Encouragement of Climb ヤマノススメ (Yama no Susume)

Alternative Name: 向山进发 (Xiàng Shān Jìn Fā)

Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life, Moe, Adventure, Outdoor Sport, Sport,

               Tourism, Hiking

Description: 

Hinata and Aoi made a promise to each other when they were very young to climb a mountain. Years later they get in contact again and start acting on that promise. However Aoi has developed a fear of heights, and Hinata has little patience for planning and even less caution.

Episode

Season 1: 12 Episodes + 1 Special

Season 2: 24 Episodes + 2 Special + 1 OVA
Season 3: 13 Episodes

Season 4: 12 Episodes

Original Run

Season 1: January 3, 2013 – March 21, 2013

Special: May 24, 2013

Season 2: July 9, 2014 – December 23, 2014

Special: October 24, 2014 – March 27, 2015
OVA: October 28, 2017
Season 3: July 3, 2018 – September 25, 2018

Season 4: October 5, 2022 – December 21, 2022

Studio: 8bit 

Weiß Kreuz ヴァイスクロイツ (Vaisu Kuroitsu)

Alternative Name: 白色猎人 (Bái Sè Liè Rén)

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Bishounen, Tragedy, Action, Assassins

Description: 

These four men, Omi Tsukiyono, Ken Hidaka, Yohji Kudoh, and Aya Fujimiya, are a group of assassins called "Weiß." They cover their operations by working at a flower shop during the day and the basement is their hideout. This is no ordinary group: they kill the murderers, big businessmen, and other assassins that the law cannot touch. Each one is fighting for their own reasons, whether it is revenge or to help a loved one. But they soon realize that there are connections between some of their cases and try to find out what is really going on. They use whatever they can to complete their missions and kill the people that are targeted by Weiß's leader.

Episode

Season 1: 25 Episodes + 2 OVA

Season 2: 13 Episodes

Original Run

Season 1: April 8, 1998 – September 30, 1998

OVA: November 25, 1999 – February 23, 2000

Season 2: November 28, 2002 – February 20, 2003

Studio: Plum & Magic Bus (S1) / Triangle Staff & Animate Film (OVA) /

                ufotable (S2)

Cheating Craft チーティングクラフト

Alternative Name: 一课一练 (Yī Kè Yī Liàn)

Genre: Action, School, School Life, Developing Power

Description: 

In a world where people have been sorted since childhood by exams, only those who excel obtain happiness. L (Learning) Types – who prioritize study – and C (Cheating) Types – those who choose not to study to pass – will battle and team up in tests. C Type protagonist Mumei, and L Type heroine Kōi battle together to pass tests.

Episode: 12

Original Run: October 5, 2016 – December 21, 2016

Studio: BLADE

Koitabi ~True Tours Nanto 恋旅~True Tours Nanto

Genre: Romance, Tourism

Description: 

Three short, love stories set in Nanto.

Episode: 6

Original Run: April 28, 2013

Studio: P.A.Works

ReLIFE リライフ (Riraifu)

Alternative Name: ReLIFE 重返17岁 (ReLIFE Chóng Fǎn 17 Suì)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, School, Fantasy

Description: 

Arata Kaizaki is an unemployed, single 27-year-old who has just been cut off from his parents' financial support. Unable to find a job due to him leaving his previous employer within three months, he is stuck. One night after drinking with a high school friend, Arata meets Ryō Yoake, a man who offers Arata pills to turn him back into a 17-year old so he can redo his life. After agreeing to the experiment, Arata joins a high school class, and meets Chizuru Hishiro, a socially-awkward silent beauty who yearns to have friends. Through connecting with her and other classmates, Arata must find what he lacks to live a happy life in the real world within a one-year time limit.

