Genre : Comedy, Slice of Life, Supernatural, Moe Episodes: 12 Studio: Doga Kobo Model student angel, Gabriel, has just been sent to Earth to learn about humans as the final step before graduating to official angelhood. This venture turns out about as well as can be expected. Gabriel and her small group of demon and angel…
Month: July 2017
Ancien and the Magic Tablet
Genre : Surreal, Fantasy, Adventure Episodes: Movie Studio: Signal.MD Kokone is a lively high school student looking forward to leaving her quiet little home town to attend university in Tokyo once she graduates and finally get some excitement in her life but while she sleeps Kokone is the princess of the great machine realm, striving to rescue…
Charlotte
Genre : Sci-fi, action, drama Episodes: 13 Studio: P.A. Works In a slightly alternate universe, a small percentage of people develop some form of superhuman abilities which last only through their adolescence, and are therefore considered a danger to society. MC is just such a teenager who suddenly finds himself in a fight for his…
Tsuritama
Genre : Comedy, Sci-Fi, Surreal, Action, Sports! Episodes: 12 Studio: A-1 Pictures Yuki Sanada is going to get a fresh start at his new high school. He’s going to be smooth and cool and super popular. That’s his plan. It’s a pretty good plan, after all his grandmother already thinks he’s cool, kind of… But even…
Another
Genre : Horror, Supernatural, Mystery Episodes: 12 Studio: P.A. Works Koichi is starting to notice something strange about his new high school. Since his father had to take a job overseas, he was sent to live with his grandparents and attend his mother’s old high school but had to start late due to illness. Now it seems…
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Genre : School, drama, surrealism, romance, psychological, magical girl Episodes: 39 Studio: J.C.Staff Once upon a time, many years ago, there was a little princess, and she was very sad, for her mother and father had died. Before the princess appeared a traveling prince, riding upon a white horse. He had a regal bearing and a…
In defense of Fanservice
Fanservice has become a commonplace and fairly accepted part of anime but it is still generally maligned. For a lot of us, the very notion of fanservice is associated with cheap tricks meant to cover up otherwise subpar anime, and sadly that’s often exactly what it is, but I think there might be an argument…
Pandora Hearts
Genre : Gaslamp , Supernatural, Mystery, Drama Episodes: 25 Studio: Xebec An adorable young boy with completely justifiable daddy issues, finds himself in the Abyss, a hell dimension, due to the machinations of a secret society. In his attempts to return to his own world, he meets a seemingly amnesic demon creature named Alice who agrees to…
Hikaru no Go
Genre : Sports, Supernatural Episodes: 75 Studio: Studio Pierrot A young man with questionable tastes in hair styles gets thrown into the world of professional Go players after getting possessed by the spirit of an Ancient go master that had been bound to his grandfather’s Go board. Go is a sport! Sports anime are a particular…
Orenchi no Furo Jijō
Genre : Slice of life, 4 panel, ho yay, comedy Episodes: 13 Studio: Asahi Production A quiet young man who lives by himself comes across a beached and seemingly injured merman and decides to bring him back to his house and let him recover in his bathtub. Odd couple antics transpire. OK, right off…
Kiss him, not me
Genre: Slice of life, romance, comedy Episodes: 12 Studio: Brain’s Base Kae Serinuma is a kind and friendly high school girl with some type of glandular issues and a disarmingly positive attitude. She also happens to be a massive otaku and fujoshi. After suddenly and unexpectedly dropping an alarming amount of weight, she naturally finds herself…
Ace of Diamond
Genre : Sports!, Comedy Episodes: 126 Studio: Madhouse, Production I.G Eijun Sawamura, a young man struggling with undiagnosed hyperactivity disorder, is offered a scholarship at a prestigious baseball high school (?) where he joins the team with the boundless ambition of becoming an Ace pitcher. A lot of you may be surprised to learn that I actually…
The Ancient Magus’ Bride (OVA)
Genre : Fantasy, Adventure, Episodes: 2 Studio: Wit Studio Chise is a beloved child, living a life of wonder and merriment while studying magic under the ancient Magus Elias, but it wasn’t always so… After receiving an old book as a gift, Chise begins to recount the story of how she had first came into…
Gugure! Kokkuri-san
Genre : Comedy, slice of life, Japanese Folklore Episodes: 12 Studio: TMS Entertainment A lonely young girl amuses herself by playing the popular Meiji period divination game Kokkuri-san by herself and is soon visited by the incarnations of the traditional Japanese folklore figures believed to inhabit the game: ko 狐, foxes – the divine kitsune spirit, servants of the Shinto deity Inari(link); ku 狗, tengu, the…
Kill La Kill
Genre : Action, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Magical Girl Episodes: 24 Studio: Trigger After the murder of her father, teenager Ryuuko Matoi wanders the land in search of his killer, eventually arriving at Honnouji Academy, a high school ruled by elite students wearing special clothes called “Goku Uniforms,” which grant them unique superhuman abilities. Thoroughly beaten in a…