#she's my fave from mgrp

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Sister Nana redesign, for fun :P

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Here’s the results from the open comment field for “Favourite magical girl” from the magical girl survey from a few days back. I originally intended them to be a place where you could express your complaints if your desired option wasn’t available, but sure we can go with listing your favourite and least favourite characters too! For individual mentions, Homura was mentioned the most.

Longer comments and comments that aren’t character specific:

I’m more for the magical warrior class using the power of friendship, hope and love(all kinds) to save the day/save the world

In a combat-based magical girl show, I’d love to see an active rather than a reactive magical girl. Example, one who tries to figure out where the enemy will strike next, rather than stumbling upon it; or one who tries to figure out where the bosses flee to after they send the Monster of the Day out.

Mami Tomoe most definitely. She's kind with a hint of selfishness that means no harm. She also uses her magic in mundane and creative was such as turning the bat Sayaka brought to fight witches into a weapon that would actually harm them, and

I like emotionless characters than learn to open up as blatant metaphors for depression.

Free fall style attacks :)

I love Magic Knight Reyearth aesthetics. I love Sailor Moon but I wish her character development didn't keep disappearing at the end of each season

Tie. Madoka (for a more traditional style magical girl) Homura (for more of a dark mg)

My favorite magical girl is probably sayaka miki from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, I really like the idea of exploring the self harm/destruction one could do with magical powers. Especially at such a confusing and stressful time in your life as teenage girlhood

I think either Ichigo from Tokyo Mew Mew, Sakura from CCS or Ahiru from Princess Tutu. I really like the witch type of characters but have not watched any show like that so far, I need to remedy that ! (Sorry, english is not my first language)

I just love when a character covers up insecurities with a rude persona - both the loud ponytail girl/biker gang type (like kyoko Sakura) & snooty rich girl that secretly cares about her friends (think mew mint & to a lesser degree cure spicy)

Idk really i think mostly i just like magical girls that have a good dose of flaws

Right now, it's probably Ichigo Momomiya/Mew Ichigo from Tokyo New Mew. I love cats so much.

My first magical girl anime was Tokyo mew mew and my favourite was Mew Mint, I don't have a top #1 magical girl in general

Ichigo from Tokyo Mew Mew! She's silly but grows so much. Might be the nostalgia talking though LOL

my answers make me seem like i just like dark edgy things and i guess thats true to an extent but i love the "in spite of" element of things like that   _(;;v;; 」∠)_

I really like Precure, so I’d say any of the Hugtto girls? Also the boys from Tokyo Mew Mew Ole may not be exactly this but I love them.

My fave has to be Tecna (Winx Club). She opened my path of loving most purple MGs (Like Saturn for eg.) or ones that use unusual magical girl items as weapons (like Homura with her arsenal of weapons). Would love to see more magical girls use technology as their power (that isnt reduced to just electricity tho).

my first favorite magical girl will always be usagi but also i loved michiru a lot as a child, like i wanted to be her. later on, sayaka from pmmm became one of my favorite characters of all time because her emotional torment is very similar to what i went through

Tsuyuno from MGS, Seira from Daybreak Illusion, Homura from PMMM, even Black Rock Shooter, that character type overall.

i'm a simp for cure beat

Cure Flora is my role model

Cure Custard my beloved

One of my favorites of all time has got to be Lapis Lazuli the 2nd from MGRP!

I really love Tokyo Mew Mew and Mermaid Pichi Pitch.

Ojamajo Doremi

Tokyo Mew Mew and Houkago no Pleiades.

Futago Hime

Futago hime as a second favorite

Total mentions for character names:

Madoka franchise: Madoka (x3), Homura (x7), Mami (x2), Sayaka (x5), Kyouko (x5), Kagami Masara, Momoe Nagisa, Awane Kokoro

Sailor Moon: Sailor Moon (x4), Sailor Venus, Sailor Mars (x2), Sailor Jupiter (x2), Sailor Saturn (x2), Sailor Neptune (x2)

Precure: Cure Blossom, Cure Sunshine, Cure Moonlight, Cure Beat Cure Flora (x2), Cure Custard, Cure Milky

Tokyo Mew Mew: Mew Ichigo (x3), Mew Mint (x2)

Magical Girl Raising Project: Snow White, Hardgore Alice, Lapis Lazuline

Magical Girl Site: Tsuyuno

Daybreak Illusion: Seira

Black Rock Shooter: Black Rock Shooter

Revolutionary Girl Utena: Utena, Anthy (x2)

Ojamajo Doremi: Aiko

Winx Club: Tecna

W.i.t.c.h.: Irma

Princess Tutu: Ahiru (x2)

Cardcaptor Sakura: Sakura

Sugar Sugar Rune: Chocola

Cutey Honey: Cutey Honey

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MGRP artist Maruino is actually a massive fan of DR and writer Asari Endou is a massive Magical Girl fan. Considering the release of the original LN was only a year after PMMM, I highly doubt it called a "rip-off" either, the time gap is too tight. Sorry, I'm just really intent on defending one of my fave LN series.

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Furthermore, Ripple is not Homura clone (she’s a bad-natured teenager, not a hardened fighter) and the comparisons between Snow White/Madoka and La Pucelle/Sayaka are very superficial (especially with Snow’s later development in the novels). Narratively, tonally and thematically, the series is much, much closer to DR than PMMM.             

(A quick note my comparison is only based on the anime. I have never read the light novels and have no desire to do so.)

Don’t get me wrong - what they do with the characters and their set ups are different such as La Pucelle‘s arc being based around being a boy who likes something childish and feminine VS Sayaka’s romance based one.

However, (again, no offense meant to anyone who likes the show) far too many of the other points are too big to be a coincidence in my opinion. There is a big difference between ‘the artist is actually a massive fan of DR‘ and ‘the mascots are both rounded, stylized animals that are half black/half white split vertically down the middle of the face, have a perma-smile, have glowing red eye on the black side but a black beady eye on the white side.’ especially considering the role (evil mastermind mascot) and motives are nearly the same (so this isn’t just on the artist).

I’m sorry anon, but my opinion remains unchanged. If you would like to continue this discussion, please do so on my main blog since this is a Danganronpa blog and this conversation is straying from that.