is a magical girl manga, anime, and console game series by CLAMP, whose credits also include Cardcaptor Sakura, Angelic Layer, and Chobits. Originally a manga, it was adapted into a television anime with two series totaling forty-nine episodes, and later into a three-part OVA series unrelated to both the original television anime and manga (although using the same character designs and names, and some other similarities). (The "Magic Knight" phrase used in the series title and the characters' roles is written with the same kanji as "mahō kishi," but CLAMP dictated that it is not pronounced the same way with phonetic characters known as furigana.)

The manga was originally serialised in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine and has been released in the United States in English by TOKYOPOP (initially named Mixx) in six volumes. The English manga was at first issued in a flipped left to right format, but was re-released in the original right to left format. Both the television anime and the OVA series were brought over to the U.S. as well, as was the Magic Knight Rayearth game for the Sega Saturn, which follows the plot of the first anime series loosely. The Super Famicom title was only released in Japan (though there are now fan-translations of it). The Super Famicom game is also well-known for being more faithful to the original story compared to the Sega Saturn game. The two games however are very different to each other. The Sega Saturn game plays more like an Action RPG along the lines of Secret of Mana and Zelda whearas the Super Famicom plays more like a traditional RPG (eg: the Final Fantasy series). There are also four other, less known video games based on the series: two short RPGs for Game Boy, plus another RPG and a Princess Maker-style raising sim for Sega Game Gear, all of which were Japan exclusives as well.

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If Magic Knight Rayearth was dubbed for kid's TV in the US...
megankoumori (Megan Devine) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:12:42 -0000
If Magic Knight Rayearth was dubbed for kid's TV in the US...
Finished Magic Knight Rayearth season 1 last night. Sad ending. Want season 2 for Christmas.
megankoumori (Megan Devine) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:06:07 -0000
Finished Magic Knight Rayearth season 1 last night. Sad ending. Want season 2 for Christmas.

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