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Magical girl
Magical girl (魔法少女, mahō shōjo) is a Japanese anime and manga genre of magic-wielding girls who transform, beginning with Sally the Witch (1966) and shaped by Himitsu no Akko-chan and Sailor Moon's battle-heroine model.
Magical Girl Dandelion
Magical Girl Dandelion (魔法少女ダンデライオン, Mahou Shoujo Dandelion) is a shōjo manga by Kaeru Mizuho, serialized in Shogakukan's Sho-Comi since August 2024, about magical girl Tanpopo Ohanami and her fiend friend Shade; VIZ simulpubs it in English under Shojo Beat.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Exceeds Gun Blaze Vengeance
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Exceeds Gun Blaze Vengeance (魔法少女リリカルなのは EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance), also called Nanoha EXGV, is a 12-episode 2026 Seven Arcs TV anime set in the invasive-species-ravaged world of EXCEEDS, starring new lead Shiina Kuise with Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate in support.
Magical Girl Raising Project (魔法少女育成計画)
Magical Girl Raising Project (魔法少女育成計画, Mahō Shōjo Ikusei Keikaku) is a Japanese light novel series by Asari Endō and Maruino (Takarajimasha, 2012) about sixteen magical girls forced into a survival contest, adapted into a 2016 anime and a 2026 restart anime.
Magical Girl Site (魔法少女サイト)
Magical Girl Site (魔法少女サイト, Mahou Shoujo Site), a dark magical girl manga by Kentaro Sato serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion 2013–2019, 16 volumes, about bullied Aya Asagiri receiving a wand from a sinister website; 12-episode TV anime aired April 2018 on the Animeism block.
Magical Girl Witch Trials
Magical Girl Witch Trials (魔法少女ノ魔女裁判, Manosaba) is a 2025 gothic mystery visual novel by Acacia in which thirteen imprisoned witch candidates hold Danganronpa-style trials after each murder; 96% positive on Steam, 700,000 units sold.
Magical Mystery Tour
Magical Mystery Tour is a 1967 Beatles project: a self-directed television film and its soundtrack, released as a double EP in the UK and an LP in the US.
Magical Mystery Tour (film)
Magical Mystery Tour, Beatles 1967 made-for-TV musical film, their third, self-directed coach-trip fantasy broadcast BBC1 Boxing Day 1967 in black and white; critically panned but its soundtrack EP and US album were best-sellers.
Magical Negro
Magical Negro: film and literary stock character, a wise or supernatural Black supporting figure existing to help white protagonists; popularized as a term by Spike Lee in 2001, analyzed by Glenn, Cunningham, and Hughey, and satirized in Kobi Libii's 2024 film.
Magical objects in Harry Potter
Magical objects in Harry Potter: enchanted items in J.K. Rowling's wizarding world, from wands and broomsticks to the Deathly Hallows, Horcruxes, Time-Turner, Marauder's Map, and Deluminator, many Ministry-regulated.
Magical Sisters LuluttoLilly (魔法の姉妹ルルットリリィ)
Magical Sisters LuluttoLilly (魔法の姉妹ルルットリリィ), also romanized Mahou no Shimai LuluttoLilly, is a 2026 Studio Pierrot magical girl TV anime, newest Pierrot magical girl series entry, following sisters Fuu and Rui who secretly transform into adult idols Lilly and Lulu for one year.
Magical thinking
Magical thinking is the belief that thoughts, words, or rituals can influence events outside normal cause and effect. Also called magical ideation and linked to thought-action fusion (TAF), it appears in children, educated adults, OCD, and schizophrenia.
Magical Treatise of Solomon
The Magical Treatise of Solomon, or Hygromanteia (Υγρομαντεία), also called Apotelesmatike Pragmateia and Epistle to Rehoboam, is a late Byzantine Greek Solomonic grimoire on spirits, astrology, and herbs, regarded as the Greek ancestor of the Key of Solomon.
Magical Warfare (魔法戦争)
Magical Warfare (魔法戦争, Mahō Sensō) is a 12-volume Japanese light novel series by Suzuki Hisashi with illustrations by Rulia, published under MF Bunko J from 2011, adapted into a 2014 Madhouse TV anime and a Monthly Comic Gene manga.
Magicampers
Magicampers (French: Magicampers, les Aventures de Rosie & Cornelis) is a Disney Jr. preschool animated series created by Obie Scott Wade, premiering March 2026, following hybrid mythical-creature campers Darly and Loomis at Magicamp Island; produced by OuiDo! Productions, 44 x 11-minute episodes.
Magician (fantasy)
Magician (fantasy): a supernatural power-wielder in fantasy fiction, alongside wizard, sorcerer, mage, and warlock. From the Persian magus; shaped by Merlin, Faust, soft/hard magic systems, and RPG classes.
MagicSchool AI
MagicSchool AI is an education AI platform for K-12 teachers, offering lesson plans, quizzes, and IEP drafts. It was founded in Denver in 2023 by Adeel Khan.
Magicsticks
Magicsticks, born Kareem Olasunkanmi Temitayo in Lagos in 1994, is a Nigerian record producer and DJ best known as the longtime production partner of Afrobeats singer Asake.
Magik
Magik (Illyana Nikolievna Rasputina, Illyana Rasputin) is a Marvel Comics mutant sorceress, sister of Colossus, debuting in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975). Known for stepping-disc teleportation, the Soulsword, her Limbo captivity under Belasco, the Darkchilde persona, and recent solo series and Marvel Rivals appearances.
Magikarp and Gyarados
Magikarp (コイキング) and Gyarados (ギャラドス) are paired first-generation Pokémon: a useless Water-type fish, #0129, evolves at level 20 into the fierce Water/Flying sea serpent #0130.
Magilus
Magilus (Montfort, 1810) is a genus of coral-boring muricid sea snails (Coralliophilinae) whose adults extend their shell aperture into a long tube embedded in stony corals; type species Magilus antiquus.
Maginot Line
The Maginot Line (Ligne Maginot) was a system of French concrete fortifications built along its eastern border with Germany from the late 1920s through the 1930s, named for War Minister André Maginot.
Maginot Line ouvrages
An ouvrage is a fortified position of the Maginot Line, France's 1930s border fortifications, ranging from small infantry shelters to vast underground artillery forts like Hackenberg.
Maginus (lunar crater)
Maginus is a large, ancient lunar impact crater in the southern highlands southeast of Tycho, 155.58 km across per the IAU, named for Italian astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini and approved in 1935.
Magirus
Magirus is a German manufacturer of firefighting vehicles and turntable ladders, founded in Ulm in 1864 by firefighter Conrad Dietrich Magirus and owned by Iveco until 2025.
MAGIS-100
MAGIS-100 (Matter-wave Atomic Gradiometer Interferometric Sensor) is a quantum sensor under construction at Fermilab that uses atom interferometry over a 100-meter vertical shaft to search for ultralight dark matter.
Magister militum
Magister militum ("master of the soldiers") was the senior military command of the late Roman Empire, created by Constantine I as magister peditum and magister equitum, later split into regional and praesental commands.
Magisterium
The magisterium is the Catholic Church's teaching authority, exercised by the pope and bishops in communion with him, limited since 1870 to doctrines of faith and morals.
Magistr
Magistr, also written W32/Magistr or W32.Magistr.@mm, is a polymorphic, memory-resident Windows worm combined with a file-infecting virus, first found in the wild in mid-March 2001.
Magistral (Mistral AI)
Magistral is a family of reasoning language models developed by Mistral AI, announced in June 2025 with an open-weight Magistral Small and a proprietary Magistral Medium.