Sparkleside Chats with Magical Girl Ayu

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical creator Sarah Simon-Blum  about her webcomic Sanguine: Monster Magical Girl . You can find her on Twitter . Series mentioned:  Sailor Moon Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders Cardcaptor Sakura Puella Magi Madoka Magica Sugar Sugar Rune Witch Hat Atelier The Ancient Magus's Bride Monster High Music featured:  "Wonder and...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical professor Nicholas about Angel's Friends, season two (2014). You can find him on Twitter and Instagram . Warnings for discussions of fatphobia, domestic violence, and racism. News: (1:00) Fate: The Winx Saga is confirmed to be canceled after season two A New CG "reboot" season of Winx Club also confirmed Magical Warrior Dia...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical creative Cami about Healer Girl (2022). You can find her on Twitter or YouTube . Warnings for vague gore and unhealthy romantic attachment. Additional links: Interview with director Irie Ayumi's article on Healer Girl News: (1:00) Magical Girl Raising Project's Musician of the Forest, Cranberry will get a side story dramati...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical Youtuber Jenny Blaze about the first season of Miraculous Ladybug (2015). You can find her on Twitter and YouTube . Warnings for racism and unhealthy romantic behavior. News: (1:00) Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card Arc comic set to end with volume 14 SHY superheroine comic gets a confirmed animated series This Way Madness Lies...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical creator Lisa aka Livanya about her comic Magical Girl Indigo. You can read the comic on Tapas and find her on Twitter or Instagram. Series mentioned: Sailor Moon Wedding Peach Cardcaptor Sakura Steven Universe Aladdin Music featured: Change is Coming by Humans Win from Storyblocks Original podcast music by Hazel, @ afewbruises Read a...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical   about her webcomic Legacy's Call . You can read it here or on Webtoon Canvas and find Page on Twitter , Tumblr , and Instagram . Support her on Patreon if you can and check out her merch ! Warnings for discussions of anxiety. Series mentioned: Sailor Moon Devil Hunter Yohko Minky Momo Akazukin Chacha Magic Knight Rayearth...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical podcaster Dawn about Akazukin Chacha (1993). You can find her on Twitter and check out the Anime Nostalgia Podcast. Warnings for transphobia and cultural insensitivity. News: The podcast will return to a once weekly format after next week! Sailor Moon 30th Anniversary event at NYCC Oct 8th Magical Girl Prismagica ( Purimaji...

