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Manga that have frogs and/or toads in them, can be real, can be items.

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/

Do you want to read as many manga as possible?
Do you want to read manga of different genres?
I try to collect as many manga as possible that are only one volume long.
Please check the genres before reading!

- Note: I haven't read every single one of them. It's also a personal reading list
Have you finished the first part? Here is the second part:
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31188

This stack includes both OOP (out of print) and still-in-circulation titles, but will be noted if they are OOP OR not. Digital only manga will have a note if they are so.
Manga spin-offs of already adapted series (ex. Creamy Mami and The Spoiled Princess, the various Madoka Magica spin-offs) are NOT included.

Manga that were published under the Shojo Beat/Shojo imprint by Viz Media.

Just a list of the one-shot or single omnibus releases in English of Shojo and Josei stories. Companies include Viz, Vertical Comics, Yen Press, Seven seas, Denpa, Kodansha, Fantagraphics, Star Fruit Books, Dark Horse, Digital Manga Publishing, and ADV manga. There are several that Tokyopop licensed as one-shots or single omnibi, but I ran out of room so I didn't include them on this list.

*I ran out of room to include these works:
- Kodansha's Is Love the Answer?/Kimi no Sekai ni Koi wa Nai which is 1 volume (https://myanimelist.net/manga/143738/Kimi_no_Sekai_ni_Koi_wa_Nai)
- Kodansha's "An Older Guy's VR First Love"/VR Ojisan no Hatsukoi (https://myanimelist.net/manga/142033/VR_Ojisan_no_Hatsukoi)
- Last Gasp's "Pure Trance" (https://myanimelist.net/manga/1359/Pure_Trance)
- Moyoco Anno's "In Clothes Called Fat" (https://myanimelist.net/manga/13881/Shibou_to_Iu_Na_no_Fuku_wo_Kite?q=in%20clothes%20called%20fat&cat=manga)