Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Shounen, Supernatural, Mystery
The manga tells the story of a pair known as the GetBackers, consisting of Ginji Amano and Ban Mido. The duo reside in one of the seedier areas of Shinjuku in Tokyo, and are often broke and resort to sleeping in their car. Ban and Ginji operate a freelance […]
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Shonen, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk, Postcyberpunk, Action
Taking place in a fictional city of Japan called “Niihama-shi” (New Port City) in the year 2030, Stand Alone Complex tells the story of a special operations task-force called Public Security Section 9, or simply “Section 9″. The series follows the exploits of Section 9’s agents who […]
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Drama, Romantic Comedy
It is about Tazusa Sakurano, a 16-year-old Japanese Olympic figure skating candidate. During a qualifying round in Montreal, Canada, she falls in the middle of a Triple Lutz and loses consciousness. At the same time, Pete Pumps, a 16-year-old Canadian stunt pilot, dies mid-performance when his stunt plane crashes due […]
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction
The story takes place in Edo (known today as Tokyo because of the name change in 1868), Japan, which has been taken over by aliens called Amanto since the late Edo period. The samurai of Japan have fallen, and the Amanto placed a ban on carrying swords in public. The […]
Demographic: Seinen Genre: Comedy, Ecchi
Each volume and episode of Golden Boy places Kintaro opposite a young, beautiful woman, whose interest or disdain for him acts as the conflict of the plot. Some of these women initially dismiss Kintaro as an idiotic and clumsy pervert, and either give him or accept from him some challenge to […]
Genre: Historical Settingm Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Shonen
Grenadier follows the travels of the extremely busty Rushuna Tendo, an expert Senshi, and the samurai Yajiro Kojima, a mercenary swordsman. A Senshi or “Enlightened” is one who is skilled to some degree in the use of guns. The series begins with Yajiro and a small army of samurai […]
Genre: Science-Fiction, Adventure, Mecha, Drama, Comedy
Top wo Nerae 2! Diebuster follows the story of Nono, a country girl who dreams of becoming a space pilot (or to be more precise, ‘like Nonoriri,’ the meaning of which is revealed as the series progresses) who, due to a chance encounter with an actual space pilot […]
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Drama, Mecha, Romance, Science Fiction
Directed by Mitsuo Fukuda (Future GPX Cyber Formula and Gear Fighter Dendoh) with music by Toshihiko Sahashi, the series is the first set in the Cosmic Era. This series begins with the Bloody Valentine War between Earth and the colonies that is similar to the One Year War […]
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Mecha, Action, Science Ficiton
The story of Gundam Wing begins in the year After Colony 195, with the start of “Operation: Meteor”, the scientists’ plan for revenge against the OZ military organization. The operation involves five young boys who have each been chosen and trained by one of the five rogue scientists, then […]
Genre: Action, Gangster, Criminal, Sci-Fi, Supernatural
he first half of the series (if one doesn’t count the first episode) explores the relationship of a young Brandon Heat and Harry MacDowell, twenty-five years before the start of the original game. The primary story follows the pair of small-time criminals entering the big-league, a syndicate known as Millennion. […]
Demographic: Seinen Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Gunslinger Girl was adapted into a 13-episode anime series which premiered in Japan on Fuji Television from October 8, 2003 to February 19, 2004. The series, which was directed by Morio Asaka, was produced by Madhouse, Bandai Visual, Marvelous Entertainment and Fuji Television with music by Toshihiko Sahashi and based on […]
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Comedy, Romance,Ecchi
Hanaukyo Maid Team is about a young boy, Taro Hanaukyo, who has inherited a vast family fortune and, more importantly, the hundreds of employees working at the family mansion. While dressed and referred to nominally as ‘maids’, there are discrete albeit sometimes unusual departments for most of the employees (including Defence, […]
Genre: Harem, Ecchi, Science Fiction
Kazuya Saotome is a nerdy engineering student at Osza no Mizu Industries University who is trying to develop an artificially intelligent robot that happens to look like a toy squid. The story begins when Kazuya’s wealthy rival, Kotaro Nanbara, gives him a computer program that supposedly will provide valuable information to […]
Genre: Comedy, School
The plot of Happy Lesson is based on five teachers who end up living with a troubled and indifferent orphan and their unusual plan to become mother figures in an effort to make him a productive student. To achieve their plan, they employ various methods, such as science experiments, spiritual cleansing, physical training, […]
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Comedy, Romance
Hayate Ayasaki is renowned as the industry’s fastest delivery boy, until his employer fires him on Christmas Eve after learning that he is underage. To his dismay, he learns that his irresponsible parents, whom he supported since the age of eight, received his monthly payment of 170,000 yen. Returning home, he […]
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Comedy, Ecchi
A 14-year-old millionaire received a huge inheritance as a result of his parents’ death in an accident. Later after firing the original maids, he needed to be looked after so he decided to hire new live-in maids. While originally expecting an elderly woman to take the job, two runaway girls, Izumi, […]
Following the release of the manga, an anime TV series produced by Gonzo, based on the manga of the same name by Kouta Hirano. The name is either a mistranslation or deliberate alternate spelling of Helsing, as in Abraham van Helsing from the Bram Stoker novel Dracula.
