Sunday 30 June 2013

MM! えむえむっ! (Emu Emu!)



Alternative Name: MM一族 (MM Yī Zú)


Genre: Comedy, Romance, Harem, Moe, Tsundere, Fanservice, 
               Ecchi, School

Description: 

High school student Taro Sado comes to realize that he is an extreme masochist and attempts to conceal this from his crush. To fix his problem, he enrolls in his school's "2nd Volunteer Club", where Mio Isurugi and the other members attempt to cure him through various "training" regimens.

Episode: 12 + 9 Special

Original Run
Series: October 2, 2010 – December 18, 2010
Special: December 22, 2010 – May 25, 2011

Studio: Xebec

Saturday 29 June 2013

Kiba 牙



Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Developing Power, Fighting, Isekai,
               Tournaments

Description: 

In an overbuilt world, young Zed dreams of freedom and of a door. While fleeing the authority of his world, he is transported to a completely different place, a world of nature instead of machines. There he meets the young girl Roia and learns that he is a Shard Caster. He can cast Shards and control “Spirits”. Unbeknownst to Zed, his best friend Noah has also traveled to the new world. Noah and Zed become enmeshed in the ways of their new world, while growing into their new abilities.

Episode: 51

Original Run: April 2, 2006 – March 25, 2007

Studio: Madhouse

Place to Place あっちこっち (Acchi Kocchi)



Alternative Name: 一起一起這裡那裡 (Yī Qǐ Yī Qǐ Zhè Lǐ Nà Lǐ)


Genre: Comedy, Romance, School, Slice of Life, School Life

Description: 

The serious-minded Tsumiki and the pure-hearted Io feel they never want to be parted, and yet they haven't fallen in love yet. More than friends but not lovers, they develop an awkward quasi-romance.

Episode: 12 + 1 Special

Original Run
Series: April 5, 2012 – June 28, 2012
Special: November 7, 2012

Studio: AIC

Ixion Saga Dimensional Transfer イクシオン サーガ DT (Ikushion Sāga Dī Tī)



Alternative Name: 伊克西翁传说 DT (Yī Kè Xī Wēng Chuán Shuō DT)


Genre: Comedy, Action, Fantasy, Cross-Dressing, Virtual Reality,                   
               Otaku, Parody, Online Game, Adventure, Isekai

Description: 

Kon is a normal teenage boy who is spends his time playing a MMRPG where he is going nowhere, that is, until a girl in the game asks him for his help in the "real world" and he agrees. Then he does go somewhere - where, he isn't sure, but it is a fantasy setting much like the game, though nothing looks familiar. He saves a princess and her followers upon his arrival from the sky, when he lands squarely upon the leader of the group threatening them. He ends up joining the princess's group as he searches for a way back to his own world.

Episode: 25

Original Run: October 6, 2012 – March 30, 2013

Studio: Brain's Base

Monday 17 June 2013

Natsume's Book of Friends 夏目友人帳 (Natsume Yuujinchou)



Genre: Supernatural, Comedy, Drama, Youkai/Monsters, Slice of Life, 
               Ghosts/Spirits, Folklore

Description: 

Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept secret. However, once he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him. Containing the names of these spirits, a binding contract was formed between the spirits and the owner of the book. Now, Natsume is determined to free the spirits and dissolve the contracts. With the help of a spirit cat, his days are filled trying to return the names to these spirits.

Episode
Season 1: 13 episodes
Season 2: 13 episodes + 5 Special
Season 3: 13 episodes
Season 4: 13 episodes + 1 Special + 1 OVA
Season 5: 11 episodes + 2 Special
Season 6: 11 episodes + 2 Special + 2 Movies + 2 ONAs
Season 7: 

Original Run
Season 1: July 7, 2008 – September 29, 2008
Season 2: January 5, 2009 – March 30, 2009
Special: April 22, 2009 – August 26, 2009 
Season 3: July 5, 2011 – September 27, 2011
Season 4: January 2, 2012 – March 26, 2012
Special: December 15, 2013
OVA: February 1, 2014
Season 5: October 4, 2016 – December 20, 2016
Special: March 22, 2017 – April 26, 2017
Season 6: April 12, 2017 – June 21, 2017
Special: September 27, 2017 – October 25, 2017
Movie: September 29, 2018
Movie: January 16, 2021
ONA: March 21, 2021
ONA: April 21, 2021
Season 7:  To be on aired October 2024

Studio: Brain's Base (S1-4) / Shuka (S5 onwards)

Saturday 15 June 2013

Cøde:Breaker コード: ブレイカー (Kōdo:Bureikā)



Alternative Name: 法外制裁者 (Fǎ Wài Zhì Cái Zhě)


Genre: Action, Supernatural, School Life, Romance, Comedy, 
               Superpowers,Drama, School

Description: 

Riding the bus one day, Sakurakouji Sakura looks out the window to see people being burned alive with a blue fire as a boy of her age remains unharmed and stands over the people. When she goes back to the site the next day, there are no corpses or evidence of any kind of murder, just a small fire. When Sakura goes to class, she discovers the new transfer student is the same boy she saw the day before. Sakura soon learns that he is Ogami Rei, the sixth "Code: Breaker," a special type of assassin with a strange ability and also a member of a secret organization that serves the government.

