the only way to afford being alive in the modern era: happening to have rich parents (don't have rich parents? you're screwed, have fun working till you're 80 then dying without ever paying off your debts)
tbh it feels like "darker" magical girls shows today are trying to replicate madoka's success as an anime by being more edgier and gorier (but without the good writing)
Madoka is a good anime, even without it being a magical girl. Like I Madoka tried to portray innocent but with "adult hardship", Like how is it moral to tell little girls to fight monster? So yeah I agree, lots of Magical girl show now miss the point. it's not about being edgy or gory... it's having a good theme/message/story first and that happen to be a bit dark.
@Nico :3 I knoww that doesn't make any sense with all of those weird writings dbsjskssh it's not even dark enough to do it like the promised neverland or another the promised neverland (shadows house)
Tbh Sailor Moon had a bunch of dark stuff happening in it. I feel like many ppl tend to forget it cuz of how ppl gloss over and watch the first few episodes or read the first few chapters. Only difference is it was a lot more subtle than a lot of "dark" magical girl shows today. Also there were just a lot of messed up stuff happening in Sailor Moon, tht if u rewatched the show as an adult u would just go "how TF was this a kids anime??" Princess tutu was also pretty dark so idk why everyone keeps thinking tht the older magical girl shows were lighthearted. Madoka Magica is the only modern one which handled the dark themes well with its unique and unsettling ost and animation (i loved how they animated the enemies) without trying to come off as edgy. Would have added WEP if it didn't have such a shitty and uncohesive story later on. It had so much potential. Welp thts just my opinion.
u have a point cus sailor moon may be deprived of all of the blood spilling and crap but imagine having to watch everyone u love get killed in front of you and your not able to do anything and ntm she kills hers short after!
have you ever read the manga? I got the first 2 books when I was 13 ... and it was hard. The last 6 books are just brutal and then I was like 16. I never told my mum about it, because I wanted the rest of the books, but damn. That is no Kids material. The last books should be marked PG18 in my opinion. The TV-Show was sooooo mellowed down compared to it.
@@coronastern i have actually and yea its wayyyy darker but the og anime is still fucked up when compared to other modern magical girl animes (except madoka magica) tht try way too hard to be edgy
@@coronasternthe manga was always meant for young teenage girls and young women though tbh, it was never meant for small children. even the original anime wasn't meant for small kids even though the dic dub made it come off that way, and even though it's toned down, i think it was still more suitable for preteens at youngest to watch it esp since the series progressively gets darker in all incarnations
Truth. Literally all the Inner Senshi (all there were at the time) *died* at the end of the first series. True, re-incarnation is part of their destiny but they didn't know that at the time and they all (temporarily?) lost their memories of each-other.
This video is overstating the change. Yes, the grim dark magical girl copycats are a dime a dozen now but there were plenty of mature magical girl shows back in the day too. And they did not all depend on the same death gimmick Madoka and it’s clones did.
@@lenleon3699 I agree, madoka spawned clones (wixoss anyone?) in attempts to milk it, some poorer than others (mahou shoujo site feels like someone saw madoka and thought death was all that it was about, and decided to do only that but more edgy. At least wixoss tried to play at the same themes of despair as madoka did, even if subpar and lacking any of the surprise the unexpected genre-shift in madoka had). But there were dark parts of even the most iconic earlier ones shown in this video (though I don't remember enough of cardcaptor and sailor to actually point out anything specific). Nanoha and her friends might have still had plot armor (so not that much death), but they still encountered tragedies, and side characters lacked it. And the spinoff were literally about bully-victim with superhuman strength snapping and crushing skulls in school.
To be completely honest, when you really think about what it actually means to be a magical girl, you understand that no matter how it’s portrayed it’s a somewhat dark subject matter. Madoka Magica did a great job showing this but I think that it’s true for all magical girl animes.
theres actually a really neat video comparing magical girl site and madoka magica, and it basically talks about how the two animes handled dark subject matters, and how madoka magica seemed to handle it much more effectively. ill link the video if i can find it again
[Spoilers for sailor moon] I think this video is pretty accurate to how brutal these new magical girl shows can get, but there were some parts of original magical girl shows, specifically sailor moon, that were pretty dark. In act 1 of sailor moon near the end, all of sailor moons friends die brutally, one by one, and she just has to watch them. Even her lover is dead and she has barely any hope. In the manga you also learn that before she was reborn on earth, princess serenity killed herself 😬 I could keep going but sailor moon is a lot deeper than a cutesy magical girl show. The reason that it's different from these shows is that it takes an optimistic approach instead of being straight up torture corn.
I checked the end of sailor Moon and I found that even if all magical girl except sailor Moon died, they all resurrected, so it isn't this dark, but for a "kids show" it's weird that there are deaths...
One important thing to note though is that when the whole series is as cutesy and fun throughout like in Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor, it makes those dark and emotional moments all the more powerful due to the contrast.
Chibiusa. The deaths of the first sailors. Moon kingdom arc. All the deaths of the henchmens etc... Its dark when it HAS to be. Not just cause it has to.
Vordox all the newer series try to “subvert” the genre’s convention by going dark. Not realizing that madoka only worked because the cutesy stuff was the norm.
@@frankwest5388 plus madoka didn't go super overboard with it. And it still was a good story on it's own merits. A lot of the other shows afterwards were just trying to be as edgy as possible
@@alan0004 I would say that is more realistically dark than Madoka. It's like what would actually happen if magical girls come to existence in our world.
Madoka and studio shaft on general got inspiration from revolutionary girl utena and ikuhara + yuasa style + a liitle of german expressionism and a Tarantino dialogs
The reason madoka worked so well is that magical girls represent hope, purity, and that child like innocence. They say that a light shine brightest in the dark. Madoka is still that hopeful, innocent girl who wish the best in a not so good world. The other "dark" magical girls are just depressing and there is no hope.
Sailor Moon was dark, especially the manga lol. And there was another anime from the 2000s that was almost same thing of Madoka but with a lower budget. Madoka isn't anything original, it just had good animation. And almost all characters sucked tbh
- This video is overly silly, generalized, and cherry picked. MGRP has nothing of value, but just because the genre has changed somewhat doesn’t mean it’s dead. If anything, Madoka breathed some sorely needed new life into the genre. The old shows are still available to watch, they haven’t gone anywhere. A new take on our childhood innocence is great, in moderation that people might say doesn’t exist because all we’ve gotten in the 2010s is grimdark and parodies. That’s not true. Lots of old shows like Princess Tutu were dark takes on the genre before Madoka. Even the new shows aren’t so dark, because they often end by tying back to the genre’s roots of the power of love and friendship, even if there may be a tragic twist. I’d argue that Yuki Yuna is a Hero plays closer to tradition than Madoka, and doesn’t deserve to be called an imitator. There’s shows that have existed into the 2010’s that don’t fall into “grim dark” like Precure, Jewelpet, Little Witch Academia, that one series made by a car company, and plenty of other shows if you know where to look. Kids are still capable of watching and enjoying plenty of these new shows; I speak from experience because I grew up on The Last Unicorn, which is not a kids movie. The fact that the magical girl genre has evolved proves it has staying power. And I haven’t even gotten to western magical girl shows, of which there are plenty.
@@diamondminer5459 Holy fuck dude. Kudos to you for writing a 2 page essay under a comment intended to be humorous. Now if you don't mind, I'd like it double-spaced in Times New Roman and with the font at size 12.
@@diamondminer5459 Madoka is an edge-fest. Other magical girls series starts joining the bandwagon and rips off Madoka bcs they got no originality. Honestly, the magical girls genre is ruined nowadays. People just don't get what makes it great anymore.
