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Princess Tutu
Director: Junichi Sato
Studio: Hal Film Maker
Year: 2002
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
13-year-old ballet student Ahiru is clumsy, good-hearted and sweet... and has a big secret. The mysterious Drosselmayer morphed a young duck into a girl to give her a mission: help a Prince to get the parts of his heart back. With that in mind, she morphs into Princess Tutu, whose magical dances ease the pain and purifies the bad feelings.
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Mushishi
Directors: Hiroshi Nagahama
Studio: Artland
Year: 2005
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
They are neither plants nor animals. They differ from other forms of life such as the micro-organisms and the fungi. Instead they resemble the primeval body of life and are generally known as "Mushi". Their existence and appearance are unknown to many and only a limited number of humans are aware of them. Ginko is a "Mushi-shi" who travels around to investigate and find out more about the "Mushi". In the process, he also lends a helping hand to people who face problems with supernatural occurances which may be related to the "Mushi".
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Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Studio: Kyoto Animation
Year: 2003
Number of Episodes: 12
Synopsis: It's back-to-school mayhem with Kaname Chidori and her war-freak classmate Sousuke Sagara as they encounter more misadventures in and out of Jindai High School. But when Kaname gets into some serious trouble, Sousuke takes the guise of Bonta-kun - the gun-wielding, butt-kicking mascot. And while he struggles to continue living as a normal teenager, Sousuke also has to deal with protecting his superior officer Teletha Testarossa, who has decided to take a vacation from Mithril and spend a couple of weeks as his and Kaname's classmate.
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Lucky Star
Animation Producer: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Studio: Kyoto Animation
Year: 2007
Number of Episodes: 24
Synopsis:
Portrays the lives of several school girls attending a Japanese high school with a very loose humor tone. The main heroine is Konata Izumi, an athletic and intelligent girl who, despite these attributes, is not in a sports club, and her grades remain low. Her laziness at school is due to her love for anime and video games, and she is not interested in much else.
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Baccano!
Director: Takahiro Omori
Studio: Brains-Base
Year: 2007
Number of Episodes: 13
Synopsis:
Baccano is Italian for noise, but Narita translates it as "stupid commotion." Each of the stories in the series involves several unrelated plots intersecting and crossing each other as events spiral farther and farther out of control. Immortal alchemists, mafia operated speakeasies, and many other elements of pulp fiction mashed together for a world straight out of the movies.
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Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni
Director: Chiaki Kon
Studio: studio DEEN
Year: 2006
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis: On one hot summer day in 1983, a transfer student named Maebara Keiichi comes to a peaceful rural village in Hinamizawa. There, he befriends his classmates Rena, Mion, Rika, and Satoko. Accepted as a full-fledged member of the "club," Keiichi and the gang plays all sorts of activities ranging from card and board games to hide-and-seek. But just as Keiichi was beginning to be assimilated in simple rural life, he stumbles upon the dark history of Hinamizawa. As Keiichi dives deeper into the mystery, he finds that his new found friends may not be all what they claim to be.
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Tengan Toppa Gurren-Lagann
Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi
Studio: GAINAX
Year: 2007
Number of Episodes: 27
Synopsis: In their closed-off underground village, Kamina and Simon chafe at the limits imposed by the village elder. Yet all this will change, when Simon stumbles across a fantastic device - just as the village's peace is broken by a violent intrusion.
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GetBackers
Directors: Kazuhiro Furuhashi and Keitaro Motonaga
Studio: Studio DEEN
Year: 2002-03
Number of Episodes: 49
Synopsis:
Ban Mido and Ginji Amano are a recovery duo infamously known as "GetBackers." Ban possesses two special powers: the "Snake Bite" (his hands have a gripping power of 200kg) and the "Evil Eye" (anyone who looks into his eyes will be locked into a powerful and nightmarish hallucination). Ginji, on the other hand, has the ability to generate thousands of volts of electricity from his body. Together, they run a freelance business of recovering anything lost or stolen from a client - and they claim a 100% success rate at their job.
