Pierrot Magical Girl Series

The Pierrot Magical Girl Series (ぴえろ魔法少女シリーズ) is a series of Japanese magical girl anime series by Studio Pierrot.

History

Before Studio Pierrot started making magical girl anime, Magical Princess Minky Momo (also known as Gigi outside Japan), animated by the studio Ashi Productions and produced in cooperation with Yomiko Advertising, gained popularity. Afterwards, Yomiko Advertising approached Studio Pierrot to create a new majokko (魔女っ子) anime, which would become Magical Angel Creamy Mami. In the 1980s, three other series would follow Creamy Mami.

Within Studio Pierrot, the name magical girl (魔法少女) would be used, although majokko would also be sometimes used.

Minky Momo and Creamy Mami together started what would later be called the "Second Magical Girl Boom" (第2期魔法少女ブーム).[1]

After a 12-year gap, Fancy Lala aired on TV Tokyo in 1998, but would not become a big hit, unlike its predecessors.

In April 2026, Magical Sisters LuluttoLilly, the sixth installment in the series, aired on Tokyo MX after a 28-year gap.

Common characteristics

There are many common characteristics in the series (with some exceptions):

• The protagonist is an elementary school girl.
• The protagonist is a normal girl but receives magical powers from a being from another world.
• The protagonist is close to a slightly older male character whom she has a crush on.
• The protagonist is accompanied by a familiar from another world, who helps her out.
• The protagonist transforms into an older girl by casting a spell with her magic wand. An exception being Pastel Yumi, who possesses almost no transformation ability except for very briefly changing her costume, so she barely ends up using said ability.
• A new singer voices the protagonist and performs the theme song, except in Persia. Additionally, Fancy Lala's voice actress, Reiko Ōmori, was already active before the series.
• The protagonist's household runs a business, e.g. a crêpe stall, except for Fancy Lala.

Series overview

External links

• Official website
• Official X (Twitter) page (@p_magicalgirls)