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Lycoris Recoil

Also known as Lycoris Recoil.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Aniplex , ABC Animation , BS11
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Slice of Life

“LycoReco” is a café with a traditional Japanese twist located in downtown Tokyo. But the delicious coffee and sugary sweets are not the only orders this café takes! From delivering packages short distances, to pick-ups and drop-offs on the lonely streets at night, to zombies and giant monster extermination…?! Whatever your problem, we're here to help! We will solve any kind of "trouble" you may have!

Waiting for you are the ever-smiling poster-girl and the cool, serious newcomer. A petite girl who never wants to work and a young woman approaching thirty who wants to get married. And the manager is a nice guy who’s obsessed with Japan!

Whatever your order is, leave it all up to us♪



Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Crime , Guns , Assassins , Terrorism , Conspiracy , Urban , Found Family , Work , Kuudere , Orphan , Espionage , Boys' Love , Restaurant , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Politics , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Police , Parenthood , Bar

RELEASE THE SPYCE

Also known as RELEASE THE SPYCE.

Studio: Lay-duce , KADOKAWA , Pony Canyon , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

Momo Minamoto is a high school girl living an ordinary life in Sorasaki City – until she is recruited to join a private information agency called “Tsukikage”.

As it turns out, Tsukikage is actually a spy organization whose mission is to protect the peace and preserve justice from behind the scenes. The girls use secret tools and use specially created spices which enhance their abilities. Through Tsukikage’s mentoring system, the girls not only grow stronger, but closer. Together, they train their hearts and minds as weapons to fight against evil.

The metropolis of Sorasaki is being infiltrated by a criminal organization called “Mouryo”. Momo must work together with her friends to protect her family, friends and local residents against Mouryo’s evil forces.



Tags: Ninja , Espionage , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Martial Arts , Urban Fantasy , Drugs , Coming of Age , Swordplay , Memory Manipulation , Tragedy , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Time Skip , School

Spy Kyoushitsu

Also known as Spy Classroom.

Studio: feel. , KADOKAWA , AT-X , Movic , BS Nittele
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mystery

Conflict-ravaged nations now deploy covert operatives instead of missiles. Lily is recruited into spy-training… but her practical skills are absolutely abysmal. Desperate to pass, she leaps at the chance to join the mysterious “Tomoshibi” team. Too bad the team is filled with even more hopeless spies. Together they must conquer the Impassible Mission and best their genius instructor, but the true purpose behind their classroom is more harrowing than they can imagine…



Tags: Espionage , Primarily Female Cast , Ensemble Cast , Crime , Achronological Order , Urban Fantasy , Guns , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Asexual , Nudity , Crossdressing

SPY×FAMILY

Also known as SPY x FAMILY.

Studio: CloverWorks , WIT STUDIO , Toho , Shueisha , TV Tokyo , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Everyone has a part of themselves they cannot show to anyone else.

At a time when all nations of the world were involved in a fierce war of information happening behind closed doors, Ostania and Westalis had been in a state of cold war against one another for decades. The Westalis Intelligence Services' Eastern-Focused Division (WISE) sends their most talented spy, "Twilight," on a top-secret mission to investigate the movements of Donovan Desmond, the chairman of Ostania's National Unity Party, who is threatening peace efforts between the two nations.

This mission is known as "Operation Strix." It consists of "putting together a family in one week in order to infiltrate social gatherings organized by the elite school that Desmond's son attends."

"Twilight" takes on the identity of psychiatrist Loid Forger and starts looking for family members. But Anya, the daughter he adopts, turns out to have the ability to read people's minds, while his wife, Yor, is an assassin! With it being in each of their own interests to keep these facts hidden, they start living together while concealing their true identities from one another.
World peace is now in the hands of this brand-new family as they embark on an adventure full of surprises.



Tags: Espionage , Family Life , Found Family , Assassins , Conspiracy , Shounen , Fake Relationship , Adoption , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Crime , Foreign , Urban , Slapstick , Super Power , Parenthood , School , Ensemble Cast , Heterosexual , Surreal Comedy , Parody , Episodic , Politics , Cohabitation , Guns , Urban Fantasy , Bullying , Orphan , Martial Arts , Tsundere , Unrequited Love

BLACKFOX

Studio: Studio 3Hz , Infinite , Flying Ship Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

Living in a ninja residence tucked away in a corner of a futuristic city is Rikka, the eldest daughter of a Ninja clan, who looks up to her father—a researcher—very much. Carrying on with her life normally, Rikka's home came suddenly under attack one day. Driven into a corner, what would she do to overcome this crisis? Rip darkness to pieces and become "BLACK"!



Tags: Ninja , Female Protagonist , Super Power , Revenge , Artificial Intelligence , Tragedy , Robots , Primarily Female Cast , Swordplay , Animals , Time Skip , CGI

Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei

Also known as The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady.

