Magical Girl / Webcomics

Magical Girls in Webcomics.

Examples of Magical Girl works:

• Agents of the Realm is clearly inspired by the genre, with parallel worlds, Monster of the Week and eponymous Agents being five Magical Girl Warriors whose Transformation Trinkets are shiny amulets.
• Americano Exodus is a rather unique take on the genre. Several of the main characters are young girls descended from the nobility of a parallel world, sent to earth in order to hunt down members of the Twilight Dawn organization, who are hiding out on our planet. While the girls do have magic and costumes, the magical girl elements end there. The main character, Amel, is actually a teenage boy who must pretend to be a girl in order to protect the integrity of his household and his own life. Since only women are supposed to be able to use magic, any men with the ability, while rare, are imprisoned and sometimes executed.
• Angel Moxie is both a parody and an homage of the genre. It is about Junior High student Alex (a fairly standard magical girl) and her two friends (each of whom have super powers but otherwise don't have many magical girl characteristics) as they fight off Lord Yzin and his servants. It can be found here.
  • The backstory specifies that the magical girl motif was inspired by fiction.
• Apricot Cookie(s)! is a Deconstructive Parody of the genre. It chronicles the life, loves, and laundry of the titular heroine, the only magical girl in Japan who can't transform. It also deconstructs many other anime tropes and even some from general fiction.
• The Artist And The Machine is about a magical girl befriending a robot sent to kill her.
• Cardcaptor Torika, a doujinshi based on the Cardcaptor Sakura series featuring Sakura's daughter.
• Crystal Fighters by Jen and Tyler Bartel is about a girl named Stella whose parents give her a copy of a magical girl-themed VR game called "Crystal Fighters". On the surface, it's a very cutesy game, which is exactly what Stella doesn't want; she'd sooner play fighting games, but her parents restrict her gaming to titles they consider "suitable for young girls". However, shortly after entering the world of "Crystal Fighters" for the first time, she discovers that a number of players have bypassed the game's controls (which penalize any kind of violent act with a time out) and set up a secret magical girl fight club.
• Dame Daffodil, a webcomic of the neo-classical variety. Inspired by Sailor Moon and Miraculous Ladybug. Presented in a four-panel black and white style and set in the modern day, it plays out like a Slice of Life as the main character, Charo Flores, wants to be a hero and help out others however she can.
• Evil Diva, a webcomic about a devil girl who can't help doing good deeds for others.
• Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy, a somewhat violent parody of the genre's conventions - the heroine is somewhat chubby, has an alien disguised as a star-nosed mole for a Mentor Mascot, and is often severely injured in battle (luckily, she is a Human Alien with the ability to regenerate her body parts).
• The Hues
• Hi to Tsuki to Hoshi no Tama is about three magical girls with Mons.
• Kakikomi Magical Girls is about a disillusioned Office Lady named Shiori Kamiya who becomes a Magical girl. The rest of her team are also in their late teens and twenties.
• M9 Girls!, a science fiction version of the genre. The eponymous girls gain Elemental Powers by means of genetic manipulation.
• Magical Boys!, another parody of the genre - the main character is a boy who is given magical girl powers (although he retains his gender) to battle against Dark Magical Girls who want to kill retired magical girls. As the story progresses, more magical boys are revealed.
• Magical Boy is a Deconstructive Parody that explores the magical boy concept, but with transgender themes. The main character, Max, is the latest to take on the role of a Goddess, an exclusively female role that spans back to the beginning of creation. However, Max is a transgender boy, and comes out to his parents on his 16th birthday - the very same day his magical powers awaken. Much of the magical girl lore is tongue-in-cheek, especially when it comes to Max's mother, Hikari, but it doubles as a deconstruction as it shows the consequences of dealing with a world-threatening menace, on top of learning to navigate life as a trans teen and being forced into a role that doesn't match one's identity.
• In Magical Girl Neil, Neil, the protagonist, becomes an Oni-fighting Magical Girl on his 16th birthday, due to coming from a long line of magical girls - magical boys are only born every 100 years or so.
• Magical How? is the story of two normal college guys who are approached by a talking golf ball who offers them magical powers - when one of them agrees, he ends up Dragged into Drag and forced to fight for love and justice as a magical warrior.
• Magick Chicks centers around Melissa, a former "queen bee" who finds herself fated to become a magical girl, after being transferred to Artemis Academy. Worse, she now has a mysterious wand for a conscience and a ditzy blonde do-gooder for a mentor, when all she wants is to overthrow Faith and become popular. What a world!
• Also parodied in Mahou Shounen Fight!.
• Mechagical Girl Lisa ANT parodies the genre with a Fangirl who becomes a (sorta) magical girl... and proceeds to apply large amounts of Wrong Genre Savvy.
• Nexus is about a magical girl chosen by destiny who gets her powers from a mysterious shopkeeper.
• Princess Chroma is a deconstruction of the genre. June Summers seems to be the The Chosen One for all the wrong reasons, much to the despair of her Mentor Mascot.
• Shattered Starlight features an ex-magical girl trying to live her life after the breakup of her team.
• Sleepless Domain is about the Child Soldier magical girls who protect an unnamed city from its nightly siege by strange monsters, but don't worry - registered Magical Girls have a 70% lower risk of severe injury or death!
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice is an original work by Bwillett, the author of Cardcaptor Torika, about a girl in New England called Victoria who learns magic (with transformations included) in order to stop a series of monsters unleashed after she puts on an ancient ring. It takes a relatively realistic approach to the genre, both in terms of developing the magic system behind the transformations, and its focus on characterization.
• To Prevent World Peace features a world where Magical girls have been active since World War I. Cue Alternate History. The story follows a magical girl who believes she must become a Necessarily Evil in order to stop other girls from going too far.

