Title: Star DriverGenre: Action (Romance?)Rating: 6.8/10 Summary: On a cross-shaped island in the South, a mysterious and gigantic humanoid robot known as the “Cybody” is discovered sealed in the underground ruins for untold ages. A group known as the “Order of the Glittering Star Cross” attempts to remove the seal by abducting a girl named Wako Agemaki, who they…
Title: Soredemo Machi wa MawatteiruGenre: Comedy, Slice of LifeRating: 6.2/10 Summary: Clumsy Arashiyama is a girl with a love for mysteries and a knack for getting into trouble. She works for an old lady’s lackluster maid café in a small shopping district. The cafe is largely unsuccessful in attracting customers aside from Sanada, a regular and one of Arashiyama’s…
Title: Shukufuku no CampanellaGenre: Comedy, FantasyRating: 3.5/10 Summary: The story takes place in a trading city Ert’Aria. Leicester Maycraft is an item engineer belonging to an adventurer guild “Oasis”. One night, he is at a party with his friends to see a meteor stream on the rooftop of a chapel. One meteor grazes them and hits the steeple of…
Title: Shinryaku!? Ika MusumeGenre: ComedyRating: 5.8/10 Summary: Second season of Shinryaku! Ika Musume. Review: The next season of Shinryaku! Ika Musume eh? Sure I wouldn’t mind seeing the crazy adventures of the little Squid Girl again. Who knows maybe it will be better? More laughs? More fun? Oh wait. This is the second season of a pure comedy show. It has an 80%…
Title: Shinryaku! Ika MusumeGenre: ComedyRating: 6.7/10 Summary: The sea in our world has been polluted. All sorts of trash were thrown into the sea, making it unpleasant deep under the sea. One of the inhabitants of the sea, Ika Musume seeks to exact revenge on humanity for throwing trash into the sea. Clueless about the surface, she seeks to…
Title: Shinrei Tantei YakumoGenre: Mystery, SupernaturalRating: 6.7/10 Summary: In order to help a friend possessed by a spirit, Ozawa Haruka knocks on the door of her university’s movie research association. There she meets Saitou Yakumo, a rude, unkempt young man with a red left eye, who is said to have spiritual powers. At first Haruka is skeptical, but she…
Title: Serial Experiments LainGenre: Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-Fi, SupernaturalRating: 8.6/10 Summary: Lain Iwakura appears to be an ordinary girl, with almost no experience with computers. Yet the sudden suicide of a schoolmate, and a number of strange occurrences, conspire to pull Lain into the world of the Wired, where she gradually learns that nothing is what it seems to…
Title: Senhime Zesshou SymphogearGenre: Action, DramaRating: 4.0/10 Summary: Humans have been menaced by mysterious monsters called “Designated Aberrant Disaster: Noise”. Tsubasa and Kanade are a popular vocal unit “Zwei Wing”. They wear the new weapon “Symphogear” and fight against Noise to save the earth Review: I’m not sure why I thought this series my turn around considering I didn’t have…
Title: Sengoku Otome: Momoiro ParadoxGenre: Action, ComedyRating: 6.5/10 Summary: Hideyoshi is a normal modern middle-schoolgirl. However, she is one day transported to a world very similar to feudal Japan, with the exception that there are no men! There, she meets Oda Nobunaga whose ambition it is to unite all the land under her rule and gather together the “Legendary…
Title: Seitokai YakuindomoGenre: Comedy, Slice of LifeRating: 7.3/10 Summary: Takatoshi is a new student in a recently gender-integrated high school, and is asked to join the student council as the vice president. Thus begins his days as the only normal boy among 3 female student council officers. Review: Not much to really say about this anime other than a couple…
Title: Rio Rainbow Gate!Genre: ComedyRating: 6.5/10 Summary: In an island casino called the Howard Resort, Rio Rollins Tachibana is a popular casino dealer with the ability to bring good luck to gamblers just by walking past them, earning her the nickname “The Goddess of Victory”. Mint Clark, a young child, comes to the Howard Resort with her grandfather and…
Title: Rinne no LagrangeGenre: Comedy, Science FictionRating: 8.4/10 Summary: Madoka is the lone member of her school’s Jersey Club. She is one day recruited by a mysterious girl named Lan to pilot the robot “Vox” and protect her city from space invaders. They are joined by a third girl, Muginami, who has a different goal than Ran. Meanwhile, they…
Title: Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no ShichininGenre: DramaRating: 7.5/10 Summary: Seven teenagers in 1955 have to learn to live together in the same hold in the reformatory of Shio. Confined in a hall where suffering and humiliation are daily, they are waiting for a ray of hope in a dark, incarcerating world. The story follows their life together and how…
Title: Persona 4: The AnimationGenre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, MysteryRating: 7.5/10 Summary: Yu Narukami has moved from Tokyo to Inaba to stay with his uncle and cousin, while his parents are away on business. However, after a murder shakes up the sleepy town, things get even more crazy when he discovers the mysterious “Midnight Channel,” and that he has the…
Title: Panty and StockingGenre: Action, ComedyRating: 7.3/10 Summary: A company of ghosts has moved into Daten City, taking advantage of human greed. Two angels, Panty and Stocking, are sent from heaven to exterminate them — but in reality they got kicked out for bad behavior. Review: Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt was definitely one of the out-there anime. I don’t mean…