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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A magical girl.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anime, broadcasting, comics, film, literature, manga, media, publishing, television
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noun
A manga or anime focusing on one or more majokko.
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History
Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 魔女っ子 (majokko), composed of 魔女 (“witch”) + っ子 (“person having a certain quality”, also diminutive suffix). This term is sometimes also glossed in English as “little witch”, the word 子 (ko) meaning “child” or “small”.
