Spreading Love and Justice at Sufficient Velocity (Magical Girl ideas and discussion)

Character and plot developments
Yeah, characters are about the same at least for the main five, and I would personally describe what I'm trying to do is remix the stations of canon if that makes any sense. For instance at some point they will go someplace to uncover bad guy activity in uncovering a powerful dragon, but it will happen somewhere else under different circumstances.
 
I also have an idea for a sequel to Powerpuff Girls Z.

It's called Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z Mugenban, or Powerpuff Girls Z: The Infinity Saga for the Western crowd (such as I).

Set three months after the defeat of HIM, the girls (Momoko, Miyako, Kaoru) go back to living their normal lives, only occasionally having to sortie off to go stop burglars or fight monsters. Momoko is still looking for a boyfriend, with no luck. Miyako's still chill. Kaoru's still kicking ass in sports. About the only thing that's different is the strange dreams Momoko has been having, but everything else is as normal as can be. Then, one day, only three months before the girls graduate from junior high, a transfer student is introduced. This student claims to be called Megane Midorikawa. She's rather tiny (like, Ken's height), has long, platinum blond hair, and wears glasses (hence her name). She ends up getting along really well with the girls, especially with Momoko. But while the girls meet a new friend, the Professor meets an old enemy.

This enemy is Ryousuke Haneda (this series' Dick Hardly), and whereas Dick just used '98!Utonium to do his homework and stuff while he hung out with girls, Ryousuke's relationship with Z!Utonium was pure hatred from the start. Here's a list of reasons:

-Ryousuke is a narcissistic asshole who thinks of himself as "the superior lifeform", and wants to prove his superiority by doing lots of horrific things (which he does).
-Utonium apparently "stole" his "girlfriend" (Mrs. Kitazawa), as well as all of his other friends. In reality, none of those people liked him in the first place.
-Ryousuke is VERY xenophobic, especially towards Westerners (mostly Americans and Brits).
-And on top of that, Utonium and his son "created" three superheroes that essentially killed the devil, which drove Ryousuke over the edge. In reality, this was an accident caused by Peach, the robotic dog, but Ryousuke doesn't know that.

Somehow, Ryousuke got himself superpowers (long story), and uses these powers in the first episode to blackmail and capture the Professor. What did he blackmail him into? The show doesn't say directly, but it had something to do with the girls.

Anyway, Momoko is chasing after some cute guy found, and he wasn't having it. Momoko is frustrated, so she leaves. Megane is about to give her some tips for getting a guy to like her, when the girls' compact belts ring. The girls rush to the top of the school roof, and transform into the Powerpuff Girls Z. Only... they can't do anything beyond that. Can't fly, their weapons are gone, and they're stuck on top of a roof with no way down.

Ryousuke threatened to kill Utonium's son and wife if he didn't tell them the girls' secret identities, so in order to protect his family, he revealed the girls' true identities to Ryousuke. Ryousuke's super computer detected the girls and the Chemical Z inside of them, and Ryousuke found a way to dim the effects of the Z-Rays so that their powers wouldn't work. Then he kills them.

Yes, everyone. In the first episode of Powerpuff Girls Z: The Infinity Saga... the Powerpuff Girls Z are killed.

Momoko wakes up in a white void. Sitting opposite of her is a familiar figure. It's... Megane!? Only... she's not wearing her glasses. And her outfit is FAR different from what she was wearing at school earlier.

Megane reveals her real identity to Momoko, as Megami, aka HER. Basically, she's the God of this universe. She gives some exposition about the multiverse, and then kisses Momoko's ring. This not only gives Momoko her powers back, but also gives her a significant power boost, as well as some other cool things we'll get to see soon. Then she sends Momoko back to the mortal realm, and heads back to Earth herself.

Momoko/Hyper Blossom gasps awake. The school day is over, and all the kids rush out of the school. She sees Megane, and flies down to explain her situation. Megane doesn't understand what's going on, but she agrees to help.

They see Ryousuke entering an abandoned warehouse with what looks like Bubbles and Buttercup, so Blossom flies down to investigate.

Before they can find anything of merit, however, Ryousuke discovers them, and begins his attack. Blossom tries to hit the guy with her yoyo, only for it to prove ineffectual, and any melee attacks she pulls only seem to give him an opening to attack. Then... just as she's pulled to the brink of death again, she feels a great power within her. A power unlike anything else she's felt. This wasn't just a mere superhuman power. This... was the power of a god.

