Embracing Love: Cherished Spring 春を抱いていた (Haru wo Daiteita)

Alternative Name: 拥抱春天的罗曼史 (Yǒng Bào Chūn Tiān De Luó Màn Shǐ)

 

Genre: Smut, Yaoi, Drama, Romance, Erotica, Military, Action, War,

               Alternative Version, Historical, Samurais

 

Description: 

 

Kyousuke Iwaki and Youji Katou who are both in the film industry, having starred in various adult video films and are trying to climb the ladder of success and become greater actors. Iwaki is accepted to star in a popular movie, having beaten Katou in the auditions. During their time together, Katou believes he is in love with Iwaki-san, who on the contrary refuses to believe that he is in love. It is later on that another gay actor comes back to Japan and co-stars with Katou that problems starting arising. And it is from then on that the two realize where their hearts are set.

 

Episode

Series: 2

Alternative Version: 3 + 1 Special

 

Original Run

Series: March 31, 2005 – May 27, 2005

Alternative Version: February 23, 2007 – April 27, 2007

Special: March 26, 2008

Studio

Series: Trinet Entertainment

Alternative Version: Venet

Junjou Romantica 純情ロマンチカ

Alternative Name: 純情羅曼史 (Chún Qíng Luó Màn Shǐ)

 

Genre: Drama, Comedy, Erotica, Romance, Yaoi, Bishounen, Editor,

               Workplace, Alternative Version

 

Description: 

 

Misaki is suddenly having some unexpected and odd problems. What started as a need for some college entrance exam tutoring has somehow led him to being romanced by a suave older man who also happens to be his big brother’s best friend. Confused by all of his brand new emotions, Misaki struggles to deal with his suddenly very odd life. And if that wasn’t enough, his suitor, Usami, has plenty of issues of his own. A man-child who decorates his room in giant teddy bears and toys, Usami is a famous novelist who also writes steamy boys’ love novels on the side. When Misaki cracks open one of these books and reads sentences like “Misaki licks every inch of Usami’s hot body”…well, let’s just say that all hell breaks loose.

 

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

 

Original Run

Season 1: April 10, 2008 – June 26, 2008

Special: 2008

Season 2: October 12, 2008 – December 27, 2008

OVA: December 20, 2012

Season 3: July 8, 2015 – September 23, 2015

OVA: December 1, 2015

Studio: Studio Deen

Kirepapa キレパパ

Alternative Name: 漂亮爸爸 (Piào Liang Bà Ba)

Genre: Drama, Romance, Yaoi, Erotica, Comedy

Description: 

The beauty Chisato Takatsukasa thinks that every guy that gets close to his only son, Riju just wants to take advantage of him. He is constantly chasing away the friends and potential suitors that Riju brings home; although, there is one guy who just refuses to give up, or so it seems, until it is Chisato who gets professed to. What happens between the beautiful father, the son, and his best friend is anyone's guess.

Episode: 2

Original Run: January 25, 2008 – November 28, 2008

Studio: PrimeTime

RIN - Daughters of Mnemosyne MNEMOSYNE-ムネモシュネの娘たち- (Mnemosyne - Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi)

Alternative Name: Mnemosyne -记忆女神的女儿们- 

                                       (Mnemosyne -Jì Yì Nǚ Shén De Nǚ Er Men-)

Genre: Drama, Erotica, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Supernatural, Action, 

               Ecchi, Gore, Yuri

Description: 

Rin Asōgi may look like an ordinary office lady on the outside but she is actually a private investigator taking on any jobs, from finding a stray cat to infiltrating a high-security corporate lab. What's more, she appears literally indestructible, supernaturally healing any injuries and mutilations. Together with her partner Mimi, Rin delves into the darkest secrets of the society but the ones she hides herself are by far more sinister...

