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TV Shows & Series: Best "magical realism" TV Shows/Series


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Pushing Daisies(2007-2009)

TV-PG
| 42min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Crime
3.9/5 (with 176 votes)

A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.

AnoHana: The Flower We Saw That Day(2011)

TV-PG
| 23min per episode | Animation, Drama, Mystery
4.2/5 (with 176 votes)

When Yadomi Jinta was a child, he was a central piece in a group of close friends. In time, however, these childhood friends drifted apart, and when they became high school students, they had long ceased to think of each other as friends. One of the friends from that group, Honma Meiko, now has a wish she asks Jinta to fulfil. The problem is, she can't remember what her wish is anymore.

Directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai

IRODUKU: The World in Colors(2018)

NR
| 24min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Animation
3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

Set in the city of Nagasaki, the story takes place in a world where a miniscule amount of magic remains in everyday life. Hitomi Tsukishiro is a 17-year-old descendant of a witch family who grew up with stale emotions, as she lost her sense of color at a very young age. Feeling sorry for her granddaughter's future, Kohaku, a great witch, sends Hitomi to past, the year 2018. Through exchanges with her 17-year-old grandmother and her club members, the story follows Hitomi's growth as a person.

Directed by Toshiya Shinohara

Haibane Renmei(2002)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.0/5 (with 41 votes)

A dream of falling from the sky...and then birth. Rakka is born from a large cocoon into the Old Home, greeted by a group of females with small wings on their backs and shining halos above their heads. Soon Rakka’s own wings grow, a halo is placed on her head and she is told that she must work in the nearby town of Grie. She soon realizes that the town and the entire world they live in are confined behind the Wall, a tall, impenetrable wall that none except the mysterious Toga are allowed to exit.

Directed by Tomokazu Tokoro

Hilda(2018-2023)

TV-Y7
| 27min per episode | Animation, Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.1/5 (with 66 votes)

Fearless, free-spirited Hilda finds new friends, adventure and magical creatures when she leaves her enchanted forest home and journeys to the city.

If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord(2019)

24min per episode | Animation
3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

Dale is a cool, composed, and highly skilled adventurer who's made quite a name for himself despite his youth. One day on a job deep in the forest, he comes across a little devil girl who's almost wasted away. Unable to just leave her there to die, Dale takes her home and becomes her adoptive father. Devil or not, Latina is beyond adorable, and the adventurer soon finds himself head over heels with being a parent. But why was she out in the forest to begin with, and why does she carry the mark of a criminal?

Flying Witch(2016)

3.6/5 (with 20 votes)

Makoto Kowata is a little flighty, in multiple ways. With no sense of direction, but the ability to fly on a broom, this witch-in-training has a lot to learn; about magic, her relatives, and the world around her.

NieA Under 7(2000)

3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

NieA_7, also known as NieA under 7, is a 13 episode anime series about Mayuko, a poor, introverted student who lives above a Japanese bathhouse, and NieA, a freeloading, freewheeling alien who lives in her closet and eats her food.

Directed by Tomokazu Tokoro

One Hundred Years of Solitude(2024-)

The story of the Buendia family, who lived for a century in the town of Macondo.

Directed by Alex Garcia Lopez, Laura Mora Ortega