Episode: 13 + 4 Special

Original Run
Series: July 2, 2016 – September 24, 2016
Special: March 28, 2018

Studio: TMS Entertainment

Live-Action Film: April 15, 2017

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet 翠星のガルガンティア (Suisei no Garugantia)

Alternative Name: 翠星之加尔刚蒂亚 (Cuì Xīng Zhī Jiā Ěr Gāng Dì Yà)

Genre: Adventure, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Artificial Intelligence, Mecha, 

              Romance, Outer Space

Description: 

While fighting an intense inter-galactic war, a mecha pilot was accidentally warped into a space-time neither he nor the computer of his mecha could recognize. After waking up from a long-time hibernation, he found himself trapped on a planet, with human residents talking in an unknown form of language, using inferior technologies, and -- most shocking to him -- naturally breathable air.

Episode

Series: 13 Episodes + 2 Special +1 Special

ONA: 13 Episodes + 1 Special

OVA: 2 Episodes

Original Run

Series: April 7, 2013 – June 30, 2013

Special: August 28, 2013 – October 25, 2013
Special: September 27, 2014

ONA: April 10, 2013 – July 3, 2013

Special: September 25, 2013

OVA: September 27, 2014 – April 4, 2015

Studio: Production I.G. / Studio PuYUKAI (ONA)

NΘRN9 NORN9 ノルン＋ノネット (Norn9 Norun+Nonetto)

Alternative Name: 命运九重奏 (Mìng Yùn Jiǔ Chóng Zòu)

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Reverse Harem, 

               Time Travel

Description: 

The era where great powers of the world have all ventured overseas. Revolution and liberalism spread all over the world. Right when souls and earth are ill, a glowing sphere appeared in the sky, and removed the borders of the world. Three girls and nine young men depart together with a flying ship.

Episode: 12 + 1 Special

Original Run

Series: January 7, 2016 – March 31, 2016

Special: March 10, 2016

Studio: Kinema Citrus

Karneval カーニヴァル (Kānivaru)

Alternative Name: 狂欢节 (Kuáng Huān Jié)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Circus, Bishounen, Sci-Fi, 

               Mutants, Special Abilities, Secret Agents/Spies, Adventure

Description: 

Nai searches for someone important to him, with only an abandoned bracelet as a clue. Gareki steals and pick-pockets to get by from day to day. The two meet in a strange mansion where they are set-up, and soon become wanted criminals by military security operatives. When Nai and Gareki find themselves desperate in a hopeless predicament, they encounter none other than the country's most powerful defense organization, "Circus". The Circus is a Defense organization that works for the government. They perform raids to capture criminals and solve crimes that the Security force otherwise cannot handle. After their raids, they put on shows as an apology for scaring the citizens. Their group consists of the strongest, most capable fighters that use a special type of bracelet, known as Circus I.D., to fight.

Episode: 13 + 11 Special + 1 OVA

Original Run

Series: April 3, 2013 – June 26, 2013

Special: June 21, 2013 – November 22, 2013

OVA: October 25, 2012

Studio: Manglobe

Katanagatari 刀語

Alternative Name: 刀语 (Dāo Yǔ)

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Chanbara, Historical, Martial Arts, 

               Ninjas, Samurais, 

Description: 

This story teakes place in the Edo era where Yasuri Shichika is the seventh head of the Kyotou school of Japanese sword martial arts living in Fushou Island with his sister Nanami. With the order from a female samurai general Togame, he sets out for a trip to collect the twelve treasured swords created by a legendary swordsmith Shikizaki Kiki.

Episode: 12

Original Run: January 26, 2010 – December 11, 2010

Studio: White Fox

Miss Monochrome ミス・モノクローム (Misu Monokurōmu)

Alternative Name: 單色小姐 -The Animation- 

                                       (Dān Sè Xiǎo Jiě -The Animation-)

Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Slice of Life, Idols, Moe, Music, Androids, 

               Showbiz, Celebrities

Description: 

In order to be more in the eyes of the public, Miss Monochrome begins working to become a top-selling idol. Spacey Miss Monochrome once again runs around the idol show biz world, being tossed around by others.

