SAO: Sword Art Online ソードアート・オンライン (Sōdo Āto Onrain)

Alternative Name: 刀剑神域 (Dāo Jiàn Shén Yù)

Genre: Adventure, Romance, Fantasy, Drama, Action, Sci-Fi, Fighting,

               Survival, Tragedy, Virtual Reality, Online Game/MMORPG,  

                Alternative Version

Description: 

In the year 2022, the Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG), Sword Art Online (SAO), is released. With the Nerve Gear, a virtual reality helmet that stimulates the user's five senses via their brain, players can experience and control their in-game characters with their minds.

On November 6, 2022, all the players log in for the first time, and subsequently discover that they are unable to log out. They are then informed by Kayaba Akihiko, the creator of SAO, that if they wish to be free, they must reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if their avatars die in-game, their bodies will also die in the real world. The story follows Kirito, a skilled player who is determined to beat the game. As the game progresses for two years, Kirito eventually befriends a female player named Asuna with whom he eventually falls in love with. After the duo discover the identity of Kayaba's avatar in SAO, they confront and defeat him, freeing themselves and the other players from the game.

Upon returning to the real world, Kirito learns that Asuna and a small group of SAO players has still not awakened yet. Following a clue about Asuna's whereabouts in another VRMMORPG called Alfheim Online (ALO), Kirito also logs in there. Kirito soon learns the trapped players in ALO are part of a plan devised by Nobuyuki Sugō to perform illegal experiments on their minds to put them under his control including Asuna, whom he intends to marry in the real world in order to take over her family's company. Helped by his sister Suguha, Kirito stops Nobuyuki's plans and finally reunites with Asuna in the real world.

Soon after, Kirito plays another game called Gun Gale Online (GGO) to investigate the mysterious connection between it and deaths occurring in the real world. Kirito, assisted by a female player he meets in the game called Sinon, eventually identifies and exposes the culprits who include some former members of a murderous guild he had previously encountered in SAO.

After solving the murders in GGO, Kirito is recruited to assist in the development of a state-of-the-art game, UnderWorld (UW), which has an interface that is far more realistic and complex than the previous games he had played. In UW, the flow of time proceeds thousands of times faster than in the real world. However, Kirito ends up falling into a trap set by one of the murderers from GGO and wakes up inside the game, unable to log out, with his real self left in a comatose state. As Kirito begins to have his memories entangled with his experiences in the game, it becomes more difficult for him to tell reality and fiction apart. Meanwhile, Asuna, Suguha and Sinon also log themselves into UW in an attempt to help him.

Episode
Season 1: 25 episodes + 9 Special + 1 Movie + 1 Special
Season 2: 24 episodes + 1 Special + 9 Special + 1 Movie + 1 Special + 1 ONA + 1 Special
Season 3a: 24 episodes + 1 Special + 1 Special
Season 3b: 12 episodes + 1 Special
Season 3c: 11 episodes + 1 Movie + 1 Movie 

Original Run
Season 1: July 7, 2012 – December 22, 2012
Special: October 24, 2012 – June 26, 2013
Movie: December 31, 2013
Special: April 23, 2014
Season 2: July 5, 2014 – December 20, 2014
Special: October 22, 2014 – June 24, 2015  
Special: October 11, 2014
Movie: February 18, 2017
Special: September 27, 2017
ONA: February 8, 2018

Special: March 20, 2018
Season 3a: October 7, 2018 – March 31, 2019
Special: February 17, 2019
Special: October 6, 2019
Season 3b: October 13, 2019 – December 29, 2019

Special: July 4, 2020
Season 3c: July 12, 2020 – September 20, 2020

Movie: October 30, 2021

Movie: October 22, 2022

Studio: A-1 Pictures (Series) / Studio 3Hz (Alternative Version)

Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan ぬらりひょんの孫 (Nurarihyon no Mago)

Alternative Name: 滑头鬼之孙 (Huá Tóu Guǐ Zhī Sūn)

Genre: Action, Supernatural, Demons, Developing Power, Comedy, 
               Split Personality, Yakuza, Youkai/Monsters, School Life, 

               Onmyouji, Fantasy, Ghosts/Spirits

Description: 

Rikuo Nura, is 3 parts human and a quarter Demon, lives in a house of spirits with his grandfather, the current clan head of the Nura youkai. Rikou is set to be the next clan head, despite the fact he dislikes his demon side. He soon come to terms with his demon blood and decides to take his position as young master of the Nura house. However, there are those who will certainly not allow it to be easy.

Episode

Season 1: 24 episodes + 1 Special + 2 Special

Season 2: 24 episodes + 2 Special + 2 OVA

Original Run

Season 1: July 6, 2010 – December 21, 2010
Special: October 23, 2010
Special: September 28, 2010 – December 28, 2010

Season 2: July 3, 2011 – December 18, 2011
Special: September 25, 2011 – December 25, 2011
OVA: December 4, 2012 – March 4, 2013

Studio: Studio Deen

Kamen no Maid Guy 仮面のメイドガイ

Alternative Name: 假面男仆 (Jiǎ Miàn Nán Pū)

Genre: Ecchi, Comedy, Action, Fanservice, Butlers/Maids

Description: 

Fumiwara Naeka is a granddaughter of a billionaire and the heir to his fortune. She is pursued by those who desire her inheritance. In order to protect her from them, an agent is dispatched in the form of a male maid, who looks like a masculine samurai wearing a mask and has teeth like a shark's. Wearing a maid uniform, Kogarashi gives his best effort to serve Naeka. His noisy and pushy services make her daily life exciting.

Episode: 12 + 1 OVA

Original Run
Series: April 5, 2008 – June 21, 2008
OVA: December 22, 2008

Studio: Madhouse

Sands of Destruction ワールド・デストラクション～世界撲滅の六人～ (Wārudo Desutorakushon ~Sekai Bokumetsu no Rokunin~)

Alternative Name: World of Destruction 毁灭世界的六人 

                                       (World of Destruction Huǐ Miè Shì Jiè De Liù Rén)

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Action

Description: 

In a world where humans serve as livestock for the ruling beastman, and where sand fills the roles of water and fire. Morte Ashela , a member (or the only member) of the so called World Destruction Committee is wanted and hiding. She goes to a beastman bar to eat lunch where she meets Kyrie , a young human boy working at a beastman bar concealing his true identity as a human. When her enemies The World Salvation Committee found her she used Kyrie as a hostage only to know that he's a human , disposable to the enemy , together they run from the WSC to complete their goal of destroying the world to save humans from slavery. Kyrie ends up traveling with her and unwillingly joins the committee. Kyrie is recruited by the "World Destruction Committee" to assist in putting an end to their world. Kyrie alone holds the power needed to do it. Little does Morte know that Kyrie is the key to their goal.

Episode: 13

Original Run: July 7, 2008 – September 30, 2008

Studio: Production I.G

Yakitate!! Japan 焼きたて!! ジャぱん

Alternative Name: 日式面包王 (Rì Shì Miàn Bāo Wáng)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Tournaments, Culinary, Bakery

Description: 

Azuma Kazuma isn't terribly clever, but he's got a good heart and great skill - at baking. Since childhood, he's been on a quest to create the perfect bread to represent Japan internationally. Now, he seeks to enter the famous bakery Pantasia, in hopes of reaching his goal. But plots abound...

Episode: 69

Original Run: October 12, 2004 – March 14, 2006

Studio: Sunrise