Better Than It Sounds / Anime and Manga D to G

Please sort new titles alphabetically to avoid double-entries.

---

• Dai-Guard: A bunch of low-wage office workers save the world and are liable for the damages.
• Dance in the Vampire Bund: A young man with a glandular problem has to keep a thirteen-year-old royal Tsundere mass murderer safe when she founds a nation for her extended family (of mass murderers). Her three cousins want to love her.
• Dancougar: An effeminate man quits his job and travels the world hunting endangered species.
• Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School: The second season of an adaptation is skipped in order to create a sequel and prequel to said second season.
  • Future Arc: The main character is accused of treason. His trial gets interrupted when the cast begins to play a game of mafia.
  • Despair Arc: Members of a Wacky Homeroom wind up helping cause the apocalypse.
• The Dangers in My Heart: School boy struggles with Middle School 2nd Year Syndrome, reads gore books, and plans to kill his weird innocent classmate who's just enjoying life. But he sucks at it and it turns into a romance instead.
• Darker than Black: Chinese Electric Batman.
  • Darker than Black: Ryuusei no Gemini: The sequel, in which a ninja who has suddenly become a jerk teams up with a little girl to kill a comatose woman who is probably his ex-girlfriend.
• Date A Live: The fate of the world depends on one boy's luck with the ladies.
• The Daughter of Twenty Faces: What if Lupin III adopted an eleven-year-old rich girl?
• Day Break Illusion: Tarot and magical girls make for a very dark combination.
• Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai: Dragon Quest: The Anime.
• Dead Leaves: This Is Your Brain On Drugs.
  • Or, in an attempt at a description: Girl and TV-headed boy wake up naked, hunt for clothes and food, wind up in prison and organize a jailbreak. Also, a gun-toting baby is involved.
• Deadman Wonderland: A young boy bleeds profusely in a quest for candy at a twisted place that looks happy on the outside. Once he no longer needs the candy, he looks for an albino in the same twisted place.
• Dear Brother: On her first day of school, a girl falls in love with a drug addict who grabs her on the bus.
• Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody: Game programmer really gets into his games.
• Death Note: Honors student plots to conquer the world by writing names in a book, uses sex appeal when that fails.
  • Alternatively: A small but focused police effort is launched to stop a straight-A student from writing in his diary. Eventually, the entire world suffers from it.
  • Alternatively alternatively: Two and later three improbably young Chessmasters engage in a series-long game of Xanatos Speed Chess, including several rounds of Gambit Roulette and a Memory Gambit. And each Chessmaster enlists the help of invisible gods who love apples.
  • Genius eats excessive amounts of cake while trying to stop another genius from writing in a book.
  • The touching story of a boy and his god complex.
• Death Parade: Bartenders make dead people play games. They're not very good at it.
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: A boy wants to kill Michael Jackson because he killed his family and turned his sister into a demon.
  • Alternatively: A young coal salesman returns home to find his family dead and his sister turned into a demon. He must train in the arts of breathing good to kill a bunch of tragic monsters in order to find a cure for his sister's condition.
• Den-noh Coil: Kids play while wearing glasses. This often causes major problems across the city and has the potential to be life-threatening.
• Dengeki Daisy: Schoolgirl regularly texts a stranger about her personal life. It turns out to be the school janitor.
• Descendants of Darkness: Undead detectives foil a doctor's sinister plot to discover the cure for decapitation.
• Destiny of the Shrine Maiden: Two priestesses (and a third guy) cope with a Love Triangle and the rebirth of Orochi. No pretense is made of the latter being in any way more important than the former.
  • Or: Your typical Moe meets a Stalker with a Crush and helps her to battle Humongous Mecha.
  • Or: Reincarnated lesbian Miko priestesses fight mythological monster (reincarnated in one of the priestesses' other Love Interests), his Troubled, but Cute Aloof Big Brother, a Cat Girl Kawaiiko, an Idol Singer, a mangaka, a pervert nun with large breasts and a Dumb Muscle Psychopathic Manchild with Humongous Mechas.
  • Or: Underage lesbians in giant robots fight other characters in giant robots on the moon. Some characters can't decide which side to fight on in their giant robots.
  • Or: Digimon Tamers minus the Digimon.

• Detroit Metal City: Aspiring pop musician really wishes he wasn't so good at being the sociopathic frontman for a heavy metal band.
  • Alternatively: Japan's answer to Metalocalypse.
• The Devil is a Part-Timer!: The devil works at McDonald's. His big-boobed Token Mini-Moe co-worker has a crush on him. The savior of humanity works in a call center and is tsundere for the devil.
  • Or: Man wants to Take Over the World living paycheck to paycheck while his mortal enemy tries to convince everybody they're not a couple.
