Manga like Mahoutsukai Precure!

Sugar Sugar Rune

Also known as Sugar Sugar Rune.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

Little witch-girls Chocolat and Vanilla are best friends, but only one of them can be Queen of the Magic World. To determine who deserves the title, they must go to the Human World and enter a strange competition. Whoever attracts the most human boys... wins!

Here's how it works: When a boy falls for a witch-girl, she utters a few mystic words and the boy's heart will be hers in jewel-like form. It may sound simple, but winning hearts is tricky business. While Chocolat had no problem enticing witch-boys with her forthright personality, human boys seem to be drawn to shy and modest girls like Vanilla. And to make matters worse, Chocolat is finding herself increasingly drawn to the cool and mysterious Pierre-who feels nothing for her! The girls had planned to be best friends forever, but both of them want to be Queen. Will their rivalry ruin their friendship?



Note: Won the Kodansha Manga Award for Children's Manga in 2005.

Tags: Magic , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Witch , Urban Fantasy , Royal Affairs , Matriarchy , Primarily Child Cast , Tomboy , Unrequited Love , Slapstick , School , Kingdom Management , Heterosexual , Animals , Anti-Hero , Coming of Age , Age Gap , Twins , Curses , Love Triangle , Crossdressing , War , Fairy , Desert , Time Skip , Shapeshifting , Memory Manipulation

Tongari Boushi no Atelier

Also known as Witch Hat Atelier.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: she wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch … until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem...



Notes:
Nominated for the 11th Manga Taishou Award in 2018.
Won the Daruma d'Or at Japan Expo in 2019.
Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia at the Eisner Awards in 2020.
Won the Best Manga Award at the Harvey Awards in 2020.

Tags: Witch , Magic , Found Family , Memory Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Drawing , Teacher , Medieval , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , School , Primarily Female Cast , Revenge , Tragedy , Conspiracy , Primarily Child Cast , Politics , Disability , Seinen , Philosophy , Rehabilitation , Amnesia , Foreign , Travel , LGBTQ+ Themes , Spearplay , Body Horror , Iyashikei , Dragons , Twins

Little Witch Academia

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

In her admiration of Shiny Chariot, a famous witch renowned for her unorthodox yet enchanting spells, Kagari Akko, an ordinary girl, joined Witch Academia in the hope of someday becoming as spectacular as Shiny Chariot. She is determined to become a graduate of Witch Academy and make her dream come true despite not being from a lineage with witchcraft and wizardry. The story takes places when Akko, along with her two best friends, Lotte Yansson and Sucy Manbavaran, take their first lessons to become witches; however, Akko is furious when she finds out that Shiny Chariot is not as popular in the world of the witches as she had thought.

Tags: Magic , School , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban Fantasy , Boarding School , Seinen , Witch , Female Protagonist

Little Witch Academia

Also known as Little Witch Academia.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

"Reach out your hand, and your story will begin!"

Those words changed young Atsuko "Akko" Kagari forever, sparking in her a lifelong dream of becoming a real witch. Now she's been accepted to the same school as her childhood hero, Shiny Chariot-the prestigious Luna Nova Witchcraft Academy. As the only student to come from a non-magical family, Akko finds herself surrounded by prodigies from around the world, but giving up isn't in her vocabulary. Whether it's making friends, proving the doubters wrong, or just flying on a broom, Akko is going to make her fantasy a reality!



Includes chapter 11.5 and 17.5.

Tags: Magic , School , Witch , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Boarding School , Urban Fantasy , Shounen , Primarily Female Cast , Goblin , Dragons , Foreign

Futari wa Precure

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro couldn't be more different. Nagisa is sporty and Honoka bookish, and while they attend the same school, they have very little in common - until one day, a shower of shooting stars brings two very unlikely visitors into their lives: Mippuru and Meppuru, refugees from the Garden of Light, which has been conquered by Darkness. Endowed with new and startling powers, Nagisa and Honoka become Cure Black and Cure White, magical defenders of the light --- together, they are Pretty Cure.

