Welcome to another theme month – it’s
May, so it’s time to take a look at Magical Girl anime!
Specifically, I’d like to examine a few shows with an eye towards the
history or evolution of the genre, including game-changers and
reactions to them. To start that, though, I was put into a fairly
awkward place: It’s quite hard to find a way to view most of the
Magical Girl anime that were legitimately big before the debut of the
original Sailor Moon, limiting my knowledge of what the early days of
the genre were like to secondary sources. However, those secondary
sources led me to one anime that, while it was technically a later
release, is very much emblematic of what an entry in the genre would
have looked like before Sailor Moon. That show is Cardcaptor Sakura.
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