• Devil May Cry: The Animated Series: A badass slacker and his friends must protect a little girl from Eldritch Abominations.
• Devilman: Teenage boy faces consequences of going to a disco rave with best friend.
  • DEVILMAN crybaby: Same as above, but with more titties and gore.
    • Or: Satan is oblivious to his feelings for someone else until it's far too late.
• D.Gray-Man: A boy repeatedly rips his arm off to fight a clown.
  • Alternatively: Orphan boy raised in a circus by a clown rips off his arm (which is also a clown) to fight a Monster Clown, his crazy family who seems rather attached to each other and the boy, and their mechanical demons. Boy is helped by a girl who uses boots, her overprotective brother, a badass Japanese swordsman, and a Badass Bookworm with spiky red hair and a hammer that changes size in a world where Ho Yay abounds. It's terrifying.
  • Or: Skin conditions, dismemberment, clowns, exorcists, hiatus.
• Digimon Adventure: Children are sucked into the Internet and are assisted by advanced artificial intelligence while coming out of various states of denial.
  • Digimon Adventure 02: A child genius takes online role-playing way too seriously. Five kids decide to troll him by destroying everything he's built online. They later become friends and team up to fight Anime Tommy Wiseau.
  • Digimon Adventure tri.: An average season of Digimon goes off the rails when a Persona game breaks out.
    • Alternatively: Digimon Wonderswan Series: An 11-year-old boy is called to fight an ongoing war in a parallel dimension, with a humanoid abomination-slash-cosmic horror, separated from all he knows and loves. This war eventually takes him on a vast journey through space and time, and into alternate universes. Eventually, this horror is transformed into an egg, which the boy takes with him, to never return to his universe.
    • Digimon Adventure: A year before that, 7 children visiting a summer camp, is flung into the same dimension, to handle the comparatively minor side-effects of that ongoing war, never learning what exactly is going on, nor their true roles.
    • Digimon Adventure 02: 3 years later, the 7 children, along with a few others, return to that dimension, to handle further problems caused by that war, and unwittingly cure one of its victims of his infection.
  • Digimon Tamers: A kid tries his hand at God-Mode Sue-ing and instead gets an un-house-trained dinosaur that hates rats. He then proceeds to use cards to fight the Ultra Q-Esque kaiju threats.
    • "Adventurers' Battle": Same kid forced to go visit relatives in the country against his will, ends up trying to protect an endangered species from poachers. Meanwhile, his friends take an interest in the newest V-pet fad.
    • "Runaway Digimon Express": Same kid asks a female friend to go flower watching. Not only does she refuse, she later tries to take his head off with a wrench.
  • Digimon Frontier: Five kids are called upon to break up an abusive love triangle.
  • Digimon Data Squad: Hot Blood. And plenty of it.
  • Digimon Fusion: Three kids find a dinosaur musician and engage in a really big game of Risk.
    • Digimon in general: An ingeniously-disguised Merchandise Show designed to sell virtual pet toys which haven't been popular or even existed for over a decade.
• Dimension W: A limitless and waste-free source of energy has been discovered. A law enforcement officer wins an all-expenses-paid trip to a tropical island, where he meets one of the scientists who made this energy possible. The officer then beats up the scientist because the officer hates this form of energy so much. No one else does.
• Dinosaur King: Dinosaurs are Mons.
• Dirty Pair: Two young women fight crime In SPACE!. Devastation occurs, but — and this is the important thing — it is never their fault.
• DNA²: Teenager who is allergic to girls (really a lot), is accidentally turned into The Casanova by a time traveler who was sent to stop this. And he hates it.
• D.N.Angel: Kleptomaniac teenager gets split personality and can't decide between twin love interests while alternatively fighting/befriending a classmate who also has a split personality.
• Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?: Ditzy, clingy mother who's never played a video game in her life becomes a Comically Invincible Hero.
• Dog Days: An ordinary middle-school student gets dragged against his will into participating in a reality show that takes place on another planet.
  • Or: Furries kidnap teenagers to engage in War for Fun and Profit.
• Dogs: Bullets & Carnage: A genetically modified albino, his one-eyed, red-headed cigarette-loving partner, a scarred amnesiac woman with a katana, and a retired assassin... try to figure out what the plot is about.
• Doraemon: A time-traveling cat with no ears tries to prevent a loser kid from growing up to be an even bigger loser.
• Dorohedoro: An amnesiac lizard man kills smoke-powered mages with the guidance of a man who lives inside his mouth to find out who turned him into a lizard.
• Dororo: A deformed swordsman quests to get his body parts back from his father's former business partners, teaming up with a kleptomaniac juvenile delinquent along the way.
• .hack//SIGN: A young boy cannot stop playing a MMORPG. His friends spend a lot of time discussing the problem.
  • Legend of the Twilight Bracelet: A boy falls in love with a very young mother and helps her find her kid, who has spent months in the video game.
• Dragonaut: The Resonance: Dragons try to blow up an asteroid. There are lots of boobs.
• Dragon Ball:
  • Dragon Ball: A young boy with severe brain damage repeatedly risks his life at the behest of a manipulative teenage girl.
    • Or: A brain-damaged child fights a midget to satisfy his female companion’s lust for balls.
    • Or: An alien wipes out an entire army because they took his dead grandfather's ball.
    • Or: Boy grabs balls to make his wish come true.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Celestial bodies (both literal and figurative) murdered repeatedly, humans quickly rendered unimportant.
    • Or: A blonde ape beats up a naked alien on a dead planet after the blonde ape's recently deceased rival killed the Power Rangers.
    • Or: Alien bodybuilder weremonkeys with silly hair fight each other and other aliens by doing a lot of posturing and screaming. And occasionally hold expository staring contests.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone: Light blue midget elf kidnaps hero's son, becomes immortal, and plots to kill God.
  • Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest: Mad Scientist's Brain in a Jar attempts to take over hero's body.
  • Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might: Evil version of the hero plants a tree; group of heroes blow it up.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug: Yet another old green man makes a wish to become a young green man.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge: Camp tyrant's brother seeks revenge.
  • Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler: Camp tyrant's brother merges with Planet Eater and takes over the planet of green men with robots.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!: Three blond heroes fight three killer robots.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan: Screaming psychopath beats up a group of heroes because the hero wouldn't stop crying when they were babies.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound: A Space Pirate that was trapped in a planet attempts to take over the world.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Broly – Second Coming: Screaming psychopath returns to beat up group of heroes again.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly: Screaming psychopath is cloned and fails to beat up a group of heroes.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn: An Eldritch Abomination causes dead villains and Adolf Hitler to escape from Hell; two dead heroes and their sons merge to stop them.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon: Hero defeats a Kaiju with a Shoryuken.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods: Hero becomes God to fight God.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F': Hero fights resurrected camp tyrant who can now turn gold. Hero turns his hair blue in response.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku: Hero's dad foresees his planet and people getting blown up by a camp tyrant and tries to stop it. Because this is a prequel, he fails.
  • Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks: Teen goes back in time to prevent a group of heroes from getting killed by killer robots.
  • Dragon Ball GT: The aforementioned blonde ape gets turned into a nine-year-old kid and has ball-hunting adventures with his granddaughter, a purple-haired CEO, and a robot. He later turns into a pink ape and fights dragons that don't look like dragons.
  • Dragon Ball Z Kai: The filler-free version about a group of heroes fighting intergalactic evil while getting killed, but they get better.
  • Dragon Ball Super: The continuing adventures of a group of heroes following the death of a bubblegum man. Retells the stories of God and the golden camp tyrant.
  • Dragon Ball Super: Broly: The touching story of a screaming psychopath.
  • Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Son of an army leader allies with the grandson of a scientist that worked for the leader as revenge so they can defeat an alien invasion by creating mechanical super heroes. They are the baddies.
• Dragon Crisis!: Boy gets forcibly dragged by his cousin, to help gets this box from the Mafia, which turns out to have a dragon in it. Said dragon falls in love with him.
• Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan: A young woman joins the Japanese air force. She wanders into a mysterious warehouse and gets eaten by a dragon. (All this happens in the pilot episode.)
• Dream Eater Merry: A guy helps an amnesiac girl fight monsters so she can fall asleep.
• Drifters: Significant people from our history are plopped into a world of elves, dwarves, hobbits(?), and dragons so that they can fight each other at the behest of mysterious organizations. Notables include Oda Nobunaga, Hannibal, Joan of Arc, Hijikata Toshizo, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Anastasia, Count of St. Germain, Abe no Seimei, Hitler, and maybe Jesus among others. None of them is the main character.
• Dr. STONE: An Omnidisciplinary Scientist counts seconds when he has nothing better to do, then enlists the aid of a bunch of cavemen to go to the Moon.
• Duel Masters: An epic saga of card games, wisecracks, and hair.
• Durarara!!: An Irish woman moves to Tokyo hoping to get ahead, a kid decides to become Anonymous and another guy plays them both for fools.
  • The work's page quote: "Durarara is a show about a magical fairy who rides a motorcycle and saves people. This is both the most literal and least representative description of the show that I could think of."
  • Or Yandere: The Anime.
    • Similarly: A story coming from some people's unhealthy obsessions with some other people. And swords. And body parts.
