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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 , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Alternate Universe , Heterosexual , Marriage , Time Skip , Rehabilitation , Afterlife , Work , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , Primarily Female Cast , Time Manipulation , Trains , School , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Baseball , Primarily Adult Cast

AIR

Also known as Air.

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

Yukito Kunisaki is on a journey in search of the Winged Maiden who was bound to the sky centuries ago, after hearing an old childhood tale from his mother. As Yukito shows his puppet show to people in an attempt to make some money, he finds himself in a small town in which he did not expect to stay very long. However, when he meets an unusual girl named Misuzu, things take a drastic turn as he is invited to stay with her.

By staying in the quaint town, Yukito soon becomes friends with the locals. As he gets to know them better, he learns of their problems and decides to help, putting his search for the Winged Maiden on hold. With his search on hold, and his growing attachment to Misuzu and the small town, will Yukito ever find the Winged Maiden, or is she closer than he thought?

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Note: Includes episode 13, Soushuuhen (Summary).

Tags: Tragedy , Magic , Reincarnation , Historical , Homeless , Family Life , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Achronological Order , Kuudere , Samurai , Primarily Female Cast , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Tsundere , Female Harem , Time Skip , Dinosaurs , Slapstick , Work

Plastic Memories

Also known as Plastic Memories.

Studio: Doga Kobo , MAGES. , Hanabee Entertainment , Aniplex of America , Aniplex , Asahi Broadcasting Corporation , ASCII Media Works , AT-X , Bushiroad
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

This story takes place in a future not too far away when androids that look exactly like humans begin to spread across the world. The android production company SA Corp. produced Giftia, a new kind of android that has the most amount of emotion and human-like qualities out of any other model ever seen. However, due to problems in technology, the androids have a service life, and once they pass that, they... Well, it gets pretty bad. For this reason, SA Corp. creates a terminal service in order to retrieve Giftia that have gone past their service life. A new employee at the terminal service named Tsukasa Mizugaki forms a team with the Giftia Isla to retrieve the other androids, but...



Tags: Robots , Tragedy , Artificial Intelligence , Male Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Kuudere , Work , Amnesia , Urban , Tsundere , Coming of Age , Slapstick , Heterosexual , Female Harem

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

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 , Snowscape , Tragedy , Female Harem , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Ghost , Family Life , Kuudere , Tsundere , Super Power , Ensemble Cast , Demons , Unrequited Love , Suicide

Kowarekake no Orgel

Studio: ElectromagneticWave
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

In 2039, helper androids are widespread as general purpose electronics.

Keiichiro lost his family in a traffic accident and retired from his band. One day, he finds an old model android in a garbage dump. He takes her home but after taking her to a repair shop he was told she couldn't be repaired so he planned to throw her away, but the next day he finds her making breakfast for him. Thus begin the summer days of a memory less android and a dreamless boy.

Kowarekake no Orgel was originally an independent animation released as an OVA. Later on it received a theatrical release that is a bit different and longer than the original.

Tags: Amnesia , Tragedy , Robots , Band , Family Life , Female Protagonist , Artificial Intelligence , Found Family

Kaginado

Also known as KAGINADO.

Studio: LIDENFILMS Kyoto Studio , Tohokushinsha Film Corporation , Visual Arts , Key
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Laughs and shenanigans are on the horizon in this crossover! Fan-favorite characters from Kanon, Air, Clannad, Little Busters!, Rewrite, and more start the school year together in a new world where anything is possible. With so much personality in one anime universe, every day feels like a new kind of dream.



Tags: Crossover , Ensemble Cast , Chibi , Slapstick , Meta , School , Baseball

Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song

Also known as Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-.

Studio: Wit Studio , Aniplex of America , Aniplex
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Music , Sci-Fi , Thriller

An AI named Matsumoto appears before Vivy, the world’s first autonomous humanoid AI. Matsumoto’s mission is to rewrite history together with Vivy, in order to stop the war between AI and humans that will happen one century later.



Tags: Artificial Intelligence , Robots , Female Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Time Skip , Terrorism , Philosophy , Dystopian , Musical Theater , Cyberpunk , Primarily Female Cast , Kuudere , Memory Manipulation , Anthropomorphism , Idol , Conspiracy , Politics , Dissociative Identities , Rehabilitation , Primarily Adult Cast , Amnesia , Martial Arts , Suicide , Body Swapping , Nudity , Heterosexual , Marriage , Space , CGI , Gangs

RErideD: Tokigoe no Derrida

Also known as RErideD - Derrida, who leaps through time.

Studio: GEEKTOYS , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

The year is 2050. A young engineer named Derrida Yvain became famous thanks to his contribution to the development of the "Autonomous Machine DZ" at Rebuild, the manufacturing company founded by his father. One day, Derrida and his colleague Nathan discover a flaw in the DZs and try to warn their boss, but are ignored. Although Derrida and Nathan are aware of the danger, they reluctantly decide to put off taking any measures, and instead go to Nathan's daughter Mage's birthday party. The next day, after enjoying a peaceful day, Derrida and Nathan are suddenly attacked by unknown forces. At the end of the escape, Derrida falls into a cold sleep machine and 10 years later, he wakes up to a devastated world in the middle of a war. While Derrida is attacked by a group of out of control DZs, he almost gives up, but he recall's Nathan's last words.

"Take care of Mage."

Despite the harsh fate that has fallen upon him, Derrida sets off to seek Mage.

Beyond the time, we reunite — this is the story of a journey for hope.



The first four episodes were distributed exclusively on Hikari TV on September 22, 2018. TV broadcast begins on October 4, 2018.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Post-Apocalyptic , Parody , Robots , War , Conspiracy , Male Protagonist

ATRI: My Dear Moments

Also known as ATRI -My Dear Moments-.

Studio: TROYCA , Aniplex , bilibili
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi

In the near future, a sudden and unexplained sea rise has left much of human civilization underwater. Ikaruga Natsuki, a boy who lost his mother and one of his legs in an accident some years earlier, returns disillusioned from a harsh life in the big city to find his old countryside home half-swallowed by the sea. Left without a family, all he has to his name is the ship and submarine left to him by his oceanologist grandmother, and her debts. His only hope to restore the dreams for the future that he has lost is to take up an opportunity presented to him by the suspicious debt collector Catherine. They set sail to search the sunken ruins of his grandmother's laboratory in order to find a treasure rumor says she left there. But what they find is not riches or jewels; it is a strange girl lying asleep in a coffin at the bottom of the sea, Atri. Atri is a robot, but her appearance and her wealth of emotions would fool anyone into thinking she's a living, breathing human being. In gratitude for being salvaged, she makes a declaration to Natsuki.



Tags: Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Environmental , Robots , Dystopian , Disability , Post-Apocalyptic , Male Protagonist , Artificial Intelligence , Lost Civilization , CGI , Cyberpunk , Time Skip