Top Matriarchy Anime Recommendations

Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2

Also known as Attack on Titan Season 2.

Studio: WIT STUDIO
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery

Eren Jaeger swore to wipe out every last Titan, but in a battle for his life he wound up becoming the thing he hates most. With his new powers, he fights for humanity's freedom facing the monsters that threaten his home. After a bittersweet victory against the Female Titan, Eren finds no time to rest—a horde of Titans is approaching Wall Rose and the battle for humanity continues!



Tags: Survival , Post-Apocalyptic , Shapeshifting , Tragedy , Espionage , Military , Kaiju , Dystopian , Primarily Teen Cast , Gore , Revenge , Politics , Henshin , Anti-Hero , Ensemble Cast , Super Power , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Incest , Cult , Kuudere , Dissociative Identities , Coming of Age , Steampunk , Cannibalism , Primarily Male Cast , CGI , Swordplay , Primarily Adult Cast , Unrequited Love , Matriarchy , Rural , Medieval

Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3

Also known as Attack on Titan Season 3.

Studio: WIT STUDIO
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery

Eren and his companions in the 104th are assigned to the newly-formed Levi Squad, whose assignment is to keep Eren and Historia safe given Eren's newly-discovered power and Historia's knowledge and pedigree. Levi and Erwin have good reason to be concerned, because the priest of the Church that Hanji had hidden away was found tortured to death, making it clear that the Military Police are involved with the cover-up. Things get more harrowing when the MPs make a move on Erwin and the Levi Squad narrowly avoids capture. Eren is also having problems with his Titan transformation, and a deadly killer has been hired to secure Eren and Historia, one Levi knows all too well from his youth.



Tags: Conspiracy , Military , Tragedy , Shapeshifting , Politics , Memory Manipulation , Dystopian , Fugitive , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Henshin , Super Power , Crime , Kaiju , Gore , Survival , Shounen , Yandere , Guns , Ensemble Cast , Matriarchy , Anti-Hero , Primarily Male Cast , CGI , Steampunk , Torture , Swordplay , Primarily Adult Cast , Kuudere , Crossdressing , Medieval

Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season

Also known as Attack on Titan Final Season.

Studio: MAPPA
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery

It’s been four years since the Scout Regiment reached the shoreline, and the world looks different now. Things are heating up as the fate of the Scout Regiment—and the people of Paradis—are determined at last. However, Eren is missing. Will he reappear before age-old tensions between Marleyans and Eldians result in the war of all wars?



Tags: War , Tragedy , Military , Kaiju , Anti-Hero , Revenge , Politics , Dystopian , Survival , Time Skip , Ensemble Cast , Shapeshifting , Male Protagonist , Super Power , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Steampunk , Henshin , Coastal , Swordplay , Primarily Adult Cast , Conspiracy , Terrorism , Espionage , Gore , Philosophy , CGI , Body Horror , Foreign , Guns , Memory Manipulation , Matriarchy , Rotoscoping , Dissociative Identities , Rural , Kuudere

Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Part 2

Also known as Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2.

Studio: WIT STUDIO
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery

The battle to retake Wall Maria begins now! With Eren’s new hardening ability, the Scouts are confident they can seal the wall and take back Shiganshina District. If they succeed, Eren can finally unlock the secrets of the basement—and the world. But danger lies in wait as Reiner, Bertholdt, and the Beast Titan have plans of their own. Could this be humanity’s final battle for survival?



Tags: Dystopian , Military , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Survival , Memory Manipulation , Shapeshifting , Super Power , War , Shounen , Espionage , Ensemble Cast , Revenge , Henshin , Male Protagonist , Gore , Primarily Adult Cast , Anti-Hero , Steampunk , Primarily Male Cast , Swordplay , CGI , Dissociative Identities , Drugs , Kuudere , Matriarchy , Medieval , Kaiju

Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari

Also known as The Rising of the Shield Hero.

Studio: Kinema Citrus
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic Otaku who spends his days on games and manga, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe! He discovers he is one of four heroes equipped with legendary weapons and tasked with saving the world from its prophesied destruction. As the Shield Hero, the weakest of the heroes, all is not as it seems. Naofumi is soon alone, penniless, and betrayed. With no one to turn to, and nowhere to run, he is left with only his shield. Now, Naofumi must rise to become the legendary Shield Hero and save the world!

Note:
- The first episode was pre-aired on December 27th, 2018. Regular broadcast began on January 9th, 2019.
- The first episode aired with a runtime of ~47 minutes as opposed to the standard 24 minute long episode.

