What is this genre all about? Magical girls (also known both in Japan and in the West as mahou shoujo, and in Japan as majokko) are young girls with superhuman abilities of magical nature. In the early years, magical girls usually used magic to solve everyday problems and often transformed into idols; nowadays, however, the term is most often used to refer to with girls who fight evil using magical powers, and, although transformations are still common, they tend to be more along the lines of a change of costume.
We present you the list of Magical Girl anime you should watch right now.
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Top 20 Magical Girl anime you should watch right now. [2026 List]
- 20. Kabushiki Gaisha Magi Lumiere 2nd Season
- 19. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance
- 18. Meitantei Precure!
- 17. Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica
- 16. Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
- 15. THE RIBBON HERO
- 14. Shoujo Kakumei Utena
- 13. Cardcaptor Sakura
- 12. Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete
- 11. Go! Princess Precure
- 10. Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R
- 9. Magic Knight Rayearth
- 8. Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?
- 7. Kabushiki Gaisha Magi Lumiere
- 6. Katsute Mahou Shoujo to Aku wa Tekitai Shite Ita.
- 5. Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica: Walpurgis no Kaiten
- 4. Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru
- 3. Haiyore! Nyaruko-san
- 2. Kimi to Idol Precure♪
- 1. Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden (TV) 2nd Season
20. Kabushiki Gaisha Magi Lumiere 2nd Season
The second season of Kabushiki Gaisha Magi Lumiere.
Magical Girls - they're strong, cool, and agile. Everyone wants to be one. Popular and high-paying, it's a respectable line of work. Kana Sakuragi, Hitomi Koshigaya, and the members of Magilumiere work to promote the Alice System, which allows Magical Girls to order the magic they need to battle. But behind the scenes, factions seeking to ease magic regulations and make a profit are moving...
Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. Season 2 is currently airing and will have 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: 株式会社マジルミエ 第2期, Kabushiki Gaisha Magi Lumiere 2nd Season
19. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance
Thirty years ago, the world was nearly destroyed by the sudden appearance of unknown "invasive alien species."
Humans and these “invasive species” continue to vie for living space, and while humanity’s safety is currently barely secured, the world could be destroyed at any moment. Living in fear of death and destruction, people go about their daily lives as if trying to avert their eyes from danger and disaster.
In this world, the United Nations Hazardous Species Investigation Agency, "EXCEEDS," has begun operations to ward off crises and disasters caused by invasive species.
The story begins on the island nation of "Mizuho" in the Far East. Shina Hisase is a young invasive species extermination hunter living on a remote island. What incident will befall Shina, who wishes only to live quietly with her younger sister Setsuna, her sole remaining family member?
Note: The first episode aired with a runtime of ~48 minutes as opposed to the standard 24 minute long episode.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance is currently airing and will have 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: 魔法少女リリカルなのは EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance
18. Meitantei Precure!
The 23rd installment of the long-running Precure series.
Anna Akechi is a second-year junior high student living in Makoto Mirai Town. On her 14th birthday, she has a chance encounter with a fairy named Pochitan, and a magical pendant caused her to travel back in time from 2027 to 1999! In the Makoto Mirai Town 28 years in the past, Anna meets Mikuru Kobayashi, a girl her age who wants to become a great detective.
Meanwhile, people in town are in trouble as their prized possessions are being stolen from under their noses - the cause being a group of Phantom Thieves. To stop them, Anna and Mikuru turn into Pretty Cures! Maybe if they solve these mysteries, Anna can find her way back to her own time?
Meitantei Precure! is currently airing and will have 51 Episodes. It is also Known as: 名探偵プリキュア！, Star Detective Precure!, TanPre (たんプリ)
17. Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica
Madoka Kaname and Sayaka Miki are regular middle school girls with regular lives, but all that changes when they encounter Kyuubey, a cat-like magical familiar, and Homura Akemi, the new transfer student.
Kyuubey offers them a proposition: he will grant one of their wishes and in exchange, they will each become a magical girl, gaining enough power to fulfill their dreams. However Homura, a magical girl herself, urges them not to accept the offer since everything is not what it seems.
