Anime like Mahou Tsukai Tai! (TV)

Cardcaptor Sakura

Also known as Cardcaptor Sakura.

Studio: MADHOUSE , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , NHK , Kodansha , Sogo Vision , YTV , NHK Enterprises , NIS America Inc.
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

One day, Kinomoto Sakura, a 4th grader stumbles upon the mysterious book of Clow. Upon opening it and reading the name of The Windy aloud, Sakura scatters the cards to the winds. Sakura is elected and appointed by Keroberos, Guardian of the Cards to capture the remaining cards. With her friend Tomoyo and rival Syaoran, Sakura begins an adventure that will forever change her.

Tags: Magic , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Child Cast , Coming of Age , Episodic , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Family Life , Henshin , School , Dissociative Identities , Reincarnation , Tsundere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle , Fashion , Unrequited Love , Heterosexual , Bisexual , Age Gap , Agender , Boys' Love , Martial Arts , Fairy , Amnesia , Time Manipulation , Kaiju , Time Skip , Transgender

Little Witch Academia (TV)

Also known as Little Witch Academia (TV).

Studio: TRIGGER
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy

In a time when magic is on the decline amid society, Atsuko Kagari is a cheerful girl who enters Luna Nova Academy in order to accomplish her dream of becoming a witch like her idol, Shiny Chariot. Shiny is a famous witch who disappeared from public view many years ago. On her way to school, Kagari meets the kind Lotte Yanson and the mischevious Sucy Manbavaran and the three become friends as they share a bedroom in campus. At the academy, Atsuko soon discovers she is in serious disadvantage compared to the other girls since she doesn`t come from a magical family and is required to learn the magical curriculum from scratch. Having found an item that once belonged to Chariot, Atsuko must discover how to activate and properly use the mysterious Shiny Rod as she hopes it might lead to finding out what has truly happened to her vanished idol.



Tags: Magic , Witch , School , Boarding School , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Episodic , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Teen Cast , Ojou-sama , Kemonomimi , LGBTQ+ Themes , Swordplay , Shapeshifting , Ghost , Super Robot

Mahoutsukai Precure!! MIRAI DAYS

Also known as Witchy Precure!! ~MIRAI DAYS~.

Studio: Toei Animation , Studio DEEN , Toei Animation , ADK Emotions , BANDAI SPIRITS , Marvelous
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Slice of Life

One of the anime projects to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Precure franchise, this will be a direct sequel of Mahoutsukai Precure! aimed at grown-up fans of the anime.

Mirai Asahina, a very curious 13-year-old girl with a love for mysterious things, met a young witch named Liko during spring break. Led by miracles and magic, Mirai and Liko both transformed into the Legendary Witch "Precures"! Working together with Mirai's treasured teddy bear Mofurun and Ha-chan, a fairy born from the "Linkle Smartbook", they tried to repel the chaos that was encroaching upon the "Magic World" and "Magicless World (Human World)". However, that involved the separation of everyone.

After being miraculously reunited a few years later, Mirai and the others begin to take steps towards their futures in their respective worlds. Mirai is a college student in the Magicless World. Liko, who returned to the Magic World, is a teacher at the Magic School. Mofurun, as always, is at Mirai's side. Ha-chan exists far away, watching over the world.

However, a new disaster threatening the Magic and Magicless worlds has appeared...
Due to signs of the coming disaster, Mirai and Liko reunite for the first time in months. While attempting to resist this mysterious enemy, they both come face to face with not only their past, but their future. With the magical words "Cure Up RaPaPa!", their exciting tale is once again set into motion!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Isekai , Time Manipulation , Magic , Primarily Adult Cast , Yuri , Witch , College , Henshin , Urban Fantasy , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Fairy , Dissociative Identities , Urban , Parenthood , Found Family , Teacher , LGBTQ+ Themes , Robots

Ojamajo Doremi

Also known as Magical DoReMi.

Studio: Toei Animation , 4Kids Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Slice of Life

Doremi Harukaze, 3rd grade student at Misora Elementary School, claims to be the world's unluckiest pretty girl. Fascinated by witchcraft, she is drawn into a mysterious shop where she meets Majo Rika and is able to deduce that this lady is in fact a real witch. Being exposed by a human triggers a curse that transforms witches into magical frogs. To regain her original body, Rika must turn Doremi into a witch by teaching her how to use magic. Thrilled by this odd development, Harukaze becomes a witch apprentice. Unfortunately, her two best friends, Hazuki Fujiwara and Aiko Senoo, discover that Doremi has become a magic user. Afraid that Harukaze might become a magical frog too, Majo Rika recruits both Hazuki and Aiko and makes them witch apprentices too. The trio has lots of adventures as they try to triumph the necessary trials to become real witches.



