Miracle☆Girls
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Basically the classic popular shoujo manga art/design style.

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Here is a list for fellow manga collectors and fans of mahou shoujo, a genre featuring many young girls receiving magical powers and (more often than not) a dress that's as cute as the aesthetic! Can be treated as a rec list for those new to the genre, as it will mainly (and primarily) feature magical girl manga you can find English copies of to read and buy today. Not meant to be a complete/definitive list.

Do note that this list will include magical-girl-adjacent titles, or some fantasy series that aren't usually considered to be part of the genre by some parts of the community—I'll try to put explanations for my reasoning in including them/why I feel they should be considered as a magical girl title... whether you're convinced on the classification or not, hopefully you might still be sold on checking it out regardless.

Physical releases that have been out of print, or will not be printed brand new in stores anymore, will also be included and indicated as such. To find these prints/series, you will need to look outside of your usual bookstores to find used/pre-owned copies. Good luck finding some of these, especially if you're particularly looking for more affordable prices!
Aside from marketplaces like eBay and Mercari, I also recommend checking the following sites as I've found many manga with decent pricing and item conditions from them:
https://www.abebooks.com/
https://www.alibris.com/
https://www.biblio.com/

I wanted to create a list of the Shojo/Josei manga which began serializing between 1990 and 1995 that have had official publications or licenses into english. Junji Ito in particular published a huuuuge chunk of his shorter shojo horror one-shots/short stories during this early 90s period, so I've included his Soichi manga (published in Nemuki magazine) as a representative of all these short stories. Additionally, sometimes MAL lists serialization start dates which either are 1 year off of the listed start dates on japanese wikipedia or will sometimes list the English release dates instead of the Japanese release dates.

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/69044

Some titles with no MAL pages:

Clan Under the Moon (licensed by Starfruit books)

Dream Hotel (licensed under comicsOne)

The Beauty and the Beast by Miyuki Tanabe (Mayumi Tanabe?) (licensed by yomoyo digital)

Dark Dimension Zero (licensed by studio ironcat)

Tokyopop was one of the OG titans of manga publishing in the US, and specifically built their foundations on their shojo titles like Sailor Moon, CLAMP's works, Fruits Basket, and so many other heavy hitters. However, due to poor management and the 2008 recession, they ended up almost completely withdrawing from the english manga market barring some OEL comics and disney manga and losing many of their biggest licenses. They had a decent presence in Germany/the EU manga landscape, and would later in the late 2010s re-enter the English manga market fully as a boutique manga publisher. Although they aren't the titans of the English market they used to be, they licensed some amazing shojo/josei that I hope to collect over a series of lists to compile them.

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/74158

Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/74159