Mean Girls Day Gets Spot-On Shojo Anime Makeover

Mean Girls may have not been a cultural phenomenon when it was first released into theaters back [...]

By Evan Valentine

Mean Girls may have not been a cultural phenomenon when it was first released into theaters back in 2004, acting as something of a launch pad for the career of Lindsay Lohan, but it certainly gained a cult following in the years following. Gaining additional profits on various forms of home video and even getting a Musical Broadway adaptation that is still going strong since debuting last year in 2018, the project still has a number of fans revisiting it as the years pass. Now, one fan has decided to merge the world of Mean Girls with that of

Twitter User, and Artist, HanavBara shared this amazing fan art that takes the world of Mean Girls and places it into a typical Shojo anime, looking as if the Paramount Pictures release could have existed in the same world as Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts:

The project has become so successful that even the star of the movie, Lindsay Lohan, is looking to put together a sequel to Mean Girls. While there has been no news about a potential visit back to the world of the "Plastics", a television series or some sort of sequel spin-off certainly would be well received based on the movie's cult following.

Mean Girls also touted one of the earliest, biggest projects with the creative mind of Tina Fey behind it. The Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock alum assisted in putting together the script alongside the original book's author, Rosalind Wiseman. It's certainly thanks to a combination of Fey's writing and the actors interpretation of her scrips that made Mean Girls become such a cult movie throughout the decade plus history following the Paramount Pictures' movie's release.

Would you watch a Mean Girls anime version? What was your favorite moment from the film and/or the broadway musical? Feel free to let us know in the comments or hit me up directly on Twitter @EVComedy to talk all things comics, anime, and shojo!

Mean Girls was originally released in 2004, starring Lindsay Lohan, Tina Fey, Rachel McAdams, Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler, and Ana Gasteyer to name a few. Produced by Paramount Pictures, the film released to a solid opening but eventually found a cult following when it was released on home video. The movie, and eventual musical stage play, are based on the Rosalind Wiseman book titled "Queen Bees and Wannabes" that was released in 2002. The official description for the film reads as such:

"Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George."

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