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If you liked Cardcaptor Sakura add

...then you might like Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica add

Madoka takes the magical girl genre and decapitates it. If you like the concept and you want to see your favorite characters succeed, find love, and well, LIVE, then a classic like Cardcaptor Sakura is what you've been looking for. Cardcaptor Sakura is such a sweet, delightful show that it's hard not to bounce in your seat each episode. The style (by CLAMP) is clean and bright, and reinforces the tone of the show in the way that Madoka's nightmarish landscapes and dark architecture reinforces its own tone. Madoka and Sakura are both young girls given the power to help others at their own risk, and they're both motivated by love for their friends and family, but how they handle the "magical girl" responsibilities are where they differ most greatly. Both shows have secondary characters with rich stories, but Cardcaptor Sakura manages to depict really subtly complicated relationships in touching ways without resorting to killing off each character. Like Madoka, Cardcaptor Sakura does have some light yuri, yaoi, and everything else, but never shows anything explicit or overtly sexual, since most of the characters are still kids. Cardcaptor Sakura is definitely not as dark as Madoka, but it's not a fluff anime. Each character experiences longing, jealousy, loss and self-doubt, but each also manage to overcome, which is what makes this show so uplifting and inspiring. Cardcaptor Sakura will leave you feeling satisfied with your emotional journey without breaking your heart as violently as Madoka.

If you liked Shoujo Kakumei Utena add

...then you might like Kill la Kill add

Kill la Kill stems from the kind of queer, feminist sword-fighting story-telling which Revolutionary Girl Utena proudly introduced us to in the 90's. While Kill la Kill is stylistically more outlandish and messy, Utena started the surreal, school-based struggle for a mysterious power in a clean, almost romantic style. Where Kill la Kill uses sexuality in a tongue-in-cheek homage to sexy magical girl transformations, Utena's use of sexuality, while still bizarre and sometimes hilarious, tends to conjure scenes which are sometimes uncomfortably familiar, making them all the more compelling. While Kill la Kill uses humor almost anywhere it can, Utena tends to use humor to alleviate the fact that the relationships and story are actually pretty heavy stuff. Utena is a fascinatingly complex story, and in many ways achieves much of what Kill la Kill aims to capture. If you found yourself wanting more substance from Kill la Kill, Utena will quench your thirst. If you just want more boobs and less of a rich story, this is not the show for you.