MAHOU NO MAKO-CHAN // Mahou Profile: A History of Magical Girls
Today we dive into the Little Mermaid-inspired world of Mahou no Mako-chan! And hold onto your fish tails everyone, because even this early in the magical girl genre? Things are starting to get B U C K W I L D.
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CREDITS
Magical Eryn avatar by Olivine Arc:
Title card art by Onsta:
Voiceover mastering & editing by Victor Frost:
Japanese dialogue consultant: Aki @ Oh Heck! - (Helped me get additional clarity on the plots of episodes 46 - 48)
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UNDER THE SEA SKIT CREDITS
Skit art by: Olivine Arc
Voice of Sebastian: ShinyWeeb
Skit sound mixing by: Victor Frost
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LINKS
Mahou no Mako-chan @ AnimeNewsNetwork:
Mahou no Mako-chan @ Wikipedia:
Una sirenetta tra noi @ Wikipedia (Italian. With Google Translate, this provided a lot of useful info about the series):
OnlyShojo.com's Mako page (Italian, loads of cool and rare images):
Majokko blog (Source for some production info, graphics, and translations):
Rachel Thorn's thread about big eyes in pre-war manga:
The Sea in You by Jessi Sharon (If you want a good ongoing mermaid story, check this comic out!):
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FURTHER READING
Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga by Jennifer Prough:
The missing link of shojo manga history by Dalma Kálovics:
Comics, a Global History: Early shōjo manga by Dan Mazur: