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resolved 15 + year old anime Anime
Basic summary is that its about a woman who wants to destroy the world (I think she might wield a huge sword?), the plot twist is that the guy she's dragging along is actually an amnesiac god with the power to do so, and at the end she decides against it.
resolved (Character) is having a bad day Anime
I remember a short japanese comic, in full color, with square only panels of the same size.
The comic follows the day of one character through narration. The first panel says (character's name I don't remember) is having a bad day.
The character is a middle-aged man that experiences a lot of misfortune through the day, which is portrayed in a Black Comedy fashion as him having terrible luck. He can't sleep because his wife snores, his lunch is terrible, he gets fired, he comes home to find out his wife's cheating on him, his son reveals he's failed the college entry exam, and the last panel's narration is "his adulterous wife is snoring in bed".
The comic is around one or two pages long - it might be a webcomic or a gag Gekiga. One panel I clearly remember is the son showing the tests results - the teenage boy is wearing a headband and is holding up a thick envelope, which is why I'm sure this strip is Japanese.
Does anyone know what comic that is, or who made it, where one could find it?
resolved Yokai/ghost hunters anime Anime
Anime about a guy and a girl solving supernatural incidents in close-to-modern-day Japan. The girl has a Glass Eye and artificial leg, sorta evoking the image of a Karakasa when she doesn't have them on.
resolved I can't find the main anime page for Nijiiro Days Anime
I don't know what the dub name is but I saw a clip for the aforementioned anime on youtube but tvtropes doesn't appear to have a main page for it. Is this the right page to ask about this?
resolved Card game Anime Anime
On Cheez TV or Toasted TV there was an Anime series that based around a card game sorta like Yu-Gi-Oh!
Elements I remember include
- Believe there four main characters
- The male hot headed boy protagonist
- Shorter glasses wearing boy who was The Smart Guy
- A girl who was friends with them
- A slightly ditzy girl who was new to the area and was mostly used to ask questions about the game so it could be explained to her and thereby to the audience
- Before each game the players would hold out their decks in front of them and shuffle them
- One game has the protagonist playing the game outside in near a waterway and some storm clouds start rolling in. The opponent points to the sky and makes a speech about how the storm is harbinger of his victory. The opponent gets exactly the cards he needs for his tactics and while the others are wondering how the ditzy girl points out that he swapped his shuffled deck for an unshuffled one while they look up at the storm clouds in the sky.
- The characters going through rooms beating top players until the come to a girl's room and while they are looking for the occupant, a phone starts to ring and the ditzy girl answers. It turns out it's the ditzy girl's room and she is the player, pretending not to know about the game for some reason I forget and have a game.
resolved duo thief old anime Anime
I'm looking for an old anime, probably from around early 2000s or maybe late 90s. The main characters is a duo of a man and a woman, and they're some kind of thief. Each episode follows a different heist where they steal a specific MacGuffin. The reason they're doing this is because they were contacted by their boss or something, and the boss told them to get something important, but the connection cut off before the boss could tell them what it is and they just resorted to stealing everything and checking whether or not the MacGuffin they stole that episode was the right one or not. They always return the items if it's the wrong one.
resolved Idol show with a gorilla? Anime
No really the first thing that comes to mind about this anime is that one of the higher ups is an gorilla. But for more context: The anime is about three idols and their manger living in either space or a future world where I think aliens existed. I do remember the anime’s runtime was short but how long each episode was is a blur. That’s unfortunately about the only stuff I remember.
So does anyone know what the anime’s name was or am I the only person who remembers this oddity?
Edited by eirigfiresolved old Werewolf anime film Anime
old (think 90s/80s) anime film about a woman who falls in love with a werewolf and has two kids, a daughter and a son, with him. the werewolf dies at some point, and the woman and her two kids move out into the country and work on a farm? the woman's daughter accidentally bites someone at school, and the son feels increasingly disconnected from his human side, eventually leaving the family at the end of the film.
resolved Comedy Anime Vampire Anime
This was something I discovered on You Tube a few years ago that I intended to watch, but I've lost the name.
