The Best Magical Girl Anime in History Part 2
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10. Magical Doremi
By taking the main story of a magical girl, Magical Doremi anime focuses on
a group of elementary school students who become witch apprentice. This anime
first aired in winter 1999 by Toei Animation. This anime itself has 3 interrelated sequels,
and the last sequel aired in 2003. It tells the story of an 8-year-old girl named Harukaze Doremi,
who is eager to use magic to gain courage and confess her feelings to the boy she
likes. One day, Harukaze accidentally comes to a shop owned by a witch. When she discovers the shop
owner’s true identity as a witch and shouts out, the shop owner then transforms into a Witch Frog,
and to return to her original form, Majorika, the witch, must guide Doremi to be a witch.
In its progress, Doremi is joined by her two best friends, Fujiwara Hazuki and Senoo Aiko.
Throughout the series, they use their magic to help their classmates solve various problems,
as well as to face Majorika’s enemy, Majoruka, who also has a witch apprentice Segawa Onpu.
9. Magical Princess Minky Momo This anime is one of the oldest
magical girl anime, a magical girl anime franchise by Ashi Production. The original
series aired between 1982 and 1983 on TV Tokyo and inspired three OVAs between 1985 and 1987.
And for the second television series, titled Magical Princess Minky Momo: Hold on to Your
Dreams, aired in 1991. For the manga series itself started the 3rd series starting in 2004, known as
Miracle Dream Minky Momo. The story begins in ‘the land of dreams in the sky’ known as Fenarinarsa,
a place where the fairy tale characters live, at this time it is in danger of leaving Earth’s
orbit and disappearing, because the people on this planet lose their dreams and hopes.
The king and the queen of Fenarinarsa send their daughter Momo to Earth to help the
people regain their hope. On Earth, Momo takes a form of a teenage girl.
To help the planet regain its hopes and dreams, Momo transforms into an adult version, with jobs
fitted to the situation, from being a flight attendant, a police officer to a veterinarian.
8. Uta Kata Uta Kata is a Japanese anime television series
that aired in fall 2004 with 12 episodes in total. Maybe the story in this anime can be considered as
Magical Girl, but this series itself deviates from more conventional magical girl theme in general,
because the topic presented in this anime is more for adult audience than children. However,
it depicts the main character’s coming of age with each episode, becoming more and more emotionally
intense as the story progresses. Starting on the day before summer holiday in Kamakura Girls’
School, the serious but polite 14-year-old Ichika Tachibana is excited to make her summer vacation
to be a special holiday to remember with her friends. But Ichika herself doesn’t know that
the summer will be even more special than she has ever imagined. Starting when she cleans the unused
old school building, Ichika sees an unfamiliar girl in the mirror replacing her own reflection.
The girl in the mirror introduces herself as Manatsu Kuroki. Uta Kata is a tale of
a young girl who will realize new things through her interactions with the spirits.
When Jin shows her overwhelming sight, they will soon bring to her overwhelming thoughts.
7. Magic Knight Rayearth
Magic Knight Rayearth is an anime adaptation of a Japanese manga series by Clamp.
It first appeared in the manga magazine Nakayoshi from November 1993 to February 1995. The series
follows three eighth graders who find themselves transported from their world into a magical world,
where they are tasked to rescue a princess. Not only with a magical girl theme as the main focus,
the Magic Knight Rayearth series also combines several elements such as mecha with parallel
world fantasy. The anime itself was adapted into 2 television series, the first season aired in fall
1994 with 20 episodes in total and the second season aired in spring 1995 with 29 episodes
in total. It focuses on the 3 main protagonists where they have different characters and traits,
the tomboyish and headstrong girl Hikaru Shidou, the quick-tempered no-nonsense only child Umi
Ryuuzaki, and the intelligent and lady-like Fuu Hououji. The story begins when they are visiting
the Tokyo Tower with their respective schools, they are drawn to another world called Chepiro.
They are then assigned to find and rescue Princess Emeraude, guided by a creature named Mokona in
their search. The girls discover their respective element-based magic and awaken three Rune-Gods.
6. Heartcatch Precure!
The Heartcatch Precure series is a Japanese anime series and the 7th instalment in
the Pretty Cure metaseries by Izumi Todo. The anime that aired in winter 2010 featured the
5th generation of Cures. This series has two main topics. One is fashion, which is referred
to when Tsubomi joins the fashion club. And second one is the language of flowers,
which most episodes contain at least one reference. According to legend, in each person
resides a Heart Flower, that is connected to the Great Heart Tree. Protecting this tree is the
duty of HeartCatch Pretty Cures, that defend it from the Desert Apostles, who plan to dry it out
and turn the world into a desert. Through the new Pretty Cure, starting with Tsubomi Hanasaki,
a shy flower-loving girl who has just moved to the city with her family, given a power to
become Cure Blossom. Then Tsubomi meets her new friend, Erika Kurumi, who becomes Cure Marine,
together they fight against Desert Apostles as the new Pretty Cure.
