Sandbox / Magical Girl

How Is Magical Girl being used?

Wicks: 80

• Specific Traits Listed: 17 - 21.25%
  • Transforms (5)
  • Fancy costume + magic user (2)
  • Girl with superpower / magical ability (6)
  • Has magic and is explicitly associated with Witches / is a witch (4)
• Magical Girl Warrior: 14 - 17.5%
  • parodies / expies (4)
• Magic Idol Singer: 1 - 1.25%
• Refers specifically to the genre: 17 - 21.25%
• ZC Es: 16 - 20%
• Unhelpful potholes, In Descriptions, or Use in another trope's example that's unclear: 15 - 18.75%

Ignoring the last category:

Wicks: 65

• Specific Traits Listed: 17 - 26.2%
  • Transforms (5)
  • Fancy costume + magic user (2)
  • Girl with superpower / magical ability (6)
  • Has magic and is explicitly associated with Witches / is a witch (4)
• Magical Girl Warrior: 14 - 21.5%
  • parodies / expies (4)
• Magic Idol Singer: 1 - 1.5%
• Refers specifically to the genre: 17 - 26.2%
• ZC Es: 16 - 24.6%

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Specific Traits listed

Transforms

• Project × Zone - Neneko and Neito: Can somehow transform without being in the Dream World.
• Punch Line - Parody: Mikatan/Strange Juice is a parody of Kamen Riders and Magical Girls. See Transformation Sequence.
• ZeroRanger - Mido: Her ZeroRanger awakening sequence has her perform a transformation like one.
• Mega Man ZX: The female Mega Men takes cues from this, especially with the Transformation Sequence that Aile and Ashe get.
• How To Date A Magical Girl! - You: Subverted, Gender Flipped or otherwise. In the end, although you could use magic to an extent, you never develop the ability to transform.

Fancy costume + magic user

• Haré+Guu - Guu: Guu adopts a magical girl style in Episode 5 of Deluxe when she goes alongside Hare to the past. Complete with a fancy costume, a familiar (in the form of a Manda fruit) who complains about her misusing her magical abilities, and (briefly) a Verbal Tic.
• Golden Sun Summons - Flora: Her frilly dress and magic wand makes her look like one.

Girl with superpower / magical ability

• Weathering With You - Hina: She has the power to bring on the sun and clear the rainy skies.
• Tales Out of Tallis - Ama: Has inherent magical powers, though unlike her adopted brother, Ama was born with them
• Future Badass: Homura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica is technically only from the very near future, but has lived through countless time loops thanks to her time control powers and thus has turned from a shy, bookish girl into the most experienced magical girl of the cast as she tries to create a timeline where Madoka doesn't become a Magical Girl and survives Walpurgisnacht's attack.
• Flip Flappers - Yayaka: After declaring that Cocona is what she treasures most, she unlocks the ability to Flip Flap.
• Sarutobi Ecchan: Sarutobi Ecchan, also known as Hela Supergirl in Italy, is an early Magical Girl anime about a little girl named Ecchan who has ninja powers.
• Mystical White Hair: Sleepless Domain: Early concept art of the series depicts Tessa with white hair instead of pink, hinting early on at her exceptional magical potential even among other magical girls. She also had four colored streaks in her hair, one for each of her teammates — red for Sally, blue for Undine, yellow for Sylvia, and green for Gwen.

Has magic and is explicitly associated with Witches / is a witch

• MadScientist.Anime And Manga: 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' has Kyubey, who created a system that turns girls into MagicalGirls and slowly corrupts them into witches. They let them loose on humanity, not caring who dies, as long as the resulting despair can be used to save the universe from heat death] Then in the Rebellion movie they created something called an "Isolation Field", an energy field that effectively blocked out the entire Universe, powerful enough to pull the Law of Cycles into itself. Their plan was to see if they could interfere with the Law, because "if (they) could interfere with it, (they) could manipulate it, and if (they) could manipulate it, (they) could control it". Their end goal was to "conquer" the Law of Cycles so Magical Girls would turn into Witches again, creating vast amounts of energy for the species to use. All for the sake of the universe, of course.
• MGT School: A girl named Akira finds a Magical Girls Transform video one day, and gets fascinated. A witch teleports into her room and takes her to a school to make those videos. She also changes Akira's appearance as well. Akira meets Nana and Rasta, and the three become best friends while making videos for their fans.
• The Witch and the Hundred Knight - The Fire Witch, Cute Witch: She looks like she was taken wholesale from a Magical Girl anime.
• The Black Cauldron - Only a minor example; Eilonwy's magic is only evident in the magical bauble that accompanies her and is the reason the Horned King kidnapped her. In the original novel series, she performs much greater magical feats and, in fact, is descended from a long line of enchantresses.

