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Here is a list for fellow manga collectors and fans of mahou shoujo, a genre featuring many young girls receiving magical powers and (more often than not) a dress that's as cute as the aesthetic! Can be treated as a rec list for those new to the genre, as it will mainly (and primarily) feature magical girl manga you can find English copies of to read and buy today. Not meant to be a complete/definitive list.

Do note that this list will include magical-girl-adjacent titles, or some fantasy series that aren't usually considered to be part of the genre by some parts of the community—I'll try to put explanations for my reasoning in including them/why I feel they should be considered as a magical girl title... whether you're convinced on the classification or not, hopefully you might still be sold on checking it out regardless.

Physical releases that have been out of print, or will not be printed brand new in stores anymore, will also be included and indicated as such. To find these prints/series, you will need to look outside of your usual bookstores to find used/pre-owned copies. Good luck finding some of these, especially if you're particularly looking for more affordable prices!
Aside from marketplaces like eBay and Mercari, I also recommend checking the following sites as I've found many manga with decent pricing and item conditions from them:
https://www.abebooks.com/
https://www.alibris.com/
https://www.biblio.com/

McBling, Y2K fashion, Frutiger Metro, Funky Seasons, pink, kawaii stuff, glittery sparkles, girly shit, whatever would've made the 5-year-old everythinggirl.com fan in me happy ⋆

I'm glad someone came up with a name for this specific aesthetic I've been craving for again, seriously been waiting for years; "Cyber Stylin'" sounds like an interesting name. Also discovering all these after a while start to make me think of magazines like Seventeen for some reason... I guess cuz this unsurprisingly became a retro shoujosei stack lolol


Inspiration: https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Cyber_Stylin%27



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Recommended BGM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Np18-m-A4w

A carefully curated selection of obscure manga ranging from the great to the kinda terrible.

Isekai, or tranport to another world/realm, has been around for a long time. Historically we have legends of travel to fae realms like tir na nog, we have japanese folk tales of being transported to the sea kingdom, we have famous literature like The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland.

So, "Isekai" is not a new concept. However, its appearance in japanese manga and anime (when not a direct adaptation of the previously mentioned literature), is somewhat new. I decided to pull together a small timeline of the female-lead isekai manga, anime and light novels. I am not including Sci-fi works where they simply travel to different planets through space, as that is its own separate category and has its own distinct history of development and works it draws on.

I tried to compile an extensive list of the English Licensed Shojo and Josei manga titles where romance is a sub-plot at best, if present at all (many of these don't have any romance present).

Part 1-dark/horror/thriller: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/my
Part 2-Fantasy/Supernatural: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/57092
Part 4-Cute Stories: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/57096
Part 5-Character dramas/Modern Real-Life Japan: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/57100

This is a list of the Shojo and Josei manga with sci-fi elements licensed in english. Some lean more into the hard sci-fi elements than others, but whether it be aliens, mecha, robots, a futuristic world, futuristic steampunk, or space they will be included. Some "hide" their sci-fi elements or treat them similar to magic, so keep that in mind.

Not Listed:
Tokyo Mew Mew
Hyper Rune
Mink
Sleeping Next to You

Honorable Mention: Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind