#magical girl cartoon

[sekaiichi-happy]

Winx Club | S3 Formal Dresses

[haloheadhater]

He's ok I think

[opal-stars]

Irma Lair 🌊🩵 from WITCH

instagram • @opal.stars

[klutzymaiden123]

The Winx Club (season 1)

So, something that hit me when I was re-watching The Winx Club (the first season, anyway) was how fun this show really was.

Like, yeah, it’s nowhere near perfect and is even a little lame at some points (like, don’t think this is one of those posts where the point is to unveil some untapped mastery behind this show or something we may have missed as kids that hits differently now), but that’s kinda the beauty of it? It wasn’t trying to say anything, it just wanted to have fun. And I don’t mean that in a patronising way, or even to say it’s like one of the more mindless cartoons that was made to just get kids to shut up for a couple of hours, I mean that totally as a compliment. 

I was kinda caught off guard by how much I found myself really loving Alfea, like I really wanted to just go there. It seems like so much fun, the teachers are super nice, the setting is nice, and the world is super cute. The worldbuilding isn’t masterful, but it’s nice, it’s a fantasy. 

Also, some of the characters are really good. Like Techna, who I hated as a kid, is actually my favourite now. She’s just so done with everyone’s shit half the time, and I just love her. (Her relationship with Timmy is pretty lame though. Like, they were literally just paired together cause they’re both nerds and there’s like no chemistry smh). And Flora is super sweet. I don’t know how to describe it, but I kinda wish she was more of a central character. I wanna see her in a role that’s somewhat similiar to Katara, where she’s the mum friend, super sweet and caring, but if you mess with her, you better watch out. 

The only character I flat out didn’t like was Bloom, which was also surprising cause she was my favourite as a kid. Oh, and the boys. They were kinda hella annoying. But other then that, The Winx Club was super entertaining and I wish it didn’t go the way that it did. I wanted to give season two a chance so I could properly meet Aisha (since I didn’t like her as a kid cause she was a newbie), but from what I understand, that’s when the girls get those pixie things and yeah, no, that’s too cutesy even for me. 

But dang, I know the Winx Club is that show that, for whatever reason, will not go away, but I’d totally be down for it to get a reboot. In animated form. One where the story is revised, the characters cleaned up, and there’s more exploring of the world. There really is something magical about this show and I think it could be even better. 

But regardless, those are my 4am thoughts on this show. What are yours? 

[0-patches-0]

Making a magical girl animation for a friend's birthday, so far, just a WIP, but what do y'all think?

honestly I don't even have any kind of plan just sketches and vibes

[emilylovescookies]

everybody finds love in the end

[sailorsenshigifs]

[angsty-art-ist]

🌙🧪✨ 🛼 sailor moon girl magic! 🥊⭐️🔬💫

(alts under cut)

[prokopetz]

It’s really starting to annoy me how Western magical-girl-themed tabletop RPGs tend to jump through hoops to explain why Only Girls Can Have Magic Powers when that’s just... not really broadly true of their ostensible source material?

Like, yes, a few magical girl shows do make a big deal out of gender, but for the most part there’s no indication that having magical powers is gender-specific, and most classic examples of the genre prominently feature boys with powers similar to those of the female leads – usually in supporting or antagonistic roles, true, but that’s typically less a reflection of the metaphysics of the setting and more a reflection of who the show’s target audience is.

(Imagine explicitly citing Sailor Moon as one of the game’s core inspirations, then turning around and swatting players with a rolled-up newspaper if they want to be Tuxedo Mask. Now don’t imagine it, because I’ve encountered games that literally do this!)

It feels like the games that go this route are trying to invent in-character justifications for something that exists for out-of-character reasons (i.e., the gender demographics of the leading characters reflecting the gender demographics of the target audience), and in the process tumbling headlong down the slippery slope of gender essentialism when they just plain didn’t have to do that.

I’ll grant that some games make a valiant effort to address those implications, but it feels like they’re making a lot of work for themselves when they could just have said “hey, this game is about magical girls, so you should probably play as a girl”.

[kalopsic-lagomorph]

brain dumps magical girl velvet and her begrudging familiar floyd(hes only here for community service hours)

ok im gonna sleeeeep

[makzimaal]

Back with the mlp human designs!! I've had these done for awhile but didn't get around to posting them; heres applejack!

[sekaiichi-happy]

Winx Club | S1 Trix Casual Outfits

[haloheadhater]

Who gave Kab the bat pant

[win-x]

[star-png]

Wordgirl! But I changed her design to be a bit more magical girl-ish because why not hehe

[lemonbawr]

They could never make me hate you, Kyoko