Magical Girl Warrior

• OS-tan: Aizawa Inori's promo video features her transforming dramatically before fighting robots that either represent malware or rival browsers.
• Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo: Gratuitous Korean: Denbo, the Magical Girl fusion warrior of Bo-bobo and Dengakuman, can speak Korean...very badly. In fact, when that episode was aired in South Korea, that line wasn't dubbed over, for extra funniness. — This is Denbo[1]
• Silent Hill 3: Parodied with Heather, who during a replay game can find a wand and, after invoking a Transformation Sequence, shoot Frickin' Laser Beams at the enemy. Kill enough enemies with it and you can unlock the game's UFO ending.
• Extranormal Institute - Sleepless Domain: Future's Promise School for Magical Girls is the city's exclusive private school for girls with Magical Girl Warrior powers. It is said to be very well-funded with a strong education, and accommodating school hours to spare its magical girl students from being Triple Shifters. The school is only open to girls who have registered with the Board of Magical Girls, and attendance is not compulsory, but it is highly recommended that active magical girls take advantage of the academy's benefits — as one magical girl puts it, it's a reward for the potentially lethal work the girls do every night.
• Ben 10: Main Characters - Gwen: In the Original Series, she found a magical trinket which granted her magic powers, donned a costume, and called herself "Lucky Girl". The only thing she was missing was the Transformation Sequence. In Omniverse, she replicates the costume with her Andodite powers.
• Tokyo Mew Mew - General Tropes: They're five girls infused with the DNA of rare animals that gives them special powers and allows them to transform into "Mew Mews." Led by Ichigo Momomiya, the girls protect the earth from aliens who wish to "reclaim" it.
• The Demon Girl Next Door - Sakura, Big Good: She is an experienced Magical Girl who fights evil, protects innocent demons, and even saved Yuko's life in the past. Too bad she's been missing for years now. There are several mentions of the term on the page and looking at them all, they're referring to a Magical Girl Warrior, a girl who has superpowers who fights evil using a combo of magic, transforming, and physical combat.
• Splinter City - Happy: But of course! She’s not a girl, she’s a Magical Girl This is a ZCE, but elsewhere on the page she's described as "The last remnants of an eldritch World Eater who became enamoured by the concept of Magical Girls, and thus altered their form and donned cute, frilly clothing to take up crime-fighting and the pursuit of justice."
• Soft and Shattered - Soft And Shattered, Yuzu: She's been one of the warrior kind for two years. A ZCE, but clearly trying to refer to the warrior type.
• Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou - Urban Fantasy: The show takes place in a world where any and all types of superheroes and super villains exist among the more mundane folk. Transforming mecha, ghosts, aliens, and Magical Girls are all over. — i'm assuming the magical girl is the superhero

Parody / Expy of a Magical Girl Warrior

• Dubious Company - Mary: Mary’s original outfit is suspiciously Sailor Senshi-esque.
• The Abridging of Haruhi Suzumiya: Itsuki "Sailor Pothead" Koizumi. — this is a zce but it's very clearly a sailor moon parody
  Smoking weed by moonlight
  Molesting lolis by daylight
  Never running from a real fight
  He is the one named Sailor Pothead
• WorseThanItSounds.Web Original - Sugoi Quest For Kokoro: The protagonist is a morally complex young girl who leads a privileged life. She possesses special powers and uses them to deal with evil classmates who try to keep her down. She has eyes only for one man, but one day her so-called best friend takes him away with little regard for her feelings. Angered, she spirals into a depressive despair that culminates in multiple hospital vists. The end of the series involves her closest ally and caretaker trying to save her from herself as her powers grow too dangerous and her mental health worsens, culminating in the destruction of the planet. Notable for also being a crossover with a popular and beloved web comic. — She's a Sailor Moon parody, though this isn't immediately clear by this entry
• Jellyneo Random Roleplay - Ruko: As of now, she's a Puella Magi.

Magical Idol Singer

• Monster Roommate: Lapis Re:LiGHTs has Kaede and Salsa, a human onmyōji-in-training and a werewolf, respectively. Downplayed in that they're both witches training to become Magical Girl Idols called "witches" at Flora Girls' Academy and though rare outside of the country of Dortdgard, "demi-humans" like Salsa are considered citizens like everyone else.