Episode: 6

Original Run: February 2008 – July 6, 2008

Studio: Xebec

Eyeshield 21 アイシールド21 (Aishīrudo Nijūichi)

Alternative Name: 光速跑者21号 (Guāng Sù Pǎo Zhě 21 Hào)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Tournaments, Football, School, Sport

Description: 

Kobayakawa Sena is a little guy who always get picked on by the bullies in school. Since elementary school, he always play the role of the 'errand boy' to the extent that he has become swift and fast in his movements. Coincidentally, Hiruma Youichi and Kurita Ryukan are looking for a fast running back for their American Football team (Amefuto) and want to put Sena in the team. To hide their new 'star' player from the eyes of other High Schools, Hiruma encases Sena in a Amefuto helmet with a dark visor and name him Eyeshield #21.

Episode: 145 + 1 OVA + 1 Special

Original Run

Series: April 5, 2005 – March 19, 2008

OVA: 2005

Special: August 6, 2004

Studio: Gallop / Production I.G (Special)

Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens かんなぎ

Alternative Name: 神薙 (Shén Tì)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Supernatural, Ghosts/Spirits, 

               Split Personality, Gods/Goddesses/Deities,

Description: 

An art student named Jin Mikuriya carves a statue from the wood of the Kannagi tree only to have the statue come to life in the form of a goddess, who has now taken over the statue. He and "Nagi" work together to destroy the impurities that are gathering in the town.

Episode: 13 + 1 Special

Original Run

Series: October 4, 2008 – December 27, 2008

Special: May 27, 2009

Studio: A-1 Pictures & Ordet

Spice and Wolf 狼と香辛料 (Ōkami to Kōshinryō)

Alternative Name: 狼与香辛料 (Láng Yǔ Xiāng Xīn Liào)

Genre: Adventure, Romance, Fantasy, Drama, Wolves, Alternative Version

Description: 

Kraft Lawrence, a 25 year old peddler travelling from town to town selling and buying various things to make a living during a period much like Europe in the Middle Ages. One night when stopped at the town of Pasroe, he finds in his wagon a 250 year old pagan wolf deity girl named Holo. She appears to be that of a 15 year old girl, except for a wolf tail and ears. She introduces herself as the town's goddess of harvest who has kept it blessed with good harvests of wheat for many years. Despite having the responsibility to watch over the town, she wants to go back to her homeland in the north called Yoitsu, she believes the people have already forsaken her anyway and that she has kept her promise to maintain the good harvests. She manages to bargain her way out of the village by making a deal with Lawrence to take her with him. As they travel, her wisdom helps increase his profits, but at the same time, her true nature draws unwanted attention from the church.

Episode

Season 1: 13 Episodes + 1 OVA

Season 2: 12 Episodes + 2 Special

Original Run

Season 1: January 9, 2008 – March 26, 2008

OVA: April 30, 2009

Season 2: July 9, 2009 – September 24, 2009

Special: October 7, 2009 – November 4, 2009

Studio: Imagin (S1) / Brain's Base & Marvy Jack (S2)

Switch スイッチ

Alternative Name: 缉毒特搜班 (Duó Dú Tè Sōu Bān)

Genre: Action, Mystery, Polices/Detectives, Drama, Crimes

Description: 

Two newbies at the Narcotic Control Department in Japan, Haru and Kai, struggle against: drug dealers, gangs, murderers, psychopaths, mysterious organizations, and mad people in general. The gentle and caring one of the group, Kai, who has problems of his own, has the tendency of turning into a lethal killing machine in certain scenarios. The way he acts changes like that of a "switch". As the two do their job, answers of what is behind Kai's strange behavior and who exactly he is, is revealed.

Episode: 2

Original Run: October 24, 2008 – February 25, 2009

Studio: Actas

Daughter of Twenty Faces 二十面相の娘 (Nijū Mensō no Musume)

Alternative Name: 二十面相少女 (Èr Shí Miàn Xiàng Shào Nǚ)

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Polices/Detectives, Kaitou/Thief, 

               Action, Crimes

Description: 

Chiko, who had been leading a lonely life because of her parents death. Together with the Phantom Thief Nijū-Mensō (20-Faces), she sets out on a journey into the real world. She gradually changes as she encounters new friends and places. But strange events start happening revolving around the mystery of "Legacy of the 20-Faces". So Chiko has to move forward, regardless on how checkered her life will become.

