I’ve decided to start using the power of Youtube to document Non-Japanese Magical Girl Openings. It’s normally something that’s very much identified with anime and manga, but the idea of a girl using magical powers to change herself is arguably as old as story-telling. Could you perhaps consider Cinderella a Mahou Shoujo?
Anyway, the list.
Of course, suggestions for additional shows are more than welcome. And when I say non-Japanese, I don’t just mean European/American cartoons.
I normally don’t like to make Youtube-only posts but look at this! Look!
The animations in SRWZ are the best the series has ever seen. What I particularly like is that they’re going away from using too many shots where they just traced over a screenshot from the series.
And Keiko has seriously never looked better.
While doing a search on Nico Nico Douga the other day, I noticed that my Ogiue and Tohoku-ben video had been uploaded to the site, albeit from an older version, titled as 【ニコニコ動画】荻上の東北弁
Good job, mysterious uploader, though I wish there was a way to give you the updated version.
What’s old is new again.
They appear to be some unusual obligation, and more often than not I feel like they make openings worse than they could have been if they had only ended the video prior to it. The number of shows that I could describe in this regard are probably more than I can count.
As an example of an opening which ends on a NOT-Splash Image and ends up being better for it, I present Rose of Versailles:
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Here’s a video of Ogiue and her Tohoku-ben.
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OGIUE MANIAX 