5. Princess Tutu
Princess Tutu is a Japanese magical girl anime series created by illustrator and animator Ikuko
Itoh. It was inspired by fairy tales, especially the tale of The Ugly Duckling and Swan Lake.
The story follows a duck who is transformed into a mythical ballerina named Princess Tutu.
This anime premiered in summer 2002 with 38 episodes in total, and ended in 2003. It revolves
around a fairy tale that comes to life, starting with a sweet and gentle girl named Ahiru Arima.
She looks like an ordinary girl in general, but in reality Arima is a duck. One day she is turned
into a human girl by the mysterious Drosselmeyer. Ahiru soon learns the reason for her existence.
With a magical egg-shaped pendant, Ahiru can transform into Princess Tutu,
a beautiful and talented ballet dancer whose dances can relieve the turmoil in people’s hearts.
4. Tokyo Mew Mew Tokyo Mew Mew is an
anime adapted from the Japanese manga series written by Reiko Yoshida and illustrated by
Mia Ikumi. This series focuses on several girls who have been injected with the DNA of endangered
animals, with the DNA of these animals, they have special powers and allow them to transform
into “Mew Mews”. The manga itself was adapted into an anime television series in spring 2002
with 52 episodes in total. Not only anime, this franchise also gets a video game adaptation, with
a puzzle adventure game for the Game Boy Advance console and also a role-playing video game for the
Playstation console. Starting with a girl named Ichigo Momomiya, an ordinary girl living in Japan,
who one day attends a species exhibition with Masaya Aoyama. But all the peaceful days changes
after she sees a vision of cat entering her body, which then makes her display a cat-like behavior,
then she realizes that she can turn into a cat-eared magical girl called Mew Ichigo.
3. Shugo Chara This anime series is an adaptation of the
Japanese shojo manga series created and written by the manga author duo, Peach-Pit. The manga
series has been adapted into an anime television series in fall 2007 with 51 episodes in total,
and the sequel titled Shugo Chara!! Doki, aired in fall 2008 with 51 episodes in total. Starting with
a young girl named Amu Hinamori, an elementary school student at Seiyo Elementary who is very
popular and referred to as ‘cool and spicy’ by her classmates but has an introverted personality.
One night she wishes for the courage to show her true personality, then the next morning,
she finds 3 colored eggs and they hatch into the fairy like guardians called ‘Shugo Charas’.
The guardians help Amu find out who she truly is and help to make her dream come
true. Amu’s life becomes much more complex, as she struggles to deal with her ‘would-be’
self and Seiyo’s Elementary Guardians, who each have their own Guardian Character.
2. Little Witch Academia Little Witch Academia is a
Japanese anime franchise created by You Yoshinari and produced by Trigger in 2017. The story takes
place at Luna Nova Magical Academy, a prestigious school for young girls training to become witches.
Inspired by a witch named Shiny Chariot, a girl named Atsuko Kagari or familiarly called Akko,
enrolls at Luna Nova Magical Academy, but she has to struggle because of her non-magical background.
One of the main themes in this franchise is Akko trying to live up to Shiny Chariot’s ideals
by showing the world that magic is still a great thing, while Luna Nova struggles for its existence
because the general public thinks magic is outdated. In the television adaptation, this
background element is expanded into a plotline in which the magic fades around the world.
1. Magical Girl Raising Project
Magical Girl Raising Project is an adaptation of a Japanese light novel series written by
Asari Endo and illustrated by Maruino. Takarajimasha has published nine volumes
since 2012 under Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Bunko. An anime television series by Studio
Lerche aired in Japan between October and December 2016 with 12 episodes in total. It all starts with
a very popular and viral social network game, known as the “Magical Girl Raising Project”,
which has the ability to grant players a 1 in 10,000 chance to become a real-life magical girl.
Each magical girl possesses unique skills and special abilities and earns Magical Candy.
However, at some point, the government has decided that the sixteen magical girls in a certain
city are too many, announcing they will cut the number in half by making the magical girls with
the fewest Magical Candies each week lose their powers. Due to the uncontrolled rules of the game,
the girls end up finding themselves dragged into a life-or-death battle against each other.
Well, that’s the list of the best magical girl anime in history part 2.
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