Kujibiki♥Unbalance くじびき♥アンバランス (Kujibiki♥Anbaransu)

Alternative Name: 不平♥衡抽签 (Bù Píng♥Héng Chōu Qiān)

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, School Life, School, Tournaments,

               Alternative Version

Description: 

Once a year prestigious Rikkyouin High School has a lottery to determine the next year's Student Council membership. On their first day of school Chihiro Enomoto wins the presidency while his childhood friend Tokino Akiyama picks the vice-president's ticket. There is one catch though, they must first pass a one year apprenticeship under the current Student Council and any failure to perform the tasks assigned, however minor, will result in immediate expulsion from the school.

Episode: 12 + 3 OVA

Original Run

Series: July 10, 2006 – December 23, 2006

OVA: December 22, 2004 – April 22, 2005

Studio: Genco, Lantis & Media Factory / Palm Studio (OVA)

Tales from Earthsea ゲド战记 (Gedo Senki)

Alternative Name: 地海战记 (De Hǎi Zhàn Jì)

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Dragons, Magic

Description: 

Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn't enter the world of humans. Due to all these bizarre events, Ged, a wandering wizard, is investigating the cause. During his journey, he meets Prince Arren, a young distraught teenage boy. While Arren may look like a shy young teen, he has a severe dark side, which grants him strength, hatred, ruthlessness and has no mercy, especially when it comes to protecting Teru. For the witch Kumo this is a perfect opportunity. She can use the boy's "fears" against the very one who would help him, Ged.

Original Run: July 29, 2006

Studio: Studio Ghibli

Black Tomb 黒冢 (Kurozuka)

Genre: Action, Horror, Psychological, Romance, Sci-Fi, Amnesia, Death, 

               Gore, Vampires, Post-Apocalyptic, Dreams

Description: 

Kuro, a 12th-century man, flees into the mountains after losing to his brother, where he meets a strange, beautiful woman named Kuromitsu. Kuro falls in love with Kuromitsu but realizes she conceals a dark secret. She is unable to die and continues to live for thousands of years as Japan evolves into a future society.

Episode: 12

Original Run: October 7, 2008 – December 23, 2008

Studio: Madhouse

The Wind Rises 风立ちぬ (Kaze Tachinu)

Alternative Name: 起风了 (Qǐ Fēng Le)

Genre: Drama, Romance, Historical, World War II

Description: 

Inspired by the aesthetics of design and the freedom of flying, Jiro Horikoshi pursues a life dedicated to the creation of a beautiful aircraft. He labors from his childhood, filled with dreams of engineering, to adulthood as he creates an elegant, flightworthy plane—the Mitsubishi A6M Zero—that eventually is used for something quite different than he expected: war.

Original Run: July 20, 2013

Studio: Studio Ghibli

This Boy is a Professional Wizard この男子、魔法がお仕事です。(Kono Danshi, Mahō ga Oshigoto Desu.)

Alternative Name: 这个男子从事魔法工作

                                      (Zhè Ge Nán Zǐ Cóng Shì Mó Fǎ Gōng Zuò)

Genre: Magic, Romance, Fantasy, Shounen-Ai/Yaoi

Description: 

Chiharu is a wizard in charge of the magic department's crisis counter-measure division. His days are hectic, but he meets a candid young man named Toyohi at his favorite bar, and the two hit it off. On their way home, Toyohi suddenly confesses to Chiharu. Chiharu is at first bewildered at his unexpected confession, but he starts to fall into Toyohi's pace, and the two begin to spend more time together. However, after a mistake at work, Chiharu decides to devote himself to his work and pushes Toyohi away.

Episode: 4

Original Run: February 5, 2016 – February 26, 2016

Studio: CoMix Wave Films

School-Live! がっこうぐらし! (Gakkō Gurashi!)

Alternative Name: 学园孤岛 (Xué Yuán Gū Dǎo)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural,

               Fanservice, School, Tragedy, Zombies, Slice of Life, Survival,

               Apocalypse, School Life

Description: 

Four girls decide to stay over at school: the energetic Yuki Takeya, the shovel-loving Kurumi, the center of the group Yūri who brings everyone together, and the spacey school adviser Megu. However, through mysterious circumstances, the girls find themselves the final survivors in a zombie attack, and continue to live at the school.

