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| Miracle Girls | |
 English Cover of the first volume of Miracle Girls, featuring Tomomi and Mikage | |
| ミラクル★ガールズ (Mirakuru★Gāruzu) | |
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| Genre | Magical girl |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Nami Akimoto |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Nakayoshi |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Original run | 6 July 1991 – 6 August 1994 |
| Volumes | 13 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Takashi Anno (eps. 1-17) Hiroko Tokita (eps. 30-51) |
| Music by | Michiru Ōshima |
| Studio | Japan Taps |
| Original network | Nippon Television |
| Original run | 8 January 1993 – 24 December 1993 |
| Episodes | 51 |
Miracle Girls (Japanese: ミラクル★ガールズ, Hepburn: Mirakuru Gāruzu) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Nami Akimoto, with the first book being released on July 6th, 1991. It was Akimoto's third (and most prolific) work, during her career as a manga creator. It was a commercial hit and would see the creation of 12 more manga books. Naoko Takeuchi of Sailor Moon fame worked on early publications of the Miracle Girls manga (seemingly the artwork), before moving on to make Sailor Moon. The manga is about two twins with opposite interests and talents, but combined ESP abilities (telepathy and teleportation) when they linked their pinkies together.
It falls under the Magical girl genre, and has some comedic elements. It was adapted into an anime series by Japan Taps in 1993, starting in January and finishing in December of that year. Tokyopop licensed the manga for English release in North America in the year 2000. This is not to be confused with Miracle Girl Limit-chan (an anime about a cyborg, made in 1973) or Miracle Girls Festival (a Japanese exclusive rhythm game for the PlayStation Vita, made in 2015). It is sometimes referred to as its Italian name of È un po magia per Terry e Maggie (or Terry e Maggie for short) to differentiate itself by its fans.