have you ever watched a magical girl show or are you basing this off of the fanservice ones (which, surprise! are usually parodies or are aimed at adults â which goes against the genres roots of being shoujo and aimed at children!) because.. nah
if you think just having short skirts are sexualizing, then by that logic just about every anime out there sexualizes their females by giving them short skirts
think sailor moon sexualizies them? well not only does usagi at one point outright state that she doesnât care about wearing a short skirt, but under those skirts? thatâs leotards. not panties. their leotards.
shows like esper mami have bare nudity? (nsfw link) that wasnât even fanservice. it wasnât used to arouse the viewer nor is it presented in that way. the shots of her like that are natural ones. they donât specifically focus on her boobs or crotch nor do they put her in compromising positions which would thus sexualize her
the genres roots have, and always will be, shoujo shows aimed at young girls. shows like ultimate girls, moetan or papillion âparodyâ the genre by having perverted mascots (something NONE of the above shows have), transformations that show off tits and ass, and clothes ripping off at just the right spots. shows like nanoha, vividred, and fate/illya are all aimed at adults and also do the same as above, albeit not as a parody but as a straight face thing.
itâs easy to take the gross ones as representative of the genre, but theyâre not. theyâre shows created to mock and gross up the genre seeing as the magical girl genre was never meant to have the things mentioned in the above paragraph
so nah actual rooted magical girl shows donât do the sexualization âjust fineâ, however the shows that parody or are designed to specifically sex-up a child-friendly genre do. my post was created because im sick of seeing the latter cluttering up a genre that represents anything but gross fanservice shenanigans
now go watch some actual magical girl shows