The closest thing we get to a "Doki doki" scene in Madoka Magica is Homura's admiration for Madoka. There's also Tsuyuno and Aya, but they turn out to be sisters. 💀
I meannn.. yeah maybe also that one scene with Sayaka and Kysosuke like when she blushed when while listening to music close/with him. Or that one scene with Hitomi confessing to Kyosuke and they're happy.. aaand.. at the same time Sayaka's secretly stalking and watching both of them in the far distance contemplating everything and slowly spiraling into madness, self neglect, and depression LMFAOOO
Actually magical girl anime now are way girlier than before lol, idk what you're talking about. yes they are definitely darker than before, but also girlier, which is why I prefer the old kinds oof, most of them really aren't as girly as the modern kinds
I think the evolution is kind of skewed like sailor moon it set the trend for magical girl teams and then madoka magica set it for dark but madoka magica was just supposed to be a one off but because of its popularity everyone else tried to copy it
In all honesty, the Sailor Moon manga was actually pretty brutal and violent at times. The Sailor Moon series in general featured Magical Gril vs Magical Girl (they literally wanted to kill each other sometimes (and a few succeeded)), yandere characters (even Sailor Neptune was a yandere character (stalker + willing to destroy the world if it saves Sailor Uranus' life) in the 90s anime), gay characters, cross-dressing characters, suicide, psychological horror (SuperS manga), nsfw moments between Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask (manga only (censored from Sailor Moon Crystal)), etc. Another fun fact is that Sailor Senshi (what the magical girls from Sailor Moon are called) possess Sailor Crystals and they function the same way Soul Gems from Madoka Magica worked. Apparently, a Sailor Senshi's body can even be restored, as long as, their Sailor Crystals remain. This is also what allows Sailor Senshi to constantly reincarnate and if someone has a powerful enough healing power (*cough*Sailor Moon*cough*), they can even restore their previous bodies. So Sailor Moon beat Madoka Magica to it on that concept too.
I love dark magical shows that aren't just torture pr0n, madoka magica and princess tutu dealt with deep issues without just relying on shock value, rather with great stories and fleshed out characters (and there's probably plenty more shows like that out there)
Yeah, a lot of new magical girls shows are only violent, bloody and shock value,. While Madoka Magica (Which I know began this trend) was more psychological, almost didn't show any blood and had a very hopeful plot.
magical girl site was just... so edgy. the manga had a really neat artstyle, so i can understand that they might just want to draw some gore. and also the bullying made the protagonist understandable. but honestly theres no excuse for the extreme edginess in it. it's just too much, and we all know it.
@@elizabethramirezthezenshii9691 lol yeah i heard about that. of course, the girl being bullied and then being given magical powers allowing her to get revenge on her bullies is a concept full of potential. but, it didn't have a very good story and plot. all it was was an angsty power fantasy and then just tons of violence and edginess.
@@lauraapollodoroshyginuslamer Precure is the Japanese name and Glitter Force is the American name so you can't say that it's not Glitter Force when it's the same thing
Pretty Precure isn't completely rainbow and sunshine either. In one of their episodes, Cure March's siblings were attacked by Majorina as she tried to hit them with a giant orb of energy. Luckily they survive, however they made it seem that they died until the very last moment. In the Glitter Force dub you could here their voices so you already knew they were alive.
@@marie6817 the comment said they didn't know what literature meant, not what doki doki literature club is. also it was Japanese based but doesn't come from japan as far as I know
ya i’m surprised precure is still ongoing after 10 years (2014) and i literally was watching the anniversary of it they celebrated with berryz koubou which sang the ending song for a precure movie back in 2005 of futariwa pretty cute max heart. I was in my magical girl phase in 2013-2014. You can say Why is this a thing that keeps happening? Dark magical girl is almost becoming a genre in its own right, and I am not comfortable with it.
The Magical Girl Raising Project books are freaking awesome too. Really if you want a lot of dark Magical Girl fiction, books and manga are some of your best bets. They go places even anime hasn't tread yet. Give Flip Flappers a try as well; it's a perfect blind of light and dark with a ton of creativity.
Man, you guys are the reason why the magical girl genre has become absolute sh*t nowadays. Nobody cares about it being true to its roots and just wants it to be an edgelord bloodfest.
I like both though. The past were really cliche but they gave good messages. They were also fun to watch. Now it's a deeper phycological level . Painful to watch but exciting.
@@lennartstockl5826 Sometimes things change for the better or worse. That's what's so exciting about everything! The fact that some genres and traits can be combined is so fascinating! Or how things can change entirely.
Magical girl mascots before: “Your destined to save the world!!” Kyubey: “I’m gonna let you die so you can keep my society alive.” Edit: why are people still liking this comment lmao
@@wellIhavenothingbettertodo According to Kyubey... Who we know is a little arse. Who is to say hes being truthful. 😂 Or that he even knowns what hes talking about.
Back then, whenever a magical girl transformed, their weapon would appear in their hand. Nowadays, whenever a magical girl transforms, their weapon can appear between their legs.
It's the result when the writers decided the girls were too OP. But instead of nerfing the magical girls, they instead buffed the threats they face. In a way, by doing this takes away the feeling of security, as there's less room to justify that the protagonist's loss could not happen
I mean in the OG Sailor Moon anime, there WAS an episode where all the sailor scouts were killed... Magical girl shows have always had a bit of a dark element, they're just a lot more in-your-face about it now
Before: Love, rainbows, unicorns, romance, a little bit of drama. After: Blood, death, bullying, traumatic and psycological pounds, dramaaaaaaa, never take care of a dog or cat, mostly of characters will die in horrendous ways.
- This video is overly silly, generalized, and cherry picked. MGRP has nothing of value, but just because the genre has changed somewhat doesn’t mean it’s dead. If anything, Madoka breathed some sorely needed new life into the genre. The old shows are still available to watch, they haven’t gone anywhere. A new take on our childhood innocence is great, in moderation that people might say doesn’t exist because all we’ve gotten in the 2010s is grimdark and parodies. That’s not true. Lots of old shows like Princess Tutu were dark takes on the genre before Madoka. Even the new shows aren’t so dark, because they often end by tying back to the genre’s roots of the power of love and friendship, even if there may be a tragic twist. I’d argue that Yuki Yuna is a Hero plays closer to tradition than Madoka, and doesn’t deserve to be called an imitator. There’s shows that have existed into the 2010’s that don’t fall into “grim dark” like Precure, Jewelpet, Little Witch Academia, that one series made by a car company, and plenty of other shows if you know where to look. Kids are still capable of watching and enjoying plenty of these new shows; I speak from experience because I grew up on The Last Unicorn, which is not a kids movie. The fact that the magical girl genre has evolved proves it has staying power. And I haven’t even gotten to western magical girl shows, of which there are plenty.
@@diamondminer5459 @Diamond Miner Madoka is an edge-fest. Other magical girls series starts joining the bandwagon and rips off Madoka bcs they got no originality. Honestly, the magical girls genre is ruined nowadays. People just don't get what makes it great anymore.
I feel like the biggest difference is that 20 years ago magical girl anime was targeted towards young girls. Now most of them are seinen anime aimed towards adult/older men.
That and they think making a magical girl show dark like Elfen Lied makes it deep, missing the point on why Madoka Magica even gained popularity. Even anime towards adult women aren’t done right, Sailor Moon Crystal was originally a josei anime.
I remember people called it a Sailor Moon rip off but I love it anyways! Thanks to Mew Mew Power and 4KIDS not finishing the dub I discovered subbed anime and what manga was.
@@salceds But they weren't the entire cast. A lot of modern magical girls have what I call "incestuous relationships" with it's main cast that at least hint at love among them. It rarely steps out to include someone outside of the main cast like CCS and Sailor Moon did.
@@deadaccount2968 did you just really call it incestuous....the dumbness you just exhibited anyway, regardless the modern mahou shoujo having the female love interest is a trope i welcome with open arms, however its nothing new compared to the og. we need more lesbians in anime that isnt citrus
Sailor Moon has plenty of dark moments , they just were toned down in the anime and they don't rely on blood to make it depressing, a lot of magical girl series these days still can't hold a candle towards it
If I remember correctly the first enemy was an imposter that knocked out the main characters friends mum and than said she was gonna kill them after she was done. That's honestly what sold me on Sailor Moon, I enjoyed the darker depths of the magical girl genre because I'm a horrible person
Magical Girls then: "I'll defeat you with the power of friendship" Magical Girls now: "I'll defeat you with the power of friendship... *AND THIS THERMONUCLEAR BOMB MAGIC SPELL I FOUND*
Back then Magical girls also used to suffer, just watch uncensored and japanese version of the precure shows. Even back in the 90' and before the magical shows were pretty dark. One of them involve the main character being hit by a truck (and is also one of the most hated anime in Japan).
@@narudayo5053 people believed they were the cause of the terrible earthquakes in japan. Other than that, magical girls were always dark. Young girls fighting crime every week. They're kids, kids aren't ready for these type of things.
Not at all. It's ironic how little the person who made the video knows about Sailor Moon, because it's actually a dark series that the anime tried to lighten up. It's obvious that they were one of the people that got distracted from what actually happened in the series. If you think being a Magical Girl back then stops suffering, I'm guessing you aren't exactly familiar with Sailor Saturn at all.
