Sunday 19 April 2015

Cuticle Detective Inaba キューティクル探偵因幡 (Kyūtikuru Tantei Inaba)



Alternative Name: Q探因幡 (Q Dì Zhēn Tàn Yīn Fān)


Genre: Action, Comedy, Supernatural, Werewolves, Polices/Detectives, 
              Body Switching, Cross-Dressing, Yakuza/Mafia, Crimes, Parody, 
              Special Abilities, 

Description: 

The story revolves around Hiroshi Inaba, a private detective, and part-wolf-part-human being who was created artificially. Hiroshi runs his own detective agency and solves cases with the help of his cross-dressing secretary Yuuta, and Kei, a "relatively normal" teenager. The plot centres on Hiroshi and the gang trying to arrest his arch-nemesis Don Valentino, a mastermind goat with a taste for money (literally).

Episode: 12

Original Run: January 14, 2013 – March 22, 2013

Studio: Zexcs

Thursday 16 April 2015

Noragami ノラガミ



Alternative Name: 野良神 (Yě Liáng Shén)


Genre: Action, Comedy, Supernatural, Ghosts/Spirits, Onmyouji, Fantasy,
               Romance, Gods/Goddesses/Deities, Youkai/Monsters,
               Shapeshifting, Fighting

Description: 

Yato is a minor deity who lacks even a single shrine. In order to build his own shrine, he scrawls his cell number on the wall of a downtown bathroom telling people he will help them in exchange for a 5-yen offering, becoming a self-styled "delivery god." Hiyori, the daughter of a respectable family, is almost in a traffic accident, but is rescued by Yato. This causes her to become a "hanyou," a person who can easily lose her soul. She chases Yato down, and they begin to work together. Yato also finds a boy named Yukine who becomes a "sacred treasure" that can be used by a god. The three of them battle "you" who bring harm to humans as Yato's hidden history is gradually revealed.

Episode
Season 1: 12 + 2 OVA
Season 2: 13 + 2 OVA

Original Run
Season 1: January 5, 2014 – March 23, 2014
OVA: February 17, 2014 – July 17, 2014
Season 2: Ocotber 2, 2015 – December 25, 2015
OVA: November 17, 2015 – March 17, 2016 

Studio: Bones

Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha いなり、こんこん、恋いろは。



Alternative Name:  狐仙的恋 (Hú Xiān De Liàn Ài Rù Mén)


Genre: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life, Supernatural, 
               Gods/Goddesses/Deities, School, 

Description:
 

Inari Fushimi is a middle school girl who's never had a requited love, since she's a shy, clumsy and not very bright. One day, she witnesses her crush Kouji giving a letter to her classmate Akemi. Shocked and saddened, Inari rushes to a shrine, where the goddess Uka-no-Mitama-no-Kami appears to her. As thanks for saving a fox pup, as well as out of pity for her plight, the goddess grants Inari the power to shape-shift.

Episode: 10 + 1 OVA

Original Run
Series: January 15, 2014 – March 19, 2014
OVA: June 26, 2014

Studio: Production IMS

Wednesday 8 April 2015

Amagi Brilliant Park 甘城ブリリアントパーク (Amagi Buririanto Pāku)



Alternative Name:  甘城园救世主 

                                       (Gān Chéng Huī Huáng Lè Yuán Jiù Shì Zhǔ)


Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy, Amusement Park, Magic, Workplace,
               Folklore/Mythology, Spirits

Description: 

Seiya was forced to accept an invitation to an amusement park by the mysterious and beautiful girl Isuzu. What he didn't know was that she would bring him to the decrepit Amagi Brilliant ParkJapan's most disappointing amusement park. Seiya is introduced to the leader of the Park, the "real princess" Latifah, who suddenly entrusts him with saving the park, which is in danger of shutting down. Amagi Brilliant Park, it turns out, is not just any amusement park, but rather one populated by fairies.

Episode: 13 + 8 Special 

Original Run
Series: October 6, 2014 – December 25, 2014
Special: December 26, 2014 – June 26, 2015

Studio: Kyoto Animation

Meganebu! メガネブ!



Alternative Name: ! (Yǎn Jìng Shè!)


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

Description: 

Akira Souma attends a rural school and has a passion for his glasses. He forms a Glasses Club and makes his various bespectacled classmates join.

Episode: 12

Original Run: October 6, 2013 – December 22, 2013

Studio: Studio Deen

Saturday 4 April 2015

Canaan カナン (Kanan)



Alternative Name: 迦南 (Jiā Nán)


Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Special Abilities, 
              Terrorism, Tragic Past, Human Experimentation,
              Genetic Modification, Assassins, Gunslingers

Description:
 

Two years ago, Shibuya was ravaged by a biological terrorist attack using the deadly Ua virus. Maria Osawa was saved when her father inoculated her against the virus, but is left with partial amnesia from the shock. She works as a cameraman when she reunites with a girl named Canaan in Shanghai, China. A gifted assassin with synesthesia, she is under orders from an unknown organization for a yet unspecified mission.

Episode: 13 + 1 Special

Original Run
Series: July 14, 2009 – September 26, 2009
Special: February 26, 2010

Studio: P.A.Works

Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective ナイトウォーカー真夜中の探偵 (Mayonaka no Tantei Nightwalker)



Alternative Name:  Night Walker -深夜徘徊者-

                                        (Night Walker -Shēn Yè Pái Huái Zhě-)


Genre: Comedy, Romance, Mystery, Supernatural, Demons, Vampires, 
               Horror, Occult, Polices/Detectives, Action

Description: 

Shido Tatsuhiko is not only a private eye…he is also a vampire with no real memory of his past. Joined by Yayoi Matsunaga, a female government agent, Riho Yamazaki, an orphaned teenage girl working as his secretary, and Guni, a little green imp, Shido must face demonic creatures known as Nightbreed. Meanwhile, Cain, the vampire who made him what he is now, is seeking him…

Episode: 12

Original Run: July 8, 1998 – September 23, 1998

Studio: AIC

Friday 3 April 2015

Spirited Away 千と千尋の神隠し (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi)



Alternative Name:  千与千 (Qiān Yǔ Qiān Xún)


Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Ghosts/Spirits, Supernatural, 
               Youkai/Monsters, Dragons, Workplace, Isekai, Witches

Description: 

On their way to their new home, a young girl, Chihiro, and her parents stumble into what appears to be an abandoned theme park. But all is not as it seems, as the theme park is a bath-house for the spirits, and not a place where humans are welcome. Chihiro must fend for herself and rescue her parents, as they have been turned to pigs as punishment for eating the food meant for the gods.

Original Run: July 20, 2001

Studio: Studio Ghibli

Serial Experiments Lain シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン (Shiriaru Ekusuperimentsu Rein)



Alternative Name: 玲音 (Líng Yīn)


Genre: Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-Fi, Supernatural, 
               Cyberpunk, Virtual Reality, Dementia

Description: 

Lain Iwakura appears to be an ordinary girl, with almost no experience with computers. Yet the sudden suicide of a schoolmate, and a number of strange occurrences, conspire to pull Lain into the world of the Wired, where she gradually learns that nothing is what it seems to be... not even Lain herself.

Episode: 13

Original Run: July 5, 1998 – September 28, 1998

Studio: Triangle Staff