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Death Note
Director: Tetsuro Araki
Studio: Madhouse Studios
Year: 2006-07
Number of Episodes: 37
Synopsis:
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...
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Full Metal Panic!
Director: Koichi Chigira
Studio: Digimation and Gonzo
Year: 2001/02
Number of Episodes: 24
Synopsis:
Sousuke Sagara, a seventeen year old military specialist working for the secret organization MITHRIL, has been assigned to protect the latest "Whispered" candidate Kaname Chidori. To complete this task Sousuke will have to deal with enemies from his past as well as the occasional panty thief. Unfortunately for Sousuke, the toughest part of his mission isn't only protecting Miss Chidori but also getting used to living an average High School students life, no easy task for someone raised on the battlefield.
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Slayers
Animation Producer: Koji Ogiwara
Studio: Egg Films
Year: 1995
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
Lina Inverse, a wandering sorceress and bandit-killer, joins forces with roving swordsman Gourry Gabriev in what's supposed to be a quick union of convenience. Instead, an artifact Lina "liberated" from a gang of thieves turns out to be the key to the resurrection of the demon lord Shabranigdo. Urged on by the mysterious Red Priest Rezo, the pair has no choice but to fight the dark lord and his servants, accumulating new allies and enemies along the way.
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Fantastic Children
Director: Takashi Nakamura
Studio: Nippon Animation
Year: 2004/2005
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
A group of enigmatic white-haired children has been spotted at different times and places in Europe for over 500 years. Always with the appearance of 11-year-olds, they behave far more mature than they should be, never grow old, and seem to have supernatural power. What they have been seeking is a girl, and the only clue they have is a picture with a crescent moon. Now, in the year of 2012, an athletic boy named Tohma is about to be involved in this centuries-long mystery.
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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Director: Hiroshi Yamamoto
Studio: Kyoto Animation
Year: 2006
Number of Episodes: 14
Synopsis:
On the first day of high school a beautiful girl named Haruhi Suzumiya introduces herself as having "no interest in ordinary humans". She asks for any aliens, time travelers, sliders or espers to join her. Watching her weird behaviour is Kyon a boy who sits in front of Haruhi and is the only person who talks to her. Commenting on Haruhi's joining every club in school and then quitting Kyon unwittingly gives Haruhi an idea to start her own after school club. Thereafter Kyon and several others find themselves literally dragged into the Save our world by Overloading it with fun Suzumiya Haruhi's Brigade (the S.O.S. Brigade for short).
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Great Teacher Onizuka
Directors: Naoyasu Hanyu and Noriyuki Abe
Studio: SPE Visual and Studio Pierrot
Year: 1999/2000
Number of Episodes: 43
Synopsis:
Onizuka is an ex-biker and gang leader who has one goal, to become the greatest teacher. He learns of the power and respect possible as an intern teacher, using his strength and connections to get his students to respect him. Now, graduated, he gets a job at a prestigious private school to handle their 'problem class' that made the past few teachers quit. He must handle a different sort of trouble when the trouble makers include some of the smartest kids in Japan who prefer a more cerebral approach to torturing their teacher. Onizuka must slowly win his students over and deal with their mistrust of teachers while handling the distrust of his fellow teachers.
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Weiss Kreuz
Studio: Animate Film
Year: 1998
Number of Episodes: 25
Synopsis:
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.
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Samurai Champloo
Director: Watanabe Shinichiro
Studio: Manglobe INC
Year: 2004
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
Mugen is a fierce animal-like warrior with a unique Bboying (break-dance) inspired fighting style. Jin has a more traditional style but don’t think of this as a weakness because his skills are amazing. The two contrasting samurai warriors are far from friends, yet their separate paths seem to cross anyways. Mugen is wandering aimlessly through the city when he stumbles upon a teahouse where he meets Jin and Fuu (A ditzy waitress, but don‘t think she doesn‘t have anything hidden up her sleeves). Fuu convinces them both to come with her in search of a mysterious samurai that smells like sunflowers and their journey begins. This modernized hip-hop tale breaks the barriers of the common, historical, samurai anime.