She pulls out her hairbow, and it hardens, turning into a sword, and dashes at her enemy. A few minutes of some really good fight choreography and animation later, Ryousuke is all but dead, but so are Bubbles and Buttercup. Blossom carries the corpses of her two best friends out of the warehouse, tears in her eyes. Megane disappears, likely to Heaven to talk to the other two and give them their power boosts. A few hours later, they come back to life, and episode one ends.
 
Been bouncing around as a non-serious idea of a romcom where the backdrop is basically just a Sunday morning magical girl show, except the main focus is all romcom gags and everything is in service to that. Love triangle shenanigans with the secret identity. Misunderstandings about the rival general being a love rival. Dates being interrupted by monster attacks. Dude not sure how to explain to his childhood friend that he's a Tuxedo Mask -- she doesn't know but one of her team does and that girl has to be a wingwoman. Two team members not sure if the vow they made to each other right before getting a combination attack ("I'll entrust my heart to you!") was romantic or not and they're not sure if it means they're now in a relationship. The enemy mooks being hired for a flash mob for a confession. Introducing new generals in the exact same way romcoms introduce secondary love interests to spice up the main romance. The baseball episode remains exactly the same. Enemy generals supporting different love pairings for the magical girl team members and fighting each other over them by timing the monster attacks for days where rival ships are hanging out. Repeat but you need a million different misunderstandings built off secret identity problems.
 
So, some general words about Powerpuff Girls Z and its sequel.

In my Intimidationverse timeline (as seen in alternatehistory.com if you know where to look), Powerpuff Girls Z is created and premiered as per our timeline, except for one thing: An English dub is premiered in the States alongside Japan. But unlike our timeline, this dub is NOT produced by Ocean Studios (that dub comes later in the picture, don't worry). The dub that aired in the States is produced by four studios - Cloverway Productions (the US production arm of Toei), Aniplex of America, Cartoon Network Studios, and Klobe Entertainment (my own made-up dubbing studio), with Klobe and WBHV coreleasing home media for the show.

This dub is more faithful than the one you might've watched (at least, in most aspects). All of the names and locales from the Japanese version are kept
(sometimes translated into English if need be). The soundtrack from the Japanese version is kept. Minimal censorship was at play to keep the show suitable for children, except on certain DVD and Blu-Ray releases where you could find the show completely uncensored (those releases are the Collector's Edition and Bibliotech releases from Klobe, where both the edited and unedited versions are available on the same disc). However, the dub sometimes veers into gag dub territory, usually in the form of fourth wall breaks or subtle anime/cartoon references, like this line from the first episode:

Sub: Could it be… I'm a transforming heroine?

Dub: Wait a minute… am I in a magical girl anime?

The Cloverway dub usually keeps it as close as possible, though.

Now, for the cast of the Cloverway dub, a lot of the members are OC's I made up for the Intimidationverse timeline (a few of them being replacements for people I wanted at first, but turned out to not be very good people, so I swapped them out for OC's to work around the morality issue). So if you see anyone in this cast who doesn't seem familiar, that's why.

Momoko/Hyper Blossom - Bridget Ferguson
Miyako/Rolling Bubbles - Noriko Sakamoto
Kaoru/Powered Buttercup; Peach - Brina Palencia
Professor Utonium - Christopher Friar
Ken - Leah Clark
Mayor - Tom Kenny
Mrs Bellum, Miss Keane, Sakurako/Sedusa- Jennifer Hale
Mojo Jojo - Patrick Seitz
Himeko - Hilary Haag
Fuzzy Lumpkins - Derek Tower
Rowdyruff Boys - for Brick, Todd Haberkorn. for Boomer, Veronica Taylor. for Butch, not sure
Amoeba Boys - Mike MacRae, Marcy Bannor, Matt Maiellaro
Gangreen Gang - not sure for any of them
HIM - Chuck Huber

Other voices include Maile Flanigan and Kristina Neville.

I also had the idea to give the role of Momoko to either Cherami Leigh or Hilary Haag, and the role of Mojo Jojo to Steve Blum.

