So far, many animations have depicted powerful magical battles and hot magic close to everyday life.

The settings and the way they're drawn vary greatly depending on the work, and each work has a freshness and new discoveries. Not to mention that the magic differs, such as whether it's used only in battle or exists in everyday life as usual, which is also appealing.

There are many other magical animes, so pay attention to their settings and features. This time, we'll present 30 magical animes in a ranking format!

30: Black Clover

The original is a comic of the same name by Yuki Tabata, produced by Studio Pero. The exclusive development of Shonen Manga is a compelling work. The story is set in a world where magic is common.

The main character, Asta, born without magical power in a world where magical power is everything, became a story focused on the Magic Emperor, the pinnacle of magic. The highlight of this work is that various spells appear one after the other.

Each character possesses a magical attribute, from standard ones like fire, water, wind, and lightning to things found nowhere else, like thread, space, recombination, and paint. Characters with their own magic have rich personalities and distinct battle styles. Such compelling work.

29th place: Makai Prince

In 29th place is "Makai Prince," a fantasy work with many male characters based on the original comic strip, based on a combination of the Takadono circle and Yukihiro Utako. England in the late 19th century. William Twining, the son of a prestigious aristocrat, was brilliant and the centerpiece of public school themes. However, one day, his uncle lost his property due to business failure, and he was in danger of dropping out of school.

Looking for a way to make money, William, in trouble, found a magic circle in the mansion's basement, where he summoned the demon Dantalion Huber. William, whom Dantalion told he had the right to choose the next King of the Demon World, was forced to choose himself to pay the tuition. This work is a school fantasy with many elements of comedy and magical battle.

28th place: The Testament of Sister New Devil

Basara Toujo is a high school student whose father asks him a strange question one day: "Didn't you say you wanted a younger sister?" He then announces that he's getting remarried and that Basara now has two half-sisters. After this big revelation, his father embarks on a long trip.

However, his new sisters, Mio and Maria Naruse, are not what they seem, as they are actually a demon and a succubus. Basara ends up entering into a dangerous contract where he becomes their servant, but through a mistake, ends up becoming their teacher. The boy's life begins to be filled with situations with erotic consequences. Furthermore, "poor" Mio is targeted by other monsters and heroes, so her new brother must protect her.

27th place: Project of raising magic girls

A popular game known as the Magic Girls Breeding Project offers players a one-in-10,000 chance of becoming a real Magic Girl. These Magic Girls each have unique powers and are tasked with helping and protecting others.

However, at some point, the government decided that 16 Magic Girls in a city was too many, deciding to reduce the Magic Girl population by half. The rule quickly becomes distorted when the 16 girls are locked in a battle for survival against each other.

26th place: Rosary + Vampire

Tsukune Aono is a 15-year-old student who is forced into a mysterious boarding school, the Private Youkai Academy. Inside, Tsukune meets a beautiful girl with a rosary around her neck named Moka Akashiya, who is actually a vampire. Tsukune later discovers that the Private Youkai Academy is an institution that secretly teaches monsters how to live peacefully in the human world.

Now he must face the dangers of Youkai Academy with the help of Moka and his friends from the journalism club, whom he gradually meets: Kurumu Kurono, Yukari Sendou, Ruby Toujou, Mizore Shirayuki, Ginei Morioka, and Kokoa Shuzen. The story emphasizes the feelings of love, friendship, and mutual protection that develop between the characters.

The story focused on keeping Tsukune's secret, which was his true form, a human, since no humans are welcome at the Youkai Academy. However, this changes when this is discovered by the Public Safety Commission, risking his life to save Inner Moka (Inner Moka), where he dies, but by injecting his blood he is saved.

