Best Magical Girl Anime
While magical girl anime are sometimes defined by clichés, these shows stand out as proof the genre has more to offer. Anyone who's ever watched anime long enough will encounter a random girl tasked to save the world with magical powers. At their core, magical girl anime depicts seemingly ordinary schoolgirls balancing their daily activities at school and shenanigans with friends with the impending doom of the world as they know it. However, just because the magical girl genre has a few tropes and clichés doesn't mean each show is exactly the same. Some of the best shows in the genre expand these concepts further, subvert expectations, and tell some incredibly gripping stories. Updated November 23, 2021 by Mark Sammut: Magical girls have been around for decades and they aren't disappearing anytime soon. Despite producing plenty of very popular shows, the Mahou Shoujo is still regarded as a niche genre, sort of similar to Mecha. People who have yet to enter the ex