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…
Well guys, I’ve been doing this blogging thingy for about a month now and you know what I’ve realized? Writing posts isn’t so bad – especially when you don’t research, think about or spell check them BUT watching entire series takes a long time. And I have a full-time job which sadly isn’t watching anime….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…