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* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{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'.
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* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{s-CRY-ed}}'']]: [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Scryed}}'']]: 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'.
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* [[spoiler:''Anime/SeireiNoMoribito'']]: A spear-wielding chick protects a prince who's pregnant with a water spirit.
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* [[spoiler: ''[[Anime/GenesisOfAquarion Sousei No Aquarion]]'']]: Robot powered by [[{{Synchronization}} orgasms]] fights [[FantasyKitchenSink every fairy]] [[AllMythsAreTrue tale ever]].
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* [[spoiler: ''[[Anime/GenesisOfAquarion Sousei No Aquarion]]'']]: ''Anime/GenesisOfAquarion'']]: Robot powered by [[{{Synchronization}} orgasms]] fights [[FantasyKitchenSink every fairy]] [[AllMythsAreTrue tale ever]].
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* [[spoiler:''Anime/TheSacredBlacksmith'']]: KatanasAreJustBetter: The Anime
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* [[spoiler:''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya SuzumiyaHaruhi no Yuuutsu]]'']]: Love tetrahedron develops amidst various Twilight Zone-esque {{Negative Space Wedgie}}s. Existence hangs on the outcome.
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* [[spoiler:''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya SuzumiyaHaruhi Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu]]'']]: Love tetrahedron develops amidst various Twilight Zone-esque {{Negative Space Wedgie}}s. Existence hangs on the outcome.
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* [[spoiler: ''[[{{Franchise/Anpanman}} Soreike! Anpanman]]'']]: A living loaf of bread [[TheyFightCrime fights crime]] and feeds himself to the hungry. His archenemy is a germ from space.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SoukouNoStrain'']]: Sibling rivalry on an intergalactic scale.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SoulEater'']]: A scythe and the daughter of a scythe attend an ExtranormalInstitute and fight a snake witch.
* [[spoiler: ''[[{{Franchise/Anpanman}} Soreike! Anpanman]]'']]: A living loaf of bread [[TheyFightCrime fights crime]] and feeds himself to the hungry. His archenemy is a germ from space.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SoukouNoStrain'']]: Sibling rivalry on an intergalactic scale.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SoulEater'']]: A scythe and the daughter of a scythe attend an ExtranormalInstitute and fight a snake witch.
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* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SoraOKakeruShoujo'']]: [[spoiler:''Anime/SoraOKakeruShoujo'']]: A confused schoolgirl and a boiled potato work to convince a one-eyed box to come out of seclusion.
*[[spoiler: ''[[{{Franchise/Anpanman}} [[spoiler:''[[{{Franchise/Anpanman}} Soreike! Anpanman]]'']]: A living loaf of bread [[TheyFightCrime fights crime]] and feeds himself to the hungry. His archenemy is a germ from space.
*[[spoiler: ''Anime/SoukouNoStrain'']]: Sibling rivalry on an intergalactic scale.
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** A scythe and the daughter of a scythe attend an ExtranormalInstitute and fight a snake witch.
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** [[Main/MedievalEuropeanFantasy Medieval Europeanesque]] [[Main/IntrepidMerchant travelling merchant]] meets wolf deity in the form of a naked 16-year-old girl... They discuss economics.
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** A ten year old girl works in a bathhouse. Not like that, you pervert.
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*** Literature/AliceInWonderland ** Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland [[RecycledInSpace in a bathhouse]].
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* [[spoiler: ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'']]: Self-proclaimed MadScientist and his [[TrueCompanions lab members]] create time paradoxes using text messages.
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** Self-proclaimed MadScientist and his [[TrueCompanions lab members]] create time paradoxes using text messages.
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* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'']]: Members of a [[SchoolgirlLesbians girls-only]] AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil engage in a LoveDodecahedron. The only men involved are [[YuriFan those in the audience]].
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* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'']]: [[spoiler:''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry'']]: Sibling rivalry on an intergalactic scale.
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** Members of a [[SchoolgirlLesbians girls-only]] AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil engage in a LoveDodecahedron. The only men involved are [[YuriFan those in the audience]].
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* [[spoiler: ''Anime/{{Sola}}'']]: "A skywatching guy with an IllGirl albino sister meets a mysterious girl being hunted by the [[BadassLongcoat Highlander]], who has connections to an ElegantGothicLolita who hangs out in garbage cans eating riceballs." (- Description taken from the show's page.)
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* [[spoiler: ''Anime/{{Sola}}'']]: [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Sola}}'']]: "A skywatching guy with an IllGirl albino sister meets a mysterious girl being hunted by the [[BadassLongcoat Highlander]], who has connections to an ElegantGothicLolita who hangs out in garbage cans eating riceballs." (- Description taken from the show's page.)
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* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'']]: An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent becomes the servant of a [[{{Tsundere}} hot-headed]] demon hunter after a monster [[RetGone erases him and his friends from existence]].
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/ShamanKing'']]: Every 500 years, Native Americans have fun making people kill each other with dead people so they can control {{God}}.
* [[spoiler: ''[[Anime/SevenOfSeven Shichinin No Nana]]'']]: A girl becomes her own best friends and gets through middle school by dressing up as a {{sentai}} heroine.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Shigurui}}'']]: Two crippled men hate each other, a sadistic noble makes them fight to the death, and [[{{Gorn}} the audience learns a lot about internal human anatomy]].
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/ShamanKing'']]: Every 500 years, Native Americans have fun making people kill each other with dead people so they can control {{God}}.
* [[spoiler: ''[[Anime/SevenOfSeven Shichinin No Nana]]'']]: A girl becomes her own best friends and gets through middle school by dressing up as a {{sentai}} heroine.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Shigurui}}'']]: Two crippled men hate each other, a sadistic noble makes them fight to the death, and [[{{Gorn}} the audience learns a lot about internal human anatomy]].
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* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'']]: [[spoiler:''Anime/SevenOfSeven'']]: A girl becomes her own best friends and gets through middle school by dressing up as a {{sentai}} heroine.
* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'']]: An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent becomes the servant of a [[{{Tsundere}} hot-headed]] demon hunter after a monster [[RetGone erases him and his friends from existence]].
*[[spoiler: ''Manga/ShamanKing'']]: [[spoiler:''Manga/ShamanKing'']]: Every 500 years, Native Americans have fun making people kill each other with dead people so they can control {{God}}.
*[[spoiler: ''[[Anime/SevenOfSeven Shichinin No Nana]]'']]: [[spoiler:''Anime/ShatteredAngels]]'': A Japanese teenager with an increasingly messed-up family tries to murder three expies and a blonde girl becomes her own best friends (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 gets through middle school by dressing helps him in his quest. He falls in love with one of the expys. His brother wasn't dead and he gives up as a {{sentai}} heroine.
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*[[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Shigurui}}'']]: [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Shigurui}}'']]: Two crippled men hate each other, a sadistic noble makes them fight to the death, and [[{{Gorn}} the audience learns a lot about internal human anatomy]].
* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'']]: An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent becomes the servant of a [[{{Tsundere}} hot-headed]] demon hunter after a monster [[RetGone erases him and his friends from existence]].
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* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai'']]: JapaneseMythology "reimagined" by a [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs drugged-out]], [[IncestIsRelative incestuous]] {{hikikomori}}.
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* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai'']]: JapaneseMythology Myth/JapaneseMythology "reimagined" by a [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs drugged-out]], [[IncestIsRelative incestuous]] {{hikikomori}}.
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* [[spoiler:''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'']]: A [[ReallyGetsAround nympho]] and a [[SweetTooth glutton]] fight the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification demonic personifications]] of [[NauseaFuel everything disgusting]] in a [[CrapsackWorld city under siege]] using their [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman frilly things]] that turn into [[EnergyWeapon energy weapons]]. {{Gainax}} ensues and [[GainaxEnding the biggest mindfuck in the studio's history ends it]].
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* [[spoiler:''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'']]: A [[ReallyGetsAround nympho]] and a [[SweetTooth glutton]] fight the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification demonic personifications]] of [[NauseaFuel everything disgusting]] in a [[CrapsackWorld city under siege]] using their [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman frilly things]] that turn into [[EnergyWeapon energy weapons]]. {{Gainax}} [[Creator/StudioGainax Gainax]] ensues and [[GainaxEnding the biggest mindfuck in the studio's history ends it]].
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* [[spoiler: ''Manga/ShoukugekiNoSoma'']]: FoodPorn: the manga. Or a kid aspiring to become the best chef in the world makes food so good he gives people orgasms.
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* [[spoiler: ''Manga/ShoukugekiNoSoma'']]: ''Manga/ShokugekiNoSoma'']]: FoodPorn: the manga. Or a kid aspiring to become the best chef in the world makes food so good he gives people orgasms.
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** Straight from its Laconic: The world starts [[SanitySlippage reeking of insanity]], and a bunch of [[AlmightyJanitor Almighty Janitors]] try to stop its spread.
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* [[spoiler:''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo'']]: Boy is forced to join the student council at a former all-girls school while the President and secretary ([[AllWomenAreLustful along with just about every other girl]]) make '''a lot''' of [[VulgarHumor sex jokes]].
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* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'']]: KindheartedCatLover receives a severely autistic MagicalGirlfriend. [[UnfortunateImplications Because autistic people are just like cats, right?]]
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** Or: A delusional college student and his TrueCompanions send text messages and troll CERN
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** Or: A delusional college student and his TrueCompanions send text messages and troll CERNCERN.
** Or: A mad scientist grants his friends' wishes, then takes them all away.
** Or: A mad scientist grants his friends' wishes, then takes them all away.
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* [[spoiler:''Manga/PandoraHearts'']]: A cheerful, 15-year-old boy tries to figure out how he became the main character in ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.
** Alternatively: A teenage boy who is secretly 25 tries to get his daddy's approval with his useless servant and a bunny girl. Alice in Wonderland references are everywhere. Similar to a story written by CLAMP, minus the [[NoodlePeople noodles]].
