Favorite Magical Girl Anime Ranking - A 2006 Oricon Survey

[Siegel Clyne]

Between June 30, 2006 and July 3, 2006, Oricon surveyed 400 people in their teens and twenties on what their favorite magical girl anime is.

Here are the results of Oricon's Onnanoko ga Henshinshite Katsuyakusuru Sukina Rankingu.

Overall Favorite Magical Girl Anime
1st Place - Sailor Moon / Sailormoon (Seeraamuun)
2nd Place - Cutey Honey / Cutie Honey (Kyuutii Hanii)
3rd Place - Futari wa Pretty Cure (Futari ha Purikyua)
4th Place - The Secrets of Akko-chan / Akko-chan's Secret (Himitsu no Akko-chan)
5th Place - Sally the Witch / Magical Witch Sally (Mahoutsukai Sarii)
6th Place - Ojamajo Doremi
6th Place - Creamy Mami (Kuriimii Mami)
8th Place - Cardcaptor Sakura (Kaadokyaputaa Sakura)
8th Place - Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (Mahou Shoujo Ririkaru Nanoha)
10th Place - Magic Knight Rayearth (Majikko Naito Reiaasu)

Favorite Magical Girl Anime of Females
1st Place - Sailor Moon / Sailormoon
2nd Place - Cutey Honey / Cutie Honey
3rd Place - Futari wa Pretty Cure
4th Place - The Secrets of Akko-chan / Akko-chan's Secret
5th Place - Creamy Mami

Favorite Magical Girl Anime of Males
1st Place - Sailor Moon / Sailormoon
2nd Place - Cutey Honey / Cutie Honey
3rd Place - Futari wa Pretty Cure
4th Place - Sally the Witch / Magical Witch Sally
5th Place - The Secrets of Akko-chan / Akko-chan's Secret
5th Place - Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

Favorite Magical Girl Anime of Teens
1st Place - Sailor Moon / Sailormoon
2nd Place - Cutey Honey / Cutie Honey
3rd Place - Futari wa Pretty Cure
4th Place - Ojamajo Doremi
5th Place - The Secrets of Akko-chan / Akko-chan's Secret

Favorite Magical Girl Anime of Twentysomethings
1st Place - Sailor Moon / Sailormoon
2nd Place - Cutey Honey / Cutie Honey
3rd Place - Futari wa Pretty Cure
4th Place - The Secrets of Akko-chan / Akko-chan's Secret
5th Place - Sally the Witch / Magical Witch Sally

[mangatron]

Hmm, Sailormoon captivated a nice number of people. Including me, of course.

Now all we need to do is re-animate it and...add decent amount of fanservice (if fanservice is any much decent at all ), and we have ourselves a winner.

I'm crazy but sane

[Veritas]

The Sailor senshi wear 4 inch skirts and are naked every time they henshin. More fanservice of that sort is not needed, as it doesn't actually improve anything. Get yourself a 3D girlfriend and spare the rest of us trashiness.

Nurse Angel Ririka is my favorite magical girl anime (out of the 5 I've seen) and it didn't even place. Darn it. Oh well, I guess Sailor Moon was a no contest winner and I'm not surprised Cardcaptor Sakura placed high as well, but I have no idea why Magic Knight Rayearth is on there. I'm never touching that anime again with a 10 foot pole.

[Shiroth]

Bah, i'm not happy at all that Nurse Witch Komugi-chan didn't make it into the list. ^^;

[Kamui4356]

I'm not a big fan of the mahou shoujo genre, but I've always liked Magic Knight Rayearth. The ending is great, one of the best for an anime series. I've never see the second, though I have read the manga. I'm actually a bit suprised it didn't do better.

[Shinji103]

Geez, Sailormoon is like the GSEED/GSD of the mahou shoujo genre. >.>

I'm quite surprised that Card Captor Sakura isn't higher ranked. And I at least wanted to see Mahou Shoujo Pretty Sammy up there somewhere. >.>

[Guido]

Sailormoon was the first of the mahou-shoujo genre to set the five team of magic girls, much to the style of the Tokusatsu Sentai shows.

It wasn't the first one to also include the fast action pacing, since it was long introduced in the first Cutey Honey anime back in the 70's.