Everything changes with Tsukune's transformation into a ghoul due to Moka's multiple blood injections to save him and Pariah Ayashi's threat to kill him. Added to this is the arrival and subsequent battle with the Antithesis group, which seeks to unite the monster world with the human world, causing total chaos. The battle with the Antithesis leader, Hokuto, and the subsequent disaster caused by Lilith's Mirror,

The story continues with the sequel called Rosary + Vampire: Season II , which focuses more on Moka's family and the explanation of her dark and forgotten past. It's worth noting the addition of Kokoa, Moka's younger sister. Furthermore, Aono Tsukune's true power and the secret behind Moka's blood will be revealed.

25th place: Chivalry of a Failed Knight

In a world where superpowered humans known as Blazers can materialize a Device, weapons made from people's souls. Ikki Kurogane, nicknamed The worst encounters a half-naked girl, Stella Vermilion, while changing in his room.

This encounter changes Ikki's life as he strives to overcome the Seven Star Sword Art Festival, an annual event held by the seven wizarding academies of Japan to determine the strongest apprentice.

24th: Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches

Ryū Yamada is a second-year student at Suzaku High School. Ryū is a problem student with a somewhat apathetic personality. He's always late for school, takes frequent naps in class, and generally gets the worst grades. His life is what others would consider a dead end. Meanwhile, the ugly Shiraishi Urara is the exact opposite.

She is the brightest student at Suzaku High School, serious, kind, and intelligent. One day, after an unprecedented incident, their bodies are switched, Ryū ends up in Urara's body and vice versa. From this incident onward, both will begin a new high school life full of adventures and miraculous events. During the body-swap incident, they will meet new friends,

23rd place: Grimoire of Zero

It is the year 526 of the liturgical calendar. Witches are famous throughout the country, although knowledge of the existence of magic remains elusive.

A half-man, half-beast mercenary, a class despised by the people, dreams day and night of becoming human. His fateful encounter with a witch named Zero turns his dreams into reality.

She offers to transform him into a human if he accompanies her as her guard in her search for a magical tome, which holds powerful knowledge that could wreak havoc in the wrong hands. The two begin their journey with this agreement that binds them, with the mercenary serving as Zero's protector despite despising those of his own kind.

22nd place: Trinity seven

Arata Kasuga lived a normal childhood with his best friend and supposed cousin, Hijiri Kasuga, in a small town. However, everything changed one day when the sun went dark and a magician appeared before him.

And the black sun caused a "Collapse Phenomenon" that destroyed the town he lives in and all its inhabitants. Because of this, his normal life is rebuilt by a grimoire that Hijiri Kasuga gave him before disappearing. By the "Collapse Phenomenon."

At first, everything seems normal, but he begins to suspect everything when he realizes that, although his life seems normal, the sun still appears black. At that moment, a magician appears before him, and realizing that everything was fake, the destroyed city appears again. This makes him decide to become a magician to rescue his cousin Hijiri Kasuga.

21st place: Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor

Glenn Radars suddenly becomes a substitute teacher in the class where Sistine Fibel, an aristocratic magic user, and her best friend Rumia Tingel are studying. His lack of motivation and incompetence in class prompt Sistine to challenge him to a duel, which he loses miserably.

However, after being persuaded by Rumia, he became motivated to teach, demonstrating a great talent for magic. Later, when a group of mercenaries invaded the academy and threatened his students, Glenn demonstrated his great talent for battle, saving his students and defeating the invaders. Since then, the professor has protected his students, confronting his dark past.

20th place: The Ancient Magus' Bride

Chise Hatori is a 15-year-old girl whose life has been plagued by rejection and desolation. She lost her family and friends due to her ability to see supernatural beings. This leads to her being recruited and becoming an orphan. One day, a sorcerer named Elias Ainsworth buys her and takes her as his apprentice, promising to make her his wife.

19th place: Witchcraft Works

Takamiya Honoka is a normal high school student whose life flows smoothly, without anything special happening to him. His only problems arise from being in the same class as Kagari Ayaka, a girl so popular at school that she's nicknamed "princess" and even has a fan club that worships her.