** Alternatively: A 15-year-old boy is actually 25 years old and not actually a boy, but a rabbit, which is actually a stuffed toy, which is actually a monster from a world-altering hell pit. His current "boy" body actually belongs to a historic hero who is actually the villain.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PaniPoniDash'']]: An eleven-year-old college graduate and her [[TheEeyore mopey]], [[TheChewToy long-suffering]] pet teach an [[WackyHomeroom eccentric high school class]] in Japan.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'']]: A [[ReallyGetsAround nympho]] and a [[SweetTooth glutton]] fight the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification demonic personifications]] of [[NauseaFuel everything disgusting]] in a [[CrapsackWorld city under siege]] using their [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman frilly things]] that turn into [[EnergyWeapon energy weapons]]. {{Gainax}} ensues and [[GainaxEnding the biggest mindfuck in the studio's history ends it]].
** Or: Two siblings use their various undergarments to fight off the forces of evil. The art design could easily be confused for ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''.
** Or: A [[StudioGainax group of people]] known for making some of the weirdest anime known to man get drunk. [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs This is the result]].
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/ParadiseKiss'']]: [[BeautifulAllAlong Stiff]] and dull student is abducted by [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair technicolor-haired]] aspiring [[SeriousBusiness fashion]] designers. Flamboyant [[JerkAss jerkass]] [[TheDandy dandy]] makes her his muse. [[Creator/AiYazawa The author]] [[AuthorAppeal loves]] Vivienne Westwood.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'']]: A girl has a period cramp, and because of this her dog dies. Tokyo is destroyed as an indirect result.
** [[spoiler: ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'']]: A dog dies. Weird shit happens. At some point, the Blob attacks.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'']]: A teenager's hand turns into a sentient penis. They fight aliens.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PeachGirl'']]: A tan girl falls in love.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PerfectBlue'']]: A pop idol becomes an actress, but her manager isn't sure that she should. At least one character is insane.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors'']]: Mysterious {{Bishonen}} runs evil pet shop with poor customer service and no return policy.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Piano}}'']]: A high-school girl helps her best pal find a boyfriend. She plays piano too. Sometimes.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Planetes}}'']]: Garbage collectors [-IN SPACE!-].
** Alternatively: Garbage collectors discuss morality and associated political issues.
** Or: Garbage collector is nearly driven insane by trauma, seeks to make something of himself. Terrorists and a romantic side-plot almost screw everything up for him.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/PleaseSaveMyEarth'']]: Babysitter knocks charge off balcony. They get engaged.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PleaseTeacher'']]: Alien teacher marries a narcoleptic high-school student.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Pluto}}'']]: German robot seeks information from Robo-[[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal Lecter]] and Saddam Hussein. Is thwarted by evil teddy bear.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'']]: Boy [[WalkingTheEarth walks the Earth]] with his collection of [[BiggerOnTheInside compactified]] combat critters while being stalked by a redhead, a runaway heir to the world's biggest fortune and a [[TalkingAnimal talking]] [[FunnyAnimal cat]].
** Or: Anime: the Soap Opera.
** [[spoiler: ''[[TheAnimeOfTheGame Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness]]]]'': An 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.
** [[spoiler: ''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Beyond Time and Darkness'']]: Said amnesiac psychic kid causes a time paradox.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'']]: Clone gets the CloningBlues and wants revenge on the world. He stops after nearly killing somebody.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}}'']]: A [[TheCollector collector]] of rare things accidentally triggers severe climate change. The fate of the world is saved through a pun.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Pokemon 3}}'']]: Little girl who [[ParentalAbandonment loses her parents]] uses a magic alphabet to [[ReplacementGoldfish replace them]]. The alphabet accomplishes this by providing a fire-breathing beast for the dad and brainwashing someone else's mom.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'']]: NatureSpirit escapes capture by {{Time Travel}}ling into the future, only to be captured anyway.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/TheLegendOfThunder'']]: A generator draws [[ElementalPowers electric]] {{Mons}} toward it, and a legendary beast is caught in the confusion.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonHeroes'']]: Two thieves try to steal strange gem. Two [[VoluntaryShapeshifting voluntary shapeshifters]] who can make themselves invisible fight back.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonJirachiWishmaker'']]: Magician makes a wish to summon a beast with the powers over the earth. He gets an EldritchAbomination instead.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonDestinyDeoxys'']]: Aliens pay a visit and are mistaken for invaders.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew'']]: A tree is collapsing and a desperate struggle is underway to save it. Meanwhile, two cats and a mouse play in a tree.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonRangerAndTheTempleOfTheSea'']]: Young girl becomes a mommy at the age of ten. A {{pirate}} demands sole custody.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonTheRiseOfDarkrai'']]: Two {{Kaiju}} with powers over the entire universe threaten the existence of a single town. Meanwhile an EldritchAbomination tries to convince people that [[DarkIsNotEvil he is not evil]].
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonGiratinaAndTheSkyWarrior'']]: Another {{Kaiju}} is ticked off at the previous two for trashing its home. But first it needs [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog a hedgehog with an attitude]] in order to leave home.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife'']]: The above three {{Kaiju}}'s parent awakens due to their fighting. It's {{God}} and it's enraged [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters at the humans]] about its missing jewelry.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions'']]: A [[MamaBear Mama Fox]] goes on a shapeshifting rampage after her baby gets kidnapped.
** [[spoiler:''[[Anime/PokemonTheMovieBlackAndWhite Victini and the Black Hero: Zekrom/Victini and the White Hero: Reshiram]]'']]: [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo One Film For The Price Of Two]]
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonKyuremVsTheSwordOfJustice'']]: A hero-in-training heads out to slay a vicious dragon. Everyone is happy when he loses.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonGenesectAndTheLegendAwakened'']]: Heavily-armed, violent scientific experiments try to conquer Central Park. They stop after several flowers die.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/PokemonSpecial'']]: A bunch of kids [[WalkingTheEarth walk the Earth]], keep befriended animals in portable habitats and battle with them. Has a more serious tone than the above. A plant with glasses draws some of it.
* ''[[spoiler: PomPoko]]'': A group of forest animals become eco-terrorists, with unpleasant consequences.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PorcoRosso'']]: A pilot becomes the other white meat, then beats up pirates and [[{{Eagleland}} a pushy American]].
** Italian fascists don't like it when pigs fly. Harmless pirates and a lounge singer are involved.
* [[spoiler:''{{Anime/Potemayo}}'']]: Daily life of a boy and his new pet.
** Alternatively, the daily life of a HugeSchoolgirl and her wild, laser-firing new pet.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Pretear}}'']]: A [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent girl]] is hired by a group of {{Bishonen}} to help fix changing weather patterns. Though it's [[{{technobabble}} actually more complicated]], they appear to turn into clothes.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/PrettyFace'']]: Through the [[MagicPlasticSurgery magic of plastic surgery]], a teenage boy comes back from the dead as his crush's twin sister.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/PrettySammy'']]: Pre-teen becomes magical girl. Hates it because her skirt's too short.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/ThePrinceOfTennis'']]: Skill at sport bestows ability to defy physics and commit genocide against the dinosaurs.
** Or: Hitting a fuzzy rubber ball better than anyone else is more important than grades, a future job, or one's physical well-being.
** Or: A sports anime where the opposing players are way more interesting than the protagonists.
** Or: ''HoYay: The Sports Manga''.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PrincessMononoke'']]: A dying man helps a misanthropic woman save her home from governmental development.
** Or: Exiled prince shouts at everyone. They don't listen.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PrincessNine'']]: [[StayInTheKitchen Going against tradition]], nine [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits high school girls]] form a baseball team and compete against [[DavidVersusGoliath the boys]] in the national baseball tournament.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/PrincessPrincess'']]: Three boys improve the school's morale by crossdressing.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/PrincessResurrection'']]: A [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]] and her siblings find some... ''[[CainAndAbel interesting]]'' ways to avert a SuccessionCrisis.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PrincessTutu'']]: If you simply make a wish, fairy tales do come true. Giving them happy endings is a lot harder.
** Alternately: A duck, a girl who can't dance, and a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot magical girl ballerina princess]] are the same person. She/they heal people with the power of dance.
** Or: A duck dances strangers' problems away because she can't confess her love to a boy with no pants.
** Or: ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'' and ''Theatre/SwanLake'' do coke lines off a MagicalGirl duck ballerina's back. Drama ensues.
** Or: A dead man tries to write a tragedy. His characters revolt.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/ProjectAKo'']]: Girls with lettered names fight off an alien invasion when they aren't fighting each other.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/PrunusGirl'']]: Girl claims to be boy, but may in fact actually be a girl. Male lead is confused.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/PsychoPass'']]: [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture Futuristic]] police department hunts down mentally unstable people and [[LudicrousGibs makes them explode]]. Many members of the department have serious mental issues themselves. They are opposed by a pretentious bookworm with a mullet.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Psyren}}'']]: Teenagers with psychic powers travel to the future to change the past.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'']]: A WeaselMascot recruits young girls to fight {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. Recruitment involves [[DealWithTheDevil Faustian]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic deals]].
** Alternatively, being a MagicalGirl is... [[TearJerker traumatizing]].
** Alternately: A MagicalGirl travels through time to convince her best friend to refuse jewelry.
** Alternatively: [[LateArrivalSpoiler The anime you already know everything about]].
** Alternately: Girl fights off suicidal, soul-crushing depression by getting in touch with her spiritual side.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'']]: God attempts to save her beloved angel. Said angel refuses salvation, remakes the world in her own image.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PuniPuniPoemi'']]: Magical girl with severe mania uses a dead fish to save planet from aliens who watched our porn.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RahXephon'']]: Boy meets girl. Boy is trapped in HumanAlien time-slowing orb of death for many years. Boy uses Mecha against his will to kick copious amounts of ass.
** ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' on its meds. Half the time. Roughly.
** Lost continent of Mu is sick of those Atlantis jerks getting all the attention, shows world what for with giant clay dolls powered by singing.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RakugoTennyoOyui'']]: Wannabe comedienne and friends go back in time to fight demons.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'']]: An extremely masculine [[GenderBender boy/girl]] attracts [[UnwantedHarem loads and loads of fiancées, girlfriends, and psycho stalkers.]] Of both genders. [[BlessedWithSuck Completely against his/her will.]] HilarityEnsues.
** Teenaged boy goes swimming with panda against tour guide's advice and loses his manhood, delighting and/or horrifying everybody he knows.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/RaveMaster'']]: Some people travel the world to find four stones and destroy a bunch of other stones.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RayTheAnimation'']]: Girl makes like Manga/BlackJack (who shows up) while looking for her eyes; her replacements have XRayVision.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/ReadOrDie'']] (OVA): Shy bookworm must kill [[{{LudwigVanBeethoven}} Beethoven]] and other historical figures with ''[[ImprobableWeaponUser paper]]''.
** [[spoiler: ''Anime/ReadOrDie'']] (Manga): Said shy bookworm has her ex's best friend trying to beat her to the library for [[HoYay stealing said ex from him]].
** [[spoiler:''Read Or Dream'']] (Manga): Three blood-sisters use their powers to solve book-related cases in Hong Kong.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/RODTheTV'']]: Blood-sisters protect a famous author from the bookworm's former boss.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/TheRecordOfAFallenVampire'']]: {{Dhampyr}}s chase [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]. Then there are [[StarfishAliens aliens]].
* [[spoiler:''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'']]: A typical [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] party teams up to save the world from an evil witch that wears purple lipstick.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RedGarden'']]: Four dead girls fight middle-aged men in suits.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RedLine'']]: A technical pacifist wants to join the galaxies most illegal and deadly street race. This makes chaotic evil cyborgs angry. Enough SceneryPorn to make some officially declare every frame should be a screenshot.
** Can aptly be described as "Whacky Racers tripping on LSD."
* [[spoiler:''Anime/ReignTheConqueror'']]: AlexanderTheGreat is persuaded not to take a trip to India. Man-thongs are common attire.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'']]: A girl enrolls in a mysterious academy where fencing is [[SeriousBusiness practically a way of life]] and [[DysfunctionJunction everyone has issues]].
** Or: Jumped-up preps duel each other in order to gain metaphysical powers to solve their problems instead of learning common sense and proper communication skills.
** Or: A pervert with a mullet encourages pretty teenagers to solve their problems through metaphorical violence and pop philosophy for no particular reason.
** Or: Girl [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday insists she is straight]] despite spending the entire series fighting with {{Bishonen}} boys to remain engaged to a girl.
*** [[spoiler: ''Adolescence of Utena'']]: Same thing, only with more [[MindScrew mind screw]] and [[LesYay lesbianism]]. Also, [[spoiler: the heroine turns into a car because the director wanted to.]]
* [[spoiler:''Literature/RequiemFromTheDarkness'']]: DarkerAndEdgier WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo in FeudalJapan.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RinneNoLagrange'']]: An [[TheAce omniskilled]] schoolgirl, a [[{{Dojikko}} klutzy]] alien princess, and [[Manga/KOn Mugi]] pilot [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience color-coded]] {{Transforming Mecha}}s to defend the Earth from [[RecycledInSpace Space]] {{Bishounen}}s.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/RizelMine'']]: Boy likes older women, but he's forced to be with a younger girl. She cries Nitroglycerin. In the end, the younger girl was an older woman all along.
** Japanese teen is forced to marry a little girl by the government to keep her from crying despite not being a lolicon. No one sympathizes with him for not wanting to consummate their marriage.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/RobotCarnival'']]: Robots reenact ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}''.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Robotech}}'']]: First giant human aliens attack the Earth. Then their normal sized human bosses attack the Earth themselves. Finally, their older own enemies, alien quasi snail/insectoids sometimes taking human form, attack the Earth.
** Or American company decides to combine three unrelated series into one and stop the originals from reaching the United States.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RocketGirls'']]: A Japanese company can't build a rocket capable of lifting a full grown man into space, so they use a teenage girl instead.
* [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Rockman EXE]]'']]: Boy surfs the internet, saves the world.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/MegaManStarForce Shooting Star Rockman]]'']]: Boy gets on radio, saves the world.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RomeoXJuliet'']]: Crossdressing rebel MacGuffinGirl falls for dictator's son.
** Alternately: [[RecycledInSpace Shakespeare IN SPACE]] with flying horses, starring William Shakespeare himself (kind of).
* [[spoiler:''Manga/RosarioToVampire'']]: Boy stumbles into an ExtranormalInstitute and [[UnwantedHarem becomes popular]]. [[ComeForTheXStayForTheY Come for the panties, stay for the plot.]]
** Alternately: A mother gives her sickly daughter a blood transfusion. Through a complicated series of events, this causes the death of Satan.
** Alternately: An ordinary human boy with a psychotic split personality, a vampire girl who ''also'' has a psychotic split personality, a [[LovableSexManiac lustful]] teen genius, a SugarAndIcePersonality stalker, a [[FantasticRacism racist]] flower child, and an ethical [[NobleDemon succubus]] decide to go fight an EldritchAbomination.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'']]: Sparkly, alcoholic {{Bifauxnen}} protects the Queen of France from everything except her own passions.
* [[spoiler: ''Film/RoujinZ'']]: A parable on health care and the elderly.
** Alternately: A nursing student tries to help an elderly couple go to the beach, but the military won't let them.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/RozenMaiden'']]: Seven sisters fall asleep in the Victorian era and awaken in the 2000s. They begin to congregate around a [[{{Hikikomori}} reclusive Japanese boy]] while searching for their father, never once thinking that he might have died of old age.
** Seven wind-up girls with {{Verbal Tic}}s compete to become the perfect Victorian ideal of maidenhood by killing their sisters and ripping out their hearts for daddy. Meanwhile, a [[{{Hikkikomori}} shut-in]] ignores real girls to play with toys.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/RurouniKenshin'']]: In Meiji-era Japan, a [[TheAtoner former assassin]] fights evil with a backwards sword.
** Alternatively: A swordsman who likes to wear purple is attacked by Franchise/MarvelUniverse look-a-likes.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{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'.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/TheSacredBlacksmith'']]: KatanasAreJustBetter: The Anime
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SaijouNoMeii'']]: A ManChild slices open children, and gains friends and followers for doing so.
** Or, the exact same as the author's previous manga, but with a different silly subject.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Saikano}}'']]: Boy has sex with dead robot. Everyone dies.
* [[spoiler: ''Franchise/SailorMoon'']]: Overdeveloped girls in underdeveloped uniforms live vicariously through past-life regression.
** [[spoiler: ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'']]: A group of high school girls marked by their matching plastic jewelry can never quite be sure if they're all friends or not.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SaintSeiya'']]: Five young men wearing magical armor fight for an heiress who is later revealed to be a goddess.
** [[spoiler: ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'']]; You got ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' in my ''Manga/SaintSeiya''!
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SaintYoungMen'']]: Jesus and Buddha celebrate their divine bromance by moving to Japan and renting an apartment together.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SaitamaChainsawShoujo'']]: A boy breaks up with his girlfriend. She goes {{Chainsaw|Good}} [[AxCrazy Crazy]].
* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/SaiunkokuMonogatari'']]: A girl agrees to marry an emperor in order to get him to rule his country properly.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'']]: Four guys are sent west in a very small jeep by a hermaphroditic deity. HilarityEnsues.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Saki}}'']]: Ahem, er, so twenty AmbiguouslyGay schoolgirls walk into a mahjong bar...
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SakuraGari'']]: {{Ronin}} in Taishou Era Japan comes to work for [[BigScrewedUpFamily screwed-up noble family]], gets sexually harassed, eats [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korokke Korokke]]. Also, everyone is [[{{Yandere}} crazy]].
* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/SakurasouNoPetNaKanojo'']]: KindheartedCatLover receives a severely autistic MagicalGirlfriend. [[UnfortunateImplications Because autistic people are just like cats, right?]]
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'']]: 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.
** Or: Admittedly a VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory version of FeudalJapan.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SamuraiFlamenco'']]: A delusional male model fights petty crime as a superhero.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'']]: A retelling of a classic Japanese tale, only this time with the heroes facing down an evil emperor and HumongousMecha.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Sandland}}'']]: {{Satan}}'s son looks for water.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Sankarea}}'']]: A boy turns a girl into a zombie. And then dates her.
* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai'']]: JapaneseMythology "reimagined" by a [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs drugged-out]], [[IncestIsRelative incestuous]] {{hikikomori}}.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SasamiMagicalGirlsClub'']]: Witch disguised as chef and her talking rabbit recruit five outcasts to become witches themselves. [[Anime/TenchiMuyo Some of them]] [[Anime/PrettySammy look familiar]].
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'']]: A teacher copes with his dissatisfaction with society by encouraging people to kill themselves. HilarityEnsues.
** Or: LargeHam teacher is suicidally depressed. His entire class falls for him. He's the sane one.
** Or: [[MemeticMutation I'M IN DESPAIR!]]: The Anime.
* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'']]: Girl was chucked off a cliff by her parents because they didn't want to deal with her sweet sixteen.
* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'']]: A young man gets himself into a twisted LoveTriangle... with '''[[FromBadToWorse heavy]]''' emphasis on "twisted".
