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Black Bullet

Title: Black Bullet Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi Rating: 6.3/10 Summary: A near future, where humans have been defeated by the viral parasites named Gastrea. They have been exiled into a small territory and live in despair, side-by-side in terror. In this world trapped in darkness— Rentaro, a boy living near Tokyo and member of the “Civil Security”—an organization specializing in fighting against the Gastrea—is used to accomplishing dangerous tasks. His partner is Enju, a precocious young girl. They fight thanks to their peculiar powers until one day, when they receive a special assignment from the government. This top secret mission is to prevent the destruction of Tokyo. Read more...

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Akuma no Riddle

Title: Akuma no Riddle Genre: Action Rating: 4.6/10 Summary: The story is set at Myoujou Academy, a private girls’ boarding school. The 10th year’s Kurogumi class has 12 assassins with their sights on one target, Haru Ichinose. Tokaku Azuma is a recent transfer student who is also targeting Ichinose, but she gradually develops feelings for Ichinose.. Read more...

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Nobunagun

Title: Nobunagun Genre: Action, Comedy Rating: 8.8/10 Summary: Shio Ogura is a Japanese high school student, who is visiting Taiwan on a school trip when she is suddenly attacked by monsters. Agents known as “E-Gene Holders” from the government agency DOGOO also arrive, who wield weapons infused with the spirits of historical figures. Shio is revealed to also be an E-Gene Holder when the soul of Oda Nobunaga awakens after she tries to rescue a friend. Read more...

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The Pilot's Love Song

Title: The Pilot's Love Song (Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta) Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance Rating: 4.4/10 Summary: This is a tale of a prince who lost everything leaves for a journey with no guarantee of returning to his hometown safely. With hatred and revenge in his mind, he met several people that taught him about friendship…and love. Read more...

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Mikakunin de Shinkoukei

Title: Mikakunin de Shinkoukei Genre: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life, Supernatural Rating: 8.0/10 Summary: The comedy revolves around Kobeni Yonomori, who on her 16th birthday suddenly has a young man with little presence named Hakuya Mitsumine and his younger sister Mashiro appear in front of her. It turns out that Hakuya is her fiancee, and Mashiro is her future sister-in-law. The three (and Konbeni’s older sister Benio) start living together underneath the same roof, and hilarious happenings occur. Read more...

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Kill la Kill

Title: Kill la Kill Genre: Action, Comedy Rating: 9.2/10 Summary: Ryuuko Matoi carries a large weapon shapes like half of a pair of scissors. She’s looking for the woman with the other half, who killed her father. Satsuki Kiryuuin, student council president of Honnouji Academy, is said to know the woman’s identity, so Ryuuko transfers there. Those who arrive at the school receive a special “reverse uniform,” and Satsuki has used that power to rule the school in fear. Read more...

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Log Horizon

Title: Log Horizon Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy Rating: 7.6/10

Summary: The story begins when 30,000 Japanese gamers are trapped in the fantasy online game world Elder Tale. What was once a sword-and-sorcery world is now the real world. The main lead Shiroe attempts to survive with his old friend Naotsugu and the beautiful assassin Akatsuki. Read more...

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Golden Time

Title: Golden Time Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Rating: 7.1/10 Summary: Tada Banri is a newly admitted student at a private law school in Tokyo. Due to the after-effects of an accidental fall from a bridge shortly after high school graduation, he lost all his memories from before then. At the time of the accident, Banri’s soul had escaped from his body, and the Spirit of Tada Banri came into being, carrying his memories from before graduation. Read more...

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Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha

Title: Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha Genre: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life, Supernatural Rating: 6.3/10 Summary:  Fushimi Inari is a shy, not-so-bright middle school girl living in Kyoto’s Fushimi ward. She has a crush on her classmate Tanbbashi, but cannot express her feelings. One day, as thanks for helping a fox pup, the deity Ukanomitamanokami grants her the ability to change her form. Read more...

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D-Frag!

Title: D-Frag! Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Rating: 7.6/10 Summary: Kazama Kenji likes to believe he is something of a delinquent. Moreover, others seem to like to agree that he is. Of course, Kenji’s gang finds their way to a group of four not-so-normal girls—Chitose, Sakura, Minami and Roka—and all at once, whatever reputation he may have is nothing compared to the outrageous behavior of the girls. Shanghaied into joining their club, what will happen to his everyday life from that point on? Read more...

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Kyousogiga

Title: Kyousogiga Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Slice of Life Rating: 9.2/10 Summary: Hidden within Kyoto is the "mirror capital" where youkai and humans live together and no one ever dies. It is protected by three people - Kurama, Yase, and Myoue - as they await the return of their parents, Myoue Jonin and Koto. One day a young girl named Koto (same name, different spelling) and her little brothers A and Un wander into the city from a different dimension looking for her mother. A mecha-geek with red eyes, it's not immediately clear whether she's human or youkai. Her arrival upsets the long peace that had ruled the city. Read more...

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Gingitsune

Title: Gingitsune Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life, Supernatural Rating: 6.1/10 Summary: Makoto is the fifteenth generation heiress of a small shrine to the god Inari. Her father is still the shrine's priest, but Inari's divine messenger, Gintarou, has appeared to Makoto, marking her as true successor. Gintarou has the ability to see a short distance into the future and to find lost objects, but is unmotivated and foulmouthed. In spite of this, he becomes friends with Makoto, and together they help those who come to the shrine. Read more...

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Kyoukai no Kanata

Title: Kyoukai no Kanata Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Psychological, Romance Rating: 7.6/10 Summary: Akihito Kanbara is a high school sophomore in the literature club who believes himself to be a "Meganest", and although he appears to be human, he is actually half Yōmu, which makes him invulnerable to wounds, due to the fact that he can heal so quickly, and also immortal. One day, Akihito meets freshman Mirai Kuriyama when it appears as if she is about to attempt suicide by jumping off of the school rooftop. Mirai is isolated because of her ability to manipulate blood, which is considered heresy even among other members of the underworld, so she is shunned. Soon after Akihito saves Mirai, disturbing events begin to arise. Read more...

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Non Non Biyori

Title: Non Non Biyori Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Rating: 6.5/10 Summary: Asahioka Branch School, a combined elementary and middle school in an isolated village, has only five students total, four girls and one boy. The girls are best friends, and pass the season with traditional activities like harvesting mountain herbs and fishing. Read more...

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Galilei Donna

Title: Galilei Donna Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction Rating: 3.5/10 Summary: In 2061, global warming is a thing of the past as a new ice age covers the world. Hozuki, Hazaki, and Kazaki Ferrari, three descendants of Galileo, live in Tuscany. A mysterious organization is searching for the "Galilei Donna," and put out an international arrest warrant for the three sisters. The sisters must put aside their differences to join forces in fighting the organization and learning their true destiny. Read more...

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Coppelion

Name: Coppelion Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-Fi Rating: 3.8/10 Summary: Many years after a great tragedy killed 90% of the people in Japan, three girls arrive in the ruins of Tokyo. In the devastated capital, their unusually clean clothes set them apart. But that’s not the only strange thing about them – they also each wield supernatural powers. They call themselves “Coppelion,” and are on a mission to save the people of Tokyo. Read more...

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Gatchaman Crowds

Title: Gatchaman Crowds Genre: Action, Sci-Fi Rating: 7.1/10 Summary: The story takes place in the early summer of 2015 and is set in the city of Tachikawa, Japan. The city is populated by people known as Gatchaman, who are warriors that fight in special reinforced suits that are powered by the manifestation of spiritual powers of living beings called NOTE. Enter Hajime Ichinose, a 16 year old energetic high school girl who is obsessed with collecting day planners and stationary. She is chosen to become a Gatchaman and tasked with the duty of fighting a mysterious alien life form known as MESS. Read more...

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Tokurei Sochi Dantai Stella Jo-Gakuin Koutou-ka C3-bu

Title: Tokurei Sochi Dantai Stella Jo-Gakuin Koutou-ka C3-bu Genre: Action, Drama, Slice of Life Rating: 6.0/10 Summary: Yura Yamato has just arrived at the high school division of Stella Women’s Academy, when Sonora Kashima invites her to join a club called “C³”. Sonora is the third-year student who became the new head of this club for military survival games. The other members include two second-year students (part-Japanese Karila Hatsuse and G36K-wielding Honoka Mutsu) and two other new students (Rento Kirishima whose family runs a Japanese sweets shop and the really short Yachiyo Hinata). Read more...

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Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi

Title: Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural Rating: 8.6/10 Summary: God abandoned the world on Sunday. As a result, nobody in the world can die or reproduce. A little girl, Ai, is the gravekeeper for a village. She has prepared 47 graves for the eventual deaths of every member of the village. Later, a boy who identifies himself as “Hampnie Hambart, the ‘Man-eating Toy’,” which is coincidentally the name that Ai’s mother left behind as the name of her father, arrives in the village and slaughters everybody. Just what is going on? Read more...

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Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui!

Title: Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui! Genre: Dark Comedy Rating: 7.4/10 Summary: Kuroki Tomoko is a super popular, high school girl who has had 50 years of dating experience and 100 boys… in the Otome game world. In the real world, she is a 15-year-old shut in who has all of the qualities of a “mojo” (a gloomy or unpopular woman). However, when school isn’t going as she expected, and she isn’t as popular as she had thought she was, she takes a look at herself in the mirror for the first time in a few years, and has some shocking revelations… Read more...

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Danganronpa Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei

Title: Danganronpa Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei Genre: Mystery Rating: 4.2/10 Summary: A group of 15 elite high school students are gathered at a very special, high class high school. To graduate from this high school essentially means you’ll succeed in life, but graduating is very difficult. The school is presided over by a bear called Monokuma, and he explains to them that their graduation hinges around committing a murder. The only way to graduate is to kill one of your classmates and get away with it. If the other classmates discover the identity of the killer, the killer is the only one executed. However, if they fail to catch the killer, only the killer graduates and the others are annihilated. Which of the 15 will survive the bloodbath to come? Read more...

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Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou

Title: Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou Genre: Comedy Rating: 4.0/10 Summary: The absurd mystery comedy centers around Kazuhito Harumi, a high school boy who is obsessed with reading books. One day, he is killed in the middle of a robbery — and resurrected as a dachshund dog. Unable to read in his new form, the hapless Kazuhito now belongs to Kirihime Natsuno, a sadistic novelist who uses scissors on Kazuhito to abuse him. Read more...

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Gin no Saji

Title: Gin no Saji Genre: Slice of Life Rating: 8.2/10

Summary: Yugo Hachiken dreams of life separated from his family, so he takes the initiative by enrolling in an agriculture school. He thinks, with his talent in studying, no problems will arise no matter what kind of school he attends. He is proven wrong very quickly. Raised as a city boy, he is forced to uncover the inconvenient truth about agricultural life. Enjoy the story of Hachiken, as he tries to keep up with his new friends, farmers’ heirs, who are already accustomed to the harsh world of farming. With no clear goals or understanding of farming life, how will Hachiken survive this new, cruel reality? The story of a sweat, tear, and mud-stained youth begins! Read more...

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Servant x Service

Title: Servant x Service
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rating: 9.0/10

 

Summary: Anime about the staff of the health and welfare section of the ward office of a certain city. Newcomers Hasebe Yutaka, Yamagami, Miyoshi Saya, and their supervisor Ichimiya Taishi go through the everyday quirks of working at their office.

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Tamayura ~more aggressive~

Title: Tamayura ~More Aggressive~ Genre: Slice of Life Rating: 9.0/10 Summary: Second season of Tamayura Read more...

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Aku no Hana

Title: Aku no Hana Genre: Drama, Psychological, Romance Rating: 6.3/10 Summary: Takao worships the class beauty, Nanako, from afar. When he is alone in the classroom one day after school, he notices her bag of gym clothes on the floor. He can't resist picking it up. He plans to return it, but the next day, all the girls are commiserating with Nanako that some pervert has stolen her gym clothes. Worse than that, their classmate Sawa quietly lets him know that she saw him take the clothes and will tell Nanako if he doesn't make a contract with her to do whatever she asks of him. And so their strange, tense relationship begins. Read more...