Episode: 13 + 3 OVA

Original Run
Series: October 7, 2012 – December 30, 2012
OVA: December 17, 2012  April 17, 2013

Studio: Kinema Citrus

Wednesday 12 June 2013

Psycho-Pass サイコパス



Alternative Name: 心理测量 (Xīn Lǐ Cè Liáng Zhě)


Genre: Action, Psychological, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Crimes, Dystopia, 
               Polices/Detectives, Cyberpunk, War, Military, Mystery

Description: 

The series takes place in the near future, when it is possible to instantaneously measure and quantify a person's state of mind and personality. This information is recorded and processed, and the term "Psycho-Pass" in the anime's title refers to a standard used to measure an individual's being. The story centers around the "enforcement officer" Shinya Kōgami, who is tasked with managing crime in such a world.

Episode
Season 1: 22 episodes
Season 2: 11 episodes + 1 Movie + 3 Movies
Season 3: 8 episodes + 3 Movies + 1 Movie

Original Run 
Season 1: October 12, 2012 – March 22, 2013
Season 2: October 10, 2014 – December 18, 2014
Movie: January 9, 2015
Movie: January 25, 2019
Movie: February 15, 2019
Movie: March 8, 2019
Season 3: October 24, 2019 – December 12, 2019
Movie: March 27, 2020
Movie: May 12, 2023

Studio: Production I.G / Tatsunoko Production (S2)

Tuesday 11 June 2013

Btooom! ブトゥーム! (Butūmu!)



Alternative Name: 惊爆游 (Jīng Bào Yóu Xì)


Genre: Action, Psychological, Romance, Sci-Fi, Fanservice, NEET, 
               Online Game/MMORPG, Survival, Ecchi, Drama, Death, 
               Human Experimentation, Prison, War

Description: 

Sakamoto Ryota is an unemployed 22 year old who lives with his mother and spends his days doing nothing but playing video games. In the real world, there may be nothing special about him, but online, he's one of the world's top players of the combat game called Btooom. One day, he awakes on what appears to be a tropical island, though he has no memory of how he got there or why. While exploring the island, Ryota runs into a mysterious being who attacks him by throwing a strange looking bomb at him. Ryota then realizes that both his life is in danger, and that he has somehow become trapped in a real-life version of his favorite game. Ryota and the other "players" must now survive through the nightmare to figure out the reason why they ended up in the game in the first place.

Episode: 12 + 2 ONA

Original Run
Series: October 4, 2012 – December 20, 2012
ONA: November 16, 2012  December 19, 2012

Studio: Madhouse

Gosick ゴシック (Goshikku)



Genre: Drama, Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Alternate History, Library,   
               Detectives, Gothic, Lolita, War, Folklore, Occult, Historical, 
School

Description: 

GOSICK takes place in 1924 in a small, made-up European country of Sauville. The story centers on Kazuya Kujo, the third son of a Japanese Imperial soldier, who is a transfer student to St. Marguerite Academy, where urban legends and horror stories are all the rage. There he meets Victorique, a mysterious yet beautiful and brilliant girl who never comes to class and spends her days reading the entire content of the library or solving mysteries that even detectives can't solve.

Episode: 24 + 1 Special 

Original Run
Series: January 7, 2011 – July 2, 2011
Special: March 26, 2011

Studio: Bones

Monday 10 June 2013

Asura Cryin' アスラクライン (Asura Kurain)



Alternative Name: 机巧魔神 (Jī Qiǎo Mó Shén)


Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Supernatural,                    
               Apocalypse, Demons, Harem, Mecha, 
School, Fantasy, Tragedy, 
               Superpowers, Alternate History

Description: 

Tomo was a school kid with just one problem: he had a ghost friend for a while. One day, his life is turned upside down as his world changes into a new one, one which he couldn't imagine before. Tomoharu Natsume was a normal boy - except for the fact that one of his friends is a ghost, Misao Minakami. Then one day an older girl named Shuri Kurosaki appears at his house with a strange trunk, and Tomo's life is turned upside down.

Episode
Season 1: 13 episodes
Season 2: 13 episodes

Original Run
Season 1: April 2, 2009 – June 25, 2009
Season 2: October 1, 2009 – December 24, 2009

Studio: Seven Arcs