Hand Shakers ハンドシェイカー (Handosheikā)

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, School, Fighting, Music, Special Abilities, Twins

Description: 

In Osaka in the year "AD20XX," Hand Shakers are partners who can summon "Nimrodes," weapons born from their deep psyche by joining hands. In order to grant the pair's wish, the Hand Shakers compete with and fight other Hand Shaker pairs. The top pair will then meet and challenge "God."

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

Original Run

Season 1: January 10, 2017 – March 28, 2017

Special: July 26, 2017
Season 2: January 5, 2019 – March 31, 2019
Special: February 27, 2019

Studio: GoHands

Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon 対魔導学園35試験小隊 (Tai-Madō Gakuen 35 Shiken Shōtai)

Alternative Name: 对魔导学园35试验小队

                                      (Duì Mó Dǎo Xué Yuán 35 Shì Yàn Xiǎo Duì)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Military, Ecchi, Harem, 

               Romance, Supernatural,  

Description: 

People with magic powers are close to being wiped out. Just as the balance of power and military might had once shifted from swords to sorcery, it shifts once again to guns. Takeru Kusanagi goes to "AntiMagic Academy," a training facility for Inquisitors of Heretics who crack down on the dwindling threat posed by magic users. However, Takeru cannot use guns at all and can only fight with a sword. As a result, he is relegated to the 35th Test Platoon, the motley "small fry platoon" for poor students. One day, Ōka Ōtori, the ultra-elite pistol master who already has her qualifications for witch-hunts, joins the platoon.

Episode: 12

Original Run: October 7, 2015 – December 23, 2015

Studio: SILVER LINK.

Etotama えとたま

Alternative Name: 干支魂 (Gān Zhī Hún)

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Supernatural, Chinese Zodiac

Description: 

Mild-mannered student Takeru manages to rent a house suspiciously cheap. The catch is a hole in one corner of the living room, which turns out to open into the realm of the gods. That leads to various divine spirits eventually showing up and taking residence in his place. Most of them are Eto-Shin, divine spirits which take the animal girl forms of the animals from the Chinese zodiac. The first and most troublesome of the lot, the Cat spirit Nya-tan, is an Eto-Musume, a lower-ranked spirit who can compete for the right to raise herself to Eto-Shin status. And that is exactly what Nya-tan aims to do. Too bad she has amnesia and the Rat Eto-Shin, Chu-tan, is out to get her.

Episode: 12 + 6 Special + 1 ONA + 1 Special

Original Run

Series: April 9, 2015 – June 25, 2015

Special: May 13, 2015 – July 1, 2015

ONA: May 25, 2021

Special: July 28, 2021

Studio: Shirogumi & Encourage Films / Shirogumi (ONA)

Mikagura School Suite ミカグラ学園組曲 (Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku)

Alternative Name: 御神樂學園組曲 (Yù Shén Yuè Xué Yuán Zǔ Qǔ)

Genre: Comedy, School, Action, School Life, Slice of Life, Supernatural, 

               Superpowers, Shoujo-Ai/Yuri, 

Description: 

High school student Eruna Ichinomiya enters the Mikagura Academy dreaming of a boarding school life filled with beauty. However, Eruna finds out that in the culture clubs, there is a rule that battles that are fought with special powers decide a club representative's treatment. Through various circumstances, Eruna becomes a representative of a club, and is thrown into the fray.

Episode: 12

Original Run: April 6, 2015 – June 22, 2015

Studio: Doga Kobo

HaruChika: Haruta to Chika wa Seishun suru ハルチカ ～ハルタとチカは青春する～

Alternative Name: 春&夏推理事件簿 (Chūn & Xià Tuī Lǐ Shì Jiàn Bù)

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

               School Life, Tournaments

Description: 

Haruta and Chika are members of their high school wind instrument club that is on the verge of being shut down. The two are childhood friends, and they spend their days practicing hard while also trying to recruit new members. When a certain incident happens within their school, they work together to solve it.

Episode: 12

Original Run: January 7, 2016 – March 24, 2016

Studio: P.A.Works

Live-Action Film: March 4, 2017

Ladies versus Butlers! れでぃ×ばと! (Redi×Bato!)