  • Or A bunch of people in Tokyo have too much time on their hands.
  • Or: trolls on the streets and gangs on the internet.
• Eden of the East: Amnesiac with shitload of money and no pants tries to figure out exactly who was phone. Johnnies ensue.
• El Cazador de la Bruja: A(n) (Faux?) Action Girl and a Canadian Magical Girl with a Mysterious Past drive around South of the Border and in what is supposedly Latin Land. Tacos ensue.
• Elfen Lied: Girl kills lots and lots of people with her mind. You sympathize.
  • Or: Harem Comedy with lots of dismemberment. And nudity, but nobody gets any.
• The Enigma of Amigara Fault: People are called to join their perfect match, and do so.
• Ergo Proxy: God, Pinocchio, and that chick from Evanescence are chased across country by an angry ex-girlfriend. Mind Screw and horror ensue.
• Eureka Seven: Disaffected hipsters take on the military by surfing.
  • Or: Teenage boy falls in love with a piece of coral.
  • Or: Teenage boy falls in love with fourteen-year-old mother of three, runs away to live with terrorists who kill his adoptive parents.
  • Or: Girl burns down the house. Boy falls in Love at First Sight. The planet almost turns into a black hole.
  • Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers: In an Alternate Universe, a young boy pilots a giant robot to save his girlfriend.
• Excel♡Saga: A hyperactive young woman and her Delicate and Sickly partner try to Take Over the World in various genres.
• Eyeshield 21: A coward adopts a secret identity, acquires a horrible nickname, gets repeatedly shot at, and visits Las Vegas because his upperclassman thinks they can win the Japanese high school Super Bowl with three guys and a dog.
• Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor: Teenagers with issues violently answer a simple question.
• Fairy Musketeers: The Three Musketeers are a trio of fourteen-year-old girls from another world who must protect a boy, who can talk to flowers, from evil.
• Fairy Tail: One Piece with wizards.
  • Or: An eighteen-year-old female wizard wants to join a group of wizards who are known for causing large-scale property damage. She succeeds, only to find out that most of the guild are varying shades of crazy.
  • Or: Members of a mage guild known for causing large-scale property damage save parts of the world several times. Strong themes of Nakama are common. Dragons and an evil wizard are referenced often but rarely seen.
  • Or: "I wanted to make an MMORPG, but I don't know how to code, so I wrote a manga instead."
  • Crazy people fight other crazy people, except for one girl who makes a load of bad-tempered spirits does her fighting for her. The people with the coolest powers have dragons for parents and can't ride trains.
• FAKE: The cast is almost entirely gay and entirely police officers.
• The Familiar of Zero: Magic academy student really sucks at her craft. Her boyfriend is extremely whipped.
• Fang of the Sun Dougram: A rich delinquent joins a Latin Americanesque people's liberation army.
• Fate/stay night: A male Ordinary High-School Student in love with King Arthur learns about mythology.
  • Alternatively, a male Ordinary High-School Student concludes one of the consequences of murder.
    • Alternatively, a bunch of historical and mythological figures get transformed and summoned to fight against each other to see who gets the Holy Grail.
  • Unlimited Blade Works: Superhero from the future attempts to kill self, thwarted by self. Ancient king/God learns the value of fake weaponry.
  • Heaven's Feel: Nice girl goes insane, eats a town despite Medusa's best efforts. Ordinary High-School Student decides ethics suck and beats up a priest.
    • Alternatively, a guy tries to personally give his girlfriend an abortion. The local priest highly disapproves.
  • Fate/Zero: Kings argue about philosophy when not trying to kill each other.
• Finder Series: A photographer aiming to be an Intrepid Reporter visits a club run by a powerful underworld leader for the big scoop. He gets said leader as his lover instead.
• Fist of the North Star: A guy who looks like Bruce Lee and dresses like Mad Max walks the earth. Anyone who crosses his path is already dead.
  • Or: A Rather strong man roams the land and makes people explode.
• 5 Centimeters per Second: A lonely man avoids calling his girlfriend.
  • Or: Cock blocked by a train.
• FLCL: A young boy has disagreements with his new maid.
  • Or: Girl puts a hole in boy's head with a pull-start bass guitar. Robots appear.
  • Or: City of deeply-messed up people disturbed by space aliens. Giant iron activated by a mechanical dog.
  • Or: Nobody has any clue what the title means.
  • Or: All the weird of Neon Genesis Evangelion, packed into a much shorter time.
  • Or: A boy with a lumpy head is molested by his housemaid and a homeless person. Robots appear.
  • Or: A young boy's coming of age story where giant robots come out of his head.
  • Or: The weirdest that can be packed into a 3-hour runtime. (The weirdest part of all? It actually makes sense. ...Sorta.)
