I really enjoyed rozen maiden, its basically 7 dolls who were created by a man called "father" and the each doll has there own "soul" to speak called a rosa mystica, and the objective of the series is for 1 doll to win the Alice Game. Which is to fight the other 6 dolls and take thier rosa mystica(making them junk) the winner of the Alice Game meets father and becomes the perfect doll.
Aaannnd the last exception is that a doll can choose to make a contract with a human to be used as a medium for power, and in doing so the human becomes a servant to the doll, and also protects the doll with his medium power.
Theres 2 series so far, each doll has a unique characteristic and they really grow on you.
Also samurai champloo is good, and if you just want some cute laughs "Magical Pokan" cracks me up all the time, so freakin cute.
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