Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru

The same kind of spin on magical girls. Yuuki Yuuna is much more uneven when it comes to quality, but it has enough to give for someone looking for something Madoka-esque. 

Both of them are dark magical girl animes where pure and innocent girls fight to defeat powerful enemies that can cause destruction in the world. The fighting takes place in an alternate dimension which can have affects on the real world if things go awry. 

This is pretty similar in quite a lot of ways: - The way they transform - Magical Girls - Darkened core (have to see more to understand) - Light hearted in some areas Even though I have only watched one episode so far of Ikusei - this is just making me think of Yuuki Yuuna way too much. Similar in settings. Would recommend Yuuki.  

Let me make this connection. On the surface, it is tempting to recommend to a watcher of Yuuki Yuuna, a certain other magical girl anime. To me, however... I would like to skip the seemingly obvious and make the recommending connection to Neon Genesis Evangelion instead. When you boil away genre specifics, there is really a lot that YYwYdA and NGE have in common. Most obvious is the format - we have teenagers risking their lives, compelled to regularly defend a particular point in the city from attack by gigantic alien invaders. You have the Taisha and NERV serving as command & control, respectively. The means & tools are different, but the goal is the same. Yes, horrifying secrets are there for both series as well. If this format is your cup of tea, then one or the other might be up your alley. Hell, YY Karin's introduction is a dead ringer for NGE Asuka's own entrance into the story. Magical girls and mecha are to me mere flavors for what I see as really similar stories in these two titles. read more 

Both cute girls doing cute things, where nothing out of the ordinary happens, just the girls enjoying their after school activities in their respective clubs 

Both have magical girls who deal with tragedy. They face enemies but unsure exactly why. Starts out happy but deteriorates into misfortune. Not your average Magical Girl genre show. 

Both shows start off as happy-go-lucky magical girl anime full of cheerful, moe, slice of life moments. However, as both shows progress, they get much darker, and you can see how the main characters suffer as a result of using their powers. Yuki Yuna is a Hero is more of a Magical Girl Warrior show, where the main characters transform to fight enemies that threaten their world, whereas Uta Kata is more about using magical powers to accomplish various tasks. Also, Uta Kata has romance in it, while Yuki Yuna is a Hero does not. 

Both series focus around a main character who is very strong a justice and embodies a hero. Both Hibiki and Yuna also have a pretty obvious lesbian relationship Yuna and Togo with Hibiki and Miku. Yuna and Hibiki basically have the same personality so if you're watching it for the main character you'll love either series. They're both magical girl anime that focus more on serious stories but at the same time know how to have fun. 

Magic Knight Rayearth and Yuki Yuna is a Hero are two magical girl shows where the main characters gain magical powers shortly after transporting to another world. They are given these powers as part of their task to protect/save a powerful being. 

Very similar setting but with more girls... 

Stories about a cheerful high school life of specific students clubs, with special condition. There's a mysterious gods that triggers the students' struggles to fight. Yuuki Yuuna was first opened with the mission to protect their God and world, while Angel Beats! was the opposite. Both has similar atmosphere of lighthearted, comedies, mysteries, and past dramas, but there's more bitter truth waiting for them as the stories progress... Both are directed by the same director, hence if you watch them closely, they have similarities in term of direction styles and comedies. If these 12 episodes aren't enough for you, both also have light novel and visual novels to tell their and other characters' backstories. read more 

There are a lot of similarities in presentation between these two series. While YuYuYu is much darker and has more drama, both address the nature of the universe they're in, and address it in a very grand, yet simple way. They both do an excellent job of presenting situations with a contrast of silence and sound: a full sound-stage and no overuse of effects where unneeded. And they both have great soundtracks to boot! 

both share the premise of a: energetic girls who's in trouble dark / black haired girl who insists and wants to protect the energetic girl  

Anime that starts with cheerful young girls given what seems to be a typical heroine roles, but then darker consequences of the situation hits. 

_Each day you feel like tomorrow is the end of the world. _Use your life source to gain power such pain in the ass but fuck it (the world is busted anyway). _Why are we still here? Just to suffer? 