@@rickchakraborty2087Nah. No. Literally no. OP's right. Worse. Much worse. That actual literal post-Madoka Magica rip off is literally worse than even the infamous boku no pico.
then: "uwu i was chosen to protect our world from evil spirits with the powers given to me" now: "i was given these powers to protect humanity, in turn i am losing my bodily functions and will most likely suffer an early death."
No, now you have more animes of comedy and you still have romantic shojos, you have animes nows more serious like attack on Titan and Banana Fish, they have violence yes, but that's not the focus, attack on Titan and Banana fish show the reality of the world, and now you have more YAOI and YURI thanks god, Now you have more sport anime. But yes we still have very animes who just focus in violence.
Madoka is the original version of this type of new magical girl genre and nobody has been able to copy its mastery. Many have tried, but all have failed in comparison to the masterpiece which is Madoka Magica. It’s honestly one of my top animes.
I’m so happy no one forgot about CardCaptor Sakura, I’m rewatching it now actually. The manga is kinda creepy due to the villain that’s “half of clow reed” being aware about sakura’s dad being his other half and even points it out to everyone but Sakura. Edit: GUYS ITS ON NETFLIX!!
@@josephinamungaray6118 Sakura’s love interest is her distant cousin (or would Sakura be his great aunt?) and she also has a crush (or slight interest?) on clow for a little bit
In its.. In its defense... Madoka Magica isn’t supposed to be like any magical girl anime’s... It’s supposed to be something that destroys the original concept and makes it a Hell lot Darker while also lying about what it actually is... Puella Magica is a Lie to show the truth.
PMMM was a genre deconsttuction of the magical girl genre. Also Ariane, they do use magic, just not in traditional ways. Mami's ribbons are magic and by extension so are the guns as they are made from the ribbons, Homura stops time and shoots those magic bullet things (albiet in only one scene), Sayaka has accelerated healing, Madoka makes magic arrows, and Kyoko has illusion (though they arent used in the anime due to rejecting her wish which sealed the magic).
Even Pokemon look hardcore for me ; I never liked the fact that they catch animal (yeah, pokemon, whatever, and I even should say "monsters") in a ball to make them beat each another to dead in an arena. It was not better back then, and in fact, in my opinion, it's just that now, we don't hide things anymore, and don't use metaphor. Even when you look at "girlish" anime, when you look at it now, and you forget the "everything is pink, the life is so great, and to make babies, a stork appears with a white cloth and the baby in it" or shits like that, you see things that wouldn't be OK now for children, like child abuse, homelessness or sometime death. So now, they just remove the "pink" particles but it's about the same content.
Basically Old Magical girl anime era: Everything before Madoka Magica New Magical girl anime era: Everything after Madoka Magica I do understand that there were dark magical girl animes way before Madoka Magica, but Madoka was the anime that really popularized the subgenre. Honestly, I don't like the darker themed magical girl animes of the now. Most of them try to copy Madoka Magica without understanding what made it so good in the first place. Madoka Magica was an amazing anime, but everything that came after (at least, in terms of the dark stuff) was shit.
Azula is the only villain ever that has attacked when a main character is powering up or something like that, like bruh, it’s almost like they want to get obliterated
Magical Girls then: "With the power of love and friendship and rainbows, I transform!" Magical Girls now: "With the power of blood and misery and angst, I dont transform instead Im just gonna shoot you in the face"
You can still find cute anime girls, but their for little girls, but i watch them because there is no violence. I’m not a fan of violence. Back then was better for me. Now magical girls you see here are made for teen and up which are super violent and i hate violence. ITS NOT CUTE.
@@CutieRingoJoy Yeah. It's pretty sick to be honest. This why I had to watch nothing but "eye bleach" anime for a while. Too much dark stuff finally got to me. I NEEDED some harmless, wholesome, comedy.
@@CutieRingoJoy well no one care bloody is fun like attack on Titan, Jujutsu kaisen,etc you have to learn that world are cruel be Cruel to survive and cute girl are fragile and powerless like sakura of naruto
@@nolife2374 - The world is indeed very cruel, but that does not need to be represented in media. A lot of entertainment is used as a form of escapism. It's completely understandable if people want something much more wholesome or sweet to watch in order to lift their spirits than the depressing shit that blows stuff out of proportions at times. I personally enjoy disturbing films but balance it out with some cute shows too. Bloody isn't always fun in my opinion and some shows really over do it.
honestly why can't you equally love both the cute n color and the dark yet chillingly good magical girls(and boys)of present and yester year? edit: i am aware this is satire, don't worry. I can't believe i have to clarify this, I'm not mad just disappointed also go check out fairy ranmaru.
- This video is overly silly, generalized, and cherry picked. MGRP has nothing of value, but just because the genre has changed somewhat doesn’t mean it’s dead. If anything, Madoka breathed some sorely needed new life into the genre. The old shows are still available to watch, they haven’t gone anywhere. A new take on our childhood innocence is great, in moderation that people might say doesn’t exist because all we’ve gotten in the 2010s is grimdark and parodies. That’s not true. Lots of old shows like Princess Tutu were dark takes on the genre before Madoka. Even the new shows aren’t so dark, because they often end by tying back to the genre’s roots of the power of love and friendship, even if there may be a tragic twist. I’d argue that Yuki Yuna is a Hero plays closer to tradition than Madoka, and doesn’t deserve to be called an imitator. There’s shows that have existed into the 2010’s that don’t fall into “grim dark” like Precure, Jewelpet, Little Witch Academia, that one series made by a car company, and plenty of other shows if you know where to look. Kids are still capable of watching and enjoying plenty of these new shows; I speak from experience because I grew up on The Last Unicorn, which is not a kids movie. The fact that the magical girl genre has evolved proves it has staying power. And I haven’t even gotten to western magical girl shows, of which there are plenty.
@@diamondminer5459 Wait, The Last Unicorn was not a kids movie?! I found it and watched it from the kids section in the library hold up- Edit: Alright its rated G, but has some more adult themes at times in it ok- Now that I think back to the movie, I think that's true.
@2:30 The dad’s credit card got me thrilled 😆
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the only way to afford being alive in the modern era: happening to have rich parents
(don't have rich parents? you're screwed, have fun working till you're 80 then dying without ever paying off your debts)
Maybe 02:40
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@@haileyelliott3676 OH FRICK NO
Then: “Friendship is our Strength”
Now: “Crippling Depression and rape are our Strength”
Millenial and gen x magical girls vs zoomer magical girls.
Besides hunter x hunter that actually turned out a good remake
@@meethindocha1824 Bruh
Magic of Friendship: OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU!
Princess Tutu and Utena: same
Then:
"I'm dying of happiness!"
Now:
*"I'm dying"*
Litteral or actual ?
You know that literal and actual mean the same thing right?
@@ReyOfLight727 yes
Yes
How tf did I get so many likes in 5 days
tbh it feels like "darker" magical girls shows today are trying to replicate madoka's success as an anime by being more edgier and gorier (but without the good writing)
I agree, it isn't to make it darker, it's for make you sympathize with the characters and have good writing (sorry for the english)
You do know about this! 👌
Madoka is a good anime, even without it being a magical girl. Like I Madoka tried to portray innocent but with "adult hardship", Like how is it moral to tell little girls to fight monster?
So yeah I agree, lots of Magical girl show now miss the point. it's not about being edgy or gory... it's having a good theme/message/story first and that happen to be a bit dark.
Honestly their endings doesn't make any sense at all-
@Nico :3 I knoww that doesn't make any sense with all of those weird writings dbsjskssh it's not even dark enough to do it like the promised neverland or another the promised neverland (shadows house)
Tbh Sailor Moon had a bunch of dark stuff happening in it. I feel like many ppl tend to forget it cuz of how ppl gloss over and watch the first few episodes or read the first few chapters. Only difference is it was a lot more subtle than a lot of "dark" magical girl shows today. Also there were just a lot of messed up stuff happening in Sailor Moon, tht if u rewatched the show as an adult u would just go "how TF was this a kids anime??"
Princess tutu was also pretty dark so idk why everyone keeps thinking tht the older magical girl shows were lighthearted.
Madoka Magica is the only modern one which handled the dark themes well with its unique and unsettling ost and animation (i loved how they animated the enemies) without trying to come off as edgy.
Would have added WEP if it didn't have such a shitty and uncohesive story later on. It had so much potential.
