mahou-tsukai 魔法使い

In Japanese, a mahou-tsukai 魔法使い is a "magic-user," literally, "someone who can use magic," mahou wo tsukaeru hito 魔法を使える人. Generally, however, mahou-tsukai is translated as "wizard."

A madoushi 魔道士 is pretty much the same thing, but since it's a different word, "sorcerer," I guess, who uses "sorcery," madou 魔道.

The term mahou-tsukai also refers to a virgin who's at least 30 years old. Or 25, in some cases.

That's because, according to the legends:

• sanjuusai made doutei dato mahou-tsukai ni nareru
  ３０歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれる
  Virgin until 30 years old, able to become a wizard.
• You can become a wizard if you're still a virgin at 30 years old.

For the record: that's a meme. A variant says you become a "fairy," as in, a spirit, yousei 妖精, instead. See: Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken for reference.

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mahou shoujo 魔法少女

In Japanese, mahou shoujo 魔法少女 means "magical girl," or more literally, "magic girl," in the sense of a "girl," shoujo 少女, who can use "magic," mahou 魔法.

In anime, this specifically refers to a genre that deals with girls becoming able to use magic, generally by forming a pact, "contract," keiyaku 契約, with some bizarre magical being, and then transforming into all sorts of cute outfits, to battle in order to save the world and fill it with love, peace, hope, sugar, spice, and everything nice!

The most classic example of it being Sailor Moon, which is a shoujo manga, which means it's targeted at young girls, which means it also has a lot of romance and dokidoki and stuff that shoujo manga has.

A lot of classic mahou shoujo series are targeted at the shoujo demographic. After all, in a mahou shoujo, the protagonist is a shoujo, a "girl," so it follows the reader that would identify best with it would be a shoujo too. Another example being the PreCure franchise, also targeted at girls.

However, note that the mahou shoujo genre has been subverted to death already. In every way imaginable.

To begin with, just like how in Power Rangers, which would be for boys, each ranger transforms into one specific color, when magical girls transformed, they always transformed into the one same magical outfit. And then came Cardcaptor Sakura, which had the magical girl change into a different outfit literally every time.

And who said it has to be a light-hearted series about hope and stuff, anyway? Why not be a series about despair and hopelessness! That's how we got Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica.

Next, in a stroke of moronic genius, one wise idiot philosophized the following question: "who said a magical girl has to be a girl?"

Obviously, it HAS to be a girl. If it was a boy it would be a "magical boy." That's... that's literally in the word: magical GIRL, mahou SHOUJO, not mahou SHOUNEN. And what's up with that question, anyway? I mean, there are already dozens of series where a boy can transform into a demon or a huge nine-tailed fox or whatever in order to fight.

But nope. It had to be a magical GIRL boy. Which meant, of course, that it was boy, that transformed into a magical girl. For example, in Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka?, when the protagonist, who's a guy, transforms, he ends up in "girls' clothes," josou 女装: a cross-dressing magical girl. He's also a zombie, by the way, but that's unrelated.

In Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu, the protagonist, through the power of his sheer love for the pigtails hairstyle, which's far stronger than that weak, generic "love" from generic mahou shoujo anime, and also alien tech, he's able to make his body "turn into a female body," nyotaika 女体化, and transforms into a pigtailed gender-bent magical girl. (I'm not making this up.)

But that didn't stop there. Next, an even more moronic sage, set to surpass all these idiots, pondered the following doubt: "who said a magical girl has to be a girl? Part 2: Electric Boogaloo."

Which's how we get Mahou Shoujo Ore, a series about a girl who transforms into a magical macho dude.

At least a mahou shoujo is still a "girl," shoujo, right? I mean, it has to be a young woman. If it was an adult woman, it wouldn't be a "magical girl," it would be a "witch," majo 魔女.

Except not exactly, because a "witch" is a "woman that uses magic," meanwhile a mahou shoujo is not a "girl that uses magic," a mahou shoujo is a "girl that is magic," a magical girl. A "girl-witch" would be, instead, a majokko 魔女っ子.

Also, the term mahou-tsukai 魔法使い refers to a "magic user" in the traditional fantasy sense: a wizard. Terms like madoushi 魔道士 and majutsushi 魔術師 also exist to refer to sorcerers and stuff.
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majo 魔女

In Japanese, majo 魔女 means "witch." In other words: a mahou-tsukai 魔法使い, "magic user," who is a "woman," onna 女.

The term majo implies an adult "woman." For a "girl-witch," the term majokko 魔女っ子 is used instead. A "witch's apprentice" would be a majo no minarai 魔女の見習い.

The term mahou shoujo 魔法少女, "magic girl," refers to a "magical girl," and the genre of anime that features magical girls. It's not the same thing as majo or majokko, although some mahou shoujo are also majokko.

The term majo can also be used to refer to a real, non-fictitious woman who can't use magic, but has some strange, mysterious power: she can achieve some amazing things, like she does magic.

It can also refer to a woman who's like a "demon," akuma 悪魔, tempting the heart of men: she's a witch!

The term bimajo 美魔女, literally a "beautiful," utsukushii 美しい, majo, refers to a woman who's older than 35 and tries to look younger than she is, doesn't let her age show: she doesn't look a day older than 25.