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Devil Survivor 2

Title: Devil Survivor 2 Genre: Action, Fantasy Rating: 4.5/10 Summary: Adaptation of the Nintendo DS game, part of the Shin Megami Tensei series. High school senior Hibiki Kuze and his best friend Daichi Shijima discover a website that will send videos of their friends' faces just before they die, only to receive videos of each other on the very spot where they're standing. When sudden disaster strikes, the same site that foretold doom allows them to summon the "demons" they need to survive, and the two friends along with classmate Io Nitta are thrown into an uneasy alliance with a secret organization fighting to stop the end of the world. Read more...

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Hataraku Maou-sama!

Title: Hataraku Maou-sama! Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Slice of Life Rating: 8.8/10 Summary: In another dimension the Devil King Sadao is only one step away from conquering the world when he is beaten by Hero Emilia and forced to drift to the other world: modern-day Tokyo. As "conquering the world" are the only skills the Devil King possesses - and are obviously unnecessary in his new situation - he must work as a freeter to pay for his living expenses. Read more...

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Suisei no Gargantia

Title: Suisei no Gargantia Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi Rating: 9.2/10 Summary: While fighting an intense inter-galactic war, a mecha pilot was accidentally warped into a space-time neither he nor the computer of his mecha could recognize. After waking up from a long-time hibernation, he found himself trapped on a planet, with human residents talking in an unknown form of language, using inferior technologies, and -- most shocking to him -- naturally breathable air. Read more...

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Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W

Title: Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi Rating: 5.5/10 Summary: "I'm Nyarlathotep, the creeping chaos always smiling beside you." But you can call her Nyaruko for short. One by one, the Great Ones from the Cthulhu mythos are coming to earth to target Nyaruko and her human friend Mahiro. He's utterly clueless about the true nature of his cosmic conflict and just wants to live in peace. Read more...

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Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Bride

Title: Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Bride Genre: Action, Comedy Rating: 5.6/10 Summary: Second season of Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls. Read more...

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Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!

Title: Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rating: 8.7/10

Summary Yuuta Togashi suffered from chuunibyou while he was in middle school. When he graduated, he put that dark history behind him and forgot about it… or he was supposed to. High school was smooth sailing and full of enjoyment – until the unavoidable, sad event occurs. The event that locks Yuuta into a contract with Rikka Takanashi and disrupts his desperately ordinary life.

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K

Title: K Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery Rating: 4.2/10 Summary: Ashinaka High School is known for its unique setting: the entire campus is built on an island. Yashiro Isana, aka Shiro, is having lunch with a cat on one of the school rooftops. After his lunch break, Shiro goes on an errand for his classmate Kukuri to prepare for their upcoming school festival, only to be chased by some intimidating-looking men. Read more...

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Jormungand

Title: Jormungand Genre: Action, Comedy Rating: 8.0/10

Summary: The series follows Koko Hekmatyar, a young arms dealer who sells weapons under HCLI, an international shipping corporation that secretly deals in the arms trade. As one of the company's unofficial weapon dealers, she secretly sells weapons in many countries while avoiding the local authorities and law enforcement as most of her work is actually illegal under international law. Traveling with her is her team of bodyguards who are mostly composed of ex-military veterans. Her latest addition to her crew is Jonah, a seemingly emotionless child soldier who is skilled in combat yet ironically hates arms dealers. Jonah joins Koko as he wishes to find the arms dealer responsible for his family's death. What follows is Koko and her crew's escapades around the world. Read more...

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Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita

Title: Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction Rating: 8.5/10 Summary It’s been several centuries since human beings declined due to the steep drop in birthrates. The most prosperous species on the Earth are “Fairies”, 10 cm tall creatures with high intelligence. I became a UN arbitrator between the humans and the fairies and returned to my hometown to help my grandfather. I thought my job would not be a tough one and visited one of the fairies’ habitats to say hello to them but… Read more...

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Medaka Box Abnormal

Title: Medaka Box Abnormal Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance Rating: 8.2/10 Summary: Second season of Medaka Box Read more...

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Kokoro Connect

Title: Kokoro Connect Genre: Drama, Supernatural, Romance Rating: 4.5/10 Summary: Kokoro Connect revolves around the daily, not so normal lives of Taichi, Iori, Himeko, Yoshifumi and Yui and their encounters in the Cultural Research Club. Up until recently they thought that they and their friends lived normal happy lives, but now the Heartseed is pulling their lives apart and exposing their inner secrets through body switching, urges and age regression. Read more...

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Natsuyuki Rendezvous

Title: Natsuyuki Rendezvous Genre: Drama, Romance, Supernatural Rating: 8.3/10 Summary: A young man with poor eyesight named Hazuki works part-time in a flower shop and falls hard for the shop-owner Rokka. But what happens when he discovers that residing in her apartment is the spirit of the man she can never forget? Read more...

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Oda Nobuna no Yabou

Title: Oda Nobuna no Yabou Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance Rating: 7.7/10 Summary: The historical romantic comedy follows 17 year old high schooler Sagara Yoshiharu who one day time-travels to the Sengoku period, where all the major Samurai lords are cute girls. Yoshiharu meets Oda Nobunaga, and begins to serve her as a substitute of Kinoshita Tokichiro, who has been dead in the world. Read more...

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Eureka Seven AO

Title: Eureka Seven AO Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 5.6/10 Summary: Ao, the son of Eureka, lives on Okinawa. He comes into contact with Mark 1, which turns out to be Nirvash, his mother's mecha, which no one has been able to make it work since his mother used it. Ao ends up joining an organization called Generation Blue with Nirvash and helps fights G-Monsters/Secrets. Read more...

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Sakamichi no Apollon

Title: Sakamichi no Apollon Genre: Slice of Life Rating: 8.5/10

Summary: The coming-of-age story of “love, friendship, and music” follows a naive boy and a scruffy boy in a provincial town in Nagasaki Prefecture in the late 1960s. In the early summer of 1966, Kaoru transfers to the local high school from Yokosuka. Thanks to his family’s nearly constant cycle of moving from town to town, Kaoru has only known school as a difficult place for readjusting every time. However, on his first day at this new school, he meets a boy and begins a new direction in life. Read more...

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Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon II

Title: Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon II Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction Rating: 8.0/10

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Tasogare Otome x Amnesia

Title: Tasogara Otome x Amnesia Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Supernatural Rating: 7.8/10 Summary: At the Private Seikyō Academy, there is a legend that all students have heard. Sixty years ago, there was a girl who for some reason, was left behind in the old, abandoned school building to die. Teiichi Niiya one day meets a beautiful, mysterious girl named Yūko Kanoe at the old school building and gets a surprise—she's the ghost of the girl who died 60 years ago, but does not remember her past or how she died. Teiichi becomes determined to help her remember, and together, they seek the truth behind the gruesome legend. Read more...

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First Look: Winter 2012-2013

I’m not really sure how I feel about this season, I want to say that I enjoy it but at the same time I don’t. There are some anime that I picked up which I can’t wait to watch and others that were disappointing. I hand selected a lot of the anime this time around because everything else just looked like the same re-hashed story. It’s sad to say but I picked quite a few of my anime this season because they’re continuations. Either way here is my worth picking up, on watch, and dropped anime this season.

Amnesia • Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman • Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT • Chihayafuru Second Season • Ishida to Asakura • Kotoura-san • Maoyuu Maou Yuusha • Minami-ke Tadaima • Mondai-Ji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo? • Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru • Puchimas! Petit iDOLM@STER • Sasami-san@Ganbaranai • Senyuu • Zettai Karen Children: The Unlimited

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Acchi Kocchi

Title: Acchi Kocchi Genre: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life Rating: 4.8/10

Summary: The serious-minded Tsumiki and the pure-hearted Io feel they never want to be parted, and yet they haven't fallen in love yet. More than friends but not lovers, they develop an awkward quasi-romance. Read more...

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Sankarea

Title: Sankarea Genre: Comedy, Romance Rating: 7.2/10

Summary: Chihiro Furuya, who loves zombies above all else, meets the sweet girl Rea Sanka by chance, and he ropes her into "resurrecting" his dead cat. But then Rea claims she actually has become a zombie, and asks him to take responsibility for it. Read more...

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Nazo no Kanojo X

Title: Nazo no Kanojo X Genre: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life Rating: 9.0/10

Summary: Akira is a normal high school boy, but he nevertheless impulsively licks some drool left by the mysterious transfer student Mikoto. The next day he falls asleep with an inexplicable fever. After five days Mikoto suddenly comes to visit, and makes him consume her drool. The fever instantly vanishes, and Mikoto explains that he's suffering from "love sickness." She can transmit emotions through her drool, and the two of them are now bound together. Read more...

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Medaka Box

Title: Medaka Box Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance Rating: 7.7/10

Summary: Medaka Kurokami, a first year student at Hakoniwa Academy, excels at everything she does. She becomes the Student council president and along with her childhood friend, Zenkichi Hitoyoshi, she plans to solve all of the student body's problems that are submitted to a suggestion box, dubbed the "Medaka Box." Read more...

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Lupin the Third: Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna

Title: Lupin the Third: Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna Genre: Action, Comedy, Psychological Rating: 8.7/10 Summary: Many people are falling prey to a suspicious new religion. Lupin III infiltrates this group, hoping to steal the treasure their leader keeps hidden. There he lays eyes on the beautiful, bewitching woman who has the leader enthralled. This is the story of how fashionable female thief Fujiko Mine first met Lupin III, the greatest thief of his generation. Read more...

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Kore wa Zombie desu ka? OF THE DEAD

Name: Kore wa Zombie desu ka? OF THE DEAD Genre: Comedy, Romance Rating: 6.0/10 Summary: Season two of Kore wa Zombie desu ka? Read more...

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Kimi to Boku 2

Title: Kimi to Boku 2 Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Rating: 7.5/10 Summary: Season two of Kimi to Boku Read more...

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Ozuma

Title: Ozuma Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 6.5/10 Summary: In the far future, the elevated irradiation from the sun has destroyed the environment of the earth and the birthrate of humans has drastically decreased. The government controls society with an army of cloned soldiers called “Ideal Children (IC)”. Sam Coin is a trader in a desert. One day, he saves a beautiful woman Maya, who has been chased by Theseus, a corps of IC. He shelters her in his trade ship, but the destroyers of Theseus surround Sam and Maya. Read more...

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Rinne no Lagrange

Title: Rinne no Lagrange Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction Rating: 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 still don't know their enemies' true goal, or what "Rinne" might be. Read more...

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Nisemonogatari

Title: Nisemonogatari Genre: Comedy, Psychological, Supernatural Rating: 7.4/10 Summary: In Bakemonogatari, the story centers on Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student who has recently survived a vampire attack, and finds himself mixed up with all kinds of apparitions: gods, ghosts, myths, and spirits. However, in Nisemonogatari, we pick up right where we left off and follow Koyomi as the psychological twists delve deeper and deeper… Read more...

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Papa no Iukoto o Kikinasai!

Title: Pap no Iukoto o Kikinasai! Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Rating: 7.8/10 Summary: Segawa Yuta is a freshman of a university. He lost his parents when he was small and was raised by his sister Yuri. Yuta has been living alone since Yuri got married to a middle aged man when Yuta was a junior high student. One day, Yuri visited Yuta’s apartment and asked him to take care of her three daughters while Yuri and her husband were on a trip. He unwillingly accepted the job but the plane Yuri took went missing. In order to prevent the daughters from being adopted separately by relatives, Yuta decided to take in all three girls. A life of a strange family in a tiny apartment begins. Read more...

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Senhime Zesshou Symphogear

Title: Senhime Zesshou Symphogear Genre: Action, Drama Rating: 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. Read more...

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Inu x Boku Secret Service

Title: Inu x Boku Secret Service Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Supernatural Rating: 5.8/10 Summary: The Shirakiin house’s daughter, Shirakiin Riricho, who has a complex about being unable to live independently and unprotected, feels the need to move out and live on her own under the condition of residing in the mansion named “Ayakashi Kan.” In this mansion, only those who have cleared a very strict examination could reside in it, and for each resident, they are accompanied with one agent of the Secret Service (S.S.). Although Riricho has rejected the company of the S.S., while residing in the mansion she finds out that the agent dedicated to protecting her is actually the Fox Spirit whom she previously rescued. Read more...

