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Shadows House

Also known as SHADOWS HOUSE.

Studio: CloverWorks , Aniplex , WOWOW , Shueisha , TOKYO MX , BS Asahi , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Horror , Mystery , Slice of Life , Supernatural

High atop a cliff sits the mansion known as Shadows House, home to a faceless clan that pretends to live like nobles. They express their emotions through living dolls that also endlessly clean the home of soot. One such servant, Emilico, aids her master Kate as they learn more about themselves and the mysteries of the house.



Tags: Conspiracy , Slavery , Maids , Female Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Butler , Primarily Child Cast , Seinen , Ojou-sama , Fairy , Death Game , Drugs , Amnesia , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Kuudere , Demons

DearS

Also known as DearS.

Studio: Bandai Visual , Hal Film Maker , Genco , Lantis , Daume , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Sci-Fi

Ikuhara Takeya is a high school student living a normal life. He is not interested in the commotion around a UFO filled with beautiful alien females that crashed on earth a year ago. The aliens, known as DearS, are deciding to take permanent residence on earth. What no one knows is that these aliens are a slave species whose sole purpose is to serve and please their masters. One day, Takeya spots a person shivering behind some bushes. This person, Ren, is one of the DearS, and after being saved by Takeya she chooses him as her master. Takeya, who doesn't know about the master-slave relationship of DearS, tries to teach Ren the normal lifestyle of the people on earth, though he constantly fears that Ren is an evil alien who's trying to brainwash him. Ren, however, isn't like other DearS. She is in fact malfunctioning and is being tracked down by their leader. Meanwhile, Takeya begins to learn more about DearS, and a mythical DearS relationship called “Gift” begins to develop between them.



Tags: Aliens , Slavery , Female Harem , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast

Rewrite 2nd Season

Also known as Rewrite: Moon and Terra.

Studio: 8-bit , Aniplex , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Visual Arts , Movic , Magic Capsule , ASCII Media Works , Bushiroad , TOKYO MX , BS11 , Lawson Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

Second season of Rewrite, covering the Moon and Terra routes.

Tags: Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Primarily Female Cast , Post-Apocalyptic , Super Power , Military , Kuudere

Monogatari Series: Second Season

Also known as Monogatari Series Second Season.

Studio: Shaft , Kodansha , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

Second season of the Monogatari Series, part 1/2. Contains the arcs Tsubasa Tiger, Mayoi Jiangshi, Nadeko Medusa, Shinobu Time, and Hitagi End, from the Nekomonogatari White, Kabukimonogatari, Otorimonogatari, Onimonogatari and Koimonogatari light novels, respectively.

These stories take place after the end of the summer vacation when the apparition of the bee had left and the apparition of the phoenix avoided any consequences… Now that Koyomi Araragi and the girls were entering their new school terms, they were once again about to encounter supernatural beings…but this time, they may not be so easy to deal with.

Tsubasa Hanekawa, Mayoi Hachikuji, Nadeko Sengoku, Shinobu Oshino, and finally Hitagi Senjougahara. The girls’ loneliness, their confessions, and their departures… 5 new “stories” begin now.



Notes:
Includes 3 recap episodes from the TV version (Ep. 6, 11, 16).
The recap episodes were not included in the Blu-Ray version of the anime.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Youkai , Philosophy , Yandere , Primarily Female Cast , Achronological Order , Anti-Hero , Unrequited Love , Vampire , Gods , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Time Manipulation , Ghost , Female Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Meta , Alternate Universe , Nekomimi , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Harem , Nudity , Zombie , Tomboy

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai

Also known as When They Cry Kai.

Studio: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Studio DEEN , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

Continuing from the first series, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai begins to shed some light on the dark mysteries prevalent in the preceding season. The young group of friends in the town of Hinamizawa continue to enter terrible conflicts with one another in their never ending summer of 1983, often ending with the brutal murder of one of their numbers. Furude Rika, with the help of her spiritual friend Hanyuu, tackles challenges over and over, trying her best to keep their lives from coming to a tragic end. With no end to the torture in sight, Rika must call upon the bonds of friendship and trust among her friends to discover the true villain of this eternal June.

Tags: Denpa , Time Loop , Alternate Universe , Time Manipulation , Conspiracy , Ensemble Cast , Rural , Torture , Female Protagonist , Gods , Twins , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Female Cast , Shrine Maiden , Gore , Body Horror , Kuudere , School , Historical , Politics , School Club , Mythology , Military , Primarily Teen Cast , Crossdressing

Chobits

Also known as Chobits.

