Washio Sumi wa Yuusha de Aru (Light Novel) - Recommendations

• DVD Special (1 ep)
• 2003

• Music Video (1 ep)
• 2012

Luminous, a song by the pop duo Claris, was used as the opening theme to Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica Movie 1: Hajimari no Monogatari and Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica Movie 2: Eien no Monogatari. The music video contains scenes from the first film.

• TV (12+ eps)
• 2024 - ?

In Animal Town, a town where animals and people live together in harmony, second-year junior high school student Iroha Inukai is best friends with her dog named Komugi. Out for a walk one day, Iroha and Komugi encounter a mysterious creature named Gargal, who goes on a rampage in the city. Komugi suddenly transforms into a Pretty Cure named Cure Wonderful, to protect Iroha.

• TV (13 eps)
• 2013

Akari has always known two things: she’s a skilled fortune teller, and she has an uncanny knack for growing huge, healthy plants. But after experiencing a traumatic tragedy the girl soon discovers the true horror of the world: there exist evil spirits known as Daemonia that infect people’s hearts and grant their hosts wishes in exchange for a contract. After the wish is fulfilled, the human is turned into a murderous monster, and only Sephiro Fiore, a group of girls who wield the powers of the Elemental Tarot, can put a stop to them. As the bearer of the Sun card, Akari must join Sephiro Fiore and help take down those possessed by Daemonia, no matter the cost.

• TV (72 eps)
• 1974 - 1975

Megu is sent to Earth in her early teens and is adopted by Mammi Kanzaki, a former witch who gave up her royal ambitions to wed a mortal. Mammi bewitches her husband and their two children, Rabi and Apo, into believing that Megu has always been the eldest child of the family. Under Mammi’s tutelage, Megu learns to control both her abilities and impulses in order to prove her worthiness for the crown. 

• TV (12 eps)
• 2013

God forsook the world on a Sunday, leaving mankind unable to stop living - even long after they've died. The sole hope left for humanity comes in the form of gravekeepers; only a burial by one of these chosen few will allow the deceased to finally rest in peace. Ai is a young girl who serves as gravekeeper for her sleepy village, taking over the job after her mother’s death five years ago. However the tranquility is shattered when Ai returns from digging graves to find that everyone in town has been slaughtered, and the culprit is a young man going by the same name as her long-lost father: Hampnie Hambart. Forced to lay to rest everyone she's ever known, Ai must now forge her own path into the unfamiliar world in search of answers.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2012

One day, a girl named Homura arrives at Mitakihara Middle School as a transfer student, mysteriously warning her classmate Madoka to stay just the way she is. But when Madoka and her best friend Miki are pulled into a twisted illusion world and meet a magical creature named Kyubey, the pair discovers that magical girls are real, and what's more, they can choose to become one. All they must do is sign a contract with Kyubey and agree to fight witches that spread despair to the human world, and in return they will be granted a single wish. However, as Homura's omen suggests, there's far more to becoming a magical girl than Madoka and Miki realize...

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2017

Part 3 of Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Washio Sumi no Shou.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2021

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2017

Part 2 of Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Washio Sumi no Shou.