Tags: Isekai , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Travel , Revenge , Magic , Crime , Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Kemonomimi , Bullying , Henshin , Matriarchy , Cult , Language Barrier , Slavery , Villainess , Female Harem , Politics , Spearplay , Swordplay , Medieval , Cultivation , Ojou-sama , Religion , Tsundere , Economics , CGI , Medicine , Nekomimi , Heterosexual , Monster Girl , Love Triangle , Gore , Afterlife , Cohabitation

Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season Part 2

Also known as Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2.

Studio: MAPPA
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Psychological

The war for Paradis zeroes in on Shiganshina just as Jaegerists have seized control. After taking a huge blow from a surprise attack led by Eren, Marley swiftly acts to return the favor. With Zeke’s true plan revealed and a military forced under new rule, this battle might be fought on two fronts. Does Eren intend on fulfilling his half-brother’s wishes or does he have a plan of his own?



Tags: War , Tragedy , Revenge , Anti-Hero , Military , Survival , Memory Manipulation , Kaiju , Terrorism , Male Protagonist , Espionage , Foreign , Primarily Male Cast , Super Power , Henshin , Philosophy , Gore , Body Horror , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Slavery , CGI , Amputation , Steampunk , Alternate Universe , Guns , Cannibalism , Female Protagonist , Mythology , Kuudere , Matriarchy

Summer Wars

Also known as Summer Wars.

Studio: MADHOUSE
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi

When timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso is asked by older student and secret crush Natsuki to come with her to her family's Nagano home for a summer job, he agrees without hesitation.

Natsuki's family, the Jinnouchi clan, dates back to the Muromachi era (1336 to 1573), and they've all come together to celebrate the 90th birthday of the spunky matriarch of the family, Sakae. That’s when Kenji discovers his "summer job" is to pretend to be Natsuki's fiance and dance with her at the birthday celebration.

As Kenji attempts to keep up with Natsuki's act around her family, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can't resist solving. As it turns out, the solution to the mysterious equation causes Oz, the program that controls nearly every aspect of life to be hacked into, it's up to Kenji and his new "family" to stop the hacker before it's too late.



Tags: Family Life , Virtual World , Artificial Intelligence , Ensemble Cast , Software Development , Rural , Male Protagonist , Terrorism , CGI , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Card Battle , Heterosexual , Military , Alternate Universe , Robots , Tanned Skin , Fake Relationship , Work , War , Kemonomimi , Matriarchy , Anthropomorphism , Estranged Family , Space , Baseball , Revenge , Gods

Otomege Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu

Also known as Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs.

Studio: ENGI
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Mecha , Romance

Office worker Leon is reincarnated into a particularly punishing dating sim video game, where women reign supreme and only beautiful men have a seat at the table. But Leon has a secret weapon: he remembers everything from his past life, which includes a complete playthrough of the very game in which he is now trapped. Watch Leon spark a revolution to change this new world in order to fulfill his ultimate desire…of living a quiet, easy life in the countryside!



Tags: Matriarchy , Anti-Hero , Isekai , Male Protagonist , School , Robots , Ojou-sama , Video Games , Parody , Magic , Bullying , Super Robot , Primarily Teen Cast , Boarding School , Artificial Intelligence , Male Harem , Reincarnation , Large Breasts , Virtual World , Real Robot , Military , Lost Civilization

Isekai Yakkyoku

Also known as Parallel World Pharmacy.

Studio: diomedéa
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy

A young pharmacologist and researcher in Japan died from overworking, and was reincarnated in a Medieval Parallel Europe. He was reincarnated as a 10-year-old apprentice to a famous Royal Court pharmacist, had attained an inhuman skills of ability to see through disease, material creation, and material destruction.

In a society in which dubious medical practice are rampant, price gouging thru the monopoly of the pharmacist guild, and good medicine aren't available to the commoners. He was recognized by the Emperor at that time and opened a Pharmacy at the corner of the town. He will wipe out the fraud that has swept the world, and deliver to the commoners a truly effective medicine that was developed using present day pharmacology. Thus the boy pharmacist will cheat by using his previous knowledge to create innovative medicines while helping the people of the parallel world, a story about living his new life to the fullest this time.

Tags: Isekai , Medicine , Reincarnation , Educational , Male Protagonist , Pandemic , Iyashikei , Magic , Makeup , Alchemy , Historical , Gods , Matriarchy , Travel

Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- Rhyme Anima

Also known as HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle- Rhyme Anima.

