Magical Girl / Video Games

Magical Girls are extremely common in Video Games.

Examples of Magical Girl works:

• EXTRAPOWER: Attack of Darkforce: Features Ruritia and the other Hikari Warriors, who fight against the Yami Clan in defense of the Rainbow Princess. While Attack of Darkforce has an Ensemble Cast with plenty of non-magical girl plots coming in and out of focus, the Hikari and Yami conflict is a major part of the game and remains one of the major focuses up to the end.
• Magical Battle Arena, a Fighting Game starring Sakura Kinomoto, Nanoha Takamachi, Lina, Kukuri, the girls of Magic Knight Rayearth, Kirara and Sarara (heroines of an eroge Visual Novel of the same name), and Original Generation characters Lulu Gelad and Nowel Diastasis.
• Magical Cannon Wars is about Akira (also a magical girl) trying to stop all of the other magical girls from fighting.
• League of Legends:
  • The Star Guardians are a Magical Girl Alternate Universe existing as a set of stories and champion skins—as well as limited-time Visual Novel events in both League proper and Wild Rift. The original team consisted of Lux (whose character was Magical Girl-themed from the start) but then being expanded to include Jinx, Janna, Poppy and Lulu. There's a modest amount of additional lore created for the team (despite them not being canon with the main story of the game) with them apparently being granted their powers to fight against monsters from the Void.
  • Two more waves of Star Guardians were released due to the skin line’s popularity: first featuring a more experienced team in the form of Ahri, Miss Fortune, Ezreal, Soraka, and Syndra, then the seemingly fallen members of Ahri’s old team: The corrupted Xayah and Rakan, and the still uncorrupted Neeko—alongside the ancient embodiment of chaos and primordial Magical Girl that is Zoe, who is responsible for Xayah and Rakan’s corruption. Lux and Ahri’s current teams received their own PvE temporary game mode around the time that Ahri’s team was released, where players fought monsters in Lux’s hometown.
  • Five of the skins (Lux, Ezreal, Lulu, Soraka, and Miss Fortune) later received Slumber Party-themed variants called Pajama Guardian skins, receiving a short story to match. Urgot, a champion who had been memed by the community as a potential Star Guardian skin due to his completely not fitting with the Magical Girl concept in general, ended up receiving a Pajama Guardian Cosplay skin as an April Fool’s Day skin in 2020.
  • 2022 saw a fourth wave of skins, as well as the first coordinated Star Guardian in-client event across multiple games with League's IP:
    • In League of Legends proper, a new generation team was introduced consisting of Kai'sa, Akali, Sona, Taliyah, Ekko, Rell, and Quinn—mentored by veteran Star Guardian Nilah and attempting to live up to the example set by Lux's team in their absence. This also introduced the Star Nemesis skins for Morgana and Fiddlesticks—a line of proper magical girl villains. The in-client visual novel event revealed some major aspects of the Star Guardian metaplot, including the reveal of the first five Star Guardians (Zoe, Syndra, Gwen, Akshan, and Harp), the reveal that Guardians that burn out can become horrific monstrosities (such as the aforementioned Harp, who became Star Nemesis Fiddlesticks), and an epilogue noting that Syndra's eyepatch hides a gate to the Dark Star universe.
    • Wild Rift's visual novel event saw a team of new and old Star Guardians—Senna, Orianna, and Seraphine, led by a now-redeemed Xayah—set out to try and redeem Rakan before he became too corrupted to save. They succeeded, leading to Rakan's full redemption (and cameos from redeemed Xayah and Rakan near the end of the League client event).
    • While Legends of Runeterra didn't get a visual novel event, it did get a themed Battle Pass and skins for Jinx, Lulu, Soraka, Kai'sa, Akali, Taliyah, Quinn, Senna, and (unique to LoR) Gwen. The flavor text hints at the various Star Guardians rescuing Gwen from a stasis prison created by a kaiju threatening Valoran City, with Gwen in turn helping them defeat the kaiju.
  • The Teamfight Tactics autobattler spin-off mode featured Star Guardians as a trait in the cosmos-themed Sets 3 and 3.5, with Poppy, Zoe, Ahri, Syndra, Neeko, Soraka, and (in Set 3.5) Janna all being part of the trait. When active, the trait granted mana to all other Star Guardians when one Star Guardian cast their spell, and could be granted to any champion with a Star Guardian’s Charm item. Set 8 (and Set 8.5) saw them return, this time with the simpler benefit of increasing the amount of mana Star Guardians gained from all sources. Several Little Legends and Chibi Champions also have Star Guardian, Corrupted Star Guardian, and Star Nemesis skins, reflecting the style of each.
• The Maid of Fairewell Heights: There's a Magical Girl costume that is worn when in the Magic room.
• Magical Girl Critical features one such MG named Momoka whisked away to another world. With her default (purification) magic useless here, she had to rely on her wand and her... mass to get through, eventually acquiring other magics along the way.
• Nearly the entire cast of RosenkreuzStilette are magi, are all part of a team, Calling Your Attacks is common, especially with main character Spiritia, both heroines of the series have a Fairy Companion, and The Power of Friendship is revealed to be the true source of her Mega Man-inspired Power Copying.
• How To Date A Magical Girl! features a magical academy attended by potential magical girls, including the protagonist (could be Gender Flipped by playing as a male instead).
• Touhou Project skirts being a Magical Girl shmup series, having the aesthetics of being one with Marisa Kirisame cutting it the closest to the Magical Girl archetype, complete with styling her attacks with names such as "Love Sign: Master Spark" and the title of her leitmotif being "Love-Colored Magic," later remixed into "Love-Colored Master Spark"... The twist here being that no-one in their right mind would call Marisa a Magical Girl as her personality subverts every single trait endemic to Magical Girls: She is not powered by Love, nor even motivated by it. No, the source of Marisa's power and what motivates her to save the world is kleptomania, a desire to upstage Reimu Hakurei and the opportunity the kick in the teeth of whomever gets in her way. The habitual lying probably doesn't score her any points, either.
• I=MGCM (pronounced "I Am Magicami") is an eroge RPG game for PC (which also has a smartphone and a SFW version for PC with all the raunchy stuff removed) that features twelve girls who are chosen to be magical girls by a girl genius from a mysterious magical girl organization to defeat demons who have emerged on Earth and the parallel worlds. The Amnesiac Hero Tobio, who appears to have met the girls before, has to project himself as a Mentor Mascot named Omnis in order to guide the new magical girls and activate magical girls' transformations.
• Blue Reflection stars three high school girls who become a trio of magical girls who fight against monsters called Sephira that feed on human emotion.
• Majokko Mari-chan no Kisekae Monogatari is a fashion adventure game starring a young witch named Mari who has the power to create different outfits (actually created by the player) which she can then wear.
• While she has had magical powers (mainly in the RPG spinoff series) and is just as capable as the Super Mario Bros. whenever she's Promoted to Playable, Princess Peach is made a magical girl in all but name in Princess Peach: Showtime!. Towards the start of the game, Peach meets the Sparkle Theater's guardian Stella, a Sparkle Sprite who grants her the ability to use Sparkle magic through a ribbon the latter creates for the former with Peach using her newfound powers to journey through the various plays being shown in the theater, transform into the according roles for them and eventually rescue the primary actors who star in said plays.

