Quote Originally Posted by TouchandFeel View Post
P.S. And before anybody brings it up, although the kanji for ma (魔) appears in mahou (魔法), the darker connotations of ma do not carry over to mahou as mahou is very specific in being the Japanese idea of "Western magic" which doesn't have any good/bad/dark/light connotations inherent to it.
I wouldn't say there their are no dark connotations but most of those connotations are suppressed by the positive connotations of Method/Law (法).