It was about a vampire with a female human assistant. He was kind of a goofball and she was kind of hot-headed, but wanted to be his girlfriend and (I think?) for him to drink her blood. He refuses, because drinking human blood made him aggressive. There were also two other humanoid monster people (at least I think they were) living with them; one was a girl who lived in a fridge. It's hazy, but I think they had some kind of job as detectives or monster hunters - I recall that because of seeing the female assistant trying to wake up everyone because they had a job and needed to get on the move.
From what I remember of the image quality and art style, it was definitely mid-1990s. Also the vampire guy had neck-length white hair and a dark cloak.
resolved Mecha anime where the mecha is armor for the giant pilot Anime
I only saw a clip of it as described in title. There was a mecha in a hangar and it opened up more like armor revealing the pilot was a giant woman. I think it was discussed in the comments for the clip the pilot can also shrink down to normal size.
resolved Anime web series where people went into a shop and got sent to a surreal world Anime
So there's this anime I watched some years ago, probably made as a web animation officially posted on Youtube ect. It was relatively recent, likely from the early 2020s or possibly late 2010s.
The concept was about a woman running a shop, I think she was a witch or similar magic user, and each episode would have a new person come into her shop (either seeking it out or somehow finding it in weird places) and get sent to some kind of surreal world that would represent things about their life/current situation or something? I think each episode/world was also set to a different song with little to no dialogue from the characters. Pretty sure it had about 6-8 episodes.
resolved [Solved]Highschool student anime where guy gets possession powers Anime
I'm trying to remember the name of this anime where a brown haired highschool student is attacked by a white haired guy, who nearly kills him, but the brown haired guy ends up possessing the white haired guy before he actually gets killed. I think there was also mechas in the anime later on.
Edited by Animaltamerresolved BNHA live action Anime
I remember seeing a video on Twitter about a BNHA-inspired live action sequence. In that video is a fight scene between two characters, and one of them has the ability to swap himself with an object, and fights by throwing around his backpack. Does anyone know where I can watch the whole thing?
resolved comedy isekai manga solved Anime
I'm looking for a comedy isekai manga. In every chapter the same MC get transported to another world and solves some issue with realizing what was going on. One time he saved a party from a bunch of undead by wearing reflective clothing and got mistaken for the god of light
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved Anime about Killer Plants Anime
I remember watching this one anime about a group of survivors going up against these killer plants after they woken up too early from hyper sleep before the monster plants can even be taken care of.
I remember the plot but...I don't know the name.
resolved Press-ganged into Doing a Hero Show (SOLVED) Anime
Mid-2010s or later. Most likely Manga Time Kirara style.
I only watched the first episode or two. In the first one, the Four-Girl Ensemble go to a department store for some reason, but they get strong-armed into putting on a Tokusatsu show on the rooftop. It had a little stage with an audience full of kids, and the roof was surrounded by a chainlink fence like on a typical Japanese high school. I think the girls are aspiring actresses or something, and this is what lets the main character overcome her stage fright.
I thought it was either Hinako Note or Maesetsu, but it's not either of those as far as I can tell.
Edit: It was episode 4 of Aho Girl. I think I got it confused with Maesetsu or something too.
Edited by WarriorsGateresolved A guy turns into a monster when kissing a girl and chomps her in half. Anime
There's this rather old anime. I remember a scene where a seemingly Ordinary High-School Student is kissing a girl on a park bench. The screen fades to black and moments later unfades to a view of the bloody lower half of the girl's body. Then the guy's view pans to hos hands turned into hideous claws. Switch to a view of him now as hideous bulky creature. As he exclaims "What the hell is this?" the upper half of the girl falls out of his mouth.
Edited by sohibilresolved Romance Anime (solved) Anime
The anime is about a girl who falls in love with a Gentle Giant after he saves her from an sexual assault (I think).
Edited by StalkerGamer

I only remember one scene, where a guy asks a girl why she's being so difficult, and she smiles and says, "Because you like me this way."