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Japanese cartoons are weird, man! Though I may be on to something with that blue hair.
The Japanese know a thing or two about making odd-sounding ideas work. After all, they make real odd ideas work all the time.
Please sort new titles alphabetically to avoid double-entries.
- 3x3 Eyes: Immortal dies repeatedly in increasingly bloody, hilarious ways.
- 666 Satan (manga) : A kid with odd eyes and hair wants to Take Over The World armed only with a boomerang and Satan.
- +Anima (manga): A bat-girl, crow-boy, feminine fish-boy, and a 17-year-old bear-person with an eyepatch travel through two fictional countries. Food is eaten, people are mauled, and friends are made.
- Aflame Inferno: A model gets possessed by the Demon of Flames. His room mate is a reanimated corpse possessed by the Queen of Darkness.
- Ah My Goddess: Good-natured college kid wishes that he could find a girl, finds God instead.
- Ai Kora: A teenage pervert moves in with a twenty-something drunk, a hot-headed red-head, a bespectacled closet Yaoi Fangirl, and a sarcastic ninja, who proceed to teach him (the hard way) that women are more than the sum of their parts.
- Ai Yori Aoshi: College boy moves in with his fiancée. Their neighbors are weird.
- AIR: Gluttonous hobo and cursed loner fall in love. GOAL-ness ensues.
- Air Gear: Egomaniacal crow-headed guy, insecure guy in hat, somehow muscular fat guy, perverted upside-down fat guy and split-personality gay guy/sociopath ride around on motorized roller blades in a world full of fanservice and horrible physics.
- Akagi: A fourteen-year-old who looks like an adult plays games with gangsters on his days off. He wins. They're scarred for life.
- Akahori Gedou Hour Rabuge: Two female pedophiles commit atrocities on a regular basis in the name of "Justice".
- The other half of the show goes completely unwatched.
- Akikan: The government tries to decide what material to make its drink cans out of.
- Akira (film): A teenage biker becomes a powerful psychic. This is followed by multiple explosions.
- Animal Yokochou: A frequently neglected five-year-old girl has fourth wall-breaking adventures with her neighbors from another dimension.
- Area 88: Japanese airline pilot is forced to kill people for cold hard cash.
- ARIA: Sexist hiring practices mean that a girl's only chance to do what she loves is to enter the tourist industry on Mars.
- Astro Boy: Scientist makes his dead son the best robot in the world.
- Axis Powers Hetalia: Flamboyant gourmand gains powerful friends and proves himself useless.
- Azumanga Daioh: Japanese schoolgirls hang out.
- Bt X: A guy takes a break from protecting Athena to fly around in a desert on a mechanical pony. Lots of people disapprove.
- Baccano!: A number of people aboard a train find they have conflicting interests. An old man looks for friends he shared a drink with a long time ago.
- Bakemonogatari: A boy and a homeless man help girls with their problems.
- Bamboo Blade: Kendo instructor decides to settle a year-old bet by fielding an all-girl squad.
- Bartender: He tends bar.
- Basilisk: Romeo and Juliet... with ninja!
- Basquash: In the beginning, God created basketball.
- Batman: Gotham Night: Anime adaptation of a comic hero, made 60 years after the hero's debut.
- Beelzebub (manga): A juvenile delinquent becomes the unwilling father of an infant demon prince and teaches him how to be a real man. Hilarity Ensues.
- Berserk: A really, really angry one-eyed man with a giant sword fights random monsters while hunting down his best friend.
- Alternatively, man goes on quest to find treatment for mentally scarred girlfriend and kick the ass of the guy who messed her up.
- The Big O: What if Bruce Wayne had a giant robot? Has surprisingly little to do with orgasms.
- Binbou Shimai Monogatari: Two underage sisters live together in a run-down apartment and have to get by on their own. They love each other a lot.
- Birdy The Mighty: A policewoman with Alien Biology from space meets Ordinary High School Student and does Fusion Dance with him. They Fight Crime!
- Black Cat: An assassin becomes a Technical Pacifist, then spends half the series trying not to kill the Big Bad but just teach him a lesson.
- Black Jack: A Tall Dark And Snarky man and his Frankensteinian creation charge astronomical sums of money to cut people open.
- Black Lagoon: A shy accountant moves to Thailand at the behest of his insane girlfriend and finds employment doing odd jobs for even stranger foreigners.
- Or: Salaryman's business trip goes wrong.
- Blade Of The Immortal: A swordsman with internal parasites gets hired by a plucky orphan to kill "bad people."
- Blame!: An untalkative, millennia-old, amnesiac robot meanders around a mostly abandoned space station looking for genes.
- Bleach: Dead people fight other dead people but almost never to the death.
- Bleach: Fade To Black: Two siblings try to destroy the ruling class because a childhood friend can't remember their names.
- Blood Plus: A teenage girl teams up with a cellist and a giant-revolver-wielding David Bowie to fight vampires.
- Or: A teenaged girl has to keep her sister from getting pregnant.
- Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan: A high school lolicon must change his ways and his destiny, else be murdered horribly.
- Blue Drop: An alien battleship captain pretends to be a Schoolgirl Lesbian and seduces a sociopath home-ed while rehearsing a School Play with her.
- Blue Seed: A girl prone to exposing her underwear, a snarky half-plant guy and a bunch of gun-wielding nakama try to save humanity from Japanese mythology.
- Bobobobo Bobobo: Hair-brained (and hair-nosed) hero fights personifications of premature baldness.
- Bokurano:
Fourteen Fifteen messed-up children play a fun game with Humongous Mecha. Neon Genesis Evangelion is happy and optimistic by comparison.
- Boukun Tyrano San: A male T-Rex dies and is reincarnated 60 million years later as a high school girl; he's not happy.
- Brain Powerd: Giant organic monster makes organic robots that fight other organic robots so it can absorb all organic energy on Earth. An organic submarine fights this. There are lots and lots of
organic parental issues.
- Bremen: An omnilingual clone of Jesus teams up with a guitarist with a mohawk, a car enthusiast bassist, and a transgendered dominatrix drummer to form a band. They beat the living shit out of those who get in their way.
- Burn Up Excess: Five pairs of breasts (and one guy) fight crime as a secret mercenary unit of the police.
- Burst Angel: Four
pairs of breasts female bounty hunters (and a guy who cooks for them) defend the defenseless in a Crapsack World brought on by the abolition of gun control.
- Busou Renkin: Two boys go on life support and try to kill each other.
- Candy Boy: A pair of fraternal twin sisters really like each other. Stuff happens.
- Cardcaptor Sakura: A cute little girl navigates a world of very confusing and complex love relationships, while collecting cards in her spare time.
- Castle In The Sky: Boy Meets Girl... more specifically, a girl on the run from pirates and a government agent who convinces the military to help him steal a necklace.
- The Cat Returns: A girl rescues a cat and is rewarded by nearly being forced to marry him. She's eventually rescued by a magic lawn ornament, a talking crow, and a fat guy.
- Change 123: A girl with three fathers struggles with mental illness and finds two possible boyfriends.
- Chis Sweet Home: A kitten. That's it.
