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they're marketed at soap opera audiences, 99% of mahou shoujos (ESPECIALLY mahou shoujos aimed at actual women, not harem anime wearing a coat of magical girl paint like various battle harems) are either pure courtly love or if they have a partner it's true love soulmate shit where they have a one and only
superheroes in both DC and Marvel are basically a spandex swinger's club, you can't have a serious story about the power of love when everybody is fucking everybody and it's non stop Mexican soap opera telenovela drama about secret affairs and hidden babies and evil twins and suddenly everyone has clones and alternate timeline versions of themselves and the sliding scale timeline means all of this is constantly occurring on a nigh-on monthly basis for it to remain in continuity.

The closest thing we have to a genuine mahou shoujo story right now is Absolute Wonder Woman, despite the """"edgy"""" trappings of a skeletal pegasus and Guts-knockoff prosthetic arm it's very much a hopeful and romantic story, and plenty of magical girl media has done the same with edgy aesthetics but a hopeful and optimistic tone