Magimoji Rurumo - Recommendations

• Other

In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with the gift for magic. She's resigned to her un-magical life, until a traveling magician passes through her village, and Coco learns what what everybody "knows" might not be the truth.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2023

Follows apprentice witch Fuuka on her adventures in magic and love.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1989

Kiki is a young witch who has just turned thirteen, and as tradition dictates she must now leave the safety of her home for a year to undergo witch training. One clear night, Kiki takes off with her cat Jiji and her mother's broomstick to start her new life, and finds herself in a town near the ocean - but she's disappointed to find that people aren't nearly as friendly as she'd imagined they'd be. With nowhere to stay and no outstanding magical skills besides flying, Kiki begins to wonder if she's come to the right place; but after returning a pacifier to a customer of a local shop, its owner, Osono, offers her a place to stay. Kiki soon decides that she'll start her own delivery service, and with the help of newfound friends she sets forth on a journey to discover who she is and how to make it on her own.

• TV (51 eps)
• 1999 - 2000

Pink-haired, sassy Doremi would love nothing more than to be a witch; and one day, after accidentally ousting a real witch at the House of Magic (and consequently turning the witch into a green blob in the process), Doremi's wish finally came true. Furious, the witch decreed that Doremi become a witch’s apprentice so that she may someday turn her back to normal, and from then on the fun began. Alongside her friends – also witch's apprentices - Hazuki, Aiko, and Onpu, Doremi will help run the newly-dubbed shop "Maho-dou," study hard for her magical exams, and work hard towards becoming a full-fledged witch!

• TV (12 eps)
• 2016

Makoto Kowata is a 15 year-old witch-in-training who moves out of her parents' home in Yokohama to live with relatives in rural Aomori. She has a lot to learn about magic and living in the countryside, and she's enthusiastic to begin these new adventures. Balancing her days with both the otherworldly and the mundane, Makoto practices casting magic spells one day and growing her own vegetables the next. With her feline familiar Chito, her nomadic sister Akane, and her cousins, Kei and Chinatsu, Makoto makes the most out of each day- whether she's making enchanted snacks, accidentally summoning a giant flock of crows or exploring ancient ruins on the back of a flying whale!

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2015

• TV (12 eps)
• 2020

Ever since he was a boy, Makoto Shiranui dreamed of being a magician just like the famous illusionist, Mamoru Hoshisato, his hero. But after traveling to Tokyo to train under Mamoru, he’s mugged by a mysterious and beautiful female thief! To add insult to injury, his once close childhood friend, Hatena, has no time for him anymore. This is no way to start off his new apprenticeship.

• TV (45 eps)
• 1978 - 1979

On Tiko's 11th birthday, her father gives her a special book. Inside the book is a trapped witch, Majokko Tickle. When Tiko frees Tickle from the book, she uses her magic to pass off as Tiko's twin sister.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2017

There’s a special shop in the town of Meirochou. In this shop, girls from all over the country arrive to learn the art of fortune telling. Their dream: to become the top fortune teller, the Urara. One day, fifteen-year-old Chiya enters the town, and, unlike the others, she comes to town with another purpose besides becoming the Urara. Together with her fellow apprentices, Chiya, and the girls find themselves treading into a future none of them could have foreseen!

• TV (170 eps)
• 1992 - 1993

Yadamon is a young and novice witch who flies by turning her hair into butterfly wings, rides a magical vacuum and has a talking manatee for a mentor. After being kicked out of her home in the forest by none other than her mother, the Queen, she now lives with the handsome Jean and his parents Maria and Eddie, as well as the mystical Taimon – a creature who can stop time itself! With a variety of technological wonders, fun misadventures and random enemies to handle, Yadamon must try her best to master her witch-like abilities like the "good" daughter she is!