- Chobits: Boy falls in love with a girl whose artificial body and overprotective sister ensure that they can never have sex.
- Chocolate Underground: A totalitarian regime takes the Atkins diet too far.
- Chocotto Sister: Santa gives a boy a little sister for Christmas. She really loves him in return.
- Chrono Crusade: A monster uses a watch to suck away a girl's soul. He may love her. Together, They Fight Demons.
- Chu-Bra!!: Puberty hits middle school students.
- CLAMP School Detectives: An Absurdly Powerful Student Council solves mysteries in its spare time.
- CLANNAD: A delinquent meets the sickly daughter of Kamina and Belldandy, and they (re)start a club with his best friend and some other girls.
- Claymore: She Who Fights Monsters is actually part-monster herself.
- Code Geass: Convoluted Love Dodecahedron develops between British teenagers attending high school in Japan; the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
- Count Cain: A boy and his butler solve murders and sometimes commit them. Sometimes there are zombies and often there is incest.
- Cowboy Bebop: "Cowboys" fly in space and hunt people for money while listening to classic 90's music.
- Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door: A justifiably disgruntled "dead" veteran tries to wipe out humanity by showing them butterflies.
- Crows: High school guys spend their time fighting for the hell of it and then wondering why they can't get girlfriends.
- Worst: A new generation of high school guys spend their time fighting for the hell of it and then wondering why they can't get girlfriends.
- Dai No Daibouken: Dragon Quest: The Anime.
- Dance In The Vampire Bund: A young man with a glandular problem has to keep a 13 year old royal Tsudere mass murderer safe when she founds a nation for her extended family (of mass murderers). Her 3 cousins really want to love her.
- Darker Than Black: In A World where not-terribly-nice people can kill you with their minds, a fat guy, a talking cat, an emotionless girl and a man with a bulletproof jacket take on odd jobs every two episodes.
- Darling: Mangaka marries model, works nonstop for a month.
- The Daughter Of Twenty Faces: What if Lupin the Third
kidnapped adopted an 11-year-old rich girl?
- Deadman Wonderland: A young boy bleeds profusely in a never-ending quest for candy.
- Death Note: An overly dramatic honor student, a Perky Goth Genki Girl and a bored deity attempt to save the world by killing large quantities of the people living on it. Their sworn enemies include: a possibly autistic detective, a Teen Genius with action figure obsession and a chocolate-loving emo
chick boy. Or: A Teenager kills people with a book and eats potato chips.
- Demashita Powerpuff Girls Z: Transvestite Satan gets less screen time than in the American series, and this is a bad thing.
- Dennou Coil: Kids play while wearing glasses. This often causes major problems across the city and has the potential to be life-threatening.
- Detective Conan: Kid Detective solves murders after barely escaping his own with a Fountain Of Youth.
- D.Gray-man: A kind English church boy repeatedly rips his arm off to fight a clown.
- Digimon Adventure: Children are sucked into the Internet and are assisted by advanced artificial intelligences while coming out of various states of denial.
- Dinosaur King: Dinosaurs are Mons.
- Dirty Pair: Two young women fight crime In SPACE!. Devastation occurs, but it's never their fault.
- DNA 2: Teenager who is allergic to girls (really a lot), is accidentally turned into The Casanova by a time traveller who was sent to stop this. And he hates it.
- DN 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.
- DOGS Bullets And Carnage: A genetically modified albino, his one-eyed, red-headed cigarette-loving partner, a scarred 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.
- .hack//SIGN: A kid gets trapped in a video game. His friends spend a lot of time standing around discussing the problem.
- Dragonaut: Dragons try to blow up an asteroid. There are lots of boobs.
- Dragonball: A young boy with severe brain damage repeatedly risks his life at the behest of a manipulative teenage girl.
- Duel Masters: An epic saga of card games, wisecracks, and hair.
- Eden Of The East: Amnesiac with shitload of money tries to figure out exactly who was phone. Johnnies ensue.
- Eiken: Bland everydude gets pressganged into joining a school club by several pairs of breasts attached to women.
- El Cazador De La Bruja: A(n) (Faux?) Action Girl and a 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.
- Eureka Seven: Disaffected hipsters take on the military by surfing while an epic love story develops between a fourteen year old boy and the mother of three children.
- Or: Teenage boy falls in love with a piece of coral. Mecha surfing ensues.
- Or even: Teenage boy falls in love with fourteen-year-old mother of three, runs away to live with terrorists who kill his adoptive parents.
- Excel Saga: A hyperactive young woman and her 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 upper classman thinks they can win the Japanese high school Super Bowl with three guys and a dog.
- Fairy Tail: One Piece with magic. And more drunks.
- FAKE (Practically) Everyone Is Gay and a police officer.
- 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.
- 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 while Medusa tries to help. Ordinary High School Student decides ethics suck and beats up a priest.
- 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.
- Five Centimeters Per Second: A lonely man avoids calling his girlfriend.
- FLCL: A young boy has disagreements with his new maid.
- Or: Girl puts hole in boy's head with a pull-start bass guitar. Robots ensue.
- 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.
- Franken Fran: A cute female Frankensteins Monster makes like Black Jack. Scarring imagery ensues.
- Free Collars Kingdom: Two groups of cats fight over ownership of a building.
- Fruits Basket: A cheerful orphan moves in with a Big Screwed Up Family that turn into animals when someone of the opposite gender hug them.
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Military specialist searches for a magic rock recipe to get his brother out of a can. Depending on which version of the story you watch/read, the rock may or may not be their father.
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood: The long-awaited, highly anticipated
manga-based het shipper's edition of the franchise.
- Full Metal Panic: A ruthless (and tactless) soldier guards an angry girl from terrorists. Humongous Mecha ensue.
- Full Moon O Sagashite: An Ill Girl's last wish is to become a great singer to get noticed by the boy she loves.
- Fushigi Yuugi: A girl has to figure out how to get possessed by a bird.
- 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".
- 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.
- Gankutsuou: A futuristic aristocrat tries to redeem his mom's old boyfriend.
- Gantz: Dead people fight aliens at the command of an alien orb that likes to make crude jokes. Horrible bloodshed and gratuitious 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.
- Gasaraki: Right Wing Extremists force boy to summon demons from the Moon with Noh dancing. Grain exports are serious business.
- Gatekeepers: In 1960s Japan, teenagers pull superpowers out of their holes.
- Gatekeepers 21: In 1990s Japan, different teenagers pull superpowers out of more holes.
- Genshiken: A bunch of nerds sit around in a room writing pornography and talking about formulaic harem anime.
- Geobreeders: Hapless salaryman 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 superpowered friends, return stolen goods for a price.
- 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
fight crime 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.
- Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex: Armed children help the police stop crime and contemplate the meaning of their existence.
- 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: Sporadicaly employed veteran with unhealthy eating habits makes his way in post-war Bakumatsu-era Japan. With aliens.
- 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.
- Glass Maiden aka Crystal Blaze: A loser turned private eye saves a naked amnesiac glass
sculpture sculptor, only her old bosses want her back.
- Glass Mask: Two girls take hardcore acting lessons from a heavily-scarred old woman.
