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| (The) Adventures of Mini-Goddess (TV) |
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A chibi/SD version of the Ah! My Goddess characters, in short episodes. Not really plot oriented, it’s mostly gags and the goddesses hanging out with a rat named Gan. |
| Agent Aika (OAV) |
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| Ah My Buddha (TV) |
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| Ai Yori Aoshi (TV) |
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| Ai-Mai-Mi (TV) |
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| Air Gear (TV) |
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| Allison & Lillia (TV) |
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| Amagami SS (TV) |
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| Amazing Nurse Nanako (TV) |
Weak |
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| Amnesia (TV) |
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| Angel Beats! (TV) |
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| Another (TV) |
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| Aquarion (TV) |
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| Aria the Animation (TV) |
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| Baccano! (TV) |
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| Bakemonogatari (TV) |
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| Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman (TV) |
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| Baldr Force EXE (OAV) |
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| Beet the Vandel Buster (TV) |
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| Bleach (TV) |
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Fun series with hiphop samurai-style ghost fighters. I didn’t say it made sense, just that it was fun. Actually, the series does make a lot more sense than that description makes it seem. The main character is a kid named Ichigo who has a weird home life, and can see ghosts. He has to fight Hollows (tormented spirits who were once people) to protect those he cares about and is aided by a girl who is a Death God. Sort of an intelligent Scooby-Doo. Excellent anime with interesting and likable characters. A great deal of profanity. Some mild risque humor. Fan service. Gore. |
| Blood-C (TV) |
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| Cardcaptor Sakura (TV) |
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Kind of a cute show, in the same genre as Saint Tail, though it feels more like Princess Yucie than Saint Tail. Stumbling on a strange book in the basement, Sakura accidentally unleashes a horde of creatures on the world, and has to track them down with the help of Kero, the Guardian of the Clow, and seal them into magic cards. Sakura’s video-happy friend is a funny element. Later in the series some homosexual elements crop up, which takes away some of the show’s charm for me. There are also somewhat creepy elements that come in as well, including the fact that Sakura’s elder brother had an affair with an older woman, Sakura’s father married their mother when she was a high school girl, and one of Sakura’s friends (in Jr. High) has an unhealthy crush on one of the teachers at the school. In the end, the show isn’t charming enough or exciting enough to overshadow these problems for me. |
| Case Closed (TV) |
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| Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) |
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| Cyborg 009 (TV/1968) |
Not really good |
Young man Joe Shimamura finds himself changed against his will into a cyborg with superhuman abilities and speed. He is the ninth in a series of super weapons created by an evil organization. The nine cyborgs rebel from the weapon making (and dealing) organization that created them, and have to fight other cyborgs as they try to find out who they are and where they came from while also attempting to bring down the super villain Black Ghost. A touch of X-Men, it feels like Trigun at some moments, Knight Hunters at others. Stylistically interesting–the character design feels like something from Metropolis–the characters are kind of fun, though not particularly deep. Action violence. I can’t finish this series for now, as they stopped releasing the episodes in the U.S. |
| A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives (TV) |
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| Death Note (TV) |
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I don’t read a lot of manga, but I have read most of this series. I wish I hadn’t however, as I’d love to experience the twists and turns of this fascinating series without prior knowledge. A bored but brilliant young man finds a notebook that ties him to a demon from another world. If he writes someone’s name in the book and can picture the person’s face, that person will die. He sets out to change the world by killing criminals, but soon gets caught up in a battle of wits to avoid capture, and his actions slip from at least somewhat moral to amoral. Sort of a cross between Spiral and Knight Hunters, this is excellent filmmaking, let alone excellent anime. Stylish and well animated. Extremely dark thematically. Gore and innuendo. |
| El Cazador de la Bruja (TV) |
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| El-Hazard: The Wanderers (TV) |
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A bit of Slayers, though not quite as zany, and a bit of Lost in Space, this feels like a precursor series to Twelve Kingdoms. Makoto Mizuhara is a young man with an interest in science who creates a machine that makes a dimensional hole into a world of magic. He, a teacher, and several other students are sucked into the hole, and have to find a way back. Enjoyable series. Mild fan service. |
| Excel Saga (TV) |
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An alien overlord named Ilpalazzo wants to rule the world. Unfortunately for him, his female assistants (Excel is one of them) are an utter disaster. Spoof anime. Feels a lot like Monte Python. Pretty funny. Somewhat off-color; implied sex, profanity and gore. |
| Fairy Tail (TV) |
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| Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) |
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A pair of twin children (Ai and Yu) take a subway train to Wonderland to search for their parents. A mix of western and oriental fantasy elements. I haven’t gotten very far yet, but it seems interesting. |
| Flame of Recca (TV) |
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Recca Hanabishi is a high school kid who wishes he could be a ninja, and swears to serve a classmate as her personal bodyguard. As it turns out, he is descended from a ninja clan that is fighting a 300 year old battle with a rival, evil clan. Elements of Ranma, with plenty of humor, though this is a more serious story of mystical powers and deadly battles. Gore and some brief nudity. |
| Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) |
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| .hack//Liminality (OAV) |
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Included as part of the video game Dot.Hack/Infection, this is an intriguing and well done anime story. A girl’s boyfriend loses consciousness while showing her a new online video game. She and a strange guy who seems to be one of the game’s original creators try to find out why kids are going into comas while playing the game. |
| Hell Girl (TV) |
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| Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere (TV) |
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| Jyu-Oh-Sei (TV) |
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| Kujibiki Unbalance (OAV) |
