What is a magical girl?
Magical girl
a subgenre of Japanese fantasy anime and manga which features girls with magical powers or who use magic
Magical girl(Japanese:魔法 少女,Hepburn:mahō shōjo) is a subgenre of Japanese fantasy anime and manga which features girls with magical powers or who use magic. Although the genre has origins in Japan, it has been used as a motif outside Japan in Western works such as Winx Club, among others.