Besides being in the same class, he rides the same bus, sits at the same desk, and has the same extracurricular activity schedules. Although the two boys never interact, Ayaka's large number of fans, who are constantly around her, treat Honoka almost as if he were a nuisance, even going so far as to beat him if he dares to "bother" her.

In reality, Ayaka is actually a witch, tasked with protecting Honoka, who appears to be the unwitting possessor of a power that tempts many other witches, who would like to embrace it even at the cost of killing him. In reality, a war rages around the boy between the so-called Workshop Witches, tasked with defending the Earth, and the Tower Witches, who instead use magic for their own cruel purposes and hide among ordinary humans.

Almost every person Honoka was previously convinced he knew is in turn a witch, starting with his younger sister Kasumi (tasked with defending him when Ayaka can't take care of him) to the entire student body.

Honoka then asks Ayaka to teach him the magical arts, so that he can help her and, perhaps one day, be the one to protect her.

18th place: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Satoru Mikami, protecting a coworker from a thief, is stabbed to death and wakes up in a cave in a fantasy world, reincarnated as a slime with unique abilities. The slime is named Limur Storm of a dragon trapped in the cave. The story that follows tells the adventures, evolution, and rise of Limur.

17th place: Cardcaptor Sakura

The anime follows the adventures of Sakura Kinomoto, a ten-year-old girl who accidentally releases a set of cards from a book she discovered in her father's library. Afterward, Kero—the book's guardian—appears and, upon learning that most of the cards, known as "Clow Cards," have been scattered far and wide, tells Sakura that it is now her responsibility to become a "Clow Card." card catcher »And go look for them to prevent a «catastrophe» from occurring in the world.

Thus, Sakura acquires special abilities to confront the magical powers of each card, capturing and sealing them. Kero becomes Sakura's guide and mentor during her quest, while her best friend, Tomoyo Daidōji, makes a wide variety of costumes, as she says "she must wear special clothes for a special occasion." Tomoyo also often records Sakura's battles.

As the story progresses, new characters appear, such as Sakura's rival, Shaoran Li, a boy from Hong Kong and descendant of the magician Clow Reed—the creator of the cards, hence their name. However, he manages to establish a friendship with her that gradually blossoms into love.

It is also discovered that Yukito Tsukishiro, Tōya's best friend—Sakura's older brother—is the other guardian of the cards, whose true appearance is that of a white angel-like being and whose real name is Yue. Furthermore, Yue is the one who judges who will be the next master of the Clow Cards, and in this case, it was Sakura who became his new lover and guardian.

16th place: Gate

When a portal from another world appears in Ginza , Tokyo , a legion of soldiers and monsters appears to attack the city. But thanks to their far more advanced weapons and tactics, the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSF) easily repel the enemy and pass through the Portal to establish a forward base of operations and force the otherworldly Roman Empire to open peace negotiations. Yōji Itami is a JSF soldier sent by an agent to investigate the otherworld, where magic, dragons, and elves are real. He uses his knowledge of fantasy stories to navigate this new environment.

15th place: Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic

The story revolves around Aladdin, a mysterious child who carries a flute, with which he can summon a giant djinn named Ugo. Aladdin travels trying to discover who he really is and understand the world he lives in. One day, he meets a young merchant named Alibaba who dreams of conquering a dungeon. Soon after, he meets a slave girl named Morgiana, and they join him on the adventure.

Throughout the story, Aladdin discovers he is a "magus," a kind of magician capable of gathering the rukh around him for his own use. He also discovers he is not the only magician, as there are three others, including Judar, an evil wizard who controls the black rukh and works for the same organization, Al Thamen. With the help of Sinbad, the king of Sindria, Aladdin and the others will fight the evil organization and try to uncover its hidden motives.

14th place: FAIRY TAIL

Lucy Heartfilia, a traveling Mage, meets Natsu Dragneel, a Mage searching for his adoptive father, a dragon named Igneel, along with his best friend, Happy, a blue, talking, flying cat. Shortly after their encounter, Lucy is kidnapped by Bora of Prominence, posing as Salamander of Fairy Tail, to be sold into slavery.

