girl tropes (except from The Power of Love, which I felt was going too far. But it exudes The Power of Friendship, and Pretty Cure has proven that it works just as well as a magical girl trope), but with a male protagonist. I even have detailed Transformation Sequences and attacks (although those descriptions are put in the character sheets rather than the episodes themselves. Stock Footage just doesn't work in print ) and New Powers as the Plot Demands! There are magical girls in that setting as well (the team has the traditional sentai set-up: 3 boys, 2 girls), but the magical boys are on the same level, and the main protagonist is male.

If you want to read it, just go to the link I put above. Just a caveat: while I have a description of it in English, the series itself is in French. I've got Google Translate gadget that allows one to translate it automatically to English. The quality of the automatic translation isn't great, but it's good enough to get the gist of each episode. So far the first season has been completed, while the second season is in my very personal version of Development Hell . Some show of interest might help me get out of it .

edited 29th Oct '12 1:57:04 AM by tsela

Maybe some of my fics count? http://www.fanfiction.net/u/3341554/MagicConan14 I've been inspired by magical girls to create most of these... Oh, yeah. There's also the third spinoff of two of the fics. It never actually fit anywhere, so it lives on my tumblr: http://courage-a-word-of-justice.tumblr.com/tagged/ro.te.o The three spinoffs (Stealing Stars, Best of Luck Tantei-kun and Ro.Te.O) are all really different, but have the same driving plot behind them.

... Did you seriously just conduct thread necromancy to pimp a fanfic?

"If there's a hole, it's a man's job to thrust into it!" — Ryoma Nagare, New Getter Robo

I can say that a Magical Boys anime now definently exists, and it looks glorious. It's called Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu Love.

Edit: URL is fixed.

edited 2nd Dec '14 6:45:58 PM by AnOtherT

The URL's screwed up.

To pity someone is to tell them "I feel bad about being better than you."

I know there are a couple of magical girl anime out there that have boys in the main magical cast outside of The One Guy roles like Tuxedo Mask- Kamichama Karin and Shugo Chara! come to mind, and there's Barajou no Kiss and I think Pretear (never watched or read it, might be confusing it with something else) with a magical reverse harem angle. Dunno if any of those have been brought up.

... Ooh, Barakiss was licensed. My wallet is ready.

oh look i posted kamikari and shugo chara on the first page already lol

edited 2nd Dec '14 6:00:11 PM by YamiiDenryuu

I couldn't conceive a dream so wet; your bongos make me congo.

Another link to that magical boys show.

… and damn does it look awkward. Well, that doesn't really change the concept I guess.

Flippé de participer à ce grand souper, je veux juste m'occuper de taper mon propre tempo.

Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu Love? Yuri Kuma Arashi? I AM SO HYPED FOR JANUARY.

Loves feel-good animation a whole lot.

It disturbs me to note that Yu Yu Hakusho is technically a Magical Boy show.

I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!

Fear not! No transformation sequence or secret identity in Yu Yu Hakusho! Just pure badass. Anyway, it might not technically count since the protagonist is a girl. However, Miraculous Ladybug has Chat Noir, and he has a glorious transformation sequence once per episode.

What is Kurama?

edited 18th Mar '16 5:36:14 PM by TheAirman

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