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- xxxHoLic: Smug witch makes a Weirdness Magnet her bitch.
- Alternatively: A nutcase tries to woo a girl away from a stoic archer, and gets involved in weird magic-y stuff.
- Yakitate!! Japan: A brave but dim young man with a goofy haircut enters the high-stakes world of bread-making.
- Or, an Idiotic Farm Boy, a Man of Many Hairdos, an Emotionally Disturbed Guy With a Sword, and a Rich Bishounen Son of a Yakuza Boss may or may not survive making magic bread for homosexuals.
- Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches: An apathetic high school guy helps a bunch of high school girls with magic powers.
- Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito: An alpha schoolgirl travels through books in pursuit of her lover - they're not blood related, which, of course, makes it okay that they're siblings. They fight for people who have strange speaking problems.
- Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou: A woman robot runs a coffee shop in beautiful, post-apocalyptic Japan.
- Yomigaeru Sora -Rescue Wings-: A guy doesn't get to be a fighter pilot.
- Yona of the Dawn: A Fallen Princess decides not to take back her kingdom and instead does community service.
- or, after her childhood crush breaks her heart, a young girl begins collecting extremely attractive young men for a public service world tour.
- Yotsuba&!: Young girl moves to a new town and spends her days doing nothing with three sisters and a really big guy.
- Your Name: A guy and a girl get very annoyed at each other and communicate by writing on each other. They never actually meet until the third act. There is also a literal case of Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies, though not the trope itself.
- Or: a guy and a girl who never check the calendar get angry at each other for writing on each other's bodies.
- You're My Pet: A woman makes a 20-year-old man her pet.
- Yuria 100 Shiki: Hentai about a Sex Bot not having sex.
- Yuri Kuma Arashi: Alien bears infiltrate the Earth to eat depressed lesbians.
- Yuri!!! on Ice: A chubby figure skater gets to meet his idol thanks to a viral video. Homoeroticism ensues.
- YuruYuri: Four school girls take over an abandoned school club and use it to do whatever they please. Les Yay and Breaking the Fourth Wall humor ensues.
- YuYu Hakusho: Guy dies trying to save a little boy from a car. Becomes a detective for the son of (a) god. Meets up with demons and lots of Ho Yay. Many Genre Shifts ensue.
- Alternately, a boy dies twice. The first time to save a kid from a car,which results in taking orders from an authority that looks like a toddler and sucks a pacifier. He fights alongside a team consisting of: pretty guy with a rose,an oaf, and old geezer, and a psycho with a creepy third eye.
- Yu-Gi-Oh!: Children's card games are Serious Business, though nobody seems to have a clear grasp of the rules.
- Alternatively, the story of a boy, his magic growth pyramidnote , evil spirits, dragons, and a collectible card game.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! "Season Zero" and the first part of the manga: A boy's split personality plays with his enemies before he mind rapes them.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Learning how to play children's card games is Serious Business.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: In the future, card games will be played on motorbikes.
- Yu-Gi-Oh!: Bonds Beyond Time: The three protagonists from the above series fight a time traveler in order to save a children's card game. IN 3D!
- Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL: A stubborn boy cheats at children's card games with an invisible, amnesiac alien.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: People fight over how serious a children's card game should be.
- Or: A sad tomato has a hard life filled with children's card games and Mythology Gags, and the entire plot revolves around the four previous series.
- Or: People use a children's card game to fight over which of the previous shows is the best.
- Or: Young man wishes to play a children's card game with the hopes of entertaining people to make them smile. Earns the metaphorical equivalent of getting kicked in the teeth. Repeatedly. With a steel-toed boot. On fire.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS: Big Brother uses his absolute control over society to stop a kid from playing the children's card game with his House Rules.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! R: Die Hard with a collectible card game.
- For all of them: Various ancient mythologies and/or powerful supernatural forces are dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age, where they are made into a card game that is sometimes played by people who are dead or possessed by monsters from another dimension. The fate of the world frequently depends on the result.
- Yuki Yuna is a Hero: Magical Girls defend the world from evil constellations, and are rewarded with random disabilities. About half the show is Slice of Life.
- Yumeiro Patissiere!: A girl likes to cook sweets and goes to a school with candy fairies and three boys that are really good at cooking.
- Zatch Bell!: A emo genius gets a shotaro prince boy from another world that can spit lightning from his mouth as gift from his dad for his fourteenth birthday.
- Or: Lazy genius high school student receives a six year old for his birthday and goes on a book-burning spree.
- Or: A high school student, a pop idol, and a movie star exploit small children to fight their battles.
- Zegapain: High school student meets a mysterious beauty who wants him to play a mecha video game. Except the game is real and the real world is the video game.
- Zero In: High School students work part-time as Super-badass Rent-A-Cops.
- Zipang: The most powerful ship in the Pacific theater is an AEGIS destroyer.
- Zoids: Chaotic Century: A boy awakens a metal dinosaur and a naked girl. They team up and travel on a giant metal beast to find their place of birth. War ensues.
- Zoids: New Century: Wandering junk dealer gets suckered by a battle group to work for them to ride their sentient beast. A Team Rocket esque group harasses the team leader out of rivalry.
- Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead: A guy's job sucks so bad he considers the Zombie Apocalypse an improvement.
- Zombie Land Saga: Dead teenagers get drafted into a pop group.
- Or: Large Ham Bunny-Ears Lawyer resurrects clumsy amnesiac, Hot-Blooded Fearless Fool, Workaholic Broken Bird, Shrinking Violet who's scared of meeting the public, stoic Fish out of Temporal Water, Token Mini-Moe with parental issues and half-feral non-verbal Extreme Omnivore as zombies, expects them to form a band.