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Ozmafia!! オズマフィア!!

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Bishounen, School, Folklore

Description: 

Having transferred into Oz Academy, Scarlet finds himself already in trouble. The three boys who save him in his time of need are named Caramia, Kyrie, and Axel.

Episode: 12 + 1 Special

Original Run

Series: July 7, 2016 – September 22, 2016

Special: October 28, 2016

Studio: Creators in Pack

Taboo Tattoo タブー・タトゥー

Alternative Name: 禁忌咒纹 (Jìn Jì Zhòu Wén)

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Martial Arts, Supernatural, 

               Superpowers, Mystery, Magic, Special Abilities, Fighting

Description: 

Justice Akatsuka (nickname Seigi) is a young man who is good at martial arts. Seigi rescues a homeless old man on the street one day from some thugs, and the man gives Seigi an object that imprints a tattoo on his palm. However, it is not an ordinary tattoo, but a special weapon that gives Seigi supernatural powers such as warping space-time. Seigi then meets a female American agent named Easy, whose duty is to recover the tattoos. Seigi decides to help her and gets wrapped up in a cross-national conspiracy. 

Episode: 12

Original Run: July 4, 2016 – September 19, 2016

Studio: J.C.Staff

Yatterman Night 夜ノヤッターマン (Yoru no Yattāman)

Alternative Name: 夜之小双侠 (Yè Zhī Xiǎo Shuāng Xiá)

Genre: Comedy, Action, Drama, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Revenge

Description: 

The Yatterman took control of the Dorombo Gang after a long fight, but the Yatterman Kingdom they created is not at peace. The kingdom is impoverished, and the people lament their tyrannical government. Standing against them is Leopard, a descendent of Yatterman's defeated rivals. She inherits the name Doronjo and becomes her successor, entering the Yatterman Kingdom with the intent of taken on the despised Yatterman.

Episode: 12

Original Run: January 13, 2015 – March 31, 2015

Studio: Tatsunoko Production

Punch Line パンチライン

Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Apocalypse, Genetic Modification, Parody, 

               Ghosts/Spirits, Terrorism, Time Travel, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi,

               Supernatural, Body Switching

Description: 

High schooler Yūta Iridatsu has experienced “astral projection” i.e. his spirit has been separated from his body. He woke up in a mansion named Koraikan and met a cat spirit named Chiranosuke, who told him “You must find the Sacred Tome of Koraikan in order to return to your physical body.” While searching through corridors of Koraikan, Yūta bumped into underpants of its female residents, and doing so would, eh, create some big trouble for planet Earth.

Episode: 12

Original Run: April 9, 2015 – June 25, 2015

Studio: MAPPA

Hoozuki's Coolheadedness 鬼灯の冷徹 (Hōzuki no Reitetsu)

Alternative Name: 鬼灯的冷彻 (Guǐ Dēng De Lěng Chè)

Genre: Supernatural, Dark Comedy, Comedy, Demons, Workplace

Description: 

Hōzuki is the aide to the great king of Hell, King Enma. Calm and super-sadistic, Hōzuki tries to resolve the various problems in Hell, including a rampaging Momotarō and his companions. However, he also likes spending his free time on his hobbies, such as fawning over cute animals and raising "Goldfish Flowers."

Episode
Season 1: 13 Episodes + 4 OVA
Season 2a: 13 Episodes
Season 2b: 13 Episodes + 3 OVA

Original Run

Season 1: January 10, 2014 – April 4, 2014

OVA: February 23, 2015 – March 23, 2017
Season 2a: October 8, 2017 – December 31, 2017
Season 2b:  April 8, 2018 – July 1, 2018
OVA: September 20, 2019 – September 1, 2020

Studio: Wit Studio / Studio Deen & Wit Studio (OVA) / Studio Deen (S2) / 

                Pine Jam (OVA)

School Shock 雛蜂-B.E.E- (Chú Fēng B.E.E)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Mecha, Romance, School, Sci-Fi, 

               Alternative Version, War, Military, Human Experimentation

Description: 

In 2017, a group of genius scientists achieve a remarkable breakthrough in bioengineering. However, all the new technologies are put into military use, beginning a new round of arms race. Vanguards, as the most significant achievement of the modern bioengineering and the most advanced weapon, are widely utilized in the race. Although vanguards are exceptionally combat-effective, their life expectancy is shortened by the nanomachines they use. Usually, most vanguards will retire from the army after a number of years in service.