Episode: 22

Original Run: April 12, 2008 – September 27, 2008

Studio: Bones & Telecom Animation Film

Monochrome Factor モノクローム·ファクター

Alternative Name: 幻影少年 (Huàn Yǐng Shào Nián)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen-Ai, Supernatural, Isekai,    

               School, Delinquents

Description: 

The story revolves around high school student Akira Nikaido, a typical slacker living a normal life. That is, until he meets the mysterious Shirogane, a man who suddenly appears and tells him to meet him at the school that night. Though he is skeptical, he goes anyway, and subsequently gets attacked by a shadow monster. Shirogane convinces him that the balance between the human world and the shadow world has been distorted, and that Akira must become a "shin", which is a creature of the shadow world, in order to help restore the balance.

Episode: 24

Original Run: April 7, 2008 – September 29, 2008

Studio: A.C.G.T

Library War 図書館戦争 (Toshokan Sensō)

Alternative Name: 图书馆战争 (Tú Shū Guǎn Zhàn Zhēng)

Genre: Action, Military, Comedy, Romance, Library, War

Description: 

In a slightly different timeline than ours, the explosion of information and misinformation came to be considered a direct threat to society. In a daring decision, it was decided to create a new government agency dedicated solely to information management. Some thirty years later, in 2019, the government still monitors and controls information, suppressing anything they find undesirable, but standing against their abuses of power are the libraries, with their special agents called ‘the book soldiers.’

Episode: 12 + 1 Special + 1 Movie

Original Run

Series: April 10, 2008 – June 26, 2008

Special: October 1, 2008

Movie: June 16, 2012

Studio: Production I.G

Live-Action Film: April 27, 2013 & October 10, 2015

Death Note デスノート (Desu Nōto)

Alternative Name: 死亡笔记 (Sǐ Wáng Bǐ Jì)

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural, Thriller, Crimes,

               Death, Polices/Detectives, Shinigami

Description: 

Yagami Light is an ace student with great prospects, who's bored out of his mind. One day he finds the "Death Note": a notebook from the realm of the Death Gods, with the power to kill people in any way he desires. With the Death Note in hand, Light decides to create his perfect world, without crime or criminals. However, when criminals start dropping dead one by one, the authorites send the legendary detective L to track down the killer, and a battle of wits, deception and logic ensues...

Episode: 37 + 2 Special + 2 Movies

Original Run

Series: October 3, 2006 – June 26, 2007

Special: August 31, 2007 – August 22, 2008

Death Note: Relight: Visions of a God : August 31, 2007

Death Note: Relight 2: L's Successors: August 22, 2008

Studio: Madhouse

Live-Action Film

1. Death Note – June 17, 2006

2. Death Note 2: The Last Name – October 28, 2006

3. L: Change the World – February 9, 2008

4. Death Note: Light Up the New World – October 29, 2016
5. Death Note – August 25, 2017

Television Drama
1. Death Note – July 5, 2015 – September 13, 2015  (11 Episodes)
2. Death Note New Generation – September 16, 2016 – September 30, 

     2016 (3 Episodes)

Top Secret ~The Revelation~ 秘密(トップ・シークレット)~The Revelation～ (Himitsu ~The Revelation~)

Genre: Crimes, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-Fi, Polices/Detectives, 

Description: 

The story takes place five decades from now, when brain scanners have been perfected to the point that the government can retrieve up to five years' worth of memories from people's minds — even if they are dead. The investigators of the National Research Institute of Police Science's 9th Forensics Laboratory must weigh the ethical choices in the ultimate invasion of privacy as they delve into people's minds to solve crimes.

