MAHOU NO MAKO-CHAN // Mahou Profile: A History of Magical Girls
Channel: ErynCerise
Date: 2018-08-04

Today we dive into the Little Mermaid-inspired world of Mahou no Mako-chan! And hold onto your fish tails everyone, because even this early in the magical girl genre? Things are starting to get B U C K W I L D.

CORRECTION: Kazuko Makino does NOT play Tomiko. Michiko Hirai (the voice of Sally the Witch) does. Turns out that every single English-speaking website with information on Mako-chan had the information listed incorrectly. I had to submit corrections to several sites after confirming the correct info on Japanese pages.

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Script for this video available here: https://mahouprofile.com/2020/06/21/mp-004-mako/

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CREDITS

Magical Eryn avatar by Olivine Arc: https://listography.com/olivinearc?m=0580652416

Title card art by Onsta: https://twitter.com/OnstaMonsta

Voiceover mastering & editing by Victor Frost: http://frost.works/

Japanese dialogue consultant: Aki @ Oh Heck! - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHOLKKA9jZILCOsKDudeUDA  (Helped me get additional clarity on the plots of episodes 46 - 48)

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"UNDER THE SEA" SKIT CREDITS

Skit art by: Olivine Arc

Voice of Sebastian: ShinyWeeb

Skit sound mixing by: Victor Frost

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LINKS

Mahou no Mako-chan @ AnimeNewsNetwork: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1387

Mahou no Mako-chan @ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahō_no_Mako-chan

Una sirenetta tra noi @ Wikipedia (Italian. With Google Translate, this provided a lot of useful info about the series): https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Una_sirenetta_tra_noi

OnlyShojo.com's Mako page (Italian, loads of cool and rare images): http://www.onlyshojo.com/ginnyinizio.htm

Majokko blog (Source for some production info, graphics, and translations): http://fuckyeahmajokko.tumblr.com/tagged/mahou+no+mako+chan

Rachel Thorn's thread about big eyes in pre-war manga: https://twitter.com/rachel_thorn_en/status/940495769282289664

"The Sea in You" by Jessi Sharon (If you want a good ongoing mermaid story, check this comic out!): https://tapas.io/series/theseainyou

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FURTHER READING

"Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga" by Jennifer Prough: https://www.amazon.ca/Straight-Heart-Intimacy-Cultural-Production/dp/082483528X

"The missing link of shojo manga history" by Dalma Kálovics: http://www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/researchlab/wp/wp-content/uploads/sa_dalma_kalovics1.pdf

"Comics, a Global History: Early shōjo manga" by Dan Mazur: http://www.danmazurcomics.com/2014/02/28/comics-a-global-history-early-shojo-manga/

"Shoujo Manga in the 1970s" by Dan Mazur: http://www.danmazurcomics.com/my-recommended-comics-reading-list/some-favorites/shojo-manga-in-the-1970s/