- Good Morning Call!: A boy and girl share an apartment. Hilarity Ensues as they try to keep it a secret.
- Gokujou Seitokai: A girl whose best friend is a puppet dabbles in school politics.
- Golden Boy: An idiot savant with a toilet fetish travels Japan taking odd jobs, alternately irritating and entrancing nearly every woman he meets.
- 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.
- Goshuushou-sama 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.
- 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 airgun.
- 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.
- Gunslinger Girl: The day-to-day activities of Italian social services.
- Gun X Sword: An angry man-child and his hangers-on foil another man-child's plan to make friends. There are giant robots, too.
- Gyo: Attack of the fart-powered walking fish.
- Haibane Renmei: Dead children are trained to be angels in a walled city.
- Hana Kimi: A girl crossdresses and enters an all-boys boarding school on the other side of the world in order to hang out with a guy she's seen on TV but never met. She doesn't do a very good job of keeping her gender a secret, accidentally makes another boy think he's gay, and somehow ends up sleeping in the same bed as said idol an improbable number of times. UST ensues.
- Happiness: A show about magical schoolgirls, where the most popular character is a trap.
- Hare + Guu: A boy gets eaten by a monster. An alcoholic young woman adopts a cute little girl. Hilarity Ensues.
- Hataraki Man: The story of a workaholic.
- Haunted Junction: The Student Council President of a haunted high school wants to quit and can't.
- Hayate X Blade: Hyperactive skirt-chasing swordmistress collects stars for a living.
- Hayate The Combat Butler: A young bum works for a bitchy but cute midget. He's very good at his job.
- Hellsing Vampire Nazis decide to reenact World War II, and the Catholic Church decides to give the Crusades another go. Dracula objects sternly. Most of the cast are expies of hentai characters.
- Hidamari Sketch: Daily happenings at an art school.
- Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni: A ragtag bunch of Nakama are broken horribly and put themselves back together with The Power Of Friendship.
- Hikaru No Go: Boy becomes possessed, then plays a board game.
- Himechan No Ribon: A girl gets to borrow a ribbon for a year. Romance ensues.
- Hols Prince Of The Sun: A boy and his pet bear get roped into killing the devil. Meanwhile, a girl who said boy acts kindly to, tries to turn his whole village against him several times. They're still friends at the end.
- Honey And Clover: young male goes to University and fails to get laid.
- Houkago Play: A gamer and his abusive girlfriend bum around in his room making obscure game references and fueling their UST.
- Howls Moving Castle: An old woman breaks into a con man's house. Romance ensues.
- Hunter X Hunter: Boy passes the world's most grueling license exam, then uses a fishing pole to fight an evil clown, a band of shady mercenaries, and other maniacs.
- Ichigo Mashimaro: Teenage student plays babysitter to her ordinary little sister and her cute neighbors.
- Ikki Tousen: Ancient Chinese military leaders reincarnated as modern Japanese high school girls. Nudity ensues.
- I'll (Generation Basket): Japanese guys play basketball. Then they play some more.
- Immortal Rain: Howl's Moving shoujo Trigun.
- I My Me Strawberry Eggs: A Gym teacher crossdresses to prevent his dog from being shot.
- Initial D: Sleep-deprived tofu delivery boy in a 20-year-old Toyota compact outdrives pro racers in much more expensive machines. Police are... nowhere to be found.
- Interstella 5555: The most popular band in the world opposes their manager without talking.
- Inumimi: A guy's Unwanted Harem consists of his dogs. This is in no way creepy.
- Inuyasha: Teenage girl collects jewelry with her boyfriend, whose late dad is a real son of a bitch.
- Iono The Fanatics: A European queen goes to Japan to recruit a lesbian harem.
- Irresponsible Captain Tylor: Military officials assign a man to share a ship with crazy people (including Jason Vorhees) in hopes that he'll get killed. Hilarity Ensues.
- Irresponsible Captain Tylor: Jerk Sue flies randomly around space. Has his personality reprogrammed by a chip in his brain in the middle of the series. This is followed by several holodeck episodes.
- Jigoku Shoujo: The path to hell is paved with the internet.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Life is hard for people with similar-sounding names.
- Phantom Blood - A young man gets help from a well-dressed Italian gentleman to stop the vampire that killed his father, using wine and yoga breathing techniques.
- Battle Tendency - A young man and his friend face super powered loincloth-clad vampires, using oil, soap bubbles and balls as their weapons. The Nazis lend a hand.
- Stardust Crusaders - A man in a new suit prevents mamas boy's mother from boring suburban life. Boy retaliates angrily.
- Diamond is Unbreakable - A group of teenagers set out against a serial killer after one of the friends is murdered.
- Vento Aureo - Effeminate mobsters plan to kill their boss after being set up.
- Stone Ocean - Rebellious girl adjusts to prison life while trying to protect/save his father, who happens to be a marine biologist. The Miami Dolphins make a guest appearance.
- Steel Ball Run - A 1890 version of the Cannon Ball run; they find Jesus along the way.
- Junjou Romantica - An 18 year old is forced to live with his brother's perverted author of a best friend. 18 year old is creeped out for 5 seconds.
- Jyu Oh Sei: A set of twins fight for survival on a planet comprising only of plants. One twin dies in the first episode.
- Kage Kara Mamoru: A teenage ninja who poses as a nerd complete with coke-bottle glasses is charged with looking after a dim-witted girl somehow ends up attracting a number of different girls despite the fact that he is too busy protecting the girl in question.
- Kaiji: A guy is forced to pay off a debt through gambling. The first gamble is a simplified version of a very, very common game.
- Kakurenbo: A kid tries to find his little sister by playing a really weird version of hide-and-seek.
- Kaleido Star: Spunky Japanese acrobat gets put through hell in order to make it big with American knockoff of Cirque du Soleil.
- Kamen No Maid Guy: Crossdresser takes up job as bodyguard.
- Kamichama Karin: A mostly-talentless, extremely unfortunate girl who is depressed because her only friend (her cat) recently died becomes a god. She isn't very good at that, either.
- Kamichu: Middle school girl wakes up one morning as a goddess, and doesn't let it go to her head.
- Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne: Two thieves compete to steal cursed artwork.
- Kampfer: Guy becomes a girl and realizes he's suddenly much more popular with women, much to his dismay.
- Kannagi: Nature Spirit lives with boy who carved a statue of her, while going around cleaning up the mess he inadvertently made.
- Kannazuki No Miko: 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.
- Kanokon: Animal girls repeatedly attempt to turn a Cute Shotaro Boy into a man.
- Kanon: Amnesia of varying degrees strikes multiple young people in a small city where coming Back From The Dead is secretly dirt common.
- Kara No Kyoukai: Nice guy falls in love with schizophrenic serial killer, but it works out.
- Karakuri Circus: The only ones who can stop a 200-year-old cycle of hatred is a circus troupe. They fight with puppets.
- Karas: Starts off with a mid-air swordfight between two jet planes.
- Kare Kano: Over-achieving girl meets over-achieving boy. Together, they learn how to under-achieve.