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Persona 4: The Animation

Title: Persona 4: The Animation Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery Rating: 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 even more mysterious ability to enter TVs. Accompanied by his disbelieving friends, Yu discovers another world inside the TVs, that seems to be connected with the murder. They also discover the ability to summon 'Persona', their 'other selves', whose power they can use to fight the shadows that inhabit the TV world. The murders, the Midnight Channel, the world inside the TV, and Persona. Yu and his friends fight to figure out how they're connected, and to solve the case before it's too late. Read more...

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Mirai Nikki

Title: Mirai Nikki Genre: Action, Drama, Psychological, Romance, Thriller Rating: 7.2/10 Summary: Middle school 2nd year, Amano Yukiteru, is a boy who has problem making friends. He thinks of himself as a bystander and will always write down everything he sees in a cell phone diary. Tormented by solitude, Yukiteru began to imagine things like a friend called Deus Ex Machina who is apparently the Lord of Time & Space. Seeing Yukiteru’s miserable state, Deus gives him a new ability. His diary will now record events that will happen in the near future. Yukiteru is then forced to participate in a game which the winner will become Deus’s successor. Read more...

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Brave 10

Title: Brave 10 Genre: Action, Comedy Rating: 6.7/10 Summary: The story reimagines the legendary adventures of the 10 brave warriors assembled by the warlord Sanada Yukimura in the year 1600, in the middle of Japan’s tumultuous Sengoku (Warring States) era. Read more...

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Another

Title: Another Genre: Drama, Horror Rating: 5.8/10 Summary: 26 years ago, in a third-year classroom of a middle school, there was a student named Misaki. As an honors student who was also good at sports, the charming girl was popular with her classmates. When she suddenly died, her classmates decided to carry on as if she was still alive until graduation. Then, in the spring of 1998, a boy named Sakakibara Kouichi transfers to that classroom, and he grows suspicious of the fearful atmosphere in that classroom. In particular, there is a beautiful, aloof girl named Mei Misaki who wears an eyepatch and is always alone drawing pictures. Read more...

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Black★Rock Shooter

Title: Black★Rock Shooter Genre: Action, Drama, Slice of Life Rating: 5.5/10 Summary: Mato Kuroi is drawn to Yomi Takanashi, her classmate with an unusual family name. Mato does her best to talk to Yomi, who just won't open up. Yuu Koutari mocks her best friend Mato's efforts but at the same time, supports her. Mato also finds herself surrounded by other colorful characters at school, like the eccentric school counselor, Saya Irino, and the hot-blooded captain of her club club, Arata Kohata. However, outside a world of their own was one of pain and suffering. In this world, people fight to the death, taking on the struggles of the real world. This is their story. Read more...

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Mawaru​ Penguindrum

Title: Mawaru Penguindrum Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Psychological Rating: 9.3/10 Summary: The story centers around three siblings, twins Kanba and Shouma, and the ill sister, Himari Takakura. Himari passes away after going out on a trip with her brothers. She was however, miraculously saved by a spirit thriving in a penguin-shaped hat. In return for her extended life, the twins must search for an item known as the Penguin Drum with the aid of three penguins which are visible only to the siblings. Read more...

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UN-GO

Title: UN-GO Genre: Mystery, Supernatural Rating: 6.8/10 Summary: With the help of his strange assistant Inga, "defeated detective" Shinjūrō Yūki solves crimes in a near future Japan still suffering from the ravages of war. Problem is, the credit always ends up going to super detective Rinroku Kaishō. Read more...

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Kimi to Boku

Title: Kimi to Boku Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Rating: 6.0/10 Summary: About 4 friends, twins Yuta and Yuki Asaba, the cute and girly Shun Matsuoka, and the class head Kaname Tsukahara, who have known each other since kindergarden. When a half-Japanese transfer student named Chizuru Tachibana joins their group, he brings a new dynamic to their friendship. Read more...

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Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon

Title: Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon Genre: Fantasy Rating: 7.3/10 Summary: In a distant future, Japan is divided into feudal territories, which have been conquered and are ruled by outside countries. The flying city-ship Musashi, which holds the remnants of the Japanese, is being targeted and has no choice but to keep its people safe by going to war. With the fate of the world resting on its hands, the students of Musashi may hold the key to victory. Read more...

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Ben-to

Title: Ben-to Genre: Action, Comedy Rating: 8.7/10 Summary: After collapsing in the street bloodied and battered, You Satou has no recollection of what happened to him – the only thing he remembers is going to the supermarket to buy a bento lunchbox. After having bizarre encounters the entire following day including a stern warning to stay away from the store, You returns that night to buy dinner. But when he spies the shelf of half-priced bento and reaches out for one, the penniless teen finds himself thrust into a world where the rush to get a good deal becomes an epic battle in which only the strongest survive… Read more...

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Boku Ha Tomodachi Ga Sukunai

Title: Boku Ha Tomodachi Ga Sukunai Genre: Comedy, Romance Rating: 6.2/10 Summary: Hasegawa Kodaka is a recent transfer student to St. Chronica's Academy, a Catholic high school. As with every other school he has ever attended, he finds it difficult to make friends there because of his naturally-blond hair and fierce-looking eyes, which make him look like a dangerous "yankee" to his prejudiced schoolmates. One day, Kodaka accidentally comes across the equally solitary and very abrasive Yozora Mikazuki while she converses with her imaginary friend Tomo. Realizing that neither of them have any social lives, they decide that the best way to improve their situation is to form a club: the Neighbor's Club precisely intended to make friends and learn social skills. Read more...

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Tamayura ~hitotose~

Title: Tamayura ~hitotose~ Genre: Slice of Life Rating: 8.0/10

Summary: For her first year of high school, Fu Sawatari moves to Takehara, a scenic old town near Hiroshima, on the Inland Sea. Her father, who has passed away, grew up in Takehara. She loves taking photographs with her father's old film camera, a Rollei 35S. The story follows her and the friends who gather around her as she comes to love her new home. Read more...

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The iDOLM@STER

Title: The iDOLM@STER Genre: Drama Rating: 8.5/10

Summary: The arduous struggle of the 13 girls from Talent Production 765 who dream of one day becoming idols in the competitive Japanese entertainment industry Read more...

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Mashiro-Iro Symphony: The Color of Lovers

Title: Mashiro-Iro Symphony: The Color of Lovers Genre: Drama, Romance Rating: 4.3/10

Summary: The traditional girls-only Yuihime Private Academy is considering the possibility of starting to accept both genders and has thus made an agreement with a neighboring school to receive some of its students as an experiment to see the reaction to this adaptation. Shingo Iryu is one of the many students transferred for a ten month experimental phase at Yuihime Academy. He, his sister, and his fellow relocated colleagues are impressed by the sophisticated campus, but even more by the resistance of many students who don't want the boys over there. Read more...

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Cube x Cursed x Curious

Title: Cube x Cursed x Curious Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Supernatural Rating: 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 has come Yachi's home to remove her curse. Since he's affected by the curse, Fear ends up moving in with Haruaki, and that's where the story begins Read more...

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Eden of the East

Title: Eden of the East Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Psychological, Romance Rating: 9.5/10

Summary: On November 22, 2010 ten missiles strike Japan. However, this unprecedented terrorist act, later to be called as "Careless Monday," does not result in any apparent victims, and is soon forgotten by almost everyone. Then, 3 months later... Saki Morimi is a young woman currently in the United States of America on her graduation trip. But just when she is in front of the White House, Washington DC, she gets into trouble, and only the unexpected intervention of one of her fellow countrymen saves her. However, this man, who introduces himself as Akira Takizawa, is a complete mystery. He appears to have lost his memory. and he is stark naked, except for the gun he holds in one hand, and the mobile phone he's holding with the other hand. A phone that is charged with 8,200,000,000 yen in digital cash. Read more...

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Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Ni!

Title: Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Ni! Genre: Comedy Rating: 6.0/10

Summary: Second season of Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Read more...

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Dantalian no Shoka

Title: Dantalian no Shoka Genre: Adventure, Fantasy Rating: 7.8/10

Summary: Hugh Anthony Disward inherits an old mansion and a personal library from his grandfather. In the basement of the mansion, he meets a mysterious girl—Dalian. She is a Dantalian and a gateway to "Dantalian's bookshelf", which stores the prohibited books of the demons. Read more...

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Kamisama Dolls

Title: Kamisama Dolls Genre: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: Kyouhei Kuga is a young man who has left his small hometown to escape from its anachronistic rules and traditions. He wants to try a new life at Tokyo as a simple university student. In the past he was a seki, title given to individuals who are able to control the mysterious kakashis. Considered as gods in the small Karakami village, the kakashi are ancient wooden wonders able to perform incredible feats. The escape of a seki from the provincial town abruptly brings to Tokyo a handful of other seki who are searching for him. Despite being so far away, Kyouhei is still haunted by the old laws and hatred between the two main families, the Kuga and the Hyuga. Read more...

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Kamisama no Memochou

Title: Kamisama no Memochou Genre: Mystery, Psychological Rating: 7.7/10

Summary: Fujishima Narumi is a plain high school boy, who has been isolated in the class. His classmate Shinozaki Ayaka invites Narumi to the gardening club and introduces a hikikomori detective Alice to him. Alice hires Narumi as an assistant to solve mysterious cases involving an illegal drug "Angel Fix". But the drug entraps Ayaka into danger. Read more...

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Usagi Drop

Title: Usagi Drop Genre: Slice of Life Rating: 8.5/10

Summary: When Diakichi returns home from his grandfathers funeral, he finds in his garden a girl named Rin, who turns out to be his grandfather’s illegitimate daughter. When no one else will take her in because of the shame her existence brings to the family, Daikichi defies everyone and decides to raise her, despite his lack of any experience with children.

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Hanasaku Iroha

Title: Hanasaku Iroha Genre: Comedy, Drama Rating: 7.0/10 Summary: Matsumae Ohana, a 16 year old girl, moves out of Tokyo and starts working at a hot spring hotel, which is located on a hill surrounded by cherry blossoms. Matsumae has yet to decide her future. The story will also feature other teenage girls who are looking for their dreams and excitements. Read more...

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Ikoku Meiro no Croisée

Title: Ikoku Meiro no Croisée Genre: Slice of Life Rating: 6.0/10

Summary: The story takes place in the second half of the 19th century, as Japanese culture gains popularity in the West. A young Japanese girl, Yune, accompanies a French traveler, Oscar, on his journey back to France, and offers to help at the family’s ironwork shop in Paris. Oscar’s nephew and shop owner Claude reluctantly accepts to take care of Yune, and we learn how those two, who have so little in common, get to understand each other and live together in the Paris of the 1800s. Read more...

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Tiger & Bunny

Title: Tiger & Bunny Genre: Sci-Fi Rating: 7.2/10

Summary: Schternbilt City is home to people called “Next,” who use their special abilities to protect the people as superheroes. These heroes solve cases and save lives so they can wear sponsor logos or acquire “hero points.” Their activities are documented on the popular program “Hero TV,” which picks the “King of Heroes” in a yearly ranking. The veteran hero Wild Tiger has always preferred to work alone, but now he’s been assigned the rookie Barnaby Brooks Jr., who has a different perspective on being a superhero. Read more...

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No. 6

Title: No. 6 Genre: Adventure, Sci-fi Rating: 4.0/10

Summary: Sion is a bright teenager living a comfortable and promising life inside No. 6, one of this six remaining city-states created by The Babylon Treaty after the last great war devastated the world. On the rainy evening of his twelfth birthday, he meets a savvy adolescent who calls himself "Nezumi" (Rat) and is desperately trying to runaway from the authorities. For helping a fugitive of the state, Sion is stripped of all his privileges. Four years later, they meet once again. For better or for worse, Sion is about to unravel the secrets guarded deep inside No. 6. Read more...

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Nichijou

Title: Nichijou Genre: Comedy Rating: 7.0/10

Summary: While the title suggests a story of simple, everyday school life, the contents are more the opposite. The setting is a strange school where you may see the principal wrestle a deer or a robot’s arm hide a rollcake. However there are still normal stories, like making a card castle or taking a test you didn’t study for. Read more...

