adventure, card game, children's show, comedy »

[7 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Weiß Survive

EPISODES: 16
SITE: Official (JPN)

STORY: Weiß Survive follows the main characters Takeshi and Michi as they get lost in the Card Battle world and have to win card battles to return home.

horror, mystery, psychological »

[7 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Aoi Bungaku

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.

action, comedy, school life, science fiction, yuri »

[27 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
To Aru Kagaku no Railgun

EPISODES: 12
SITE: Official (JPN)

STORY: A Certain Scientific Railgun is an anime series based on a spin-off manga to the light novel series To Aru Majutsu no Index, focusing on the adventures of Mikoto Misaka and her friends.

action, fantasy, loli, magic, mecha, steam punk »

[26 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Letter Bee (Tegami Bachi)

EPISODES: 13
SITE: Official
STORY: Gauche is a governmental employee, given the task to deliver any letter to it’s destination. Meeting a young boy who is the letter to be delivered, Gauche makes friends with Lag and inspires him to take up the job. Five years later, Lag Seeing finally becomes his dream, that of a Letter Bee. However, the one who inspired him has gone missing and only there does the mystery start.

comedy, fantasy, gender switch, shounen, supernatural, tsundere »

[26 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Shakugan no Shana S

EPISODES: 2 (OAV)
SITE: Official
STORY: Shana and Yuuji are digging through Friagne’s old pile of Treasure Tools on a very hot day, and Yuuji comes across a telescope-like object. When he peers through it at Shana, something suddenly happens, and when the two regain consciousness, they discover that they’ve switched bodies.

comedy, occupation, psychological »

[26 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Kuchu Buranko

EPISODES: 11
SITE: Official
STORY: Irabu Ichiro is a psychiatrist who lives in a colorful alternate version of Tokyo. Patients would visit him to have a counseling on their problems. However each of the patients feel perplex about Ichiro’s behavior. Ichiro wears a bear head mask & is able to change change his appearance from an adult to a kid. Despite Ichiro’s zealous attitude, he does succeed in helping out each of the patients who come to his office.

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.

drama, romance »

[26 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Winter Sonata

EPISODES: 26
SITE: Official
STORY: Winter Sonata (also called Winter Ballad/Winter Love Story) is based on the Korean TV drama of the same name. The story begins when Joon-sang, who is the son of an eminent musician, moves to Chuncheon, a rural city in South Korea. As an extraordinarily talented student, Joon-sang is welcomed by his fellow students as well as teachers, but remains a quiet, introverted young man. As a result of his belief that his father is dead and serious conflicts with his mother, Joon-sang believes that no one truly …

comedy, romance, supernatural »

[20 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Natsu no Arashi! Akinai-chu

EPISODES: 13
SITE: Official
STORY: Second season and sequel to the first Natsu no Arashi anime. Thirteen-year-old Yasaka is a boy staying at his grandfather’s house during his summer vacation. One day he entered a store and met Arashi, a beautiful sixteen-year old girl working there. After trying to protect her from a man who claims to have been hired by her family to take her back by force, Yasaka ran away with her and now she stays at his grandpa’s place with him. It didn’t take much time for Yasaka to …

adventure, comedy, police, science fiction »

[20 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Kiddy Girl-and

EPISODES: 12
SITE: Official
STORY: A spin-off of the original Kiddy Grade anime. ES members Éclair and Lumière once were involved in a battle to decide the fate of the galaxy. They prevailed and peace was restored to the galaxy. Now, 20 years later, the galaxy once again stands on the brink of chaos. This conflict will see the dawn of two new heroines; Ascoeur and Q-feuille. The two girls work for the galactic government known as GTO, as they are training to become members of ES.