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Anime Like Acro Trip

Chizuko Date has moved around her whole life. However, after visiting her grandfather in Niigata, she becomes enamored with magical girl berry Blossom who defends the town from the evil organization Fossa Magna, and decides to stay.

However, with Fossa Magna and its leader Chroma being so inept, no one really pays much attention to their not-so-epic battles anymore. After accidentally befriending Chroma, Chizuko finds herself pulled into Fossa Magna and vows to use the organization to make Berry Blossom shine even brighter!

Cute, but this show often feels like it is for an audience much younger than myself. Which is, of course, perfectly fine! If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Acro Trip, head on down below.

Anime Like Acro Trip

For Fans of Magical Girl Villain Main Characters

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The Demon Girl Next Door

After a strange dream, Yuuko wakes up to discover that she has grown demon horns. Her mother informs her that they are descendants of a demon that was banished to live powerless by the magical girls of the Light Clan.

Apparently, the only way to break the curse is to find a magical girl and murder her. While she happens upon a magical girl, her power is vastly superior to hers. The magical girl in question, Momo, takes pity on her and decides to train her in order to unlock her latent powers.

Similarities Between Acro Trip and The Demon Girl Next Door

  • Both Acro Trip and The Demon Girl Next Door follow the magical girl villains instead of the magical girl as main characters.
  • Both “villain” main characters actually really like the magical girl and don’t really want to fight her.
  • Battles are often silly and quickly wrapped up

Differences Between Acro Trip and The Demon Girl Next Door

  • The Demon Girl Next Door is distinctly Cute Girls Doing Cute Things that tends to prioritize comedic slice of life whereas Acro Trip is a more youthful action comedy.
  • Chizuko fights the magical girl she loves so she can keep being the magical girl she loves, the main character in The Demon Girl Next Door was born to be the enemy of magical girls, but the magical girl is so nice to her that she doesn’t want to fight.
The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies anime

The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies

Mira is the brilliant and respected strategist for an evil organization bent on causing chaos and destruction. The only ones who can stand against them are the magical girls that protect the peace.

One day, Mira meets Mimori Byakuya, a young magical girl who is supposed to be looking to thwart him. While she doesn’t stand a chance against his power, he has helplessly fallen in love with her at first sight.

Similarities Between Acro Trip and The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies

  • The enemy of magical girls in an evil organization is the main character.
  • The villain main character actually really likes the magical girl and doesn’t want to fight her.
  • Their fights often end in comedic or atypical ways.

Differences Between Acro Trip and The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies

  • The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies is a romance anime about a villain falling for a magical girl. It’s kind of like if Chroma developed a huge crush on Berry Blossom.
  • Acro Trip is more youthful comedy and action, The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies is more comedy and romance.
  • The evil organization in The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies is fairly serious and the magical girl handler is fairly scummy. Acro Trip is the exact opposite.
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Gushing Over Magical Girls

Hiiragi Utena has always been a fan of magical girls and the Tres Magia magical girl trio that defends her city. With such admiration, it is only natural that she perked up with excitement when a magical being approached her one night, claiming she has dormant magical powers within her.

However, after receiving the magical girl transformation of her dreams, she discovers that she is not a hero, but a villain destined to fight magical girls in the evil organization Enormita.

Not interested in being a villain, she tries to quit when the magical girl trio appear and tries to take her down. However, Utena soon discovers that torturing magical girls has awakened a secret pleasure in her.

Similarities Between Acro Trip and Gushing Over Magical Girls

  • Girl who loves magical girls is strong-armed into being a magical girl villain
  • Girl ends up joining an evil organization that fights magical girls
  • She eventually embraces being a villain so she can propel the magical girls she loves to even greater heights.

Differences Between Acro Trip and Gushing Over Magical Girls

  • Gushing Over Magical Girls is EXTREMELY ecchi, which is extremely the opposite of the more youthful and practically wholesome Acro Trip.
  • The main character in Gushing Over Magical Girls is far more villainous.
  • The magical girl handlers are corrupt and/or manipulative in Gushing Over Magical Girls.
  • Gushing Over Magical Girls has more action/more serious action – though all of that action is extremely sexual.

