Miracle Girls (ミラクル★ガールズ) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Nami Akimoto, with the first book being released on July 6, 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. 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.
Plot
Manga Book 1:
Tomomi and Mikage Matsunaga are identical twins with special powers. Together, they are able to teleport and communicate telepathically. The athletically challenged Mikage begs Tomomi to switch identities with her for her school's sports day track meet, where she and Tomomi are teamed with Mikage's arch enemy Yuya Noda, in the relay race. Tomomi, however, finds herself drawn to Yuya. Tomomi's success in the relay causes the captain of the track team, Hideaki Kurashige, to try to recruit Mikage.