The heroine Liuli has also consumed too much of her lifespan after executing missions for a long time. With only 380 days left in her life, Liuli receives a new mission, to rescue a hostage being held in a civilian facility. It is without doubt a difficult mission for a vanguard like Liuli, who only knows how to kill and battle. However, Liuli obediently decides to accept the mission in the end.

During the mission, Liuli surprisingly finds that the man who holds the hostage was once a vanguard. The former vanguard Zhongrong Zhou cries and asks the government to hand over the son of Eden. As a vanguard, Liuli feels deep contempt against Zhou. To eliminate the scum of the vanguards, a battle between two vanguards begins...

Episode

Series: 6 ONA + 4 ONA

Alternative Version: 12 ONA

Original Run

Series: July 23, 2015 – December 17, 2015

ONA: September 30, 2015 – December 30, 2015

Alternative Version: November 18, 2020 – January 27, 2021

Studio: Haoliners Animation League / Thundray (Alternative Version)

Kowabon こわぼん

Genre: Horror, Folklore, Ghosts/Spirits

Description: 

There are cameras everywhere in the modern world, monitoring our lives 24/7. Those "eyes" have seen the world you do not know.

Episode: 13

Original Run: October 4, 2015 – December 27, 2015

Studio: ILCA

91 Days

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Historical, Mafia, Revenge, Tragedy

Description: 

During the Prohibition era, in the Lawless district the law has no power, the mafia rule the streets, and the illegally made liquor flows freely. At one time Avilio lived in this district, but after a mafia dispute ended in the murder of his family, he went into hiding. Later, Avilio receives a letter from a mysterious person that ignites his passion for revenge and leads him to return to Lawless. There, he infiltrates the Vanetti family and gets close to Nero.

Episode: 12 + 1 Special + 1 OVA + 7 Special

Original Run

Series: July 9, 2016 – October 1, 2016

Special: August 26, 2016

OVA: May 21, 2017
Special: November 30, 2016 – July 5, 2017

Studio: Shuka

Parasyte -the maxim- 寄生獣 セイの格率 (Kiseijū: Sei no Kakuritsu)

Alternative Name: 寄生兽：生命的准则 

                                       (Jì Shēng Shòu: Shēng Mìng De Zhǔn Zé)

Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Psychological, Romance, Sci-Fi, Aliens, 

               Crimes, Fighting, Gore, Tragedy, Thriller, Survival

Description: 

Shinichi Izumi is a normal high school boy whose right hand has become infected with an alien parasite that names itself "Migi" ("right"). Migi is the first parasite to develop a symbiotic relationship with its host, as he and Shinichi slowly develop a grudging friendship. Migi isn't the only Parasite on earth, however, and as cases of Parasites killing humans begin to emerge, humans seek to kill off Parasites. Shinichi and Migi find themselves caught in between these two sides of the struggle over planet earth.

Episode: 24

Original Run: October 9, 2014 – March 26, 2015

Studio: Madhouse

Live-Action Film: November 29, 2014, April 25, 2015  & April 5, 2024

The Rebirth of Buddha 仏陀再誕

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Psychological, Romance, Reincarnation, 

               Ghosts/Spirits, Gods/Goddesses/Deities

Description: 

17 year-old Sayako Amanokawa aspires to become a journalist, just like Kanemoto, an elite newspaper writer she looks up to. But Kanemoto, shamed from an erroneous report about a corruption scandal, jumps in front of a train and commits suicide. Since that incident, Sayako suddenly becomes able to see spirits and almost loses her life. However, from that near-fatal incident she experiences something extraordinary. The journalist inside her stirred, she embarks to find out about the truth. But the forces that stand in her way turn out to be much formidable than she ever imagined

Original Run: October 17, 2009

Studio: Group TAC