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File: 6daa62bbe09188a⋯.gif (1.24 MB, 640x480, 4:3, happymiraclegirls.gif)

 No.839422

BELIEVE IN MIRACLES

Miracle Girls is a Slice of Life/Magical Girl anime that ran for 51 episodes during 1993. In a sentence: The Matsunaga sisters, Tomomi (short hair) and Mikage (long hair), are a pair of twins who have the powers of telepathy and teleportation, and the series follows them and their boyfriends as they go through daily life in high school and get into misadventures. This series is interesting historically because the Slice of Life side is far more prominent than the Magical Girl side and the series therefore reflects the origins of the Magical Girl genre moreso than the modern, Sailor Moon-esque Magical Girl shows. (Sailor Moon itself had existed near the same time and had ended up winning in terms of how many series it influenced down the line.)

A strength of Miracle Girls is the characterisation---plenty of interpersonal conflict to go around, especially to and from Mikage---and the occasional multi-episode arcs are where the characters are at their best. I liked the way that Ema and Marie parallel Tomomi and Mikage, especially with Marie being presented as initially selfish but with a good nature beneath. Despite the relatively small amount of screen time she got, Marie got good character development. I would say that the sitcom-esque plots of many of the episodes are the weakest point. Something arbitrary and usually magical tends to happen to set events in motion (for example, the dinosaur episode), but you know that the status quo will be reasserted in the end, so that takes away from the emotional investment. It's best to think of the plots as just setting the stage for enjoyable character moments to occur.

Where this series really shines, though, is in presenting a sincere and warm view of relationships and young love. Tomomi and Mikage take their relationships with their boyfriends seriously, staying with them throughout the whole series. It makes the series feel like a relic of a time when there was more optimism about young peoples' prospects for relationships and love, and that this optimism permeated the stories that people told. The music is pretty great too.

I recommend this torrent: https://nyaa.pantsu.cat/view/521733

Some private tracker sites have an alternate available (BBT-RMX) with slightly better video quality, but the subtitles in the alternative are broken in a few of the episodes.

 No.839572

File: 8140e6776fd1537⋯.jpg (36.81 KB, 640x480, 4:3, mpv-shot0038.jpg)

I heard you know something about the Matsunaga sisters? Don't mind me, I'm just your average person.


 No.839573

File: 46b7e0927c67ff3⋯.jpg (499.75 KB, 1500x1050, 10:7, 52328191_p0.jpg)

File: 2e2c3e3968690f7⋯.png (1.34 MB, 900x651, 300:217, miracle art.png)

File: f017ae472c74a34⋯.jpg (137.81 KB, 900x802, 450:401, miracle_girls___tomomi_and….jpg)

Little bit of fan art I've been able to find.


 No.839575

File: 7e9413fcb84b7bf⋯.png (655.46 KB, 640x960, 2:3, fuck this thread.png)


 No.839577

File: d9a3dbb9eba8c59⋯.jpg (47.71 KB, 640x480, 4:3, mpv-shot0100.jpg)

Exploitable.


 No.839579

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File: acdcfdfc2f8f31a⋯.jpg (60.89 KB, 640x480, 4:3, 5.jpg)

Dumping all creditless ED pictures.


 No.839580

File: d4b054756a34123⋯.jpg (79.03 KB, 640x480, 4:3, 6.jpg)

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 No.839581

File: 454b3d5a845c224⋯.jpg (59.67 KB, 640x480, 4:3, 11.jpg)

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 No.839582

File: 4f7dc3dadfcebdd⋯.jpg (73.79 KB, 640x480, 4:3, 16.jpg)

File: 3908d2ca8852778⋯.jpg (81.33 KB, 640x480, 4:3, mpv-shot0128.jpg)

And one more from the OP.


 No.839592

I'm glad you are having fun with your own thread, OP.


 No.839595

>>839592

Actually, I'm having fun with OP's thread.


