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Summer Time Render

Also known as Summer Time Rendering.

Studio: OLM , Shueisha , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , MAGES. , Toy's Factory , TOKYO MX , Movic , BANDAI SPIRITS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

A sci-fi, summer story filled with suspense set on a small island with Shinpei Aijiro, whose childhood friend Ushio Kofune died. He returns to his hometown for the first time in two years for the funeral. Sou Hishigata, his best friend, suspects something's off with Ushio's death, and that someone can die next.

A sinister omen is heard as an entire family next door suddenly disappears the following day. Furthermore, Mio implicates a "shadow" three days before Ushio's death.



Tags: Survival , Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Time Loop , Primarily Teen Cast , Gods , Reincarnation , Super Power , Shapeshifting , Rural , Tragedy , Coastal , Mythology , Alternate Universe , Ensemble Cast , Body Swapping , Dissociative Identities , Cosmic Horror , Heterosexual , Shounen , Clone , Philosophy , Anthropomorphism , Orphan , Suicide , Male Protagonist , Gore , Religion , Amnesia , Body Horror , Aliens , Guns , Ghost , Denpa , Unrequited Love , Adoption , Tanned Skin , Love Triangle , Nudity , POV , Slapstick , Age Regression , LGBTQ+ Themes

Koi wa Ameagari no You ni

Also known as After the Rain.

Studio: WIT STUDIO , Dentsu , Aniplex , Fuji TV , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Akira Tachibana was once the ace of a track club, but an injury forced her to quell her passion for sports. Masami Kondou, a divorced father, had ambitions of being a writer and now manages a restaurant, where Akira works. It is the intersection of Akira and Masami’s seemingly disconnected lives that makes each of them reconsider and redefine everything about themselves.



Tags: Age Gap , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Rehabilitation , Restaurant , Work , Heterosexual , Urban , Athletics , Writing , Martial Arts , Classic Literature , School , Twins , Love Triangle , Tanned Skin

Odd Taxi

Also known as ODDTAXI.

Studio: OLM , P.I.C.S. , Pony Canyon , Pony Canyon Enterprise , TV Tokyo , Crunchyroll , Yoshimoto Kogyo , AT-X , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

The taxi driver Odokawa lives a very mundane life. He has no family, doesn't really hang out with others, and he's an oddball who is narrow-minded and doesn't talk much. The only people he can call his friends are his doctor, Gouriki and his classmate from high school, Kakihana.

All of his patrons seem to be slightly odd themselves. The college student who wants the world to notice him online, Kabasawa. A nurse with secrets named Shirakawa. A comedy duo that just can't catch a break named the Homosapiens. A local hoodlum named Dobu. An idol group that's just starting out named Mystery Kiss... All these mundane conversations somehow eventually lead to a girl who's gone missing.



Tags: Crime , Anthropomorphism , Urban , Animals , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Work , Revenge , Noir , Satire , Aromantic , Gangs , Yakuza , Mafia , Fugitive , Primarily Animal Cast , Amnesia , Cars , Police , Idol , Tragedy , Philosophy , Bullying , Adoption , Anti-Hero , Twins , Martial Arts , Manzai , Suicide , Hip-hop Music , Video Games , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Bar

Sonny Boy

Also known as Sonny Boy.

Studio: MADHOUSE , BS Asahi , Shouchiku , Marui Group
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

It’s an ordinary summer vacation...except for the fact that Nagara’s high school has mysteriously drifted into another dimension. As the students begin to develop strange new powers, will they work together to survive the alien environment and find a way home, or will their newly formed factions and rivalries turn on each other?



Note: The first episode received an advance release on YouTube on June 19, 2021. The regular TV broadcast started on July 16, 2021.

Tags: Alternate Universe , Philosophy , Denpa , Coming of Age , Super Power , Survival , Primarily Teen Cast , Isekai , Travel , Meta , Achronological Order , Cosmic Horror , Mixed Media , School , Episodic , Tragedy , Gods , Unrequited Love , Wilderness , Male Protagonist , Animals , Heterosexual , Desert , Baseball , Space , Suicide

Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari

Also known as Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You.

Studio: Asahi Production , TBS , Asmik Ace , Asahi Production , arma bianca , ADK Marketing Solutions , Nichion , AbemaTV , Square Enix
Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Sasaki is an overworked salaryman drifting through the corporate grind, sustained by cigarettes and the cheerful service and smile of Yamada, the clerk at his favorite supermarket. But one night after a grueling shift, he arrives late to find Yamada nowhere to be seen. With nowhere left to smoke, his spirits sink—until a pierced young woman calls out to him: “You can smoke here.”



