Genre: Absurdist, surreal, comedy, commentary Episodes: 12 Studio: AIC A.S.T.A. It was bound to happen. We all saw it coming. Now Humanity has declined. No longer comfortably perched at the top of the food chain the dwindling remains of the once great human race are calmly, slowly biding their time on the way to inevitable…
Genre: Drama, psychological thriller, supernatural Episodes: 12 Studio: Madhouse It is an inevitable truth that all things alive must one day die. As humans, we all struggle to accept this fact and to find some sort of meaning to justify our existence. We like to think that what we do and who we are matters…
Genre: Supernatural, Slice of Life, Drama Episodes: 11 + 2 OVAS + 1 special Studio: Shuka Takashi has come a long long way and been through several lifetimes worth of hardship and adventure, yet the real work has only just begun. Once you manage to pull yourself together and somehow reconcile an existence half rooted in…
Genre: Supernatural, fantasy, dark comedy Episodes: 12 Studio: A-1 Pictures Describing Black Butler should be considered an art form in its own. Right, here we go. Ciel and Sebastian are back somehow but this time, they’re not alone. Victorian England wasn’t exactly the happiest place and time to live in and Ciel’s hardly the only…
Genre: Moe, Slice of Life Episodes: 12 Studio: Doga Kobo Everything is coming up Aoba! Aoba has dreamed of becoming a video game designer ever since falling in love with the epic RPG Fairy Story back in grade school and has since dedicated herself entirely to her singular goal. And wouldn’t you know, despite the…
Genre: Horror, action, comedy, drama Episodes: 10 Studio: Satelight (1–4); Madhouse (5–7); Graphinica & Kelmadick (8–10) The Hellsing organisation is back… or rehere…rebooted. You know it’s Hellsing again. Yadda yadda vampires, yadda yadda freak microchips yadda yadda OMG that is soooo much blood. Only this time there’s Nazis. And also a coherent narrative with a complete arc that includes a…
What!? Now I have to choose a single scene!!?? How in the..just kidding, I had this one pegged from the beginning. I know exactly which scene to go for and I’m right about it. You’ll see – it’s the best scene!
Genre: Sports!, Slice of life, psychological, comedy, horror Episodes: 12 Studio: Kinema Citrus Fuchsia haired Haruka just moved to the big city from a small town in Hokkaido and is eager to put her awkward social outcast days behind her. She quickly learns that high stakes ping-pong is the hottest thing around and an absolute…
Genre: Slice of life, comedy, foodservice Episodes: 13 Studio: Asahi Production Basking in the glories of her energetic teenage metabolism, Minami has resolved to eat all the bread and nothing but all the bread forever. Apparently this is what all the cool kids are doing because she soons finds herself surrounded by a posse of…
Genre: Supernatural, fantasy, dark comedy Episodes: 24 Studio: A-1 Pictures A precocious young psychopath enlists the help of a deceptively charming demon to realize his revenge against his family’s murders by making said demon his butler and developing an antagonistically sexy relationship with him. Naturally, his quest for vengeance will consist of loosely related investigations…
Genre: Romance, comedy, drama, reverse harem, pure bliss Episodes: 13 Studio: A-1 Pictures A pretty little meth addict figures she should break into the music industry since her heavy drug problem will probably be less of an issue there. Making her once in a lifetime rational decision, she attends X Factor University in hopes of…
Genre : Folklore, Mystery, Supernatural, Episodes: 12 Studio: Toei Animation On a dark and rainy night, a pregnant woman desperately begs for a room to spend the night at an inn. Will she be able to escape the murderous threat at her heels? An unfortunate ship drifts into the Dragon’s Triangle. As the passengers pray for an escape from…
Genre: Psychological horror, drama Episodes: 13 Studio: Zexcs Takao Kasuga is a special precious flower. Completely unique, brilliant and misunderstood. He is smarter, better, purer than all those pedestrians he is surrounded by. He is truer, he feels more honestly. He is a teenage boy whose favorite book is Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal. Have you…
Genre: Horror, gore, action, supernatural Episodes: 13 Studio: Gonzo How much do you know about vampires? Can you list their powers? Do you know how they’re made? Can you describe legendary vampire hunter Hellsing? Wrong, wrong and wrong! Vampires, don’t turn into bats, they turn into flowing masses of nightmare fuel. They don’t care about…
Genre: Horror, drama, psychological Episodes: 22 Studio: Daume Sotoba is your typical little rural village. Quiet, isolated, sleepy. Nothing much ever happens in Sotoba. As far as a teenager like Megumi is concerned, it’s the worst place in the world. There’s no nightlife, no style, no thrills, in a word it’s boring and Megumi cannot…