Night Wizard
Synopsis:
All Renji Hiiragi wants to do is to go to school and life a normal life. However, because he is a wizard, he is forced by the elegant yet abusive protector of Earth, Anzelotte, into using his powers to fight against supernatural invaders called Emulators! Renji, along with his childhood friend Kureha and the serious Akari, are tasked with protecting Elis Shiho, who has been chosen to collect seven mystical jewels in order to protect the world against an imminent Emulator invasion. In the meantime, enemies act from the shadows in an effort to prevent them from succeeding. Can they strengthen themselves as a group enough to overcome the obstacles before them, so Renji can finally get back to his studies?
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Tsubasa Chronicle
- TV (26 eps)
- 2005
The power to cross over dimensions is one that is deeply coveted -- a lesson that childhood friends Sakura and Syaoran learn the hard way when an unknown enemy attacks an archaeological dig in their country. As a result, Sakura's memories are scattered to different dimensions, causing her to fall into a deep sleep. In order to save Sakura's life, she and Syaoran must journey to various worlds in search of her memories, with the help of fellow travelers, Fai and Kurogane. But finding Sakura's memories won't be easy, and the price for traveling through time and space is high...
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add recBoth Tsubasa Chronicle and Night Wizard follow the 'quest' format. In Night Wizard the quest is to collect the Jewels of Virtue for Elis, and in Tsubasa Chronicle the quest is to collect memory feathers for Sakura. The two series have a group of uniquely-skilled people who must travel together to different locations, solve problems, or fight battles to obtain the desired items.
Tsubasa has the stronger plot (being a CLAMP series) and a brilliant soundtrack. Night Wizard is weaker as it is a game conversion and a shorter series, but it is entertaining. Both series complement each other well.
In both of these animes, they are both on a quest to look for something. In Tsubasa, they are looking for the lost feathers (memories) of Sakura. In Night Wizard they are looking for the jewels of virtue, which they believe can unlock the gate to Rikai (if destroyed, they believe they can save the world). They are very good animes with plot twists and if you liked one you should like the other. :)
Rental Magica
The name of the business is Astral, and magic is its trade. Itsuki Iba is a school boy who seems to have a weak personality and not an ounce of magic within him, yet he inherits and must run his father's 'magic for hire' company after his father disappears. He must now learn to manage a diverse team of magic-wielders, gain their respect, and send them on missions to deal with the supernatural – all while attempting to excel in school and deal with competitors! But deep down, there's more to Itsuki. He always wears an eyepatch, hiding the results of an incident from his childhood; what other secrets does he hold? And can he handle the responsibilities while his father is missing?
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2 people think you'd like this because...
add recBoth Night Wizard and Rental Magica deal with magic. The main characters, Elis from Night Wizard and Itsuki from Rental Magica, struggle to understand their purpose and their power.
Taking the same idea of an organisation fighting against supernatural creatures, both Night Wizard and Rental Magica are incrediby easy to watch. While the situation may be different between the two series, there are definately similarities between the series that make it easy to watch one if you've seen the other.
InuYasha
Kagome is a normal high school girl who falls into a well, transporting her back in time to the feudal era. Upon her arrival to this world, she mercifully unleashes Inuyasha, a half demon. As if this isn't enough, she also discovers that she is the bearer of the Shikon no Tama, a jewel of great spiritual power, a jewel which has just shattered into a million shards. Now, along with Miroku the priest, Sango the demon hunter, and Shippou the mischievious fox-demon, they must set out to find the Shikon shards and defeat the evils of the demon Naraku.
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add recAt one point I thought that if I closed my eyes, I could exchange the characters from Night Wizard to InuYasha and it wouldn't make a difference; not because they look the same, but because they essentially have the same function. In both there's a girl who has special powers and can feel the parts of the jewel she needs to obtain, a powerful guy who protects the girl, several sidekicks, and a specific weapon for each character. Really, if you liked one, there's no reason you wouldn't like the other.
Elemental Gelade
- TV (26 eps)
- 2005
As an orphan whose life is in the hands of space pirates, Coud has had no choice but to survive on bravado alone. He has nothing to live for until he finds Ren entombed amongst the treasures in the pirate ship's hold, and awakens her. In addition to being mysterious and beautiful, Ren can transform into a battle sword to help Coud fight and prove his strength -- but with this strength comes the bitter realization that power alone is not enough. Now, in a race against time, Coud must endure betrayals and fierce battles as he struggles to return Ren to her home, before it's too late...
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1 person thinks you'd like this because...
add recSupernatural save-the-world anime. You might think that there maybe SOMETHING original well, don't be shocked cuz there's nothing, from character design up to plot. I'm starting to lose faith in japanese animation as I watch multiply anime showing almost the same in a bit diffrent form (I'm not saying that I don't have ANY fun watching it but still ...). Well, if you by any chance liked one you should be able to enojoy the other.
Zero no Tsukaima
- TV (13 eps)
- 2006
- Summer 2006
In a world where magic is a reality, the young Louise is at the bottom of her class. Dubbed "Zero" by her classmates at Tristein Academy (due to her zero success rate for magic), Louise (along with all first year students) was charged with summoning a familiar; and instead of a cute magical creature, the familiar arrived in the form of... Saito Hiraga, a normal Japanese boy who was abruptly teleported from his own world?! Can both Louise and Saito come to terms with their new and complicated "relationship" and (more importantly) help Saito find a way home?