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Tsukikage Ran: Carried by the Wind
Director: Akitaro Daichi
Studio: Madhouse Studios
Year: 2000
Number of Episodes: 13
Synopsis:
In the Edo or Tokugawa period (1600-1868),Ran,a female wandering samurai whose skill with the katana is only matched by her taste for sake (rice wine),is joined by a chinese martial artist who calls herself Lady Meow of the Iron Cat Fist.Together,these two women face antagonists of all kinds.
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Samurai 7
Director: Toshifumi Takizawa
Studio: Gonzo
Year: 2004
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
A small village is being persecuted by robbers who return every harvest to seize the village's crops. Faced with starvation, the villagers send out a few of their own on a mission to find and recruit some samurai to defend them. With no pay to offer except rice, and knowing full well that only down-on-their-luck samurai would even consider accepting such an ordeal, the villagers can only hope that their saviours will appear before the rice is ready for harvest.
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Outlaw Star
Director: Mitsuru Hongo
Studio: Sunrise and Xebec
Year: 1998
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
Gene Starwind and his partner Jim Hawking run a small business on the backwater planet of Centinel 3. But all that changes the day that Hilda hires them for a bodyguard job. Now, thrust into a mystery they don't fully understand, they're on the run from the cops, the pirates, an angry alien, and a mysterious assassin. But they've got one thing going in their favor - they have the galaxy's most advanced ship, the Outlaw Star.
Gene Starwind dreams of life as an Outlaw, and fate smiles on him as he seems to suddenly wind up with a great job. But as things go awry, and he finds himself the new owner of the fastest, most technologically advanced space ship in the galaxy. Unfortunately, it's stolen and the owners want it back... Along with his partner Jim and the lovely Melfina, Gene must fight his way across the galaxy battling pirates, aliens, and assassins as he attempts to discover the secrets of the Outlaw Star.
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Vision of Escaflowne
Director: Kazuki Akane
Studio: Sunrise
Year: 1996
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
When Hitomi is transported to the fantastical world of Gaia, little does she know that she will become a key player in a brooding war between the kingedoms of Gaia and the evil Zaibach empire. Along with a young prince, Van Fanel, she discovers the secrets of the battle armor Escaflowne and those of her own powers.
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Noir
Director: Koichi Mashimo
Studio: Bee Train
Year: 2001
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
Mireille Bouquet is a professional assassin, and a very good one at that. But when she follows up an e-mail from a young Japanese girl named Yumura Kirika, inviting her to take "a pilgrimage to the past", her life becomes even more dangerous than it already is. Now, with a haunting melody invoking the memory of an event long past, Mireille and Kirika decide to work together to find the truth about a thousand year old organization that has controlled both of their lives since before they were born. And the only clue in their search, the only thing Kirika remembers about herself, becomes their working codename: a name designating an ancient fate, of two maidens who reign over death--Noir.
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Fruits Basket
Director: Akitaro Daichi
Studio: Studio DEEN
Year: 2001
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
Tohru Honda is 16 year old orphaned girl who gets invited to live in the house of her classmate, the handsome boy Sohma Yuki, and his cousins, 16 year old Kyo and 27 year old Shigure. However, these young men and parts of the rest of their family (both close and distant) hold a curse; if they are hugged by the opposite gender, they transform into animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Everyday is an adventure for sweet Tohru, as she gets to know everyone in the large family better (especially Yuki and Kyo), in both common and bizarre situations. But, the Sohma Family curse is certainly no laughing matter... it also holds horrible cruelity and heartbreak.
