Anime like Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai

also known as This Ugly Yet Beautiful World

What is This Ugly Yet Beautiful World about?

Studio: Gainax
Status: Finished

High school student Takeru Takemoto works part time as a (motor)bike courier. During one of his deliveries, he saw a mysterious light passing him and fell into a forest. What he had found was a beautiful girl coming out from a glowing cocoon, calling herself "Hikari." While Takeru was quite embarrassed because of Hikari's nudity, a strange monster suddenly showed up and immediately attacked the two. Both Takeru and Hikari demonstrated the power of their other selves before Takeru had a clue of what's going on.



Tags: Philosophy , Coming of Age , Magic , Rural , Henshin , Kaiju , Nudity , Motorcycles , Love Triangle , Super Power , Aliens
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Elfen Lied

Elfen Lied

Also known as Elfen Lied.

Studio: VAP , Arms , Genco , ADV Films , A Line
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Horror , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

The Diclonius, a mutated homosapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possess two horns on their heads and have a "sixth sense" which gives them telekinetic abilities. Due to this dangerous power, they have been captured and isolated in laboratories by the government. Lucy, a young and psychotic Diclonius, manages to break free of her confines and brutally murders most of the guards in the laboratory where she is being held, only to be shot in the head as she makes her escape. She survives, falling off a cliff into the ocean and manages to drift along to a beach where two teenagers, Kouta and Yuka, discover her. Having lost her memories, she was named after the only thing that she can now say, "Nyuu," and the two allow her to stay at Kouta's home. However, it appears that the psychotic side of Lucy is not dead just yet...



Tags: Gore , Fugitive , Amnesia , Super Power , Monster Girl , Dissociative Identities , Tragedy , Seinen , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Body Horror , Revenge , Yandere , Love Triangle , Conspiracy , Incest , Primarily Female Cast , Bullying , Male Protagonist , Kemonomimi , Military , Heterosexual , Family Life , Rural , Primarily Teen Cast , Coastal , Female Harem , Slapstick , Disability , Tsundere , Cyborg , Cohabitation
Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden

Mahoromatic

Also known as Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden.

Studio: Gainax , Shaft , TBS , Pioneer LDC , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Sci-Fi

Vesper is a secret agency fighting an army of alien invaders by using super-powerful battle androids. Mahoro is Vesper's most powerful battle android and has won many battles, but she has little operating time left and soon will cease to function. However, if she lays down her arms and conserves her remaining power, the time she has left can be prolonged to just over a year. Mahoro is given an opportunity to live the remaining time she has as a normal human. She chooses to live as a maid for Suguru, a phenomenally messy high school student who lives by himself after his family passed away.



Tags: Maids , Robots , Heterosexual , Military , Aliens , Nudity , Found Family , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Teacher , School
Comet Lucifer

Comet Lucifer

Also known as Comet Lucifer.

Studio: 8-bit
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Mecha

The story takes place on the planet Gift, where precious crystals called Giftjium are buried in the earth. A young man named Sōgo lives in Garden Indigo, a prosperous mining town. Sougo's hobby is to collect rare crystals. One day, he gets wrapped up in a riot caused by his classmates Kaon, Roman, and Otto, and he loses his way until he finds a lake deep under the ground's mining ruins. There, he meets a mysterious girl with blue hair and red eyes that gaze straight ahead. The story follows the adventure of what happens after this meeting.



Tags: Robots , Real Robot , Aliens , Male Protagonist , Cyberpunk , Steampunk , Angels , Space , Female Protagonist
Arjuna

Chikyuu Shoujo Arjuna

Also known as Arjuna.

Studio: Bandai Visual , Satelight , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Sci-Fi

Juna was just an ordinary high-school girl, right up until the day she died in a motorcycle accident. But there, in the twilight of death, she saw the future of the barren earth destroyed by the Raaja, and was offered a second chance at life if she would stop them. Now she must learn to cast aside her thoughtlessly destructive ways and face her destiny as the Avatar of Time, the one being who can decide the fate of the planet.



Tags: Environmental , Eco-Horror , Urban Fantasy , Magic , CGI , Gods , Reincarnation , Educational , Female Protagonist , Motorcycles , Agriculture , Rural , Coastal , Archery , Pandemic , Love Triangle
Fractale

Fractale

Also known as Fractale.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Funimation , Ordet , Asmik Ace , Sony Music Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

The story takes place on an island, where a "Fractale System" is beginning to collapse. One day, Clain finds an injured girl called Phryne under a cliff. She disappears leaving a pendant. Clain sets out for a journey with the girl-shaped avatar Nessa to look for Phryne and discovers the secret of the Fractale System.

Tags: Virtual World , Clone , Dystopian , Cult , Augmented Reality , Terrorism , Nun , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Artificial Intelligence , Aviation , Amnesia , Body Swapping , Time Skip

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