** High school harem show happens without a ChasteHero. Consequences ensue.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SchoolRumble'']]: Reformed delinquent turned closet {{mangaka}} falls heavily in love with a [[TheDitz ditzy]] girl with [[ExpressiveHair wiggly pigtails]]. Comic misunderstandings and {{love dodecahedron}}s result.
** Or: A tale of love and morons that tends to wander off course.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'']]: Ninja superheroes battle evil organization led by masked freak with weird secret.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SeireiNoMoribito'']]: A spear-wielding chick protects a prince who's pregnant with a water spirit.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'']]: Historical {{Samurai}} do almost nothing that they did in real life and fight [[ObviouslyEvil obvious evil]] with the power of {{Engrish}}, [[HotBlooded hot blood]], [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]] and cameo appearances based on a video game.
* [[spoiler:Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear]]: MagicIdolSinger [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment sings]] while fighting {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SenkoNoNightRaid'']]: A Japanese secret government agency comprised of members with psychic powers being dispatched to Shanghai, China during 1931 to conduct covert operations.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'']]: Middle school girl gets computer so she can go online and stay there.
** Girl is not using a computer. Girl is using a computer. Girl [[spoiler:is a computer.]]
*** In a high-tech world, everything is intriguing and nothing makes sense.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SetoNoHanayome'']]: Boy gets saved by mermaid. Boy ends up in a [[ShotgunWedding 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.
* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'']]: An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent becomes the servant of a [[{{Tsundere}} hot-headed]] demon hunter after a monster [[RetGone erases him and his friends from existence]].
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/ShamanKing'']]: Every 500 years, Native Americans have fun making people kill each other with dead people so they can control {{God}}.
* [[spoiler: ''[[Anime/SevenOfSeven Shichinin No Nana]]'']]: A girl becomes her own best friends and gets through middle school by dressing up as a {{sentai}} heroine.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Shigurui}}'']]: Two crippled men hate each other, a sadistic noble makes them fight to the death, and [[{{Gorn}} the audience learns a lot about internal human anatomy]].
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/ShikabaneHime'']]: A teenager unintentionally stalks a dead girl who fights other dead people that [[OneWingedAngel turn into monsters]].
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'']]: [[Series/{{House}} House, Wilson,]] and [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} the Rail Tracer]] take on an army of vampires, no one really wins. Everyone's hair is extremely silly.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/ShinMazinger'']]: That giant robot with a lot of firsts gets to destroy monsters by turning into ''a fist!''
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/ShinkonGattaiGodannar'']]: [[MayDecemberRomance A husband and his much younger wife]] pilot [[SuperRobotGenre two giant robots that combine into one giant robot]] to battle giant monsters from outer space. {{Gainaxing}} ensues.
* [[spoiler: ''[[Manga/SpecialDutyCombatUnitShinesman Shinesman]]'']]: Man joins a company and is recruited to fight evil with office Supplies. HilarityEnsues.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/ShinguSecretOfTheStellarWars'']]: Aliens attack earth with Giant robot acorns, unraveling a millennia-old {{Masquerade}}. More importantly, a {{Tsundere}} can't decide whether she likes the narrator or the mysterious transfer student.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/ShinryakuIkaMusume'']]: ''Manga/KeroroGunsou'' with a [[MoeAnthropomorphism moe-ized squid.]]
** Or: A [[OneManArmy one-girl invasion of Earth]] is sabotaged by her own [[{{Moe}} adorableness]].
* [[spoiler:''Shoujo Shounen'']]: A boy dresses up as a girl, joins the entertainment business, gets exposed, and finds love, in no particular order. Each volume showcases a new WholesomeCrossdresser!
* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/{{SHUFFLE}}!'']]: [[TheBeautifulElite God]] and [[DarkIsNotEvil Satan]] are now BFF's and move their families in together. Nobody really notices. However, their daughters fight over a [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent human high school student]] that will one day succeed one of them. Hilarity ensues.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/ShugoChara!'']]: A schoolgirl who hates her personality uses magical eggs to break out of her shell.
** OR: Some kids fight corporate evil with the help of magic eggs.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/ShutHell'']]: A psychotic murderer is taught how to read and write by a kid trying to protect a bag of rocks from his dad.
* [[spoiler:''[[Manga/SilentMobius Silent Möbius]]'']]: A very special team of policewomen battle monsters.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SilverSpoon'']]: A burned-out academic high-achiever attends an agricultural high school in Hokkaido.
* [[spoiler:''{{Anime/Simoun}}'']]: [[SchoolgirlLesbians Lesbian]] [[SpaceJews Space Muslims[/Catholics?]]] doodle in the sky. [[StuffBlowingUp Stuff blows up.]]
* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SisterPrincess'']]: UnluckyEverydude gets exiled to an island to live with a dozen or so inhabitants that all attach themselves to him in borderline-illegal ways.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SketchbookFullColors'']]: Shy girl becomes involved in local art club, draws scenery. Also, there's a Canadian.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SketDance'']]: ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' [[RecycledInSpace set in high school.]]
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SkipBeat!'']]: UnluckyChildhoodFriend attempts to take {{revenge}} upon the man who dumped her by beating him at his own game...{{show business}}.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SlamDunk'']]: A guy proclaims himself to be a genius on a sport he hates out of spite to impress the girl of his dreams.
* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'']]: [[FieryRedhead Hot-headed sorceress/thief]] teams up with [[IdiotHero empty-headed swordsman]] to fight evil.
** Or: A greedy, vain, violent, [[ACupAngst underdeveloped]] sorceress. An idiotic, easily-distracted swordsman. A girl who thinks she's in a MagicalGirl anime and is very destructive as a result. A broody mutant who tends to be dark at best. They're the heroes.
** Or alternately - The quest for food and treasure is key, [[SkewedPriorities but keeps being interrupted to save the world]].
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/{{Sola}}'']]: "A skywatching guy with an IllGirl albino sister meets a mysterious girl being hunted by the [[BadassLongcoat Highlander]], who has connections to an ElegantGothicLolita who hangs out in garbage cans eating riceballs." (- Description taken from the show's page.)
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SoltyRei'']]: [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Grumpy old man]] forms OddFriendship with RobotGirl [[IOweYouMyLife whose life he saved]].
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'']]: Speedy mammal and his friends fall for the oldest trick in the book, end up fighting mammal's EvilDoppelganger.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SonicX'']]: Illegal immigrants must stay hidden from the authorities, though they aren't very good at it. Later, they go home, only to find that they have to fight aliens that think they're doing the right thing but are really destroyers of worlds.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SoraNoWoto'']]: A young girl joins the army so that she can learn to play the trumpet. She is assigned to a platoon situated in a Spanish-inspired town. They spend their time fixing a tank and waiting for the phone to ring.
** Or: ''Treason Apologism: The Anime''
** Or: AfterTheEnd, ''[[Manga/KOn K-On]]'' [[{{Expy}} Expies]] are sent to the front lines; nothing happens. [[AmazingFreakingGrace Amazing Grace]] always [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks works]].
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SoraOKakeruShoujo'']]: A confused schoolgirl and a boiled potato work to convince a one-eyed box to come out of seclusion.
* [[spoiler: ''[[{{Franchise/Anpanman}} Soreike! Anpanman]]'']]: A living loaf of bread [[TheyFightCrime fights crime]] and feeds himself to the hungry. His archenemy is a germ from space.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SoukouNoStrain'']]: Sibling rivalry on an intergalactic scale.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SoulEater'']]: A scythe and the daughter of a scythe attend an ExtranormalInstitute and fight a snake witch.
** Death employs children to fight a mad god, and watches while they end up going mad in the process. Author is pop culture fan who does it for the lulz and the [[RuleOfCool cool]] over, and over again.
** A girl with self-esteem issues and her {{Jerk With a Heart of Gold}} non-boyfriend fight insect-related or pop culture-related villains with their dysfunctional friends, including an arrogant ninja (and his non-girlfriend) and a boy with severe OCD who [[spoiler: eventually goes mad]]. Other characters include a klutzy teacher who smokes a lot and a teenager with an ambiguous gender.
** Or "Tim Burton: The Anime."
** An apprentice of the Grim Reaper gets superpowers when she hears music played on the piano by her shiny magic stick, which she may or may not be in love with.
** Or: A teenage guy and a girl in his class go do stuff and she catches a rare disease from him.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/TheSoulTaker'']]: The hero dies in the first scene. His little sister has multiple personality disorder, [[SelfDuplication except worse.]] There's also a guy with a toothache.
** [[spoiler: ''Anime/NurseWitchKomugi'']]: Earth has to be cured of its supernatural ills by an amateur [[CosplayOtakuGirl cosplay idol]].
* [[spoiler: ''[[Anime/GenesisOfAquarion Sousei No Aquarion]]'']]: Robot powered by [[{{Synchronization}} orgasms]] fights [[FantasyKitchenSink every fairy]] [[AllMythsAreTrue tale ever]].
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'']]: A [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Jean Paul Belmondo look-a-like]] teams up with scantily-clad women and travels through space to look for treasure. He often encounters an evil [[BaldOfEvil bald]] guy made of glass.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'']]: [[KillEmAll Everyone Dies]] over the course of 39 episodes and a movie... especially in the movie. By the [[YoshiyukiTomino man]] himself.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'']]: Man who [[BlessedWithSuck hates his superpower]] travels with [[NotAllowedToGrowUp technically-prepubescent girl]]. Romance develops.
** A combination of drugs and fetishes gives superpowers to many people who probably should not have them.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpeedRacer'']]: Racing heavily modified cars is SeriousBusiness.
* [[spoiler: ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'']]: [[Main/MedievalEuropeanFantasy Medieval Europeanesque]] [[Main/IntrepidMerchant travelling merchant]] meets wolf deity in the form of a naked 16-year-old girl... They discuss economics.
** Or: A travelling merchant finds a furry in his cart. She becomes his "trading partner", and he keeps doing his merchant thing.
