Minky Momo: The Bridge Over Dreams - Recommendations

• Movie (1 ep x 100 min)
• 1984

After being abandoned on a rainy night, Chibi-neko, a little kitten who dreams of growing up to be human, is taken in by Suwano Tokio. The human world can be a confusing place for a kitten, but Chibi-neko loves being with Tokio, who takes great care of her and plays with her whenever she wants. However, an encounter with Raphael, a majestic wild cat, shakes her belief in many of the things she held dear. Where does Chibi-neko truly belong?

• TV (50 eps)
• 2009 - 2010

Rimu, Riko and Nagisa are three sisters who live with their family in Kamiha City; lighthearted and bubbly, the trio spends their days attending class and watching over the household’s pets while their mother frequently leaves on business trips. However, one day their lives change forever when Rimu and Riko make their way into the attic, finding strange devices that activate and turn into animal costumes! As if this isn’t strange enough, when the girls act like the animal of their costume, they physically turn into the creature as well! Unfortunately for Rimu, Riku and Nagisa, others have arrived in their town for nefarious purposes, and it seems to have something to do with these devices…

• TV Special (7 eps)
• 2016 - 2019

Haruka Hani is a second-year junior high school student who goes to a school called Hinomori Gakuen. A member of the school drama club, she has been working on the script for a play the club plans to put on at the upcoming school festival. She’s been having trouble finishing it, and her childhood friend Tamaki Teijou has been urging her to hurry up. All in all, she seems to be enjoying her life. From time to time, monsters called Zaiju (Beasts of Sin) appear and attack Hinomori, the town where Haruka lives. But the Heart Princesses are there to fight the monsters. Haruka looks up to these princesses who protect the people of Hinomori from the Zaiju, wishing that she too could be a princess someday. Then one day, when she is working on the script at home, a mysterious cat named Jin comes to her and says, “You seem to have the right qualities to be a princess. What do you think? Would you become a princess?”

• DVD Special (1 ep)
• 2013

• TV (8+ eps)
• 2023 - ?

The story set in two places with Precure girls: the heavenly realm Skyland and Sorashido, a city surrounded by nature. One day, Skyland's young Princess El was snatched by a monster of the Underg Empire. Sora Harewataaru, a brave girl who aspires to be a hero, follows the princess into a mysterious hole — and emerges in another world at the city of Sorashido. Sora encounters a second-year junior high school girl named Mashiro Nijigaoka and ends up living with El at Mashiro's home.

• Movie

• TV (26 eps)
• 2017

• TV (12 eps)
• 2016

Matoi Sumeragi works as a part-time shrine maiden at her friend, Yuma’s, family shrine. While Yuma is next in line to become the shrine maiden, Matoi is content to pursue a normal life. Unfortunately, “normal life” comes to a crashing halt when she and Yuma find the shrine damaged and Yuma’s parents wounded. Things only escalate as Yuma’s “Divine Possession” ritual aims for, not Yuma, but Matoi, imbuing her with the powers of a god in a fight against evil spirits.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2015

Originally a collaboration project between Japanese car manufacturer Subaru and animation studio Gainax of Evangelion fame, Wish Upon the Pleiades, known in Japan as Houkago no Pleiades, features a cast of magical girls who are helping an alien to recover fragments so that it can return home to the Pleiades.

• TV (26 eps)
• 2016

Ari is a cute 12-year old elementary school student who likes to dress up and look good. The most important thing to Ari is the Problem Solving Club. With brainy Soo-ha and athletic Min, she creates the Problem Solving Club in order to “help people in need as an after-school activity!” Then one day, Ari gets a magical power that allows transformation. By helping people in trouble she successfully collects Hopeful Energy. Meanwhile, the transmission of Hopeful Energy into the World of Magic throws a wrench into Queen Canaby’s plan to dominate the World of Magic with Hopeless Energy. Will Ari and her friends be able to use Hopeful Energy from the human world to restore the World of Magic’s Light of Happiness?