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Magical Girl Anime Tier List

Ranking magical girl anime from whimsical to dark magical realism.

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The crowd's ranking

S: Sailor Moon, Puella Magi Madoka Magica

A: Cardcaptor Sakura, Princess Tutu

B: Lyrical Nanoha, Precure, Little Witch Academia

C: Kill la Kill

D: Sakura Wars

Discussion

TinyLlama2451: Tutu deserves S. It starts as a duck ballerina show and ends as one of the best written anime ever.

BigBurrito: Madoka at number 1 was obvious. Everyone's first "this isn't a kids show" magical girl moment.

FrozenSandwich7: Kill la Kill is not a magical girl show and I will die on this hill

throwaway34300: Sakura Wars is a mecha game franchise, why is it here

throwaway59341: Nanoha introducing magical girl weapons that need to be reloaded is peak

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