Studio: A-1 Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Music , Sci-Fi

After the war, women have taken over ruling politics in the Chuo ward and have banned and destroyed weapons. This has caused men to fight through rap battles using Hypnosis Mics, which can be used to affect people's sympathetic nerves and influence their thought process. However, the legendary rap group, The Dirty Dawg, has split up into four groups, each representing a division of Tokyo, Japan and are engaging in territorial battles using words and the HypMics.



Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Band , Super Power , Urban , Gangs , Delinquents , Episodic , War , Matriarchy , Primarily Adult Cast , Idol , Hip-hop Music , Henshin , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , CGI , Parody , Slapstick , Medicine , Clone , Politics

Kemono no Souja Erin

Also known as Erin.

Studio: Production I.G
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy

In the land of Ryoza, the neighboring provinces of Shin-Ou and Tai-Kou have been at peace. Queen Shinou is the ruler of Ryoza and her greatest general, Grand Duke Taikou, defends the kingdom with his army of powerful war-lizards known as the "Touda." Although the two regions have enjoyed a long-standing alliance, mounting tensions threaten to spark a fierce civil war.

Within Ake, a village in Tai-Kou tasked with raising the Grand Duke's army, lives Erin, a bright girl who spends her days watching the work of her mother Soyon, the village's head Touda doctor. But while under Soyon's care, a disastrous incident befalls the Grand Duke's strongest Touda, and the peace that Erin and her mother had been enjoying vanishes as Soyon is punished severely. In a desperate attempt to save her mother, Erin ends up falling in a river and is swept towards Shin-Ou.

Unable to return home, Erin must learn to lead a new life with completely different people, all while hunting for the truth of both beasts and humanity itself, with tensions between the two regions constantly escalating.



Tags: Coming of Age , Tragedy , Animals , Conspiracy , Veterinarian , Female Protagonist , Environmental , Politics , Philosophy , Boarding School , Matriarchy , Teacher , Time Skip , Rural , War , Adoption , Historical , Kids

Mononoke: Karakasa

Also known as Mononoke The Movie: The Phantom in the Rain.

Studio: EOTA
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

The first movie in the Mononoke movie trilogy.

Asa and Kame strike up an immediate friendship when they arrive at the same time for their first day of duty at the Ooku, the splendid pleasure palace housing the harem of Lord Tenshi. The two young women are there to join the many hundreds of other maidservants—men are barred from entering, with immediate beheading the price of trespassing. It soon becomes clear that behind the luxurious lifestyle and ritualized routines of the Ooku lie sinister schemes and cynical rivalries. Meanwhile, a mysterious wandering potion-peddler known only as the Medicine Seller subtly insinuates himself into the Ooku, just as an uncanny, otherworldly menace begins to reveal itself.



Tags: Youkai , Primarily Female Cast , Exorcism , Historical , Male Protagonist , Suicide , Bullying , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Ghost , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cosmic Horror , Calligraphy , Samurai , Matriarchy

Sugar Sugar Rune

Studio: Studio Pierrot
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance , Slice of Life

Chocolat Meilleure and Vanilla Mieux are two witches who are pitched in a contest to see who will become the new Queen of the Witch World. They must travel to the Human World and collect the hearts of humans. Whoever collects the most "human hearts" wins. Even though they're rivals, the two are still best friends. Join them on this adventure!

Tags: Magic , Shoujo , Witch , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Royal Affairs , War , Age Gap , Primarily Child Cast , Henshin , Matriarchy , Episodic , Urban Fantasy , School , Anti-Hero , Ojou-sama , Isekai , Anthropomorphism , Twins , Estranged Family , Curses , Animals , Shapeshifting , Tomboy , Monster Girl , Athletics , Bullying , Unrequited Love , Skeleton , Fairy , Desert , Dragons , Dungeon , Fencing , Parody , Tennis , Polyamorous , Coming of Age

Juu Ou Sei

Also known as Jyu-Oh-Sei: Planet of the Beast King.

Studio: bones
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Thor and his twin brother, Rai, are cast off to a forsaken planet by unknown masked men after witnessing the suspicious death of their parents. Given only a beam knife and a smelly satchel, they wander together in search of civilization on the primarily plant based world. They soon discover the plants have the advantage. Only the strong survive; the ones who throw away their humanity and become the beasts humans once were.



Tags: Survival , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Prison , Shoujo , Twins , Time Skip , Primarily Male Cast , Death Game , Arranged Marriage , Matriarchy , Heterosexual , Dystopian , Guns , Swordplay , Netorare , Unrequited Love , Love Triangle , Suicide

Oooku

Also known as Ōoku: The Inner Chambers.

