A magical girlfriend (also referred to as exotic girlfriend, supernatural lover, or nonhuman woman) is a female character often associated with romantic comedy anime series, and is sometimes considered a genre of its own, or as the leading lady of the "fantastic romance" genre, which combines the fantasy and romance genres.
As Thomas LaMarre states, "Anime fans become familiar with a whole range of female figures that are either not really human (robots, aliens, deities, animals), or that possess extra-human powers of some kind or another (from cyborg enhancements to magical or psychic abilities), which take them beyond the merely human woman."
Magical girlfriends can be one or many in a single anime (always attached to the male lead). Because of the tendency for rivals to appear even when there is one female lead and because of the unnatural gender balance among the cast, magical girlfriend comedies are often conflated with harem comedies. A good example of this conflation is Oh My Goddess! which is "one of the prototypical “harem” anime titles" despite the short-lived nature of most of the romantic rivalries.
Read more about Magical Girlfriend: Characteristics of The Genre, The "ideal Woman" Personality, or yamato Nadeshiko, Examples of "magical Girlfriend" Characters, Magical Girlfriends in Western Media
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