Glossary

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This **Glossary** article contains official terms used by Yenpress, common slang terms used by the English community, and some useless yet interesting stats about the characters.

## Official Terms

The following is a list of official terms used while editing this Wikia. With the exception of untranslated stories, articles are edited based on ***Yenpress’ official translation** (Right column).* Currently, untranslated stories are based on fan-translations and will be replaced upon official release.

The following also adds the number of POVs each character has. For a detail version, check out the POV List.

Highlighted in **orange** are major changes made by Yenpress. These are names that were completely changed from the Japanese version. (Mao Pam > Archfiend Pam)

Highlighted in **pink** are minor changes made by Yenpress. These refer to names that have a certain part of a letter/word taken out or have their names swapped around. (Miyokata Nonako > Nonako Miyokata)

### Characters

*Check out Magical Girl, Mage and Mascot articles for more information.*

### Locations

*Check out Locations article for more information.*

### Affiliations

*Check out Affiliations article for more information.*

## Common Terms

The following are slang terms and abbreviations used by certain parts of the English community and might not necessarily be used on this Wikia.

* Mahoiku - Short for the Japanese title, Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku.
* Unmarked / Arc 1 - The first novel in the franchise. It's named "Unmarked" in the fandom as it has no sub-title.
* Arc 1.5 - Magical Girl Raising Project: Special Edition. More specifically, it refers to extra story: Snow White Raising Project (SWRP).
* Arc 2 - Restart. The second and third novel in the franchise.
* Arc 3 - Limited. The fifth and sixth novel in the franchise.
* Arc 4 - JOKERS. The seventh novel in the franchise.
* Arc 5 - ACES. The eighth novel in the franchise.
* Arc 6 - QUEENS. The eleventh novel in the franchise.
* Arc 7 - Black. The thirteenth novel in the franchise.
* Arc 8 - White. The sixteenth novel in the franchise.
* Peaceful Days - Magical Girl Raising Project: Peaceful Days of 16 Magical Girls. An extra story about the *Unmarked (Arc 1)* cast and the tenth novel in the franchise.
* Episodes - Magical Girl Raising Project: Episodes. The first side story and the fourth novel in the franchise.
* Phi - Magical Girl Raising Project: Episodes Φ. The second side story and the ninth novel in the franchise.
* Delta - Magical Girl Raising Project: Episodes Δ. The third side story and the twelfth novel in the franchise.
* Sigma - Magical Girl Raising Project: Episodes Σ. The fourth side story and the seventeenth novel in the franchise.
* Breakdown - Magical Girl Raising Project: breakdown, a spinoff story. The fourteenth and fifteenth novel in the franchise.
* Unripe Duet - Unripe Duet, a prequel story. A reading drama based on Cranberry
* Twins - Referring to the Peaky Angels, Minael and Yunael.
* 44 - Magicaloid 44
* Swim2 - Swim Swim
* Magical Girl Hunter - Referring to Snow White's nickname.
* Hair Fetish - Referring to Pythie Frederica's obsession over the hair of Magical Girls.
* Pucked - An inside joke within the English community. It refers to a character that is or going to be brainwashed by Puk Puck through friendship.
* LaPuLulu - A shipping term used in the fandom for La Pucelle and Stella Lulu.
* Selection Test - Used in the novels, the selection test is a test where Magical Girls compete to enter and to become an official member of the Magical Kingdom
* Selection Test Examiner/Test Examiner - Used in the novels, an examiner is someone who holds and oversees the Magical Girl selection test.
* Cranberry's Children - Used in the novels, refers to the Magical Girls that survive Cranberry's selection test.
* White Magical Girl - Used often in the novels to described Snow White.
* Casebook - An in-universe social media platform. The name is based off Facebook.
* Lightningram - An in-universe social media platform. The name is based off Instagram.
* Mine - An in-universe social media platform. The name is based off Line.
* U2B - An in-universe social media platform.
* DigDug - An in-universe social media platform.
* Magitter - An in-universe social media platform. The name is based off Twitter.

### Abbreviations

Several Magical Girls also have shortened names. (SW > Snow White, LP > La Pucelle, MP > Mao Pam)
As such, we will exclude them on the list below.

* MGRP - Short for the English title, Magical Girl Raising Project.
* POV - A character's Point of View in the novels.
* SWRP - Snow White Raising Project. Referring to Magical Girl Raising Project: Special Edition. Also known as Arc 1.5 as it is a remake version of the first book with extra material and a direct continuation of Snow White's story which contains a crucial part of her development as the *Magical Girl Hunter*.
* PD - Magical Girl Raising Project: Peaceful Days of 16 Magical Girls or simply known as Peaceful Days.
* BD - Magical Girl Raising Project: breakdown. A spin-off web novel.
* MG - Magical Girl
* MMMG - Man-Made Magical Girl
* LOM - Land of Magic. A pocket dimension that exists in the series.
* LL1 - Referring to The First Lapis Lazuline
* LL2 - Referring to The Second Lapis Lazuline, Blue Comet
* LL3 - Referring to The Third Lapis Lazuline, Bluebell Candy
* AA/BB/CC/DD - Referring to the Man-made Magical Girls created by the Research and Development Division, Armor Arlie/Ark Arlie, Blade Brenda, Cannon Catherine and Drill Dory. (These Magical Girls are added here because they are unique as their names are in the English alphabet order.)
* LN - Light Novel
* YP - Referring to Yenpress, the publisher for the official English version of Magical Girl Raising Project.
* HR - Human Resource Division or YenPress' version, Magical Girl Resource Department.
* R&D - Research and Development Division
* PR - Public Relations Division
* IT - Information Technology Division

## Miscellaneous Lists

The following are miscellaneous Lists that contain useless yet interesting information.

### POV List

The following is a detailed list that displays how many times a character's point of view appears in every arc. Only characters who have a pov will be listed and whose name was written in the pov section of the novels will be counted. As such, certain side stories are not included as their name did not appear in the pov despite that particular chapter is dedicated on them. It should also be noted that the first book, *Unmarked (Arc 1)* did not have the characters' name on their pov until *Restart*.

* **"BD"** - refers to *breakdown*
* **"Others"** - refers to all the available side and web stories.
* **"0"** - refers to a character that appeared in their respective arc(s) but did not have a point of view.
* **"N/A"** - refers to a character that did not even make an appearance in an arc.

***Warning! The following section contains spoilers! Read at your own risk.***

### Redirects List

The following redirects were created to allow users to search for a particular article without having to type out the full name. The list below does not cover all the redirects in this wikia but rather some common names that the English community used as well as official names that Yenpress had changed.

*Click here for the complete list of redirects.*

### Nicknames List

The following will only lists the Characters that has a nickname and who they were called by.

## Credits

* Certain information retrieved from Google Document by DBR Liamg.
* POV lists by Shadowestgale and Google Document by Blitzsparkz.

## Related Articles

* Magical Girl / Mage / Mascot / Demon
* Locations
* Affiliations
* Magical Ability
* Items
* Deceased Characters ***(Spoilers!)***

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