Genre: All of them Episodes: 11 Studio: Bones In the not too distant future a slightly dystopian Japan is the grips of political unrest trying to right itself after a series of devastating terrorist attacks. Private detective Shinjuurou Yuuki makes his living trying to bring some law and order to these chaotic times with the help…
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure Episodes: 20 Studio: Studio Deen In our world Kazuma is a NEET, whiling away his days playing video games and doing very little else but after his tragic but heroic death, he is given a second chance to become a legendary hero by freeing a parallel world from the evil Devil…
Genre: Supernatural, Drama, Magical Boy(?) Episodes: 13 Studio: Brain’s Base This show recounts the epic adventures of the great and powerful Nyanko-sensei and his young attendant Natsume. Every week the great Nyanko-sensei patiently teaches the young boy about the mysterious spiritual world which coexists with our own but is invisible to most humans, all the…
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Fanservice Episodes: 12 Studio: Madhouse Blank, a brother and sister team of super elite gamers, and my personal role models, spend their days and mostly their nights, conquering every game that comes their way because they assumedly have the world’s most understanding/neglectful parents (although there may be a canon explanation for…
Genre : Supernatural, adventure Episodes: 1 movie Studio: Science Saru Kai has recently moved from Tokyo to his parent’s childhood town of Hinashi. A sleepy little coastal village, entirely dedicated to the fishing industry which sustains it and trying desperately to reinvent itself as a tourist destination. It doesn’t exactly offer the excitement and stimulation of big…
Genre: Slice of Life, Supernatural Episodes: 12 Studio: J.C.Staff As part of her training to become a full-fledged witch, Makoto moves to a rural town to live with her cousins. There she does rural town witchy stuff. Look this show isn’t really about some big overarching plot. Lots of little stuff happens. This series rounded off…
Genre : Romance, supernatural, school, kissing Episodes: 12 Studio: Liden Films Yamada is thug with a heart of gold but unfortunately for him most people don’t really get past the thug part. This has led to some difficulty when trying to make friends, so he gave up. What Yamada doesn’t know though is that his school…
Genre: Shoujo, Magic, Supernatural Episodes: 12 Studio: J.C.Staff Honoka keeps running into the school princess, Ayaka. They take the bus together, they’re in the same class, they even share cleanup duty, but he’s never managed to have an actual conversation with her. Despite the completely innocent nature of their relationship, Honoka keeps getting attacked because of…
Genre: Pure awesomeness Episodes: 24 or 1 game Studio: White Fox or 5pb., Nitroplus Steins; Gate is one of my favorite animes because I am a human. There’s nothing special about this – it’s in everyone’s top 10 and the fact that it’s not considered completely overrated by now is a tribute to its quality. But way before…
Reborn Genre: Shonen, Comedy, action, supernatural Episodes: 203 Studio: Artland Tsuna is not having a good day. Not only has his lack of both academic and physical prowess earned him the nickname of loser Tsuna and he is making zero progress with the girl he likes but now, all the sudden, he is apparently…
Genre: Military, Supernatural, Magical Girl Episodes: 12(1) Studio: NUT In a parallel universe, closely resembling our own, a small but powerful Germanic nation has just invaded the neighbouring country in a bid for resources and political dominance of the region. An important part of Empire’s military strategy is the use of Mage units of…
Genre: Sci Fi, Psychological, Cyberpunk, Magical girl(?) Episodes: 13 Studio: Triangle Staff Oh maaan… OK so like first scene – BAM, this girl kills herself and we have no clue why. Then, people at her school start getting emails from her (this was a while ago – you couldn’t just schedule your emails to send…
Genre : Comedy, Romance, Slice of life Episodes: 12 Studio: Doga Kobo Chiyo Sakura is awesome. She is awesome in that she is an actual, believable and inherently likable high school girl with one of those quintessential high school crushes on her classmate Umetarō Nozaki. Because Chiyo is awesome and not some shell of a girl…
Genre : Romance, School, Drama, Comedy Episodes: 25 Studio: TV Tokyo A hot guy – who the show tells me is not hot(?) – teams up with a super-hot girl with anger issues – who’s apparently also pretty but not that hot(?)– so that they can help each other get the boy/girl of their dreams. Did that description confuse…
Genre: Comedy?, slice of life, fanservice Episodes: 12 Studio: Passione Some hot chick with social anxiety so extremely severe that she regularly seizes up physically and intellectually for hours and is kindly used by people around her as a scarecrow, randomly decides her only wish in life is to become a stage actress, cause that…