** Or: A peddler and a wolf goddess run around [[{{Ruritania}} not-Europe]] discussing economics.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpiritedAway'']]: A ten-year-old girl helps and is helped by a spa employee with partial amnesia after her parents' bad table manners nearly cause her to fade from existence.
** A ten year old girl works in a bathhouse. Not like that, you pervert.
*** Literature/AliceInWonderland [[RecycledInSpace in a bathhouse]].
** Greedy family pigs out and leaves their grade-school daughter stuck with the bill. She works hard to pay it off and falls in love with a river.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/StarDriver'']]: A boy swims across ocean because he was late to school. He proceeds to become the [[ChosenOne Galactic Pretty Boy]] and pilot a [[HumongousMecha giant robot]] which fights other [[DeusSexMachina giant robots powered by libido]]. Lots of [[HotBlooded hot blood]] and faaaaaaabulousness ensues.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/StarshipOperators'']]: Reality TV meets Embedded Reporting... [-IN SPACE!-]
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SteamBoy'']]: A boy's father is killed for a new power source that he invented. He turns out to be not so dead. London freezes.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SteelAngelKurumi'']]: Android in maid outfit is ''very'' overprotective of her priest-in-training master.
* [[spoiler: ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'']]: Self-proclaimed MadScientist and his [[TrueCompanions lab members]] create time paradoxes using text messages.
** Or: A delusional college student and his TrueCompanions send text messages and troll CERN
* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'']]: Members of a [[SchoolgirlLesbians girls-only]] AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil engage in a LoveDodecahedron. The only men involved are [[YuriFan those in the audience]].
** Glorified beauty pageants are serious business. Add in a bit of Gayngst and SchoolGirlLesbians for extra flavor.
** ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' without the subtext.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/StrayLittleDevil'']]: A [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent high school girl]] gets pulled into a spirit world and turned into a [[CuteMonsterGirl devil]]. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity]] and LesYay ensue.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/StrikeWitches'']]: SchoolgirlLesbians from all over the world strap airplane engines to their legs in order to fight aliens. Fans largely discuss [[{{Fanservice}} clothing choices]].
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SuiseiNoGargantia'']]: A career soldier unexpectedly falls into a world full of [[{{Moe}} cute girls]] and [[NormalFishInATinyPond easy targets]].
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SugarSugarRune'']]: An [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl overly shy princess and her tomboyish best friend]] are {{cute witch}}es. They go to the Human World to make guys fall in love with them, then about half way through things get worse.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SummerWars'']]: A computer programmer, his "girlfriend" and her extended family fight a supervirus.
** Or: [[WhatAnIdiot Computer whiz responds to a spam email]]; the spambot steals his password for VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame The MMORPG]].
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SuperDreadnoughtGirl4946'']]: A boy routinely helps his girlfriend fight alien monsters by letting her eat him.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGenerationDivineWars'']]: Scientist warns of alien invasion, makes his own team to stop them. Mecha otaku turned pilot and his team stop him. Then it turns out the scientist was right.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGenerationTheInspector'']]: Beings from different dimensions come to invade us. Android with a stuttering problem [[HeelFaceTurn decides to help us.]]
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Superior}}'']]: Guy teams up with his girlfriend (and some other people) to hunt down his girlfriend, who he doesn't realize is his girlfriend. [[FantasticRacism Deals with racism]].
* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Suzuka}}'']]: OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent becomes a world class sprinter to impress the title character, who hates him for being a more socially awkward [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute stand-in]] for her dead ex-boyfriend.
* [[spoiler:''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya SuzumiyaHaruhi no Yuuutsu]]'']]: Love tetrahedron develops amidst various Twilight Zone-esque {{Negative Space Wedgie}}s. Existence hangs on the outcome.
** Or: Protagonists have to keep CanonSue entertained or she destroys the world. Again.
** Or: Protagonists attempt to prevent the wrong tropes from being realised by someone who does not know the difference.
** Or: Teenage girl thinks the world revolves around her; it does.
** Or: Girl forms a club and bullies one of the members, none of the other members ask her to stop.
** Or: A deadpan snarker has to put up with a sociopath, an adorable girl, an emotionless girl and a boy who won't stop smiling.
** [[spoiler:''Manga/HaruhiChan'']]: Same as above, but with chibis.
*** [[spoiler:''[[Manga/HaruhiChan Nyoron Churuya San]]'']]: One girl's quest for dairy products. With the exception of her and the resident KnifeNut, everyone is a {{Jerkass}}.
** [[spoiler:''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu]]'']]: A HighSchoolAU of... a High School SitCom, via a mis-timed WonderfulLife plot.
* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'']]: A well-renown genius tries to keep his small, fragile world from coming to a brutal end, much to the displeasure of its other inhabitants.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SwordOfTheStranger'']]: Swordless samurai murders drug addicts.
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* [[spoiler:''Manga/PandoraHearts'']]: A cheerful, 15-year-old boy tries to figure out how he became the main character in ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.
** Alternatively: A teenage boy who is secretly 25 tries to get his daddy's approval with his useless servant and a bunny girl. Alice in Wonderland references are everywhere. Similar to a story written by CLAMP, minus the [[NoodlePeople noodles]].
** Alternatively: A 15-year-old boy is actually 25 years old and not actually a boy, but a rabbit, which is actually a stuffed toy, which is actually a monster from a world-altering hell pit. His current "boy" body actually belongs to a historic hero who is actually the villain.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PaniPoniDash'']]: An eleven-year-old college graduate and her [[TheEeyore mopey]], [[TheChewToy long-suffering]] pet teach an [[WackyHomeroom eccentric high school class]] in Japan.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'']]: A [[ReallyGetsAround nympho]] and a [[SweetTooth glutton]] fight the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification demonic personifications]] of [[NauseaFuel everything disgusting]] in a [[CrapsackWorld city under siege]] using their [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman frilly things]] that turn into [[EnergyWeapon energy weapons]]. {{Gainax}} ensues and [[GainaxEnding the biggest mindfuck in the studio's history ends it]].
** Or: Two siblings use their various undergarments to fight off the forces of evil. The art design could easily be confused for ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''.
** Or: A [[StudioGainax group of people]] known for making some of the weirdest anime known to man get drunk. [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs This is the result]].
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/ParadiseKiss'']]: [[BeautifulAllAlong Stiff]] and dull student is abducted by [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair technicolor-haired]] aspiring [[SeriousBusiness fashion]] designers. Flamboyant [[JerkAss jerkass]] [[TheDandy dandy]] makes her his muse. [[Creator/AiYazawa The author]] [[AuthorAppeal loves]] Vivienne Westwood.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'']]: A girl has a period cramp, and because of this her dog dies. Tokyo is destroyed as an indirect result.
** [[spoiler: ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'']]: A dog dies. Weird shit happens. At some point, the Blob attacks.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'']]: A teenager's hand turns into a sentient penis. They fight aliens.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PeachGirl'']]: A tan girl falls in love.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PerfectBlue'']]: A pop idol becomes an actress, but her manager isn't sure that she should. At least one character is insane.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors'']]: Mysterious {{Bishonen}} runs evil pet shop with poor customer service and no return policy.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Piano}}'']]: A high-school girl helps her best pal find a boyfriend. She plays piano too. Sometimes.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Planetes}}'']]: Garbage collectors [-IN SPACE!-].
** Alternatively: Garbage collectors discuss morality and associated political issues.
** Or: Garbage collector is nearly driven insane by trauma, seeks to make something of himself. Terrorists and a romantic side-plot almost screw everything up for him.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/PleaseSaveMyEarth'']]: Babysitter knocks charge off balcony. They get engaged.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PleaseTeacher'']]: Alien teacher marries a narcoleptic high-school student.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Pluto}}'']]: German robot seeks information from Robo-[[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal Lecter]] and Saddam Hussein. Is thwarted by evil teddy bear.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'']]: Boy [[WalkingTheEarth walks the Earth]] with his collection of [[BiggerOnTheInside compactified]] combat critters while being stalked by a redhead, a runaway heir to the world's biggest fortune and a [[TalkingAnimal talking]] [[FunnyAnimal cat]].
** Or: Anime: the Soap Opera.
** [[spoiler: ''[[TheAnimeOfTheGame Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness]]]]'': An 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.
** [[spoiler: ''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Beyond Time and Darkness'']]: Said amnesiac psychic kid causes a time paradox.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'']]: Clone gets the CloningBlues and wants revenge on the world. He stops after nearly killing somebody.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}}'']]: A [[TheCollector collector]] of rare things accidentally triggers severe climate change. The fate of the world is saved through a pun.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Pokemon 3}}'']]: Little girl who [[ParentalAbandonment loses her parents]] uses a magic alphabet to [[ReplacementGoldfish replace them]]. The alphabet accomplishes this by providing a fire-breathing beast for the dad and brainwashing someone else's mom.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'']]: NatureSpirit escapes capture by {{Time Travel}}ling into the future, only to be captured anyway.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/TheLegendOfThunder'']]: A generator draws [[ElementalPowers electric]] {{Mons}} toward it, and a legendary beast is caught in the confusion.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonHeroes'']]: Two thieves try to steal strange gem. Two [[VoluntaryShapeshifting voluntary shapeshifters]] who can make themselves invisible fight back.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonJirachiWishmaker'']]: Magician makes a wish to summon a beast with the powers over the earth. He gets an EldritchAbomination instead.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonDestinyDeoxys'']]: Aliens pay a visit and are mistaken for invaders.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew'']]: A tree is collapsing and a desperate struggle is underway to save it. Meanwhile, two cats and a mouse play in a tree.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonRangerAndTheTempleOfTheSea'']]: Young girl becomes a mommy at the age of ten. A {{pirate}} demands sole custody.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonTheRiseOfDarkrai'']]: Two {{Kaiju}} with powers over the entire universe threaten the existence of a single town. Meanwhile an EldritchAbomination tries to convince people that [[DarkIsNotEvil he is not evil]].
