Nobody talks about this one. Ruby and her crew are the kids nobody picked for the team, and the show spends 52 episodes refusing to let you watch them get left behind, it's comedy that lands because it's built on real affection for every single character. The romance doesn't arrive as a climax. It grows inside the jokes, quiet and inevitable, until you realize you've been watching a love story the entire time. The animation breathes in a way most shows don't bother with anymore.

At Sunshine Academy, a boarding school in Jewel Land where students from the human world and from Jewel Land study side by side, the third-grade Plum class has a reputation as the Leftovers, a group of hopeless cases. The Jewelpet Ruby belongs to that class, but she is upbeat and optimistic and has fun at school with her friends, even though she is always arguing with her roommate Kanon Mizushirou. Their prickly friendship gets further tangled when both fall for Mikage Shiraishi. Every student hopes to graduate, yet few can picture what they want from the future, so Ruby and her classmates set out to find their dreams before graduation arrives. The series is a comedic magical girl fantasy.