EPISODES: 13
DIRECTOR: Ei Aoki
STUDIO: AIC Spirits, asread
AIR DATE: October 5, 2008
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: The Japanese Ministry of Defense has an anti-paranormal special forces group called the Supernatural Disaster Prevention Agency. They’re the ones responsible to protect Japanese soil and its people from supernatural and paranormal events. However, things didn’t go so well in one of their missions, which leads to intervention by the Ministry of Enviroment’s Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division after the SDPA has sustained large numbers of casualties battling demons.
What’s weird about the first episode of Ga-Rei Zero is …

EPISODES: 26
DIRECTOR: Koichi Mashimo
STUDIO: Bee Train
AIR DATE: April 5, 2005
DVD: Search
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Madlax revolves around two young women who seemingly have little in common and do not know of the other’s existence, at first. The titular Madlax is a woman who is legend amongst the mercenaries and assassins of the fictional civil war-torn country of Gazth-Sonika. “Madlax” is a code name and a substitute for her real one, forgotten along with the rest of her past before 1999, when the war started. The other protagonist is Margaret Burton, the …

EPISODES: 26
DIRECTOR: Koichi Mashimo
STUDIO: Bee Train
AIR DATE: April 6, 2001
DVD: Search
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Mireille Bouquet is a professional assassin, and a very good one at that. But when she follows up an e-mail from a young Japanese girl named Yumura Kirika, inviting her to take “a pilgrimage to the past”, her life becomes even more dangerous than it already is. Now, with a haunting melody invoking the memory of an event long past, Mireille and Kirika decide to work together to find the truth about a thousand year old organization …

Official site

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.
Also check out: Tsubasa Chronicle, Mushishi

Official Site

When three complete strangers, Toki Mishiba, Nobuto Nakajyo, and Kazuo Saitoh, are hired by a corporation to compete in the Bus Game, they are given the team code of “Team AAA” (Triple Anonymous or No Name). This group of three who differ entirely from their living environment and values to protect each other’s lives — but without mutually wiping out their mistrust of each other or prying into each other’s privacy, it would be the worst sort of teamwork, conflicting in every way. They only have one point in …

Official site

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.

Main Article: Persona Trinity Soul

Episodes: 12
Director: Toshifumi Kawase
Animation: Studio DEEN
Shion no Oh is a manga by Katori Masaru and illustrated by Jiro Ando. It was first serialized in manga magazine Afternoon in 2004. The anime adaptation premiered in 2007 with animation by Studio Deen and directed by Toshifumi Kawase (Tenjho Tenge)
Shion Ishiwatari was only a young child when her parents were murdered in her own home. The trauma of witnessing the event caused her to lose her voice and she has not spoken since. The only clue left behind …

Ghost Hound was created by Production I.G. and Shirow Masamune (Ghost in the Shell). The anime aired in October 2007 and was directed by Ryutaro Nakamura (Serial Experiments Lain). The story follows the experiences of three boys who have had traumatic experiences in childhood from which they have learned to transfer their souls to a parallel world known as the “Unseen World”. The Unseen World is however undergoing a change, with its ghosts starting to appear in the real world, altering it in unpredictable ways.

Official Site | Production …