Episode: 12 + 1 ONA

Original Run

Series: July 9, 2015 – September 24, 2015

ONA: April 1, 2016

Studio: Lerche

Live-Action Film: January 25, 2019

From Up on Poppy Hill コクリコ坂から (Kokuriko-Zaka Kara)

Alternative Name: 来自虞美人之坡 (Lái Zì Yú Měi Rén Zhī Pō)

Genre: Romance, Slice of Life, School, Historical

Description: 

Umi Matsuzaka, the eldest sibling in a close-knit family of five, raises a pair of signal flags everyday at her seaside house in Yokohama Bay without fail in anticipation of the return of her father, who went missing in action during the Korean War. In school, Umi finds herself involved in a student movement seeking to prevent the demolition of an old club house. In the process, she falls in love with the newspaper club member Shun Kazama, only to find out that they might be related by blood.

Original Run: July 17, 2011

Studio: Studio Ghibli

Vampire Holmes ヴァンパイアホームズ (Vuanpaia Hōmuzu)

Alternative Name: 吸血鬼福爾摩斯 (Xī Xuè Guǐ Fú Ěr Mó Sī)

Genre: Mystery, Supernatural, Comedy, Vampires

Description: 

The great detective Holmes does not solve mysteries or use deductive reasoning. He does, however, hunt vampires. Using three-minute episodes, Vampire Holmes retells the story of the great Holmes and his assistant. What begins as an ordinary detective agency takes a turn for the occult when the Metropolitan Police of London secretly hire Holmes and Hudson to investigate vampires.

Or at least that's what Holmes would tell anyone who asks. In reality, he and Hudson spend most of their time sitting around arguing, and failing to solve any cases. Joined by the not-so-black, demon cat Kira, and their terrifying rent-hungry landlady, this is the story of the man who was most definitely not London's greatest detective.

Episode: 12

Original Run: April 4, 2015 – June 20, 2015

Studio: Studio! Cucuri

The Mōryō's Box 魍魉の匣 (Mouryou no Hako)

Alternative Name: 魍魉之匣 (Wǎng Liǎng Zhī Xiá)

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Supernatural, Thriller, Psychological,

               Polices/Detectives, Crimes

Description: 

Between August and October, 1952, a series of unusual crimes takes place in Musashino and Mitaka: the attempted murder of 14-year-old Kanako Yuzuki, Kanako's abduction from the strange research "hospital" where she was recovering, then abductions of other girls, followed by their severed limbs in custom-fitted boxes being placed in surrounding towns. News editor Morihiko Toriguchi and crime fiction writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi investigate with the help of onmyōji Akihiko Chūzenji. Meanwhile, Tōkyō police detective Shutaro Kiba searches for Kanako, despite Kanagawa police having jurisdiction; and the lawyer for the estate of Kanako's grandfather hires private investigator Reijiro Enokizu to find Kanako, as well. Their investigation uncovers bizarre truths and dark family secrets along the way.

Episode: 13 + 1 Special

Original Run

Series: October 7, 2008 – December 30, 2008

Special: May 22, 2009

Studio: Madhouse

Live-Action Film: December 22, 2007

The Garden of Words 言の叶の庭 (Kotonoha no Niwa)

Alternative Name: 言叶之庭 (Yán Yè Zhī Tíng)

Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Psychological

Description: 

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches …

Yukino bids him farewell with a tanka (a form of Japanese poetry), leaving Takao puzzled as to its origin and meaning.

なるかみの, すこしとよみて,

さしくもり,

あめもふらぬか,

きみをとどめむ

[A faint clap of thunder,

Clouded skies,

Perhaps rain will come.

If so, will you stay here with me?]

Takao meets Yukino at the park and greets her by reciting the 2,514th poem from the Man'yōshū Japanese poetry collection, the correct response to her tanka, which he found in a classic Japanese literature textbook.

なるかみの,すこしとよみて,

ふらずとも,

わはとどまらむ,

いもしとどめば

[A faint clap of thunder,

Even if rain comes or not,

I will stay here,

Together with you.]

Original Run: May 31, 2013

Studio: CoMix Wave Films

Arc the Lad アークザラッド (Ākuzaraddo)

Alternative Name: 妖精战士 (Yāo Jing Zhàn Shì)

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Action, Horror, 

               Bounty Hunters

Description: 

The story follows Elk, a bounty hunter in some strange futuristic world. On this world archaic but advanced technology exists side by side with primitive attitudes, beasts and magic. In other words it's got a bit of everything. It also has an evil conspiracy who are able to produce powerful monsters called chimera, who can also appear as human. Naturally it is not long before Elk has rescued a young female beast-master and gained himself some serious enemies.

Episode: 26

Original Run: April 5, 1999 – October 11, 1999

Studio: Bee Train