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Saber Marionette J
Director: Masami Shimoda
Studio: Hal Film Maker and Dr. Movie
Year: 1996-1997
Number of Episodes: 25
Synopsis:
In a world of only males, they have created female looking marionettes (androids). A handful of them have been given special 'hearts' called maiden circuits that give them emotion and human personality. Three of these are found by Otaru, and they soon are caught up in a war against Lord Faust and his 3 'human' marionettes.
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s-CRY-ed
Director: Goro Taniguchi
Studio: Sunrise
Year: 2001
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
In the future, certain people begin to exhibit strange powers that allow them to control matter and rearrange it. These powers are called "alters" and those who harness the power are known as Native Alters. Scryed tells the story of Kazuma, a Native Alter who finds himself in conflict with the mission commander of Holy, an oppressive group whose function is to control the Native Alters.
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Berserk
Director: Naohito Takahashi
Studio: Oriental Light and Magic
Year: 1997-1998
Number of Episodes: 25
Synopsis:
A mysterious warrior calling himself The Black Swordsman is out to get the King of a country called Midland. As he battles the king's henchmen, their cries of pain and the spilling blood take this relentless warrior's mind back in time to the path that led him to his current state.
Guts, a man who calls himself "The Black Swordsman" looks upon his days serving as a member of a group of mercenaries, the Band of the Hawk, nicknamed "the Grim Reaper of the Battlefield". Leaded by an ambitious, ruthless, and intellegent man named Griffith, together they battle their way into the royal court, and are forced into a fate that may change their entire lives.
On just any day, a pack of hooligans are harassing a young lady in distress when all of a sudden, they're under attack. The Black Swordsman has returned. He wields a giant sword as large as his grudge against the king. When alone in the woods, the Black Swordsman has a flash back to years past and his trials and tribulations in the Band of the Hawk, a successful band of mercenaries under the charismatic leadership of Griffith, a man driven by the ambition to become king.
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Trigun
Director: Satoshi Nishimura
Studio: Madhouse Studios
Year: 1998
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
Vash the Stampede is a gunman on the run with a 60 billion double dollar bounty on his head which has made it difficult for him to go anywhere without being chased and shot at. Because of the bounty, every town he ever visits ends up being destroyed because of his pursuers, but miraculously no one ever gets killed. Meryl and Milly are two insurance agents that have been sent to find Vash the Stampede and keep him under surveillance so no more damage is caused. Meryl, who leads the pair, can't believe that the man they have met can possibly be the legendary gunman. This spikey haired, gangly, and blonde young man is extremely friendly, a pacifist, hates blood and suicide, absolutely loves donuts, and is a dork and a crybaby... there is no way he could be Vash the Stampede, a notorious outlaw. However, there's more to Vash than just smiles and donuts; a dark past that he would like to leave behind is hounding him, and some people are pursuing him for other reasons than the bounty.
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Chobits
Director: Morio Asaka
Studio: Madhouse Studios
Year: 2002
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
In the future, personal computers have developped into "Persocons", mobile computers that look like human beings. Hideki Motosuwa, a prep school student, desperately wants to buy a Persocon but cannot afford to. One day he finds a Persocon that has been thrown away and decides to keep it. When he turns on the Persocon, all she can say is "Chii" so he decides to name her that. After a while it starts to become apparent that Chii is more than an average Persocon. Having much better performance, it seems that Chii might be a "Chobit", a type of advanced Persocon rumoured to have independent thought.
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Cowboy Bebop
Director: Shinichiro Watanabe
Studio: Sunrise
Year: 1998
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
Sleek ships, big guns, and plenty of jazz. In the future, space travel has become commonplace. Anyone and everyone can traverse the stars, and the scum of the earth have become the bane of the galaxy. Join the bounty hunter crew of the space ship Bebop as they attempt to make a living hunting down criminals and instead cause fiascos of galactic proportions.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
Director: Hideaki Anno
Studio: GAINAX
Year: 1995-1996
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
One day, Shinji was a regular junior high school student. The next, he finds himself thrust into a war against a ferocious enemy as the pilot of a mechanized suit called an EVA. The Angels are monstrous creatures determined to destroy the earth, and only Shinji and his two fellow EVA pilots, all who have been recruited by the mysterious organization NERV, have the ability to stop this dangerous menace. Will they succeed, or will all hell break loose on earth?