Examples of the Magical Girl trope referred to in other works:

• Battle Moon Wars features several characters from various Type-Moon shows dressed as magical girls.
• BlazBlue: Continuum Shift features Platinum the Trinity, who is absolutely a Magical Girl, complete with lampshading battle quotes.
  Platinum: Magical Girl Pretty Luna... transform!
  • Platinum's gag reel takes this into overkill territory, adding the other Pettankoes for a campaign against Boing Queen Litchi. You will die laughing so fast Hazama would be jealous.
  • Bonus points to the fact that all of her attacks are named after magical girl shows/characters (i.g. Sailor Moon, Pretty Cure, etc.).
• Cthylla of Chaos Code is a rather twisted parody of this trope, combining it with the Cthulhu Mythos.
• In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, the Empire of the Rising Sun's hero unit, Yuriko Omega, is a powerful psychic who can flip tanks with her mind. She wears a schoolgirl uniform, and seems to be no older than 18.
• Cookie Run: Kingdom has Cream Puff Cookie who fulfills her dream of becoming a wizard, complete with Transformation Sequence, Power Makes Your Hair Grow, Magic Wand and a pink dress with a blue cloak.
• Hifumi Yamada, the Otaku from
• Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, is a fan of the in-universe magical girl show Demon Angel☆Pretty Pudgy Princess. He credits his childhood infatuation with the protagonist (an overweight girl with a pink outfit, a pair of wings, and a bow) as what ultimately led him to become the "Ultimate Fanfic Creator".
  • And from the second game, we have Magical Miracle Girl ★ Usami, a magical girl rabbit.
• In Death Road to Canada, one of the rare characters you may encounter is an Anime Girl, who has pink hair tied in pigtails and is dressed in a 'sailor suit'-type uniform. She comes equipped with a Lovely Wand that fires heart-shaped energy projectiles that are quite effective in taking down zombies. However, as in-game days pass, she becomes more and more 'anime', which involves her eyes growing to take up half of her face, which eventually starts to deform and melt. If left for too long, she'll explode (though, if you can arrange it such that she explodes while travelling in the car, you'll get a cheevo).
• Midori from Devil Survivor seems to see herself as one of these, although sadly, she is in a Shin Megami Tensei game.
• Disgaea Dimension 2: Flonne's "Pure Flonne" form. She got the idea from watching too much anime.
  • Majolene from Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny is a 10,000-year old hag who uses the Staff of Transformation left by the Ancient Witch on a bid to defeat the God of Destruction. Unfortunately, the staff traps her in a body of a much younger, scantily clad magical girl, and she has to do the whole magical girl act to draw power from the staff, a humiliating process she has to learn to deal with.
• The Mage class from Beat 'em Up MMO Dungeon Fighter Online.
• In the doujin fighting game Eternal Fighter Zero, Sayuri Kurata's fighting style is a reference to the Magical Girl genre, complete with a transforming Magic Wand.
• Final Fantasy X-2 owes much to the Magical girl genre, with a Lighter and Softer approach, a all-female party, a Job System that necessitates a Transformation Sequence every few minutes (with all of the Fanservice that normally brings) and regular uses of The Power of Friendship (and Teamwork).
• Fantastic Fraulein Mumor. Final Fantasy XI, being a Japanese MMORPG, was bound to have this eventually.
• Shannon of God Hand is a villainous (though not exactly Dark Magical Girl) parody of this.
• Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star has a sequence where the human girl, Ryouta, and Professor Kazuaki turn into crossdressing bird magical girls to save the day. It's a parody, but you can still get everybirdy killed by messing up the incantation.
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: In Nomi's holonovel, the protagonist transforms into one as she harnesses her new powers bestowed on her by Ghislar. She grows taller and stronger, her school uniform becomes skimpier, and she grows a pair of small white wings, cat ears, and a tail.
• Joan of Arc herself in Jeanne d'Arc.
• The trope is parodied in Killer7 with the boss Ayame Blackburn, with her over-the-top introduction speech and ludicrous soubriquet.
