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Anime with small, close characters that make up a tightly knitted cast. A group of friends, a small town, a collection of people and their relationships. A sense of camaraderie, a diorama of humans, a fun time to feel close to fun people.

This stack contains a collection of anime that I think best falls into this category over anything else.

If you are in search of an anime featuring a lively female cast that promises an entertaining watch, then this is the perfect choice for you guys. :)

A variety of anime featuring female characters in the workforce. They may be paid employees or someone in training who is serving an apprenticeship or unpaid internship.

This is a weird concept for a list, but I think it's worth putting it out there. These are anime which I consider help understand anime better because of their referential humour, commentary on otaku culture (whether it's anime or gaming), exploration of the industry and twisting of classic tropes in self-aware ways that put them in perspective. Also included a couple shows which are not necessarily meta or referential, but they are here for being aggresively "anime" in nature, if that makes sense. With how over the top they are and/or how stereotypically otaku their concepts are, I think they give a good idea of how anime has developed.

Note: If you truly want to understand otaku culture and anime history, I think an absolute essential is a short show called "Blue Blazers". It is live action however, so it can't be added here. I strongly recommend you check it out, even if the humour can be cringy, because of how deep of an insight it gives into the history of anime and the industry.

Check out part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/5953
More hidden gems (once again, only ones that ranked below 2000 in 'Popularity' on MAL), though lesser ones than in part 1 in my view, but are still worth checking out. Will continue to fill the missing slots overtime.

Anime that comes packaged with socio-political commentary. Sometimes as subtext or metaphor, sometimes screamed out loud with abandon.

Little insight into anime and manga industry.

Sometimes in large and very realistic way, sometimes smaller and less realistic.

This is a stack of Anime which each have a Main Cast of Only 5 Females, no more, no less, and no males will be in these Main Casts. (Creatures don't count).

If you like the types of shows featured in this stack, feel free to check out this stack series: Comedic All Female Cast/CGDCT Shows, as it might contain more anime you would like.

This stack will only contain the first season of each series.

from the animelon 'about' page:

"Learning a language can be difficult; often times it is boring and tedious, so we want to help the language learning community by providing a more entertaining and engaging way to learn. The idea of Animelon is to provide interactive tools that assist users in learning Japanese as they watch anime. If you love watching anime, why not make more out of the time spent?"

this is part of a series of stacks on the japanese-language-learning-focused anime streaming site animelon. the anime are listed first in order of difficulty ranking according to JPDB, from the easiest (level 1) to the most difficult (level 10), and then by MAL members of the earliest season listed. I will include include all seasons, entries etc. that are available on animelon, with notes that include information on other series entries.

JPDB:
https://jpdb.io/prebuilt_decks


NOT AVAILABLE ON MAL:

Cory in the House (2007)


( AJATT / all japanese all the time / language learning / japanese language / matt vs japan / polyglot / self-study / JLPT / steven krashen / anki / jpdb / immersion / self-selected reading / second-language acquisition / free voluntary reading / comprehensible input / nihongo / 日本語 / 勉強 / 自習 )

Back for more? Hope you've been enjoying all the anime so far! :) As usual, if you haven't checked out the previous lists please do so before looking at this one because I may throw sequels in here!

Part 1 : https://myanimelist.net/stacks/49443
Part 2 : https://myanimelist.net/stacks/49445

https://myanimelist.net/stacks/52818 <- PT2 HERE

As one of the most successful and long-running Magical Girl franchises out there, Pretty Cure has resulted in many references in other works, especially anime. List compiled by tvtropes, precure wiki and partially myself.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ReferencedBy/PrettyCure
https://prettycure.fandom.com/wiki/Pretty_Cure_in_other_media_and_references

Not much of a dub watcher, I just like making lists.

Might include some re-dubs.