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Plot Summary:
Lalabel, also known as Lalabel, The Magical Girl or Magical Girl Lalabel, is a magical girl anime by Toei Animation. A 15 minutes long "movie" special called Magical Girl Lalabel: the Sea Calls for a Summer Vacation was also created, it aired in Japan in July 1980.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Animation, Family, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mahou shoujo
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Wish Upon the Pleiades (2011)
Plot Summary:
Subaru is a young girl who discovers that her best friend Aoi is part of magical group trying to recover alien engine fragments so that a little being from the Pleiades star system can return to his home. Subaru considers joining them as she was selected by the Pleiadian, president of this after school club, as the possible new member.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 6 min
Plot tags: anime
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Day Break Illusion (2013)
Plot Summary:
Unaired 14th episode of Day Break Illusion, broadcast on Nico Nico and included in the 4th Blu-ray and DVD volumes. It shows Akari and Fuyuna's lives prior to the main series as well as how Luna got started as a magical girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Kanon at the End of the Dream (2006)
Plot Summary:
Yuichi hasn’t seen his cousin Nayuki in years. Now that he’s back, all knowledge of ever visiting has vanished. He tries to adjust to the vaguely familiar surroundings, but the gaps in his memory haunt him as time grows short. The pieces of the puzzle have appeared – an eerily silent beauty with blazing tresses, the mysterious girl with the winged backpack, and the sword-wielding demon slayer – but it’s up to Yuichi to discover how they fit together.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, depressing, atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Red Hood Chacha (1994)
Plot Summary:
Cha Cha is a cute little girl who is training to be a good magician. She was raised by her teacher Seravi, who is considered the world's greatest magician. Cha Cha almost always gets strange or disastrous results whenever she uses her magic, so she practices a lot. Cha Cha then embarks on a quest with her friends to find out about her real identity and her real family.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, fairy tale
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I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss (2022)
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When her engagement to the prince ends unceremoniously, details of the young noblewoman Aileen's past life come rushing back and help her realize she's living inside the world of one of her favorite otome games—as the heroine's greatest rival! However, her memory has more plot holes than bad fan fiction…and the only certainty is that if she doesn't do something quick, her death is all but assured. The hero/main-love-interest can't be relied on, so why not see what the last boss has to say?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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Fairy Musketeers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Long, long ago, there existed a world of magic and science. But having both powers was making people conceited and lazy. So God split the world in to the world of science, Erde (German for Earth), and the world of magic, Phandavale. One day in Phandavale, a terrible witch named Cendrillon revives. Cendrillon plots to rule both worlds, and searches for the "key of Erde" and the "key of Phandavale" which holds tremendous power. A young boy from Erde by the name of Sōta meets a mysterious girl from Phandavale, Akazukin (Red Riding Hood), and her talking wolf companion, Val. Sōta learns that he is the key of Erde. Now it is up to Akazukin, Val, and the other Musketeers, Shirayukihime (Snow White) and Ibara (Sleeping Beauty) to protect Sōta from Cendrillon and her Nightmarians who wish to obtain the power he mysteriously possesses.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, fairy tale, mahou shoujo
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Devil Hunter Yohko (1990)
Plot Summary:
Spunky, athletic high school student Mano Yohko doesn't know it yet, but she's #107 in a long and venerable line of demon hunters! But after her school principal sics a monster on her in the swimming pool and she's nearly seduced by a possessed classmate, her grandmother decides it's time to bring her up in true "Mamono Hunter" style! And just in time, since it turns out that a monstrously powerful demon queen is preparing to smash her way from the next world into this one!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: anime, corny
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Invaders of the Rokujyouma!? (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kōtarō Satomi decided to live on his own when he began high school, and chose Room 106 of Corona House because it was cheap. Unfortunately, Kōtarō soon discovers that numerous otherworldly and supernatural girls also want his room for various reasons of their own, and aren't about to back down. As a result, Kōtarō and the girls find themselves forced to live together as they try to settle just who ends up with the room.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, parody, ecchi, feel good, entertaining, not serious, absurd, romantic comedy, super sentai
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Magical Angel Creamy Mami (1983)
Plot Summary:
Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel is a magical girl anime series by Studio Pierrot which aired from 1983 to 1984 on Nippon Television. It went on to have five OVA adaptions and featured in other Studio Pierrot special presentations. A three volume manga was released during the original TV run, with the story written by Kazunori Itō and art by Yuuko Kitagawa. This was the first of five magical girl anime to be produced by Studio Pierrot, and the first of these to feature the designs of Akemi Takada. In 2005, the web-poll for TV Asahi's top-100 anime of all time saw Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel poll 82nd. The series is currently streaming in North America via Yomiuri Group's planned Anime Sols video service, as of spring 2013. Thus far, a limited DVD release of the first thirteen episodes has been successfully crowd-funded at Anime Sols, with the second set of episodes currently in crowd-fund mode.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost (2022)
Plot Summary:
From sunup to sundown, Fushihara-san works ’round the clock. She spends so much time there that even the ghosts worry about her well-being! One night, Fushihara-san was working late as usual when a little ghost girl whispered to her, “Leave now”—an encounter that would change her life forever. Be healed by the heartwarming daily life of the cute little ghost and Fushihara-san!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, sincere
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The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! (2021)
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The Great Jahy, the Dark Realm's second-in-command, cuts a frightening figure, feared and revered by all. But when a run-in with a magical girl results in the destruction of the precious mana crystal, the Dark Realm falls, transporting the newly tiny and powerless Jahy to the human world! Unfortunately, plotting the revival of the Dark Realm from a cramped, crumbling one-room apartment is no easy feat when you have rent to pay and a job to keep!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, ecchi, manga, sexual, sexy
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Maerchen Maedchen (2018)
Plot Summary:
When the two girls meet, magic begins. Hazuki Kagimura loves stories, an orthodox girl who is overly imaginative. Because her relationship with her new family does not go well, the environment sends her toward the stories in which she spends her days. One day after school, Hazuki gets lost among the bookcases of the library, leading her to a mysterious school where meets Shizuka Tsuchimikado. It is a magic school where girls (called "mädchen") are selected by the magical texts from which the world's stories are born. Hazuki herself is said to be chosen by the book of Cinderella. In order to become a true magician, Hazuki becomes friends with Shizuka and begins her new life at the school.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Animation, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, fairy tale, 2d animation
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Re: Cutie Honey (2004)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious organization known as Panther Claw make their presence known by terrorizing Tokyo and giving the cops a run for their money. Police are further baffled by the appearance of a lone cosplaying vigilante who thwarts all of Panther Claw's evil schemes before disappearing. That cosplayer is Honey Kisaragi, the result of the late Professor Kisaragi's prize experiment. A master of disguise, Honey can instantly alter her physical appearance and outfits. But with a push of the heart-shaped button on her choker, she transforms herself into Cutie Honey, the scantily clad, sword-wielding warrior of love and justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, ecchi
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Magical Mako (1970)
Plot Summary:
Mahō no Mako-chan is a Japanese anime series by Toei Animation. The story is loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale The Little Mermaid. The series has been dubbed into various languages including French, Spanish, Polish and Italian. It is also often known as Mako the Mermaid, Mako-chan’s Magic, Syrenka Mako and Magical Mako-chan. Mahō no Mako-chan aired in 1970 via Nippon Educational TV, which is now TV Asahi.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, fairy tale, mahou shoujo
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Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater (1987)
Plot Summary:
Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters star in adaptations of various fairy tales from all over the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, anime
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Magikano (2006)
Plot Summary:
Magikano is a manga series by Takeaki Momose, which was later adapted into an anime series, directed by Seiji Kishi and written by Hideki Mitsui. The anime series was also broadcast by Animax, who adapted and dubbed the series into English for broadcast across its English language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia from February 2007, where the series received its English language premiere. ADV Films has licensed the rights for the North American release of Magikano on DVD for $65,000, and released the first volume on December 4, 2007. ADV Films' Anime Network began airing the anime on January 3, 2008 on their Subscription On Demand platform. On March 6, 2008 the anime began airing on their Free On Demand platform. In July 2008, the series became one of over 30 ADV titles to be transferred to Funimation.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Tweeny Witches (2004)
Plot Summary:
Arusu believes in magic and it's power to do good in the world. Unfortunately for her, her fellow witches disagree, and use their powers for all sorts of neat tricks, like turning little sprites into their slaves. Realizing that this nightmare is a reality, Arusu sets out to change the ways of the witches, and gets up to some hilarious hijinks along the way. Note: Some releases of this show pair episodes together, so it actually is shown as only 26 episodes (20 TV and 6 OVAs).