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Yuru Yuri

Title: Yuru Yuri Genre: Comedy Rating: 6.0/10

Summary: Four fun-loving schoolgirls take over the former room of a tea ceremony club for their own "Gorakubu" (amusement club). Read more...

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Steins;Gate

Title: Steins;Gate Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller Rating: 9.7/10

Summary: Steins;Gate is set in the summer of 2010, approximately one year after the events that took place in Chaos;Head, in Akihabara. Steins;Gate is about a group of friends who have customized their microwave into a device that can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them. Read more...

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Roberta's Blood Trail

Title: Black Lagoon: Roberta’s Blood Trail Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama Rating: 9.4/10

Summary: The assassination of the head of the Lovelace family in Venezuela sets his maid, a former terrorist named Roberta, on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge at any cost. The search for the culprits leads her to Roanapur, causing a massive commotion in Thailand. Garcia, heir of the Lovelace legacy and someone who regards Roberta as a precious family member, also travels to Roanapur and wants to make a deal with the Lagoon Company. Read more...

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Variante

Title: Variante Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Psychological, Romance, Sci-fi Rating: 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 asked her to help them fight off the chimeras. An accident happened that led Aiko to understand how much she wants to live, and decided to join Atheos, in order to find her place. Read more...

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Welcome to the NHK!

Title: Welcome to the NHK! Genre: Dark comedy, Romance Rating: 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 a cure from that "disease". He wants to break out from the curse, but going out and getting a job is frightening enough for him. That is until he gets selected for a "project"; it is a plan to help hikikomori like him in facing the reality of this world. Read more...

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Gosick

Title: Gosick Genre: Mystery Rating: 9.5/10

Summary: Gosick takes place in 1924 in a small, made-up European country of Sauville. The story centers on Kazuya Kujo, the third son of a Japanese Imperial soldier, who is a transfer student to St. Marguerite Academy, where urban legends and horror stories are all the rage. There he meets Victorique, a mysterious yet beautiful and brilliant girl who never comes to class and spends her days reading the entire content of the library or solving mysteries that even detectives can’t solve. Read more...

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Maria Holic Alive

Title: Maria Holic Alive Genre: Comedy Rating: 5.0/10

Summary: Season 2 of Maria Holic Read more...

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Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko

Title: Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko Genre: Sci-Fi Rating: 6.5/10

Summary: The story revolves around a highschool boy named Niwa Makoto. He lives with his aunt’s family since his parents are away on business. It is there where he meets his mysterious cousin of the same age Touwa Erio — who happens to tie a futon mattress around her upper body and is a self-proclaimed alien. Her staple food is pizza. Erio had been missing for half a year and was found floating in the sea. She doesn’t remember anything about what happened during that period of time, but she began to think that it was the act of an alien and wanders the neighborhood wrapped in the futon. Read more...

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Deadman Wonderland

Title: Deadman Wonderland Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi Rating: 8.5/10

Summary: A massive earthquake ravaged Japan’s mainland and destroyed most of Tokyo, sinking three-quarters of it into the ocean. Ten years later, the story starts with Igarashi Ganta, a seemingly ordinary, unassuming middle school student attending Nagano Prefecture’s middle school. An escapee, a survivor of the great earthquake, Ganta has no memories of the tragedy and has lived a simple, normal life. This all changes one day when a strange man covered in blood and crimson armour appears, floating, out of his classroom windows. Smirking madly, this Red Man massacres Ganta’s entire class and, instead of killing him, embeds a red crystal shard in his chest. Within days of the massacre, Ganta is declared the sole suspect and, following a suspiciously quick trial, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Deadman Wonderland, a massive theme-park-like prison. Read more...

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Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Boku-tachi wa Mada Shiranai

Name: Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Boku-tachi wa Mada Shiranai Genre: Drama Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: A group of six childhood friends drift apart after one of them, Meiko “Menma” Honma, dies in an accident. Ten years later, the leader of the group, Jinta Yadomi, has since become withdrawn and lives as a recluse. One summer day, an older looking Meiko appears before him, saying she wants to have a wish granted, though she does not remember what it is. Read more...

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Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox

Title: Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox Genre: Action, Comedy Rating: 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 Crimson Armor”. Read more...

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Hen Zemi

Title: Hen Zemi Genre: Comedy Rating: 3.0/10

Summary: Matsutaka Nanako is a normal university student, who happened to enroll in an Abnormal Physiology seminar. She tries to keep her mental state sound, but other abnormal classmates start to influence her personality… Read more...

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The World God Only Knows II

Title: The World God Only Knows II Genre: Comedy, Romance, Supernatural Rating: 8.2/10

Summary: Season 2 of The World God Only Knows Read more...

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Hidan no Aria

Title: Hidan no Aria Genre: Action, Comedy Rating: 3.5/10

Summary: The story takes place in Tokyo Butei High School, a special school where armed detectives — “Butei” — are trained to use weapons. Kinji Tooyama is a second-year-student who has a special ability, but he keeps it a secret to maintain an ordinary, peaceful life. However, when he gets caught in a bombing on the way to school, he encounters H. Aria Kanzaki, the most powerful S-Rank Butei student in Assault Studies. Read more...

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Dog Days

Name: Dog Days Genre: Adventure, Fantasy Rating: 5.0/10

Summary: In the land of Fronaldo, the Republic of Biscotti has been aggressively attacked by the Lion Kingdom of Galette. Facing potential defeat, Princess Millhiore summons a hero who can save the country. What she gets is Izumi Shinku, a middle-school boy from Japan. Awaiting him in Fronaldo is the task of becoming hero enough to defeat his enemies while learning the peculiar rules of battle in this strange new world. Read more...

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Astarotte no Omacha!

Title: Astarotte no Omocha! Genre: Fantasy, Romance Rating: 3.5/10

Summary: In the medieval fantasy world of Alfheimr, succubus princess Astarotte Ygvar, the first princess of the kingdom of Ygvar, has just reached the age of 10. For the coming years of a young succubus’ life, it is necessary for them to have a male harem. In order to maintain their body and preserve their beautiful appearance, they must consume a substance only found on males. This substance is a liquid called Sauzfryma, better known as semen. The princess, however, bears a great dislike against men, and only agrees to create a harem if a human male is to join. The catch is, nobody has been able to travel between Alfheimr and the human world, Midgard, for over a millennium. Read more...

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C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control

Title: C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control Genre: Sci-Fi Rating: 4.0/10

Summary: The Japanese government was rescued from the brink of financial collapse by the Sovereign Wealth Fund. For its citizens, however, life has not improved, and unemployment, crime, suicide, and despair are rampant. Kimimaro, raised by his maternal grandmother after the disappearance of his father and the death of his mother, is a scholarship student whose only dream is to avoid all this and live a stable life. One day, however, he meets a man who offers him a large sum of money if he’ll agree to pay it back. From then on his fate is radically altered as he’s drawn into a mysterious area known as “The Financial District.” Read more...

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Kure-nai

Title: Kure-nai Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama Romance Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: Kure-nai is about the adventures and misadventures of 16-year-old Kurenai Shinkurou. Shinkurou is an authority in settling disputes between people, and finds his life turned upside down one day when he is assigned as a bodyguard for Kuhouin Murasaki, the daughter of a powerful plutocratic family. Read more...

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Aishiteruze Baby

Title: Aishiteruze Baby Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Slice of Life Rating: 6.5/10

Summary: Kippei Katakura is a high school playboy who would flirt with any girl he sees. His life was turn upside down when one day, his 5-year old cousin Yuzuyu shows up at his house after her mother had seemingly abandoned her. And now, Kippei has been handed the task of taking care of Yuzuyu for the time being, and he must learn how to become the "mother" that Yuzuyu needs. Read more...

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Boogiepop Phantom

Title: Boogiepop Phantom Genre: Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-Fi, Supernatural, Thriller Rating: 8.0/10

Summary: A light in the sky, followed by a strange aura and grisly murders. Each character tells there own connection to the event and to a similar murder spree 5 years ago. All of the different stories are slowly tied together by seemingly minute similarities and the story of Boogiepop is unraveled. Read more...

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Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society

Title: Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society Genre: Sci-Fi Rating: 7.0/10

Summary: In 2034, two years after the events of 2nd GIG, it is revealed that Major Motoko Kusanagi has left counter-terrorism task force Public Security Section 9. Togusa is leading a Section 9 field team to investigate several suicides by refugees from the Siak Republic. When they intercept Colonel Ka Gael, son of the exiled dictator General Ka Rum, who has taken a hostage to ensure safe passage out of Japan, he claims that the "Puppeteer" is coming for him, and he shoots himself in the head. Chief Daisuke Aramaki asks Prime Minister Yoko Kayabuki for permission to arrest Ka Rum for more information, but Kayabuki declines, stating it would harm her political position. Aramaki orders the raid regardless and Section 9 discovers that Ka Rum has been dead for some time, having been assassinated and staged to look like a suicide, with the word "Puppeteer" written in his blood. Section 9 also discovers that the Siak refugees plan to release a micromachine virus in a terrorist retaliation for Ka Rum's death. Read more...

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Moshidora

Title: Moshidora Genre: Drama Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: Minami joins her High School baseball team as a team manager after finding out that her best friend Yuuki is in the hospital and can't be a team manager any more. In order to try to fill in for Yuuki and to help out the team the best she can, she goes out to find a book on how to manage a baseball team. Unfortunately, she accidentally buys Peter Drucker's book called "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" which is actually about how to properly manage a business. Because she couldn't return the book, she decides to read it anyway and to try to apply the business management concepts to the baseball team so that way they can go on and win the Nationals. Read more...

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Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica

Title: Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Genre: Magic, Psychological, Thriller Rating: 9.5/10

Summary: After experiencing a bizarre dream, Madoka Kaname, a kind 14-year old girl, encounters a magical creature named Kyube. Madoka and her friend Sayaka Miki are offered the opportunity of gaining magical powers if they agree to make a contract with the strange little being. He will also grant them one wish, but in exchange they shall risk their lives by accepting the responsibility of fighting witches. Invisible to human eyes, witches are catalysts of despair in the areas they inhabit. An ally of Kyube, a magical girl named Mami Tomoe, befriends and encourages the two girls to accept the contract. For an unknown reason, another magical girl named Homura Akemi is determined to prevent Madoka from accepting the deal. Read more...

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Freezing

Title: Freezing Genre: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi Rating: 6.5/10

Summary: Set in a slightly futuristic world where Earth has been invaded and is at war with aliens from another dimension called the Nova, the story follows the adventures of a Japanese boy named Kazuya Aoi who enrolls for training at a special school for genetically modified girls called Pandoras who battle the aliens, and their male partners, called Limiters, who use a special power called “freezing” to limit their opponent’s mobility. The protagonist makes the acquaintance of an unusual older girl named Bridgette L. Satellizer who appears to be the most powerful Pandora in her class, but has not yet chosen a male partner to be her Limiter, and in spite of the warnings of all his friends, he decides to be her Limiter. Read more...

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Star Driver

Title: Star Driver Genre: 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 dubbed the “shrine maiden” and is the key to activating the robot. A boy named Takuto Tsunashi arrives with his own Cybody named Tauburn to rescue Wako. Thus begins a struggle to unlock the secrets of the advanced technology and prevent disaster. Read more...

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Fractale

Title: Fractale Genre: Adventure Rating: 8.5/10

Summary: The story takes place on an island, where a “Fractale System” is beginning to collapse. One day, Clain finds an injured girl called Phryne under a cliff. She disappears leaving a pendant. Clain sets out for a journey with the girl-shaped avatar Nessa to look for Phryne and discovers the secret of the Fractale System. Read more...

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Bakuman

Title: Bakuman Genre: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi are pretty much foils of each other. Mashiro, an average 9th grade student but talented artist, and Takagi, an overall advanced 9th grader and aspiring writer. After great convincing, Takagi convinces Mashiro to join him in becoming the greatest mangakas Japan has ever seen. Takagi, with his gift of writing, hopes to become a successful mangaka, and Mashiro, with his gift of art, hopes to marry the girl of his dreams, Azuki Miho. Read more...