- Karin: Oddball daywalker accidentally falls in love with a human boy with really small eyes. She is very embarrassed.
- Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~: Boy is killed in a UFO accident and is brought back to life as a girl, and becomes the center of attention in a lesbian Love Triangle.
- Katana: A high school student talks to swords.
- Katekyo Hitman Reborn: An assassin trains a kid to be a Mafia boss while shooting him in the head.
- Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran: A swordswoman and a female fighter join forces to fight bad guys.The swordswoman sure LOVES to drink.
- Kekkaishi: Two kids who are neighbors hang around their school at night and fight demons using boxes.
- Kekko Kamen: Woman fights crime by running through a city almost completely naked.
- Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple: A wussy high schooler with no friends wants to learn self-defense; ends up becoming the focal point of the battle between good and evil.
- Keroro Gunsou: A quintet of easily-distracted aliens plot to take over the Earth.
- Kiddy Grade: A two-girl team of cyborgs restores order to the galaxy using raw strength, techno-wizardry, and... lipstick?
- Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer: An abandoned girl has given up hope of meeting her mother and passes the time by playing with dolls.
- King Of Bandit Jing: Teenage boy with horny, wisecracking crow sidekick (that doubles as a Wave Motion Gun) travels psychedelic world, steals things, imparts Aesops.
- Kinnikuman: A bungling, garlic-powered alien superhero becomes Earth's greatest professional wrestler.
- Kinos Journey: A traveler and a talking motorcycle roam the earth and Try Not To Die.
- Kobato: A Magical Girl without magic powers goes on a mission to "heal hearts". She is accompanied by a demonic stuffed toy dog who knows kung-fu and can breathe fire.
- Kodomo No Jikan: A nine-year old girl sexually teases her teacher, who won't have any of it. The viewers desperately pretend it's actually about family problems.
- Kodomo No Omocha: A perpetual motion machine in the shape of an 11-year-old TV star talks really fast and occasionally says really outrageous things.
- Koi Kaze: A guy in his mid-twenties who still lives with his dad goes on a date with a girl 12 years younger than him. Gradually they fall in love. They're siblings.
- Koihime Musou: Ikkitousen with lolis, lesbian sex and pubic hair jokes.
- K-On: Moe schoolgirls rock.
- Kujibiki Unbalance: A spinoff show about a bunch of teams that may or may not be students, who may or may not be trying to become the next student council.
- Kure-nai: A poor high school boy takes care of a seven-year-old girl whose goal is to learn to fall in love. Make the mistake of calling this a Lolicon show, and you will bring the wrath of its fans down upon your head.
- Kurokami: In a world where people die upon meeting their lookalikes, an angsty high school student helps a superpowered girl punch the hell out of bad guys.
- Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: A band of misfits make their living off dead people.
- Kuroshitsuji: An effeminate boy sells his soul for a highly skilled butler.
- Kyouran Kazoku Nikki: A family consisting of a supernatural cop, a catgirl, a loli, a lion, a biological weapon, a gay man and a jellyfish attempt to teach each other the love of family to not destroy the world.
- Kyo Kara Maoh: Bullying sends victim to another dimension to become the most powerful person in the world.
- Kyoshiro To Towa No Sora: A Japanese teenager with an increasingly messed-up family tries to murder three expies and a blonde girl (each of whom can summon magic mecha) because he thinks that's what his dead brother probably wanted. The blonde one falls in love with him and helps him in his quest. He falls in love with one of the expys. His brother wasn't dead and he gives up eventually.
- Last Exile: A pair of fast-flying couriers get dragged into a war against their will.
- La Corda d'Oro ~Primo Passo~: A girl meets a fairy who tells her she is special and gives her a magic violin. She is very upset about this. Meanwhile, there are a lot of pretty boys who play instruments.
- Le Chevalier D Eon: A man who randomly transforms into his sisters tries to prevent the French Revolution. He is resisted by zombies, catholic rune magic and lethal poetry. Meanwhile, Japanese writers fail French history to a truly spectacular degree.
- Legend of Galactic Heroes: Two bishounen wage war against each other for 110 episodes.
- Letter Bee: The mail is delivered.
- Little Jumper: A girl goes back in time to save her mom, forgets everything about her and develops a crush on her now younger dad. Squicky implications ensues.
- Love Hina: A man wants to marry someone, but he has no idea who.
- Loveless: A kid hero and a bishonen team up to fight battles with words. Meanwhile, kid's dead brother plots against them.
- Lucky Star: Four schoolgirls talk about nothing.
- Lupin III: An internationally wanted felon and his gang who, when not committing relatively non-violent crimes, spend so much time stopping dangerous criminals that the pursuing cops are half conflicted on whether their quarry should be arrested or recruited.
- The Castle Of Cagliostro': The felon and his gang rob a casino, only to discover that the money if fake. The felon decides to complete a job he failed almost a decade earlier, all the while trying to save a girl from having to marry her cousin who wants the family treasure.
- Macross: Humanity battles aliens with Transforming Mecha, The Power Of Love and/or The Power Of Rock and Lots and Lots of Missiles.
- Madlax: An Extraordinarily Empowered Action Girl and an Ordinary High School Student live completely separate lives. When they meet, half of the cast dies. Existentialism ensues.
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Two 9-year-old girls fight over jewels.
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's: Little girls battle German terrorist group commanded by an oblivious, lovable cripple.
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS: A special forces instructor adopts a female clone of Jesus, and then is forced to shoot her.
- StrikerS Sound Stage X: An emergency worker and her friends are the only ones that can stop an invasion of exploding zombies.
- Vi Vid Two members of separate royal dynasties become friends with each other through hand to hand combat.
- Force A boy goes on the run from the police for the sake of a girl he just met.
- Magic Knight Rayearth: Magical Girls, Mecha, and several other genres that should not meet, do. It somehow works. (Hint: not Vision Of Escaflowne.)
- Magic Users Club: Secret world-saving club gets pushed around by the anime club next door.
- Mahou Sensei Negima: A child's late father, a famous war veteran, may yet be alive.
- Or: A 10-year old wizard acquires a 31-girl harem. They're his students. Hilarity ensues.
- Mahoraba: Heartful Days: An art student moves into an apartment run by a teenage schizo. Hilarity Ensues.
- My-HiME (anime): High School girl and her two ambiguously lesbian friends save the world from the (dis)comfort of their own school.
- Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro: An omnivorous schoolgirl and a hungry demon with a parrot head solve mysteries.
- Manabi Straight: Future freeter revives ridiculously weak student council as president. Hilarity ensues.
- MAR: Marchen Awakens Romance: Teenage otaku is summoned to another world to fight evil chess pieces armed with jewelry.
- Maria-sama ga Miteru: A Catholic all-girl high school is filled with students who spend most of their time trying to seduce each other, only to end up quarreling over how to organize the next school festival.
- Martian Successor Nadesico: The crew of a civilian-owned warship fight both sides in a war, become Otaku, and never solve the main problem of the show (on-screen, anyway).
- Mazinger Z: Humongous Mecha has joysticks for the first time ever. Actually, a lot of things happen for the first time ever.
- Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch: Busty, slightly brainless klutz founds a group of idol singers. They search the town to add more members to their band. The Grand Finale is a sing-off with Gackt.
- Metal Fighter Miku: Hot girls in cool outfits wrestle each other in front of large crowds. A drunk thinks it would be better if their outfits came off. He's right.
- Midori No Hibi: A lonely young man has a romantic relationship with his right hand.
- The Mikos Words And The Witches Incantations: A Cute Witch seduces an enshrined Miko and elopes with her.
- Minami-ke: Three sisters (representing beauty, brains and BOSS) share an apartment together. Stuff happens.
- Mirai Nikki (manga): 12 people gain knowledge of the future and participate in a tournament to become
God Deus; Xanatos Speed Chess ensues. The protagonist's girlfriend is an Ax Crazy Yandere Stalker with a Crush.
- Mnemosyne: Vodka is water in Russian. Mind Screw ensues.
- Mobile Suit Gundam An immature computer geek gains possession of a giant steel samurai, and uses it to fight off Space Nazis.
- Maison Ikkoku: A loser living in a tiny, run-down apartment house is driven crazy by his neighbors as he attempts to score with a girl who's trying to get over the death of her fiance.
- Medaka Box: A Mary Sue is elected Student Council President and uses a suggestion box to better the lives of her classmates.
- Memories: Three part movie from the guy who brought you post-apocalyptic nuke psychics and creepy, elderly, albino kids.
- Magnetic Rose: Woman kills her fiance on Earth. Results in the deaths of a salvage crew on her private space station decades after her death.
- Stink Bomb: A flu shot and fever medicine give a man horrible BO before setting out on the road, ruining the day for millions. Severe military ineptitude allows him to continue. NASA space marines save the day.
- Cannon Fodder: Slacker kid aspires to fire cannons instead of loading them when he grows up.
- Mokke: Two sisters encounter the most boring ghosts Japanese folklore has to offer.
- Monster: Japanese doctor sacrifices his career to save the life of a young boy. Said boy decides to thank him. Painfully.
- Mononoke: An albino with gold facial markings dredges up the guilty pasts of an inn, a ship, a ...something, a stick, and a train. He uses this to kill Japanese Cthulu.
- Moonphase: A twenty-something photographer falls in love with a prepubescent girl who wants him to call her Master. They Fight Vampires.
- Moyashimon: A boy who can talk to microbes attends an elite agricultural university.
- Mujin Wakusei Survive: Gilligans Island IN SPACE WITH KIDS!
- Murder Princess: Princess and bounty hunter swap bodies and surprise the hell out of an army of invading robo-assassins.
- Mushishi: A traveler helps people cope with invisible magic bugs.
- My Balls: A young man is given a good reason to refrain from self-abuse.
- My Lovely Ghost Kana: A guy moves into a new apartment and has sex with a dead girl.
- Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok: Norse gods are made into teenagers (and younger); one of them solves strange mysteries with a pink-haired high schooler.
- My Neighbour Totoro: Two sisters meet up with several forest spirits, the largest of which becomes a partial Replacement Goldfish for their sick mother.
- Mysterious Girlfriend X: Boy meets girl. Boy eats girl's drool.
- Nana To Kaoru: Childhood friends find an activity they enjoy doing together.
- Nanaka 6/17: An accident forces a studious girl to relive her childhood...while still in high school.
- Naru Taru: A cute girl finds an adorable star-shaped friend during summer vacation. Things go downhill... fast.
- Naruto: Titular character continually gets screwed over by "best friend", an emo with an utter lack of sense and commitment. The Big Bad looks like a mix between Voldemort and Michael Jackson. China invades.
- Naruto Shippuden: Titular character comes home after three years of training with a master who just happens to be a pervert. Big Bad is revealed to be a guy with weird eyes and a really overused Freudian Excuse, and then the personification of the curse from Uzumaki.
- Natsume Yuujinchou: A Mc Guffin carrying boy who sees strange beings goes on a quest of namecalling with his animal sidekick.
- Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind: The people of the future have a big bug and weed problem.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Superweapons are given to mentally unstable children while the adults plot to destroy the world.
- Nerima Daikon Brothers: Three perpetually poor farmers want to become blues singers. They Fight Crime.
- Nightwalker: A private eye,a goverment agent, a high school student and a tiny winged creature.Together,They fight demons! The one who made the private eye what he is today wants him back.
- Ninin Ga Shinobuden: A high school girl hangs out with the most incompetent group of Ninja ever, and is constantly harassed by a perverted yellow ball.
- Noein: The title character doesn't exist and the main character defines reality.
- Nogizaka Haruka No Himitsu: A high school girl is secretly an otaku. The boy dates her but keeps telling everyone that Shes Not My Girlfriend; nobody believes him.
- Noir: A cynical veteran assassin and a young amnesiac savant team up to thwart an Ancient Conspiracy. Flashbacks ensue.
- Nyan Koi: A guy tries to have a regular high school life and get together with his crush. Cats interfere in both endeavors.
- Omamori Himari: Large-breasted Cat Girl unexpectedly moves in with an Ordinary High School Student who is allergic to cats. When not trying to seduce him she beats the crap out of demons.
- Onani Master Kurosawa: An ordinary student finds an unconventional way to dish out justice: masturbating.
- One Piece: Small people with random skills go on a road trip and fight large people with government connections.
- One Pound Gospel: A nun helps a struggling boxer stick to his diet.
- Onidere: A meek high schooler is in a physically abusive relationship with an emotionally unstable girl who is living a double life.
- Otogi No Machi No Rena (Manga): High school girl starts raising baby sex-demons on accident. Hilarity Ensues. It's clean!
- Otogi Zoshi: Historical Fiction about a girl who crossdresses in order to find a magic bead. Halfway through, this premise is abandoned, so her modern day reincarnation investigates Urban Legends.
- Otome Wa Boku Ni Koishiteru: A trap becomes a role model for a school full of princess-types. Male audience members find themselves questioning their sexuality.
- Orochuban Ebichu: A woman regrets buying a hamster.
- Ouran High School Host Club: A poor girl is punished for destruction of property by spending her school years with obnoxiously rich Bishonen.
- Outlaw Star: A Badass Longcoat and his Cute Shotaro Boy sidekick inherit a Mac Guffin Girl and a snarky spaceship from a dead client. Together, along with a lady samurai and a spazzy Cat Girl, they find God.
- Overman King Gainer: Moving is Serious Business. A one night stand nearly dooms the world. Giant robots dance the monkey.
- Pandora Hearts: A cheerful, 15-year-old boy tries to figure out how he became the main character in Alice in Wonderland.
- Pani Poni Dash: An eleven-year-old college graduate and her mopey, long-suffering pet teach an eccentric high school class in Japan.
- Paradise Kiss: Stiff and dull student is abducted by tecnicolor-haired aspiring fashion designers. Flamboyant jerkass dandy makes her his muse. The author loves Vivienne Westwood.
- Peach Girl: A tan girl falls in love.
- Pet Shop Of Horrors: Mysterious Bishonen runs evil pet shop with poor customer service and no return policy.