Natsu rescues her and reveals that he is the true Salamander of Fairy Tail and possesses the abilities of a Dragon Slayer, a form of Lost Magic. He offers her membership in the guild, which she gladly accepts. They, along with the Mage Erza Scarlet, the Ice-Make Mage Gray Fullbuster, and Happy, become a team, undertaking various missions offered to the Fairy Tail Guild.

13th place: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

The story follows Bell Cranel, a 14-year-old lone adventurer who serves the Goddess. Hestia As the only member of the Hestia Familia, Bell works hard every day in the Dungeon to strive to improve.

He admires Aiz Wallenstein, a famous and powerful swordswoman who once saved his life, making him fall in love with her. Little did Bell realize that many other girls, deities and mortals alike, have also developed feelings for him—most notably Hestia herself—as he gains allies and improves with each new challenge he faces.

12th: High School DxD

Issei Hyōdō is a second-year student at Kuō Academy with a deep perversion and lewd behavior. He leads a quiet life until he's called on a date with a girl named Yūma Amano. When it starts to get dark, the girl takes him to a secluded place where he reveals his true form. She is a fallen angel and plans to assassinate him. Since no one can save him, Issei dies.

Upon waking, he discovers that he has been reincarnated as a demon, and since that day he has worked as a servant for Rias Gremory, a high-level demon girl who turns out to be the most beautiful and popular girl in the institute.

11th: Strike the Blood

On an island south of Japan lies the Demon Shrine, known as Itogami Island. There, rumors swirl about the existence of the world's strongest vampire, the Fourth Progenitor, who controls the twelve kenjuu of calamity. Considered a threat to the world, the Lion King Organization sends Yukina Himeragi, an attack sorceress and apprentice "Sword Shaman," to observe and eliminate Kojou Akatsuki, a young high school student designated as the Fourth Progenitor.

10th: Overlord

In the year 2126, it was decided to discontinue the DMMORPG Yggdrasil, a game that had been the most popular for the past twelve years but had fallen into disuse over time. On the day the game's servers were to be shut down, Momonga, leader of the guild Ainz Ooal Gown, once composed of 41 members and considered one of the strongest guilds in the game, decided to remain inactive until the game was shut down. Farewell to that special place for him.

After the server closure, Momonga discovers that amazing and mysterious things have happened. He is still in the Great Tomb of Nazarick, the base and home of the Ainz Ooal Gown guild. He has also truly become his character, with all the powers and abilities that entails. The NPCs who serve him are now sentient beings and Great Ones. The tomb is no longer in the swamps of Yggdrasil, but has been transported to a fantasy world where magical and mystical creatures exist.

Momonga decides that if he wants to exist in that world, he must aspire to greatness and discover if any other player has been dragged there like he was. So he changes his name to Ainz Ooal Gown and resolves to become someone so famous and feared that he is known throughout this world. This way, not only will he achieve glory, but any other lost player will know that someone from such a powerful guild exists.

Now, like Ainz Ooal Gown, the protagonist begins traveling the world disguised as an adventurer, sorcerer, mercenary, savior, or conqueror, leveraging the experience and skills he's gained in the game. He forges a place in the history of that world.

9th place: The Irregular at Magic High School

"Magic" isn't the stuff of legends or fairy tales. It's been a real technology for almost a century. Education in several countries around the world is focused on the career of "Wizards." Shiba Tatsuya is an honor student without magical power at a high school, a magical school along with his younger sister, who is the best among the freshmen. What will happen to Shiba? How will he navigate his school life as one of the many "reserves" who are looked down upon by the "Blooms"?

8th place: The Familiar of Zero

In a world where magic exists, there is a certain social inequality between the nobility and the commoners, as the former are people who can use magic, not the commoners, who are seen as inferior. In the kingdom of Tristain, the nobility attends the Magic Academy in their adolescence, where they learn to control and improve their power.

but Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière, also called by her colleagues at the magic academy Luisa, the Zero (Zero not LouisZero on Ruizu ), is unable to perform any spell without explosion despite coming from a noble family of recognized lineage.

