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[2 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
Hanamaru Kindergarten

EPISODES: 12
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Anzu goes to a preschool with her friends, the shy Koume and the eccentric Hiiragi. Together they try to attract attention from their caretaker Tsuchida. However, he is clearly more interested in the pretty Yamamoto who supervises the class next door.

military, music, slice of life, war »

[4 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Sora no Woto (Sound of the Skies)

EPISODES: 12
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Sora no Woto revolves around 15 year-old Kanata Kumika, an eager new army enlistee assigned to join a unit of four other girls who defend a fortress in a desolate, war-torn land. Music will play an important role in this anime.
SIMILAR ANIME: Strike Witches

action, comedy, romance, slice of life, virtual reality »

[28 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Summer Wars

EPISODES: 1 (Movie)
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: 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 …

comedy, love triangle, romance, school life, slice of life, yuri »

[26 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Sasameki Koto

EPISODES: 12
SITE: Official
STORY: Sumika Murasame is deeply in love with her cheerful classmate and friend Ushio Kazama. Ushio is openly lesbian but… she’s likes cute girls, and Sumika, top student, class representative, black belt in karate, is all but cute. Even worse, Sumika herself is terrified of endangering her friendship with Ushio and chooses to maintain the status quo, as much as it pains her to hide her feelings.

comedy, fantasy, slice of life »

[20 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Kobato

EPISODES: 24
SITE: Official
STORY: Kobato is a girl who came to earth to fulfill her wish, which is to go to a certain place. To fulfill that wish, she has to find a bottle and fill it wich scarred hearts. Together with her “teacher”, which is a stuffed animal, she search for the scarred hearts. However she may not fall in love with any person whom she cures the heart of.

comedy, school life, slice of life »

[20 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Hyakko

EPISODES: 13
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: On their first day of high school shy Ayumi Nonomura and taciturn Tatsuki Iizuka become lost on the immense campus of Kamizono Academy. An irresistible force of nature named Torako Kageyama accompanied by her best friend Suzume Saotome appears in front of them. Led, sometimes pushed, by Torako, the girls and their classmates work through problems of school, home and adolescence.

drama, romance, school life, shojo, slice of life »

[14 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Kimi ni Todoke

EPISODES: 12
SITE: Official (JPN)

STORY: Kuronuma Sawako’s one wish in life is to make friends. That’s a difficult proposition when everyone who meets her cowers in terror. She admires her classmate, Kazehaya-kun, a popular, easygoing and 100% refreshing guy who is nice with everyone, even with her.

androids, science fiction, slice of life »

[20 Sep 2009 | No Comment | ]

EPISODES: 6 (streamed online)
SITE: Watch for free
ONE-LINER: loli learns magic
STORY: In the not too distant future androids have come into common usage. Rikuo, who has taken robots for granted for his entire life, one day discovers that Sammy, his home android, has been acting independently and coming and going on her own. He finds a strange phrase recorded in her activity log, “Are you enjoying the Time of Eve?”. He, along with his friend Masaki, traces Sammy’s movements and finds an unusual cafe, “The Time of Eve”. Nagi, the waitress, …

drama, serious, slice of life »

[9 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

EPISODES: 11
SITE: Official (JPN)
ONE-LINER: Disasters bring out the best and worst in people.
STORY: Mirai is a middle school freshman girl who goes to Tokyo’s artificial Odaiba Island for a robot exhibition with her brother Yutaka at the start of summer vacation. A powerful tremor emanates from an ocean trench, the famed Tokyo Tower and Rainbow Bridge crumble and fall, and the landscape of Tokyo changes in an instant. With the help of a motorcycle delivery woman named Mari who they meet on Odaiba, Mirai and Yutaka strive to head …

action, comedy, drama, military, slice of life, tsundere, video game origins »

[8 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]
Valkyria Chronicles

EPISODES: 26
SITE: Official (JPN)
ONE-LINER: Bakery girl goes to war.
STORY: Based on the PS3 game of the same name. When Imperial forces attack the small border town of Bruhl, Welkin Gunther, son of late General Belgen Gunther, is forced to fight for his life alongside Town Watch captain Alicia Melchiott. Along with Welkin’s adopted sister Isara, the three escape to Gallia’s capitol and subsequently join the country’s militia forces. As members of the newly-formed Squad 7, they must work to repel the invading Imperial forces and discover the true purpose …