The 13-episode TV series was produced by Gonzo in […]
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Mecha, Science Fiction, Adventure, Romance, Drama
After an advanced race, the Golden Tribe, left to explore other reaches of space, the human race became threatened with extinction. Since the Golden Tribe left, the Silver Tribe has long since been the most dominant race, calling themselves the Golden Tribe’s successors. The young princess of […]
Demographic: Seinen Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, High School
High School Girls chronicles the raunchy high school lives of main character Eriko Takahashi and friends Yuma Suzuki, Ayano Sato, Akari Kouda, Kyoko Himeji, and Ikue Ogawa (”The Moron’s Group”) as they attend all girls “mediocre princess school”, Yamasaki Girls Academy Fuji High School (referred to as “Saki Girls” […]
Demographic: Seinen Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Psychological Thriller
In Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, there are six main characters who appear in almost every scenario. The main protagonist is Keiichi Maebara, a young boy who has recently moved to Hinamizawa with his family, and begun to adapt to life in the countryside. Keiichi has a natural […]
Genre: Games, Psychological, Shonen
The same basic storyline is followed by the manga and anime, with a few small changes between the versions. While exploring his grandfather’s shed, Hikaru stumbles across a Go board haunted by the spirit of Fujiwara no Sai, a fictional Go player from the Heian era. Sai wishes to play Go again, […]
Demographic: Seinen Genre: Ecchi, Martial Arts, Bishojo
Seven schools in the district of Kant? are constantly at war with each other, and the students within — both male and female — have become skilled fighters and constantly battle with rival schools. Their lives and fates are guided by strange jewels, called magatama, that contain the spirits […]
Demographic: Seinen Genre: Action, Racing, Drama
Set in the late 1990s in Japan’s Gunma Prefecture, the series follows the adventures of Takumi Fujiwara, an eighteen year old who helps his father run a tofu shop by making deliveries every morning to a hotel on Akina with his father’s Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX. It is revealed that […]
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Mecha, Dystopian
After the world population and economy is devastated by simultaneous hyper-hurricanes, many different factions and fledgling nations appear. In Japan, an elite class called Logos appears, controlling special zones in the country which have most of the wealth and resources. The Logos exercise control over the Levinas, the lower class which […]
Genre: Horror
The inugami doesn’t remember anything of his past, but sometimes hears a voice that orders him to spy on humans, and for that reason he’s left the forest and has come to the city; his appearances are those of a (already extinct) Japanese wolf, but he can grow spikes from his back to fight, […]
Demographic: Seinen Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Harem, Romance
There are several important locations featured in the Kanon story that are based on those of the city Moriguchi, located in Japan. Key have consistently used real world locations as inspiration for their game settings; their later game Air also takes place in a city inspired by a real […]
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Romantic Comedy
The story revolves around the title character, Karin, the middle child in a family of vampires who immigrated to Japan two centuries earlier. However, Karin is different from the rest of the family in that she produces blood instead of feeding on it; because of this, she has to inject blood […]
Demographic: Seinen Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural
Four years ago, Kazuma Kannagi was defeated by his cousin Ayano Kannagi for the right to be the successor of Enraiha, a sword passed down in the Kannagi family. His defeat, along with his lack of talent for En-Jutsu, the fire arts, the Kannagis’ specialty, resulted in his […]
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Martial Arts, Comedy, Romance
The story is focused on Kenichi Shirahama, an average 15-year-old weakling, whose life turns to Hell with the appearance of the naive, beautiful, and strong transfer student, Miu F?rinji. After Kenichi witnesses Miu’s skills in martial arts, he joins the Ry?zanpaku dojo, the gathering place of those who are […]
During August 2005, an anime series based upon KOF entitled The King of Fighters: Another Day was announced. It debuted at the Tokyo Game Show about a month later. Production I.G produces the title as an original net animation. There are a total of four episodes, each about 10 minutes in length (but considerably less, […]
Demographic: Seinen Genre: Romance, Drama
Born twelve years apart, siblings Koshiro and Nanoka were separated when their parents divorced and moved to different parts of Japan; as a result, they both grew up hardly aware of the other’s existence.
The story begins when 15-year-old Nanoka moves to Tokyo to live with her father and brother, the latter […]