At the academy there is a ritual by which each person summons their Family (creature that will accompany the magician and be at his service for the rest of his life) and Louise summons Saito, a human from Earth (Japanese), causing a great uproar as no one had ever been seen summoning a commoner as a family member, which surprises everyone as Saito acquires the ability to use any weapon with absolute mastery simply by touching them.

At the beginning of the series, they are indifferent to each other, as Louise is disappointed to bring a relative who doesn't meet her expectations and treats him like a simple slave without any rights, while Saito is confused, as he still doesn't accept the new reality he lives in, and for him, the social classes and social impositions of this world make no sense. But gradually, their feelings reveal themselves, as do their abilities and the true enemy of the kingdom they live in. Louise and Saito end up falling in love and must confess their feelings before the war reaches them.

7th place: The Legend of the Legendary Heroes

Ryner Lute is a lazy student at the Royal Roland Special Military Academy. One day, the Roland Empire goes to war with the neighboring country of Stabul, where Ryner sees his comrades die and ends up in prison.

There, he writes a report titled "How to Build a Kingdom of Naps" to transform the world into "a place where you can take naps and live without hurting anyone", in which he explains that it is possible to achieve this using the mythical Relics of Legendary Heroes, and despite having written it in the absence of anything else to do, the report manages to impress Sion Astal, the young king of Roland and his friend from his military academy days.

Sion sends Ryner to search for these relics across several kingdoms in the (obligatory) company of the chariot named "Bishōjo" Ferris Eris, daughter of a clan of swordsmen who protect the king from generations ago, who is also forced to follow her brother's orders. Along the way, Ryner discovers that not everything is as it seems, nor are the people around him who they claim to be, while differing political disputes and ideals threaten to erupt into war on the continent.

6th place: Blast of Tempest

The story revolves around Yoshino Takigawa and his friend Mahiro Fuwa, a teenager whose sister was mysteriously murdered a year ago. Mahiro disappears after deciding to investigate his sister's murder. Yoshino is cornered by a woman named Evangeline, who is investigating the whereabouts of his friend Mahiro. An epidemic has broken out in the places where Mahiro has been seen. However, Mahiro appears to help his friend and explains the situation.

Mahiro has been contacted by Kusaribe Hakase, a wizard who is on a deserted island and cannot leave because he has opposed his clan's wishes. Hakase and Mahiro strike a deal in which Hakase will help Mahiro find those responsible for his sister's tragedy. Mahiro, with Yoshino's help, will stop the Kusaribe clan.

In history, certain aspects can be seen regarding the works of William Shakespeare since some phrases from these works will be quoted and some characters will be identified with characters from the same author.

5th place: A Certain Magical Index

The story takes place in Academy City, a technologically advanced city located west of Tokyo Specializing in the development of psychic powers, but also set in a world where magic is real. Touma Kamijou is a high school student who wields a mysterious power in his right hand called Dream destroyer , who can negate any supernatural phenomenon, whether psychic or magical, which also nullifies his own luck. One day he finds a girl named Index hanging from his balcony. She is a nun who has in mind List of prohibited books, which is a collection of 103,000 magical books. When the paths of science and magic cross, this story begins.

4th place: The Devil Is a Part-Timer!

The story begins in a world of magic plunged into war.

In the ocean of Ignora lies a vast landmass surrounded by four islands to the south, north, east, and west, in the shape of a cross. In the center and blessed with divine grace is the largest island, known as Ente Isla. In that place, only one name causes great fear: that of the lord of Ente Isla, Demon King Satan, the incarnation of terror and cruelty, lord of the underworld, sovereign of all the evil creatures of that place, and whose sole purpose is to conquer the world and plunge it into a new age of darkness for his subjects. Therefore, he decides to declare war on humanity.