What Sailormoon simply did was revitalizing and giving a refresh launch to the mahou-shoujo genre, which was faltering during the late 80's in Japan.

It comes to some dissapointment that Princess Tutu never made it at least to the 10th place of the list.

Though I like Sailor Moon, my favorite pick among magic-girl anime is Pretear.

[mangatron]

Originally Posted by Veritas

Get yourself a 3D girlfriend and spare the rest of us trashiness.

Sorry I don't do CGI oh wait, did I mention I first watched the AMERICAN version. Lord knows what they did to it

Now, what I'm wondering is how do they treat the series of before to the current series of today. Alot of titles are repeated there....which also makes me ask, are there really that much Mahou shoujo series? Surely there are lots...

[Anime Online]

Sakura Kinomoto from Cardcaptor Sakura is my favorite Magical Girl. I'm kinda disappointed she's not ranked higher, but at least she's among the top 10.

Kerberos who accompanies her around also deserves honorable mention as one of the cutest pet I've ever seen.

[dkellis]

Personally I'm surprised that PreCure placed so highly.

I was hoping CCS would rank higher, but at least it's in the top ten.

[kuru]

Originally Posted by dkellis

Personally I'm surprised that PreCure placed so highly.

I was hoping CCS would rank higher, but at least it's in the top ten.

It isn't a surprise as it's a popular show and one that it's still going on. Most people quickly forget the stuff that was left in the past...

[Dragnfly@Gamefaqs]

Darnit, if only more people had seen Nanoha.

[mangafanatic]

Oh, come on, how did Full Moon and Princess Tutu not get on this? I think there should have been a category for "Best Magical Girl Show in the Last Ten Years." I mean, I, too, love the old school stuff, but we have to make room for some of the good, new stuff.

[Rin-Sama]

Sailormoon tops them all!

Sailor moon IS the defenition od Magic girls anime!
followed closely by Cardcaptor Sakura

[Bloodseeker]

Never mind...

[Vexx]

I'm kind of appalled that Cutey Honey scored so well with females I guess I should wavea small flag that Nanoha did so well against "the classics".
Of course, the data is kind of limited .... that 400 people surveyed may have had 4 females in it.... and of course, we're talking about 400 people who were at a convention, not exactly a random sampling.

I've taken a lot more jaundiced view towards polls and surveys these days.

[bayoab]

Originally Posted by Vexx

I'm kind of appalled that Cutey Honey scored so well with females I guess I should wavea small flag that Nanoha did so well against "the classics".
Of course, the data is kind of limited .... that 400 people surveyed may have had 4 females in it.... and of course, we're talking about 400 people who were at a convention, not exactly a random sampling.

I've taken a lot more jaundiced view towards polls and surveys these days.

If you look at the way the scores are split, unless its heavily weighted for a very small # of females, there are two possibilities:
1) Equalish number of females and males.
2) The males were far more divided than the smaller female segment.

This is evident from how there are female choices that beat male choices in the overall. #1 is far more likely than #2 and based on how there is basically alternation, is probably the case.

And it is very clear that mostly (read: only) males (read: otaku) watch Nanoha.

Also, if I understood it right (And remember right), this survey was conducted through a non-anime survey group (and was done through a non-anime magazine.?) This is probably more representative of the Japanese population than the otaku population.

[Leo_Otaku]

I'm just kinda pissed at Ojamajo Doremi wasn't higher than Pretty Cure since it was way more original and had a better cast. I'm thinking is because it is still on air and has more of a standing fanbase. Even if it is uber cliche...

[C.A.]

Hmmm like the others, I'm a little surprised to see CCS low at the lists.

I liked Sailormoon and Pretty Cure too though.

[Anime Online]

Actually, I'm kinda surprised the respondents, who are in the teens and twenties, have watched Sailormoon and Cutey Honey. From what I know, Cutey Honey was screened almost ten years ago and Sailormoon about twelve years ago.

It would be understandable if the respondents are fans of the magical girl genre, but for a normal anime teenage fan to remember an anime that he watched when he was five or six and to vote it as "Best Magical Girl Show" just boggles my mind. Perhaps there had been lots of reruns of classic animes in Japan.