Welp thts just my opinion.
u have a point cus sailor moon may be deprived of all of the blood spilling and crap but imagine having to watch everyone u love get killed in front of you and your not able to do anything
and ntm she kills hers short after!
have you ever read the manga? I got the first 2 books when I was 13 ... and it was hard. The last 6 books are just brutal and then I was like 16. I never told my mum about it, because I wanted the rest of the books, but damn. That is no Kids material. The last books should be marked PG18 in my opinion. The TV-Show was sooooo mellowed down compared to it.
@@coronastern i have actually and yea its wayyyy darker but the og anime is still fucked up when compared to other modern magical girl animes (except madoka magica) tht try way too hard to be edgy
@@coronasternthe manga was always meant for young teenage girls and young women though tbh, it was never meant for small children. even the original anime wasn't meant for small kids even though the dic dub made it come off that way, and even though it's toned down, i think it was still more suitable for preteens at youngest to watch it esp since the series progressively gets darker in all incarnations
Truth. Literally all the Inner Senshi (all there were at the time) *died* at the end of the first series. True, re-incarnation is part of their destiny but they didn't know that at the time and they all (temporarily?) lost their memories of each-other.
magic girl: *transforms*
that one villan with elipsey: well shit..
Every one with elipsey: what about us
The ultimate proof that magical girls are actually villains
@@shiro4ct PLOT TWIST?!?
_Caramelldansen intensifies_
@@SonOfAFridge_ the normal one? Or the version from another room at 0.5x Speed?
Madoka Magica: **gets made**
Literally every anime studio that was running out of ideas: *I can milk you*
This video is overstating the change. Yes, the grim dark magical girl copycats are a dime a dozen now but there were plenty of mature magical girl shows back in the day too. And they did not all depend on the same death gimmick Madoka and it’s clones did.
I mean Magical Girl Ore is a whole different level to Madoka
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@@lenleon3699 I agree, madoka spawned clones (wixoss anyone?) in attempts to milk it, some poorer than others (mahou shoujo site feels like someone saw madoka and thought death was all that it was about, and decided to do only that but more edgy. At least wixoss tried to play at the same themes of despair as madoka did, even if subpar and lacking any of the surprise the unexpected genre-shift in madoka had). But there were dark parts of even the most iconic earlier ones shown in this video (though I don't remember enough of cardcaptor and sailor to actually point out anything specific).
Nanoha and her friends might have still had plot armor (so not that much death), but they still encountered tragedies, and side characters lacked it. And the spinoff were literally about bully-victim with superhuman strength snapping and crushing skulls in school.
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Then: everyone is happy
Now: peace was never an option
Well, Sailor Moon had dark scenes in it. "Everyone is happy" is totally wrong.
Please was once an option,
To be completely honest, when you really think about what it actually means to be a magical girl, you understand that no matter how it’s portrayed it’s a somewhat dark subject matter. Madoka Magica did a great job showing this but I think that it’s true for all magical girl animes.
= Depression.
They're child soldiers, but it's magic so it's ok 🙂
Yeah, because it’s always some dumb pet from a different universe forcing some random kids to fight aliens for them.
@@supakku exactly
Madoka acknowledges that it’s not ok for a creature to use child soldeirs
Can we take a moment to appreciate that CLAMP animated a different outfit for Sakura’s transformation EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. She transformed
Dang you are right
It feels like they came with various ideas but after can't choosing only one they went with all of them.
I think the coolest thing about Sakura’s outfits were that they weren’t magical. Tomoyo made them.
U mean, madhouse?
@@edgarcross4721 why Madhouse? Doesn't its manga have various outfits too?
Then: This is Magical Girls
Now: This ain’t Magical Girls, this is *Tragical* Girls
Madoka Magica in a nutshell
😂
Dammit thanks to you now all my juice is on the floor
Correct
Lol
The truth is that many mahou shoujos after Madoka try to be 'darks' to achieve the popularity and prestige of Madoka
Trying hard to be edgy.
That's totally true
theres actually a really neat video comparing magical girl site and madoka magica, and it basically talks about how the two animes handled dark subject matters, and how madoka magica seemed to handle it much more effectively. ill link the video if i can find it again
@@Kaycee-Bee96 I would love to see that video actually, do you have the link?
@@GlitchyPixExtra ua-cam.com/video/6kmaba2TopE/v-deo.html here i found it
[Spoilers for sailor moon]
I think this video is pretty accurate to how brutal these new magical girl shows can get, but there were some parts of original magical girl shows, specifically sailor moon, that were pretty dark. In act 1 of sailor moon near the end, all of sailor moons friends die brutally, one by one, and she just has to watch them. Even her lover is dead and she has barely any hope. In the manga you also learn that before she was reborn on earth, princess serenity killed herself 😬 I could keep going but sailor moon is a lot deeper than a cutesy magical girl show. The reason that it's different from these shows is that it takes an optimistic approach instead of being straight up torture corn.
Wtf, even sailor Moon is dark ?!
I checked the end of sailor Moon and I found that even if all magical girl except sailor Moon died, they all resurrected, so it isn't this dark, but for a "kids show" it's weird that there are deaths...
@@papyrusse. well it was intended for teenagers
Woah,, really!?
Não intendo inglês mesmo
Magical girl then: *Everyday I'm shuffeling*
Magical girls now: *Everyday I'm suffering*
Lmao 🤣 so true 🤣🤣🤣💀
I'm losing my shit hahaha
*Everyday I'm chickenin'*
Suffering Suffering ~~
Dutchie im your 2000th like
One important thing to note though is that when the whole series is as cutesy and fun throughout like in Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor, it makes those dark and emotional moments all the more powerful due to the contrast.
Chibiusa. The deaths of the first sailors. Moon kingdom arc. All the deaths of the henchmens etc... Its dark when it HAS to be. Not just cause it has to.
Vordox all the newer series try to “subvert” the genre’s convention by going dark. Not realizing that madoka only worked because the cutesy stuff was the norm.
@@frankwest5388 plus madoka didn't go super overboard with it. And it still was a good story on it's own merits.
A lot of the other shows afterwards were just trying to be as edgy as possible
tru
so basically 'Made in Abyss' effect?
Back then: Happy times
Now: Call Of Duty: Magical Warfare
Actually there is the "Magical Girl Spec-ops" anime which is exactly like you said
@@avtomat4 and is dark, not that dark as madoka magica but still pretty dark
@@alan0004 I would say that is more realistically dark than Madoka. It's like what would actually happen if magical girls come to existence in our world.
The only “kawaii” magical girl anime these days that I can think of is Precure.
Yeah; precure is the closest series now to classic magical girls, other then that it's about 90% m rated and 10% parody.
Magical Girls enemies then: "I'll defeat you using my evil plan and minions"
Magical Girls enemies now: "Have you heard about BDSM?"
NOOO NOT GUSHING OVER MAGICAL GIRLS GAHHHHH
Then: We'll win with the power of friendship!
Now: *_Friendship is dead and so are you_*
Friendship: Oh crap, I don't feel so good...
Now: lmao what friends?
Oh no, I gotta check on Twilight
*Friendship* ??? never heard of it...
“You are dead not big surprise”
To be fair, Madoka just becomes the embodiment of all hope. She literally becomes Anime Kirby.
Wait...
@@sleepyusag11 you should
@@xdlr22 i think your forgetting that last movie where her stalker defies time, space and death to anti-Jesus the world in order to get back to her.
@@xdlr22 lmao are you a comedian?
_Rise, oh Dark Lord of _*_Despair!_*_ Crush the stars; lay waste to care!_
(I may or may not have tried to ship Void Termina with UKG.)
Madoka and studio shaft on general got inspiration from revolutionary girl utena and ikuhara + yuasa style + a liitle of german expressionism and a Tarantino dialogs
The reason madoka worked so well is that magical girls represent hope, purity, and that child like innocence. They say that a light shine brightest in the dark. Madoka is still that hopeful, innocent girl who wish the best in a not so good world. The other "dark" magical girls are just depressing and there is no hope.
At the end of the day, Madoka is still, at its core, a magical girl show. Here's hoping the new movie will be good.
Like Hollywood they over simplified stuff
Like Superman or super heroes in general.
I thought it was cause people have a loli kink.
Sailor Moon was dark, especially the manga lol. And there was another anime from the 2000s that was almost same thing of Madoka but with a lower budget. Madoka isn't anything original, it just had good animation. And almost all characters sucked tbh
I can't wait to revisit this video, now that "Gushing Over Magical Girls" exists
HELP
Still cant believe that thing managed to get an anime adaptation. Not that im complaining though. Studio fkin delivers with the adaptation
@@ajinurfajri1952From what I've heard the manga is more tame than the anime by comparison.
