At the moment, I am only following two series:

• Bleach
• Rental Magica

The lack of disk space is the key culprit in preventing me from watching more stuffs; the absolute lack of time due to a busy life comes in at a very narrow second place.
It honestly seems that I have this thing for anime that deals with magic to a certain extent. Looking back at some of the series that I followed in the past, a somewhat large majority of it had elements of magic in it…

Bleach (ブリ－チ）

If you follow Bleach, magical elements are made obvious with dealings in the supernatural (life after death, shinigami) as well as the whole kidou stuff. Fairly stereotypical shounen series though.

Death Note (デスノート)

Like Bleach, dealings with the supernatural. The exception here is that the concept of shinigami has them carry around a Death Note, where one to “accidentally” drop one on Earth because he got bored. Very enjoyable, although some people have said they got bored with the series; too much talking, not enough action. However, the action that really takes place is psychological warfare.

Fate/Stay Night (フェイト／ステイナイト)

Well, the entire premise of the entire show is based off of magic. It’s kind of hard to miss just what the elements of it are. The Holy Grail War, where seven masters (with magical talent) face off against each other with their summoned servants for the Holy Grail.

Mahou Sensei Negima (魔法先生ネギマ！) / Negima!? (ネギマ！？)

Since I enjoyed Love Hina, I figured I should check out Negima, since they are by the same author. That was not a bad decision because the series has been quite enjoyable, with its epic parts (the various story arcs involving magical combat), the RPG references (in the current part in the manga), and fair amounts of comedic situations.

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha (魔法少女リリカルなのは) and sequels A’s and Strikers

I came across this series by complete surprise. I don’t even quite remember how I found it these days, but it is a pretty cool concept, with high technology as magic. The combat scenes are awesome. If you need a quick summary of what to expect, refer to this quote from an old blog post: “The best way to describe the series is that it’s like a magical girl series with various deviations into mecha anime (your typical beam attack), pretty good combat sequences, and gun mechanics (from A’s onward).” Not your typical mahou shoujo.

Rental Magica (レンタルマギカ)

Revolves around Astral, a magician dispatch company who rents out mages for various different tasks. Takes magic from so many different inspirations it’s crazy. Also quite entertaining with good op/ed music and fairly epic battles.

Now hear comes my question. What’s out there that would be interesting enough to watch? By reading an anime blog post a friend wrote, it only has one that I find interesting enough to watch, and that would be Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (コードギアス　反逆のルル－シュ R2), the follow-up to Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (コードギアス　反逆のルル－シュ).

Would there be anything that would be interesting out there?

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