Over at Borderline Hikikomori, Crisu writes about attempting a lecture on mahou shoujo. To this, Damien Kellis of Moe Check! responds with a piece on shoujo versus shounen. Considering that I’ve spent over four hours over the past two weekends working on an unfinished, content-light Cardcaptor Sakura post, I’m thoughtful on which magical girl series I’ve seen and enjoyed (or didn’t enjoy), and why.

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Kamichika won’t let that charm be lost. It could be a symbol of his attempts to get into Yasaka Oogi, so that Kayano will see him as worthy of her. Jamanana pretty much confirms that Kamichika doesn’t know it was Nana in the Billy costume, after all. The dub kind of misses the mark, though, as Jamanana tells Kamichika that it was Nana in the costume.

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The petals from the cherry tree are beginning to fall. Jamanana must know her time is almost at an end.
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Mutsumi returns! Yay! Not only that, but he clearly remembers Nana, and congratulates her on getting the early acceptance. Mutsumi’s too awesome. I’d say he needs his own anime series, but that would take the mysteriousness away from him.
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The eighth Nana has really worked on her prism powers. How long might it have taken for her to perfect vanishing and reappearing?

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