Note: Episodes 1-6 had an early release by ABEMA and Crunchyroll on June 3rd, 2026 in a mini-episode batch format that splits 6 episodes into 12, ahead of the TV broadcast which started on July 10th, 2026.

Tags: Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Drugs , Work , Konbini , Age Gap , Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Office , Urban , Episodic

ID: INVADED

Also known as ID: INVADED.

Studio: NAZ , Funimation , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

Welcome to Kura, an organization that investigates crime using the Mizuhanome system which senses the drive to kill. Sakaido is a brilliant detective and pilot of the Mizuhanome. To solve a case, he enters the world of the killer's unconscious mind: the id well. In the shadows of brutal and puzzling cases lurks John Walker, the Serial Killer Creator. Where will Sakaido's pursuit lead?



Tags: Detective , Virtual World , Crime , Alternate Universe , Police , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Augmented Reality , Prison , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Meta , Revenge , Anti-Hero , Philosophy , Amnesia , Gore , Cyberpunk , CGI , Guns , Time Manipulation , Suicide

Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction

Also known as DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION.

Studio: Production +h , GAGA , TV Tokyo , Shogakukan , Toy's Factory , Sony Music Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

As the world is threatened by the sudden appearance of a mysterious alien mothership, best friends Koyama Kadode and Nakagawa “Ontan” Oran carry on about their high school life. But as they grow up, they face existential questions, learning adulthood’s complexities and that the true threat may not be from above.



Note: Includes Episode 0, which chronologically occurs between episodes 16 and 17.

Tags: Aliens , Urban , Philosophy , Coming of Age , Politics , Post-Apocalyptic , Alternate Universe , Tragedy , Denpa , Ensemble Cast , Time Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Military , Primarily Female Cast , Anti-Hero , Gore , Terrorism , Seinen , Suicide , Dystopian , Achronological Order , School , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Language Barrier , Age Gap , Heterosexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Bisexual , Crime

Replica Datte, Koi wo Suru.

Also known as Even a Replica Can Fall in Love.

Studio: Voil , KADOKAWA , AT-X , KBS Kyoto
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

When she doesn’t feel well, when there’s a test, when she doesn’t want to go to school... I take her place. I’m her replica. I’m not meant for anything else. But that changed when I fell in love. I wear my hair up so the boy I fell for knows it’s me. We skip school and promise to meet again tomorrow, and every day after. I’m her replica. Everything about me is borrowed and empty, but my heart is mine.



Tags: Clone , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Revenge , School Club , Philosophy , Dissociative Identities , Bullying , Basketball , Seinen , Meta , Robots , Disability , Acting

Steins;Gate

Also known as Steins;Gate.

Studio: Frontier Works , Funimation , Media Factory , Movic , AT-X , WHITE FOX , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , Nitroplus
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

Self-proclaimed mad scientist Okabe Rintarou lives in a small room in Akihabara, where he invents "future gadgets" with fellow lab members Shiina Mayuri, his air-headed childhood friend, and Hashida Itaru, an otaku hacker. The three pass the time by tinkering with their latest creation, a "Phone Microwave" that can be controlled through text messages.

The lab members soon face a string of mysterious incidents that lead to a game-changing discovery: the Phone Microwave can send emails to the past and thus alter history. Adapted from the critically acclaimed visual novel by 5pb. and Nitroplus, Steins;Gate takes Okabe to the depths of scientific theory and human despair as he faces the dire consequences of changing the past.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Alternate Universe , Time Loop , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Denpa , Male Protagonist , Urban , Dystopian , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Chuunibyou , Dissociative Identities , Tsundere , Otaku Culture , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Kuudere , Suicide , Femboy , Cosmic Horror , Amnesia , Transgender , War , Seinen , Gender Bending , Post-Apocalyptic , Detective , Espionage , Maids , Trains , Shrine Maiden , Clone , Cosplay , Criminal Organization , Human Experimentation , LGBTQ+ Themes

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Also known as Yokohama Shopping Log.

Studio: Aniplex , Ajiado , Sony Music Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

This is not so much a story as it is a slice of life. Or rather, it is a look into portions of the life of a girl named Alpha, together with the people around her. Alpha runs a little cafe on the outskirts of Yokohama. There are almost no customers, but Alpha does not mind at all since she has the occasional company of the old man who runs the gasoline stand down the road, as well as that of his grandson Takahiro. This is a Yokohama of the future, when the sea covers most of the land and roads have disappeared under sand or water. Alpha is in fact a robot, looking after the cafe during her owner's indefinite leave of absence.



Tags: Iyashikei , Rural , Robots , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Photography , Lost Civilization , Coastal , Mopeds , Philosophy , Seinen