A story of hope, despair, and friendship, Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica deals with the difficulties of being a magical girl and the price one has to pay to make a dream come true.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: 魔法少女まどか★マギカ, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika, Magical Girl Madoka Magica
16. Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
Tsukino Usagi is a 14-year-old girl in junior high. She's ditzy, whiny, and a crybaby. She often flunks her tests, and she is always scolded by her family. However after a bad day, Usagi is surprised to encounter a black cat that can talk! The cat, Luna, grants Usagi the power to transform into Sailor Moon, a fighter who is to save the world against the Dark Kingdom and its evil ruler, Queen Beryl.
Of course, Usagi can't do it alone, and there are others who will help her on the way...
Sailor Moon has finished airing and it has 46 Episodes. It is also Known as: 美少女戦士セーラームーン, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
15. THE RIBBON HERO
Princess Sapphire of the lost kingdom. Stripped of everything in her homeland, Silverland, by the calamity known as "Nergal," she arrived in Goldland at the very depths of despair. While carrying the weight of her past, she began to find a glimmer of hope through the kindness of the people. Yet, as if mocking her peaceful daily life, the calamity "Nergal" appears once more. The same despair that reduced her homeland to ashes is now threatening to steal the light from this land as well.
"No more loss for me. No more loss for anyone.”
Wiping way her fears of sorrow, the young girl takes up her sword.
This is the story of a hero who ties her ribbon and resolves to defy fate.
Note: This anime is inspired by Osamu Tezuka's manga "Princess Knight”.
THE RIBBON HERO has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: リボンへーロー, THE RIBBON HERO
14. Shoujo Kakumei Utena
"Never lose that strength or nobility, even when you grow up." When Utena was just a child and in the depths of sorrow, she found salvation in those words. They were the words of a prince, who wrapped her in his rosescented embrace and bestowed upon her both a ring and the promise that it would lead her to him again. She never forgot the encounter. In fact, she was so impressed that she aspired to be like the prince and also help those in need. Now a spirited teenager, Utena attends the prestigious Ohtori Academy. However, her strong sense of chivalry soon places her at odds with the school's student council and thrusts her into a series of mysterious and dangerous duels against its members.
Revolutionary Girl Utena has finished airing and it has 39 Episodes. It is also Known as: 少女革命ウテナ, Shoujo Kakumei Utena
13. Cardcaptor Sakura
Sakura Kinomoto is your garden-variety ten-year-old fourth grader, until one day, she stumbles upon a mysterious book containing a set of cards. Unfortunately, she has little time to divine what the cards mean because she accidentally stirs up a magical gust of wind and unintentionally scatters the cards all over the world. Suddenly awakened from the book, the Beast of the Seal, Keroberos (nicknamed Kero-chan), tells Sakura that she has released the mystical Clow Cards created by the sorcerer Clow Reed. The Cards are no ordinary playthings. Each of them possesses incredible powers, and because they like acting independently, Clow sealed all the Cards within a book. Now that the Cards are set free, they pose a grave danger upon the world, and it is up to Sakura to prevent the Cards from causing a catastrophe!
Appointing Sakura the title of "the Cardcaptor" and granting her the Sealed Key, Keroberos tasks her with finding and recapturing all the Cards. Alongside her best friend Tomoyo Daidouji, and with Kero-chan's guidance, Sakura must learn to balance her new secret duty with the everyday troubles of a young girl involving love, family, and school, all while she takes flight on her magical adventures as Sakura the Cardcaptor.
Cardcaptor Sakura has finished airing and it has 70 Episodes. It is also Known as: カードキャプターさくら, CCS, Cardcaptors, Card Captor Sakura
12. Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete
Hiragi Utena is a major fangirl of the magical girls protecting her city, so when she has the chance to become one herself, she leaps at the chance to join their technicolor ranks… but when she transforms, she learns she isn’t fated to be a daring do-gooder, but rather a villain on the side of evil! At first, she tries to quit her new gig as the leader of the local baddies, but she quickly realizes she enjoys it and is a total natural at tormenting the magical girls she loves so much. With both a bang and a whimper, Hiragi’s journey as a magical-girl-tormenting sadist has begun!