  • A young boy growing up in a small town where nothing interesting happens learns how to play baseball, ride a motorcycle, and use a guitar. He finds that women are hard to understand, is embarrassed by sudden changes in his body, realizes that adults aren't any more mature than kids, and defies authority figures to make his own choices.
• Floral Magician Mary Bell: Flower-themed knock-off of Minky Momo arrives in town. Friendship ensues.
• Flunk Punk Rumble: The class rep continually bugs a delinquent until he does what she wants.
• Fly Me to the Moon: The married life of an adult man with a sixteen-year-old bride.
• Food Wars!: Food Porn: the manga. Or a kid aspiring to become the best chef in the world makes food so good he gives people orgasms.
• Franken Fran: A cute female Frankenstein's Monster makes like Black Jack. Scarring imagery ensues.
• Free Collars Kingdom: Two groups of cats fight over ownership of a building.
• Freezing: Girls are turned into bio-weapons to fight aliens. They beat the crap out of each other instead.
  • Or: Claymore IN THE FUTURE.
• Free!: A group of suggestively homosexual bishies gets way too excited about swimming.
• Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: The long-lived member of a party who defeated the Big Bad now wanders the world wondering what to do next now that her friends are either dead or retired.
• From the New World: Telekinetic psychopaths go apeshit and murder everybody. The survivors become paranoid Social Darwinists masquerading as Noble Savages.
• From Up on Poppy Hill: School kids work together to clean up an old building.
• Fruits Basket: A schoolgirl avoids living in a tent by moving in with an incestuous family with intimacy issues involving animals. Not a porno.
  • If Persona 4 is "the happiest game about murder", this is "the happiest manga about abuse, bullying, emotional trauma, and mental illness".
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Military specialist searches for a magic rock recipe to get his brother out of a can. The rock is people.
  • Children see a Thing Man Was Not Meant To Know, run around the country looking for another one.
  • A Bishōnen sets out to return his brother to his bishonen form, but end up saving their country from another bishonen. Lots of Author Appeal, Aesops, and Moment of Awesome ensue.
  • A short double-amputee and an everything-amputee go on a quest to find a magic rock.
  • Two amputees join the military after being a necromancer doesn't pan out. They are taught chemistry by a butcher's wife, while their dad spends centuries talking to himself.
  • A furious Vigilante Man abandons his quest for justice in favor of saving war criminals he's targeted.
  • A double amputee goes on a quest to make his brother shorter than him again.
  • A botched emergency operation for his mother costs a young man an arm and a leg. Getting a refund requires interdimensional travel, and he and his brother somehow get involved in every major historical event of his country—and some from neighboring countries.
• Fullmetal Alchemist (2003): Military specialist searches for a magic rock recipe to get his brother out of a can. The rock is still people, but he overtakes the manga about halfway in and things go in a wildly different and much more bittersweet direction.
  • Alternatively: a short double amputee and his robot brother try to find a rock, accidentally discover an Ancient Conspiracy ran by their father's evil ex-wife and her personal army of undead.
• Full Metal Panic!: A ruthless (and tactless) soldier guards an angry girl from terrorists. Humongous Mecha ensues.
  • Or: Tsundere who happens to have massive engineering knowledge meets a bunch of crazies, falls in love with the one whom she catches stealing her underwear.
  • Or: A teenaged special forces soldier stalks a civilian schoolgirl. Hilarity Ensues.
• Full Moon: A Delicate and Sickly girl's last wish is to become a great singer to get noticed by the boy she loves.
  • In the manga: She wants to become a well-known singer before dying to reunite with her dead boyfriend, but gets better.
• Fushigi Yuugi: A girl has to figure out how to get possessed by a bird while surrounded by pretty men.
• Futaba-kun Change! (Manga): A boy gets in touch with his feminine side by... getting in touch with himself.
• Futari wa Pretty Cure: Magical Girls beat the crap out of David Bowie and company while remaining "just good friends".
  • Futari Wa Pretty Cure Max Heart: Magical Girls cure amnesia by hunting down cute creatures.
  • Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star: Expies liberate fountains from a guy with a pinecone on his head.
  • Yes! Pretty Cure 5: At the request of an extra-dimensional schoolteacher, a talentless girl with ADHD grabs schoolmates at random to oppose a corrupt company.
  • Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GOGO!: Evil museum threatens McGuffinland, is opposed by flying mailman.
  • Fresh Pretty Cure!: Oddly-named girl learns to dance for the sake of her idols.
    • Or: Citizens from Logan's Run attempt to find a giant hard drive by filling a not-quite-as-giant cylinder with piss.