Used to refer to the entire genre

• The Fruit of Grisaia - Michiru, Breakout Character: Michiru became popular enough to star in her own spin-off Magical Girl series called Idol Mahou Shoujo Chiru Chiru Michiru, and also became the main focus of the Leisure of Grisaia short story.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL Barian World - Girag: Likes this Magical Girl anime, and undergoes Color Failure when caught by Alito.
• Troper Entries 0-I: A show touted by fans as a Deconstruction of the Magical Girl genre, featuring the eponymous Magical Girl who wears a pink-and-white Minidress of Power and happens to be the personification of Hope. The Transformation Trinket is a gem that's actually a Soul Jar fashioned into a piece of jewelry. She gets her powers from a white-haired individual who becomes increasingly menacing as the series progresses. She also has a dear friend who becomes the very thing they were fighting against, and meets a black-haired person who is made out to be a villain at first, but eventually the two of them grow very close. At the end, she forfeits her human form in order to save the world. Is it Puella Magi Madoka Magica? Or Princess Tutu?
• SlasherSmile.Anime And Manga: The Anti-Hero protagonist of Shamanic Princess directs one at her rival after completing her first Transformation Sequence, made even creepier by her weird eyes. It's one of your first clues that this is not your average Magical Girl anime.
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Though the premise is largely very typical for a Magical Girl series, the series takes a much more realistic (and occasionally cynical) look at many of the tropes present in the Magical Girl genre, occasionally even poking fun at them.
• Balala the Fairies: If you want to see China's version of the Magical Girl genre, then you have Balala the Fairies — the page doesn't have a Magical Girl example, but does have a ZCE for Magical Girl Warrior
• ShallowParody.Western Animation - South Park: The whole concept of "Princess Kenny" seems like Matt and Trey watched exactly one episode of any arbitrary Magical Girl series, crammed together a few rainbow/kawaii/pink dresses jokes and called it a day. Odd, because the duo should be familiar enough with Japanese culture, especially after the episodes "Good Times With Weapons" and "Chinpokomon".
• Sixth Ranger: In a Magical Girl show, it is not uncommon for the Sixth Ranger to be the lead character's boyfriend.
• School Days - Parody Episode: The OVA ~Magical Heart Kokoro-Chan~ is a spoof of the Magical Girl genre and the Sentai genre, as well as of the original series.
• Jewelpet Twinkle☆ - Transformation Sequence: As usual for Magical Girl anime.
• Anime & Manga - Pretty Cure: A Magical Girl franchise that’s been running over 15 years is sure to have made a few big slip-ups here and there.
• Parody Episode: Half of all Galaxy Angel episodes. There was a Wild West episode, a joshikousei episode, a Magical Girl episode (which was really a Sailor Moon episode, but you can't blame them for having Small Reference Pools)...
• Nijisanji EN: OBSYDIA: She's into Magical Girls (Although the series that she lists, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Magical Girl Raising Project, and Pretty Cure aren't exactly frou-frou for differing reasons), Keroro Gunso (A goofy Manga about alien frogs trying and failing to conquer planet Earth), and Pajama Sam and Freddi Fish (Both Edutainment Game series made by Humongous Entertainment). Also, while she loves Transformers, she doesn't like the Michael Bay movies, even though they're much closer in tone to her personality.
• Twin Star Exorcists - Arata, Otaku: He's a big fan of Magical Girl shows, even using them as a theme for his shikigami.
• Kiss Him, Not Me - Nozomu, Closet Geek: Nanashima keeps the fact he regularly watches a Magical Girl anime with his little sister a secret, as he actually enjoys it. It actually helps him get closer to Serinuma during a part-time job involving said anime.
• Heroes of the Storm: Skin Themes - Superheroes vs Eternal Empire: Part Cyberpunk, part Space Opera, part Magical Girl themed realm.
• Doraemon: The Main Five - Nobita, In Touch with His Feminine Side: It's shown several times that he prefers girly hobbies over sports, gets along better with girls than with boys, and would like his life better if he was a girl (even asking Doraemon to give him gadgets to become a girl or swap bodies with Shizuka). He's a huge fan of a Magical Girl anime and this makes him bond with the girls of his class, but obviously Gian and Suneo tease him about it.