I watched it and it was fire but not the gay sexs and transformations and the rape scenes
Heheheh
AAAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Especially after that last Azure scene.
I love how kyubey is just like ":)" when someone is literally in need of help and dying
I think ":3" is more accuarte xD
The little shit
Well, I mean, it doesn't exactly feel, so that's kinda expected
Mustache Merlin
Kyubey at schools: “delicious, finally some good fucking food”
@@teamprimarina Also Kyubey: The sorrow and despair in here taste immaculate
Magical girl anime then: *MAGIC*
Magical girl anime now: *TRAGIC*
SAYORI
*One word GREAT and underrated 😌💅*
Yes.
@@lonelyfox1893 a bit stolen from the tragical girls comment
Minky momo has left the chat
Sailor moon got pretty dark itself still not on the same level as nowadays but especially stars and the killing of most of the scouts
Man read the manga version of Sailor Stars you haven't seen dark 😭
@@sidekick929 I've read it
666th like.
Queen Of Hidden Snow she made herself the queen what!?
The manga of sailor moon is sad I believe mamoru gets kicked by galaxia and kills him in front of sailor moon:(
I love how card captor Sakura didn't have a transformation but a best friend who liked to dress her up ❤
Yesss 😭💖
It’s a bit different, but I love it
Back then: Animal crossing
Now: Doom Enteral
Hahaha hahahahaahaha!!! Wow dude
@@ricothenerdybee9090 thanks
For some reason, I got reminded happy tree friends
@@NariNon that's often in the case dude
Rico the Nerdybee
Oh shit you responded
Magical Girls then: *Happy fun times, enjoyable by the whole family*
Magical Girls now: *Everything is pain; we live to suffer and we die suffering.*
*being meguca is suffering*
Lol
- This video is overly silly, generalized, and cherry picked. MGRP has nothing of value, but just because the genre has changed somewhat doesn’t mean it’s dead. If anything, Madoka breathed some sorely needed new life into the genre. The old shows are still available to watch, they haven’t gone anywhere. A new take on our childhood innocence is great, in moderation that people might say doesn’t exist because all we’ve gotten in the 2010s is grimdark and parodies. That’s not true. Lots of old shows like Princess Tutu were dark takes on the genre before Madoka. Even the new shows aren’t so dark, because they often end by tying back to the genre’s roots of the power of love and friendship, even if there may be a tragic twist. I’d argue that Yuki Yuna is a Hero plays closer to tradition than Madoka, and doesn’t deserve to be called an imitator. There’s shows that have existed into the 2010’s that don’t fall into “grim dark” like Precure, Jewelpet, Little Witch Academia, that one series made by a car company, and plenty of other shows if you know where to look. Kids are still capable of watching and enjoying plenty of these new shows; I speak from experience because I grew up on The Last Unicorn, which is not a kids movie. The fact that the magical girl genre has evolved proves it has staying power. And I haven’t even gotten to western magical girl shows, of which there are plenty.
@@diamondminer5459 Holy fuck dude. Kudos to you for writing a 2 page essay under a comment intended to be humorous. Now if you don't mind, I'd like it double-spaced in Times New Roman and with the font at size 12.
@@diamondminer5459 Madoka is an edge-fest. Other magical girls series starts joining the bandwagon and rips off Madoka bcs they got no originality. Honestly, the magical girls genre is ruined nowadays. People just don't get what makes it great anymore.
Then: Use magical wand to cast their spells
Now: *GUN*
Tanya fon Degurshaff: Ha-ha. *YES!*
Merica
@@artemsgameschannel727 they also use stand
BOOSTED 1327 guns and junk food
*'merica*
The closest thing we get to a "Doki doki" scene in Madoka Magica is Homura's admiration for Madoka. There's also Tsuyuno and Aya, but they turn out to be sisters. 💀
what about anything in episodes 1 and 2 of madoka, or the scene with sayaka and kyouske before.. _that_ … happened
I meannn.. yeah maybe also that one scene with Sayaka and Kysosuke like when she blushed when while listening to music close/with him. Or that one scene with Hitomi confessing to Kyosuke and they're happy.. aaand.. at the same time Sayaka's secretly stalking and watching both of them in the far distance contemplating everything and slowly spiraling into madness, self neglect, and depression LMFAOOO
Magical girls then : animal crossing
Magical girls now : doki doki literature club
HEY HEY HOMURA HEY PA DIG HOMURA
Hey hey monika
Oh shi
@@mgh7634 what? are you calling Homura a pig? if so you didnt understand the series-
o-oh..
Then: "Let the voice of love take you higher"
Now: "Let the joy of love give you cancer"
iS ThIs a MOtHeRFUcKiNG JOJO REFERENCE ?
These magical girls when from Jonathan to jotaro real quick
I am very sorry but "Let the *JOY* of love give you cancer".
@@richrock5307 I am very sorry but you are gay
@@hamhampangpang_customer I have literally corrected the person in line from JoJo op.
How can I physically be *not* gay?
“I’m a main character, you can’t treat me like this!”
*you have lost your plot armour privileges*
THIS DESERVES AT LEAST 1K LIKES LMAOO
Bean?! What the heck?! How did I find you here-
@@pen_doodles8826
oh wow XD
*fate?*
lol
Haha plot armor go bye bye
Well hello there-
you shold've waited till this month
we have "Gushing Over Magical Girls" now :P
A man of culture I see
@@minhkimnguyen8140Very much so
@@minhkimnguyen8140 it's a lesbian anime lol
At least the darker twists on magical girls didn't go THAT direction geez
Dark magical girl anime’s have existed since before “now”. Heck, even sailor moon got dark at times lol
Besides he miss soo much other magical girls
Ohhh come on😓😓😓
Kind of like Minky Momo, she died by a car accident on a kids show. Right there on screen.
agreed, even ojamajo doremi has that episode when the girls are dead
Yeah, just watch Utena, that's plenty dark, all those new Magical girl anime are just edgy
Especially in season five
Magical Girl then: Disney fairy tales
Magical Girl now: Original fairy tales
@MellO The Brothers Grimm did them good?
@@dakotagordon8756 Yeah 😂
@@dakotagordon8756 yaaa 👍
*And Why the hell is this comment so damn UNDERRATED 😭🤞*
This needs more likes
Then:i don’t watch magical girls because they’re too girly
now:i don’t watch magical girls because they’re too dark
*too edgy
@@milkeyway7105 indeed!
Actually magical girl anime now are way girlier than before lol, idk what you're talking about. yes they are definitely darker than before, but also girlier, which is why I prefer the old kinds oof, most of them really aren't as girly as the modern kinds
Mustafa Legend 3000 Nanoha made the "magical girl anime for edgy teenage boys" thing a thing.
I think the evolution is kind of skewed like sailor moon it set the trend for magical girl teams and then madoka magica set it for dark but madoka magica was just supposed to be a one off but because of its popularity everyone else tried to copy it
In all honesty, the Sailor Moon manga was actually pretty brutal and violent at times. The Sailor Moon series in general featured Magical Gril vs Magical Girl (they literally wanted to kill each other sometimes (and a few succeeded)), yandere characters (even Sailor Neptune was a yandere character (stalker + willing to destroy the world if it saves Sailor Uranus' life) in the 90s anime), gay characters, cross-dressing characters, suicide, psychological horror (SuperS manga), nsfw moments between Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask (manga only (censored from Sailor Moon Crystal)), etc.
Another fun fact is that Sailor Senshi (what the magical girls from Sailor Moon are called) possess Sailor Crystals and they function the same way Soul Gems from Madoka Magica worked. Apparently, a Sailor Senshi's body can even be restored, as long as, their Sailor Crystals remain. This is also what allows Sailor Senshi to constantly reincarnate and if someone has a powerful enough healing power (*cough*Sailor Moon*cough*), they can even restore their previous bodies. So Sailor Moon beat Madoka Magica to it on that concept too.
It took me 3 whole minutes to realize that these weren't the actual subtitles-
Same-
samee
Same I was like
wait a second something doesn’t seem right
wait, they weren't ?!?!
Same ;-;
I love dark magical shows that aren't just torture pr0n, madoka magica and princess tutu dealt with deep issues without just relying on shock value, rather with great stories and fleshed out characters (and there's probably plenty more shows like that out there)
Yeah, a lot of new magical girls shows are only violent, bloody and shock value,. While Madoka Magica (Which I know began this trend) was more psychological, almost didn't show any blood and had a very hopeful plot.
