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much to many people's surprise, I am not *super duper* huge into anime; that is to say, I don't follow what's currently being released that closely, unless something just really grabs my eye.

western media has an oversaturation of heteronormative and man-centered stories, and part of what I have long loved about anime are the wealth of stories for girls, about girls, and about relationships between girls, so I tend to gravitate toward that.

that being said, the types of anime I tend to enjoy fall into the following categories:
- [magical girl](#-magical-girl)
- [cute girls doing cute things](#-cute-girls-doing-cute-things)
- [horror](#-horror)
- [everything else](#-everything-else)

growing up poor in the 90's without much access to anime (really just whatever aired on basic cable/cartoon network's toonami block), I basically watched whatever was available whenever. So, for a lot of the things I'm interested in, I've seen *part* of (sometimes even just a middle of an arc), but just never bothered/had the opportunity to finish. hopefully organizing things into this list will help change that! (we shall see...)

![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif) near a title denotes series I've seen part of but haven't finished.

as for ranking, I've chosen to use the same ranking system as one of my favorite mobile games, [love live! school idol festival](https://schoolido.lu/), which is now defunct. ultra rare is the highest ranking, and normal the lowest. I simply did not list things I didn't like, so you can think of anything I assigned a "normal" ranking to as "stuff I enjoyed, but it was kind of meh overall."

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## ![all](/img/All.png) magical girl
if for some reason, you're unfamiliar with this genre, it's about (usually teenaged or younger) girls getting some kind of magical powers and fighting evil; there's usually cute mascots, heavy themes of friendship (and sometimes yuri/shoujo ai), etc. these are very often aimed at children, but I've loved them since I myself was a child. >w< for the sake of simplicity, I've also included any series with magic as a focus and a cast of mostly girls.

### ![ultra-rare](/img/URAll.png) ultra rare
- mahou shoujo madoka☆magica  
homura, mami, madoka
- bishoujo senshi sailor moon  
hotaru, michiru, chibi-usa
- shoujo kakumei utena  
utena, anthy

### ![super-super-rare](/img/SSRAll.png) super super rare
- card captor sakura  
tomoyo, sakura
- magic knight rayearth ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)  
hououji fuu
- choujigen game neptune  
pururut/iris heart, compa

### ![super-rare](/img/SRAll.png) super rare
- star twinkle precure  
lala/cure milky
- mahou shoujo pretty sammy  
sasami

### ![rare](/img/RAll.png) rare
- little witch academia ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)  
sucy
- mahou tsukai tai!  
akane
- shamanic princess

### ![normal](/img/NAll.png) normal
- maji de otaku na english! ribbon-chan: eigo de tatakau mahou shoujo  
garnett
- mahou tenshi creamy mami ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)
- full moon wo sagashite ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)
- demashitaa! powerpuff girls Z ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)
- cutie honey ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)
- puni puni☆poemii
- corrector yui ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)

#### want to watch
- kamichama karin
- nurse witch komugi-chan
- magia record series
- sasami☆mahou shoujo club
- mahou shoujo lyrical nanoha
- kamikaze kaitou jeanne
- the other precure series
- tokyo mew mew
- machikado mazoku
- ojamajo doremi
- mewkledreamy
- mermaid melody pichi pichi pitch
- magical suite prism nana
- mahou shoujo? naria☆girls
- sugar sugar rune
- fate/kaleid liner prisma☆illya

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## ![smile](/img/Smile.png) cute girls doing cute things
this name has been applied to many slice-of-life anime with all-girl casts; usually depicting the day-to-day lives of a group of friends. good, wholesome fun, with a dose of yuri!

### ![ultra-rare](/img/URsmile.png) ultra rare
- blend S  
maika & mafuyu
- gochuumon wa usagi desu ka?  
chino, chiya, aoyama
- nichijou  
nano & hakase

### ![super-super-rare](/img/SSRSmile.png) super super rare
- kobayashi-san chi no maidragon ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)  
kamui kanna
- bocchi the rock!  
bocchi & kikuri
- lucky☆star  
miyuki & tsukasa
- yuru yuri  
himawari, chitose, chinatsu, kaede
- ARIA the ANIMATION ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)  
aria-shachou

### ![super-rare](/img/SRSmile.png) super rare
- penguin musume♥heart  
mary, sakura
- demi-chan wa kataritai  
yuki & satou-sensei
- chicchana yukitsukai sugar ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)  
pepper, sugar

### ![rare](/img/Rsmile.png) rare
- K-ON!  
azusa & tsumugi
- love live! school idol project ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)  
nico, kotori
- stella no mahou  
tamaki, ayame
- plastic nee-san  
iroe
- the idolm@ster  
ritsuko, iori, yayoi, miki
- hanamaru youchien  
koume, hiiragi
- gabriel dropout ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)  
satania
- ai mai! moe can change!

### ![normal](/img/NSmile.png) normal
- 22/7  
sakura, akane
- kill me baby ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)  
agiri, sonya
- shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)
- himouto! umaru-chan ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)
- kiniro mosaic ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)
- shinryaku! ika musume ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)
- stella jogakuin koutouka c3-bu ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)

#### want to watch
- jinrui wa suitai shimashita
- paniponi dash!
- shoujo shuumatsu ryokou
- non non biyori
- binzume yousei
- yuru camp△
- yama no susume
- di gi charat
- ichigo marshmallow
- love live! sunshine!!
- a channel
- hidamari sketch
- majo no tabitabi
- girls und panzer
- asobi asobase
- nekopara
- maou-jou de oyasumi
- tamako market
- so ra no wo to
- strike witches
- azumanga daioh
- yakunara mugcup mo
- flying witch

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## ![pure](/img/Pure.png) horror
for the sake of simplicity, I am looping horror, mystery, supernatural, and thriller together here under the catch-all genre title of "horror." anything scary, chilling, dealing with poisonous radio waves that alter people's minds, the supernatural, or psychological horror is here.