  • HeartCatch Pretty Cure!: Two girls, one an Innocent Flower Girl and the other a not-so-innocent Genki Girl who forces the first one to like fashion, take on an evil desert. Fairies poop seeds to help them out.
  • Suite Pretty Cure ♪: The only people who can prevent an invasion by musicians are two Vitriolic Best Buds and a singing cat.
  • Smile PreCure!: A storybook-loving Genki Girl recruits four other girls: Hot-Blooded Kansai dialect girl, crybaby otaku, Soccer-Playing Big Sister, and rich Student Council President, to help save a fairy tale world from fairy tale-related foes.
  • Doki Doki! PreCure: Student Council President Genki Girl, her Straight Man best friend and a sweet Rich Kid with anger issues aid a Broken Ace in making up for Her Greatest Failure.
  • HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!: An Ascended Fan Genki Girl becomes a heroine because a Spoiled Brat princess is a complete screw up at being a hero.
  • Go! Princess Pretty Cure: A girl who still wants to be a princess at 13 gets her wish by beating shit up.
  • Maho Girls Pretty Cure!: An ordinary Japanese schoolgirl meets a student of Anime Hogwarts and fight dark wizards with the help of a teddy bear and a living Tamagotchi.
  • KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode: Five Japanese students turn into animals to protect their desserts.
  • Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure: Magical girls solve environmental issues by beating up kaiju.
  • Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure: Magical girls team up with Ariel to fight against Ursula, who just wants to be lazy.
  • Pretty Cure All Stars DX: The "Just Friends", the expies, the talentless girl and her friends, and the dancers team up to fight a monster.
  • Pretty Cure All Stars DX 2: The previous four (plus one female citizen from Logan's Run drafted to the dancers) team up with the Innocent Flower Girl and not-so-innocent Genki Girl to fight monsters in an amusement park.
  • Pretty Cure All Stars DX 3: The previous five (plus a Wholesome Crossdresser Student Council President and a former Broken Bird) team up with the Vitriolic Best Buds to fight all of their previous foes. They get Brought Down to Normal for all of five minutes
  • Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage: New girl in town becomes heroine for a day, befriends jelly monster, with the help of mostly the dancers & Logan's Run citizen, Innocent Flower Girl, not-so-innocent Genki Girl, Wholesome Crossdresser Student Council President, former Broken Bird, the two Vitriolic Best Buds (plus a singing black cat turned socially-awkward girl and a little princess of musicians) and the storybook-loving Genki Girl and friends. The rest come without saying a thing except with fists on evil's face.
  • Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage 2: Previously mentioned teams plus the Student Council President Genki Girl, Straight Man best friend, sweet rich kid with anger issues and the Broken Ace attend party in their favor, have their Transformation Trinket stolen for their troubles.
• Future Diary: A shut-in boy starts to open up to the world when he meets a girl who's worried about his future.
  • Alternatively: God decides that he's done being God and wants a successor. His prospective candidates are brought into the race for the position with an aggressive interview session.
• Future GPX Cyber Formula: Futuristic version of Formula One, featuring tons of Cool Cars equipped with CPU technology.
• Gad Guard: The chase is on to track down a boy and his Humongous Mecha-in-a-box.
• Gakuen Alice: X-Men with Japanese elementary school kids.
• Galaxy Angel: Five female archaeologists suck at their jobs.
  • Galaxy Angel (manga): Five female soldiers and their commander oppose a prince who refuses to die when he's supposed to. Only one or two of them get any screen-time.
• Galaxy Express 999: A boy and his guardian go on a year-long train ride and contemplate whether immortality is all it is cracked up to be.
• Galilei Donna: Three girls and a giant goldfish fight an evil energy corporation.
• Gankutsuou: A futuristic aristocrat tries to redeem his mom's old boyfriend.
  • Or: The Count of Monte Cristo IN SPACE!!
• Gantz: Dead people fight aliens at the command of an alien orb that likes to make crude jokes. Horrible bloodshed and gratuitous nudity are in heavy supply. Their guns make people explode.
• GaoGaiGar: Robot powered by courage fights robots powered by stress. Jupiter helps both sides.
  • GaoGaiGar FINAL: Robot powered by courage flies into space to fight a doctor who thinks he's God.
• The Garden of Sinners: Nice guy falls in love with fetishist of fine kitchenware with a hot-line to The Force.
• The Garden of Words: Boy skips school when the weather's bad so he can make shoes. Teacher/Student Romance ensues.
• Ga-Rei (Manga): A girl's best friend can't decide whether or not to stay dead.
  • Ga-Rei -Zero-: The prequel, with additional Les Yay.
• Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet: A career soldier unexpectedly falls into a world full of cute girls and easy targets.
  • A young foreigner and his robot trying to assimilate into a society where the one thing he was born to do is seldom needed.