On this bonus episode, Ayu summarizes and gushes about the latest movie of the PreCure franchise, Eiga Delicious Party PreCure: Yumemiru Okosama Lunch , and why it's the first PreCure movie that has her rushing to rewatch it in theaters. This episode is FULL of spoilers!!! Link: Opening Weekend for DPPC's movie made double the opening weekend of the TRPC movie! Original podcast music by Hazel, @ a...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical cosplayer Ebby about Bee and Puppycat season one (2014). You can find her on Twitter , TikTok , and Instagram . News: Tokyo Mew Mew New season 2 airs in April 2023 Secret Jouju Best Friends (season 5) announced Waccha PriMagi game extension announced, second season presumed to follow What I'm watching: Tokyo Mew Mew New Deliciou...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical student Magdad about Magical Angel Creamy Mami (1983). You can find her on Twitter and Instagram and read her Webtoon, Starry Skye ! Warnings for fatphobia, queerphobia, mild sexualization of minors, and ambiguous relationships between children and adults. News: New comics: Ginka & Glüna, Tokyo Mew Mew Olé 8, Mermaid Me...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical creators Prinn and Chunney about their comic Magical Mom. You can find the original student film short here , and read the comic on Webtoon or Tapas .  A lot of people have worked on Magical Mom, so you can find them all here! Prinn ( IG ) ( Twitter ) Chunney ( IG ) Allen Zhang ( IG ) ( Twitter ) Jennifer Yang ( IG ) ( Twitter ) Seri...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical creator Grant Newbold about his comic, A Magical Girl's Day Off. You can read the comic here , or find him on Twitter . Series mentioned: Sailor Moon Cardcaptor Sakura Princess Knight (Ribon no Kishi) Granbelm Princess Tutu Tropical-Rouge PreCure Astro Boy The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl Dragonball Gurren Lagann Music featured: The Peanu...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical game journalist Haru Nicol about Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! (2015) or Boueibu for short. You can find them on Twitter . Warnings for homophobia and mild sexualization of minors. News: Zodiac Starforce gets a new prequel story What I'm watching: Tokyo Mew Mew New Delicious Party PreCure RizSta Top of Artists Waccha Primagi RWB...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical game designer Cat of Peach Garden Games about Symphogear AXZ (2017). You can find her on Twitter and check out Roar to Heaven here . Warnings for teen nudity, family death, gender essentialism and transphobia. News: Flavor Girls #2 Mahou Chunen Vol. 1 Symphogear AXZ North American Blu-Ray release! What I'm watching: Tokyo Mew Mew New...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical enthusiast Aishyo about Ai Tenshi Densetsu Wedding Peach (1995). You can find her on Twitter and YouTube . Warnings for fatphobia, queerphobia, xenophobia and ambiguous implied age gap relationships. News: Catch Teenieping S3 starts September 14th "Saban Moon" revealed! Tales of the Lost: Western World of Sailor Moon ( Part 1 ) ( Par...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical creators Allison Cole and Dora Dee Rogers about their TTRPG Alchemistresses. You can find Allison and Dee on Twitter, and buy their game on Kickstarter . Don't forget to check out their game artist Léonore Renahy and composer Lyndsie Alguire . Series mentioned: Sailor Moon Sailor Moon Crystal Revolutionary Girl Utena Tokyo Mew Mew Magic K...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical creator Kiki Callaghan about her comic, Emo Princess Warrior. You can find her on Twitter or Instagram , read the comic on Webtoon , and watch the animated theme song . Series mentioned: My Little Pony Steven Universe Bee & Puppycat Star Vs The Forces of Evil She-Ra Sailor Moon Revolutionary Girl Utena Madoka Magica Tokyo Mew Mew My H...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical knitwear powerhouse Francoise Danoy about the first and second seasons of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, from 2019. You can find her on Instagram . Warnings for mentions of gaslighting and slavery, as well as misgendering. News: Chiikawa launches a "Magical Chiikawa" product series What I'm watching: Tokyo Mew Mew New Delicious Party...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical creator NAAN about Symphogear GX from 2015. You can find her on Twitter and read her comic Legendary Beings Ara and Celi . Warnings for self-harm/suicide and sexualization of minors. News: Witch girl got killed coming Sep 2022 Affogato, a magical girl coffee shop game coming 2023, demo coming July 29th What I'm watching: The Girl In Twili...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical creator Al Neun about his magical boy comic Transformed!. You can read it here , and follow Al on Twitter . Series mentioned: Sailor Moon Cardcaptor Sakura Hellsing Gantz Rooster Tails Pokémon Music featured: No Longer Lonely by William Van De Crommert Original podcast music by Hazel, @ afewbruises Read and share Ayu's breakdown of magica...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical creator Missrena about her comic Black Rhapsody. You can support it over on indiegogo . Series mentioned: Cardcaptor Sakura Sailor Moon Ojamajo Doremi Winx Club Madoka Mai Hime Mai Otome Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Magical Girl Raising Project Berserk Jem and the Holograms Revolutionary Girl Utena Lore Olympus Daughters of the Moon The Wicke...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical creative Cami about Kaitou Saint Tail from 1995. You can find her on Twitter or YouTube . Warnings for once instance of homophobia and transphobia. News: Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery releases its first demo New comics: Flavor Girls Issue 1, Magical Girl Risuka volume 4, The Classroom of the Black Cat and a Witch volume 1 What I'...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical researcher Jack Harrison-Quintana about La Belle Fille Masquee Poitrine (Bishoujo Kamen Poitrine) from 1990. You can find him on Twitter or Instagram . Warnings for assault against minors, rape culture, orientalist stereotypes, homophobia, pedophilia, Nazis, and casual support of fascism. News: Trigger announced Panty & Stocking seque...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical crayon Lapis about the first season of Angel's Friends (2009). You can find her on Tumblr or Twitter . Content warning for fatphobia, misogyny and ableism, stereotypical depictions of indigenous characters, mild drug use and dubious consent. News: Upcoming series: Tokyo Mew Mew New, Engage Kiss, Smile of the Arsnotoria, RWBY Ice Queendom,...

This week on Sparkleside Chats, Ayu talks with magical creator Feather about their comic Gravitational Pull . You can find them on Twitter , Instagram or Twitch . Series mentioned: Super Sentai (Power Rangers) Sailor Moon Cutie Honey Creamy Mami Futari wa PreCure Heartcatch PreCure Hugtto PreCure (Hug PreCure) Tropical-Rouge PreCure Ojamajo Doremi Magical Girl Site Magical Girl Apocalypse (Ma...