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		<title>Lquilter: cat</title>
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		<updated>2008-04-16T02:33:40Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;cat&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 19:33, 15 April 2008&lt;/td&gt;
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		<author><name>Lquilter</name></author>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.feministsf.net/index.php?title=Magical_girl&amp;diff=28012&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>76.19.97.253: notes</title>
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		<updated>2008-02-17T15:30:24Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;notes&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;← Older revision&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 08:30, 17 February 2008&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;magical girl&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;mahō shōjo&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;) subgenre of [[anime]] and [[manga]] archetypically feature young girls who use an external object and/or trigger phrase to undergo a transformation which grants them superhuman and/or magical abilities, and who have a talking animal sidekick who acts as an adviser; a series can lack some of these archetypal qualities and still be considered &amp;quot;magical girl&amp;quot;.  Though the most popular and well known series have the heroines fighting an evil to protect the Earth, this is not a requirement of the genre; a popular sub-genre has the transformation age up the protagonist so that she can become a celebrity like a singer, and some series have the protagonist fighting mundane evils rather than one that threatens the entire world.  Older magical girls were known in Japan as &amp;#039;&amp;#039;majokko&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, literally &amp;quot;witch girl&amp;quot;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;magical girl&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;mahō shōjo&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;) subgenre of [[anime]] and [[manga]] archetypically feature young girls who use an external object and/or trigger phrase to undergo a transformation which grants them superhuman and/or magical abilities, and who have a talking animal sidekick who acts as an adviser; a series can lack some of these archetypal qualities and still be considered &amp;quot;magical girl&amp;quot;.  Though the most popular and well known series have the heroines fighting an evil to protect the Earth, this is not a requirement of the genre; a popular sub-genre has the transformation age up the protagonist so that she can become a celebrity like a singer, and some series have the protagonist fighting mundane evils rather than one that threatens the entire world.  Older magical girls were known in Japan as &amp;#039;&amp;#039;majokko&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, literally &amp;quot;witch girl&amp;quot;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&quot;Sally, the Witch&quot; (Mahoutsukai Sally) from 1966 is considered the first magical girl anime.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&quot;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Sally, the Witch&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/ins&gt;&quot; (&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Mahoutsukai Sally&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/ins&gt;) from 1966 is considered the first magical girl anime.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Occasionally there are transgendered versions of the magical girl; the magical boy.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Occasionally there are transgendered versions of the magical girl; the magical boy.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Khym Chanur at 08:47, 17 February 2008</title>
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		<updated>2008-02-17T08:47:58Z</updated>

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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The &#039;&#039;&#039;magical girl&#039;&#039;&#039; (&#039;&#039;mahō shōjo&#039;&#039;) subgenre of [[anime]] and [[manga]] archetypically feature young girls who use an external object and/or trigger phrase to undergo a transformation which grants them superhuman and/or magical abilities, and who have a talking animal sidekick who acts as an adviser; a series can lack some of these archetypal qualities and still be considered &quot;magical girl&quot;.  Though the most popular and well known series have the heroines fighting an evil to protect the Earth, this is not a requirement of the genre; a popular sub-genre has the transformation age up the protagonist so that she can become a celebrity like a singer, and some series have the protagonist fighting mundane evils rather than one that threatens the entire world.  Older magical girls were known in Japan as &#039;&#039;majokko&#039;&#039;, literally &quot;witch girl&quot;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The &#039;&#039;&#039;magical girl&#039;&#039;&#039; (&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&lt;/ins&gt;&#039;&#039;mahō shōjo&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&lt;/ins&gt;&#039;&#039;) subgenre of [[anime]] and [[manga]] archetypically feature young girls who use an external object and/or trigger phrase to undergo a transformation which grants them superhuman and/or magical abilities, and who have a talking animal sidekick who acts as an adviser; a series can lack some of these archetypal qualities and still be considered &quot;magical girl&quot;.  Though the most popular and well known series have the heroines fighting an evil to protect the Earth, this is not a requirement of the genre; a popular sub-genre has the transformation age up the protagonist so that she can become a celebrity like a singer, and some series have the protagonist fighting mundane evils rather than one that threatens the entire world.  Older magical girls were known in Japan as &#039;&#039;majokko&#039;&#039;, literally &quot;witch girl&quot;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;quot;Sally, the Witch&amp;quot; (Mahoutsukai Sally) from 1966 is considered the first magical girl anime.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;quot;Sally, the Witch&amp;quot; (Mahoutsukai Sally) from 1966 is considered the first magical girl anime.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Khym Chanur</name></author>
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		<title>Khym Chanur at 08:47, 17 February 2008</title>
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		<updated>2008-02-17T08:47:09Z</updated>

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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The &#039;&#039;&#039;magical girl&#039;&#039;&#039; subgenre of [[anime]] and [[manga]] &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;features &lt;/del&gt;young girls &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;with &lt;/del&gt;superhuman or magical abilities &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;or identities &lt;/del&gt;who &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;must fight &lt;/del&gt;evil to protect the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;earth&lt;/del&gt;, &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;often with &lt;/del&gt;a &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;secret identity&lt;/del&gt;. Older magical girls were known in Japan as &#039;&#039;majokko&#039;&#039;, literally &quot;witch girl&quot;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The &#039;&#039;&#039;magical girl&#039;&#039;&#039; &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;(&#039;&#039;mahō shōjo&#039;&#039;) &lt;/ins&gt;subgenre of [[anime]] and [[manga]] &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;archetypically feature &lt;/ins&gt;young girls &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;who use an external object and/or trigger phrase to undergo a transformation which grants them &lt;/ins&gt;superhuman &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;and/&lt;/ins&gt;or magical abilities&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;, and who have a talking animal sidekick &lt;/ins&gt;who &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;acts as an adviser; a series can lack some of these archetypal qualities and still be considered &quot;magical girl&quot;.  Though the most popular and well known series have the heroines fighting an &lt;/ins&gt;evil to protect the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Earth&lt;/ins&gt;, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;this is not a requirement of the genre; &lt;/ins&gt;a &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;popular sub-genre has the transformation age up the protagonist so that she can become a celebrity like a singer, and some series have the protagonist fighting mundane evils rather than one that threatens the entire world&lt;/ins&gt;. &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt; &lt;/ins&gt;Older magical girls were known in Japan as &#039;&#039;majokko&#039;&#039;, literally &quot;witch girl&quot;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&quot;Sally, the Witch&quot; (Mahoutsukai Sally) from 1966 is considered the first &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;mahō shōjo &lt;/del&gt;anime.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&quot;Sally, the Witch&quot; (Mahoutsukai Sally) from 1966 is considered the first &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;magical girl &lt;/ins&gt;anime.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Occasionally there are transgendered versions of the magical girl; the magical boy.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Occasionally there are transgendered versions of the magical girl; the magical boy.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Khym Chanur</name></author>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;The &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;magical girl&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; subgenre of [[anime]] and [[manga]] features young girls with superhuman or magical abilities or identities who must fight evil to protect the earth, often with a secret identity. Older magical girls were known in Japan as &amp;#039;&amp;#039;majokko&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, literally &amp;quot;witch girl&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Sally, the Witch&amp;quot; (Mahoutsukai Sally) from 1966 is considered the first mahō shōjo anime.&lt;br /&gt;
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Occasionally there are transgendered versions of the magical girl; the magical boy. &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Characterization]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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