The end of Ojamajo Doremi closed one chapter in Toei Animation’s role in the genre’s history.
Meanwhile with Sailor Moon, the ending of the Live Action series PGSM as well as the original run of Sera Myu musicals and the discontinuing of the Pioneer/Cloverway localizations marked the end of official Sailor Moon material anyone is currently nostalgic for. In a decade people will be nostalgic for Crystal and the Viz Dub and the new musicals but for now classic Sailor Moon ends in 2005.
Meanwhile the first two seasons of both Futari Wa Pretty Cure and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha mark the beginning of what the Magical Girl genre has been ever since, for both Shoujo and Seinen respectively. The OG PreCures interestingly got their blonde adopted daughter before Nanoha and Fate did.
Pretty Cure literally took over Doremi’s timeslot. Here is a Twitter Thread I made inquiring about Anime Time Slots.
https://twitter.com/KuudereKun888/status/1137272052031938565
And these two years also had their own little isolated projects not particularly connected to what came before or after, like Uta Kata and Tweeny Witches.
This wouldn’t be the last time there would be a game changer year in the genre’s history. I already talked about 2011 which included some of its Magical Girl relevance. But also the end of that year and going into 2012 was the 20th Anniversary of Sailor Moon which sparked the Sailor Moon revival we’re still experiencing.
But these two years were more revolutionary over all with Nanoha clearly being an influence on both Madoka and plenty of the alleged Madoka imitators. Both Madoka and Day Break Illusion shared some key creative staff with Nanoha.
And this was an important time period elsewhere as well, Pokemon was changing via the Advance Generation and Bee Train was changing via Madlax. In Hollywood the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy was ending and The Chronicles of Narnia and the Nolan Batman saga were beginning. Meanwhile DC Comics was building toward Infinite Crisis and Marvel towards Civil War. In WWE the Ruthless Aggression era was starting. And the currently last great Vampire craze was sparked by the publications of Twilight and the books True Blood was based on.
For now this will probably be my last post looking at specific time periods or seasons of Anime's past. But I may return to the idea later with less specific focus on the Magical Girl Genre. For the rest of June I have other Magical Girl topics I want to cover.
I'm going to answer the Questions that were asked even though that Commentor deleted their comments.
ReplyDeleteI have another blog where I explain my ideology, SolaScripturaChristianLiberty. I came to all of them via my study of The Bible.
Most of the Anime mentioned in this particularly post are Shoujo. Nanoha technically became as a spin off of a porn game, but that doesn't change that many actual Women and Lesbian like the show and relate to the characters. The Song of Solomon is closer to being pornography.
This was also when the Winx Club premiered and John Cena turned face. When he first won the US title at Wrestlemania 20, and eventually went to win the WWE championship at Wrestlemania 21.
ReplyDeleteWinx Club is an interesting example of a Western Cartoon that seems influenced by the Magical Girl genre.
DeleteThe John Cena stuff is what I had in mind when referring tot he Ruthless Aggression era.