Episode

Season 1: 13 Episodes + 1 OVA + 1 ONA

Season 2: 13 Episodes

Season 3: 13 Episodes

Original Run

Season 1: October 1, 2013 – December 24, 2013

OVA: March 25, 2014

ONA: June 17, 2014

Season 2: July 3, 2015 – September 25, 2015

Season 3: October 2, 2015 – December 18, 2015

Studio: SANZIGEN & LIDENFILMS / SANZIGEN (OVA)

Hellsing ヘルシング (Herushingu)

Alternative Name: 皇家国教骑士团 (Huáng Jiā Guó Jiào Qí Shì Tuán)

Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Supernatural, Shapeshifting, Vampires, 

               Gore, Military, Alternative Version

Description: 

Hellsing follows the antiheroic vampire, Alucard, and a police girl-turned-vampire, Seras Victoria, two vampires employed by the vampire-extermination group of England, the Hellsing Organization. Slowly but surely, through their active duty, they find a new breed of vampires beginning to arise.

Episode

Series: 13 Episodes + 1 Special

Alternative Version: 10 Episodes + 3 Special + 1 OVA

Original Run

Special: 2000

Series: October 10, 2001 – January 16, 2002

OVA: January 22, 2006

Alternative Version: February 10, 2006 – December 26, 2012
Special: July 27, 2011 – December 26, 2012

Studio: Gonzo / Madhouse, Satelight & Graphinica (Alternative Version) / 

                 Satelight (OVA)

Heaven's Memo Pad 神様のメモ帳 (Kamisama no Memochou)

Alternative Name: 神的记事本 (Shén De Jì Shì Běn)

Genre: Mystery, Detectives, Comedy, Drama, Psychological, Crimes, 

               Conspiracy, NEET, Secret Agents/Spies, Yakuza

Description: 

Narumi Fujishima is an ordinary high school boy who remains isolated from his fellow classmates. One afternoon fellow classmate Ayaka Shinozaki invites Narumi to join the gardening club and introduces him to a reclusive detective named Alice. Alice hires Narumi as an assistant and puts him to work solving the strange mysteries of Angel fix, an illegal drug. Little does he know it could put him and Ayaka in serious trouble.

Episode: 12

Original Run: July 2, 2011 – September 24, 2011

Studio: J.C.Staff

Aokana: Ao no Kanata Four Rhythm 蒼の彼方のフォーリズム (Ao no Kanata no Fō Rizumu)

Alternative Name: 苍之彼方的四重奏 (Cāng Zhī Bǐ Fāng De Sì Chóng Zòu)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Tournaments, Sci-Fi, Sport, School, Romance

Description: 

In a world where flying is as simple as riding a bicycle, there is a popular sport called "Flying Circus" (dogfight race). The protagonist who once hoped for a future in this sport suffered a setback due to an overwhelming defeat, and withdrew from the sport for this and some other reason. However, he met the transfer student Asuka Kurashina, and in teaching her to fly the skies, the old passion returned. He takes part in the Flying Circus again.

Episode: 12

Original Run: January 12, 2016 – March 29, 2016

Studio: Gonzo

Comet Lucifer コメット・ルシファー (Kometto Rushifā)

Alternative Name: 彗星路西法 (Huì Xīng Lù Xī Fǎ)

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mecha, Fantasy, Action

Description: 

On the planet Gift there are precious crystals called Giftjium buried in the earth. A young man named Sōgo lives in Garden Indigo, a prosperous mining town. Sōgo's hobby is to collect rare crystals. One day, he gets wrapped up in a riot caused by his classmates Kaon, Roman, and Otto, and he loses his way until he finds a lake deep under the ground's mining ruins. There, he meets a mysterious girl with blue hair and red eyes that gaze straight ahead. The story follows the adventure of what happens after this meeting.

Episode: 12 + 12 ONA

Original Run

Series: October 4, 2015 – December 20, 2015

ONA: January 29, 2016 – June 24, 2016

Studio: 8bit

NetoYome: And you thought there is never a girl online? ネトゲの嫁は女の子じゃないと思った? (Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko Janai to Omotta?)