Satan is not alone, at his side he has four battle generals, the strongest demons in his kingdom; Adeamelesh, Lucifer, Alsiel and Malacoda,

However, one hero rose up in arms above the rest of the human army, with the aim of saving humanity from total destruction, managing with his entourage to destroy one by one, three of King Satan's four generals, starting with Lucifer in the west, Adrammelech in the north and Malacoda in the south,

After this unexpected blow to the Demon King, the hero gathered the surviving troops of the human army from the four islands and entered the land of the Demon King Satan, directing the battle at the gates of his fortress, thus managing to considerably decimate a large part of his army. Cornered in the battle by the hero and his entourage, the Demon King Satan, recognizing his defeat, decides to retire along with Alsiel, his last living general.

Upon waking up in this world, the demon king realizes that he is now human and has almost no magic, forcing him to face a life of daily challenges like all other humans in this new world, adapting to a humble life in which he will have to work to survive and thus pay the expenses that a metropolis like Tokyo demands, while trying to discover how to recharge his magical forces in a world where magic is just a myth, to return to his world and conquer it definitively.

Throughout his life here, he begins to become too accustomed to contemporary human life, enjoying working, walking, and resting peacefully, completely changing his personality, now becoming a kind, cheerful, and caring human being, far from his original personality, which is everything. On the contrary, which causes little or nothing to return to his original world.

However, one day without warning he comes across a beautiful young woman who will come to take away his peace of mind, she is the heroine who defeated him in his old world, reminding him that his passage through this new world is transitory and that his true objective is to return to his previous world.

3rd place: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

In the fictional city of Mitakihara, Japan, high school student Madoka Kaname and her friend, Sayaka Miki, encounter a strange magical creature called Kyūbey. This offers them the chance to make a contract with him, granting them their greatest wish, whatever it may be.

in exchange for supernatural powers, which they will use to transform into villages of wizards (magical girls) and fight the diabolical beings known as witches. Born of curses and invisible to the human eye, these witches are highly dangerous and responsible for much of the disasters, suicides, and crimes in modern society.

Meanwhile, a mysterious exchange student and fellow Puella Mage named Homura Akemi tries at all costs to prevent Madoka from fulfilling her contract with Kyūbey, attempting to kill him several times. Madoka and Sayaka later meet Mami Tomoe, a high school classmate from the same school who is also a Puella Magi, and who offers to accompany them on their witch hunt so they can understand the full scope of the task and decide accordingly.

As Madoka considers whether or not to accept the contract, a series of devastating events unfolds around her, joined by another magician: the veteran rebel Kyoko Sakura. Confusion, fear, the painful double-edged sword of desire, and even despair and death pave the way for a puella magi, revolving around the concept of "entropy" and the laws governing the universe.

2nd place: Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World

Subaru Natsuki is an ordinary high school student lost in an alternate world, where a beautiful, silver-haired girl rescues him. To return the favor, he decides to stay with her, but the fate she carries is far heavier than Subaru could have imagined.

The enemies attack relentlessly, one after another, until he and the girl finally die. It's then that Subaru discovers he has the power to rewind time and return to the beginning of the story, to the point where he arrived in the unknown world. The problem is, he's the only one who remembers what happened.

1st place: KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!

In KonosubaKazuma Satō is a hikikomori living in rural Japan. One day, determined to buy a video game as soon as possible, he leaves home and returns to see a girl about to be hit by a truck. He does the unthinkable for her, saving her and dying heroically.

Or so he believed, since he wasn't actually hit by a car and died of fright, thinking he'd been hit by a truck. It wasn't even a truck, just a slow-moving tractor passing by, greeting the young woman who didn't need help, and only he had violently pushed her away. His death was so pathetic that even the doctors who examined him mocked him, his family too, and everyone who knew about his death laughed. Magically, he awakens in an incredible, unfamiliar room, where he meets a beautiful goddess named Aqua, who offers him a gift after mocking his ridiculous death.

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