Tags: Magic , Shoujo , Henshin , Tokusatsu , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Lacrosse , School

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

Also known as Sailor Moon.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

Usagi Tsukino is a normal girl until she meets up with Luna, a talking cat, who tells her that she is Sailor Moon. As Sailor Moon, Usagi must fight evils and enforce justice, in the name of the Moon and the mysterious Moon Princess. She meets other girls destined to be Sailor Senshi (Sailor Scouts), and together, they fight the forces of evil!



Notes:
The tankoubon release contains 52 Acts and 9 bonus chapters across 18 volumes; chapter/volume counts follow the tankoubon release.
The shinsouban release contains the original 52 Acts plus 8 new Acts across 12 volumes, but no bonus chapters as all 9 were released separately in Sailor Moon Short Stories alongside another bonus chapter that was previously released in an artbook.
The kanzenban release contains both the 60 Acts and the 10 bonus chapters from the short story shinsoubans across 10 volumes.


Tags: Shoujo , Primarily Female Cast , Reincarnation , Magic , Lost Civilization , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Time Manipulation , Henshin , Urban Fantasy , Coming of Age , Astronomy , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Mythology , War , Cosmic Horror , Demons , Space , Super Power , Aliens , LGBTQ+ Themes , Fairy Tale , Space Opera , Animals , Body Horror , Rehabilitation , Revenge , Time Skip , Dissociative Identities , Philosophy , Urban , Unrequited Love , Found Family , Superhero , Circus , Shrine Maiden , Bisexual , Love Triangle , Parenthood , Tokusatsu , Age Gap , Gender Bending , School , Nudity , Kemonomimi , Age Regression , Bullying , Twins , School Club , Yuri

Himitsu no Akko-chan M

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Shapeshifting , Angels

Majo Kaitou LIP☆S

Also known as Stellar Witch LIP☆S.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

Miku Hoshino is a just a regular girl who thinks of nothing but her favorite idol, Rei, from the totally popular group M.A.G. When her school duties make her miss the concert she was desperately hoping to go for, she does what any girl would do—takes the help of a witch! But when the witch turns Miku into a witch, too, her life becomes anything from ordinary...and a certain keen-eyed detective seems determined to keep it that way!



Note: chapter count includes 2 bonus chapters

Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Henshin , Urban Fantasy , Witch , Magic , Crossdressing , LGBTQ+ Themes

Mahou Shoujo holoWitches!

Also known as Magical Girl holoWitches!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Mahou Shoujo

In this world, is where the magical world of “Holocas World” exists, created when the light of people's hearts, “Holo” is gathered through the “Holocas” streaming app. The six protagonists: Kanata, Miko, Luna, Shion, Chloe, and Marine are usually active as “Holocas” streamers.

The “Yumeochi” phenomenon occurs when people who are anxious or stressed in their daily lives and have lost their positive attitude are sucked into the “Holocas World” with their souls. The “Collapser” monsters are birthed by a build-up of “Yumeochi". In order to defeat a "Collapser", these streamers are given the power to transform into magical girls called “holoWitches” and spend their days fighting to defeat Collapsers and save those who have fallen into a "Yumeochi" state.

What is “Yumeochi”? The story of these magical girls who fight against the dark forces and bring dreams and hope to people begins.



Tags: Henshin , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Witch , Magic , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Guns , Angels , VTuber , Swordplay

Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica

Also known as Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Mahou Shoujo

When a new girl joins her class, Madoka Kaname thinks she recognizes the mysterious, dark-haired transfer student from one of her dreams…a dream where she is approached by a catlike creature who offers Madoka an opportunity to change destiny. Madoka had always thought magic was the stuff of fantasy…until she sees the transfer student fighting with the very cat being from her dream! And just like in Madoka’s dream, the cat gives her a choice. Will Madoka become a magical girl in exchange for her dearest desire? What will be the cost of having her wish come true?



Tags: Time Manipulation , Magic , Primarily Female Cast , Seinen , Henshin , Tragedy , Alternate Universe , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Yuri , Aliens , School , Fairy , Survival , Witch , Primarily Teen Cast , Guns