Toaru Kagaku no Railgun

Who doesn't want a strong lead, and a female one at that? I mean, people stereotype A LOT in this day and age, so who doesn't want this type of unique character once in a while? Note: I tried to avoid shoujo romances as they are seen as common tropes, although there are some that I thought were personally good on the list.

The world of Index is a fascinating one where the main conflict is between science & development and magic & religion. The main storyline is covered within the 3 seasons of Index. It's perfectly fine to just stick with that, but you can also add in several side stories and spinoffs (that are arguably better) to really expand the world and it's lore. But that does often bring up the question, which order to watch them all in? Do you watch all of index first before touching the spinoffs, or do you go for Railgun instead as it is widely considered the superior series? And what about Accelerator?
Don't worry, I got you.

Anime with both female and non-female MCs are also included, but only if there is a focus on the female characters (decided roughly based on screen-time or "camera focus")
Spinoffs are included separately if they focus on different characters.

Anime in the CGDCT genre that subverts traditional expectations of the genre as the pure formula of a show about the plotless everyday life of cute teen girls.

Eine kleine Sammlung von Anime mit deutscher Synchro.

A collection of German dubbed anime.

I recommend the (simplified) chronological order over the release order

(watching by the actual chronology means switching series every few episodes... sorry, I'm too lazy for that)

Some characters here are for sure a tsundere and for others it could be debatable depending on who you ask but i still decided to put them here because why not

Characters who are INTJ according to the personality database

once this passes 50 entries I'll be splitting it between "until 2009" (a new stack) and "since 2010" (this stack)

Anime that are more mature than you expect it to be

I’ll try to include every anime that have even the smallest reference to Vietnam. Comment on my page if you find more anime titles with reference to Vietnam.

Việt Nam trong anime 🇻🇳
That proud feeling when your culture got mentioned even if it's just in the background or inaccurately portrayed.

Release order. Excluding OVAs + specials at the moment.

Inspired by bel’s list on letterboxd

https://letterboxd.com/ellefnning/list/for-when-you-want-to-feel-something/

A list filled with a wide variety of animes that’ll inflict emotions of some sort, whether it’s positive or negative (or perhaps even a mix of both). All the animes listed here are animes that has personally affected me, for better or for worse. I hope you can find something here that at least wouldn’t feel like another boring isekai and hopefully leaves some sort of lasting impact on your mind.

For simplicity’s sake, any animes with multiple entries I’ll only add the first entry and drop the most ideal watch order next to it.

This list will be constantly updating as I’m still watching more animes, so look out for more entries in the future!

Sequels aren't included.

CGDCT = Cute Girls Doing Cute Things
This subgenre focuses mostly on cute characters and mundane, slice-of-life situations.
They contain a female cast doing cute things in their daily lives. But with this stack, there are some shows that elevate the subgenre.

Unironically the best shows for "cute girls doing cute things", IN CUTE WAYS!!
It's a win-win for everyone. (I am not including sequels. Though with some of these series, the sequels are better imho)

Anime where the vast majority of the cast have natural hair colours (brown, black, blonde, ginger, etc.), but one of them was just born with brightly coloured hair (bonus points if there’s no explanation and nobody ever questions it).