Innovative modern staples animes of their respective genders, which includes signifcant slice of life and comedy aspects to the series. SSSS.Gridman is a mecha anime that explore the intricate relationships of the main characters with their environment and their enemies. While the comedy is more subdued than in YuYuYu, it clearly dwells more into the psychedelic Neon Genesis paraphernalia. Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru is a more balanced mix of extreme drama and magical girl suffering with overt slice of life issues, which augments even more the despair of the Club girls. Both also have a red haired MC, but Yuuna is cheerful and Yuuta is skeptical; and an apparent strong but depressive black haired well endowed girl with Mimori Togo and Rikka Takarada, respectively. read more 

Release the Spyce is the non magical, spy centered version of Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru. While Spyce doesn't reach the heights of YuYuYu, it also manages to give you enjoyment with nice girls who are basically carbon copies of each other's anime. The main characters in RTS and YuYuYu are short haired pink girls who are very happy-go-lucky in normal times, but get serious when push comes to shove, Momo and Yuuna are also the ones who have more character development during the show. Their mentors and best friends of the MC are well-endowed girls who suffered the loss of functionality of one of the part of their body, Yuki's right eye and Togo's legs respectively. They also tend to be very patriotic and they're the voice of reason of their respective group. The leaders (Hatsume and Fuu) are very hot blonde girls who also are the oldest of the cast, both of them are charming, too. Last but not least, there's the twin tailed tsunderes (Fu and Karin) who are impulsive, but also very competent on battle. In both animes, the girls use an enhacer to improve greatly their physical and magical talent for a limited time. While the Spyce of RTS is only for higher physical enhacing, it's also for unlimited consumption; however the Mankai of YuYuYu has secondary effects and it's only usable for a few times overall. read more 

a. Both It had Super Power b. Both has strong friendship c. Have Many nice Quotes... Sorry bad English :D 

Both feature vibrant colours and a mixture of slice-of-life and magical girl tropes. Both utilise external threats to drive the story and set the stage but are predominately focused on the friendships and internal conflicts within the main cast. Yuuki Yuuna is a much heavier show emotionally whereas Urahara is a lot more upbeat and artsy, but both have their fair share of drama.  

Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru and K-On! are both anime featuring 4, and later 5, girls, and involve a school club. While Yuuki Yuuna is more serious than K-On! and is a magical girl anime while K-On! is a music anime, they are both anime that tell the story of a group of girls growing closer. 

They all have the same destiny, to become a magical girl and at some points of Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru, the characters don't want to be heroes anymore due to the fact that they lose abilities to use their bodies right, same with Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara (given that the title is: I don't want to be a magical girl). Going back to 'losing abilities' in Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru, it is evident in Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara that the characters don't have any special goals (aka having abilities for no reason), it makes sense that they're both similar in terms of magical girl, but different in opposing each other. Plus, they both have the same length of episodes, though Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru is longer! read more 

Girls with magical powers. I find some clothes designs to be similar. But in Yuuki Yuuna you get teleported to only one dimension, while in Akanesasu Shoujo you get teleported to multiples dimensions. 

The first episode of "Blue Reflection Ray" reminded me about "Yuki Yuna is a Hero." Essentially having the same background, setting, and premise but with a difference with the art style, concept, and ambiance. Having to tell a tale about young magical girls having to defeat enemies that threaten the balance of the world while focusing on the premise that there is no more powerful than a bond created through friendship and understanding. In any case, both primarily focus on the idea that emotion is what makes everyone connected, a bond that would develop an understanding that'll give them the ability to fight evil. With that said, if you're very fond of the magical girl genre with some dramatic aspects to it (as well as some subtle yuri), then you might want to check these two out! read more 

These two anime have something in common, the female MC is the hero. has good visuals and story writing and of course there is a dark theme 

Both feature a group of students being tasked to fight foreign enemies that threaten peace in their world. Started out like a light hearted-anime where everything seems to be happy. However, after a couple of episodes, it is clear that being a Magical Girl/Lily is not as fun as it seemed to be. Both anime does feature some depressing and tear-jerking moments but it does mix in with some funny and happy moments. If you enjoy Yuuki Yuuna is a hero and craving for more, Assault Lily is a good alternative for it and vice versa.  

similar themes in the deconstruction of the "Magical School Girl" genre. Madoka may have been the most jarring in its twists and storytelling but Yuuki Yuuna's a little slower paced and lacks some of the shocking twist factor. Madoka is still better by far, but Yuuki Yuna is a decent enough succesor for those who are interested more of the same. 

Granbelm and Yuki Yuna is a Hero are two magical girl shows that feature a main character with pink hair who gets transported to a parallel world and learns that she has magical powers along with a group of other girls. Both shows have action scenes that take place on the aforementioned parallel world. 

this just reminded me of YuYuYu since ep 1, lunarians' design reminds me of Vertex in yuki yuna and they both have cute girls doing cute things... also they both slowly become more dark 

Magical girls, A squad of 5 and overall a pretty cutesy feel.  