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Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?

Title: Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? Genre: Action, Comedy Rating: 8.5/10

Summary: Aikawa Ayumu is a normal high school boy. One day he is killed by a serial killer and revived as a zombie by a necromancer named Eucliwood Hellscythe. He starts to serve Eu as her guard but he happens to deprive the mahou shoujo Haruna of her magic power. Haruna orders Ayumu to fight against the anti-mahou shoujo system "Megalo" in her place. Read more...

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Level E

Title: Level E Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi Rating: 7.6/10

Summary: Tsutsui Yukitaka was a freshman who had just entered a high school, and he was hoped to be a good baseball player. When he moved to a new apartment, there was a man in the room. He said he was an alien and lost his memory. Read more...

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Toaru Majutsu no Index II

Title: Toaru Majutsu no Index II Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-fi Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: Second season of Toaru Majutsu no Index Read more...

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Yumekui Merry

Title: Yumekui Merry Genre: Action, Comedy Rating: 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… Read more...

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Hourou Musuko

Title: Hourou Musuko Genre: Drama, Romance Rating: 7.0/10

Summary: The story depicts a young boy named Shuuichi Nitori who wants to be a girl, and his friend Yoshino Takatsuki, a girl who wants to be a boy. The series deals with issues such as transsexuality, gender identity, and the beginning of puberty. Read more...

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Infinite Stratos

Title: Infinite Stratos Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-fi Rating: 5.0/10

Summary: Japan engineered an armed powered exoskeleton “Infinite Stratos” (IS) and it became the mainstream of weapons. Since only women can operate IS, women dominate the society over men. Orimura Ichika is a 15 year old boy and accidentally touches an IS placed in the IS pilot training school. He is found to be the only man who can operate IS and forced to enter the training school. Ichika’s busy school life surrounded by girls has begun. Read more...

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Rio Rainbow Gate!

Title: Rio Rainbow Gate! Genre: Comedy Rating: 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 encounters Rio, and the two become the best of friends. Read more...

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Dragon Crisis!

Title: Dragon Crisis! Genre: Action, Fantasy, Romance Rating: 4.0/10

Summary: A normal high school boy Kisaragi Ryuji’s peaceful life is turned into an adventure by the return of his second cousin Eriko. Ryuji and Eriko seize a relic box from a black broker. In the box, they find a red dragon girl Rose. In order to protect Rose from the black organization, Ryuji decides to fight using his power as a relic handler Read more...

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Maria Holic

Title: Maria Holic Genre: Comedy Rating: 8.2/10

Summary: Maria Holic revolves around a lesbian high school girl, Kanako Miyamae, who is scared of boys and breaks out in hives if a boy touches her. During her second year of high school, she enrolls in an all-girls school hoping to find a female romantic partner. However, her ideal candidate, Mariya Shidō, turns out to be a sadistic cross-dressing boy. Read more...

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Mitsudomoe Zouryouchuu

Title: Mitsudomoe Zouryouchuu Genre: Comedy Rating: 7.5/10

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Serial Experiments Lain

Title: Serial Experiments Lain Genre: Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-Fi, Supernatural Rating: 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 be... not even Lain herself. Read more...

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Katanagatari

Title: Katanagatari Genre: Action, Romance Rating: 9.3/10

Summary: This story teakes 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 the twelve treasured swords created by a legendary swordsmith Shikizaki Kiki. Read more...

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Shiki

Title: Shiki Genre: Horror, Mystery, Supernatural Rating: 5.0/10

Summary: During a fiercely hot summer in Sotoba, a peaceful and quiet village with a population of 1300 people, a series of bizarre deaths begin to occur. At the same time, a strange family moves into a long abandoned mansion in the region. Hospital dean Toshio Ozaki cannot figure out the cause of death in the deceased, suspecting an epidemic. Read more...

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Panty and Stocking

Title: Panty and Stocking Genre: Action, Comedy Rating: 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. Read more...

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Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai

Title: Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai Genre: Comedy Rating: 6.5/10

Summary: For several years, Kyousuke’s relationship with his younger sister Kirino has been cold, to the point that they only share greetings. But one day, Kyousuke finds a moe anime DVD fallen in their entry hall. His interest piqued, he looks for the owner, only to realize it belongs to Kirino. He’s shocked, but more surprises lie just ahead… Read more...

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Shinrei Tantei Yakumo

Title: Shinrei Tantei Yakumo Genre: Mystery, Supernatural Rating: 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 comes to believe him when he conveys messages from her older sister, who died when she was a child. Together, they work to shed light on the terrifying events happening at their university. Read more...

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Otome Youkai Zakuro

Title: Otome Youkai Zakuro Genre: Action, Romance Rating: 8.7/10

Summary: In an alternate history of the Meiji era where humans and magical beings known as "younin" live side by side, half-spirit girls team up with army lieutenants to fight spirit wrongdoers. Read more...

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Kuragehime

Title: Kuragehime Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Rating: 8.3/10

Summary: The story centers around Tsukimi Kurashita, a huge fan of jellyfish who moves to Tokyo to become an illustrator. She moves into “Amamizukan,” an apartment complex with a no-men-allowed rule that is full of diehard female otaku. However, one day, Tsukimi invites a stylishly fashionable woman to stay over at Amamizukan — only to discover that the guest is not who “she” seems to be. Read more...

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Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru

Title: Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Rating: 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 classmates (who has a secret crush on her). One day Arashiyama’s clever friend Tatsuno is invited to the café, and, upon seeing the miserable state of things (and Sanada, whom she has a secret crush on), decides to work there. Read more...

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Arakawa Under the Bridge x Bridge

Title: Arakawa Under the Bridge x Bridge Genre: Comedy, Romance Rating: 8.5/10

Summary: Continuation of Arakawa Under the Bridge Read more...

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Shinryaku! Ika Musume

Title: Shinryaku! Ika Musume Genre: Comedy Rating: 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 invade humanity alone, trying to rule over the world, only to find herself slaving away at one of the nearest beach-houses for breaking a side of its wall. Read more...

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Fortune Arterial

Title: Fortune Arterial: Akai Yakusoku Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance Rating: 5.5/10

Summary: Fortune Arterial’s story revolves around the male protagonist Kohei Hasekura, who transfers into a prestigious public school in the style of an English six-year school encompassing junior-high and high school students. The school is on an island named Tamatsu Island off-shore from mainland Japan, and the only way to get there is by boat. Soon after transferring, he discovers that one of the student in the class next door to his, Sendo Erika, is in fact a type of vampire. Read more...

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MM!

Title: MM! Genre: Comedy, Romance Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: The story centers the life of Taro Sado going through high school. He came to realize his masochist personality and attempts to conceal this from his crush. To fix it, he enrolled in his school’s “2nd Volunteer Club”. Read more...

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Tamayura

Title: Tamayura Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Rating: 8.3/10

Summary: For her first year of high school, Fu Sawatari moves to Takehara, a scenic old town near Hiroshima, on the Inland Sea. Her father, who has passed away, grew up in Takehara. She loves taking photographs with his old film camera, a Rollei 35S. The story follows her and the friends who gather around her as she comes to love her new home. Read more...

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Togainu no Chi

Title: Togainu no Chi Genre: Action Rating: 5.5/10

Summary: After being devastated in the third World War (known as The Third Division), Japan was divided in two. Several years after the end of the war, a crime organization called Vischio has taken control of the destroyed city of Toshima (formerly Tokyo, Japan’s capital city), where they are holding a battle game known as "Igura". The is main character, a young man named Akira, is falsely accused of a crime. Once arrested, a mysterious woman appears before him, offering him freedom if he agrees to participate in Igura and defeat Igura’s strongest man: the king, or "Il-re". The story follows Akira’s life in the harsh, lawless Toshima as he fights both to survive and to unravel the mysteries developing around him. Read more...

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Nurarihyon no Mago

Title: Nurarihyon no Mago Genre: Action, Supernatural Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: Rikuo Nura, is 3 parts human and a quarter Demon, lives in a house of spirits with his grandfather, The current clan head of the Nura youkai. Rikou is set to be the next clan head, despite the fact he dislikes his demon side. He soon come to terms with his demon blood and decides to take his position as young master of the Nura house. However there are those who will certainly not allow it to be easy. Read more...

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The World God Only Knows

Title: The World God Only Knows Genre: Comedy, Romance, Supernatural Rating: 7.8/10

Summary: Keima Katsuragi is an avid galge gamer known at his school as “Otamega” (a derogatory term combining the words Otaku and Megane) and on the internet a “The Capturing God.” One day he receives an e-mail offering him a contract to “capture” girls. He accepts thinking it’s a challenge and a demon from Hell named Elsee appears. She asks for his help in capturing runaway spirits that are hiding in “real” girls. He refuses stating he only like the girls from the game and she tells him that if he refuses then both of their heads will be cut off. Read more...

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Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls

Title: Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance Rating: 8.3/10

Summary: The story takes place in Japan in the early 21st century, in an alternate reality where the Tokugawa Shogunate has remained in power. In this reality, student councils are tasked with oppressing schools. Yagyuu Muneakira is a high school student who rebels against his student council with the help of girls who’ve had the names of famous samurai heroes passed on to them. Read more...

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5 Centimeters Per Second

Title: 5 Centimeters Per Second Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life Rating: 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 as time continues to trudge on, their contact with one another begins to cease. Years pass and the rift between them grows ever larger. However, Takaki remembers the times they have shared together, but as life continues to unfold for him, he wonders if he would be given the chance to meet Akari again as the tale embarks on Takaki's realization of the world and people around him. Read more...

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Minami-ke Okaeri

Title: Minami-ke Okaeri Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: Season three of Minami-ke that takes place one year after Minami-ke Okawari Read more...

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Minami-ke Okawari

Title: Minami-ke Okawari Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Rating: 6.8/10

Summary: Direction continuation of the first season of Minami-ke Read more...

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Yozakura Quartet

Title: Yozakura Quartet Genre: Action, Comedy, Supernatural Rating: 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. Read more...

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Minami-ke

Title: Minami-ke (Season 1) Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: There are three of the Minami sisters: Haruka, Kana and Chiaki, who have an average life. The girls only have each other to depend on and help each other get through everything from love confessions to cooking. Read more...

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Kaichou wa Maid-sama!

Title: Kaichou wa Maid-sama! Genre: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life Rating: 8.7/10

Summary: A romantic comedy that centers on the student council head named Misaki Ayuzawa who despises the mostly male, slovenly population at her school, which was once an all-boys school. However, Misaki’s most handsome schoolmate just discovered her secret — that she works afterschool at a maid café. (ANN) Read more...

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Mitsudomoe

Title: Mitsudomoe Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Slice of Life Rating: 7.0/10

Summary: The 11 year old Marui triplets could not be any more different. The oldest one, Mitsuba, is sadistic and kind of mature for her age. The middle one, Futaba, is perverted and very athletic and has the strength of a full-grown man. The youngest one, Hitoha, is generally very quiet and gentle but when push comes to shove, she might just be the strongest, the most perverted and the most sadistic out of the three. The three are all in the same class, led by the newly graduated teacher Yabe Satoshi. He usually gets pushed around by the girls and, on occasion, abused but the triplets also try to lead him and the new school nurse, the clumsy Kuriyama Aiko, together. However, Yabe had no intention of dating Aiko and the methods the triplets use to accomplish their goal are highly unorthodox.. Read more...

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Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin

Title: Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin Genre: Drama Rating: 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 they move on afterwards. Read more...

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Seitokai Yakuindomo

Title: Seitokai Yakuindomo Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Rating: 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. Read more...

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Occult Academy

Title: Occult Academy Genre: Comedy, Supernatural Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: Maya Kumashiro returns to the Waldstein Academy to attend the funeral of the principal, Junichiro Kumashiro, her father. The institute focuses its’ studies on paranormal subjects, thus becoming known as the Occult Academy. Maya, a skeptic who hates the occult, meets with Fumiaki Uchida, a time agent from the future sent to 1999 to prevent the apocalyptic Nostradamus Prophecies from happening. Read more...

