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CLANNAD

Also known as Clannad.

Studio: Sentai Filmworks , Animation Do , Kyoto Animation , Pony Canyon , TBS , Movic , Key
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Tomoya is a bitter, third year high school student. His mother passed away, causing his father to resort to alcohol and gambling. Tomoya is distant with his father and has become a delinquent in the years since his mother's death. Walking to school, he meets Nagisa Furukawa who is a year older but is repeating the grade due to illness. She is alone, as most of her friends have moved on. The two begin hanging out, and as time goes by, Tomoya finds his life shifting in a new direction.



Tags: School , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban Fantasy , School Club , Tragedy , Ghost , Primarily Female Cast , Amnesia , Slapstick , Female Harem , Gangs , Kuudere , Baseball , Tsundere , Twins , Basketball , Female Protagonist , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things

Kanon (2006)

Also known as Kanon (2006).

Studio: Kyoto Animation , TBS , Pony Canyon , Movic
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

As a young child, Aizawa Yuuichi had often visited his cousin in the city. However, something drastic happened to keep him away for seven long years. Now, Yuuichi returns, his memories of those days are simply gone.

Settling into the wintry town, Yuuichi comes across several young girls, all of whom are connected to his past. As he befriends them and continues to interact with them, the long forgotten memories from his childhood begin to resurface...



Tags: Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , Tragedy , Female Harem , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Snowscape , Ghost , Family Life , Kuudere , Tsundere , Super Power , Ensemble Cast , Demons , Cohabitation , Unrequited Love , Incest , Suicide

CLANNAD: After Story

Also known as Clannad: After Story.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Pony Canyon , TBS , Rakuonsha , Animation Do
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

A few months have passed since Tomoya declared his love to Nagisa, and his life keeps moving forward as he continues to meet a variety of new people, expanding his world in the process. While Tomoya's world continues to expand, his and Nagisa's relationship is entering a new phase, and neither of them is quite sure where it will take them. Through his relationship with Nagisa, Tomoya begins to understand the meaning and importance of family.

But as Tomoya and Nagisa begin a family of their own, they are faced with many hardships along the way in Clannad: After Story



Note: Includes 2 un-numbered 'extra' and 'summary' episodes that aired at the end of the series.

Tags: Family Life , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Parenthood , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Heterosexual , Marriage , Time Skip , Rehabilitation , Afterlife , Work , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , Time Manipulation , Primarily Female Cast , Trains , Primarily Adult Cast , School , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Baseball

Angel Beats!

Also known as Angel Beats!.

Studio: Aniplex , ASCII Media Works , P.A.WORKS , Visual Arts , Movic , Dentsu , Mainichi Broadcasting System , CBC TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Supernatural

Otonashi wakes up in the afterlife to find out he has no memories of his life before death. Desperate to survive in a war that could yield another unfortunate fate, he joins the SSS in the battle against Angel, whose very mission is to destroy all inhabitants of this afterlife. As Otonashi struggles to recover his memory and learn more about this world, he finds that not all is as it had seemed.



Tags: Afterlife , Tragedy , School , Amnesia , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Kuudere , Memory Manipulation , Boarding School , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Slapstick , Angels , Survival , Found Family , Politics , Isekai , Guns , School Club , Band , Rock Music , Suicide , Baseball , Heterosexual , Chuunibyou , Drugs

Summer Pockets

Also known as Summer Pockets.

Studio: Key , feel. , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Visual Arts , Mainichi Broadcasting System , JR Higashi Nihon Kikaku , Bushiroad , FuRyu , TOKYO MX , BS11 , Marui Group
Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Takahara Hairi never expected summer to feel like a dream. Sent to Torishirojima Island to sort through his late grandmother’s belongings, he’s met with endless sea, quiet nostalgia, and mysterious girls, each chasing something just out of reach. As he settles into island life, lost memories begin to surface and he finds what he never knew he’d lost.