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonGiratinaAndTheSkyWarrior'']]: Another {{Kaiju}} is ticked off at the previous two for trashing its home. But first it needs [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog a hedgehog with an attitude]] in order to leave home.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife'']]: The above three {{Kaiju}}'s parent awakens due to their fighting. It's {{God}} and it's enraged [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters at the humans]] about its missing jewelry.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions'']]: A [[MamaBear Mama Fox]] goes on a shapeshifting rampage after her baby gets kidnapped.
** [[spoiler:''[[Anime/PokemonTheMovieBlackAndWhite Victini and the Black Hero: Zekrom/Victini and the White Hero: Reshiram]]'']]: [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo One Film For The Price Of Two]]
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonKyuremVsTheSwordOfJustice'']]: A hero-in-training heads out to slay a vicious dragon. Everyone is happy when he loses.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonGenesectAndTheLegendAwakened'']]: Heavily-armed, violent scientific experiments try to conquer Central Park. They stop after several flowers die.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/PokemonSpecial'']]: A bunch of kids [[WalkingTheEarth walk the Earth]], keep befriended animals in portable habitats and battle with them. Has a more serious tone than the above. A plant with glasses draws some of it.
* ''[[spoiler: PomPoko]]'': A group of forest animals become eco-terrorists, with unpleasant consequences.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PorcoRosso'']]: A pilot becomes the other white meat, then beats up pirates and [[{{Eagleland}} a pushy American]].
** Italian fascists don't like it when pigs fly. Harmless pirates and a lounge singer are involved.
* [[spoiler:''{{Anime/Potemayo}}'']]: Daily life of a boy and his new pet.
** Alternatively, the daily life of a HugeSchoolgirl and her wild, laser-firing new pet.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Pretear}}'']]: A [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent girl]] is hired by a group of {{Bishonen}} to help fix changing weather patterns. Though it's [[{{technobabble}} actually more complicated]], they appear to turn into clothes.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/PrettyFace'']]: Through the [[MagicPlasticSurgery magic of plastic surgery]], a teenage boy comes back from the dead as his crush's twin sister.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/PrettySammy'']]: Pre-teen becomes magical girl. Hates it because her skirt's too short.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/ThePrinceOfTennis'']]: Skill at sport bestows ability to defy physics and commit genocide against the dinosaurs.
** Or: Hitting a fuzzy rubber ball better than anyone else is more important than grades, a future job, or one's physical well-being.
** Or: A sports anime where the opposing players are way more interesting than the protagonists.
** Or: ''HoYay: The Sports Manga''.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PrincessMononoke'']]: A dying man helps a misanthropic woman save her home from governmental development.
** Or: Exiled prince shouts at everyone. They don't listen.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PrincessNine'']]: [[StayInTheKitchen Going against tradition]], nine [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits high school girls]] form a baseball team and compete against [[DavidVersusGoliath the boys]] in the national baseball tournament.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/PrincessPrincess'']]: Three boys improve the school's morale by crossdressing.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/PrincessResurrection'']]: A [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]] and her siblings find some... ''[[CainAndAbel interesting]]'' ways to avert a SuccessionCrisis.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PrincessTutu'']]: If you simply make a wish, fairy tales do come true. Giving them happy endings is a lot harder.
** Alternately: A duck, a girl who can't dance, and a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot magical girl ballerina princess]] are the same person. She/they heal people with the power of dance.
** Or: A duck dances strangers' problems away because she can't confess her love to a boy with no pants.
** Or: ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'' and ''Theatre/SwanLake'' do coke lines off a MagicalGirl duck ballerina's back. Drama ensues.
** Or: A dead man tries to write a tragedy. His characters revolt.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/ProjectAKo'']]: Girls with lettered names fight off an alien invasion when they aren't fighting each other.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/PrunusGirl'']]: Girl claims to be boy, but may in fact actually be a girl. Male lead is confused.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/PsychoPass'']]: [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture Futuristic]] police department hunts down mentally unstable people and [[LudicrousGibs makes them explode]]. Many members of the department have serious mental issues themselves. They are opposed by a pretentious bookworm with a mullet.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Psyren}}'']]: Teenagers with psychic powers travel to the future to change the past.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'']]: A WeaselMascot recruits young girls to fight {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. Recruitment involves [[DealWithTheDevil Faustian]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic deals]].
** Alternatively, being a MagicalGirl is... [[TearJerker traumatizing]].
** Alternately: A MagicalGirl travels through time to convince her best friend to refuse jewelry.
** Alternatively: [[LateArrivalSpoiler The anime you already know everything about]].
** Alternately: Girl fights off suicidal, soul-crushing depression by getting in touch with her spiritual side.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'']]: God attempts to save her beloved angel. Said angel refuses salvation, remakes the world in her own image.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/PuniPuniPoemi'']]: Magical girl with severe mania uses a dead fish to save planet from aliens who watched our porn.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RahXephon'']]: Boy meets girl. Boy is trapped in HumanAlien time-slowing orb of death for many years. Boy uses Mecha against his will to kick copious amounts of ass.
** ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' on its meds. Half the time. Roughly.
** Lost continent of Mu is sick of those Atlantis jerks getting all the attention, shows world what for with giant clay dolls powered by singing.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RakugoTennyoOyui'']]: Wannabe comedienne and friends go back in time to fight demons.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'']]: An extremely masculine [[GenderBender boy/girl]] attracts [[UnwantedHarem loads and loads of fiancées, girlfriends, and psycho stalkers.]] Of both genders. [[BlessedWithSuck Completely against his/her will.]] HilarityEnsues.
** Teenaged boy goes swimming with panda against tour guide's advice and loses his manhood, delighting and/or horrifying everybody he knows.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/RaveMaster'']]: Some people travel the world to find four stones and destroy a bunch of other stones.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RayTheAnimation'']]: Girl makes like Manga/BlackJack (who shows up) while looking for her eyes; her replacements have XRayVision.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/ReadOrDie'']] (OVA): Shy bookworm must kill [[{{LudwigVanBeethoven}} Beethoven]] and other historical figures with ''[[ImprobableWeaponUser paper]]''.
** [[spoiler: ''Anime/ReadOrDie'']] (Manga): Said shy bookworm has her ex's best friend trying to beat her to the library for [[HoYay stealing said ex from him]].
** [[spoiler:''Read Or Dream'']] (Manga): Three blood-sisters use their powers to solve book-related cases in Hong Kong.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/RODTheTV'']]: Blood-sisters protect a famous author from the bookworm's former boss.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/TheRecordOfAFallenVampire'']]: {{Dhampyr}}s chase [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]. Then there are [[StarfishAliens aliens]].
* [[spoiler:''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'']]: A typical [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] party teams up to save the world from an evil witch that wears purple lipstick.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RedGarden'']]: Four dead girls fight middle-aged men in suits.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RedLine'']]: A technical pacifist wants to join the galaxies most illegal and deadly street race. This makes chaotic evil cyborgs angry. Enough SceneryPorn to make some officially declare every frame should be a screenshot.
** Can aptly be described as "Whacky Racers tripping on LSD."
* [[spoiler:''Anime/ReignTheConqueror'']]: AlexanderTheGreat is persuaded not to take a trip to India. Man-thongs are common attire.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'']]: A girl enrolls in a mysterious academy where fencing is [[SeriousBusiness practically a way of life]] and [[DysfunctionJunction everyone has issues]].
** Or: Jumped-up preps duel each other in order to gain metaphysical powers to solve their problems instead of learning common sense and proper communication skills.
** Or: A pervert with a mullet encourages pretty teenagers to solve their problems through metaphorical violence and pop philosophy for no particular reason.
** Or: Girl [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday insists she is straight]] despite spending the entire series fighting with {{Bishonen}} boys to remain engaged to a girl.
*** [[spoiler: ''Adolescence of Utena'']]: Same thing, only with more [[MindScrew mind screw]] and [[LesYay lesbianism]]. Also, [[spoiler: the heroine turns into a car because the director wanted to.]]
* [[spoiler:''Literature/RequiemFromTheDarkness'']]: DarkerAndEdgier WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo in FeudalJapan.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RinneNoLagrange'']]: An [[TheAce omniskilled]] schoolgirl, a [[{{Dojikko}} klutzy]] alien princess, and [[Manga/KOn Mugi]] pilot [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience color-coded]] {{Transforming Mecha}}s to defend the Earth from [[RecycledInSpace Space]] {{Bishounen}}s.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/RizelMine'']]: Boy likes older women, but he's forced to be with a younger girl. She cries Nitroglycerin. In the end, the younger girl was an older woman all along.
** Japanese teen is forced to marry a little girl by the government to keep her from crying despite not being a lolicon. No one sympathizes with him for not wanting to consummate their marriage.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/RobotCarnival'']]: Robots reenact ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}''.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Robotech}}'']]: First giant human aliens attack the Earth. Then their normal sized human bosses attack the Earth themselves. Finally, their older own enemies, alien quasi snail/insectoids sometimes taking human form, attack the Earth.
** Or American company decides to combine three unrelated series into one and stop the originals from reaching the United States.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RocketGirls'']]: A Japanese company can't build a rocket capable of lifting a full grown man into space, so they use a teenage girl instead.
* [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Rockman EXE]]'']]: Boy surfs the internet, saves the world.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/MegaManStarForce Shooting Star Rockman]]'']]: Boy gets on radio, saves the world.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/RomeoXJuliet'']]: Crossdressing rebel MacGuffinGirl falls for dictator's son.
** Alternately: [[RecycledInSpace Shakespeare IN SPACE]] with flying horses, starring William Shakespeare himself (kind of).