• League of Legends: The Star Guardian line of skins blurs the lines between a magical girl work and a reference, being a completely separate continuity from League's own continuity with its own plots and characterizations—for more details, see the folder above. The Teamfight Tactics Star Guardian, Corrupted, and Star Nemesis skins are absolutely a reference, however.
• Magical Girl Kirara And Sarara Dioskroi Of Starlit Sky
• MapleStory: The "Angelic Buster" Hero class.
• In Mega Man ZX Advent, Aile seems to have styled herself as a Magical Girl Warrior, if her Transformation Sequence is any indication.
• The CPU goddesses and candidates from the Neptunia series can transform into stronger, older-looking Hard Drive Divinity forms, complete with Transformation Sequence and obligatory Fanservice. Neptune in particular loves to reference Sailor Moon.
• A Show Within A Game within No More Heroes is Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly, apparently also a Super Robot show. We never see the anime itself, but the main character seems to be obsessed with it (he is, after all, an Otaku).
  • No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle features what is apparently the intro of the show. It's now titled "Bizarre Jelly 5".
• Same deal with Panel de Pon.
• Arin from Pangya.
• Princess Connect! Re:Dive has a few characters that play into classic magical girl tropes. Most notably, Nanaka, who is a fan of the in-universe magical girl series "Magical Girl Bella Lou." This gets further lampshaded in the event "We Are Misty and Purely," which points out all the classic tropes of the genre while still being played completely straight in the context of the story.
• The Nymphs of Rayman Origins.
• Gracia Hosokawa from Samurai Warriors.
• Silent Hill 3, of all places, contains a parody of Magical Girls with one of Heather's alternate outfits, complete with a Sailor Moon style Transformation Sequence. (Her power? The ability to shoot Frickin' Laser Beams.)
• The character MOMO from the Xenosaga series gains two different Magical Girl forms, each with their own extended (and fortunately skippable) Transformation Sequence.
• Lobotomy Corporation: One of the abnormalities you have to manage is a magical girl who believes she was created to fight evil. Let her stay in a bad mood for too long, however, and she'll transform into a giant light blue snake monster and start teleporting throughout the facility, attacking any employee she sees. There are also two other Magical Girls ingame, one being a diamond-themed Magical Girl shut inside of a golden egg-like creature, and a spade-theme Magical Girl knight consumed by despair.
• Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest: Nero's outfit screams this, and she can cast spells as well.
• Elodie in Long Live the Queen can become one of these.
• In THE iDOLM@STER: SideM, the boys of Mofumofuen and S.E.M. play the main characters of a neoclassical Magical Boy series during an event. One of the few instances where a Magical Boy premise is played completely straight, even if it was in-universe.
• In Yandere Simulator a popular Show Within a Show is Magical Girl Pretty Miyuki, which impacts the story line in a few ways, such as the Gaming Club playing an AR game that could cause them to catch Yandere-chan committing murder, and Osana Najimi bearing a strong resemblance to her causes a Stalker with a Crush to kidnap her cat to lure her to his house. In addition, there are Easter Eggs that can transform Yandere-chan into Miyuki, Cirno from Touhou Project, and activate 'Yanketsu Mode', which references Kill la Kill
• Undertale: Alphys is a big fan of an anime called Mew Mew Kissy Cutie that belongs to the genre and holds some strong opinions on season two.
  • The switch port of the game added a boss fight with "Mad Mew Mew", a toy of the protagonist that's being haunted by an angry ghost that was previously called "Mad Dummy", due to inhabiting a training dummy.
  • Alphys is also a fan of the same series in the sister game Deltarune, to the point where she writes reviews for the town's anime fanclub. Given that Deltarune flips a lot of the aspects of Undertale on its head, Alphys thinks that the first season was terrible, but the second one redeemed the show.

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