K-ON!!

Title: K-ON!! (K-ON! Season two)Genre: Comedy, Music, Slice of LifeRating: 7.0/10 Summary: After School Tea Time is back in action in the second season of K-ON!. Review: The season has finally come to an end (probably series…?) and I’m rather thankful. There are rumors of a season three but with the manga ending and a…

Katanagatari

Title: KatanagatariGenre: Action, RomanceRating: 9.3/10 Summary: This story takes place in the Edo era where Yasuri Shichika is the seventh head of the Kyotou school of Japanese sword martial arts living in Fushou Island with his sister Nanami. With the order from a female samurai general Togame, he sets out for a trip to collect…

B Gata H Kei

Title: B Gata H KeiGenre: Comedy, Ecchi, RomanceRating: 4.5/10 Summary: Yamada is a high school student, and a virgin, who aspires to have 100 casual sex partners. Despite this, she soon finds herself targeting and pursuing only one boy. Review: The title itself, and plot line should give away what I’m about to say, but…

First Look: Yosuga no Sora

Title: Yosuga no SoraGenre: Drama, Romance Summary: The story is set in the distant mountain village of Okukozome-chou. Haruka Kazugano and his twin sister Sora have fond childhood memories of going to the village to visit their grandfather during their summer vacations. However, after losing their parents in an accident, the two must move in…

Cube x Cursed x Curious

Title: Cube x Cursed x CuriousGenre: Action, Comedy, Romance, SupernaturalRating: 7.8/10 Summary: Haruaki Yachi is a high school student living alone in an old solitary home. When he wakes to a suspicious sound in his kitchen, he finds… a naked rice thief. The woman calls herself “Fear” and claims to be a cursed tool who…

Yozakura Quartet

Title: Yozakura QuartetGenre: Action, Comedy, SupernaturalRating: 7.3/10 Summary: The story revolves around a quartet of teenaged heroes: A super-strong girl named Hime, a mind reader named Ao, a conjurer named Kotoha and an ordinary, powerless boy named Akina. The three girls and Akina protect the city of Sakurashin from supernatural threats. Review: So after seeing…

5 Centimeters Per Second

Title: 5 Centimeters Per SecondGenre: Drama, Romance, Slice of LifeRating: 9.3/10 Summary: A tale of two people, Tono Takaki and Shinohara Akari, who were close friends but gradually grow farther and farther apart as time moves on. They become separated because of their families yet continue to exchange contact in the form of letters. Yet…

Shikabane Hime

Title: Shikabane HimeGenre: Action, SupernaturalRating: 6.2/10 Summary: After being brutally murdered along with her family, Makina Hoshimura turns into a Shikabane Hime, a living corpse contracted to the Kougon Cult, in order to exert revenge on the mysterious undead organization responsible for her death. She is assisted in this task by Keisei Tagami, her contracted…

Arakawa Under the Bridge

Title: Arakawa Under the BridgeGenre: Romance, ComedyRating: 7.2/10 Summary: The story is about the strange courtship of a successful executive in life called Kou and a mysterious woman called Nino who lives under a bridge. It all begins when Kou almost drowns in a river but is saved by Nino. For saving his life, Kou…

Yuru Yuri

Title: Yuru YuriGenre: ComedyRating: 6.0/10 Summary: Four fun-loving schoolgirls take over the former room of a tea ceremony club for their own “Gorakubu” (amusement club). Review: There always has to be one every anime season. The guilty pleasure anime that you watch but know you shouldn’t. One that you expect nothing from yet get a strange sense of satisfaction every…

Yumekui Merry

Title: Yumekui MerryGenre: Action, ComedyRating: 6.0/10 Summary: Ten years ago Fujiwara noticed he had a power to see multicolored auras surrounding the person’s body. Ever since then he’s been having a weird dream about a war with cats. Then one day a mysterious girl falls on top of him… Review: One of my favorite concept anime of the Winter 2010-2011…

Working’!!

Title: Working’!!Genre: ComedyRating: 8.2/10 Summary: Second season of Working!! Review: With such a distaste for Shinryaku!? Ika Musume I decided it might be best to do a review on a comedy I actually found myself enjoying more and more. The second season of Working!! did things right. More than I can say about other two season comedies *cough* Baka to Test *cough*. The thing about the second…

Welcome to the NHK!

Title: Welcome to the NHK!Genre: Dark comedy, RomanceRating: 8.7/10 Summary: Satou Tatsuhiro, 22 years old, thinks that everything that happens around him is a conspiracy. He even figured out who is behind it all: The NHK, an evil secret company. In reality, he is nothing more than a NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training), desperately in need of…

Variante

Title: VarianteGenre: Action, Drama, Horror, Psychological, Romance, Sci-fiRating: 7.0/10 Summary: Aiko should be dead, but when she awakes in a secret hospital, she has no recollection of what happened that night until a monster showed up and her memories flood back. Her arm changed into a powerful weapon similar to the monster, a chimera arm. The secret organization Atheos…