Tags: Magic , Witch , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Henshin , Kids , Episodic , Chibi , Coming of Age , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Family Life , Ojou-sama , Fairy , Idol , Acting , Urban Fantasy

Mahoutsukai Precure!

Also known as Witchy Precure!.

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Slice of Life

Mirai Asahina, a 13-year-old girl who's going into her second year of middle school, witnesses a mysterious object fall in to the park. Excitedly, she brings her stuffed bear Mofurun with her to see what it was. When she gets there she sees a girl named Riko flying on a broom. Mirai has a lot of questions, and Riko explains that she's searching for something. The two of them are wearing similar pendants. Then Batti, an ally of the dark magic user Dokurokushi, appears before them and demands the "Link Stone Emerald." Batti creates a monster called a "Yokubaru" and drives them into a corner. Mirai, Riko, and Mofurun join hands and speak the magic words "Cure-Up Rapapa," their pendants glow, and they become the legendary Precure.



Tags: Magic , Witch , Isekai , Female Protagonist , Henshin , Kids , Superhero , Primarily Female Cast , Episodic , Found Family , Urban Fantasy , Urban , Parenthood , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Child Cast , Fairy , School , Family Life , Space , Tokusatsu , LGBTQ+ Themes , CGI , Mermaid

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

Mahoutsukai no Yome: Nishi no Shounen to Seiran no Kishi

Also known as The Ancient Magus' Bride: The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm.

Studio: Studio Kafka , flying DOG , Twin Engine , Sound Team Don Juan
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

Just prior to Chise becoming a part-time student, during Cartaphilus' brief nap… Chise receives an invitation to the academy, and she, with the help of Elias and the others, begins preparing. One such busy day, a spriggan arrives at their home on a strange horse, bringing news that "something is wrong with this Wild Hunt." Gabriel, an ordinary boy who'd just moved from London, was bored. Of his situation, of being parted from his friends, of unfamiliar land. Of everything. He was staring through his window, as if to escape from it all, when he caught a glimpse of tobacco smoke. When he ran outside to chase it, the impossible happened: his world began to intertwine with the veiled world of the mages.



Note: The episodes were bundled with volumes 16-18 of the manga.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Monster Boy , Mythology , Female Protagonist , Rural , Orphan , Heterosexual , Magic , Disability , Animals , Found Family , Fairy , Amnesia , Adoption , Kuudere , Shounen , Foreign

Mahoutsukai ni Narenakatta Onnanoko no Hanashi.

Also known as The Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Be Magicians.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Asmik Ace , Fosun Entertainment Japan , Sotsu , NetEase Games , J.C.STAFF , Bunka Housou , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy

At Rettoran Magic Academy, two unlikely friends share one dream: to become magicians. Kurumi is an average girl who’s a bit naive, while Yuzu is the distinguished daughter of a noble magician family. They need to get into a special magician training class, but they fail the entrance exam! All hope seems lost until mysterious homeroom teacher Minami Suzuki arrives, and their luck takes a sudden turn.



Tags: Boarding School , Witch , Female Protagonist , Magic , School , Animals , Conspiracy , Ensemble Cast , School Club , Shapeshifting , Ojou-sama , Kids

Makeruna! Makendo

Studio: OLM
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Makenko used to be a normal boy -- until he was kidnapped by the brain monster Dr. Mud and transformed into a cyborg capable of destroying both the monster and human worlds! On his quest for vengeance, he is inadvertently joined by Makendo, a fellow monster hunter who would prefer not to be, and her little sister Hikari who would like nothing better! Dastardly demons and wacky monsters abound as the trio fight the bad guys to kick some monster butt, and get Makenko's body back!


Tags: Magic , Youkai , Henshin , Nudity , Robots

MEZZO

Also known as Mezzo.

Studio: Arms , Sentai Filmworks , Happinet Pictures , Memory-Tech , Studio Pierrot
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Mikura, Kurokawa, and Harada are the 3 members of the Danger Service Agency (DSA). Mikura is the brawns of the group, Harada is the brains, and Kurokawa is just a bitter ex-cop that likes to think he's in charge. They'll take on any job as long as it involves lots of danger and, of course, money. If you want to live long enough to eat dinner, you better not cross them. Their biggest case, however, could prove to be finding out why someone wants Kurokawa assassinated.



Tags: Police , Guns , Martial Arts , Urban , Dystopian , Gangs , Episodic , Found Family , Ensemble Cast , Revenge , Robots , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Gore , Ghost , Heterosexual , Aliens , Artificial Intelligence , Denpa