Ojamajo Doremi - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 27
• 2000 - 2002

Unbeknown to 5th grade student Doremi Harukaze and her friends, the Witch Queen assembles a council composed of high ranking witches to request that the four human girls attain the permission to become witches. Half of the council disagrees making the Queen reformulate her proposition. She instead asks that the girls become witch apprentices once again and that in order to become full-fledged witches they should convince the council members who voted against the appeal that they are worthy. Unanimously accepted; Doremi, Hazuki, Aiko, and Onpu will have to learn how to make sweets to persuade the six senior witches. To help them familiarize with the process of making sweets, the Witch Queen introduces them to a witch apprentice named Momoko Asuka. She lived in New York for many years assisting in a bakery owned by a witch.

• Vol: 4
• 2005

Every young girl has one dream or another... Dorothy, who's just a regular middle school girl, has a drastic change in her dreams when one day she runs into Mistress Lilly, an accomplished witch who is looking for an apprentice! Dorothy promptly casts a spell on the witch's nephew (she didn't think it would work) and turns him into a werewolf. Now she must learn enough magic to take the curse off of him. She doesn't seem to have much talent for magic, though....

• Vol: 5+; Ch: 32+
• 2016 - ?

Three days dragon flight from the nearest town, deep, deep in the forest, then deeper still, lives a 'witch'. Nina the witch, also called "The world's strongest witch". Visiting her is the apprentice, Iris.This is the record of the witch and her apprentice's peaceful days, in a remote forest that breathes illusions and magic.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 12
• 1998

Miho Shinohara is a typical 9-year-old who is fascinated with showbiz and dreams of stardom. One day she meets a stranger who gives her 2 dolls, who later reveal themselves as magical dinosaurs named Pigu and Megu! They give her the special ability to draw clothing on a special drawing pad and turn it into reality, as well as transform her body into a teenager’s. One day, by chance, she is spotted by the president of a talent agency, Lyrical Productions. She lands her first job as a model, hence taking her first step into showbiz; but the road to stardom is still long and challenging. Can she, disguised as Lala, become an idol?

• Vol: 3; Ch: 20

Pretty Sammy is a light comedy taking place in an alternate Tenchiverse. Sasami, the adorable girl from Tenchi Muyo, gets the spotlight as she is turned into a "magical girl" by Tsunami, an otherworldly woman from Juraihelm. However, Sasami's best friend is also transformed into a magical girl, and consequently, her arch-rival. Hijinks ensue in this strange, but funny series.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 12
• 2014 - 2016

Subaru is a young girl who discovers that her best friend Aoi is part of magical group trying to gather engine fragments so that a little being from Pleiades star system can return to his home. Subaru considers joining them as she was chosen by the Pleiadian, president of this afterschool club.

• Vol: 4
• 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.

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 3+
• 2024 - ?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2005

Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro couldn't be more different. Nagisa is sporty and Honoka bookish, and while they attend the same school, they have very little in common - until one day, a shower of shooting stars brings two very unlikely visitors into their lives: Mippuru and Meppuru, refugees from the Garden of Light, which has been conquered by Darkness. Endowed with new and startling powers, Nagisa and Honoka become Cure Black and Cure White, magical defenders of the light --- together, they are Pretty Cure.

• Vol: 17+
• 2005 - ?

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