Studio: diomedéa , KADOKAWA , CTW , AT-X , Kansai TV , TVAadvance
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance

Despite her supposed ineptitude with regular magic, Princess Anisphia defies the aristocracy’s expectations by developing “magicology,” a unique magical theory based on memories from her past life. One day, she witnesses the brilliant noblewoman Euphyllia unjustly stripped of her title as the kingdom’s next monarch. That’s when Anisphia concocts a plan to help Euphyllia regain her good name-which somehow involves them living together and researching magic! Little do these two ladies know, however, that their chance encounter will alter not only their own futures, but those of the kingdom...and the entire world!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Magic , Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Politics , Royal Affairs , Conspiracy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Maids , Vampire , Swordplay , Isekai , Religion , Reincarnation , Adoption , Dragons , Drugs

Yuukoku no Moriarty

Also known as Moriarty the Patriot.

Studio: Production I.G , Bandai Namco Arts , Shueisha , BANDAI SPIRITS , Yomiuri TV Enterprise , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

In the late 19th century, the British Empire nobility reigns while its working class suffers at their hands. Sympathetic to their plight, William James Moriarty wants to topple it all. Frustrated by the systemic inequity, Moriarty strategizes to fix the entire nation. Not even consulting detective Sherlock Holmes can stand in his way. It's time for crime to revolutionize the world!



Note: The first episode received an early screening on September 21st, 2020. The regular TV broadcast started on October 11th, 2020.

Tags: Anti-Hero , Class Struggle , Crime , Foreign , Detective , Conspiracy , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Primarily Male Cast , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Mafia , Politics , Episodic , Ships , Guns , Gore , Shounen , Adoption

Flip Flappers

Also known as FLIP FLAPPERS.

Studio: Studio 3Hz , Infinite , Happinet , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , GAGA , Lantis , Medicos Entertainment , AT-X , Sotsu , BS Fuji , TOKYO MX , Ray
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Psychological , Sci-Fi

As a middle school student, Cocona has been trying to decide what to do with her life. Magical Girl, however, wasn’t a career path that she’d ever considered. When suddenly a strange girl named Papika thrusts her into a secret organization called Flip Flap, Cocona’s outlook does a radical flip-flop. Her views start to change when she is dragged into an alternate dimension called Pure Illusion where she’s charged with gathering crystal shards and fighting strange creatures. Now, between running missions and facing off against a rival organization, Cocona doesn’t have much time to consider alternate career choices. What are these shards, and why is gathering them so important? There’s a mystery to be solved and multiple worlds to be saved in FLIP FLAPPERS!



Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Henshin , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Meta , Magic , Kemonomimi , Desert , Archery , Guns , Urban , Urban Fantasy , Swordplay , Robots , Primarily Female Cast , Surreal Comedy , Memory Manipulation , Super Power , Dissociative Identities , Cult , Time Manipulation , Episodic , Age Regression , Isekai , Tragedy , Twins , Surfing , School , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Super Robot , Parody , Yandere , Heterosexual

Baccano!

Also known as Baccano!.

Studio: Aniplex , Brain's Base , Aniplex of America , Sakura Create , Happinet Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Supernatural

During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling aide Ennis, are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixir. In addition, a war between the mafia groups is getting worse. On board the Advena Avis, in 1711, alchemists are about to learn the price of immortality.

Based on the award winning light novels of the same name, this anime adaptation follows several events that initially seem unrelated, both in time and place, but are part of a much bigger story—one of alchemy, survival and immortality. Merging these events together are the kindhearted would-be thieves, Isaac and Miria, connecting various people, all of them with their own hidden ambitions and agendas, and creating lifelong bonds and consequences for everyone involved.



Tags: Mafia , Ensemble Cast , Crime , Achronological Order , Alchemy , Historical , Trains , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Foreign , Noir , Primarily Adult Cast , Guns , Gore , Urban , Torture , Vore , Demons , Surreal Comedy , Travel , Meta , Disability

Spy Kyoushitsu 2nd season

Also known as Spy Classroom Season 2.

Studio: KADOKAWA , feel. , AT-X , Movic , BS Nittele
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mystery

The second season of Spy Kyoushitsu.

Four members of the Din Republic's spy team Lamplight embark on a mission to capture an enemy spy. Although they struggle to work together due to their clashing personalities, Thea, Monika, Erna, and Annett complete their objective. While enjoying a short break, the four girls encounter a woman named Matilda, who claims to be Annett's mother. As they get to know Matilda, the team is dragged into an escalating conflict that tests their teamwork and allegiances.

Meanwhile, the remaining Lamplight members notice that the dispatched squad has yet to report back. Worried about their allies, Klaus and Lily set out on an emergency expedition to locate their missing teammates. As the two uncover troubling information about rising tensions in the area where their friends last were, they must act quickly to reassemble the team before the mission reaches the point of no return.



Tags: Espionage , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Guns , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Urban , Asexual , Achronological Order , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Harem , Adoption