Episode: 26

Original Run: April 8, 2008 – September 30, 2008

Studio: Madhouse

Live-Action Film: August 6, 2016

Princess Resurrection 怪物王女 (Kaibutsu Ōjo)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance, Supernatural, Thriller, 

              Harem, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Description: 

Since Hiro Hiyorimi's parents died, he and his sister Sawawa have lived apart. Now, Sawawa has gotten a new job as the caretaker of a creepy old mansion, and has sent Hiro a letter asking him to come and stay there with her. Finding the mansion boarded up and apparently empty, Hiro wanders around town looking for Sawawa. Instead, he runs into the new resident of the mansion, and ends up pushing her out of the way of some falling steel beams. Unfortunately, he loses his own life in the process. Luckily, or perhaps unluckily, the person he thought he saved turns out to be a princess of the monster kingdom, and she grants him a second life...but only for as long as he will be her servant.

Episode: 25 + 1 Special + 3 OVA

Original Run

Series: April 13, 2007 – September 28, 2007

Special: February 14, 2008

OVA: December 9, 2010 – October 7, 2011

Studio: Madhouse / Tatsunoko Production (OVA)

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 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

Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea 崖の上のポニョ (Gake no Ue no Ponyo)

Alternative Name: 崖上的波妞 (Yá Shàng De Bō Niū)

Genre: Adventure, Magic, Romance, Fantasy, Transformation

Description: 

A young boy, Sōsuke, befriends a strange looking goldfish whom he names Ponyo. Unbeknownst to Sōsuke, Ponyo is a magic fish who has decided that she wants to live with Sōsuke and the other humans. Unfortunately, Ponyo's decision to give up her underwater life creates a crack in an ancient magic spell, and places the world in danger. Together, Sōsuke and Ponyo must set things right.

Original Run: July 19, 2008

Studio: Studio Ghibli

Time of Eve イヴの时间 (Eve no Jikan)

Alternative Name: EVE的时间 (EVE De Shí Jiān)

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Androids, Café, Slice of Life, Mecha

Description: 

Sometime in future Japan, androids have been involved in every aspect of peoples lives. One day, upon checking his android's behavioral log, Rikuo, a student, noticed his android's returning times have been odd recently. With his friend Masaki, they found out the place where his android, Sammy, have been visiting: a small cafe called Eve no Jikan where androids and human are not seen as different. Upon talking with the "people" in the cafe and discovering more of Sammy's behavior, Rikuo changed his view about androids and treat them as friends rather than tools. At the same time, elsewhere in Japan, the Ethics committee is trying to impose policies to reduce the involvement and use of androids in society.

Episode: 6 ONA + 1 Movie

Original Run

ONA: August 1, 2008 – September 18, 2009

Movie: March 6, 2010

Studio: Studio Rikka 

Kure-nai 红

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Martial Arts, School, Comedy, 

               Slice of Life, Harem, Incest

Description: 

Sixteen-year-old Shinkurō Kurenai is an authority in settling disputes between people, and finds his life turned upside down one day when he is assigned as a bodyguard for Murasaki Kuhōin, the daughter of a powerful plutocratic family.

Episode: 12 + 2 OVA

Original Run

Series: April 3, 2008 – June 19, 2008

OVA: July 2, 2010 – December 3, 2010

Studio: Brain's Base 

Kimiaru: You Are the Master and the Servant Is Me 君が主で执事が俺で (Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de)

Alternative Name: 你是主人我是仆 (Nǐ Shì Zhǔ Rén Wǒ Shì Pū)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Butlers/Maids, Parody, Harem, 

               Fanservice, Alternative Version

Description: 

Due to family troubles, Ren Uesugi and his sister, Mihato, leave their home. They end up moving to the city but find themselves with a lack of money. Somehow they are able to find work in the form of the Kuonji family's mansion, being employed as servants to the three sisters of the Kuonji family: Shinra, Miyu, and Yume. Being a servant also associates Ren with the mansion's additional servants and the Kuonji sisters' friends.

Episode: 13

Original Run: January 4, 2008 – March 29, 2008

Studio: A.C.G.T.