Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery Episodes: 11 Studio: MAPPA Nine and Twelve have been together for as long as either of them can remember. They are each other’s only family, only friends, only allies and confidants. Twelve and Nine know everything there is to know about each other. They accept one another, they…
Genre: Supernatural, fantasy, drama Episodes: 24 Studio: Wit Studio I really liked my synopsis for the OVAs and that’s why I’m reusing most of it here – I’m not just being lazy! Chise is a beloved child, adored by fairies and humans alike, living a life of wonder and merriment while studying magic under the ancient…
Of course it’s Natsume… Genre: Slice of Life, supernatural, hug in anime form Episodes: 74 Studio: Brain’s Base (seasons 1-4), Shuka (seasons 5-6) If you’ve been here before you know this story by now. I’ve told it to you 6 times already but how about we let the newcomers in on it as well. Natsume is a…
Genre : Historical, Drama, Romance Episodes: 40 Studio: Tōkyō Movie Shinsha Oscar is the name on everyone’s lips in the court of Versailles. The dashing young commander has won praise and respect with his impeccable swordsmanship and unmatched marksman skills, not to mention his charming gentlemanly manners. Every nobleman wants to be a bit more like…
Genre : Supernatural, Slice of Life, drama, Everything that’s good with the world Episodes: 11 (+1 OVA) Studio: Shuka There are those of us who are driven to change, pushed by wanderlust to seek out adventure. There are those of us who can’t seem to stay still, terrified of stagnation and uncomfortable with silence. But in time,…
Genre : Sports!, comedy, drama Episodes: 24 Studio: MAPPA Tsukamoto is a sports anime protagonist, short, unskilled and inexperienced in soccer but brimming with good will and enthusiasm and willing to do everything it takes to advance the standard sports anime plotline help his team get to nationals (Japan must have a national competition in something every single day of…
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: 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…
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: 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, 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…
Genre: Drama, Slice of Life, Psychological, Superatural Episodes: 13 Studio: Radix Ace Entertainment A young girl is slowly falling. She doesn’t know from where or towards what and then she wakes up. She doesn’t remember anything but the people around her are kind. They explain that she is a newly formed Haibane and her life is…
Genre: Supernatural, action, drama, comedy Episodes: 12 Studio: Bones It’s hard to be god. Or more precisely, to be A god. Yato might have fallen on some hard times, largely forgotten by all and abandoned even by his own regalia, he scrapes by best he can without even a single shrine to his name but a…
Genre: Slice of Life, Action, Drama, Supernatural Episodes: 13 Studio: Brain’s Base Since the dawn of time, Yokai and Humans have existed alongside one another but never quite together. Each side shielded from the other’s more destructive tendencies by humans’ inability to fully perceive the world in which we live. But after all this time, the…