YES thank you, I feel like gore in anime isn’t scary, it’s just gross. When shows are sCaRy just for the shock factor, it just kind of disappoints me.
magical girl site was just... so edgy. the manga had a really neat artstyle, so i can understand that they might just want to draw some gore. and also the bullying made the protagonist understandable. but honestly theres no excuse for the extreme edginess in it. it's just too much, and we all know it.
@@father270 I mean it did have potential in a way but the series seems much more known for the girl's crying scene.
@@elizabethramirezthezenshii9691 lol yeah i heard about that. of course, the girl being bullied and then being given magical powers allowing her to get revenge on her bullies is a concept full of potential. but, it didn't have a very good story and plot. all it was was an angsty power fantasy and then just tons of violence and edginess.
Me then: Magical girls are too girly.
Me now: Alright let’s go back
But why isn't glitter force some where on the list
Precure is technically made before Madoka
@@scorpionerd4298 Precure, not Glitter Force
@@lauraapollodoroshyginuslamer Precure is the Japanese name and Glitter Force is the American name so you can't say that it's not Glitter Force when it's the same thing
Yes,please go back
Glad we still have Pretty Cure, my favourite! It's even celebrating its anniversary with the 20th season 😍😍
That's right motherfucker!
90s magical girls: *Turns into an angel*
2019 magical girls: *AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CENA-*
Wrestling and magical girls? Why not!
Monsieur Naggert don’t worry it’s coming in 2021 bet you what. With a mild side of mecha fever.
Monsieur Naggert I would Watch that
Ohhhh God ur hilarious i couldn't stop laughing at ur comment
I love this, and it's original lol
Todays magical girls: Blood, Violence, Killing, etc..
Precure: hold my pact!
Yeeeeeaaaaaaa!
Am I the only person who likes the darker magical girls because it has more variety to show to all audiences
Pretty Precure isn't completely rainbow and sunshine either.
In one of their episodes, Cure March's siblings were attacked by Majorina as she tried to hit them with a giant orb of energy.
Luckily they survive, however they made it seem that they died until the very last moment.
In the Glitter Force dub you could here their voices so you already knew they were alive.
yessss lmaoo
i love precure so much lol
Then: Doki doki
Now: Literature club
🤣
@C H E R R Y W I N D its Japanese
nightcore girl literature is not Japanese lol
@@gamernanami914 the game : doki doki literature club, is a Japanese dark game
@@marie6817 the comment said they didn't know what literature meant, not what doki doki literature club is. also it was Japanese based but doesn't come from japan as far as I know
Meanwhile, Magical Girls now, 5 years after this video:
Gushing Over Magical Girls
Only the hentai version was left unexploited💀💀💀💀
And unironically it's entertaining idk how
Ah, the fable "Magical girl hentai" have finally arrived.
F*ckin eh
Peak
This manga was fire🗿
Then: Cute and heartwarming
Now: *Being meguca is suffering*
Edit: 9k likes wtf but anyways thank you so much
I see, you are a man of culture
Megucas lost it
*D O N O T T H R O W S O U L S !*
Now
I've lost it.
Become meguca
For meduka
This is like how Disney protrays highschool vs how its actually is
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Didn't know rape was part of highschool lol
@@fylthl funny that it actually is lol
@@fylthl it uh.. it is for a lot of people
@@fylthl yeah, it is. For a lot of people anyway.
Magical girls then: veggietales
Magical girls now: dont hug me im scared
Two of my favorite shows
@@pinksoft39 a person of culture as well, I see
No…. Please. My sides i was no prepared!
Bro I-
I don't know if I should laugh or cry
Ah, I see youre a man of culture as well
But Sailor moon was actually much darker than what they thought it be.
Despite the while “Dark modern Magical Girl” thing supposedly still going on, we still have Pretty Cure.
ya i’m surprised precure is still ongoing after 10 years (2014) and i literally was watching the anniversary of it they celebrated with berryz koubou which sang the ending song for a precure movie back in 2005 of futariwa pretty cute max heart. I was in my magical girl phase in 2013-2014. You can say Why is this a thing that keeps happening? Dark magical girl is almost becoming a genre in its own right, and I am not comfortable with it.
yeah, it's still going on ever since 2004 with futari wa precure :D
I love how Precure keeps the charms and elements of Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura but also with a tint of punching and kicking.
SOMEONE MENTIONED PURIKYUA :)
Precure literally said “fuck that cynicism bullshit, let’s just be Dragon Ball but cute as fuck”. I can get behind that.
Then: Life is magical
Now: Reality is cruel
So true
yeah pretty much
the balance between hope and despair
I would rather stay in then.
666th like lol
As someone who grew up watching Card Captor Sakura and Sailor Moon, I have to say I love Madoka and need more like it.
The Magical Girl Raising Project books are freaking awesome too. Really if you want a lot of dark Magical Girl fiction, books and manga are some of your best bets. They go places even anime hasn't tread yet. Give Flip Flappers a try as well; it's a perfect blind of light and dark with a ton of creativity.
Man, you guys are the reason why the magical girl genre has become absolute sh*t nowadays. Nobody cares about it being true to its roots and just wants it to be an edgelord bloodfest.
you say this like Madoka is the only dark Mahou Shojo
I grew up watching glitter force but madoka magica & magical girl site will forever be number one in my heart.
Samee
0:41 is wild 💀💀
Frrr 💀💀💀
this cant real to be
I like both though. The past were really cliche but they gave good messages. They were also fun to watch. Now it's a deeper phycological level . Painful to watch but exciting.
Agree, grew up with the classic magical girls, loved it, but the new ones are good too ❤
They were comedy once, but now they are Thriller with and only so far away from horror sometimes.
Agree
Same honestly
@@lennartstockl5826 Sometimes things change for the better or worse. That's what's so exciting about everything! The fact that some genres and traits can be combined is so fascinating! Or how things can change entirely.
Magical girl mascots before: “Your destined to save the world!!”
Kyubey: “I’m gonna let you die so you can keep my society alive.”
Edit: why are people still liking this comment lmao
Then: "You're destined to save the world!!"
Now: "You're destined to destroy the world!!"
Literally, though
I think it's no different. For adult. .to save the world is hard though. Even they have some power😂😂
It's not just their society though it's the whole universe.
@@wellIhavenothingbettertodo According to Kyubey... Who we know is a little arse. Who is to say hes being truthful. 😂 Or that he even knowns what hes talking about.
Back then, whenever a magical girl transformed, their weapon would appear in their hand. Nowadays, whenever a magical girl transforms, their weapon can appear between their legs.
The idol in Mahou Shoujo Site literally has her weapon between her legs all the time, lol.
don't forget Panty and Stocking!
Oh you again
I seriously see you on every single anime related vids XD
*Ah shit, here we go agian*
It's the result when the writers decided the girls were too OP. But instead of nerfing the magical girls, they instead buffed the threats they face. In a way, by doing this takes away the feeling of security, as there's less room to justify that the protagonist's loss could not happen
Sailor moon: transforming
The villain waiting for her to transform: 👁👄👁
They should just attack while she's transforming...
@@i-wha-2198 no no no they gotta wait for the dress to dissapear first😏😶
The villain:Welp Imma better do something else than waiting
Your profile picture fits so well with your comment ajababks-
@@sleepysimper6712 (:
I mean in the OG Sailor Moon anime, there WAS an episode where all the sailor scouts were killed... Magical girl shows have always had a bit of a dark element, they're just a lot more in-your-face about it now
Before: Love, rainbows, unicorns, romance, a little bit of drama.
After: Blood, death, bullying, traumatic and psycological pounds, dramaaaaaaa, never take care of a dog or cat, mostly of characters will die in horrendous ways.
Blood for the blood god
- This video is overly silly, generalized, and cherry picked. MGRP has nothing of value, but just because the genre has changed somewhat doesn’t mean it’s dead. If anything, Madoka breathed some sorely needed new life into the genre. The old shows are still available to watch, they haven’t gone anywhere. A new take on our childhood innocence is great, in moderation that people might say doesn’t exist because all we’ve gotten in the 2010s is grimdark and parodies. That’s not true. Lots of old shows like Princess Tutu were dark takes on the genre before Madoka. Even the new shows aren’t so dark, because they often end by tying back to the genre’s roots of the power of love and friendship, even if there may be a tragic twist. I’d argue that Yuki Yuna is a Hero plays closer to tradition than Madoka, and doesn’t deserve to be called an imitator. There’s shows that have existed into the 2010’s that don’t fall into “grim dark” like Precure, Jewelpet, Little Witch Academia, that one series made by a car company, and plenty of other shows if you know where to look. Kids are still capable of watching and enjoying plenty of these new shows; I speak from experience because I grew up on The Last Unicorn, which is not a kids movie. The fact that the magical girl genre has evolved proves it has staying power. And I haven’t even gotten to western magical girl shows, of which there are plenty.
