The minute I saw the name for this book, I exclaimed—ostensibly to my husband, but my cat or the open air would have sufficed—”of course this needs to be a book. Why has no one thought of this before? The Refrigerator Monologues—it’s so obvious.” But like many of the most interesting things, it’s only very …

The city of Townsville! Home to an unexpected set of magical girls, the Powerpuff Girls! Okay so they aren’t magic per say, but this month, I watched The Powerpuff Girls and I’m here to say that the spirit of magical girl is alive with them. Created in 1998 by Craig McCracken and originally called Whoopass …

*Spoiler Free* also possibly *a wee bit NSFW* Never heard of Yurikuma Arashi? It’s from the rather brilliant Kunihiko Ikuhara, who directed some of the best episodes of Sailor Moon and was the series director for Sailor Moon R, S, and SuperS. He then left Toei due to the restrictions placed on his artistic vision, …

Sailor Moon is unquestionably the sparkling, magical queen of the magical girl genre.  What Sailor Moon did would redefine the entire genre, as well as introduce an entire generation of young people to manga, anime, and girl power. A brief history of Sailor Moon: in 1991, a one shot manga called Codename: Sailor V was …

When I was eleven years old, I wanted a lot from the world.  I wanted my first Pokemon, and my Hogwarts Letter, but most of all I wanted a magical animal to come tell me I was destined to fight evil in a pretty outfit.  Somewhere in there I was probably going to fit in …