Due to dumb contractual reasons involving CN, however, this dub was only seen in the US and Latin America until 2013. Because of this, a second dub was made with Ocean Studios, and aired in Canada, the UK, Southeast Asia, and Australia, between 2007 and 2009, with the sequel giving it second wind from 2010 to 2012. A lot of other countries that dubbed the show into non-Japanese or English dubs also used this dub as a base, sometimes with another version based on the Japanese version airing on a separate channel (Spain, France, Italy,
and somehow the Philippines, though on its own terms), while countries like Germany and the Czech Republic did not do this with the show, and India is its own beast with the show.
 
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Check it. You know that setting I'd been working on with the old quests and RPs I used to host around here? I have its general rules in a much more crystallized form - here's Belle Woods Superstars:

It's a world where magic has been known pretty much since the dawn of recorded civilization, and many of the legendary lost lands - Avalon, Shangri-La, Mu, Atlantis, et cetera - were, or are, real (the ones surviving to the present day get called First Lands instead of Lost Lands). Magic is a product of the life force of a world from a fountain of it called the First Magic. It's the sum of all the life on a world, basically, a reflection of the total life force of its inhabitants. Humankind contacted it, became magical, can't tap directly into it again because trying would basically kill them from the overload.

The arts are a vector for magic power and enchantment, and the spellbook gave way to the Reel and Projector system - you get little microfilms or flash drives and mount them in devices that often get as small as a smartphone and they unfold into wands that run complicated spellwork sealed into recordings and movies. That's the theme of Superstars; it's themed off movies and movie genres, with the titular heroes all taking after a genre they really like. They're part of a gifted echelon of magic users called Inspired; think magic prodigies who often get special schooling and aid and you're on the money.

The Superstars are crimefighters based out of their home city, Belle Woods, MA, and they're stuck in the middle of a millennia-long war between two philosophies on how to treat magic: on one hand you have the Libraries, who preserve magic artifacts, safeguard them and use them to teach others to advance the state of magic. On the other you have the Vaults, who believe in taking magic power from these things and even people and adding it to their own to lord over others. Belle Woods is basically an East Coast Hollywood and it's got a big Vault problem that's only getting bigger because the Vaults are gunning for some of the faculty of their school, for once being heroines that thwarted their efforts. Though admittedly it's also so I could just do the Townsville thing of having a really big city that has one of everything to make adventures around.
 
Back in 2021, I tried to run a Magical Girl themed D&D campaign. For a variety of reasons mainly relating to the mismatch of the medium and group with this, it didn't go well. But for better or worse, I'm still too invested in the concept and setting I had come up with to entirely let it go, so I have had the thought of reviving it as a narrative quest here instead, since it's a medium I have a much better grasp on.

It would take place on a tourist-infested tropical island in the near-future decade of 2070, focusing on a college student or group thereof, granted magical powers to fight back against a mysterious magitech-based threat.
The setting sounds different enough from most MG works that you could follow a more standard protagonist and still have the story stand out
It probably won't happen right away, at any rate, since I'm pretty swamped with IRL stuff right now, but it is good to know that it's an option worth pursuing as soon as I have more of an opening for it!
Well, I've finally figured out the direction I want to go with this reboot, and that propelled me into finally starting it. You can find it here!
 
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A few weeks ago, I wrote a short story for the writing prompt event. Before I looked at the prompts for the event, some of the idea for that short story already existed as something that could be longer-form. I don't regret how it formed--if anything, I think that the prompt helped me figure out some of the angle I wanted to take with it--but I've been thinking of building off of that prompt. Probably by writing more short stories about the same character, to shine more light on aspects of the concept that didn't get that much focus, and to expand on the themes that motivated it.
A few thoughts in particular have been bouncing around in my head.

First one is a short story which focuses on the immediate aftermath as Bright gets her footing and explores how she wants to move forward from here, mostly focusing on the idea of the magical girl as someone who helps people, even if they don't really get anything from it. Would almost certainly involve some more meditations on the genre itself and the messages and ideas it tends to carry with it.

Another is a concept of Bright happening on somewhere else, where a different magical girl plot is in progress. There's a few different thoughts I have for it. One way or another, it's something that would wind up being used to explore Bright's character more, and similarly, would almost inevitably shine light on events and aspects of her own 'season' that either didn't get much attention or didn't have any light shone on them in the first place in the first short story. Might also potentially be the point where I pull the trigger on what exactly the duality of Bright Phantasma and Dim Void entails, which itself is tied into some of the themes I've been playing with since the start (and also their individual characters), since it was something I pretty much entirely figured out during the process of writing but didn't get to elaborate much on. Would probably have more meditations on the genre itself than the above, but it could wind up being less relevant than I think.
-In the end, the scenario would be less dire than Bright's wound up being, though a sizable portion of the reason would be due to efforts to prevent it from getting that bad in the first place. Sort of as a way of approaching some ideas in the original short story from another direction.