@@diamondminer5459 @Diamond Miner Madoka is an edge-fest. Other magical girls series starts joining the bandwagon and rips off Madoka bcs they got no originality. Honestly, the magical girls genre is ruined nowadays. People just don't get what makes it great anymore.
@@diamondminer5459 what I never read
Asagiri was taking care of a kitten and one of her bullies killed the cat :(
Magical girls then: Cuteness overload
Fuckin Junji Ito looking at Magical girls now: Fuck! Even i can't be this dark!
Then: Animal crossing
Now: Among us
Holly crap thats actually preety accurate
So true!!!! 😂😂😂😂
Among Doom Crossing
💀
Understanble have a nice day
I feel like the biggest difference is that 20 years ago magical girl anime was targeted towards young girls. Now most of them are seinen anime aimed towards adult/older men.
annie that’s sounds kinda gross in a way
That and they think making a magical girl show dark like Elfen Lied makes it deep, missing the point on why Madoka Magica even gained popularity.
Even anime towards adult women aren’t done right, Sailor Moon Crystal was originally a josei anime.
Thats mega ew
@@kstarnovagal6672 elfen lied is not a magical girl's show wtf lmao
It's literally categorized as seinen.
Ugh, creeps are everywhere, calling minors their "waifus" and asking for fanservice, just ew. That's a big flaw of the anime community.
Before: Kawaii and love!
Now: DO NOT THROW SOULS
do not throw your Kawainess either
Ricoade YOU REPLIED I’M MAGIA SHOOK
MADOKA! DON'T KILL SAYAKA
Being meguka is suffering
Insert Random Name here So? You think i don’t know?
Don’t let this man find “gushing over magical girls” 💀💀😀
Magical girls then:we should talk
about friendship!
Magical girls now: depression
(Y'all why is this still blowing?💀aight thanks either away)
" We should talk "
日了狗了
Madoka Magica really did birth the idea of “nothing is right or wrong, only consequences.”
Literally
Consisting the target audience changes, I see why they felt the need.
Then: trying to save the world
Now: *LITERAL EMBODIMENT OF EVIL*
Some dude: Why do i hear happy cheery music with heavy music and singing
then: trying to save the world
now: trying to save their life
You mean.... SCARLET DEVIL?
CORRUPTED
Well that is what you get when you let woman to vote to late to save anything embrace the chaos
Does anyone remember Tokyo Mew Mew ?
That show was kawaii to
I love the opening
I remember people called it a Sailor Moon rip off but I love it anyways!
Thanks to Mew Mew Power and 4KIDS not finishing the dub I discovered subbed anime and what manga was.
That shit was my childhood
I miss the show. Hope someday they will continue but most likely in different style
LOVED that show.
This needs to be updated to include gushing over magical girls
Magical girls back then: Most have male love interest or even a harem
Magical girls now: All are yuri
natsu taka The real tragedy.
Dead Account ha
sailor moon was bi and cardcaptor sakura had gay characters whats the difference
@@salceds But they weren't the entire cast. A lot of modern magical girls have what I call "incestuous relationships" with it's main cast that at least hint at love among them. It rarely steps out to include someone outside of the main cast like CCS and Sailor Moon did.
@@deadaccount2968 did you just really call it incestuous....the dumbness you just exhibited
anyway, regardless the modern mahou shoujo having the female love interest is a trope i welcome with open arms, however its nothing new compared to the og. we need more lesbians in anime that isnt citrus
“Oh boy, today sure is a wonderful day! I could die of happiness!”
*laughs in the season one finale of Sailor Moon*
And the entirety of the manga and Stars as well
T^T
Sailor Moon has plenty of dark moments , they just were toned down in the anime and they don't rely on blood to make it depressing, a lot of magical girl series these days still can't hold a candle towards it
Ikr
I’m in season 5 and I’m on the episode where she’s protecting her child-
OG sailor moon still had its dark moments. Ppl tend to forget that all the sailor scouts died at the end of the first season.
yeahhh and there was that one episode in season two were the enemies were literally using targeting babies and using them as human shields 🙃
And the manga was basically a straight up cosmic horror story
Especially the stars/galaxia arc. That shit was dark af
If I remember correctly the first enemy was an imposter that knocked out the main characters friends mum and than said she was gonna kill them after she was done. That's honestly what sold me on Sailor Moon, I enjoyed the darker depths of the magical girl genre because I'm a horrible person
and usagi's dream mirror
BEFORE: NORMAL and CUTE
NOW: BRUTAL AND VIOLENT
And the subtitles make me laugh so hard
Magical Girls then: "I'll defeat you with the power of friendship"
Magical Girls now: "I'll defeat you with the power of friendship...
*AND THIS THERMONUCLEAR BOMB MAGIC SPELL I FOUND*
someones said "nanoha"?
@@brokeena max powered magical nuke
To be fair, Sailor Moon had her own magical nukes. They were just powered by love.
*Power of Friendship in Magical Girls now:* OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU!
ekspurOOOSHON - megumin
Magical girls then: the My Little Pony show
Magical girls now: the My Little Pony fandom
👌
_Seems about right_
Best comment lmao
I love my little pony but the fandom is just fucked up
Yes. XD
Back then: Being magical girl stops suffering
Now: Being magical girl is suffering
Back then: Can I become magical girl?
Now: no.
Hetome: I become meguca?
Coobie: no
Back then Magical girls also used to suffer, just watch uncensored and japanese version of the precure shows.
Even back in the 90' and before the magical shows were pretty dark. One of them involve the main character being hit by a truck (and is also one of the most hated anime in Japan).
@@narudayo5053 Minky Momo!
@@narudayo5053 people believed they were the cause of the terrible earthquakes in japan.
Other than that, magical girls were always dark. Young girls fighting crime every week. They're kids, kids aren't ready for these type of things.
Not at all. It's ironic how little the person who made the video knows about Sailor Moon, because it's actually a dark series that the anime tried to lighten up. It's obvious that they were one of the people that got distracted from what actually happened in the series.
If you think being a Magical Girl back then stops suffering, I'm guessing you aren't exactly familiar with Sailor Saturn at all.
Oh don't worry. It got worse. "Gushing over magical girls" got released.
A wholesome BDSM magical girl anime/technically a hentai
Got better you mean.
@@rickchakraborty2087Nah. No. Literally no. OP's right. Worse. Much worse. That actual literal post-Madoka Magica rip off is literally worse than even the infamous boku no pico.
Madoka Magica: *Exists*
Japanese producers: *I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK*
nobody:
literally nobody:
the subtitles: "I hate my life," "me three!"
me 1000000000000000000
Those aren’t subtitles
@@VampireAtMidnight well they are but they aren't
@@VampireAtMidnight Oh shit
@@dsadasasdasd2883 what oh shitt
then: "uwu i was chosen to protect our world from evil spirits with the powers given to me"
now: "i was given these powers to protect humanity, in turn i am losing my bodily functions and will most likely suffer an early death."
TweckArt Found the Yuki Yuna fan.
@@juwanbantug5465 and madoka, and magical girl site. i tried to cram as much magical girl anime i know lol.
Yuki yuna!!!
Yuki Yuna is a Hero reference! I like your style, boy.
Yuki yana was so sad
Lmao I see this video again today while searching for “gushing over magical girls”. The latest magical girl anime is about bdsm 🤣🤣
Anime then: time to make everything cuttteeeee
Anime now: _it’s just guns and violence._
Dang your right
Sailor Moon is gone I'm sad 😧
No, there is JoJo...
No, now you have more animes of comedy and you still have romantic shojos, you have animes nows more serious like attack on Titan and Banana Fish, they have violence yes, but that's not the focus, attack on Titan and Banana fish show the reality of the world, and now you have more YAOI and YURI thanks god, Now you have more sport anime.
But yes we still have very animes who just focus in violence.
*It relates to real life.*
Magical girls then: kalm
Magical girls now: *PANIK*
Lol
PANIK (hmmm indo?)
@@WindFromNort meme man
@@WindFromNort yes
Magical girls now: WATCH.SYMPHO.GEAR.NOW
Then: Animal crossing
Now: Happy tree friends
That. that right there was the comment I was looking for.
God don't give memories of that thing that my friends watched with her little sister.
