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I feel like western magical girl fans do mental gymnastics to not acknowledge and downplay pretty cure. Like they literally act like it doesn't fit their worldview because actually acknowledging it means acknowledging that no the genre has not been dead over the past ten or fifteen years and no pmmm is not the most influential deconstructive magical girl thing ever created. Still a little annoyed by the white lady's video that acts like along with many others apparently that magical girl media got some kind of revival or some shit two minutes ago by not so quietly ignoring everything that's come between pmmm and some manga I forgot the name of that only has like seven chapters.

Also this is a minor gripe but in said video they seem to be under the impression that the recent manga did some new and inventive thing they've never seen before in the genre when literally in fact something very similar in the same damn genre was done in a still ongoing shounen jump manga that recently got an anime which doesn't help with my opinion that most western otaku and even western mahou shoujo fans don't know what the fuck they're talking about when it comes to magical girls lol.

Imagine if everyone for some whatever reason thought that Steins Gate was a "deconstruction" of the visual novel medium (perhaps they'd call it a genre) and all western visual novel fans just straight up ignored every single visual novel after that until, I don't know, Anonymous Codes comes out, the former being from 2009 and the latter being from 2020, and that's basically what having to listen to a sizable amount of western mahou shoujo fans feels like. Just choosing to ignore everything that isn't their personal flavour or interest of magical girl (aka whatever the hell they watched when they were a kid or teenager, probably sailor moon, madoka magica, or maybe cardcaptor sakura).