- Piano: A high-school girl helps her best pal find a boyfriend. She plays piano too. Sometimes.
- Planetes: Garbage collectors IN SPACE!.
- Alternatively- Garbage collectors discuss morality and associated political issues.
- Please Save My Earth: A group of alien scientists who lived on the moon are reincarnated as six Japanese teenagers and one seven year old. Drama ensues.
- Please Teacher: Alien teacher marries a narcoleptic high-school student.
- Pokemon: Boy goes to great lengths to avoid his stated goal via Filler.
- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate: Amnesiac kid teams up with a geek and an overly emotional girl. They go out and rescue a wannabe rapper. Actually, a lot Worse Than It Sounds.
- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness: Different amnesiac kid with psychic powers teams up with a different geek and a hyperactive girl. They go out to defeat a perverted dragon and get a scale.
- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Beyond Time and Darkness: Said amnesiac psychic kid causes a time paradox.
- Mewtwo Strikes Back: Clone gets the Cloning Blues and wants revenge on the world. He stops after nearly killing somebody.
- The Power of One: A collector of rare things accidentally triggers severe climate change.
- Spell of the Unown: Little girl who loses her parents uses a magic alphabet to replace them. The alphabet accomplishes this by providing a fire-breathing beast for the dad and brainwashing someone else's mom.
- Celebi - Voice of the Forest: Nature Spirit escapes capture by Time Travelling into the future, only to be captured anyway.
- Pokemon Heroes: Two thieves try to steal strange gem. Two voluntary shapeshifters who can make themselves invisible fight back.
- Jirachi - Wishmaker: Magician makes a wish to summon a beast with the powers over the earth. He gets an Eldritch Abomination instead.
- Destiny Deoxys: Aliens pay a visit and are mistaken for invaders.
- Lucario and the Mystery of Mew: A mountain is collapsing and a desperate struggle is underway to save it. Meanwhile, two cats and a mouse play in a tree.
- Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea: Young girl becomes a mommy at the age of ten. A pirate demands sole custody.
- The Rise of Darkrai: Two Kaiju considered gods by the locals have a fight that threatens to make a town literally not exist.
- Giratina and the Sky Warrior: Another Kaiju is ticked off at the previous two for trashing its home. But first it needs a hedgehog with an attitude in order to leave home.
- Arceus and the Jewel of Life: The above three Kaiju's father awakens due to their fighting. It's God and he's pissed at the humans about his missing jewelry.
- Ruler of Illusion Z: Good Ash meets Bad Ash.
- Pom Poko: A group of forest animals become eco-terroists, with unpleasant consequences.
- Porco Rosso: A pilot becomes the other white meat, then beats up pirates and a pushy American.
- Potemayo: Daily life of a boy and his new pet.
- Pretear: A girl is hired by a group of Bishonen to help fix changing weather patterns. Though it's actually more complicated, they appear to turn into clothes.
- Pretty Face: Through the magic of plastic surgery, a teenage boy comes back from the dead as his crush's twin sister.
- Princess Tutu: If you simply make a wish, fairy tales do come true. Giving them happy endings is a lot harder.
- Princess Mononoke: A dying man helps a misanthropic woman save her home from governmental development.
- Princess Princess: Three boys improve the school's morale by crossdressing.
- Project A Ko: Girls with lettered names fight off alien invasion.
- Prunus Girl: Girl claims to be boy, but may in fact actually be a girl. Male lead is confused.
- Psyren: Teenagers with psychic powers travel to the future to change the past.
- Puni Puni Poemy: Imagine a Lolicon Sailor Moon with ADHD high on Crystal Meth and caffeine.
- Rah Xephon: Boy meets girl. Boy is trapped in Human Alien time-slowing orb of death for many years. Boy uses Mecha against his will to kick copious amounts of ass.
- Ranma 1/2: An extremely masculine boy/girl attracts loads and loads of fiancés, girlfriends, and psycho stalkers. Of both genders. Completely against his/her will. Hilarity Ensues.
- Ray The Animation: Girl makes like Black Jack (who shows up) while looking for her eyes; her replacements have X Ray Vision.
- Read Or Die (OVA): Shy bookworm must kill Beethoven and other historical figures with paper.
- Read Or Die (Manga): Said shy bookworm has her ex's best friend trying to beat her to the library for stealing said ex from him.
- Read Or Dream (manga): Three blood-sisters use their powers to solve book-related cases in Hong Kong.
- ROD The TV: Blood-sisters protect a famous author from the bookworm's former boss.
- Red Garden: Four dead girls fight middle-aged men in suits.
- Revolutionary Girl Utena: A girl enrolls in a mysterious academy where fencing is practically a way of life and everyone has issues.
- Robotech: First giant human aliens attack the Earth. Then normal sized human aliens attack the Earth. Finally alien quasi snail/insectoids sometimes taking human form attack the Earth.
- Rocket Girls: A Japanese company can't build a rocket capable of lifting a full grown man into space, so they use a teenage girl instead.
- Rockman EXE: Boy surfs the internet, saves the world.
- Shooting Star Rockman: Boy gets on radio, saves the world.
- Romeo X Juliet: Crossdressing rebel Mac Guffin Girl falls for dictator's son.
- Rosario To Vampire: Boy stumbles into an Extranormal Institute and becomes popular. Come for the panties, stay for the plot.
- Rose Of Versailles: Sparkly, alcoholic Bifauxnen protects the Queen of France from everything except her own passions.
- Rozen Maiden: Seven sisters fall asleep in the Victorian era and awaken in the 2000s. They begin to congregate around a reclusive Japanese boy while searching for their father, never once thinking that he might have died of old age.
- Rurouni Kenshin: In Meiji-era Japan, a former assassin fights evil with a backwards sword.
- s-CRY-ed: A rebellious man with a powerful arm fights a stoic guy with a killer robot named after his dead dog. Otherwise, pretty much X-Men with more rainbows. The theme song can only be described as 'Japanese Mexican salsa'.
- Saikano: Boy has sex with dead robot. Everyone dies.
- Sailor Moon: Overdeveloped girls in underdeveloped uniforms live vicariously through past-life regression.
- Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: A group of high school girls marked by their matching plastic jewelry can never quite be sure if they're all friends or not.
- Saint Seiya: A group of young teenage boys are pressed into the service of an overdeveloped teenage girl that runs a cult. They end up doing a lot of running.
- Saiunkoku Monogatari: A girl agrees to marry an emperor in order to get him to rule his country properly.
- Saiyuki: Four guys are sent west in a very small jeep by a hermaphroditic deity. Hilarity Ensues.
- Saki: Schoolgirl Lesbians playing Japanese Rummy. Blushing ensues.
- Sakigake Cromartie Koukou: Idiots go to high school with a robot, gorilla, and a rock singer look-alike.
- Samurai Seven: A retelling of a classic Japanese tale, only this time with the heroes facing down an evil emperor and Humongous Mecha.
- Samurai Champloo: A tavern waitress cons a ronin and a bandit into following her around Japan, looking for a guy she can only recognize by smell. They do it all to the tune of a hip-hop soundtrack.
