Characters I can identify
Broom-riders:
- Doremi Harukaze (Ojamajo Doremi) — center
- Chocolat Meilleure (Sugar Sugar Rune) — right, taller
Top row under broom-riders:
- Di Gi Charat (Di Gi Charat) — third from right
- Panty Anarchy (Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt) — second from left
- Stocking Anarchy (Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt) — second from right
- Saint Tail (Mysterious Thief Saint Tail) — far left
- Silver Oujo (Crayon Kingdom of Dreams) — left of center
Second row from top:
- Cure Bloom (Precure Splash Star) — left of center
- Cure Egret (Precure Splash Star) — right of center
Third row from top:
- Cure Black (Futari wa Precure) — left of center
- Cure White (Futari wa Precure) — right of center
- Cure Happy (Smile Precure) — far right
※Second and third rows from top appear to all be Precure characters.
Fourth row from top:
- Mikan Sakura (Gakuen Alice) — center
- Satsuki (Ghost Stories) — third from left
※I think the character to Satsuki’s right is from Pokémon, because she’s accompanied by three Pokémon. Also, second from right looks very familiar, but I can’t put my finger on who she might be!
Sixth row from top:
- Corrector Yui (Corrector Yui) — right of center
- Nadia La Arwall (Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water) — third from right
- Blossom (Powerpuff Girls Z) — second from right
Bottom row:
- Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon) — center
- Hikaru Shidou (Magic Knight Rayearth) — left of center
- Princess Tutu (Princess Tutu) — third from right
- Amu Hinamori (Shugo Chara) — second from left
- Wedding Peach (Wedding Peach) — third from left
- Cutie Honey (Cutie Honey) — right of center
At Sailor Moon’s feet:
- Mew Ichigo (Tokyo Mew Mew) — left
- Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura) — right
Which leaves the following characters unidentified (by me):
Broom-riders: left two; shorter character on the right.
Top row: center and far right.
Second row from top: all except center two.
Third row from top: all except center two and far right.
Fourth row from top: all except center and third from left.
Fifth row from top: all except right of center to second from right.
Bottom row: far left and right; second from right.
This one’s by Chris-theKid.
Characters I can identify
Top row, from left to right:
- Utena Tenjou (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
- ???
- Cure Black (Futari wa Precure)
- Cure White (Futari wa Precure)
- Cure Happy (Smile Precure)
- Blossom (PowerPuff Girls Z)
- Bloom (Winx Club)
Middle row, from left to right:
- Hikaru Shidou (Magic Knight Rayearth)
- Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura)
- Madoka Kaname (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
- Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)
- Mew Ichigo (Tokyo Mew Mew)
- Amu Hinamori (Shugo Chara)
- ???
Bottom row, from left to right:
- Momo (Fairy Princess Minky Momo)
- Doremi Harukaze (Ojamajo Doremi)
- Aika (Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want To Be A Magical Girl)
- Chibiusa (Sailor Moon)
- Star Butterfly (Star Vs. The Forces of Evil)
Only two I couldn’t identify: top row, second from left; and middle row, far right.
This one’s by yanana_ua.
Characters I can identify
Upper left: Sailor Moon and Luna (Sailor Moon)
Center: Bubbles (PowerPuff Girls)
Upper right: Cure White and Mepple (Futari wa Precure)
Bottom left: Aiko Senoo and Mimi (Ojamajo Doremi)
Bottom right: Stocking Anarchy (Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt)
The fact that the White Devil is not there is pretty blasphemous.
Edit: is it just that new generations don’t know about Nanoha? Did it die after StrikerS?
really glad someone mentioned nanoha.
post-strikers nanoha was really niche. vivid got an incomplete adaptation and the sequel movies were weird since they created a new continuity and fandom got split on opinions. on the manga side, fandom got split on the vivid side and the force side and as far as i remember, none did really well (force even got cancelled)
there is a new series on the movie continuity happening soon but the trailer is selling a very edgy tone so i doubt it will be very popular. not sure how begginer friendly it will be since it’s using nanoha as a subtitle.
That’s too bad, the original -> A’s -> StrikerS series was pretty great if I remember (been a minute since I watched).