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Asobi ni Iku yo!

Title: Asobi ni Iku yo! Genre: Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction Rating: 3.5/10

Summary: The story revolves around Kakazu Kio, an ordinary high school freshman living in Okinawa. A girl with cat ears appears before him during a memorial service for one of his family ancestors. The girl calls herself Eris and claims she is an alien. Before long, fanatical alien worshipers and a mysterious government agency are in hot pursuit of Eris, but Kio’s childhood friend Manami — who wants to follow in her father’s footsteps in the CIA — captures Eris. Kio finds himself having to protect Eris from everyone. Read more...

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Strike Witches 2

Title: Strike Witches 2 Genre: Action, Ecchi, Magic, Science Fiction Rating: 6.0/10

Summary: After discovering that Neuroi are capable of communication with humans and making peace with the nest above Gallia the Witches squads are now on a mission to reestablish communication when a sudden attack vanishes the Neuroi, they now discover a new and massive nest that just appeared covering almost all Europe. Ruthless and without mercy it annihilates allied forces along Witches. Word of the attack reaches Fuso and a support battalion is deployed to rescue the survivors, among the rescue team is the former Striker captain Mio Sakamoto and the now civilian Yoshika Miyafuji who want to save her dear friends. Read more...

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High School of the Dead

Title: High School of the Dead Genre: Action, Ecchi, Horror Rating: 8.0/10

Summary: Takashi Komuro is a normal highschool boy, until an infection breaks out that turns people into zombie-like creatures. Along with his friends & the school nurse, they fight their way out and continue their journey to find out what exactly has happened to the world. Read more...

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Shukufuku no Campanella

Title: Shukufuku no Campanella Genre: Comedy, Fantasy Rating: 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 the chapel. There he finds a secret room and a sleeping girl. The girl wakes up and says “You must be my father!”. The encounter with the mysterious girl brings an unexpected adventure to Leicester. Read more...

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Ookami-san

Title: Ookami-san Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance Rating: 6.0/10

Summary: A love comedy parodying fairy tales such as “Little Red Riding Hood,” “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” etc. Ookami Ryoko is a spunky high school girl. She is a member of a “fixer” club so called Otogi High School Bank. She fixes the school’s problems with her partner Akai Ringo. Read more...

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Kaidan Restaurant

Title: Kaidan Restaurant Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Supernatural Rating: 6.5/10

Summary: Shou transfers from London into Ako's class at Yamazakura Elementary School. Because strange things are always happening in Yamazakura, people call it a cursed town. It's a good thing Shou is interested in paranormal phenomena, because in each episode he, Ako (whom everyone calls Anko), and their friend Reiko are in three short horror stories introduced by the ghostly garcon of the restaurant. But don't worry. The restaurant adjusts the spices so those who don't like scary stories can still enjoy the meal. Read more...

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Shikabane Hime

Title: Shikabane Hime Genre: Action, Supernatural Rating: 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 priest and former friend. This series follows the story of Keisei's younger brother Ouri, a boy with an unusual attraction to death, who slowly discovers his brother's secret and gets dragged into the world of the Shikabanes. Read more...

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Azumanga Daioh

Title: Azumanga Daioh Genre: Comedy, School Life, Slice of Life Anime Rating: 8.6/10 Manga Rating: 8.5/10

Summary: It's not manga, it's Azumanga! − smart, fun and totally addictive. Created by the iconoclastic Kiyohiko Azuma, Azumanga Daioh is strongly character driven, taking the reader through the daily tribulations of Miss Kurosawa, Miss Yukari, the wild Tomo, hair-triggered Yomi, ditzy Osaka, brash Kagura, cute Chiyo-chan and athletic (but girly) Sakaki. Read more...

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Karin

Title: Karin (Chibi Vampire) Genre: Comedy, Romance, Supernatural Rating: 8.8/10

Summary: In the 21st century, a family of vampires settled down on the grounds of Japan and lived a modest life whilst sucking on the blood of humans discreetly. However, the eldest daughter of the family, Karin Maaka, has an embarassing secret which cannot be revealed to anyone. Even though she is a vampire, she does not lack blood like her family members. Instead, she overproduces blood to the extent that she transfuses the excess into her victims, hence increasing their blood levels. Despite her troubling body characteristic, she attends school like any other high school student, that is until a new transfer student, Kenta Usui, enters her life. Read more...

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Lovely Complex

Title: Lovely Complex Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Rating: 8.6/10

Summary: Risa Koizumi, taller than the average girl, and Atsushi Ootani, shorter than the average guy - their constant bickering and comical love-hate relationship is well-known throughout the school. They act similarly and love the same music, and their friendship is full of laughing, shouting at each other, and of course, lots of jokes about one another's height. But when Risa notices her feelings for Ootani growing, she's worried. She doesn't know if he can ever see her as more than a friend. With her friends rooting for her, she struggles to make him see how she feels about him, and that a romantic relationship between a tall girl and a short guy can work. Oblivious Ootani doesn't make things easy for her, but she stubbornly perseveres in her own unconventional way, determined for her feelings to get through to him, and finally be returned. If only she could do it without driving herself and everyone else crazy in the process. Read more...

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Toaru Majutsu no Index

Title: Toaru Majutsu no Index Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction Rating: 7.3/10

Summary: In a world where science clarifies supernatural powers. In a huge college that has power development in its curriculum. To a resident high school student, Kamijou Touma, a pure white sister appears. She calls herself "Index" and says that sorcerers are chasing her. Thus, Kamijou Touma enters the world of the occult. Read more...

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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Title: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Rating: 8/10

Summary: Set in a post-apocalyptic Japan of the near future where the sea level has risen and flooded much of the coastal areas and Mt. Fuji has erupted within living memory. The population has been considerably reduced and political and technological institutions have broken-down. Local communities have become nations and telephone and television no longer exist (although coffee vending machines and streetlights stubbornly continue to work). There are strange new animals and plants (like flying fish and glowing streetlight trees). The remaining people have adopted a slower-paced, simpler way of life and rely more on each other. Along with the human population are some intelligent, humanoid robots. One of the robots, a female named Alpha, runs a cafe by the same name in the country outside of what remains of Yokohama. With her trusty motorscooter and her camera she travels around the area making friends with the humans and robots, having new experiences and observing the passage of time. Read more...

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Ouran Highschool Host Club

Title: Ouran Highschool Host Club Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Rating: 8.8/10

Summary: Fujioka Haruhi won a scholarship to attend Ouran High, a school reserved for the rich and prestigious. Despite what other students may think of her, Haruhi cares little for physical appearances or the fact that she's a commoner. Unfortunately for Haruhi, her high school days took a turn when she stumbled upon the Host Club, a group of guys who use their specific traits and charms to entertain the women of Ouran High. Even worse was that Haruhi had accidentally broken an 8 million yen vase in the club. Unable to repay her debt with money, Haruhi found herself with no choice but to work for the Host Club, becoming a male host herself. Read more...

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Black★Rock Shooter OVA

Title: Black★Rock Shooter Genre: Action, Drama, School, Slice of Life Rating: 7.0/10

Summary: Mato Kuroi just got into junior high school, and on the first day, someone catches her eye; her classmate Yomi Takanashi. The two meet. The innocent and naive Mato. The mature Yomi. Seemingly opposites, but the time they spend together only strengthens a growing friendship. But as they go into their second year at the school, they get placed in separate classes, and they begin to grow apart. But somewhere simultaneously in another world, a young girl, blue fire residing in her eyes, Black Rock Shooter faces another young girl; this one holding a jet-black scythe, Dead Master, and a battle to the death begins to unfold. Read more...

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Darker than BLACK: Kuro no Keiyakusha Gaiden

Title: Darker than BLACK: Kuro no Keiyakusha Gaiden Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Supernatural Rating: 9.2/10

Summary: Tells the story of what happened to Yin and Hei between the first and second series. Read more...

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Strike Witches

Title: Strike Witches Genre: Action, Ecchi, Magic, Science Fiction Rating: 3.5/10

Summary: The year is 1939 - it was then that the Neuroi appeared. Nobody knows where they came from or what their ultimate agenda is, but the fact remains that their attacks drove people out of their towns and cities. In order to take arms against them, humanity develops a new anti-Neuroi weapon called the "Striker Unit." Using the power of magic to fight against the monsters, this new device enhances and amplifies the power of female magic-wielders. To use this device, young witches from all over the world have been brought together to form an elite task force unit called the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, commonly known as the "Strike Witches." Read more...

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Midori no Hibi

Title: Midori no Hibi Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Rating: 8.6/10

Summary: High school delinquent Seiji Sawamura is desperate to have a girlfriend, especially after being rejected by 20 girls as of late. He's afraid that he will end his life with his right hand as his only companion. Apparently, that doesn't change when one day when he wakes up and discovers that his right hand has become a girl named Midori Kasugano, who confesses that she has had a crush on him for the last three years. Read more...

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Higurashi no Naku Koroni

Title: Higurashi no Naku Koroni (When They Cry) Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Thriller Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: On one hot summer day in 1983, a transfer student named Maebara Keiichi comes to a peaceful rural village in Hinamizawa. There, he befriends his classmates Rena, Mion, Rika, and Satoko. Accepted as a full-fledged member of the "club," Keiichi and the gang plays all sorts of activities ranging from card and board games to hide-and-seek. But just as Keiichi was beginning to be assimilated in simple rural life, he stumbles upon the dark history of Hinamizawa. As Keiichi dives deeper into the mystery, he finds that his new found friends may not be all what they claim to be. Read more...

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Mayoi Neko Overrun!

Title: Mayoi Neko Overrun! Genre: Romance, Comedy Rating: 5.2/10

Summary: The story revolves around Takumi Tsuzuki, a boy who lives with his older “sister” Otome, although the two have no blood ties between them. Otome manages a run-down confectionary store called Stray Cats. One day, Otome picks up a mysterious beautiful girl off the streets. (ANN) Read more...

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B Gata H Kei

Title: B Gata H Kei Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Romance Rating: 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. Read more...

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Bakemonogatari

Title: Bakemonogatari Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Supernatural Rating: 9.8/10

Summary: Although there are still traces of the brief period he became a vampire, third year high school student Koyomi Araragi is human again. He happens upon others with their own supernatural problems and finds that he can empathize. Koyomi becomes involved in their lives, seeking to help them and occasionally asking for advice from Meme Oshino, the homeless man who helped him become human again. Read more...

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Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei

Title: Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei (The Tatami Galaxy) Genre: Dark Comedy Rating: 4.5/10

Summary: When a college dropout stops for a late night bite at a mysterious ramen stand, he crosses paths with a self-proclaimed deity of matrimony. This bizarre meeting sends the young man hurtling through a horrifying flashback to his not-so-glorious college days when the influence of a cruel new friend turned him from a hopeless romantic into a mischievous “black cupid.” Read more...

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Arakawa Under the Bridge

Title: Arakawa Under the Bridge Genre: Romance, Comedy Rating: 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 fulfills Nino’s desire to have a boyfriend. Thus, Kou becomes her boyfriend, but has to live with her under the bridge… (MyAnimeList) Read more...

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Angel Beats!

Title: Angel Beats! Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy Rating: 9.0/10

Summary: In a world after death, angels fight for their fate and their future. Yuri, the leader of the Shinda Sekai Sensen, rebels against the god who destined her to have an unreasonable life. On the otherhand, Tenshi, the chairperson of the student council for the world after death, battles against the SSS members. SSS members utilize armed weaponry to battle it out against the angels harnessing supernatural powers. Read more...

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Working!!

Title: Working!! Genre: Comedy Rating: 8/10

Summary: Set in a family restaurant in Hokkaido, the northern prefecture of Japan, 16 year old high school student Takanashi Souta works part-time along with his strange co-workers: Taneshima Poplar, a high school girl who’s a year older than Souta who’s easily mistaken for a elementary/middle schooler, and Shirafuji Kyoko, the 28-year old store manager who doesn’t bother to do any work at all. (MAL). Read more...

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Durarara!!

