In pursuit of that ambition, Seiji has been thinking a lot recently about what tropes and storytelling traditions define the magical girl genre and its heroines, and has compiled the following five laws of anime magical girl series.
But as much as Seiji enjoys being a writer for SoraNews24, if he could be anything, he’d like to be an anime magical girl, saving the world with cuteness and grace like the stars of Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, and the like.
Vivid hair colors are a motif throughout anime, but if you want to be a magical girl, something candy-colored is preferable.
“Essentially, the principles of magical girl series aren’t all that far removed from those of Dragon Ball Z,” Seiji concludes.