Zero Context Examples

• Real Girl
• Suikoden III Zexen
• Unequally Rational and Emotional
• Lemmy's Land
• The Secret World of Alex Mack
• Devil Survivor - Midori: Wants to be one.
• Starships Don't Go Indoors! - Platonic Love: complete with speeches about The Power of Love and dramatic posing despite lacking limbs.
• Wonderful Everyday: Down the Rabbit-Hole - Magical Girl Riruru: A magical girl in a fictional in-universe anime.
• Vocaloid - Crypton Future Media - Len: Subverted, with Len as a Magical Kitty. Seriously.
• KIKEN - Mila: When those of Hubspace are in trouble, who do they turn to!? Why, the Den'nou Teijou Linear Motor Girl, of course!
• Princess Connect! Re:Dive - Guilds Part I - Tomo: Ends up joining Kasumi and Shiori's magical girl squad together with Monika in the second magical girl event, becoming "Shiny Tomo".
• We Baby Bears: In "Who Crashed the R.V.?", Panda appears as a Wholesome Cross Dresser one in his anime-esque retelling of Squatter Otter's crashed R.V.
• League Of Legends: Si-Sy - Soraka: Her Star Guardian skins. She is presented as a Dark Magical Girl however.
• Buster Girls - Mika Sakamoto: Miracle Buster-Chan is the most straightforward example in this series and an ironic parody to boot. As Magical Buster she plays this trope entirely straight though.
• Medaka Box - Tsugiha: She's a living parody of the idea since it's all in her imagination. She's just a delusional middle school girl.
• Conception 2: Children Of The Seven Stars: Ellie's battle outfit is very reminiscent of one, especially with the large magic staff.

Unclear Potholes, In Descriptions, or Use in another trope's example

• Enchanting Heist - Luz : Their appearances are heavily contrasted. Luz is a Tomboy with a Girly Streak, Afro-Latina, whereas Ren is a Tall, Dark, and Snarky Japanese Boy. In their Thief attire, Enchantress's costume is a brightly colored Magical Girl outfit inspired by the Good Witch Azura. Joker's costume is a darkly colored Badass Longcoat, inspired by much more traditional depictions of Phantom Thieves.
• Project A-Ko - Maruten, Fun Size: He's so tiny that he resembles the typical Magical Girl mascot.
• The World God Only Knows: Capture Targets - Kanon, Breakout Character: She's the only heroine in the series who became popular enough to get her own spinoff, which features her as a Magical Girl.
• RWBY Chibi - Winter Schnee, Seen It All: Her reaction to The Hunts-Man's! Magical Girl transformation.
• Miraculous Ladybug: Marinette Dupain-Cheng - Red Is Heroic: Her Magical Girl outfit. With a bit of Dark Is Not Evil, because her main colors are red and black, the most common villain colors, considering her ladybug theme.
• Friendship Moment: In Who Decided That Blues Had To Be Cool?!, the protagonist Azusa "Pure Azurite" Gunjou's Muggle Best Friend Minami Minamya may be her Only Friend, but she often mocks Azusa's less appealing personality traits. Minami introduces Azusa to Harumi Akaishi, only for Azusa to become rather horrified to realize that Harumi is the civilian identity of Azurite's Magical Girl partner, since she's terrified of Harumi realizing her true identity. When Azusa pulls Minami aside and tells her that she doesn't feel comfortable hanging out with Minami due to her social awkwardness, Minami understands, says she's grateful that Azusa thinks of her as a close friend, and apologizes to Harumi on Azusa's behalf.
• The Dark Lords of Nerima - Beneda, Good Feels Good: Living in a dark cave with an army of monsters under the thumb of an evil queen and inevitably experiencing death via Magical Girl, or having genuine friends and becoming a trained medic in the employ of a skilled doctor? In the long run, there was just no comparison in Beneda's mind.
• League of Legends: I-J - Janna, Color-Coded Characters: The purple-colored veteran of the Star Guardians.
• Of Men And Titans - Dark Magical Girl: Myra Krenshaw has some aspects of this and can be considered to the magical girl aspects of Rika.
• Useless Boyfriend: See Girl Power, Action Girl, Talented Princess, Regular Guy, Informed Ability, Magical Girl, Distressed Dude.
• Fate/Grand Order - Lancers G to M - Ibaraki-Douji: When reaching third Ascension, she comments gleefully that she now looks like a "Magifender", which is later revealed in Oniland to be a magical girl-like oni that Shuten-douji made on the spot to amuse Ibaraki comparing her to one.
• PlayingWith.Agent Peacock: Bob, the World's Best Warrior, has the build, costume, and mannerisms of a Magical Girl.
• Dressed to Heal: Ririka of Nurse Angel Ririka SOS wears a Magical Girl-ified version of a nurse's outfit.
• Katawa Shoujo - Suspiciously Specific Denial: Оn the forum - there most certainly are not fanworks of Hanako and Shizune as Magical Girls.
• Magical 12th Graders: Then she stumbles across her (male) biology teacher dressed like a Magical Girl, fighting giant floating goldfish.