Lol yes
switchy boi
good example
5Yrs have passed, Rico.
Any knowledge on 'Gushing over Magical Girls'?
Madoka is the original version of this type of new magical girl genre and nobody has been able to copy its mastery. Many have tried, but all have failed in comparison to the masterpiece which is Madoka Magica. It’s honestly one of my top animes.
yep
Even its spin-off, Magia Record can't be at same level with the original one. Great job on Madoka Magica.
I was never a magical girl fan because most are so shallow. I LOVED Madoka.
I can't watch it but I started now my mom doesn't have Netflix on the TV I us and I can't watch it!
@@Lilllyyyyyy-r7x They deleted it off Netflix for the U.S. I don’t know about tother countries but it is on Hulu.
"Then:happy casual"
"Now:dark & brutal"
Minky momo:let me introduce myse-
*car crash noises*
PMMM: Am I a joke to you
Truck-kun has done it again
@@100list7Truck-kun science is the finest in the world
Earthquake time baby
Reminds me of Ruru- Nevermind..
I’m so happy no one forgot about CardCaptor Sakura, I’m rewatching it now actually. The manga is kinda creepy due to the villain that’s “half of clow reed” being aware about sakura’s dad being his other half and even points it out to everyone but Sakura.
Edit: GUYS ITS ON NETFLIX!!
That's not the only creepy thing and how is that creepy?
don't forget Tsubasa reservoir (i'm still crying about it)
Mann l love card captor l'm planning to re watch it again
I am watching it for the first time my self actually. I wasn't alive when it came out.
@@josephinamungaray6118
Sakura’s love interest is her distant cousin (or would Sakura be his great aunt?) and she also has a crush (or slight interest?) on clow for a little bit
I love Madoka Magica and the fact you added it made me so happy
And the famous Mami death scene too!
In its..
In its defense... Madoka Magica isn’t supposed to be like any magical girl anime’s... It’s supposed to be something that destroys the original concept and makes it a Hell lot Darker while also lying about what it actually is...
Puella Magica is a Lie to show the truth.
More like 'war' Anime, because none of them are using magical things.
Curse you Urobochi!
PMMM was a genre deconsttuction of the magical girl genre.
Also Ariane, they do use magic, just not in traditional ways. Mami's ribbons are magic and by extension so are the guns as they are made from the ribbons, Homura stops time and shoots those magic bullet things (albiet in only one scene), Sayaka has accelerated healing, Madoka makes magic arrows, and Kyoko has illusion (though they arent used in the anime due to rejecting her wish which sealed the magic).
Exactly
Fun fact: It’s a sub genre of the magical girl genre. Madoka only just made it popular
Then: uses pokemon to put people to sleep
Now: uses stands to punch people to death
LOVE HEEAAAT (sounds like a stand name) DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI DOKI
Even Pokemon look hardcore for me ; I never liked the fact that they catch animal (yeah, pokemon, whatever, and I even should say "monsters") in a ball to make them beat each another to dead in an arena. It was not better back then, and in fact, in my opinion, it's just that now, we don't hide things anymore, and don't use metaphor. Even when you look at "girlish" anime, when you look at it now, and you forget the "everything is pink, the life is so great, and to make babies, a stork appears with a white cloth and the baby in it" or shits like that, you see things that wouldn't be OK now for children, like child abuse, homelessness or sometime death. So now, they just remove the "pink" particles but it's about the same content.
No, they’re just sleeping, except those people will never wake up again
Y'know, punching can also put people to sleep.
I'm... okay with this actually.
Then: all happy
Now: depression
It just show how life is becoming so sad now than back then
HaHa February
HaHa March
We are all magical girls
Haha November
Yeah...
Nononono
Magical Girls now
…
Mahou Shojo ni Akogarete
. . .
Then:I'm gonna be late for school I need toast
Now: screw toast I'm a eat a whole desert
Honestly same
honestly same man dessert sounds better
*mm gimme that toast lol*
You'll need a drink with that
Gotta eat all day food
Basically
Old Magical girl anime era: Everything before Madoka Magica
New Magical girl anime era: Everything after Madoka Magica
I do understand that there were dark magical girl animes way before Madoka Magica, but Madoka was the anime that really popularized the subgenre.
Honestly, I don't like the darker themed magical girl animes of the now. Most of them try to copy Madoka Magica without understanding what made it so good in the first place. Madoka Magica was an amazing anime, but everything that came after (at least, in terms of the dark stuff) was shit.
Queen Of Hidden Snow - magical girl raising project...
Queen Of Hidden Snow - I never heard of it until I searched up “magical girl deaths” on UA-cam.
Madoka magica is like the Christ of Anime. One is before Madoka and one is after Madoka. 😂
can someone tell me like the basic story of it? i mean what it is about,i think it will be pretty intersting to watch.
So what about precure?
Azula is the only villain ever that has attacked when a main character is powering up or something like that, like bruh, it’s almost like they want to get obliterated
I LAUGHED SO HARD WHEN AZULA DID THAT SHE REALLY SAID THIS AINT DRAGON BALL Z
timestamp?
@@mr.technicalisolate9188 i’ll look for it
@@mr.technicalisolate9188 4:28
@@michaelthegachacreator2604 thx
Welp, time to make a remake of this video with Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete
Magical Girls then: "With the power of love and friendship and rainbows, I transform!"
Magical Girls now: "With the power of blood and misery and angst, I dont transform instead Im just gonna shoot you in the face"
You can still find cute anime girls, but their for little girls, but i watch them because there is no violence. I’m not a fan of violence. Back then was better for me. Now magical girls you see here are made for teen and up which are super violent and i hate violence. ITS NOT CUTE.
@@CutieRingoJoy Yeah. It's pretty sick to be honest. This why I had to watch nothing but "eye bleach" anime for a while. Too much dark stuff finally got to me. I NEEDED some harmless, wholesome, comedy.
@@CutieRingoJoy well no one care bloody is fun like attack on Titan, Jujutsu kaisen,etc you have to learn that world are cruel be Cruel to survive and cute girl are fragile and powerless like sakura of naruto
@@nolife2374 - The world is indeed very cruel, but that does not need to be represented in media. A lot of entertainment is used as a form of escapism. It's completely understandable if people want something much more wholesome or sweet to watch in order to lift their spirits than the depressing shit that blows stuff out of proportions at times. I personally enjoy disturbing films but balance it out with some cute shows too. Bloody isn't always fun in my opinion and some shows really over do it.
@@maplestick2369 I agree
honestly why can't you equally love both the cute n color and the dark yet chillingly good magical girls(and boys)of present and yester year?
edit: i am aware this is satire, don't worry. I can't believe i have to clarify this, I'm not mad just disappointed also go check out fairy ranmaru.
Fr
YES THEYRE BOTH GOOD IN THEIR RESPECTIVE GENRES
because all of the darker ones are edgy and badly wrote, except madoka magica
Read desc! They said it's for fun only!
I do
magical girls now: dark, gore, suicide
pretty cure: *i’m just built different*
EXACTLY LMFAO
- This video is overly silly, generalized, and cherry picked. MGRP has nothing of value, but just because the genre has changed somewhat doesn’t mean it’s dead. If anything, Madoka breathed some sorely needed new life into the genre. The old shows are still available to watch, they haven’t gone anywhere. A new take on our childhood innocence is great, in moderation that people might say doesn’t exist because all we’ve gotten in the 2010s is grimdark and parodies. That’s not true. Lots of old shows like Princess Tutu were dark takes on the genre before Madoka. Even the new shows aren’t so dark, because they often end by tying back to the genre’s roots of the power of love and friendship, even if there may be a tragic twist. I’d argue that Yuki Yuna is a Hero plays closer to tradition than Madoka, and doesn’t deserve to be called an imitator. There’s shows that have existed into the 2010’s that don’t fall into “grim dark” like Precure, Jewelpet, Little Witch Academia, that one series made by a car company, and plenty of other shows if you know where to look. Kids are still capable of watching and enjoying plenty of these new shows; I speak from experience because I grew up on The Last Unicorn, which is not a kids movie. The fact that the magical girl genre has evolved proves it has staying power. And I haven’t even gotten to western magical girl shows, of which there are plenty.
@@diamondminer5459 Wait, The Last Unicorn was not a kids movie?! I found it and watched it from the kids section in the library hold up-
Edit: Alright its rated G, but has some more adult themes at times in it ok- Now that I think back to the movie, I think that's true.
pretty cure supremacy
wait... pretty cure is still a thing??? Last time I watched this anime was like 15 years ago... xD