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Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete

Also known as Gushing Over Magical Girls.

Studio: KADOKAWA , Asahi Production , Docomo Anime Store , MAGNET , AT-X , Asahi Production , Takeshobo , Bandai Namco Music Live
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Mahou Shoujo , Slice of Life

Hiiragi Utena is a major fangirl of the magical girls protecting her city, so when she has the chance to become one herself, she leaps at the chance to join their technicolor ranks… but when she transforms, she learns she isn’t fated to be a daring do-gooder, but rather a villain on the side of evil! At first she tries to quit her new gig as the leader of the local baddies, but she quickly realizes she enjoys it and is a total natural at tormenting the magical girls she loves so much. With both a bang and a whimper, Hiragi’s journey as a magical-girl-tormenting sadist has begun!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Sadism , Primarily Female Cast , Yuri , Psychosexual , Anti-Hero , Nudity , Magic , Henshin , Masochism , Primarily Teen Cast , Bondage , Urban Fantasy , Parody , LGBTQ+ Themes , Kemonomimi , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Meta , Seinen , Yandere , Exhibitionism , Villainess , Shapeshifting , Spearplay , Swordplay , Guns , Tentacles , School , Threesome , Handjob , Age Regression

Kouya no Kotobuki Hikoutai

Also known as The Magnificent KOTOBUKI.

Studio: GEMBA , BANDAI SPIRITS , Bandai Namco Entertainment , Bandai Namco Arts , Digital Frontier , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

The story takes place in a barren frontier where people trade goods with each other in order to help each other survive. The Kotobuki Squadron are bodyguards for hire, led by a strict but beautiful squadron leader, an unreliable commanding officer, and a true artisan of a crew chief. Alongside pilots who don't lack for personality, they take to the air in dogfights, letting the engine noise of their Hayabusa fighters ring out in the skies.



Tags: Aviation , Primarily Female Cast , Full CGI , Female Protagonist , Military , CGI , Post-Apocalyptic , Guns , Alternate Universe , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Episodic

Sakura Taisen

Also known as Sakura Wars.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Sega Games , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Sakura travels to the capital with aspirations of defending the city from the demonic forces of the Black Sanctum Council like her father before her. However, things are not as she imagined as in addition to using her great spiritual energy to pilot a mech called a Kobu, she must also perform on stage as an actor as The Imperial Flower Division's cover is an art theater. Making a fool of herself and ruining a production gets her on everyone's bad side and somehow she must learn to work with them as well as prevent the enemy from destroying several shrines which protect the city.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Musical Theater , Steampunk , Swordplay , Demons , Military , Ensemble Cast , Spearplay , Guns , Super Power , Acting , Primarily Female Cast , Super Robot , Criminal Organization , Ojou-sama , Urban

Galaxy Angel

Also known as Galaxy Angel.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Bandai Visual , Broccoli , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi

The Angel Brigade, an elite branch of the Transbaal Empire military, are assigned to search for The Lost Technology, mysterious items from the past that hold unknown powers. Led by the soon to retire Colonel Volcott O' Huey, the Angel Brigade travel to different planets using their specially designed Emblem Frame ships to search for Lost Technology. Unfortunately, they usually mess up somehow and end up getting into all kinds of weird and troublesome situations.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Episodic , Kemonomimi , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Parody , Military , Space , Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Kuudere , Lost Civilization , Guns , Cosplay , Idol , CGI

Galilei Donna

Also known as Galilei Donna.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Aniplex , Fuji TV , Dentsu , KYORAKU
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Three sisters, Hozuki, Kazuki, and Hazuki, are descendants of Galileo and have completely different personalities and tastes; they never meet eye-to-eye. One day, the girls are suddenly attacked by a mysterious organization. The organization was after the "Galileo Tesoro" which Galileo Galilei was said to have discovered. Still unaware of what was going on, the sisters escape on the airship they built after the sudden attack. But it won't be so easy for these three sisters to help each other out in a pinch when they're constantly at odds with each other. What is the Tesoro, and what is the organization after? And what about the relationship between the sisters? It's a threesome of cute girls, action, and mystery!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Family Life , Foreign , Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Super Robot

Houkago no Pleiades

Also known as Wish Upon the Pleiades.

