2026 is the year for Magical Knights! 🤺✨
As someone who grew up who cannot afford and don’t have access to Barbies. That little kid would absolutely love this 🥰
For a genre that uses fairy tales themes and eventually become combat reliant. The most suitable role is rarely can be found.
Knights are frontliners in the battlefield which should been the perfect opportunity to integrate them more the moment the genre shifted towards combat and become the most popular sub category.
Although we got few like Magic Knights who truly fully utilize its potential to Wedding Peach with their knight armor inspired 1st magical girl transformation and Encantadia who smartly incorporated the concept with their own individual elements yet not enough to actually make a dent and impact in the genre.
Why do you think are the reasons? Is the concept of having full geared armor and taking the role of a Knight is restrictive in terms of ideas and creativity? Is European fashion period like Victorian and French rococo inspired puffy lolita dresses magical girls is the way to go? Even small time and up to coming magical girl creators rarely uses them as well.
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Get her via FB marketplace. Ty for those who suggested it. I have 1 more coming this weekend and another 2 at the month and all of them are going to be Holiday Barbies for now ✨
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I’m slowly working on getting them one by one as a newbie collector and most of the dolls in this era are pieces of art.
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I’m probably just going to stick with the Fantasy Barbie from 90s to early 2000s in my buy list for now. They’re all gorgeous and it’s hard to pick favorites.
The first magical girl anime is a princess, the biggest magical girl of all time is also a princess, the main character of arguably the biggest magical girl show in the west is a princess of a destroyed kingdom. Biggest MG franchises in the Philippines, China and South Korea has protagonists as royalty as well.
MG adjacent superheroines like Wonder Woman is Princess Diana of Themyscira and SheRa is Princess Adora of Eternia. The likes of Sofia the first, Elena of Avalor and even Barbie herself is wildly popular for her Magical Girl Princess brand over the years.
They are just some of the many examples of Magical Girls born of royal blood.
Do you think Magical Girls being princesses is simply an easy marketing tactic to sell to little girls, gays and kids generally? or this just shows how Fairy Tales is so embedded and go hand in hand in shaping the genre that we know today that one can essentially argue that Cinderella’s transformation into a beautiful princess is the blueprint for Magical Girl henshins throughout Herstory.
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Dolls are not mine. They are from Pinterest
The Magical Girl genre can be considerably an extension to Fairy Tales of how much it borrows elements and took some inspiration like to what we call the trope of Evil Queenification.
Grown women with their own agency yet fundamentally they plays characters that are on the side of evil. The cruel step mother, a vain ruler obsessed with beauty, a supernatural being who is hungry for power or an old hag / witch who enjoys tormenting people.
In a visual perspective. This contrasts the heroines of the story: naive young girls trying to navigate the world while being the beacon of hope and dreams. Worth noting that this is also essentially something that is easy to sell to its intended demographics.
However do you think it’s misogynistic in a way that it’s sending the wrong message about the imagery of a grown woman being associated with vain, tyranny, greed and evil? at the same time youth is constantly championed as the symbol of purity, innocence and virtue? all of this for the sake of storytelling. Why or why not?
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