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Fushigi Yuugi
Director: Hajime Kamegaki
Studio: Studio Pierrot
Year: 1995
Number of Episodes: 52
Synopsis:
The Universe of the Four Gods appears to be just another book. However, Miaka and Yui, two life-long best friends, find out that looks can be deceiving when they are sucked into its pages and find themselves in ancient China. Suddenly, they are both key players in a war between two powerful kingdoms. Can Miaka save her new friends, rescue the kingdom of Konan, and find a way back to her own world, or will she be trapped in the book forever, forced to wage war against her best friend?
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Saiyuki
Director: Hayato Date
Studio: Studio Pierrot
Year: 2000
Number of Episodes: 50
Synopsis:
Many years ago, humans and demons lived in harmony. But that unity ended when demons started attacking humans and plotted a mission to unleash Gyumao - an evil demon imprisoned for thousands of years. Now, Genjo Sanzo, a rogue priest, must team up with three demons - Sha Gojyo, Son Goku, and Cho Hakkai - and embark on a perilous journey to the west to stop these demons from resurrecting Gyumao and restore the balance between humans and demons on Earth.
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Kino's Journey
Director: Ryutaro Nakamura
Studio: Studio Wombat
Year: 2003
Number of Episodes: 13
Synopsis:
The story follows the travels of Kino, a young adventurer who rides a talking motorcycle named Hermes. They explore the people and cultures of different places throughout their adventures, spending only three days at each location.
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Boogiepop Phantom
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Studio: Madhouse Studios
Year: 2000
Number of Episodes: 12
Synopsis:
A light in the sky, followed by a strange aura and grisly murders. Each character tells there own connection to the event and to a similar murder spree 5 years ago. All of the different stories are slowly tied together by seemingly minute similarities and the story of Boogiepop is unraveled.
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FLCL
Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki, Masahiko Otsuka, Shouji Saeki, Takeshi Ando
Studio: GAINAX and Production I.G.
Year: 2000
Number of Episodes: 6
Synopsis:
Naota is a normal Japanese 6th grade boy (although a little cynical), but when his older brother leaves for America to play baseball, his brother leaves his homeless 17 year old girlfriend Mamimi behind. Mamimi is sending mixed signals and advances to Naota, and he doesn't know what to do about her. But to make matters worse, Naota's world is totally turned upside down when he is run over by a woman on a Vespa. During their first encounter, she hits him over the head with her guitar, which then causes a horn to grow out of his forehead. She calls herself "Haruko" and her presence changes Naota's life to even further insanity.
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X
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Studio: Madhouse Studios
Year: 2001
Number of Episodes: 24
Synopsis:
It's the year of destiny and 15 year old Kamui Shiro, a powerful psychic, has returned to Toyko after a 6 year absence. He wants to be with his childhood friends, Fuma (his best friend) and Kotori, Fuma's little sister (and Kamui's possible girlfriend). He wants to protect them from all dangers, but destiny and fate are haunting Kamui and pulling in himself and his beloved childhood friends. It is his destiny to decide the fate of the world, no matter if he wants the role or not. Now it is a matter of whether he will join the side of the Seven Seals and become the Dragon of Heaven to save mankind, or join the Seven Angels and become the Dragon of Earth to destroy all civilization so the earth can heal itself from man's destruction.
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Serial Experiments Lain
Director: Ryutaro Nakamura
Studio: Triangle Staff
Year: 1998
Number of Episodes: 13
Synopsis:
Lain Iwakura appears to be an ordinary girl, with almost no experience with computers. Yet the sudden suicide of a schoolmate, and a number of strange occurrences, conspire to pull Lain into the world of the Wired, where she gradually learns that nothing is what it seems to be... not even Lain herself.