The last is a concept that's a sort of weird mirror to the one above, wherein instead of it being another magical girl plot she runs into, she gets pulled into a different sort of plot. I think this could probably be meshed with the magical girl plot as well, but assuming they remain separate, the main idea I have is playing into a sort of...not quite cosmic horror, but something similar, where the whole thing turning out fine is a result of Bright's involvement. Essentially, using 'another genre' to highlight and expand on points that were always there in the idea, and to expound on Bright's character.
I'm not sure if/when I'll act on these ideas, though. When I do, I'll probably make a thread for it.
 
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It not the hardest idea yet, but I am kind of intrigued by the idea of what if Utena (from revolutionary girl utena, not gushing...kind of hate to have to specify that until gushing comes out of the public consciousness completely) was Sailor Moon. Basically after Utena got out of Ohtori Academy she was found by Luna and was told she was sailor moon (the sort of sequel movie isn't in consideration here so it before Anthy finds Utena).

The idea isn't hard set yet but the one thing that would be interesting to explore is that because of the events of Utena the main romance in Sailor Moon is basically fucked up beyond repair. To give context in Utena, the titular character basically had gotten taken advantage of by the main villain Akio (who is also the fallen archetype of the charming princes in like a weird persona sense), Mamoru basically can be described as falling into the archetype of a charming prince... Mamoru basically gives Utena really bad ptsd of her experience with Akio and this is really bad for this timeline considering how many powerups come from the power of love. (this isn't to bash Mamoru, he isn't really at fault for this...he probably would be very understanding of this ).

The good news is this probably be salvaged by Anthy finding Utena and rekindling their relationship but it probably going to be a messier relationship then Usagi canon one. I suppose it be a story of Utena try to recover from her trauma while trying to be Sailor moon and the fallout of destiny being screwed up to such a degree.
 
It not the hardest idea yet, but I am kind of intrigued by the idea of what if Utena (from revolutionary girl utena, not gushing...kind of hate to have to specify that until gushing comes out of the public consciousness completely) was Sailor Moon. Basically after Utena got out of Ohtori Academy she was found by Luna and was told she was sailor moon (the sort of sequel movie isn't in consideration here so it before Anthy finds Utena).

The idea isn't hard set yet but the one thing that would be interesting to explore is that because of the events of Utena the main romance in Sailor Moon is basically fucked up beyond repair. To give context in Utena, the titular character basically had gotten taken advantage of by the main villain Akio (who is also the fallen archetype of the charming princes in like a weird persona sense), Mamoru basically can be described as falling into the archetype of a charming prince... Mamoru basically gives Utena really bad ptsd of her experience with Akio and this is really bad for this timeline considering how many powerups come from the power of love. (this isn't to bash Mamoru, he isn't really at fault for this...he probably would be very understanding of this ).

The good news is this probably be salvaged by Anthy finding Utena and rekindling their relationship but it probably going to be a messier relationship then Usagi canon one. I suppose it be a story of Utena try to recover from her trauma while trying to be Sailor moon and the fallout of destiny being screwed up to such a degree.
It's worth noting that Utena and Anfi are based on Michiru and Haruki.
 
It's worth noting that Utena and Anfi are based on Michiru and Haruki.

Oh yeah, I do vaguely remeber that... Admitely this is the latest of other magical girls as Sailor moon inspired by that bad story where nanoha was sailor moon because the idea itself was interesting if the story it self was sailor moon bashing. Like I imagine a proper story Nanoha main conflict would be split between her duties as a magical girl cop and being sailor moon (Fate would be the incarnation of Endymion and would be able to turn into sailor Earth because of that and Hayate would turn out to be at full power basically as powerful as a normal senshi just so the main group isn't left out), I imagine Sakura from cardcaptor sakura to be basically a nightmare of clow reed because her power incontinence along with the silver crystal making her power way beyond his power, was making clear cards that have galactic scale consequences.
 
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