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Sending a child off to a single-sex school has its merits and downsides. It’s widely believed that such environments allow them to grow up without being distracted by romantic relationships, hopefully resulting in higher grades.
However, the anime that are set in single-sex schools rarely dwells on such issues. When there’s a series set at an all-girls school, it’s all about the blossoming, yet fleeting relationships of high school girls. While many of these relationships are fleeting, fans can’t get enough of them.
10 Asobi Asobase Is An Anime That’s All About The Laughs
Asobi Asobase takes place at an all-girls middle school… but it’s nothing like what people would expect. The series is a comedy focused on a trio of second-year girls who are part of the Pastimers Club, a club where the girls create random pastimes to entertain themselves. The series is more of a laugh-out-loud gag-comedy anime than a traditional slice-of-life anime. It’s not about cute girls doing cute things but about a cast of wacky, well-written characters trying to get the viewers to have as many guffaws as possible per episode.
9 Shoujo Kageki: Revue Starlight Combines Theater And Stage With Combat
Revue Starlight has it all – musical performances, combat, girls love relationships, and so much more. Revue Starlight takes place at Seisho Music Academy, an all-girls school where girls practice to become theater performers. The school’s 99th class is working on “Starlight,” a play about two star-crossed goddesses. The protagonist is Karen Aijou, a regular girl whose passion for the theater reaches a new level when her old friend Hikari Kagura transfers to their school. This happens just in time, as Karen is introduced to a world of underground battles to determine the “Top Star.”
8 Citrus Has Some Questionable Characters And Moments
Citrus is a mess for a lot of reasons. Yuzu Aihara was recently forced to transfer to a new school after her mother got married again and finds herself stuck at an all-girls school. Her dreams of having a first kiss in high school are suddenly taken away from her.
Or at least they were, until she meets Mei Aihara, who steals her first kiss from her not long after Yuzu learns that the two of them are stepsisters. The series has a lot of potentially controversial moments but isn’t afraid of addressing the tough issues that come with being part of a new family.
7 Negima Sees A Young Mage Teaching At An All-Girls School
Negi Springfield is a ten-year-old wizard-in-training who’s been asked to teach a class of middle-school girls at a boarding school. The Negima anime is more of a strange harem series with a kid with magic powers and a group of girls who all have their own personal issues and mysterious backstories. The Negima manga changes things massively though, turning it into a battle shonen that has a predominantly female cast.
6 Battle Athletes Is A Sci-Fi Series About Women Competing To Become The Cosmo Beauty
Battle Athletes is a ’90s sports anime that’s set in the far future of 4999. The protagonist is one of many girls who’s gone to a special school in Antarctica to train as a Battle Athlete. The winners are able to enter an even greater training facility in space known as the University Satellite. But Akari wants something even more than that – she wants to be the Cosmo Beauty, the best of the best, something that her mother managed to become years ago. This series was one of the many lesser-known series of the ’90s that made it stateside and was even popular enough to get a remake recently.
5 BanG Dream! Has Competing Idol Music Groups
BanG Dream! is another anime with an all-girls cast that’s focused on a band. The lead protagonist is Kasumi Toyama, a young girl looking for a purpose in life who finds one when she sees a star-shaped guitar in a pawn shop. Kasumi forms her own band, Poppin’Party, with her fellow classmates in Hanasakigawa Girls’ High School. But Poppin’Party isn’t the only girls’ group in the series – BanG Dream! introduces multiple idol groups over its several seasons. There’s plenty of competition to be found as all of these girls aim to become the best idol group.
4 Strawberry Panic Focuses On Multiple Blossoming Relationships
Strawberry Panic is one of the more popular shoujo-ai anime series. The story follows Nagisa Aoi, a young girl who recently entered St. Miator Girls Academy, one of three schools at Astraea Hill. Nagisa is thrown into the thick of things when she gains the attention of Shizuma Hanazono, the star or “Etoile” of the three schools.
There’s a lot more to it than this, as Strawberry Panic focuses on protagonists from all three of the schools at Astraea and the blossoming relationships between different couples.
3 Maria Watches Over Us Focuses On The Relationships Between Older And Younger Students
Maria Watches Over Us takes place at the Lillian Girls’ Academy, a Catholic school found in Tokyo. The protagonist is Yumi Fukuzawa, a new student who’s suddenly found herself garnering the attention of the most popular girl there, Sachiko. Sachiko makes Yumi into her petite soeur, or “little sister,” which causes Yumi all manner of trouble as she garners attention from the other students. This series became quite popular for its era, running for multiple seasons and eventually even showing Yumi becoming the older student and searching for her own petit soeur.
2 K-On! Features A Group Of High School Girls Trying To Form A Band
K-On! was one of the most popular anime of the late 2000s. The protagonist, Yui Hirasawa, joins the school’s Light Music Club, which is about to be disbanded due to having too few members. K-On! doesn’t really have a straightforward plot. It’s just about these girls hanging out and having fun, but the series ran for 39 episodes across two seasons. People looking for serious stakes and melodrama in their anime should look elsewhere.
1 Love Live! School Idol Project Showed An Idol Group Trying To Become The Best
Love Live is one of the most popular idol anime that was one part of a massive multimedia project. The series takes place as the all-girls Otonokizaka High School, where one of the second-year students, Honoka, tries to form her own school idol group known as μ’s (pronounced muse). Honoka’s goal is to have μ’s become as popular as the school idol group A-Rise. Love Live! was immensely popular for several years, with μ’s constantly being one of the top-selling groups in Japan in 2015. There’s even a second series, Love Live! Sunshine (pictured), which features a new cast inspired by μ’s.
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