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Gundam Wing
Director: Masashi Ikeda
Studio: Sunrise
Year: 1995
Number of Episodes: 49
Synopsis:
It is the year After Colony 195, and war between the Space Colonies and Earth has begun. To give the colonies an edge, they send 5 young soldiers, trained to perfection, to earth in the most powerful of Mobile Suits-Gundams. With their arrival, the tide of the war changes as they battle against the Earth forces and the Colonies of their origin.
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Di Gi Charat
Director: Hiroaki Sakurai
Studio: Madhouse Studios
Year: 1999-2000
Number of Episodes: 16
Synopsis:
DiGi Charat is a series of shorts created as advertisements for "Digital Gamers," a store in Akihabara. The series follows Dejiko, princess of DiGi Charat planet, and her companions, Puchiko and Gema, as well as Dejiko's rival, Rabi~en~Rose through daily ordeals they encounter while working at Gamers.
Princess Digi Charat came from the planet Digi Charat given only a cat cap and outfit to disguise herself. Unfortunatly she came with no money, only her guardian Gema and friend Petite Charat. Luckily the 3 stumbled upon a manager of the store Gamerz, who offered them a home if they worked at the store. However Digi Charat is a selfish young girl who wishes of becoming a star.
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Irresponsible Captain Tylor
Director: Koichi Mashimo
Studio: Big West and Tatsunoko
Year: 1993
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
Justy Tylor has no training, no skill, no initiative, or leadership qualities; in fact, he has nothing going for him except one crucial thing: dumb luck. This is his only saving grace, and it saves him from impossible odds, time and again. By sheer accident, he rescues the General's beloved granddaughters; for which, the General is extremely grateful, and as such, makes this inept recruit a full Captain, but gives him command of the lowliest ship in the fleet, the Soyokaze. This ship has a crew of misfits and mutineers, so the General is not at all worried about Tylor making matters worse. He has killed two birds with one stone: he has given this inept freeloader a 'reward' for saving the granddaughters, and also put a captain in command of a ship and crew he would just as well see engulfed by a black hole. Thus, Tylor begins an adventure that takes him from the lowest and highest positions of authority, from which he somehow manages to make things turn out for the best.
Justy Ueki Tylor thought a career in the United Planets Space Force would give him an easy life: enlist, get a desk job, spend the rest of his life in quiet, boring comfort. No sooner does he take the qualifying exam than war breaks out with the Raalgon Empire, and circumstances quickly conspire to land this volunteer off the street in command of the cruiser "Soyokaze." Now Tylor faces two uphill battles - against the Raalgon fleet that wants to kill him, and against his own crew, who expect him to conform to some standard of military discipline. But as the war rages, Tylor's easy-going ways might have a better chance of converting his crew than vice-versa.
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Love Hina
Director: Yoshiaki Iwasaki
Studio: Production I.G.
Year: 2000
Number of Episodes: 25
Synopsis:
Keitaro Urashima is determined to be accepted into Tokyo University, the hardest Japanese University of all to get into, because of a promise he made to a girl when he was young... a girl whose name he can't even remember. After failing to get into Tokyo U twice, he is kicked out by his parents and goes to live with his Grandmother at her hotel, but it seems it has been turned into an all girls boarding house. What's more, much to his surprise and to the tenants disgust, Keitaro is made manager of the boarding house.
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Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040
Director: Hiroki Hayashi
Studio: JVC
Year: 1998/99
Number of Episodes: 26
Synopsis:
After a mysterious eathquake levels Tokyo, Genom becomes a powerful influence providing their artificial organic lifeforms called Boomers to rebuild and act as a labor class to humanity. However, some of them ocasionally run amok, and even the specially created AD Police are at a loss to stop them. Lina Yamazaki travels to Tokyo for employment but also hopes to join a vigilante force called the Knight Sabers, who pilot powered suits to destroy these rouge Boomers.
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