• Gasaraki: Right-Wing Extremists force boy to summon demons from the Moon with Noh dancing. Grain exports are serious business.
• Gate: The Japanese Self-Defense Force fights Dungeons and Dragons then occupies it. It's up to an Otaku soldier to broker peace.
• Gatekeepers: In 1960s Japan, teenagers pull superpowers out of their holes.
  • Gatekeepers 21: In 1990s Japan, different teenagers pull superpowers out of more holes.
• Genkaku Picasso: An aspiring artist is forced by his dead not-girlfriend to invade people's minds with his sketchbook and play psychologist.
• Genesis of Aquarion: Superpowered teenagers fight angels and Kaiju with a giant robot that runs on The Power Of Sex.
• Genshiken: A bunch of nerds sit around in a room writing pornography and talking about formulaic harem anime.
• Geobreeders: Hapless salary-man unwittingly signs on with a company run by five Ax-Crazy women. Their job: blowing up cats.
• Get Backers: Two young men with superpowers, occasionally aided by their other super-powered friends, return stolen goods for a price.
• Getsumen to Heiki Mina: Bunny girls beat up alien sports fans with vegetables.
• Getter Robo: Three Hot-Blooded pilots control the first Combining Mecha to fight dinosaurs, sometimes along side an Engrish-speaking cowboy. The fat guy dies at the end.
  • Getter Robo G: A new fat guy joins the other two and pilots a new mecha to fight demons. He doesn't die.
  • Getter Robo Go: A new team pilots a new version of the robot that runs on plasma energy. Everyone hates it.
  • Shin Getter Robo The first team of hot-blooded pilots test a kickass version of the first mecha and fights time-traveling aliens that want to destroy said mecha to prevent it from becoming (even more) overpowered in the future. The new fat guy dies, but this time in the middle.
  • Getter Robo Armageddon: In a Crapsack World, a new team pairs up with the old team using a kickass version of the robot while fighting eldritch abominations. Then, they go and blow up Jupiter.
  • Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo: The fat guy dies in the beginning so that the team from the hated series becomes cooler. Even the cowboy is cooler. And they still fight dinosaurs.
• Ghost Hound: Three middle-school students are drawn into the raging battle between psychology and parapsychology. Freud ensues!
• Ghost Hunt: She's a spooky story-loving high school girl! He's a paranormal investigator! Together, they go hunting for spirits!
• Ghost in the Shell: A lawbreaking police Canon Sue uses work to surround herself with coworkers that remind her of opposite attributes of her own personality, fight her customers and have sex with a mass murderer and conceive and raise too many children with said mass murderer.
• Godannar: A husband and his much younger wife pilot two giant robots that combine into one giant robot to battle giant monsters from outer space. Breast jiggle ensues.
  • Innocence: Depressed cop and his partner talk about philosophy with everyone they meet. There is also a plot involving dolls.
  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Armed children help the police stop crime and contemplate the meaning of their existence.
  • 2nd Gig: Ugly, virginal social engineer tries to overthrow Japan. Policewoman meets boyfriend.
  • Solid State Society: Heavily armed police special force fights a group of child-abducting senior citizens.
  • Arise: A young soldier girl takes orders from herself, comes to loathe her employer, and discovers the history books are written by the victors. In doing so she surrounds herself with coworkers that remind her of opposite attributes of her own personality.
  • The 2017 Movie: A young soldier girl comes to loathe herself, warms up to her employers, and discovers that politics and intrigue suck if you're on the receiving end of it. In doing so she comforts herself with coworkers that remind her of opposite attributes of her own personality.
• Ghost Stories: The grandfather of all The Abridged Series telling the tale of a nerd, a girl, her brother with a speech impediment, a total Jerkass, a Jesus freak, and a snarky cat. They fight demons with the power of references, adult humor, and fourth wall jokes.
• Ghost Talker's Daydream: A series about a reluctant 19 year old medium, who investigates cold cases and moonlights as a dominatrix.
• Ginban Kaleidoscope: An ill-tempered figure skater temporarily becomes purgatory.
• Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin: Talking stray dogs try to save town from rogue bears.
• Gintama: In a world with an alternate history, a group of people who by all means should be fighting for justice instead take on odd jobs to pay their rent.
  • Or: Sporadically employed veteran with unhealthy eating habits makes his way in post-war Bakumatsu-era Japan. With aliens.
  • Or: Silver haired samurai, Chinese alien girl and a Straight Man with glasses team up to try and fail to pay their rent, also take turns with an elite samurai police made up of a mayonnaise lover, a sadist and a gorilla to do justice in alien populated Japan. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Or: Come for the dick jokes, stay for the tears.