- Sandland: Satan's son looks for water.
- Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei: A teacher copes with his dissatisfaction with society by encouraging people to kill themselves. Hilarity Ensues.
- Scrapped Princess: Girl was chucked off a cliff by her parents because they didn't want to deal with her sweet sixteen.
- School Days: A young man gets himself into a twisted Love Triangle... with heavy emphasis on "twisted".
- School Rumble: Reformed delinquent turned closet mangaka falls heavily in love with a ditzy girl with wiggly pigtails. Comic misunderstandings and love dodecahedrons result.
- Sengoku Basara: Historical Samurai figures do almost nothing that they did in real life and fight obvious evil with the power of Engrish, hot blood, explosions and cameo appearances based on a video game.
- Serial Experiments Lain: Quiet schoolgirl gets hooked on the Internet. Then Evil Anime Steve Jobs shows up.
- Seto No Hanayome: Boy gets saved by mermaid. Boy ends up in a Shotgun-esque Wedding with mermaid. Mermaid's yakuza family does not approve and tries to kill boy. Oh, and The Terminator is a recurring character.
- Shakugan No Shana: An Ordinary High School Student becomes the servant of a hot-headed demon hunter after a monster erases him and his friends from existence.
- Shaman King: Every 500 years, Native Americans have fun making a tournament for shamans from around the world and make them kill each other with dead people so someone can channel the God.
- Shichinin No Nana: A girl becomes her own best friends and gets through middle school by dressing up as a sentai heroine.
- Shikabane Hime: A teenager unintentionally stalks a dead girl who fights other dead people that turn into monsters.
- Shinesman: Man joins a company and is recruited to fight evil with office Supplies. Hilarity Ensues.
- Shingu: Aliens attack earth with Giant robot acorns, unravelling a millennia-old Masquerade. More importantly, a Tsundere can't decide whether she likes the narrator or the mysterious transfer student.
- Shoujo Sect: An all-girl high school is attended by students with male brains. Sex ensues.
- SHUFFLE!: Harems are fun!...until you actually have to pick a suitor.
- Shugo Chara!: A schoolgirl who hates her personality uses magical eggs to break out of her shell.
- Simoun: Schoolgirl Lesbians doodle in the sky. Stuff blows up.
- Sister Princess: Unlucky Everydude gets exiled to an island to live with a dozen or so inhabitants that all attach themselves to him in borderline-illegal ways.
- Sketchbook Full Colors: Shy girl becomes involved in local art club, draws scenery. Also, there's a Canadian.
- Skip Beat!: Unlucky Childhood Friend attempts to take revenge upon the man who dumped her by beating him at his own game...show business.
- Slayers: Hot-headed sorceress/thief teams up with empty-headed swordsman to fight evil.
- Sola: "A skywatching guy with an Ill Girl albino sister meets a mysterious girl being hunted by the Highlander, who has connections to an Elegant Gothic Lolita who hangs out in garbage cans eating riceballs." (- Description taken from the show's page.)
- Solty Rei: Grumpy old man forms Odd Friendship with Robot Girl whose life he saved.
- Sonic X: Illegal immigrants must stay hidden from the authorities, though they aren't very good at it.
- Sora Wo Kakeru Shoujo: A confused schoolgirl and a boiled potato work to convince a one-eyed box to come out of seclusion.
- Soreike! Anpanman: A living loaf of bread fights crime and feeds himself to the hungry. His archenemy is a germ from space.
- Soukou No Strain: Sibling rivalry on an intergalactic scale.
- Soul Eater: A scythe and the daughter of a scythe attend an Extranormal Institute and fight a snake witch.
- Soul Taker: The hero dies in the first scene. His little sister has multiple personality disorder, except worse. There's also a guy with a toothache.
- Sousei No Aquarion: Robot powered by orgasms fights every fairy tale ever.
- Space Runaway Ideon: Everyone Dies over the course of 39 episodes and a movie... especially in the movie. By the man himself.
- Speed Racer: Racing heavily modified cars is Serious Business.
- Spice And Wolf: A twenty five year old merchant meets and starts traveling with an underappreciated magical kemonomimi girl who usually looks about sixteen. They are obviously attracted to each other, so they check into a hotel, get naked and... discuss the economy.
- Spirited Away: A ten-year-old's parents make pigs of themselves at a resort, and her boyfriend has an identity crisis. They get better.
- Starship Operators: Reality TV meets Embedded Reporting... IN SPACE!
- Strawberry Panic: Members of a girls-only Absurdly Powerful Student Council engage in a Love Dodecahedron. The only men involved are those in the audience.
- Stray Little Devil: A high school girl gets pulled into a spirit world and turned into a devil. Hilarity and Les Yay ensue.
- Strike Witches: Schoolgirl Lesbians from all over the world strap airplane engines to their legs in order to fight aliens. Fans largely discuss clothing choices.
- Sugar Sugar Rune: an overly shy princess and her tomboyish best friend are CuteWitches. They go to the Human World to make guys fall in love with them, then about half way through things get worse.
- Suzuka: Ordinary High School Student becomes a world class sprinter to impress the title character, who hates him for being a more socially awkward stand-in for her dead ex-boyfriend.
- Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu: Love tetrahedron develops amidst various Twilight Zone-esque Negative Space Wedgies. Existence hangs on the outcome.
- Taishou Yakyuu Musume: Japanese school girls play baseball... in 1925.
- Team Medical Dragon: Open-heart surgery becomes more dramatic than ever before.
- Tenchi Muyo: High-school student prefers to remain "just friends" with hot alien girls.
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: A miner and a delinquent team up with an underage girl for the purpose of fighting a race war.
- Tentai Senshi Sunred: A cold war between a sentai hero and his nemesis takes place in a small town. The town takes the nemesis' side.
- The Law Of Ueki: Young boy who can turn trash into trees he can control gets into a Tournament Arc chock full of What Kind Of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway.
- The Prince Of Tennis: Skill at sport bestows ability to defy physics and commit genocide against the dinosaurs.
- Those Who Hunt Elves: A musclebrained karate freak, an Oscar-winning Actress, a Japanese Teenage Gun Otaku Girl, and a giant tank possessed by the spirit of a cat run around a fantasy world, trying to return home by forcibly removing the clothes of every female elf they can get their hands on.
- The Third: The Girl With The Blue Eye: A girl with an eye on her forehead travels the desert in a talking tank with her alien boyfriend and sometimes kills things.
- Thunderbirds 2086: Cooler looking than the puppet version, but most of the stories aren't.
- Time Bokan: Good time-travelers in a bug-shaped robot fight evil time-travelers in a skull-shaped robot over a big rock.
- Tokyo Babylon: Bisexual, sociopathic veterinarian/assassin with a floral theme makes a bet with a fashion-challenged uke, wins, and kills the uke's sister. It takes place to an 80's soundtrack.
- Tokyo Mew Mew: Genetic experiments become battle waitresses. Bigfoot is possessed by an alien.
- To Aru Majutsu No Index: In a world where magic and esper powers are the norm, an Unlucky Everydude who may or may not be the protagonist of a gal-game goes through life by punching anomalies back to normal and bemoaning his misfortune.