Gushing over Magical Girls has finished airing and it has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: 魔法少女にあこがれて, I Admire Magical Girls, and..., Mahoako
11. Go! Princess Precure
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who desperately wanted to become a princess just like the ones in her picture book. Other children made fun of her childish wishes, but she never stopped believing. One day, a boy who looked like a prince appeared, asking her if she would like to be a princess. He gave the girl magical charm to make her wish come true.
That little girl, Haruka Haruno, is now a thirteen-year-old attending Noble Academy, a junior high boarding school. Her school life is interrupted by two fairies, Pafu and Aroma, who give her a Princess Perfume, which mysteriously matches the charm she was given eight years ago! Turns out, Haruka is one of the Princess Precures, and must team up with Cure Mermaid and Cure Twinkle in Go! Princess Precure in order to defeat the dark witch Dyspear before she brings the the Hope Kingdom and Haruka's world to a nightmareish end!
Go! Princess Precure has finished airing and it has 50 Episodes. It is also Known as: Go! プリンセスプリキュア, Go! Princess Precure
10. Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R
The season is divided into two arcs: One arc being an anime filler (to give Takeuchi Naoko time to make the next manga), and the other arc being the actual Black Moon plot.
The first arc shows Usagi and Co. having their memories restored from the first season. Their enemies are a pair of aliens, Ail and Ann, who are seeking human energy to restore their life tree. Mamoru had yet to recover his memories and he appeared as the Moonlight Knight rather than Tuxedo Kamen. This arc only lasted for 13 episodes.
The second arc introduces Chibi-Usa, a little girl from the future who is searching for the Silver Crystal. The new enemies are the Black Moon Clan, comprising of the Ayakashi sisters (Cooan, Beruche, Karaberas, and Petz), Rubeus, Safir, Esmeraude, Prince Demando, and Wiseman. They too want the Silver Crystal so that they can take over the future. The Sailor Senshi's adventure continues...
Sailor Moon R has finished airing and it has 43 Episodes. It is also Known as: 美少女戦士セーラームーン R, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R
9. Magic Knight Rayearth
Three young girls, Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu, are transported to a magical world called Cephiro during a field trip to Tokyo Tower. They are soon greeted by Master Mage Clef, who explains to them that they have been summoned to become the Legendary Magic Knights and save Cephiro. The girls are less than enthusiastic about this idea, and only want to return home. Clef further explains that they must seek out the three Rune Gods to help them fight. He bestows armor and magical powers to each of them. They learn from Clef that High Priest Zagato has kidnapped the Pillar of Cephiro, Princess Emeraude. The Pillar of Cephiro has the sole responsibility of keeping Cephiro alive and in balance with her prayers. Without Princess Emeraude, Cephiro would fall into ruin. Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu must fight off Zagato's henchman and find the Rune Gods if they ever want to get back home. They soon learn that friendship and loyalty are the only things they can rely on in the crumbling Cephiro.
Magic Knight Rayearth has finished airing and it has 20 Episodes. It is also Known as: 魔法騎士（マジックナイト）レイアース, Mahou Kishi Rayearth
8. Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?
Not every zombie is the monstrous, brain-eating type.
One night while walking home from the convenience store, regular high school boy Ayumu Aikawa is killed by a serial killer, and is just as suddenly brought back to life by a necromancer named Eucliwood Hellscythe. One small caveat: he's now a zombie. Things get even weirder for him when he accidentally steals a magical girl's uniform, and thus her powers! Haruna, the ex-magical girl, orders him to fight evil creatures known as Megalo in her place until they can figure out a way to get her powers back to her.
It seems that life is just going to get stranger and stranger for poor Ayumu from here on out in Kore wa Zombie desu ka?.
Is This a Zombie? has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: これはゾンビですか?, Koreha Zombie Desuka?, Kore ha Zombie Desu ka?, Kore wa Zombie Desuka?