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

• And Shine Heaven Now:
  • While Shine is not a Magical Girl-centric comic (its focus being on Hellsing), a notable exception is the Eurekon storyline, in which Doc, trying to impress other Mad Scientists, unleashes the demons Set and Nina, and the vampire Incognito, onto Japan, only for Nina to be felled by Sailors Uranus and Neptune (though not before Uranus was distracted by Nina's...assets), Set gets killed by Princess Serenity unleashing the power of the Holy Grail, and Incognito literally gets chased back to hell by a plethora of magical girls^note specifically, Sakura, Panty, Stocking, Homura, Mami, Sayaka, Buttercup, Bubbles, Mai, Nanoha, Fuu, Cure Pine, Mew Ichigo, Mew Lettuce, Cure Black, Cure White and Princess Tutu...cause his portal happened to open right near a school. Kyubey also attends Eurekon, and is last seen trying to tempt Franken Fran into becoming a magical girl.
  Haruhi Suzumiya: Hey, ugly! Didn’t anybody ever warn you? The dumbest place in the world to attack is a girls’ school in Japan.
  • Kaitou Saint Tail plays a key role in the Catholicon storyline, in which Meimi is Enrico's final opponent in the 'Pray Pray Revolution' tournament, in which they dance to Tom Lehrer's "The Vatican Rag". Enrico claims he won but there's enough context clues, not to mention his own reputation for exaggerating and lying, to suggest Meimi won instead.
  • Both Sailor Moon and Madoka are cited as people that decided to Take a Third Option and find a better solution than just giving up or hitting the enemy harder...then notes that Integra just decides to hit it harder.
• Last Res0rt has the Galaxy Girl Scouts (Sailor Moon meets Green Lantern Corps), as a major portion of Daisy's/Veled's Back Story.
• Megatokyo contains several of these, though the only ones seen so far are Meimi (retired), Yuki, and possibly Miho. It's been shown by the Tokyo Police and their actions that an unlicensed Magical girl is a serious threat.
• Metacarpolis has a darker than normal take in Emiko, a former Magical Girl and Pop Idol who chucked it all, moved to America and works as a cleaning service maid. Her backstory makes her look like a Former Child Star with PTSD.
• Rain is huge fan of an in-universe, magical girl manga called "Black Wings Kaminari".
• Parodied in Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki, where the male main character is turned into a valkyrie by a Norse god hiding inside a Magical Girl anime, who had assumed that anyone watching it would already be female.
• Tsunami Channel has Magical Mina, a magical girl who, like Nanoha, has strong influences from shounen manga.
• In Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi, Bubbles first dresses as Sailor Moon as a gag but according to Grim Tales from Down Below, she might take up the title for real one day, and the outfit she wears while fighting insect robots looks like a magical girl outfit.
• Soft and Shattered features magical girls, or mahou, who make contracts with familiars and gain the usual ability to transform and fight Nightmares.

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