* [[spoiler:''Manga/RosarioToVampire'']]: Boy stumbles into an ExtranormalInstitute and [[UnwantedHarem becomes popular]]. [[ComeForTheXStayForTheY Come for the panties, stay for the plot.]]
** Alternately: A mother gives her sickly daughter a blood transfusion. Through a complicated series of events, this causes the death of Satan.
** Alternately: An ordinary human boy with a psychotic split personality, a vampire girl who ''also'' has a psychotic split personality, a [[LovableSexManiac lustful]] teen genius, a SugarAndIcePersonality stalker, a [[FantasticRacism racist]] flower child, and an ethical [[NobleDemon succubus]] decide to go fight an EldritchAbomination.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'']]: Sparkly, alcoholic {{Bifauxnen}} protects the Queen of France from everything except her own passions.
* [[spoiler: ''Film/RoujinZ'']]: A parable on health care and the elderly.
** Alternately: A nursing student tries to help an elderly couple go to the beach, but the military won't let them.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/RozenMaiden'']]: Seven sisters fall asleep in the Victorian era and awaken in the 2000s. They begin to congregate around a [[{{Hikikomori}} reclusive Japanese boy]] while searching for their father, never once thinking that he might have died of old age.
** Seven wind-up girls with {{Verbal Tic}}s compete to become the perfect Victorian ideal of maidenhood by killing their sisters and ripping out their hearts for daddy. Meanwhile, a [[{{Hikkikomori}} shut-in]] ignores real girls to play with toys.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/RurouniKenshin'']]: In Meiji-era Japan, a [[TheAtoner former assassin]] fights evil with a backwards sword.
** Alternatively: A swordsman who likes to wear purple is attacked by Franchise/MarvelUniverse look-a-likes.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{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'.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/TheSacredBlacksmith'']]: KatanasAreJustBetter: The Anime
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SaijouNoMeii'']]: A ManChild slices open children, and gains friends and followers for doing so.
** Or, the exact same as the author's previous manga, but with a different silly subject.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Saikano}}'']]: Boy has sex with dead robot. Everyone dies.
* [[spoiler: ''Franchise/SailorMoon'']]: Overdeveloped girls in underdeveloped uniforms live vicariously through past-life regression.
** [[spoiler: ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'']]: A group of high school girls marked by their matching plastic jewelry can never quite be sure if they're all friends or not.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SaintSeiya'']]: Five young men wearing magical armor fight for an heiress who is later revealed to be a goddess.
** [[spoiler: ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'']]; You got ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' in my ''Manga/SaintSeiya''!
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SaintYoungMen'']]: Jesus and Buddha celebrate their divine bromance by moving to Japan and renting an apartment together.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SaitamaChainsawShoujo'']]: A boy breaks up with his girlfriend. She goes {{Chainsaw|Good}} [[AxCrazy Crazy]].
* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/SaiunkokuMonogatari'']]: A girl agrees to marry an emperor in order to get him to rule his country properly.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'']]: Four guys are sent west in a very small jeep by a hermaphroditic deity. HilarityEnsues.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Saki}}'']]: Ahem, er, so twenty AmbiguouslyGay schoolgirls walk into a mahjong bar...
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SakuraGari'']]: {{Ronin}} in Taishou Era Japan comes to work for [[BigScrewedUpFamily screwed-up noble family]], gets sexually harassed, eats [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korokke Korokke]]. Also, everyone is [[{{Yandere}} crazy]].
* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/SakurasouNoPetNaKanojo'']]: KindheartedCatLover receives a severely autistic MagicalGirlfriend. [[UnfortunateImplications Because autistic people are just like cats, right?]]
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'']]: 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.
** Or: Admittedly a VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory version of FeudalJapan.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SamuraiFlamenco'']]: A delusional male model fights petty crime as a superhero.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'']]: A retelling of a classic Japanese tale, only this time with the heroes facing down an evil emperor and HumongousMecha.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Sandland}}'']]: {{Satan}}'s son looks for water.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Sankarea}}'']]: A boy turns a girl into a zombie. And then dates her.
* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai'']]: JapaneseMythology "reimagined" by a [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs drugged-out]], [[IncestIsRelative incestuous]] {{hikikomori}}.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SasamiMagicalGirlsClub'']]: Witch disguised as chef and her talking rabbit recruit five outcasts to become witches themselves. [[Anime/TenchiMuyo Some of them]] [[Anime/PrettySammy look familiar]].
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'']]: A teacher copes with his dissatisfaction with society by encouraging people to kill themselves. HilarityEnsues.
** Or: LargeHam teacher is suicidally depressed. His entire class falls for him. He's the sane one.
** Or: [[MemeticMutation I'M IN DESPAIR!]]: The Anime.
* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'']]: Girl was chucked off a cliff by her parents because they didn't want to deal with her sweet sixteen.
* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'']]: A young man gets himself into a twisted LoveTriangle... with '''[[FromBadToWorse heavy]]''' emphasis on "twisted".
** High school harem show happens without a ChasteHero. Consequences ensue.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SchoolRumble'']]: Reformed delinquent turned closet {{mangaka}} falls heavily in love with a [[TheDitz ditzy]] girl with [[ExpressiveHair wiggly pigtails]]. Comic misunderstandings and {{love dodecahedron}}s result.
** Or: A tale of love and morons that tends to wander off course.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'']]: Ninja superheroes battle evil organization led by masked freak with weird secret.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SeireiNoMoribito'']]: A spear-wielding chick protects a prince who's pregnant with a water spirit.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'']]: Historical {{Samurai}} do almost nothing that they did in real life and fight [[ObviouslyEvil obvious evil]] with the power of {{Engrish}}, [[HotBlooded hot blood]], [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]] and cameo appearances based on a video game.
* [[spoiler:Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear]]: MagicIdolSinger [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment sings]] while fighting {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SenkoNoNightRaid'']]: A Japanese secret government agency comprised of members with psychic powers being dispatched to Shanghai, China during 1931 to conduct covert operations.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'']]: Middle school girl gets computer so she can go online and stay there.
** Girl is not using a computer. Girl is using a computer. Girl [[spoiler:is a computer.]]
*** In a high-tech world, everything is intriguing and nothing makes sense.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SetoNoHanayome'']]: Boy gets saved by mermaid. Boy ends up in a [[ShotgunWedding 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.
* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'']]: An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent becomes the servant of a [[{{Tsundere}} hot-headed]] demon hunter after a monster [[RetGone erases him and his friends from existence]].
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/ShamanKing'']]: Every 500 years, Native Americans have fun making people kill each other with dead people so they can control {{God}}.
* [[spoiler: ''[[Anime/SevenOfSeven Shichinin No Nana]]'']]: A girl becomes her own best friends and gets through middle school by dressing up as a {{sentai}} heroine.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Shigurui}}'']]: Two crippled men hate each other, a sadistic noble makes them fight to the death, and [[{{Gorn}} the audience learns a lot about internal human anatomy]].
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/ShikabaneHime'']]: A teenager unintentionally stalks a dead girl who fights other dead people that [[OneWingedAngel turn into monsters]].
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'']]: [[Series/{{House}} House, Wilson,]] and [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} the Rail Tracer]] take on an army of vampires, no one really wins. Everyone's hair is extremely silly.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/ShinMazinger'']]: That giant robot with a lot of firsts gets to destroy monsters by turning into ''a fist!''
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/ShinkonGattaiGodannar'']]: [[MayDecemberRomance A husband and his much younger wife]] pilot [[SuperRobotGenre two giant robots that combine into one giant robot]] to battle giant monsters from outer space. {{Gainaxing}} ensues.
* [[spoiler: ''[[Manga/SpecialDutyCombatUnitShinesman Shinesman]]'']]: Man joins a company and is recruited to fight evil with office Supplies. HilarityEnsues.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/ShinguSecretOfTheStellarWars'']]: Aliens attack earth with Giant robot acorns, unraveling a millennia-old {{Masquerade}}. More importantly, a {{Tsundere}} can't decide whether she likes the narrator or the mysterious transfer student.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/ShinryakuIkaMusume'']]: ''Manga/KeroroGunsou'' with a [[MoeAnthropomorphism moe-ized squid.]]
** Or: A [[OneManArmy one-girl invasion of Earth]] is sabotaged by her own [[{{Moe}} adorableness]].
* [[spoiler:''Shoujo Shounen'']]: A boy dresses up as a girl, joins the entertainment business, gets exposed, and finds love, in no particular order. Each volume showcases a new WholesomeCrossdresser!
* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/{{SHUFFLE}}!'']]: [[TheBeautifulElite God]] and [[DarkIsNotEvil Satan]] are now BFF's and move their families in together. Nobody really notices. However, their daughters fight over a [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent human high school student]] that will one day succeed one of them. Hilarity ensues.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/ShugoChara!'']]: A schoolgirl who hates her personality uses magical eggs to break out of her shell.
** OR: Some kids fight corporate evil with the help of magic eggs.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/ShutHell'']]: A psychotic murderer is taught how to read and write by a kid trying to protect a bag of rocks from his dad.
* [[spoiler:''[[Manga/SilentMobius Silent Möbius]]'']]: A very special team of policewomen battle monsters.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SilverSpoon'']]: A burned-out academic high-achiever attends an agricultural high school in Hokkaido.
* [[spoiler:''{{Anime/Simoun}}'']]: [[SchoolgirlLesbians Lesbian]] [[SpaceJews Space Muslims[/Catholics?]]] doodle in the sky. [[StuffBlowingUp Stuff blows up.]]
* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SisterPrincess'']]: UnluckyEverydude gets exiled to an island to live with a dozen or so inhabitants that all attach themselves to him in borderline-illegal ways.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SketchbookFullColors'']]: Shy girl becomes involved in local art club, draws scenery. Also, there's a Canadian.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SketDance'']]: ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' [[RecycledInSpace set in high school.]]
