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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
cute girls doing cute things
horror
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...)

{% emoji warn %} 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, 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."

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

mahou shoujo madoka☆magica
homura, mami, madoka
bishoujo senshi sailor moon
hotaru, michiru, chibi-usa
shoujo kakumei utena
utena, anthy

super super rare

card captor sakura
tomoyo, sakura
magic knight rayearth {% emoji warn %}
hououji fuu
choujigen game neptune
pururut/iris heart, compa

super rare

star twinkle precure
lala/cure milky
mahou shoujo pretty sammy
sasami

rare

little witch academia {% emoji warn %}
sucy
mahou tsukai tai!
akane
shamanic princess

normal

maji de otaku na english! ribbon-chan: eigo de tatakau mahou shoujo
garnett
mahou tenshi creamy mami {% emoji warn %}
puni puni☆poemii
corrector yui {% emoji warn %}

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

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!