Studio: MADHOUSE , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Funimation , TBS , Pioneer LDC
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance , Sci-Fi

In the future, personal computers have developed into "Persocoms", mobile computers that look like human beings. Hideki Motosuwa, a prep school student, desperately wants to buy a Persocom but cannot afford to. One day he finds a Persocom that has been thrown away and decides to keep it. When he turns on the Persocom, all she can say is "Chii" so he decides to name her that. After a while it starts to become apparent that Chii is more than an average Persocom. Having much better performance, it seems that Chii might be a "Chobit", a type of advanced Persocom rumored to have independent thought.



Tags: Artificial Intelligence , Philosophy , Amnesia , Robots , Memory Manipulation , Heterosexual , Seinen , Dissociative Identities , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , Nudity , Twins , Henshin , Conspiracy , Age Gap

Shugo Chara!! Doki

Also known as Shugo Chara!! Doki.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Satelight
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

With things having quieted down a bit for the Guardians, they can now focus on things besides fending off the peril of the evil Easter Corporation. Amu is having some troubles deciding which guy she likes the most, and hiding Ikuto in her room. Not only does the Embryo still elude the Guardians, and worries of Easter being suspiciously inactive, the threat of a new X Egg appears...

Tags: Magic , School , Shoujo , Urban Fantasy , Henshin , School Club , Nekomimi , Coming of Age , Super Power , Anti-Hero , Fairy Tale , Homeless , Estranged Family , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Kuudere , Idol , Fashion , Tragedy , Family Life , Astronomy , Rehabilitation , Tomboy

Shadows House 2nd Season

Also known as SHADOWS HOUSE 2nd Season.

Studio: Aniplex , CloverWorks , Shueisha , TOKYO MX , BS Asahi , WOWOW
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Horror , Mystery , Slice of Life , Supernatural

After finishing their "debut," Kate, Emilico and three other pairs who started with them begin a new life as adults. With the mystery of the "Shadows House" still unsolved, a new incident occurs in the children's wing. Kate and Emilico, whom the Star Bearers suspect of being malcontents, investigate a mysterious robed Shadow who may be the culprit.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Ojou-sama , Conspiracy , Memory Manipulation , Slavery , Seinen , Maids , Kuudere , Butler , Cosmic Horror , Tragedy , Drugs , Ensemble Cast , Amnesia , Urban Fantasy , Suicide , Twins

Dantalian no Shoka

Also known as The Mystic Archives of Dantalian.

Studio: Gainax , TV Tokyo , Kadokawa Shoten , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , KLOCKWORX , NTT Docomo , Dwango , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Supernatural

Hugh Anthony Disward inherits an old mansion and a personal library from his grandfather. In the basement of the mansion, he meets a mysterious girl, Dalian. She is a Dantalian and a gateway to "Dantalian's bookshelf", which stores the prohibited books of the demons.

"Gensho (Illusory Books)", the prohibited books, endanger the balance of the world, but people are fascinated by the taboo. Hugh and Dalian solve the cases involving Gensho with their ability to access the Dantalian bookshelf.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Foreign , Magic , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Mythology , Primarily Adult Cast , Historical , Guns , Yandere , Rural , Classic Literature , Ojou-sama , Alchemy , Motorcycles , Military , Demons , Tsundere , Amnesia , Religion , Drugs , Suicide , Writing , Robots , Aviation , Crossdressing , Dragons

GOSICK

Also known as Gosick.

Studio: bones , TV Tokyo , Kadokawa Shoten , Bandai Entertainment , KLOCKWORX , Memory-Tech , NTT Docomo
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Romance

Kazuya Kujou is a foreign student at Saint Marguerite Academy, a luxurious boarding school in the Southern European country of Sauville. Originally from Japan, his jet-black hair and dark brown eyes cause his peers to shun him and give him the nickname "Black Reaper," based on a popular urban legend about the traveler who brings death in the spring.

On a day like any other, Kujou visits the school's extravagant library in search of ghost stories. However, his focus soon changes as he becomes curious about a golden strand of hair on the stairs. The steps lead him to a large garden and a beautiful doll-like girl known as Victorique de Blois, whose complex and imaginative foresight allows her to predict their futures, now intertwined.

With more mysteries quickly developing—including the appearance of a ghost ship and an alchemist with the power of transmutation—Victorique and Kujou, bound by fate and their unique skills, have no choice but to rely on each other.



Tags: Detective , Crime , Foreign , Historical , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Guns , Alchemy , Royal Affairs , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Kuudere , Male Protagonist , War , Love Triangle , School , Bullying , Twins , Tomboy , Trains , Time Skip , Military ,