<마법소녀 마도카☆마기카>에서 마녀에 관한 연구

Abstract

is one of many popular genres that are watched in Japanese animation. The characteristics of genre shows that most main heroine as the girl in young age, and this young girl play her role as a character with supernatural power. The majority in population of Japanese animation consumers were men. However, women began to become this population of Japanese animation consumers with the beginning of genre, which also became a cause for the birth of Shojo anime. The first Shojo anime, as well as the first animation of genre in Japan was , and this piece made a great hit when it was broadcasted. Since the great hit of , new pieces of animation in genre has broadcasted through television continually, making other great hits also with in 1982 and in 1992. Discussing of which, made not only a great hit in Japan, but worldwide as well, that its new season of TV series, , is broadcasted in 2014. genre was loved by viewers of Japanese animation for a long time, and it is still broadcasted regularly today. In observation of pieces in genre, magical girls who appear as a main character either fight for the world they live in, or take on an adventure, or take an action according to their idealistic purpose. However, the magical girls who appear in take an action not for the peace of their world, but rather for their own benefits and purposes. In , magical girls fight against the witches and their familiar spirits, which end up in a horrible conclusion. The witches who magical girls fought against were not already the witches in the beginning, but in fact were the other magical girls who took their action in the past. It Magical girls in present time were having witch hunt against the witches, who were once another magical girls in the past. Unlike traditional genre, where witches and magical girls were used to be an that magical girls end up turning into witches. Witches did not exist in the beginning, but rather someone had to be one, to be hunted down in witch hunt. The cause of witch hunt did not exist in the beginning, but rather the ones had to be tagged as witches to be hunted down. Therefore, this paper is written to discuss an existence of witch in research of its historic origin of witch hunt, and on the witches appear in .