Alternative Name: 线上游戏的老婆不可能是女生?

                                       (Xiàn Shàng Yóu Xì De Lǎo Pó Bù Kě Néng 

                                       Shì Nǚ Shēng?)

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Games, School, Ecchi, Online Game/MMORPG

Description: 

Hideki Nishimura confessed to a person he thought was a girl online, only for that person to turn out to be a boy. He keeps this "black history" secret and swears to never to trust a "girl" online again. However, one day a girl online confesses to him, and it turns out she's actually a beautiful girl named Ako Tamaki. Ako cannot tell the difference between the online world and reality, and she is a loner who has trouble communicating. Hideki and his friends from his guild decide to work together to "correct" her.

Episode: 12

Original Run: April 7, 2016 – June 23, 2016

Studio: Project No.9

Classroom☆Crisis クラスルーム☆クライシス (Kurasurūmu Kuraishisu)

Alternative Name: 教室☆危机 (Jiào Shì☆Wéi Jī)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Outer Space, Mecha, 

               School, School Life

Description: 

Humanity has successfully colonized all the planets in the Solar System, with intentions to continue into new frontiers. Individuals live stable lives in these colonies, including young high school students living in 4th Tokyo on Mars. Two of these students are Iris Shirazaki and Mizuki Sera. Iris is finishing her last year of high school while studying to be a test pilot while her friend Mizuki also works as a mechanic on the aircraft. Her own brother, Kaito, oversees Mizuki and Iris as their homeroom teacher and program director.

Episode: 13 + 1 Special

Original Run

Series: July 3, 2015 – September 25, 2015

Special: December 23, 2015

Studio: Lay-duce

Re-Kan! レーカン!

Alternative Name: 灵感! (Líng Gǎn!)

Genre: Comedy, Supernatural, Ghosts/Spirits, School, School Life

Description: 

Hibiki Amami, a high school student, is a girl that can sense ghosts. Lots of ghosts are always around her as she treats ghosts and humans equally. Just by Hibiki being there, a boring school suddenly turns into a haunted mansion. But, humans aren't taking a loss there. The friends around Hibiki are all so amusing with a quirk or two. Surrounded by people and ghosts like that, sometimes she runs around in confusion, but for Hibiki everything is cherished and irreplaceable.

Episode: 13

Original Run: April 2, 2015 – June 25, 2015

Studio: Pierrot Plus

Yuugo The Negotiator 勇午 ～交渉人～ (Yūgo - Kōshōnin)

Alternative Name: 勇午交涉人 (Yǒng Wǔ Jiāo Shè Rén)

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Military, Action, Espionage

Description: 

Yugo the Negotiator has never lost a case. He has vowed to complete any mission he undertakes, no matter what. A woman came to him one day asking for him to save her father who was being held hostage by a rebel group trying to overthrow a Middle-Eastern government. Aided by his many contacts, Yugo heads to the Middle East with no idea where to start, but he'll discover he's not alone on his mission.

Episode: 13

Original Run: February 24, 2004 – May 25, 2004

Studio: Artland

The Empire of Corpses 屍者の帝国 (Shisha no Teikoku)

Alternative Name: 尸者的帝国 (Shī Zhě De Dì Guó)

Genre: Sci-Fi, Historical, Psychological, Horror, Zombies

Description: 

Based on the theory of Victor Frankenstein, the world has started using raised dead, though with no soul in it, for regular mundane work. Dr. Watson, a medical student at the University of London, illegally researches for the missing soul in dead, with the help of Friday. Finally Watson is caught by Mr. M; working for British Crown; and is sent on a goose chase for the “Notes of Victor Frankenstein” which details of creation of first and only dead attached with a soul. Dr. Watson, accepts the deal with his own motive behind the pursuit of the Notes.

Original Run: October 2, 2015

Studio: Wit Studio