The early 2000s' Madoka Magica was a subversion of the genre where becoming a Magical Girl is something dark and horrible in an Alan Moore-style deconstruction Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc doesn't deconstruct the genre but takes it in a more adult and socially conscious direction with its allegory for entering the job market and surviving[...]
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Pretty Cure is a hugely successful magical girl franchise, while Madoka Magica took the magical girl and made it darker and significantly less joyful Even the Power Puff Girls got the traditional magical girl anime treatment with Powerpuff Girls Z.
The future for the genre looks bright New magical girl shows are coming out every year[...]