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 9 min
Plot tags: anime, avant garde, enigmatic, captivating, urban fantasy
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Maho Girls Precure! (2016)
Plot Summary:
One day, Mirai was in the park when a witch named Liko (Riko) falls off her broom and they met each other there. Then, a villain appeared which summons a monster, Yokubal. Together, with Mofurun- Mirai's talking teddy bear and the Diamond Linkle Stones in hold, both girls became the Legendary Precure known as Cure Miracle and Cure Magical, who would stop the villains/ monsters, Yokubal and tries to collect the remaining Linkle Stones which the enemies are trying to get hold of, mainly the emerald stone that contains great power. Later on, there will be a new Precure, Cure Felice who will joined the team and the three will strive together to save the Magic School and Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime
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My Master Has No Tail (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mameda is a tanuki who was born in the wrong era - all she wants is to trick humans, but that age of tanuki shenanigans is over. But one woman, a rakugo master named Bunko, shows Mameda it's still possible to cast magic on humans...only with words, not illusions. Mameda is determined to become Bunko's apprentice, but can she convince the stoic master to take her on...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen
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The Demon Girl Next Door (2019)
Plot Summary:
Awakening her dormant abilities as a devil one day, Yuuko Yoshida aka Shadow Mistress Yuuko, is entrusted with the mission to defeat the Light clan's shrine maiden, a magical girl, by her ancestor Lilith. Yuuko meets magical girl Momo Chiyoda through her classmate Anri Sada, and challenges her to a duel, but loses quickly due to her lack of strength. Since then, Yuuko has struggled with her role as a devil and her duel with Momo, and borrowed help from her regularly. However, by a strange coincidence, Yuuko also weakens Momo by taking away her power to cooperate in protecting the peace of Tama city.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, light, humorous, absurd, semi serious, super sentai, parody
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Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Alzano Imperial Magic Academy is located in the southern part of the Alzano Empire and is among most prominent magic schools in the world, where students can learn the highest forms of magic. All those who strive to learn magic dream of studying at this academy, and its students as well as its teachers are proud to be a part of its 400-year history. Glenn Radars is a new instructor who has suddenly been appointed to teach part-time at this highly respected academy. The previously unheard-of lessons of this man known as a good-for-nothing bastard are about to begin.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, shounen, light, entertaining
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Sailor Moon (1995)
Plot Summary:
The story centers around an air-headed crybaby, named Usagi, and her friends Ami, Rei, Makato, and Minako. Using special powers, they can transform into Sailor Solders. They become Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Venus respectfully. They fight for love and justice against the evil minions of The Dark Kingdom. To help them in their quest, they heed the advice of two talking cats, Luna and Artemis, and also the mysterious Tuxedo Mask.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, touching, retro, adult anime, children's program, semi serious, epic, saga, feel good
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Pretty Cure Splash Star (2006)
Plot Summary:
The third series in Izumi Todo's Pretty Cure franchise, following a new story different from the previous two series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious
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Heaven's Design Team (2021)
Plot Summary:
I made the light, the water, and the earth below. Now it's time to make the life that dwells upon it. Actually... that sounds like a giant headache, so I'll contract it out! Heaven's Design Team is an agency that creates made-to-order life forms for their client, God. Why does this life form look like that? Why does this life form live this way? Watch the trials and successes of the designers and engineers forced to breathe life into God's absurd requests!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, sincere, captivating, shounen, feel good, humorous, tense
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Gabriel DropOut (2017)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel White graduated at the top of the class at angel school and attends a human school on earth in pursuit of knowledge, but then gets engrossed in a web game and decides its too much trouble to go anywhere. (from manga).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, entertaining, shounen, captivating, light
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Mewkledreamy (2020)
Plot Summary:
A middle school girl named Yume sees something fall from the sky, and meets a pale violet-colored kitten named Mew. It turns out that Mew has the power of "Yume Synchro" (Dream Synchro), the power to enter dreams. In the dream world, the girl and Mew collect Dream Stones.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Sugar Sugar Rune (2005)
Plot Summary:
Chocolat Meilleure is a happy-going and optimistic girl. Together with her friend-cum-rival, Vanilla Mieux, they are potential candidates to become Queen of the magic world. After obtaining their magic wands, they set off to the human world to gather the hearts of unsuspecting humans. Whoever gets the most hearts will be the crowned Queen.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, shoujo
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Magimoji Rurumo (2014)
Plot Summary:
Shibaki is a high school boy only interested in girls. However, he has been branded as the most perverted boy at school, and the girls go out of their way to avoid him. When he finds a book in the library about how to summon witches, he tries it as a joke; unexpectedly, though, the book works, and a cute witch named Rurumo appears to grant him a wish. Shibaki helps Rurumo and she in return refuses to take his soul. After some time, he thinks about his meeting with Rurumo, and wishes he could see her again. His wish is granted immediately, as Rurumo falls from the sky and crash-lands in front of him, tasked with getting him to use up 666 magic tickets that grant wishes before she can become a witch again. However, according to Rurumo's familiar, what she does not know is that each ticket he uses will shorten his life span, and, when the last ticket is used, he will die.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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I've Had Enough of Being a Magical Girl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Yuzuka Hanami is a young, carefree girl who lives the most ordinary life imaginable. Although her father works around the clock and her mother is rarely home, she still enjoys herself and strives to be an excellent student. Miton, on the other hand, is an alien life-form with the ability to transform his master into a magical girl, a warrior who fights evil wherever it may appear. However, there are not as many enemies as there used to be, so Miton has been out of work for a while. Starving and homeless, he has taken up residence in a pile of garbage. As Yuzuka walks past him one day, Miton seizes the opportunity to offer his services to the young girl. Yuzuka reluctantly agrees, but when she transforms into a magical girl and discovers that her outfit is a swimsuit, she begins to have second thoughts about what she has gotten herself into!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch (2003)
Plot Summary:
As one of the seven mermaid princesses, Lucia must travel to the human world to protect the mermaid kingdoms.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, light, enigmatic, captivating, mahou shoujo