EPISODES: 12
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: The story revolves around Mina Tepes, princess-ruler of all vampires, and her “protector,” Akira. Like other vampires, Mina has been in hiding with her people for many years. Seeking to end centuries of isolation, Mina gains permission to create a special district for vampires, “The Bund”, off the coast of Japan by paying off the national debt of the Japanese government. Mina then reveals to the world the existence of vampires and her desire for both races to live together. Tensions, however, run high as fearful …

EPISODES: 12
SITE: Official (JPN)

STORY: An animated adaptation of six classical Japanese literature pieces, including No Longer Human (Ningen Shikaku) and Run, Melos (Hashire, Melos) by Osamu Dazai, Kokoro by Natsume Souseki, Hell Screen (Jigoku Hen) and The Spider’s Thread (Kumo no Ito) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita) by Ango Sakaguchi.

EPISODES: 13
SITE: Official (JPN)
ONE-LINER: If Clue was an anime and had a lot more gore.
STORY: Umineko is the third title in the “When They Cry” series, preceded by Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai, and followed by Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru. Umineko no Naku Koro ni takes place in the year 1986, during the time frame of October 4 and October 5 on a secluded island named Rokkenjima. The head of a wealthy family named Kinzo Ushiromiya, who lives on and owns …

EPISODES: 12
DIRECTOR: Takaaki Ishiyama
STUDIO: Madhouse Studios
AIR DATE: October 9, 2008
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Takumi is a high school student. He is withdrawn and is not interested in 3D things. In his town, a mysterious serial murder case happens and people get panicked. One day, when he chats on the internet, a man suddenly contacts him and gives him an URL. He goes to the website and finds a blog image that suggests a next murder case…. On the next day, it really happens…. Takumi Nishijō suffers from intense delusions as a …

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DIRECTOR: Koichi Mashimo
STUDIO: Bee Train
AIR DATE: July 13, 2008
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Manji is violent ronin samurai with the blood of over 100 men on his hands. He has survived all this time becuase of a special ability: he is immortal. Cursed with immortality by the nun Yobikuni as punishment for his ruthless deeds, he has grown weary of his ageless life. The only way to lift the curse is to slay 1,000 evil men. So Manji wanders Japan, shedding the blood of the wicked on his quest to finally …

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Kimihiro Watanuki is a high school student plagued by yōkai, spirits with a strong attraction to him. The spirits are invisible to others and encounters with them are extremely troublesome. When he stumbles into a shop that grants wishes, however, events in his life promise to become more unusual.

EPISODES: 13
DIRECTOR: Tsutomu Mizushima
STUDIO: Production I.G.
AIR DATE: April 3, 2008
DVD: Search
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: xxxHolic is a seinen manga series planned and presented by Clamp. xxxHolic Kei continues off from the first season. Still working to get his wish complete, Watanuki finds himself into more mess than he can handle when certain facts about his everyday life gets revealed and when he needs to learn the lesson of Yuuko the hard way.
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Rin Asogi runs a private investigation agency in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, performing odd jobs ranging from finding lost pets to hunting rare stamps in order to get by. Yet despite attempts at a (passably) normal life, she finds herself constantly hindered by the strange cases that come her way, figures from her dark past, and her inability to die. *Note: this anime has scenes involving mutilation and gore, not for the queasy and definitely not for young children.

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Main article: Death Note
One fateful day, Raito Yagami discovers a black notebook with the words Death Note written on the cover. It belonged to the Shinigami named Ryuk and it allows the user to kill anyone just by writing their names in the book. Ryuk was bored of his reaper duties and intentionally “lost” his death note in the human world. And it just happens that the worst possible person picks it up. Raito has no problem using the death to kill people, everything is …