Studio: Studio DEEN
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

In Edo period Japan (1603 to 1868), a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen to a quarter of the total female population. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the Shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected and the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the Shogun's Inner Chambers.



Note: The first episode has a runtime of 1 hour and 18 minutes.

Tags: Historical , Pandemic , Politics , Matriarchy , Tragedy , Royal Affairs , Samurai , Gender Bending , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Shoujo , Crossdressing , Acting , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Achronological Order , Swordplay , Tsundere , Parenthood , Suicide , Religion , Matchmaking , Disability , LGBTQ+ Themes

Saint Seiya Omega

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

The god of war and guardian of his namesake planet, Mars, was once sealed away by Seiya, but time has passed and his revival is at hand. Meanwhile, Saori Kido (Athena) is raising the boy Kouga, whose life Seiya saved, and he's been training every day to become a Saint in order to prepare for the coming crisis...

Unaware of his destiny, when Kouga awakens to the power of his Cosmo hidden inside him, the curtain will rise upon the legend of a new Saint.



Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Astronomy , Primarily Teen Cast , Foreign , Gods , Mythology , Henshin , Swordplay , Tragedy , Matriarchy , Super Power , Ninja , Heterosexual

Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- Rhyme Anima+

Also known as HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle- Rhyme Anima PLUS.

Studio: A-1 Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Music , Sci-Fi

The second season of Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle - Rhyme Anima. Unlike the first season, which depicted the first division rap battle, it will be set after the second Division Rap Battle.

Tags: Hip-hop Music , Primarily Adult Cast , Parody , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Urban , Matriarchy , Chuunibyou , Clone , Idol , Battle Royale , Band , Boys' Love , Gangs , Henshin , Delinquents , Amnesia , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Politics , Police , Memory Manipulation , Yakuza , Artificial Intelligence , CGI , Tragedy , Slapstick

Puchi Puri * Yuushi

Also known as Petite Princess Yucie.

Studio: Gainax
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life

Seventeen-year-old Yucie can never be taken seriously. How can she, when she's been cursed to be trapped in a ten-year-old's body? Bright, cheerful and optimistic, Yucie has never let her curse get in the way of living a happy life. Her life is about to change forever when she becomes a candidate to become the Platina Princess, an honor which will allow her ultimate wish to be granted! Then she finds out that she is one of many candidates, and the competition is intense!



Tags: Magic , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , School , Found Family , Work , Adoption , Curses , Ensemble Cast , Medieval , Coming of Age , Angels , Royal Affairs , Fairy , Butler , Episodic , Ojou-sama , Swordplay , Henshin , Slapstick , Tomboy , Kuudere , Unrequited Love , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Matriarchy , Demons , Tanned Skin , Dragons , Ghost , Robots , Anthropomorphism , Shapeshifting , Lost Civilization , Arranged Marriage , Fugitive , Urban Fantasy , Mermaid

Mahou Shoujo Pretty Sammy

Also known as Magical Girl Pretty Sammy.

Studio: AIC
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mahou Shoujo

Sasami's always been kind of neat... but now she's been imbibed with a healthy dose of magic (which she plans to use to right the things wrong with the Earth, and, of course, help keep her brother Tenchi out of trouble). Naturally, there's going to be trouble: this time, it's the mysterious Pixy Misa... and Ryoko going at it against Ayeka (as usual) isn't making things any easier for her!



Tags: Magic , Henshin , Primarily Female Cast , Matriarchy , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Parody , Aliens , School , Ojou-sama , Amnesia

Mahou Shoujo Pretty Sammy (1996)

Also known as Magical Project S.

Studio: AIC
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

In the magical kingdom Juraihelm, Tsunami is in line to be crowed queen but must complete a test first. She must choose someone to make the world a better place. Sasami is given the task of delivering a CD from her mother's store to a spooky mansion. When she gets there she is met by Tsunami who tells her she will become a magical girl. She endows Sasami with magical powers and sends Ryo-Okhi with her as a guide. Matters are not easy, however, as Tsunami's rival, Ramia, wants the crown and will do anything she can, including creating her own magical girl, Pixy Misa, to stop Tsunami from being crowned.

Tags: Magic , Parody , Henshin , Episodic , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Child Cast , Surreal Comedy , Matriarchy , Female Protagonist , Meta , Space , Aliens , School , Slapstick