 No.839651

File: 52ed7f4f82454c0⋯.jpg (65.02 KB, 640x480, 4:3, amegafuru.jpg)

File: b9644e34d4075ab⋯.jpg (367.98 KB, 640x960, 2:3, angry.jpg)

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File: 18f70eceec2a573⋯.jpg (49.04 KB, 640x480, 4:3, cutehair.jpg)

File: ad1449b09c3e76f⋯.jpg (63.42 KB, 640x480, 4:3, gay.jpg)


 No.839652

File: 2fddaeabb775ad3⋯.webm (394.92 KB, 640x480, 4:3, genki.webm)

File: a608ceac8f76620⋯.webm (1.33 MB, 640x480, 4:3, dadadadadun.webm)

File: 643c9363ef68fe2⋯.webm (1.91 MB, 640x480, 4:3, nani.webm)

File: 4e37425535a077d⋯.webm (929.87 KB, 640x480, 4:3, ojousama.webm)

File: 8fddb183e9f09e8⋯.webm (1.99 MB, 640x480, 4:3, wife.webm)


 No.839653

File: 631bbb0fa485d4c⋯.gif (309.71 KB, 480x480, 1:1, mikagespeechless.gif)

File: 2b2d24b45545c21⋯.jpg (508.05 KB, 638x1192, 319:596, nicedress.jpg)

File: df9eeb9770db340⋯.jpg (246.83 KB, 1280x480, 8:3, onoff.jpg)

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File: fabd080bbc39271⋯.jpg (59.56 KB, 640x480, 4:3, cookie.jpg)

>>839595

I'm glad you're having fun with my thread.


 No.839655

File: 5fc42414c788a9b⋯.webm (2.94 MB, 640x360, 16:9, madoka kazoo.webm)

Alright OP you've piqued my interest.


 No.839656

File: 03e4fada69c0b5d⋯.png (260.22 KB, 520x520, 1:1, stoppu.png)

>the series follows them and their boyfriends

I don't know, op


 No.840691

All the time on /a/ through the MG anon era, through when everyone was watching it in the anime club, I was never inspired to watch more than a handful of episodes of this. Not because it was bad, I actually enjoyed what I saw, I just kind of got distracted and forgot to watch it. I guess there's no time like the present.


 No.840855

>>839656

As someone who would usually be annoyed by that sort of thing, it didn't actually bother me much at all. For comparison, I found the way the relationship was handled in Miracle Girls far less annoying than how it was done in CCS.

Honestly, I'm more annoyed by the relative scarcity of Miracle Girls smut. There are a handful of untranslated doujinshi, but far fewer than the series deserves. Maybe I should have a go at translating one or two of them myself some time


 No.840882

>>840855

The original manga needs an entire rework.


 No.841153

>>840882

Which manga? Miracle Girls or CCS?


 No.845808

File: 344c5b1c4ec778b⋯.jpg (54.66 KB, 640x480, 4:3, mpv-shot1077.jpg)

I can't help but wonder...

which of them is the bigger pervert?


 No.845810

>>841153

Miracle Girls. It's one of those old localizations where they change the names into more "Western" ones. I haven't been able to even find the raw manga, but I haven't been looking very hard.


 No.845812

>>845810

Oh yeah. I remember trying to find the raws and failing as well. I just assumed I wasn't looking in the right places, but it's a shame if they simply don't exist.

There must still be copies of the manga out there, so it should be possible to track them down and scan them.


 No.845818

The Miracle Girls manga raws are on AnimeBytes.


 No.845827

Actually, they're only 360 MB, so here y'all go. (Polite sage for doublepost.)

https://mega.nz/#F!4Po1CTrZ!tImwFxTSIHSvkZP-yAKgHQ


 No.845846

>>845827

Wow, thanks, anon. Now we just need a translator and whatever else is needed.


 No.845859

>>845846

The raws look perfect in terms of how clean they are, and for typesetting there is a guide on /u/ about scanlation, if anyone wanted to learn how. If we ever get a translation I can try doing the typesetting for it though. This is the guide. >>>/u/43121


 No.846126

>>845827

Thanks a lot anon. It's nice to see it has furigana too - it makes it much easier to learn from.


 No.849009

Kinda sounds like Kimagure Orange Road. A show from the 80s which has more or less the same plot except the person with the powers is the male MC.




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