Anime Like Wistoria: Wand and Sword

Will Serfort is determined to join his childhood friend Elfaria as a Magia Vander, a group of the mightiest magicians who sit atop the Wizard’s Tower.

However, while Elfaria, gifted with powerful magic, ascended the tower, Will is left languishing at the Regarden Magical Academy. As Will cannot use magic, he has trouble earning credits in his classes that would allow him to climb the tower. Instead, he slays monsters for credits in the dangerous dungeon underneath the school.

However, his enrollment, desire to climb the tower, and even his existence is seen as an affront to their whole organization by elite students and professors alike.

In the spring, Kimberly Magic Academy, a prestigious – and famously dangerous – magic school welcomed its incoming freshman. Among these new students is the mysterious Oliver Horn who hides his dark past and an even darker purpose for his enrollment.

When a troll runs wild at the opening ceremony, Oliver unites a group of new students, including a battle-hardened samurai and veteran of war named Nanao. After taking down the troll, Oliver quickly bonds with the six students and they are determined to hone their magic as well as survive the dangerous trials – and dangerous fellow mages – present in the school.

Although Atsuko is an ordinary girl, she became enamored by witches and magic by a magic show she saw as a kid hosted by a witch named Shiny Chariot.

Now, she has aspires to be a witch, taking the first step by joining a renowned academy for witches called Luna Nova Academy.

Although she faces hardship as a first generation witch and fan of Shiny Chariot, whom many consider a fraud, she and her two friends do their best each new day.

While the young mage Alto excels at most other magics, he is on the verge of failing his first year at Royal Ortigia Magic Academy because he cannot summon a familiar. Giving his exam one last shot, he stumbles upon a grimoire that finally lets him summon a familiar.

However, this bodacious, beautiful woman isn’t a spirit, she is a demon. She agrees to help him if she can recharge her power through passionate kisses.

With magical threats everywhere, the Inquisitors were created to stem the chaos. To train these individuals, they are sent to a special school where they are put into platoons to hone both combat skills and teamwork.

While Ouka Ootori is a powerful Inquisitor, his rebellious streak sees him forced to join a special test platoon full of other powerful misfits.

After being abandoned by her family, Chise Hatori is a 16-year-old teenager without hope.

In order to not have to worry about herself, she sells herself to slavers, only to be purchased by Magus Elias Ainsworth.

There, she is told she will become his apprentice and, in the future, his bride. Together, they work to build a relationship and work to control her own magus powers that will eventually result in her early death.

When a person is born, they bear a distinctive mark on their face that denotes that they have magical abilities. To maintain the magical integrity of the world, those without the mark are swiftly exterminated.

Mash Burnedead was born without a mark or magical ability, but he was taken in by one weak mage and raised away from society in the forest. While he lacks magical skills, Mash has honed his physical strength to superhuman levels by working out everyday.

When Mash was discovered in the forest and his peaceful life was upended, he decides to go to magic school to become a Divine Visionary, a person that the whole world recognizes for their supreme skills, in order to protect his family.

However, while being magic-less in a magic school seems like a pretty indomitable obstacle, Mash’s muscles are capable of feats that seem just like magic.

After being abandoned at the same church, Asta and Yuno grew up together. Together they also grew up aiming for the same title – The Wizard King, the strongest wizard in the kingdom.

However, it soon became apparent that while Yuno has skill with magic, Asta couldn’t use it at all. This all changed when they were attacked and Asta was given a strange grimoire that granted him the ability to nullify magic.

After the sudden appearance of super powers, or “quirks,” now 80 percent of humanity has some kind of power. With some Quirk users turning to crime, it gave rise to super heroes that help the police keep the peace.

Since he was a child, Izuku Midoriya has idolized super heroes, especially the symbol of peace, All Might, but he is devastated to learn that he won’t manifest a Quirk himself. Still, he studies super heroes and is determined to become one.

After a chance encounter with All Might, Midoriya learns that there still may be a chance for him to be a hero after all.

After magic, once thought to be folklore, was turned into a technical skill, schools to teach it opened all over.

At one such school are siblings Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba. While Miyuki excels, her brother is placed in a lower class due to his seemingly magical ineptitude. However, he has rather unique abilities that make him quite irregular.