### ![ultra-rare](/img/URpure.png) ultra rare
- serial experiments lain  
lain
- higurashi no naku koro ni  
rika, hanyuu, miyo, bernkastel
- steins;gate  
feyris nyan-nyan, daru, moeka
- perfect blue  
mima
- mawaru penguindrum  
himari, sanetoshi

### ![super-super-rare](/img/SSRPure.png) super super rare
- koukaku kidoutai: STAND ALONE COMPLEX  
tachikoma, batou, major kusanagi
- shin seiki evangelion  
asuka, rei, misato
- paprika
- wonder egg priority  
frill
- kamisama no memochou  
alice, min

### ![super-rare](/img/SRpure.png) super rare
- haibane renmei ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)  
- jigoku shoujo  
enma ai, kikuri, hone onna, tsugumi
- tokyo babylon
- danganronpa: kibou no gakuen to zetsubou no koukousei  
touko, chihiro, junko, sayaka, celestia

### ![rare](/img/RPure.png) rare
- umineko no naku koro ni ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)  
bernkastel, maria, shannon
- blood-C  
saya, nene
- mahou shoujo ikusei keikaku  
sister nana, ayana/swim swim
- nekojiro-sou
- .hack//SIGN  
subaru, BT
- black★rock shooter  
dead master/takanashi yomi
- bakemonogatari ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)  
mayoi

### ![normal](/img/NPure.png) normal
- cossette no shouzou
- dantalian no shoka  
dalian
- denpa teki na kanojo  
ame
- deadman wonderland  
shiro, minatsuki
- no.6
- mamono hunter youko
- gunnm  
gally

### want to watch
- uzumaki
- mousou dairinin
- boogiepop wa warawanai
- another
- happy sugar life
- kyuuketsuhime miyu
- blood+
- mahou shoujo site
- the rest of the monogatari series
- chainsaw man
- dark gathering
- texhnolyze
- ergo proxy
- ookami kakushi
- shiki
- chaos;head
- ayashi no ceres
- pupipo!
- elfen lied
- mirai nikki
- tenshi no tamago

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## ![cool](/img/Cool.png) everything else
sometimes, things that aren't terrifying tales of cute magical girls can be interesting. ![hehe](/img/emoji/mymelolaugh.gif)

### ![ultra-rare](/img/URCool.png) ultra rare
- yokohama kaidashi kikou  
alpha
- karigurashi no arrietty  
arrietty
- sousou no frieren  
frieren, fern
- koe no katachi  
shouko, yuzuru
- tonari no totoro  
mei, makkuro-kurosuke, shou-totoro
- kidou senshi zeta gundam  
quattro bajeena, haman, roux luka
- kidou senshi gundam  
char aznable, sayla mass, lalah sune, haro

### ![super-super-rare](/img/SSRcool.png) super super rare
- sen to chihiro no kamikakushi  
chihiro, makkuro-kurosuke, kamajii, bou
- mononoke-hime  
san, moro no kimi, kodama
- howl no ugoku shiro
- suzumiya haruhi no yuuutsu  
asahina mikuru, nagato yuki
- gaikotsu shoteinin honda-san  
honda, pest mask
- sakigake!! cromartie koukou  
mechazawa, freddie
- toradora!  
yasuko/mirano, taiga
- poptepipikku/pop team epic ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)
- popotan  
mii

### ![super-rare](/img/SRCool.png) super rare
- coquelicot-zaka kara
- outlaw star  
melfina, aisha clanclan
- watashi ga motenai no wa dou kangaetemo omaera ga warui!  
tomoko, yuu
- slayers  
amelia, lina
- heppoko jikken animation excel saga  
hyatt, il palazzo, puchuu
- koutetsu tenshi kurumi  
kurumi
- midara na ao-chan wa benkyou ga dekinai  
ao-chan, hanasaki
- tokyo godfathers

### ![rare](/img/RCool.png) rare
- rozen maiden ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)
- gake no ue no ponyo  
ponyo, risa
- tenchi muyou!  
washuu, sasami, aeka
- back street girls -gokudols-  
chika
- denpa onna to seishun otoko  
erio, meme, ryuuko, yashiro
- niea under 7 ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)
- tenkuu no escaflowne  
dilandau, merle
- fushigi no kuni no miyuki-chan
- ishuzoku reviewers  
meidri, piltia, bubulala
- FLCL
- yuuri!!! on ICE  
victor, katsuki yuuri
- chuunibyou demo koi ga shitai!  
dekomori sanae, yumeha
- doubutsu no mori  
master/brewster, fuuko/celeste
- kuragehime ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)
- fruits basket  
shigure, yuki

### ![normal](/img/Ncool.png) normal
- danna ga nani wo itteiru ka wakaranai ken  
kaoru, hajime
- ro-kyu-bu ![warning](/img/emoji/warning.gif)

### want to watch
- lycoris recoil
- kyoukai no kanata
- air
- clannad
- kanon
- tsukuyomi: moon phase
- youjouhan shinwa taikei
- violet evergarden
- kotonoha no niwa
- robotics;notes
- hoshi wo ou kodomo
- chobits
- toaru kagaku no railgun
- key the metal idol
- nagato yuki-chan no shoushitsu
- pitaten
- fushigi yuugi
- mahoromatic
- mitsudomoe
- galaxy angel
- saber marionette J
- majo no takkyuubin
- acchi kocchi