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SkipBeat!'']]: UnluckyChildhoodFriend attempts to take {{revenge}} upon the man who dumped her by beating him at his own game...{{show business}}.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SlamDunk'']]: A guy proclaims himself to be a genius on a sport he hates out of spite to impress the girl of his dreams.
* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'']]: [[FieryRedhead Hot-headed sorceress/thief]] teams up with [[IdiotHero empty-headed swordsman]] to fight evil.
** Or: A greedy, vain, violent, [[ACupAngst underdeveloped]] sorceress. An idiotic, easily-distracted swordsman. A girl who thinks she's in a MagicalGirl anime and is very destructive as a result. A broody mutant who tends to be dark at best. They're the heroes.
** Or alternately - The quest for food and treasure is key, [[SkewedPriorities but keeps being interrupted to save the world]].
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/{{Sola}}'']]: "A skywatching guy with an IllGirl albino sister meets a mysterious girl being hunted by the [[BadassLongcoat Highlander]], who has connections to an ElegantGothicLolita who hangs out in garbage cans eating riceballs." (- Description taken from the show's page.)
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SoltyRei'']]: [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Grumpy old man]] forms OddFriendship with RobotGirl [[IOweYouMyLife whose life he saved]].
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'']]: Speedy mammal and his friends fall for the oldest trick in the book, end up fighting mammal's EvilDoppelganger.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SonicX'']]: Illegal immigrants must stay hidden from the authorities, though they aren't very good at it. Later, they go home, only to find that they have to fight aliens that think they're doing the right thing but are really destroyers of worlds.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SoraNoWoto'']]: A young girl joins the army so that she can learn to play the trumpet. She is assigned to a platoon situated in a Spanish-inspired town. They spend their time fixing a tank and waiting for the phone to ring.
** Or: ''Treason Apologism: The Anime''
** Or: AfterTheEnd, ''[[Manga/KOn K-On]]'' [[{{Expy}} Expies]] are sent to the front lines; nothing happens. [[AmazingFreakingGrace Amazing Grace]] always [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks works]].
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SoraOKakeruShoujo'']]: A confused schoolgirl and a boiled potato work to convince a one-eyed box to come out of seclusion.
* [[spoiler: ''[[{{Franchise/Anpanman}} Soreike! Anpanman]]'']]: A living loaf of bread [[TheyFightCrime fights crime]] and feeds himself to the hungry. His archenemy is a germ from space.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SoukouNoStrain'']]: Sibling rivalry on an intergalactic scale.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SoulEater'']]: A scythe and the daughter of a scythe attend an ExtranormalInstitute and fight a snake witch.
** Death employs children to fight a mad god, and watches while they end up going mad in the process. Author is pop culture fan who does it for the lulz and the [[RuleOfCool cool]] over, and over again.
** A girl with self-esteem issues and her {{Jerk With a Heart of Gold}} non-boyfriend fight insect-related or pop culture-related villains with their dysfunctional friends, including an arrogant ninja (and his non-girlfriend) and a boy with severe OCD who [[spoiler: eventually goes mad]]. Other characters include a klutzy teacher who smokes a lot and a teenager with an ambiguous gender.
** Or "Tim Burton: The Anime."
** An apprentice of the Grim Reaper gets superpowers when she hears music played on the piano by her shiny magic stick, which she may or may not be in love with.
** Or: A teenage guy and a girl in his class go do stuff and she catches a rare disease from him.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/TheSoulTaker'']]: The hero dies in the first scene. His little sister has multiple personality disorder, [[SelfDuplication except worse.]] There's also a guy with a toothache.
** [[spoiler: ''Anime/NurseWitchKomugi'']]: Earth has to be cured of its supernatural ills by an amateur [[CosplayOtakuGirl cosplay idol]].
* [[spoiler: ''[[Anime/GenesisOfAquarion Sousei No Aquarion]]'']]: Robot powered by [[{{Synchronization}} orgasms]] fights [[FantasyKitchenSink every fairy]] [[AllMythsAreTrue tale ever]].
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'']]: A [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Jean Paul Belmondo look-a-like]] teams up with scantily-clad women and travels through space to look for treasure. He often encounters an evil [[BaldOfEvil bald]] guy made of glass.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'']]: [[KillEmAll Everyone Dies]] over the course of 39 episodes and a movie... especially in the movie. By the [[YoshiyukiTomino man]] himself.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'']]: Man who [[BlessedWithSuck hates his superpower]] travels with [[NotAllowedToGrowUp technically-prepubescent girl]]. Romance develops.
** A combination of drugs and fetishes gives superpowers to many people who probably should not have them.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpeedRacer'']]: Racing heavily modified cars is SeriousBusiness.
* [[spoiler: ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'']]: [[Main/MedievalEuropeanFantasy Medieval Europeanesque]] [[Main/IntrepidMerchant travelling merchant]] meets wolf deity in the form of a naked 16-year-old girl... They discuss economics.
** Or: A travelling merchant finds a furry in his cart. She becomes his "trading partner", and he keeps doing his merchant thing.
** Or: A peddler and a wolf goddess run around [[{{Ruritania}} not-Europe]] discussing economics.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpiritedAway'']]: A ten-year-old girl helps and is helped by a spa employee with partial amnesia after her parents' bad table manners nearly cause her to fade from existence.
** A ten year old girl works in a bathhouse. Not like that, you pervert.
*** Literature/AliceInWonderland [[RecycledInSpace in a bathhouse]].
** Greedy family pigs out and leaves their grade-school daughter stuck with the bill. She works hard to pay it off and falls in love with a river.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/StarDriver'']]: A boy swims across ocean because he was late to school. He proceeds to become the [[ChosenOne Galactic Pretty Boy]] and pilot a [[HumongousMecha giant robot]] which fights other [[DeusSexMachina giant robots powered by libido]]. Lots of [[HotBlooded hot blood]] and faaaaaaabulousness ensues.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/StarshipOperators'']]: Reality TV meets Embedded Reporting... [-IN SPACE!-]
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SteamBoy'']]: A boy's father is killed for a new power source that he invented. He turns out to be not so dead. London freezes.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SteelAngelKurumi'']]: Android in maid outfit is ''very'' overprotective of her priest-in-training master.
* [[spoiler: ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'']]: Self-proclaimed MadScientist and his [[TrueCompanions lab members]] create time paradoxes using text messages.
** Or: A delusional college student and his TrueCompanions send text messages and troll CERN
* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'']]: Members of a [[SchoolgirlLesbians girls-only]] AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil engage in a LoveDodecahedron. The only men involved are [[YuriFan those in the audience]].
** Glorified beauty pageants are serious business. Add in a bit of Gayngst and SchoolGirlLesbians for extra flavor.
** ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' without the subtext.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/StrayLittleDevil'']]: A [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent high school girl]] gets pulled into a spirit world and turned into a [[CuteMonsterGirl devil]]. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity]] and LesYay ensue.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/StrikeWitches'']]: SchoolgirlLesbians from all over the world strap airplane engines to their legs in order to fight aliens. Fans largely discuss [[{{Fanservice}} clothing choices]].
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SuiseiNoGargantia'']]: A career soldier unexpectedly falls into a world full of [[{{Moe}} cute girls]] and [[NormalFishInATinyPond easy targets]].
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SugarSugarRune'']]: An [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl overly shy princess and her tomboyish best friend]] are {{cute witch}}es. They go to the Human World to make guys fall in love with them, then about half way through things get worse.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SummerWars'']]: A computer programmer, his "girlfriend" and her extended family fight a supervirus.
** Or: [[WhatAnIdiot Computer whiz responds to a spam email]]; the spambot steals his password for VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame The MMORPG]].
* [[spoiler:''Manga/SuperDreadnoughtGirl4946'']]: A boy routinely helps his girlfriend fight alien monsters by letting her eat him.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGenerationDivineWars'']]: Scientist warns of alien invasion, makes his own team to stop them. Mecha otaku turned pilot and his team stop him. Then it turns out the scientist was right.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGenerationTheInspector'']]: Beings from different dimensions come to invade us. Android with a stuttering problem [[HeelFaceTurn decides to help us.]]
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Superior}}'']]: Guy teams up with his girlfriend (and some other people) to hunt down his girlfriend, who he doesn't realize is his girlfriend. [[FantasticRacism Deals with racism]].
* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Suzuka}}'']]: OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent becomes a world class sprinter to impress the title character, who hates him for being a more socially awkward [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute stand-in]] for her dead ex-boyfriend.
* [[spoiler:''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya SuzumiyaHaruhi no Yuuutsu]]'']]: Love tetrahedron develops amidst various Twilight Zone-esque {{Negative Space Wedgie}}s. Existence hangs on the outcome.
** Or: Protagonists have to keep CanonSue entertained or she destroys the world. Again.
** Or: Protagonists attempt to prevent the wrong tropes from being realised by someone who does not know the difference.
** Or: Teenage girl thinks the world revolves around her; it does.
** Or: Girl forms a club and bullies one of the members, none of the other members ask her to stop.
** Or: A deadpan snarker has to put up with a sociopath, an adorable girl, an emotionless girl and a boy who won't stop smiling.
** [[spoiler:''Manga/HaruhiChan'']]: Same as above, but with chibis.
*** [[spoiler:''[[Manga/HaruhiChan Nyoron Churuya San]]'']]: One girl's quest for dairy products. With the exception of her and the resident KnifeNut, everyone is a {{Jerkass}}.
** [[spoiler:''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu]]'']]: A HighSchoolAU of... a High School SitCom, via a mis-timed WonderfulLife plot.
* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'']]: A well-renown genius tries to keep his small, fragile world from coming to a brutal end, much to the displeasure of its other inhabitants.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/SwordOfTheStranger'']]: Swordless samurai murders drug addicts.
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