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This is the series-within-the-series Genshiken, the series that the characters watch within their own series, and from which snippets appear in the show. As far as I can tell, these episodes were created by the animators for Genshiken for use in that show. Kujibiki is a strange series about cooking and high school politics, with a good helping of fan service. |
| A Little Snow Fairy Sugar (TV) |
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Saga is a girl in a German-looking town who meets a fairy in training. The story is a bit thin, but it’s a cute show. But as long as I’m watching cutesy girl anime, I’d rather watch Princess Yucie or Ultra Maniac. |
| Lupin the 3rd (TV) |
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| Magic Knight Rayearth (TV) |
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Three girls get pulled from Tokyo into another world called Cephiro that needs them to help save it. In many ways typical of this sub-genre of anime, with cute animals, etc., it’s still worth watching. Nudity. |
| Magical Meow Meow Taruto (TV) |
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A strange series where cats are little girls, and intellectually somewhere between the brain power of a cat and a girl. Taruto is the lost princess of some cat kingdom, but has the brain of a grapefruit. Charming is some ways, tedious in others. Her human male master actually seems to be a dimmer bulb that she is. |
| Martian Successor Nadesico (TV) |
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| Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (TV) |
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A group of rebel teenagers attack earth in mobile suits from space colonies to try to win freedom for the colonies. Some language and gore. |
| Moeyo Ken (TV) |
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| Mouse (TV) |
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| Naruto Shippūden (TV) |
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| Negima! (TV) |
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| Ouran High School Host Club (TV) |
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| Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat (TV) |
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I’m not exactly sure what to make of this series. It’s pathological, insane ... cuteness. It’s like cute, girly anime boiled down to its very essence, pure sugar (maybe nutrisweet) and no substance, with strange brainless cat girls do strange brainless things. Princess Dejiko wanders with her friends from one strange adventure to another. Nothing offensive, as long as your brain doesn’t melt while watching this series. |
| Place to Place (TV) |
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| (The) Prince of Tennis (TV) |
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| Pumpkin Scissors (TV) |
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| Queen's Blade: The Exiled Virgin (TV) |
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| Ragnarok The Animation (TV) |
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| Ranma ½ (TV) |
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Digital Dojo (Season One): A pretty funny series about a young marshal arts master who fell into a cursed spring that makes him turn into a girl whenever he is dowsed in cold water. His father turns into a panda under the same circumstance. Ranma is engaged to be married–an arranged marriage–to a girl who hates men (and is a master martial artist in her own right). Plenty of high jinx. Penty of nudity as well–this would actually be a fun family series if not for all the nudity.
Anything-Goes Martial Arts ( Season Two): Continues the hijinks of the first season. The characters begin to grow and become a lot more interesting and sympathetic. Less nudity than the first season until the end, then a lot.
Hard Battle (Season Three): This season introduces some new characters but keeps playing on the same gags. Fun stuff, though, for the most part. Nudity.
Outta Control (Season Four): More hijinx. More mayhem. |
| Rave Master (TV) |
So-so |
All I saw of this was the Cartoon Network version in English, and it’s fairly lame. I don’t know if the Japanese version is any better, but I certainly hope it is. It’s the sort of series that is kid-dumb, if you know what I mean–think Pokemon. Nothing particularly offensive, at least in the episodes I saw. But nothing to make you rush out to see it, either. |
| Revolutionary Girl Utena (TV) |
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I’m not sure what to make of this series. Utena is a girl who was comforted by a prince when she was little after her parents died, and wants be strong like him, so she dresses like a boy. There’s plenty of the Japanese pseudo-lesbian element here, but it’s not Utena who feels that way about other girls. However, she actually winds up engaged to a girl in some weird convoluted game to gain power to change the world. But hers is not the only weird relationship–there are a lot strange things going on between various characters. And “strange” sort of sums up this series. The plot is strange, the actual storytelling is strange, but it’s all somehow compelling. Other than some implied sex, and violence against women (the “bride” girl gets smacked around by a variety of people), there’s not much objectionable–other than all the strangeness. |
| Romeo × Juliet (TV) |
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| Rurouni Kenshin (TV 1996) |
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An interesting series about a Ronin who has a dark past and uses a reverse blade sword–so he only wounds, not kills people–to help those in need. He helps a struggling sword school mistress named Kaoru, and this starts a series of adventures that collects an odd bunch of misfits who become dedicated to using their skills to help others. It’s funny and serious by turns. Profanity and gore. |
| Saint Tail (TV) |
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Cute kid’s series about a thief and a nun who work together. Meimi is a nice girl (except when she’s mad at her rival, the son of a police detective) who attends St. Paulia’s Academy by day, but sneaks out at night and becomes a thief who steals from bad people and helps their victims. |
| Samurai Deeper Kyo (TV) |
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| Sengoku Basara - Samurai Kings (TV 2) |
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| Sherlock Hound (TV) |
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Based loosely (very loosely) on the Sherlock Holmes stories, this series–with the characters as anthropomorphized dogs–is mostly interesting for the fact that it’s one of Hayao Miyazaki’s early works. Fun for the kids |
| (The) Slayers Try (TV) |
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Season three. Fun and games and madness. |
| Soul Eater (TV) |
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| Speed Grapher (TV) |
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| Spice and Wolf (TV) |
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| Sweet Blue Flowers (TV) |
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| (The) Vision of Escaflowne (TV) |
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Not as well animated as the movie, but with a lot more character development. Fun series. Violence. |
| Waiting in the Summer (TV) |
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| (The) Wallflower (TV) |
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| Zipang (TV) |
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A Japanese Final Countdown, with a missile carrier named the Mirai from the modern Japanese navy slipping back in time to WW II. Good characters and drama, as the men of the ship try to figure out what their duties are to Japan, to themselves, and to history itself. I’m not a fan of the character designs–they’re a bit cartoony for a serious drama–but they’re not absolutely terrible. War violence. |