7. Kabushiki Gaisha Magi Lumiere
Magical girls: strong, cool, the ultimate dream job. College student Kana Sakuragi is job hunting - without much luck! One day, she is caught up in an attack by a "Kaii." Fiesty magical girl Hitomi Koshigaya flies to the rescue, and Kana uses her excellent memory to help her take it down. Hired as a magical girl by Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc., Kana takes her first step into the working world!
Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: 株式会社マジルミエ, Magilumiere Co. Ltd.
6. Katsute Mahou Shoujo to Aku wa Tekitai Shite Ita.
The story centers on Mira, the clever brains behind an evil organization that invades and destroys everything in its path. One day, a magical girl named Byakuya Mimori decides to stand up to the organization, and Mira falls in love with her at first sight.
The Magical Girl and The Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: かつて魔法少女と悪は敵対していた。, This is the first, and probably final, loose hostile relation.
5. Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica: Walpurgis no Kaiten
The 10th anniversary online event for the Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica anime revealed on Sunday that the franchise is getting a new anime film titled Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica: Walpurgis no Kaiten. The film will be an official sequel to the Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica: Hangyaku no Monogatari film that opened in October 2013. The tagline on the new film's visual reads, "Now, let's continue the story."
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ 〈ワルプルギスの廻天〉, Magical Girl Madoka Magica Movie 4, Puella Magi Madoka Magica Movie 4
4. Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru
In her everyday life, Yuuna Yuuki is a hero. As proof, she is in her middle school's Hero Club, where she does her best to help others and bring a smile to everyone's face.
But Yuuna, always up to any task, is about to become an even bigger hero. Mysterious destructive forces called Vertexes begin threatening the world she loves, and the Hero Club is called upon by a strange phone app to save it. Along with her best friend Mimori Tougou, as well as sisters Fuu and Itsuki Inubouzaki, they must transform into magical girls in order to battle the Vertexes.
In between studying and putting on shows for kids, Yuuna and the Hero Club must fight for the very existence of their world and face the harsh truths behind their own powers, all the while discovering what it truly means to be a hero.
Yuki Yuna is a Hero has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: 結城友奈は勇者である, Yuki Yuna wa Yusha de Aru, Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero, YuYuYu
3. Haiyore! Nyaruko-san
Mahiro Yasaka is just an ordinary high school student, until one day he is suddenly attacked by a dangerous monster. Just when everything seems to be lost, he is saved by a silver-haired girl named Nyaruko, who claims to be the shape-shifting deity Nyarlathotep from horror author H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, sent by the Space Defense Agency to Earth. She explains to Mahiro that the creature chasing him was an alien called Nightgaunt, who had planned on abducting and selling him as a slave.
After rescuing him from the alien, the Lovecraftian deity falls madly in love with Mahiro and forces herself into his household, much to his chagrin. Moreover, they are soon joined by two others from the fictional universe: Cthuko, a girl obsessed with Nyaruko, and Hasuta, a young boy easily mistaken for a beautiful female. Together, the three eccentric aliens protect Mahiro from the various extraterrestrial dangers that threaten both his and Earth's well-being, all the while making his life a living hell.
Nyaruko: Crawling With Love! has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: 這いよれ！ニャル子さん, Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos, Haiyoru! Nyaruko-san
2. Kimi to Idol Precure♪
The main character, Sakura Uta, is a second-year middle school student who loves to sing. One day, she meets the fairy Purirun that has come to search for the Legendary Protectors, Idol Precure! Purirun's hometown, KirakiLand has been plunged into total darkness by Darkine, the boss of the Chokkiri Gang. Meanwhile, the sparkles of the townspeople are being stolen by the Chokkiri Gang... it's a huge pinch!
"I want to make it sparkle sparkly! Here is my song!" - With this determination, Uta transforms into the Legendary Protector, Cure Idol! She sings, dances, and gives fan service, making it sparkle no matter how pitch-black it is!
You and Idol Precure♪ has finished airing and it has 49 Episodes. It is also Known as: キミとアイドルプリキュア♪, Kimi to Idol Precure♪
1. Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden (TV) 2nd Season
2nd Season of Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden TV series
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 has finished airing and it has 8 Episodes. It is also Known as: マギアレコード 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ外伝 (TV), Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden (TV) 2nd Season