Nanoha-mama and Fate-mama was pretty peak though.
fully agree. the first 3 series are great together even with all their problems.
some people didn’t like strikers because it went to a more realistic setting (more militar less magic) but i think it was the natural next step for the story they were writing. the sequel movies try to keep the more magical side and they barely aged the characters so it ends up feeling like just another episode.
on the other hand, the force manga continued the strikers formula, aging all the characters and having new protagonists. sadly, the story is very generic battle shounen style so it’s not great but seeing most of the old cast with new lives was really nice.
nanoha-mama and fate-mama
I love how much effort the Strikers writers did to show how the two were a couple without explicitly saying anything.
Some more that I can identify in the first picture:
Broom-riders:
- Chacha (Akazukin Chacha) - Far right, smaller
Top row:
- Maron Kusakabe / Jeanne (Phantom Thief Jeanne) - Far right
Second Row (All Pretty Cure characters)
- Nono Hana / Cure Yell (HUGtto! Pretty Cure) - Far left
- Usami Ichika / Cure Whip (KiraKira☆Pretty Cure A La Mode) - Second from left
- Megumi Aino / Cure Lovely (Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!) - Third from left
- Haruka Haruno / Cure Flora (Go! Princess Pretty Cure) - Third from right
- Hoshina Hikaru / Cure Star (Star☆Twinkle Pretty Cure) - Second from right
- Mirai Asahina / Cure Mirai (Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure!) - Far right
Third Row (Also all Pretty Cure characters)
- Hibiki Houjou/ Cure Melody (Suite Pretty Cure) - Far left
- Tsubomi Hanaaka / Cure Blossom (Heartcatch Pretty Cure!) - Second from left
- Love Momozono / Cure Peach (Fresh Pretty Cure!) - Third from left
- Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo!) - Third from Right
- Aida Mana / Cure Heart (Doki Doki! Pretty Cure) - Second from right
Fourth Row
- Saga Bergman with Sugar (A Little Snow Fairy Sugar) - Far left
- Ringo Yukimori / Snow White (Spellbound! Magical Princess Lilpri) - Second from left
- Hazel (Magical Pokémon Journey) - Fourth from left
- Meirin Kanzaki (Ask Dr. Rin!) - Third from right
- Mitsuki Koyama (Full Moon o Sagashite) - Second from right
- Katie Minami with Mirmo (Mirmo! / Mirumo de pon) - Far right
Fifth Row
- Popuri (Fushigi Mahou Fun Fun Pharmacy) - Far left
- Idol form of Lucia Nanami (Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch) - Third from left
- Princess Comet (Cosmic Baton Girl Comet-san) - Left of center
Bottom Row
- Fine (Twin Princess of Wonder Planet) - Far left
- Rein (Twin Princess of Wonder Planet) - Far right
The rest are familiar but I can’t remember what series they’re from
Thank you for your encyclopedic knowledge of Pretty Cure and very good knowledge of magical girls and anime girls in general. I did start reading the Esperanto translation of the Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch Aqua manga a while ago but I guess the character design didn’t leave a lasting impression. Full Moon O Sagashite is apparently on my PTW; I knew it was familiar but I couldn’t find it no matter what I searched, but I guess I should’ve just searched my PTW to begin with. Fine and Rein were two characters I was particularly curious about just because they stand out as having particularly cute designs in the fanart. And of course the qipao-wearing odango-head is called “Meirin” — that’s like a whole trope, isn’t it? That every Chinese girl in anime is called Meiling.
I can only assume that the ones I could identify were all ones you were already familiar with, too.
So, the following ten characters remain unidentified:
Broom riders: left two
Top row: center
Fourth row: left of center, right of center, fourth from right
Fifth row: far right, second from left, center
Bottom row: second from right
I just checked another list of magical girl series from that period and I think I’ve identified one from a series I haven’t seen
Broom riders
- Arusu (Tweeny Witches) - the one standing on the broom
I read a ton of shoujo manga as a kid in the late 90s and early 00s; specifically when they were still being released in Hana to Yume, Ciao, Lala, Ribon, Nakayoshi, etc. but it was sporadic so I did have to look a lot of stuff up like “Oh, I remember this, it was released in the 90s in Ciao I think” and then find the name of the series from there, same with the names of the PreCure protags as I’m actually terrible with remembering that stuff.
From what I can tell, all the characters are pre-2020 so far (none of the newer PreCure series, latest in the illustration is Star Twinkle which was 2019-2020) and the earliest is Sailor Moon (1991), and they’ve all had anime adaptions, so you’ll be looking for magical girl anime series between those years.