Studio: Gainax , Showgate , Sentai Filmworks , Subaru
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mahou Shoujo , Romance , Sci-Fi

Subaru is a young girl who discovers that her best friend Aoi is part of a magical group trying to gather engine fragments so that a little being from Pleiades can return to his home. Subaru considers joining them as she was chosen by the Pleiadian, president of this afterschool club.

Tags: Magic , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Space , Astronomy , Henshin , Aliens , School Club , Alternate Universe , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Kuudere , CGI , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Manipulation

Sora no Method

Also known as Celestial Method.

Studio: Studio 3Hz , Bandai Visual , Lantis , Orange , Sentai Filmworks , infinite
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Slice of Life

It's been seven years since Nonoka Komiya last lived in Lake Kiriya City. However, while she knew that there would be changes in the town, she's still unprepared for what she finds upon her return: A giant saucer hovers over the entire city, as it has since shortly after she and her family left. Stranger yet, a girl she doesn't know, Noel, is waiting for her, claiming that they have met before. Confused, Nonaka tries to focus on reconnecting with her old friends, but odd memories, suppressed in the wake of her mother's death, begin to float to the top of her consciousness. Can it be that she has met Noel before? And how does this connect with the appearance of the saucer itself? To solve the riddle, Nonoka must join with her friends and rediscover the events that occurred before she left Lake Kiriya.



Tags: Tragedy , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Aliens , Urban Fantasy , Time Manipulation , School , Rural , Primarily Child Cast , Memory Manipulation , Twins

Natsuiro Kiseki

Studio: Sunrise , Aniplex , Lantis , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Natsuiro Kiseki Production Partners
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

At a Shinto shrine in Shimoda, there is a large rock. It is said that if four close friends gather around the rock and all wish for the same thing, that wish will come true. As four friends, Natsumi, Saki, Yuka and Rinko, gather around the rock like they used to in their childhood, they soon find the rock can indeed grant people's wishes. With only a short amount of time before Saki is due to transfer schools, the girls spend a summer filled with magic.



Tags: Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Magic , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Idol , Time Manipulation , Iyashikei , Body Swapping , Tennis , School , Kuudere , Love Triangle , Tomboy , Tanned Skin , Ships , Witch

Vividred Operation

Also known as Vividred Operation.

Studio: Aniplex , A-1 Pictures , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Mahou Shoujo , Sci-Fi

Friendship is the key to protecting the world.

That is everyone's wish. Here in a world where science has solved all questions.

This story is set in Oshima. The happy, carefree 14 year old Akane Isshiki lived a poor, but well loved life together with her reliable little sister, Momo, who does all the housework, and her grandfather, Kenjirou, a genius inventor who only created useless devices. When the weather is clear, they can see the artificial island, Blue Island, across the sea. In the center of that island rises the revolutionary Manifestation Engine, a discovery that solved the world's energy problems.

It is a peaceful future, just like everyone dreamed of. One where everyone can smile and be happy...

But suddenly, the world is visited by danger. An unknown enemy, the Alone, appear, targeting the Manifestation Engine. As none of their weapons worked and they fell into despair, a lone girl takes a stand wearing a red "Palette Suit" which wields a great, hidden power. Before long, allies gather around her to fight.

And their friendship becomes the only hope for saving the world!



Tags: Superhero , Urban Fantasy , Nudity , Henshin , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Yuri , Kuudere , Isekai , Coastal

Strike Witches

Also known as Strike Witches.

Studio: GONZO , Funimation , Kadokawa Shoten , KLOCKWORX , NTT Docomo , 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

The year is 1944 and the world lives in fear of unidentified flying objects called Neuroi. With the old-boy old guard unable to thwart this deadly menace, humanity turns its desperate eyes to an aerial attack force with much nicer legs. Meet the girls of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, better known as the Strike Witches. These darlings of the great blue yonder may not have standard issue uniforms, but they do have all the right stuff. Where the average flyboy falters, these dolls blast aliens to bits in the bat of an eyelash. With a little magic and a whole lot of leg, the girls of the 501st are winning the war on pants, and aliens!



Tags: Kemonomimi , Military , Female Protagonist , Aviation , Primarily Female Cast , Nudity , Magic , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , War , Yuri , Tsundere , Kuudere , CGI