  • Gintama: Be Forever Yorozuya: The main character turns himself into a walking penis to save his future from his past.
• Girl Friends (2006): Four schoolgirls discuss nail polish and question their sexuality.
• Girls Bravo: A gynophobic loser accidentally travels to Lady Land and is followed back home by some of the locals.
• Girls Saurus: An Ordinary High-School Student takes up boxing to get over his fear of women. Hilarity Ensues.
• Girls und Panzer: Teams of female students compete using armored mobile cannons.
  • Alternatively, World of Tanks with Moe.
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Space: A confused schoolgirl and a boiled potato work to convince a one-eyed box to come out of seclusion.
• Glass Fleet: The French Revolution is kind of weird in space. Narrator spends most of the series disguised as her dead brother. Primary antagonist loses interest when he finds out she is not her dead brother, for whom he had strong (and somewhat bugnuts-crazy) feelings. Lots of people angst.
• Glass Maiden aka Crystal Blaze: A loser turned private eye saves a naked amnesiac glass sculptor, only her old bosses want her back.
• Glass Mask: Two girls take hardcore acting lessons from a heavily-scarred old woman.
• Goblin Slayer: A man who dedicates his life to his work and nothing else invites a girl who just watched her coworkers get massacred to join his Dungeons and Dragons group.
• Gokusen: A math teacher convinces her class she's a fan of yakuza films.
• Golden Boy: An idiot savant with a toilet fetish travels Japan taking odd jobs, alternately irritating and entrancing nearly every woman he meets.
• Golden Time: Rich Bitch Stalker with a Crush gets rejected, hooks up with an amnesiac law student.
• Golgo 13: The hero is a man who can and will kill anyone, with one bullet, from anywhere, for the price of a mere one million dollars.
• GoLion: Survivors of a nuclear war battle an evil empire with five mechanical beasts that form a Super Robot.
• Gon: Tiny T-Rex walks the Earth. Kicks a lot of ass.
• Good Luck Girl!: An outwardly-perfect girl who's secretly a Broken Bird ends up in a Vitriolic Best Buds relationship with a demigod who wants to stop her from being a good luck vacuum.
• Good Luck! Ninomiya-kun: Badass Normal has a serious girl problem. Obviously, this means he should get MORE girls forced onto him by his friends and family.
• Good Morning Call!: A boy and girl share an apartment. Hilarity Ensues as they try to keep it a secret.
• Gosick: Sherlock Holmes is a lonely little blonde girl, and Watson is an exchange student. They solve crimes.
• Grave of the Fireflies: In a horrible world, two wonderful children experience horrible horrors before dying horribly. The critics go wild.
• Gravitation: Wannabe singer falls in love with a famous author who calls his lyrics crappy.
• Great Teacher Onizuka: A Nigh-Invulnerable twenty-two-year-old punk gets a seemingly normal job. He proceeds to wow just about everyone, including the audience.
• Grenadier: Ms. Fanservice with a Bottomless Cleavage wanders around, shooting people and persuading them that guns are bad (in that order). The primary antagonist is a clown who floats around killing people with an air-gun.
• Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl: Boy moves in with his lustful aunt and discovers that she helped a mattress father a child.
  • Alternatively, hikikomori silvery-blue haired girl with a Dark and Troubled Past thinks she is E.T..
• Guardian Ninja Mamoru: A teenage Ninja who poses as a nerd complete with coke-bottle glasses is charged with looking after a dim-witted girl and somehow ends up attracting a number of different girls despite the fact that he is too busy protecting the girl in question.
• Guilty Crown: Girl with BroCon wants to mate with brother; said girl causes the Apocalypse.
  • Alternatively, people have magical cancer, some of them die.
• GunBuster: High school girls learn to pilot a Humongous Mecha, time dilation causes angst, and breasts bounce for the first time ever in anime.
• Gungrave the Anime: White-haired young daughter of a deceased mafia boss inherits a 6+ foot tall undead bodyguard armed with big freaking guns who's on a quest for revenge.
  • Once Upon a Time in America anime is interrupted by House of the Dead anime.
  • Two childhood best friends drift apart over the years and have a big fight.
• Gunslinger Girl: The day-to-day activities of Italian social services.
  • Alternatively, Italy makes amnesiac little girls fight terrorism. Everybody sits and wonders about the ethics of doing so.
• GUN×SWORD: An angry man-child and his hangers-on foil another man-child's plan to make friends. There are giant robots, too.
  • Or: Angry man with robot prevents world from becoming a better place by defeating a very, very happy man.
  • Or: Brokenhearted Badass takes road-trip with bossy teenybopper and learns to love again. Saving the world considered nice side-effect to premeditated murder.
• Gyo: Attack of the fart-powered walking fish.