Two anime that focus on a group of girls who get powers to fight monsters of mysterious origin. In both of them the reasons for the fight and consequences of the powers are not clear at the beginning. Both can be considered as magical girl anime with darker twist, but at the same time they still give the feeling of hope. There is a good mix of comedy and tragic moments. There are other things that give a similar feel, however describing them into detail would go into spoiler territory of both. 

Both include magical girls trying to save the world from evil. Many of the characters have similar characteristics; For example Hibiki (szs gx) and Yuuna both have powerful punches along with the sense of always wanting to protect people in a heroic way 

Both anime have girls fighting an other worldly enemy, pastel pallet of animation, psychological/tragedy aspect, and a club dedicated to helping other people that the main cast are members of. Both Rinne and Yuuki Yuuna have a strong theme of helping people by being heroic and having a strong sense of courage.  

Yuuki Yuuna and Kuga Yuuma has a similar attack pattern such as demonic hyper ultra punch, that can bring down one monster in one punch... Yuuki Yuuna and Kuga Yuuma cares for her/his best comerades both share the same justice role and save people from some creature both transform before fighting, and still unmasked even transformed (lol) I just hope for some male characters appear in Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru, then it would be compared~ 

In both anime, people fight against gigantic abstract enemies that share the common characteristic of having unique abilities and a final "core" to destroy. In Yuuki Yuuna, they're Vertexes, and in Devil Survivor, they're Septentriones. There are ~9 Septentriones and 12 Vertexes total trying to bring destruction upon the world that must all be defeated. 

Both animes are about innocent girls teaming up to fight a limited number overwhelmingly powerful enemies that require a lot of planning, strategy, effort, and risk to take down. Enemies tend to appear one at a time and each have their own "gimmick" that makes them sound almost impossible to kill, such as only being able to kill 3 enemies if you strike them all at the same time so they can't regenerate, or an enemy that's made of air and is impervious to most attacks. 

A dark show with girls fighting and lots of drama. 

Both anime start out with something more typical but develops into something more serious (Yes, this is not a new thing). Both anime also have a very active main character that is really into befriending other people, sometimes very aggressively.  

A group of cute ordinary middle school students have their lives changed forever when they find out they must "transform" and fight evil to save the world.  

Both of them start with a trope (Trapped in another world for Re:Zero, and Mahou Shojo for YuuYuu). However, because of deconstruction (the time loops in Re:Zero, and the "Madoka effect" in YuuYuu), the MC starts suffering lots of PTSD trying to overcome a almost impossible obstacle. Yuuki Yuuna ends on a high note since things start to get better. Re:Zero, I'm not so sure, we will have to see. 

A unique magical girl anime with plenty of action and character drama. 

There is a recurring theme of teenagers being forced to fight off constant invasions of "alien" forces. Both undergo a change in perspective halfway through the season. 

Both have intense interdimensional fights on a grand scale and have themes of combating the impossible 

These two magical girl shows follow similar tropes in execution, with monsters from an unknown place attacking and a group of roughly five girls are in the center of the action. The characters both have similar color palettes and they follow a general characterization based on the color they are representing. Honestly, I liked Yuuki Yuna a lot more than Vividred, but both are enjoyable if you like magical girl anime. 

They share the Shinto imagery of a ritual or a being which must be appeased through a form of sacrifice. Each show has a team of girls who are to be loyal only to their respective jobs. Yuuki Yuuna is a take on the dark magical girl genre, while HisoMaso has a more light hearted take where girls are joined by dragons.  

Both are superhero anime that add a orginal twist to the superhero genre formula and both have great female leads 

Well, on one hand, you have the really, really wonderful Yuuki Yuuna which gives the viewer a slow descent into a bit more than slice of life nonsense. On the other hand, you have WIXOSS, which takes your innocence, ties it up, and drowns it in a pool full of acid, replacing magical girls with card games, although it never really becomes the story that Yuuna ends up being..  

Both include magical girls, with cute transformations, trying to save the world from evil. Many of the characters have similar characteristics; For example Hibiki (szs gx) and Yuuna both have powerful punches along with the sense of always wanting to protect people in a heroic way 

Both involve a group of school club members who can transform into magical girls (+1 magical boy in Happy Seven) to fight off enemies. In Yuki Yuna is a Hero, they travel into a new world to fight enemies that threaten the world, while in Happy Seven, the team defeats demons that possess people. While the characters use their magical powers to fight, they also like to help others to better their lives. 

In both shows, young(ish) girls enter an alternate world, transform into magical girls, and fight enemies. 

A mix of cute slice of life and darker action/drama. 

kids being forced to fight even though they didn't consent. Cant go into further detail bc spoilers lol.