For all you fans of magic-based Anime like Sailor Moon, we have some equally exciting and entertaining options lined-up for you below. You will particularly enjoy these few titles, if you love watching shows that revolve a romance between any two characters. Most of these picks also center on the extensive use of magic in order to help others or fight evil, so we can assure that you will have loads of fun whenever you decide to watch the following.
1. Shugo Chara:
The first option on our list of Anime similar to Sailor Moon is Shugo Chara or My Guardian Characters. This pick features a girl’s personnel quest to find out who she really is. After portraying an extrovert fun-loving personality to her peers, Amu finds it very difficult to show her true identity which is actually a calm and quiet one. Now to help her find her true self, Amu gets the help of three fairies’ that pop out of three differently colored eggs.
Each fairy represents a certain personality that Amu can magically transform into depending on the situation at hand. The drama gets even more intense when Amu’s life get involved with the Easter Company to hunt down and purify various corrupted X Egg’s that have bad X characters with the capacity to damage people’s characters.
2. Wedding Peach:
This pick is fabulous story depicting the constant war between angels and demons. In Wedding Peach the Angel’s are tasked with the duty of protecting the love in the world but the Devil’s are ready to do all they can to destroy these love wave’s.
The main character in this one is Momoko Hanasaki who discovers that she has a special ring that enables her to transform into a love angel to fight against the devils. So with her new-found powers, Momoko and her friends will attempt to protect all the love in the world from the dark devils who want to wipe it out completely.
3. Tokyo Mew Mew:
Tokyo Mew Mew is mostly a sci-fi themed title which contains a lot of fights between alien invaders. The main character of this story is again a young girl by name of Ichigo, who one day gets infused with the genes of a rare and powerful species of cat called Mew.
She then joins forces with four other girls who have these animal gene enhanced powers and the five of them form the Mew Society. They soon learn they have to battle against some alien leaders and their monstrous creatures and save earth form repeated alien attacks.
4. Ask Dr. Rin:
The next title on our roster of Sailor Moon alternatives is Ask Dr. Rin which features a young girl by name of Meirin, endowed with the powers of feng-shui. She uses these powers to help people solve the problems of their daily life and does so through her online alias known as Dr. Rin.
Her advice always succeeds in solving the dilemmas of her patients and she gains much fame and reputation, much to the annoyance of her father. However, there is a lot of romantic drama that unfolds out here, when her one true love Asuka, refuses to believe in her powers due to his own realistic views.
5. Magic Knights Rayearth:
Magic Knights Rayearth has more of a fantasy type of theme to it. At the beginning of these series you are shown three different girls with totally different backgrounds and personality traits. On a school trip to the Tokyo Tower, they find themselves suddenly getting drawn into another world called Cephiro.
Unaware of where they are, they are met by a wizard who entrusts them with a mission of finding a kidnapped Princess and only after completing this task, they will be able to return to their homes in Tokyo. The episodes out here are filled with fantastic clashes with various powerful enemies that they fight with using potent magical abilities, thus giving them the title of Magic Knights.
6. Princess Tutu:
Princess Tutu is about a duck which can magically be transformed into a girl who is an expert in ballet dance. This ability was given to her by a famous tragedy author who has the power to make his stories come true. This author had written another tragedy type of story about a young prince who shattered his heart into numerous pieces to imprison an evil Raven.
So now Princess Tutu will struggle to restore the heart of her prince despite all obstacles and put a positive ending to the story which will otherwise lead to another tragic one.
7. Pretear:
Here is another title which contains some good amounts of romance along with an interesting fantasy oriented storyline. In the beginning you are given the background story of a girl named Himeno who has a lot of family issues due the entry of her stepsisters into her life, after her father remarries.
To make matters more complicated, she also finds out that she is one of the magical Pretears who are the guardians of living things in the world. So she must now the support seven Liefe Knights in their battle to fight off a dark princess and her evil minions. You will get to view many romantic instances in this one, especially when Himeno discovers she is attracted to one of the seven Liefe Knights.
8. Cardcaptor Sakura:
And the final option we can recommend on this list of games similar to Sailor Moon is Cardcaptor Sakura. During the initial few episodes of this pick, you will be able to determine that this one is about a set of magical cards with a mind of their own.
The main character, a small girl called Sakura, accidentally unleashes these cards into the world, which were sealed in a book. Now she has been instructed by the cards guardian to get back the cards before they create chaos in her hometown.
Conclusion:
The above are some of the Anime like Sailor Moon that are available for you to watch and enjoy. Most of the characters in the above mentioned titles employ the use of magic in battles and daily life. They are a suitable option for both magic and romance buffs alike.