It can also refer to an older woman whose beauty remains despite her age, as if she was cast a magical spell that kept her beautiful through the decades: Magic Mirror, on the wall, who, now, is the fairest one of all?

This bimajo term follows the same pattern as bishoujo 美少女 and related terms.
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Virgin in Japanese

There are various ways to say "virgin" in Japanese, unlike English.

First, the word shojo 処女 means a "virgin" woman. This sounds like shoujo 少女, "girl," which, confusingly, is also romanized shōjo, but note the difference: shojo しょじょ, versus shoujo/shōjo しょうじょ, and the relaxed pronunciation shōjo/shoojo しょーじょ.

The word doutei 童貞 means just "virgin." It's technically a gender-less word. However, since there's a word that refers specifically to virgin women, shojo, the word doutei ends up being normally used toward virgin men. Just like nikushokukei 肉食系 and soushokukei 草食系. It's also relaxed dōtē どーてー,

• shojo to doutei 処女と童貞
  Virgins and virgins. (female and male.)

The prefix hi- 非～, "non-," can be used to say someone is not a virgin:

• hishojo 非処女
   Non-virgin woman. A woman who's not virgin.
• hidoutei 非童貞
  Non-virgin person. A person who's not virgin.
  Non-virgin man. A man who's not virgin.

Since these words are nouns, you can turn them into no-adjectives:

• shojo no hito 処女の人
  A person [who's] a (female) virgin.
• doutei no hito 童貞の人
  A person [who's] a virgin.
  A person [who's] a (male) virgin.

Like in English, virginity can be treated as a thing you can lose or protect:

• shojo wo ushinau 処女を失う
  doutei wo ushinau 童貞を失う
  To lose [one's] virginity.
• Also "to lose a virgin/virgins." But that's unlikely.
• shojo wo mamoru 処女を守る
  doutei wo mamoru 童貞を守る
  To protect [one's] virginity.
• To preserve [one's] chastity.
• Unlikely, but also "to protect a virgin" or a bunch of virgin, like from some evil being that demands virgin sacrifices or he'll destroy the village, or something like that.

It can also be "given." But people only say this about shojo for some reason, not doutei.

• suki na hito ni shojo wo ageru
  好きな人に処女を上げる
  To give [your] virginity to the person [you] like.

Note that this isn't the same thing as:

• shojo wo sashi-dasu
  処女を差し出す
  To offer [one's] virginity.
  To offer a virgin woman.
• Like, in exchange for something. In a deal. Like with some evil being that demands virgin sacrifices or he'll destroy the village, or something like that.

Some expressions:

• shojo wo sotsugyou suru 処女を卒業する
  doutei wo sotsugyou suru 童貞を卒業する
  To graduate virginity.
• As in, to graduate from doutei to hidoutei.
• And yes it's "graduation" just like school:
• gakkou wo sotsugyou suru
  学校を卒業する
  To graduate school.
• fude wo orosu 筆を下ろす
  To lower a brush. (literally.)
• Like a writing brush, painting brush.
• Lowering it in order to use it, to draw on the canvas below.
• So using the brush.
• Except this phrase specifically means to use the brush for the first time.
• Which's why it also means to use something for the first time.
• To do something for the first time.
• To have sex for the first time.
• fude-oroshi 筆下ろし
  Lowering a brush.
  Using a brush for the first time.
  Losing one's virginity.

Other words that may appear in context:

• keiken 経験
  Experience. (as in, sexual experience.)
• mikeiken 未経験
  No experience yet.
• hajimete 初めて
  First time.
• mada まだ
  Still. Yet.
• mada shojo まだ処女
  mada doutei まだ童貞
  Still a virgin.

The word cherii booi チェリーボーイ, or cherī bōi, a katakanization of "cherry boy" in English, is a slang to refer to a virgin man. It's uncertain whether this is a wasei-eigo 和製英語 or not. Indeed, "popping a cheery," is an English phrase meaning a virgin woman losing their virginity, but it isn't used to refer to a virgin man like "cherry boy" is.

The word otome 乙女, "maiden," doesn't mean "virgin," but it usually means a virgin "maiden." In the sense of a pure "maiden." Similarly, miko 巫女 is a "shrine maiden," which's probably a virgin for religious reasons.

Similarly, the word otaku オタク doesn't mean "virgin," but probably refers to a virgin, that's virgin because of his religion. Conversely, a riajuu リア充 is likely the opposite.

The word ikenie 生贄, "sacrifice," doesn't mean "virgin," but generally, in manga, anime and games, when you have a evil being wanting sacrifices or else he will destroy the village, or something like that, the sacrifice must be a virgin.

The word ekisutora baajin エキストラバージン means "extra virgin," but, like, olive oil. Extra virgin olive oil. I mean, of course, it doesn't make sense for a person to be extra virgin, right? Like how can you be more virgin than simple virgin? Is it like, extra lives in Mario, like if you lose your virginity once, you're still virgin, because you're extra virgin, so you have an extra virginity you can lose before you're left with no virginity at all? Anyway.

The word mahou-tsukai 魔法使い means a "magic user," which can be a 30 year old virgin, because of a certain internet legend that if you're still a virgin at 30 years old you become a wizard.

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