Title: Durarara!! Genre: Action, Supernatural Rating: 9.2/10

Summary: Ryuugamine Mikado is a boy who longs for the exciting life of the big city. At the invitation of his childhood friend Masaomi, he transfers to a school in Ikebukuro. Masaomi has warned him about people he doesn't want to cross in the city: a champion fighter, an informant, and a mysterious gang called "Dollars." Nervous from Masaomi's stories, Mikado witnesses an urban legend on his first day in the city, the Headless Rider astride a black motorcycle. From then on, the existence of supernatural cases and a gang called the Yellow Turbans will rise to the surface, and Ikebukuro will pushed to the breaking point. Read more...

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Howl's Moving Castle

Title: Howl's Moving Castle Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance Rating: 8.8/10

Summary: A love story between an 18-year-old girl named Sofî, cursed by a witch into an old woman's body, and a magician named Hauru. Under the curse, Sofî sets out to seek her fortune, which takes her to Hauru's strange moving castle. In the castle, Sophie meets Hauru's fire demon, named Karishifâ. Seeing that she is under a curse, the demon makes a deal with Sophie--if she breaks the contract he is under with Hauru, then Karushifâ will lift the curse that Sophie is under, and she will return to her 18-year-old shape. Read more...

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Ergo Proxy

Title: Ergo Proxy Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: After the explosion of the methane hydrate layer, the remaining members of mankind are forced to live in isolated domed cities scattered across the arid and inhospitable planet. They live in a controlled society and are assisted in daily life by autonomous robots called AutoReivs. In one of these cities, Romdo, Inspector Re-l Mayer, granddaughter of the regent, leads an investigation concerning AutoReivs that have gone mad after being infected by the Cogito virus. In the process, she comes in contact with a monster called Proxy. Elsewhere in the city, immigrant Vincent Law is on the run after being framed for involvement in several Cogito cases. Together, along with the adorable child-AutoReiv Pino, they set out on a journey to the dome city Mosco in order to unravel the mystery of the Proxies. Read more...

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Summer Wars

Title: Summer Wars Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller Rating: 8/10

Summary: When timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso is asked by older student and secret crush Natsuki to come with her to her family’s Nagano home for a summer job, he agrees without hesitation. Natsuki’s family, the Jinnouchi clan, dates back to the Muromachi era, and they’ve all come together to celebrate the 90th birthday of the spunky matriarch of the family, Sakae. That’s when Kenji discovers his “summer job” is to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiancé and dance with her at the birthday celebration. As Kenji attempts to keep up with Natsuki’s act around her family, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can’t resist solving. As it turns out, the solution to the mysterious equation causes a hijacking of the social networking site through which most of the world's social and business traffic flows. Read more...

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Kimikiss: Pure Rogue

Title: Kimikiss: Pure Rogue Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Rating: 7/10

Summary: Kouichi Sanada and Kazuki Aihara's childhood friend Mao Mizusawa has returned after living in France for several years. Kouichi is surprised to learn that his mother has agreed to let Mao stay with them, since her parents are remaining overseas for the time being. The three friends help each other deal with the ups and downs of high school romance. (ANN) Read more...

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Whisper of the Heart

Title: Whisper of the Heart Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life Rating: 7.7/10

Summary: Shizuku Tsukishima, a young girl in junior high, loves to read. Yet, every time she opens a library book, it seems the same name appears on the cards: "Seiji Amasawa". As Shizuku learns who this person is, she also begins to learn about herself and her goals in life - a discovery that will change her life forever. Read more...

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Dragonaut: The Resonance

Title: Dragonaut: The Resonance Genre: Fantasy, Mecha, Romance Rating: 4/10

Summary: In order to avoid Earth's impending destruction from an asteroid, the International Solarsystem Development Agency (ISDA) works on the "D-Project", and creates dragons after finding a dragon egg under the ocean. However, they soon find out that the asteroid is not their only threat, as powerful dragon-like creatures appear on Earth. After witnessing a murder by one of the creatures, Jin Kamishina gets involved in the mysteries of the dragons and becomes a dragon pilot, otherwise known as a "Dragonaut". Helping him on his journey is Toa, a mysterious girl who saves him from falling to his death after the creature attacks him. As they delve deeper into the mysteries of the dragons, they encounter new friends and enemies, and also begin to develop a closer relationship. Read more...

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Darker than BLACK: Ryūsei no Gemini

Title: Darker than BLACK: Ryūsei no Gemini Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Supernatural Rating: 8.5/10

Summary: In the sequel, Hei and Yin are now on the run after betraying the Syndicate in the previous season. After leaving Japan, Hei encounters Suou Pavlichenko, a 13 year old Eurasian girl who becomes embroiled in the war and politics of the various factions and Contractors vying for power. Meanwhile, Hell's Gate remains standing in Tokyo, after Hei's efforts to stop the Saturn Ring anti-Gate particle weapon from activating. Although Contractors are safe from the danger of having their existences erased, this does not prevent new and old Contractors from abusing their powers. Misaki Kirihara resigns her position in Foreign Affairs to pursue her own investigations into Hei and the contractors. Read more...

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Darker than BLACK

Title: Darker than BLACK Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Supernatural Rating: 9/10

Summary: In Tokyo, an impenetrable field known as "Hell's Gate" appeared ten years ago. At the same time, psychics who wield paranormal powers at the cost of their conscience also emerged. Hei is one of the most powerful of these psychic agents, and along with his blind associate, Yin, works for one of the many rival agencies vying to unlock the mysteries of Hell's Gate. Read more...

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Bremen

Title: Bremen Genre: Music, Action Rating: 8/10

Summary: Reiji and Kasuga head out to Tokyo to become the "Gods of Rock," but they seem to always attract trouble. On their way, Hayama Ryo and Fujii Ran join them in their quest. Read more...

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Spice and Wolf II

Title: Spice and Wolf II Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Thriller Rating: 8.8/10

Summary: Continuing where the first series left off, it follows Kraft Lawrence a experienced traveling merchant and his sharp tongued wolf god companion Holo on their journey to return to Holo's home to the north called Yoitsu. A tender relationship has blossomed between the characters, as they make deals, travel between cities, encounter religious fanatics or vice versa and mostly just do what a traveling merchant has to do to get by. Read more...

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Spice and Wolf

Title: Spice and Wolf Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Thriller Rating: 8.2/10

Summary: Spice and Wolf's story revolves around Kraft Lawrence, a twenty-five-year-old traveling merchant who peddles various goods from town to town to make a living in a stylized historical setting with European influences. His main goal in life is to gather enough money to start his own shop, and he already has been traveling for seven years while gaining experience in the trade. One night when stopped at the town of Pasroe, he finds in his wagon a pagan wolf-deity girl named Holo who is over 600 years old. She appears to be a fifteen-year-old girl, except for a wolf's tail and ears. She introduces herself as the town's goddess of harvest, who has kept it blessed with good harvests of wheat for many years. Despite having the responsibility to watch over the town, she wants to go back to her homeland in the north called Yoitsu; she believes the people have already forsaken her and that she has kept her promise to maintain the good harvests. Holo wants also to travel to see how the world has changed while she has remained in one place for years. She manages to bargain her way out of the village by making a deal with Lawrence to take her with him. As they travel, her wisdom helps increase his profits, but at the same time, her true nature draws unwanted attention from the church. Read more...

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Black Lagoon

Title: Black Lagoon Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama Rating (season 1): 9/10 Rating (season 2): 9.2/10

Summary: The story follows a team of pirates/mercenaries known as Lagoon Company, who smuggle goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early 1990s. Their base of operations is located in the fictional city of Roanapur in Thailand, and they transport goods in the 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. Lagoon Company does business with various clients. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations. Read more...

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Omamori Himari

Title: Omamori Himari Genre: Action, Supernatural, Romance, Comedy Rating: 6.5/10

Summary: Seven years ago, Yuto Amakawa's parents died in a car accident, leaving him alone without a single relative. Ever since then, his childhood friend, Rinko Kuzaki, has woken him up, cooked for him, and generally takes care of him. The only thing he has from any relative is a mysterious charm given to him by his grandparents as a good luck charm. From the day of his 16th birthday, his charm is said to not be able to protect him from evil spirits anymore, and Himari—a cat spirit samurai girl and demon huntress who, aside from wanting to copulate with him madly—was sworn in as his bodyguard. There is only one small problem: Yuto has a severe allergic reaction to cats! Read more...

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Kiddy Girl-AND

Title: Kiddy Girl-AND Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 8/10

Summary: Twenty-five years after Éclair and Lumière, (from the flagship Kiddy Grade series), rescued the galaxy from destruction’s doorstep, the GTO (Galactic Trade Organization), created after the defeat of the GOTT (Galactic Organization of Trade and Tariffs), act on behalf of universal peace by combating criminal activity. Their special ES division mirrored after the GOTT’s ES (Encounter of Shadow-work) force, now includes publicly acknowledged ES member candidates. The series follows three such trainees, Ascoeur, Q-feuille, and Di-air as they work their way to ES membership. Read more...

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Hanamaru Youchien

Title: Hanamaru Youchien Genre:Comedy, School Life Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: The story follows the life of a young kindergarten teacher Naozumi Tsuchida. He is inexperienced and the only guy kindergarten teacher in the school.  Naozumi struggles to keep his students happy, and get closer to one of his colleagues Nanako Yamamoto. When starting his first day of teaching he runs into a young girl named Anzu, who ends up being his student. Due to a series of events Anzu develops a crush for Naozumi. With the help of Anzu’s classmates Hiragi and Koume quite a few adventures stir up in this little school. Read more...

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Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu

Title: Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu (Idiots, Tests, and Summoned Beings) Genre: Romance, Comedy, School, Fantasy Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: The story centers around Akihisa Yoshii, the "baka" of the title. His academy rigidly divides up the student body into classes based on the results of tests. The prodigies are in the A class with reclining seats complete with air conditioning, but Akihisa is in F class, the lowest rung of the school ladder which is furnished only with low, decrepit tables and worn-out straw tatami mats. A girl named Mizuki Himeji is actually one of the smartest girls in Akihisa's sophomore year, but she had a fever on test day and was pigeonholed into the F class. Besides Mizuki (who Akihisa secretly adores), the F class also has Yuuji Sakamoto, the class president who has been Akihisa's friend and partner-in-crime since the freshman year. The school happens to have developed experiments to summon fantasy creatures, and Akihisa decides to rally F class to take on the higher-tiered classes and seize their perks. Read more...

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Nodame Cantabile: Finale

Title: Nodame Cantabile: Finale Genre: Musical, Romance, Comedy Rating: 8.7/10

Summary: It's Nodame's third and final year at the Conservatoire de Paris. Her dedication to become a professional piano player and Chiaki's consolidation in Europe are making their skills and experience flourish, but they also seem to be forging unfavorable consequences into their relationship. Forbidden by her teacher to participate in contests, Nodame feels that the gap between herself and Chiaki is expanding to a dangerous length. The love & music story continues between Noda Megumi, the talented yet distracted (almost childish) piano player, and Chiaki Shinichi, the prodigious, always focused on advancing forward, orchesta director. How love will finally find its way for this two persons. Will it be able to surpass the challenges ahead or will it die prematurely. Paris, the city of light, is the more accurate place to find out how this "love musical" will reach its finale (ANN). Read more...

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Ookami Kakushi

Title: Ookami Kakushi Genre: Horror, Mystery, Drama, Psychological Rating: 5.5/10

Summary: A 15 year old boy, Hiroshi Kuzumi, has recently moved into a new town in the mountains. The town is separated into new and old streets by the river, and many mysterious local cultures still remain. Although confused and enjoying his new life, one person kept her distance from him: class committee member Kushinada Nemuru. In their few encounters she gave him a word of advice: "Stay away from the old streets." Read more...

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Lucky☆Star

Title: Lucky☆Star Genre: Comedy, Slice of life Rating: 8/10

Summary: Portrays the lives of several school girls attending a Japanese high school with a very loose humor tone. The main heroine is Konata Izumi, an athletic and intelligent girl who, despite these attributes, is not in a sports club, and her grades remain low. Her laziness at school is due to her love for anime and video games, and she is not interested in much else. Read more...

