Magical Girls

small children are only watching precure
big friends only get edgy mahou shoujos
it's just a right shame

It's too heavily saturated with cliches and successful tropes, and hasn't done anything interesting in 10 years.
It's essentially a dead genre, just like mecha.

Precure is great.

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This is just my guess, but adult-oriented magical girl shows have a very niche appeal except for maybe meduka, while kid-oriented shows have been replaced with idol shows except for precure. This might be why I've noticed people tend to list less recent shows and classics when asked what are good examples of the genre. The only "very recent" non-franchise magical girl shows I've seen discussed substantially are Asuka and the S&M one.
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Sentai, mecha, and mahou shoujo were all Japan's twist on the superhero genre.
Now that capeshit is mainstream, there's no reason for anyone to be invested in the foreign-made knockoffs.
Why else is MHA so massively popular? It's Naruto dressed in capeshit, with cute sexy anime girls to provide that exotic eye candy.

You are (not) wrong

They tried to be more "realistic" which in turn killed the "magical" aspect.

But Asuka is the S&M one.
You're also missing the one that came out a week ago.
There's also shows like Jewelpet that give the magic to critters instead of the girls.

It used to be great. All seasons that came after GoPri are boring and uninspired.

Asuka isn't even talked about that often, it's just that it recently had an anime.

It's ok that you think that but you're wrong.

Prove me wrong then.

Me as Kyouko

>But Asuka is the S&M one.
Asuka as in Spec Ops Asuka and the S&M one as in this one.
>You're also missing the one that came out a week ago.
Which one is that? I haven't really looked into this season yet.
Also Jewelpet's last season was 5 years ago, which leads into my point of there not being many new series that people other than a niche group would be interested in.

Well Precure monopolized the market, so if someone isn't interested in it then tough luck.

I think the problem is that there's now a very strong dichotomy between "adult-oriented" mahou shoujo, which is a fad that appears to be ending, and "kids-oriented" mahou shoujo, which is a staple. The proper way to do it is to have well-written mahou shoujo shows that cater to both adults and children (basically slip in more complex themes for adults to appreciate).

Well, how would (You) save mahou shoujo as a concept?

Mewkledreamy is the new one.
Sure, because like you said little girls are watching Aikatsu and Pretty Series, as well as things like Jewelpet - by which I mean Cocotama and Fairilu as well. Which are also dead, but more recently. Plus there was the Jewelpet movie that Corona killed.

We need Magical Girl Raising Project back.

First, we need an actual deconsruction of mahou shoujo.
Then, it's time to make a lot of experimental stuff.
Mahou shoujo was at its best when you could throw in any trope you wanted and make it work, like in Minky Momo.

Fair enough. I forgot to mention in my first post that I'm nowhere close to being an expert on the genre so there's a lot I'm unaware of.

Kids love them what are you talking about ? The reason why you don't see much weeb marketing is because the genre got hijacked by the west and now every country's got their own original shows.
And kids like them better especially when they're live action.

This. Gook and chink toddlers have their own shows. So do the frogs. Even burgers managed to make something resembling magical girl shows, even if they're shit.

>Well Precure monopolized the market, so if someone isn't interested in it then tough luck.

Pretty much this. There hasn't been a magical girl show aimed for little kids to compete against Precure unless that reboot of Tokyo Mew Mew is going to attempt it

I keep telling you faggots one just started last fucking week.

Sakura could solo the lot of them