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Toaru Majutsu no Index

Also known as A Certain Magical Index.

Studio: J.C. Staff , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Square Enix , Funimation , AT-X , ASCII Media Works , Kadokawa Contents Gate
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Set in a city of scientifically advanced superhuman students, but in a world where magic is also real. Touma Kamijou’s right hand, the Imagine Breaker, will negate all magic, psychic, or divine powers, but not his own bad luck. One day he finds a young girl hanging on his balcony railing. She turns out to be a nun from the Church of England, and her mind has been implanted with the Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum - all the magical texts the Church has removed from circulation.

Tags: Magic , Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Urban , Tsundere , Male Protagonist , Nun , Amnesia , Female Harem , Artificial Intelligence , Kuudere , Slapstick , Gore

Rental Magica

Also known as Rental Magica.

Studio: Kadokawa Shoten , The Right Stuf International , ZEXCS , NTT Docomo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural

Due to his father's disappearance, Itsuki Iba has to take over the family business: a magician dispatch service. Their family employs countless magicians and other supernatural beings in order to send them out to help those who need magical assistance. As a leader, Itsuki now has to be tough, commanding, and reliable, but there's one problem, he's a coward. Also, in order to run a successful business, he must connect with his employees, which is more difficult than it seems due to his personality. But not only does he have to deal with his own employees, he also has to deal with those who threaten the family business.



Tags: Work , Religion , Magic , Achronological Order , Female Harem , Male Protagonist

Yokuwakaru Gendaimahou

Also known as Modern Magic Made Simple.

Studio: Nomad , Sentai Filmworks , Studio Jack
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Life hasn't been fair to Koyomi Morishita. Even though she's in high school, she's so short that everyone assumes she's still in grade school. The boys and girls in her school tease her mercilessly, and she's not exactly graceful either. On the other hand, she's still better off than Yumiko, who has a magician trying to kill her. Or at least Koyomi was until their paths crossed!

Fortunately, salvation arrives in the form of master mage and graduate student Misa Anehara, who agrees to take Koyomi under her wing in learning the new style of magic, which breaks enchantment down into sequences of code. That'll be quite a task, given that so far Koyomi's talent seems to consist of making washbasins randomly fall out of the sky. But if it was easy, it wouldn't be magic, would it?



Tags: Magic , Idol , Time Manipulation , School , Slapstick , Kuudere , Software Development , Urban Fantasy

Mahou Sensou

Also known as Magical Warfare.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy

In this modern magic action story, Takeshi Nanase is an ordinary high school boy who has a somewhat dark past. Due to certain circumstances, he formed a "fake" couple with his childhood friend Kurumi Isoshima, but otherwise, he lives a normal life. However, one day, he comes across a girl named Mui Aiba, in a uniform he has never seen before, collapsed on the school campus. This encounter changes Takeshi's destiny completely. Mui tells Takeshi that she is a magician, and she apologizes, for she turned Takeshi into a magician, too. What Takeshi once knew as one world is actually two — the world where magicians live and the world where humans live.



Tags: Magic , School , War , Love Triangle , Isekai

Hitsugi no Chaika

Also known as Chaika -The Coffin Princess-.

Studio: bones
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

Toru Acura is a 20-year-old retired soldier meandering through life now that the war has ended. He encounters Chaika Trabant, a 14-year-old sorceress carrying a coffin, and follows her in hopes of finding meaning to his life again. The two travel with Toru's adopted sister, Akari, the employed member of the group and thus Toru's source of income.



Tags: Magic , Fugitive , Memory Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Travel , Guns , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Swordplay , Anti-Hero , Rural , Urban , Steampunk , Foreign , Military , Dragons , Shapeshifting , Heterosexual , Crime , Female Harem , Skeleton

Zetsuen no Tempest

Also known as Blast of Tempest.

Studio: bones , Aniplex , Dentsu , Square Enix , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Aniplex of America , Yahoo! Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Romance

One day, a sorceress princess was stuffed into a barrel and banished.
One day, a single girl was suddenly murdered, and the culprit still runs free.
And one day, a battle spanning time and space over magic and revenge began!
Sanity and madness, sense and intelligence, self-confidence and convictions.
The tragic tale of this irrational world starts now.

The Kusaribe family is a family of sorcerers under the protection of the "Tree of Origins". Their princess, Hakaze Kusaribe, was the greatest sorceress of their family. But Samon Kusaribe, a member of their family seeking to resurrect the "Tree of World's End", a tree that opposes the "Tree of Origins" and controls the power of destruction, stuffs her into a barrel, and banishes her to a deserted island. From the deserted island, she sends a message out to sea, which is picked up by Mahiro Fuwa, a young boy who's sworn vengeance upon the criminal who killed his little sister, Aika. Mahiro agrees to help Hakaze under the condition that she find Aika's killer with her magic. But once Mahiro's best friend and Aika's lover, Yoshino Takigawa is rescued from danger, he too gets dragged into this tale of revenge.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Revenge , Magic , Time Manipulation , Love Triangle , Anti-Hero , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Suicide , Classic Literature , Shounen , Post-Apocalyptic , Environmental , Pandemic , Philosophy , Witch , Travel , Ensemble Cast , Tsundere , Superhero

Mahoutsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto

Also known as Someday's Dreamers.

Studio: J.C. Staff , Rondo Robe , Pioneer LDC , Daiei , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Yume Kikuchi, a girl who can use magic, goes to Tokyo to be an apprentice mage to the handsome Masami Oyamada (a professional mage). In Tokyo, Yume learns about magic, helping people, and various other things on her way to being a mage. But she soon also finds out that even just magic alone isn't enough to make someone truly happy...



Tags: Magic , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Iyashikei

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 , Female Protagonist , Gore , Nudity

Kite Liberator

Also known as Kite Liberator.

Studio: Arms , Lantis , Media Blasters , Happinet Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

In the previous series "Kite", a killer -Sawa- suddenly disappears after she avenges her parents' death, and no one knows where she is.

Several years later, a figure dances airily on the dark side of a big city. She is an angel of death, killing her victim gracefully and disappearing.

Monaka is a normal high school student, though this quiet and modest life has a darker side. An angel of death is Monaka’s other persona.

Tags: Guns , Crime , Work , Space , Female Protagonist , Maids , Gore , Nudity