For Fans of Atypical Magical Girl Stories

I've Had Enough of Being a Magical Girl anime

I’ve Had Enough of Being a Magical Girl

Yuzuka Hanami is a carefree girl who lives a perfectly ordinary life. Miton is an alien life-form that has the ability to transform his master into a magical girl. However, with no enemies to fight, he has long been out of work.

The pair meet when Yuzuka passes by the trash pile Miton is living in and he offers his services to her. While reluctant at first, Yuzuka eventually agrees to become a magical girl. However, when she transforms and her battle outfit is a swim suit, she begins to have second thoughts.

Similarities Between Acro Trip and I’ve Had Enough of Being a Magical Girl

  • Magical girl comedies that subvert many long-standing magical girl tropes
  • Silly, low stakes action
  • Main characters that would rather not be involved at first are slowly getting more invested.

Differences Between Acro Trip and I’ve Had Enough of Being a Magical Girl

  • I’ve Had Enough of Being a Magical Girl is a short-form series with only 4 minute episodes, as such it has far less time for plot. Only jokes.
  • Acro Trip follows the villains, I’ve Had Enough of Being a Magical Girl has minimal actual villains.
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Magical Girl Ore

Saki Uno is a teen girl who is also part of the unpopular idol duo, Magical Twins. Despite their lack of popularity, she loves the duo.

However, her peaceful life ends when a suspicious man forces his way into her house, informs her that her mother was a magical girl, and he wants Saki to be one too. Skeptical, but accepting the offer after she learns her crush is in danger, she transforms. Her body, being unsuitable for combat, is radically changed, into that of a man.

Similarities Between Acro Trip and Magical Girl Ore

  • Magical girl comedies
  • Silly, youthful action that is still full of comedy
  • Main character that loves magical girls doesn’t get the magical girl experience she wanted
  • The fodder monsters for magical girls to fight are fairly cute.

Differences Between Acro Trip and Magical Girl Ore

  • Magical Girl Ore is about a girl who becomes a magical girl, but when she transforms, she becomes a man in a magical girl outfit.
  • Magical Girl Ore is about becoming a magical girl to save her crush.

For Fans of Evil Organizations of Dubious Competence and Evilness

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World Conquest Zvezda Plot

A runaway named Jimon is wandering the streets one night when he encounters a collapsed young girl. After offering her some food, she invites him to join her organization.

Really just needing a place to stay, he accepts and accepts her nickname of Dva. The girl turns out to be Kate, leader of Zvezda, an organization bent on world conquest.

Similarities Between Acro Trip and World Conquest Zvezda Plot

  • Person uninterested in villainy ends up joining an evil organization after taking pity on its leader.
  • Eccentric and ineffectual evil organization carries out silly plots against their archenemies.
  • The main character, uninterested at first, becomes more invested.

Differences Between Acro Trip and World Conquest Zvezda Plot

  • Acro Trip is youthful and low stakes in its silly action, World Conquest Zvezda Plot is more serious in its action, but equally comical at how ineffectual both organizations are.
  • World Conquest Zvezda Plot features a larger cast of more eccentric and creatively designed characters.
  • World Conquest Zvezda Plot is more Super Sentai and not so much magical girls.
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Miss Kuroitsu From The Monster Development Department

While Agastia is known to the world as a firm that specializes in theme parks, beneath the surface it is actually an evil organization bent on world domination.

Working in Agastia’s Monster Development Division, Touka Kuroitsu is a researcher who is the frequent victim of the eccentricities of her division seniors.

Each day she is responsible for meeting the ridiculous demands for new monster designs, giving abruptly scheduled presentations, and forced to accompany her monsters to fight the enemies of Agastia that thwart their evil designs of world domination – all for the sake of promotion that may never come.

Similarities Between Acro Trip and Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department

  • Woman joins an evil organization despite not being especially evil.
  • Any action is both usually cute and/or comical
  • Comedies that are subverting either magical girls or Super Sentai

Differences Between Acro Trip and Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department

  • Miss Kuroitsu is more of a fantasy workplace comedy as she is a cog in a much larger evil organization.
  • Miss Kuroitsu is parodying Super Sentai tropes, not magical girls.

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