- To Love Ru : Manga and anime with Fanservice, an Ordinary High School Student, Fanservice, a Magical Girl, Fanservice, a continuously-growing Unwanted Harem, PantyShots and Fanservice
- Tomie: A beautiful compulsive liar with the ability to regenerate manipulates men into killing her in increasingly horrible ways.
- Tonagura: A girl's joy at being reunited with her childhood crush is cut short when she learns puberty hit said childhood crush especially hard.
- Toradora: A drone Dragon and a fiery Tiger neurotically fight to understand their purpose relying on breast enhancement, fine dining, life between vending machines and crystal chards as their map. Oh and Santa is a dejected teddy bear. Awesome!
- Toshokan Sensō (Library War): A girl falls in love with a man who once bought her a book.
- Tramps Like Us: A woman makes a 20-year-old man her pet.
- Translucent (Manga): A young actress gains a superpower powered by angst. This makes her angsty, of course.
- Triangle Heart 3 Sweet Songs Forever: Two siblings who are actually cousins live in a Fantasy Kitchen Sink. Terrorists want to kill and/or marry their Idol Singer friend. None of the above is the winning girl.
- Or: Nanoha's family has an unrelated side-story.
- Trapeze: A psychiatrist in a bear suit decides the best way to treat everything is a gigantic Vitamin B shot.
- Trigun: In A gun-toting pacifist and his genocidal brother emerge from a lightbulb. Humanity responds to being simultaneously saved and fucked by trying to kill the pacifist.
- Trinity Blood: A guy who eats vampires acts like a complete idiot while occasionally eating vampires and making a scythe out of his blood. Nanomachines started it.
- Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle: Girl suffers a bad case of amnesia. She and her friends must travel to regain her memories, while dealing with more moles than a Whack-A-Mole factory. Mind Screw ensues.
- Tsukihime: An Ordinary High School Student slices a girl he never met before into seventeen pieces. She gets better and enlists him to fight vampires.
- Twentieth Century Boys: Guy with psychic powers becomes really obsessed with middle-school friend's fanfiction.
- The Tyrant Falls In Love: Kind-hearted, Dark-haired seme rapes violent, gay bashing, long-haired uke and later blackmails him into having sex once a week. Angst and Denial ensues. Title refers to the uke.
- Ubel Blatt: A guy comes back to life as a little kid after eating a fairy so he can kill some heroes.
- Uchuu Senkan Yamato: A World War II-era battleship is equipped with a really powerful gun and sent off into space to fight alien invaders.
- UFO Princess Valkyrie: A bath-house owner is killed and resurrected by an alien girl, which causes her to revert to childhood. Then her sisters and a Cat Girl maid show up, and things get really weird.
- Ultimate Girls: 100ft tall girls make like Ultraman to defend Tokyo from evil, but they lose power even faster than he does.
- Ultimate!! Hentai Kamen: A man wearing only two pairs of underwear fights crime.
- Umisho: An ocean-dwelling nudist joins a mediocre high school swim team full of weirdos that is managed by guy who can't swim because of a pathological fear of mermaids.
- Urusei Yatsura: An alien loses a game of tag to a perverted slob. She decides to marry him.
- Usagi Drop: A man adopts his aunt.
- Utawarerumono: Masked man is rescued by people with animal ears, and gets caught up in their little war.
- Uzumaki: Inexplicable spirals spell certain doom for a small town in Japan.
- Vampire Doll: Ancient and powerful vampire lord gets stuck in a wax doll, is now a young girl who summons candy.
- Vampire Game: A girl adopts a cat. The cat has a grudge to settle.
- Vampire Hunter D: A Hammer Horror Western starring a guy who gets into arguments with his hand.
- Vampire Princess Miyu: Japanese Vampire fights demons. Actually much scarier than it sounds.
- Vandread: The Battle of the Sexes is Serious Business.
- Variable Geo: Waitresses fight in a no-holds-barred tournament for real estate. The best friend of the favorite to win is manipulated into joining the tournament by a shadowy conspiracy.
- Veritas (Manhwa): High schooler inherits electricity powers and lots of drama from a guy who he only knew for a few months.
- Violinist Of Hameln: A bunch of teenagers with Nice Hats and instrument names set out to kill demons.
- Vinland Saga: A bunch of Vikings duke it out in The Dung Ages. A princess with no boobs is involved.
- Vision Of Escaflowne: A psychic high school track star helps in the fight against Isaac Newton's evil mecha army on a highly improbable moon made by Atlanteans.
- The Wallflower: A group of Bishounen housemates must turn a Gorn-loving girl into a demure young lady to avoid paying their rent. She's not having any of it.
- Wangan Midnight: An 18-year-old high school student drives an allegedly-possessed car.
- Wedding Peach: A hopelessly romantic girl beats up demons while wearing a wedding dress. It's not Sailor Moon, honest.
- Weiss Kreuz: A group of androgynous, sexually ambiguous young men pose as florists to cover-up their lucrative business as assassins.
- Welcome To The NHK: Four crazy people lack a psychiatrist.
- Windy Tales: Strangely drawn high-school students learn how to manipulate wind, which apparently is something even cats can pull off.
- Witchblade: Single mom gains a bracelet of mass destruction, sexy-as-hell outfit. It's a tear jerker.
- Witch Hunter Robin: Like Law And Order, only the bad guys can throw fire around and crush you with their minds.
- W-Juliet: A manly woman and a girly man with daddy issues fall in love.
- Wolfs Rain: A group of bickering quadrupeds in human disguise go looking for paradise in the company of a girl who's made from plant DNA.
- The World God Only Knows (manga): The God of Video Games teaches you how to save the world by bagging chicks using the power of TROPES.
- World Of Narue A half-Japanese girl has family problems because of her father's previous marriage and the Theory of Relativity.
- Xenosaga: A Hot Scientist, a killer Robot Girl, and the rest of their Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits fly around in a Cool Ship, trying to figure out the bizarre laws of the universe they live in.
- xxxHoLic: Smug witch makes a Weirdness Magnet her bitch.
- Yakitate Japan: A brave but dim young man with a goofy haircut enters the high-stakes world of bread-making.
- Yami To Boushi To Hon No Tabibito: A Tall Dark And Bishoujo 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: Ridiculously Human Robot Girls contemplating their robotic navels in front of Scenery Porn.
- Yomigaeru Sora -Rescue Wings-: A guy doesn't get to be a fighter pilot.
- Yotsuba&!: Young girl moves to a new town and spends her days doing nothing with three sisters and a really big guy — and it's hilarious.
- Yuria 100 Shiki: Hentai about a Sex Bot not having sex.
- Yu Yu 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.
- Yu-Gi-Oh: Children's card games are Serious Business.
- Zero No Tsukaima: Magic academy student really sucks at her craft. Her boyfriend is extremely whipped.
- Zettai Karen Children: Man plays babysitter to three prepubescent weapons of mass destruction while an 80-year-old fights for their romantic affection.
- Zipang: The most powerful ship in the Pacific theater is an AEGIS destroyer.
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