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So Ra No Wo To

Title: So Ra No Wo To (Sounds of the Skies) Genre: Slice of Life, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi Rating: 9.2/10

Summary: The plot revolves around a girl named Kanata Sorami. When she was all alone at a young age as a result of war, she found inspiration in a trumpeter she met. She decides to join the army and become a bugler, hoping to learn well since she is quite bad at it. She is assigned to the town of Seize (inspired by Cuenca, Spain) in Helvetia (another name for Switzerland), where she is taken care of by Rio Kazumiya, her bugler instructor who plays the trumpet, and the rest of the 1121st Platoon. Read more...

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Toaru Kagaku no Railgun

Title: Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction Rating: 7/10

Summary: Academy City is a highly developed place in terms of technology. It is said to be 20 to 30 years ahead of the rest of the world. 80% of it's 2.3 million residents are students. The focus of all studies here is directed towards esper powers. Misaka Mikoto, one of the top level espers in town, shares a room with Kuroko Shirai, another high level esper who is a member of Judgement, a law enforcing agency composed of students. Both attend to Tokiwadai, a private school reserved for the high-leveled and the rich. Kuroko's partner at Judgement, Kazari Uiharu, is a low level esper who studies at Sakugawa middle school. Her best friend and classmate there is Ruiko Saten, a level zero (no esper powers). Together, the four encounter several adventures in the exciting scientific town. Read more...

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Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

Title: Phantom Requiem Genre: Action, Drama Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: A spate of mafia assasinations occurs in America, the work of the mysterious organization named Inferno. "Phantom" is their most strongest and capable assassin, however a lone tourist witnesses Phantom's latest act of murder. He unwittingly exposes the top assassin's true identity, a young girl named Ein. Witnesses are usually killed, but the man is captured and taken to be brainwashed into "Zwei", Inferno's newest assassin, with no memory of who he is. From this point on, Zwei is drawn into a world of conspiracy, deceit and violence. Read more...

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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Title: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: In their closed-off underground village, Kamina and Simon chafe at the limits imposed by the village elder. Yet all this will change, when Simon stumbles across a fantastic device - just as the village's peace is broken by a violent intrusion. Read more...

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Love Hina

Title: Love Hina Genre: Romance, Comedy, Harem Anime Rating: 6.5/10 Manga Rating: 9.5/10

Summary: Keitaro Urashima is determined to be accepted into Tokyo University, the hardest Japanese University of all to get into, because of a promise he made to a girl when he was young... a girl whose name he can't even remember. After failing to get into Tokyo U twice, he is kicked out by his parents and goes to live with his Grandmother at her hotel, but it seems it has been turned into an all girls boarding house. What's more, much to his surprise and to the tenants disgust, Keitaro is made manager of the boarding house. Read more...

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Asura Cryin'

Title: Asura Cryin' Genre: Fantasy, Mecha, Action Rating: 6.0/10

Summary: A semi-serious school action story revolving around the main protagonist, Tomoharu Natsume. He is haunted by his childhood friend, Misao Minakami, who became a ghost ever since he barely survived an airplane accident three years earlier. Tomoharu Natsume takes the opportunity to live on his own when he enters high school in his new place of residence, Meiou-tei, and starts enjoying a carefree high school life. His life changed when a beautiful girl named Kurosaki Shuri appears with a trunk which she claimed Tomoharu's brother, Naotaka Natsume, asked her to deliver to him. The presence of the trunk causes the appearance of Takatsuki Kanade, a girl dressed like a shrine maiden who is after the trunk. Tomoharu is in possession of the trunk, which reveals secrets about the world they live in. Read more...

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K-ON!

Title: K-ON! Genre: Comedy, Music, Slice of Life Rating: 7.5/10

Summary: It's Yui Hirasawa's first year in high school, and she's eagerly searching for a club to join. At the same time, Ritsu Tainaka, a drummer, and her friend Mio Akiyama, a bassist, are desperately trying to save the school's light music club, which is about to be disbanded due to lack of members. They manage to recruit Tsumugi Kotobuki to play the keyboard, meaning they only need one more member to get the club running again. Yui joins, thinking it will be an easy experience for her to play the castanets, the only instrument she knows. However, the other members think their new addition is actually a guitar prodigy. Read more...

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Hand Maid May

Title: Hand Maid May (HMM) Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction Rating: 7/10

Summary: Saotome Kazuya is a computer whiz. One day his friend Nanbara, threatens him with a computer virus. Trying to stop the virus, Kazuya ends up making a special order. May is a cyberdoll that arrives at his door a few minutes later and she is 1/6th the size of a normal person, which makes for many awkward situations. Not to mention the fact Kazuya can't even afford to keep May. Cyberdyne is not satisfied with Kazuya's non-payments and will do anything to retrieve CBD May. Read more...

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Kaleido Star

Title: Kaleido Star Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy Rating: 9.5/10

Summary: Sora, a young girl from Japan, comes to America in search of her dream. She wants, with all her heart, to be a member of the famous Kaleido Stage, a combination of musicals, acrobatics and magical effects. With the help of her friends, she struggles to make this dream come true. Read more...

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Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens

Title: Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama, Magic Rating: 8.8/10

Summary: An art student named Jin Mikuriya carves a statue from the wood of the Kannagi tree only to have the statue come to life in the form of a goddess, who has now taken over the statue. He and "Nagi" work together to destroy the impurities that are gathering in the town. Read more...

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Air Gear

Title: Air Gear Genre: Action, Comedy, Sports Manga Rating: 7/10 Anime Rating: 8/10

Summary: Minami “Ikki” Itsuki, is a student and a delinquent. Also known as the “Unbeatable Babyface,” Ikki is the leader of the youth gang by the name of “East Side Gunz.” Upon his return home after being humiliated by a street gang of Storm Riders called the Skull Saders Ikki discovers a secret hidden from him by his benefactors, the Noyamano sisters. The sisters belong to a group of Storm Riders who go by the team name of Sleeping Forest. Ikki eventually settles his grudge with the Skull Saders, but in the process he receives more than the simple satisfaction of revenge. Determined to experience the sensation of “flight” for as long as he can, our headstrong protagonist is quickly sucked into the mysterious, yet irresistible world of Air Treck. Read more...

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Nodame Cantabile

Title: Nodame Cantabile Genre: Musical, Romance, Comedy Rating: 8.4/10

Summary: Megumi Noda, or "Nodame" is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. An extremely talented pianist who wants to be a preschool teacher, she prefers playing by ear rather than reading the music score. She is messy and disorganized, takes baths several days apart and loves to eat, sometimes stealing her friend's lunchbox when it is filled with delicacies. Shinichi Chiaki is Momogaoka's top student. Born into a musical family, he is talented in piano and violin and has secret ambitions to become a conductor. An arrogant multi-lingual perfectionist who once lived abroad in the music capitals of the world as a young boy (namely Prague), he is trapped in Japan because of his childhood phobia of airplanes and the ocean. They meet by accident. Nodame quickly falls in love, but it takes much longer for Chiaki to even begin to appreciate Nodame's unusual qualities. Their relationship causes them both to develop and grow. Along the way, they meet some crazy people (like Masumi, Mine, and Stresemann) and make lasting friendships. Read more...

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Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Title: Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Genre: Comedy, Supernatural, Psychological Rating (season 1): 8/10 Rating (season 2): 5/10

Summary: On the first day of high school a beautiful girl named Haruhi Suzumiya introduces herself as having "no interest in ordinary humans". She asks for any aliens, time travelers, sliders or espers to join her. Watching her weird behaviour is Kyon who sits in front of Haruhi and is the only person who talks to her. When Kyon comments about Haruhi's joining every club in school and then quitting he unwittingly gives Haruhi an idea to start her own after school club. Thereafter Kyon and several others find themselves dragged, literally, into the Save our world by Overloading it with fun Suzumiya Haruhi's Brigade. Read more...

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FLCL (Furi Kuri)

Title: FLCL (Furi Kuri) Genre: Science fiction, Action, Comedy Rating: 9/10

Summary: Naota's life is confined to going to school and living with his father and grandfather. The usually boring life in Mabase is rudely interrupted by the arrival of Haruko Haruhara, who bursts on the scene by running Naota over with her Vespa , then giving him CPR and hitting him on the head with a blue vintage Rickenbacker 4001 left-handed reverse strung electric bass guitar. Later, Naota is shocked to find Haruko working in his house as a live-in maid. Haruko's search for the alien being, Atomsk, puts her at odds with Medical Mechanica, the monolithic industrial corporation. At the same time, Naota is being watched by Commander Amarao. Read more...

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Clannad

Title: Clannad Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance Rating: 8.9/10

Summary: Tomoya Okazaki is a third year high school student resentful of his life. His mother passed away from a car accident when he was younger, causing his father to resort to alcohol and gambling. This results in fights between the two until Tomoya's shoulder is injured in a fight. Since then, Tomoya has had distant relationships with his father, causing him to become a delinquent over time. While on a walk to school, he meets a strange girl named Nagisa Furukawa who is a year older, but is repeating due to illness. Due to this, she is often alone as most of her friends have moved on. The two begin hanging out and slowly, as time goes by, Tomoya finds his life shifting in a new direction. Read more...

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Kämpfer

Title: Kämpfer Genre: Action, Romance, Comedy Rating: 6/10

Summary: The plot revolves around Natsuru Senō, a normal high school boy with blue hair. One day he wakes up to find himself turned into a girl. A stuffed tiger "Harakiri Tora" comes to life and tells him to fight as a female psychic fighter "Kämpfer". Having no idea about what's going on, Natsuru is involved in many battles against other female Kämpfer. Read more...

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True Tears

Title: True Tears Genre: Drama, Romance Rating: 2/10

Summary: True Tears revolves around a high school student named Shinichirō Nakagami with a high artistic ability. He lives with his mother, father, and fellow high school student Hiromi Yuasa who moved into his house after her father died. Her father had been a close friend of the family, so it was natural for Hiromi to come stay with the Nakagami family; one year has passed since she came to live in their home. Shinichirō has known Hiromi for years, but before he had always treasured her smile, though now she acts coldly when at home and he cannot bring up the nerve to talk with her either. When she is at school, Hiromi is popular, always smiles, and is talented in sports, but Shinichirō knows she must be hiding things inside her. At school, he meets a strange girl named Noe Isurugi who wishes him misfortune after Shinichirō teases her. After a bit of bad luck, he reconciles with Noe by crafting a chicken out of a tissue box and finds out from her that she "gave her tears away". Shinichirō also likes to spend time with his childhood friends Miyokichi Nobuse and Aiko Endō at the Imagawayaki shop Aiko's family owns. Read more...

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Chrome Shelled Regios

Title: Chrome Shelled Regios Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Post-Apocalyptic Rating: 8/10

Summary: In a post-apocalyptic world overrun with mutated beasts called Filth Monsters, humanity is forced to live in large mobile cities called Regios and learn to use weapons called DITE and harness the power of Kei to defend themselves. In the Academy City of Zuellni, Layfon Alseif is hoping to start a new life and forget his past. However, his past has caught the attention of Karian Loss, the Student Council President and Nina Antalk, a Military Arts student and Captain of the 17th Platoon, who instantly recognizes his abilities and decides he’s the perfect candidate to join her group. Read more...

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School Rumble

Title: School Rumble Genre: Romance, Comedy Rating: 6/10

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Michiko to Hatchin

Title: Michiko to Hatchin Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy Rating: 8.7/10

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Mai-HiME

Title: Mai-HiME Genre: Comedy, Romance, Action, Fantasy Rating: 5.5/10

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RahXephon

Title: RahXephon Genre: Mecha, Drama, Romance Rating: 8.2/10

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Chobits

Title: Chobits Genre: Romance, Comedy, Sci-Fi Rating: 8.5/10

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Toradora!

Title: Toradora! Genre: Comedy, Romance Rating: 9.2/10

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Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu

Title: Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu Genre: Comedy, Romance Rating: 5/10

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REC

Title: REC Genre: Romance, Comedy, Slice of Life Rating: 8.8/10

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Suzuka

Title: Suzuka Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama, Sports Rating: 4/10

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Nyan Koi

Title: Nyan Koi! Genre: Romance, Comedy, Harem Rating: 8.2/10

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