Tags: Rural , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Alternate Universe , Family Life , Coastal , Time Loop , Heterosexual , Age Regression , Coming of Age , Memory Manipulation , Ghost , Kuudere , Swimming , Shrine Maiden , Tsundere , Twins , Fishing , Table Tennis , Food , Bisexual , Mopeds

sola

Studio: diomedéa , Nomad , Lantis
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Sola's story revolves around Yorito Morimiya, the main protagonist, who is a young boy attending high school. He loves taking pictures of the sky at any time of day and any time of the year. One day, Yorito decides to take a picture of the sunrise overlooking the bay, but is deterred when he meets a strange girl trying to force a vending machine that stole her money to give her what she tried to buy—a can of tomato juice. Yorito helps her with forcing the machine while attempting to strike up conversation with her, despite it being four in the morning. Yorito tells her why he is here, but by the time he has forced the can out of the machine, the girl has mysteriously vanished.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Memory Manipulation , Love Triangle , Super Power , Tragedy , Amnesia , Kuudere , Heterosexual , Coastal , Seinen , Youkai

Charlotte

Studio: P.A.WORKS , Aniplex , Visual Arts , TOKYO MX , KADOKAWA , ASCII Media Works , Mainichi Broadcasting System , BS11 , Movic , Key
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

The story centers around the special abilities that occur among a small percentage of boys and girls in puberty. Yuu Otosaka uses his power without others knowing, and lives a fairly normal, average school life. Before him suddenly appears a girl, Nao Tomori. Due to his meeting with her, the fate of special power-users will be exposed.



Tags: Super Power , Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , School Club , School , Body Swapping , Urban , Amnesia , Tsundere , Dissociative Identities , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Memory Manipulation , Survival , Mahjong , Primarily Female Cast , Anti-Hero , Slapstick , Delinquents , Heterosexual , Tomboy , Yandere , Band , Baseball , Bullying , CGI , Torture

Little Busters!

Also known as Little Busters!.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Key , Sentai Filmworks , Warner Bros. Japan , Visual Arts
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life , Supernatural

When tragedy struck Riki Naoe as a child, he was rescued from grief over his parent's deaths when four other kids "recruited" him for their group—the "Little Busters." Now in high school, Riki and the other Busters are still fast friends, and though their vision of being heroes for justice may have faded, they'd still do anything for each other. Which is why Riki is now on TWO special missions. The not so secret one: recruiting new members so the Busters can form a baseball team. Preferably FEMALE recruits, as the current dude/babe ratio is an inconvenient 4 to 1. The OTHER mission, though... That's the strange one. Because Riki and Rin, the group's singular girl, are receiving odd messages, delivered by cats, concerning the existence of a "secret world" and assigning them tasks they have to complete. Were their youthful dreams of being crusaders not so fanciful after all? Or is there something even more vital at stake? Between steeling his courage to talk to girls, dealing with his own narcolepsy and facing his feelings concerning Rin, Riki may just need the strength of a superhero to solve the ultimate mystery of the Little Busters!



Tags: School , Found Family , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Slapstick , Urban Fantasy , Orphan , Baseball , School Club , Memory Manipulation , Twins , Kuudere , Crossdressing , Foreign , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , War

planetarian: Hoshi no Hito

Also known as Planetarian: Storyteller of the Stars.

Studio: David Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

An adaptation of the visual-novel by Key, 'Planetarian: Hoshi no Hito' combines the story of the original work with an expansion that extends the narrative with content from the 'Hoshi no Hito' light-novel sequel.

In the future after much of the world has been devastated by nuclear and biological warfare, a young scavenger or 'Junker' exploring a quarantined and abandoned city comes across a service robot still faithfully awaiting customers in the rooftop planetarium of a department store. Against his pragmatic instincts he helps the robot repair the planetarium's projector: a decision which will change both their fates.



Tags: Astronomy , Post-Apocalyptic , Artificial Intelligence , Tragedy , Robots , Time Skip , Male Protagonist , Dystopian , Mythology

Kanon

Studio: Toei Animation , Movic , Fuji TV , Fujipacific Music , Key
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Changing schools is something Yuuchi is accustomed to, due to his parent's profession, and with their recent venture to Africa, he is returning to his aunt's home after 7 years. The time that has passed since his last visit has faded his memories of the people he knew, and the ties that bonded them to him, including his cousin Nayuki. Slowly those people, coincidently all being girls, find their way back to him. However, time has passed and things have happened in their own lives that sets the tone for the series. Secrets that are coming to surface, and memories that are returning to not only Yuuichi, but to those surrounding him. A very heartwarming tale that touches upon a spectrum of emotions, mystery, and the supernatural.



Tags: Female Harem , Snowscape , Amnesia , Heterosexual , Primarily Female Cast , Kuudere , Chibi , Male Protagonist , Tragedy