EPISODES: 26
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Hayate Ayasaki is an unlucky teenager who worked since childhood to make ends meet due to his parents’ irresponsible behavior. One day he finds out that his parents were planning to sell his organs to make money, leaving behind a massive gambling debt on his shoulders. While running away from the debt collectors, he ends up meeting Nagi Sanzen’in, a young girl who is the sole heir of the wealthy Sanzen’in estate, and due to a misunderstanding, Nagi ends up falling in love with Hayate. After …

EPISODES: 13
DIRECTOR: Tsuyoshi Nagasawa
STUDIO: Xebec
AIR DATE: October 5, 2008
SITE: Official (Japanese)
STORY:  This anime goes around the normal lifes of some elementary school (5th grade, 2nd class room) kids and their adventures, while turning to teens. Their games, stupid jokes, and the misunderstadings around their premature attraction to the opposite sex. Ryota Satou is the main character here, but his friends are almost as important as him since the school wouldn’t be the same without them, specialy the girls who the majority of time appear to be mature by their ages …

EPISODES: -
DIRECTOR: Yutaka Yamamoto
STUDIO: A-1 Pictures Inc.
AIR DATE: October 4, 2008
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: 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.

EPISODES: -
DIRECTOR: Sayo Yamamoto
STUDIO: Manglobe Inc., Caliente latino
AIR DATE: October 15, 2008
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: The show is produced by studio Manglobe and directed by Sayo Yamamoto, her first directional work. Shinichiro Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo fame will be acting as the music producer. Taking place in South America, the title’s Michiko is a free-willed “sexy diva” who destroys a supposedly inescapable prison fortress, while Hatchin is a girl fleeing her strict foster parents. The two join forces on an improbable escape to freedom.

EPISODES: 24
DIRECTOR: Tatsuya Ishihara
STUDIO: Kyoto Animation
AIR DATE: October 2, 2008
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: After Story is mainly a continuation of Nagisa’s story from the Key’s Clannad visual novel, and is set immediately after School Life when Nagisa and Tomoya are now living their lives as a couple, and extends into the next ten years. Characters from School Life do appear, but play minor roles compared to their roles in that arc. In order to view the true ending of Clannad, all thirteen lights must be obtained.

EPISODES: -
DIRECTOR: Tatsuyuki Nagai
STUDIO: J.C. Staff
AIR DATE: October 1, 2008
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Because Ryugi Takasu has been living with his somewhat childish mother, he has grown up being able to clean and cook. But despite his best efforts, Ryuji cannot get a girlfriend because he has the face of a gangster, something he inherited from his deceased father. On his first day in high school, Ryuji is surprised to discover that he is in the same class as best friend Yusaku Kitamura and his crush Minori Kushieda. While …

EPISODES: 26
DIRECTOR: Osamu Yamazaki
STUDIO: TMS Entertainment
AIR DATE: April 4, 2008
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Itazura na Kiss is a romantic comedy manga by Kaoru Tada. Itazura na Kiss began to be serialized and published in 1991 by Shueisha through Margaret Magazine. A high school girl named Kotoko finally tells a fellow senior named Naoki that she has loved him from afar since she saw him on their first day of high school. However, Naoki, a haughty “super-ikemen” (handsome male) with smarts and sports talent, rejects her offhand. Fate intervenes when a mild …

EPISODES: 12
DIRECTOR: Yoshiaki Okumura
STUDIO: Nippon Animation, Shirogumi Inc.
AIR DATE: July 3, 2008
DVD: Search
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Antique Bakery is a manga by Fumi Yoshinaga depicting the lives of four men who work in a small bakery. Tachibana is the owner, who comes from a rich family; ironically, he has no taste for sweets. Chikage is Tachibana’s childood friend and was send by Tachibana’s family to watch over his childhood friend. Ono is the “demonically charming” gay master pastry chef. And then there’s Kanda, a former boxer and Ono’s apprentice.
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A cute and funny anime about a kitten named Chi who is separated from her mother but is found by a little boy named Youhei and his family.

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Shintaro Kurenai is a 16 year old student who lost his parents in a bombing when he was very young. Although he attends school like any other teenager, Shintaro takes on jobs as a “dispute mediator” to both prove his skills and to earn money to support himself. One day, he is offered the job of becoming the bodyguard of a young girl named Murasaki Kuhouin, yet is not told of who is targeting her.