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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 , Male Protagonist , Urban , Dystopian , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Dissociative Identities , Chuunibyou , Tsundere , Otaku Culture , Denpa , Heterosexual , Kuudere , Suicide , Ensemble Cast , Amnesia , War , Post-Apocalyptic , Gender Bending , Maids , Shrine Maiden , Trains

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: Time Manipulation , Time Loop , Urban Fantasy , Shapeshifting , Reincarnation , Super Power , Tragedy , Mythology , Alternate Universe , Rural , Religion , Primarily Teen Cast , Body Swapping , Coastal , Ensemble Cast , Dissociative Identities , Cosmic Horror , Survival , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Gore , Body Horror , Amnesia , Aliens , Ghost , Guns , Shounen , Nudity , Denpa , Tanned Skin , Unrequited Love , Love Triangle

ISLAND

Also known as ISLAND.

Studio: feel. , Top Marshal , Crunchyroll , bilibili , MAGES. , Yomiuri TV Enterprise , Studio Mausu , Front Wing
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Romance , Sci-Fi

Urashima, an island far from the mainland. The people who live there lead carefree lives. But five years ago, the island's three great families suffered a series of misfortunes, and succumbed to suspicion. The people of the island cut off all contact with the mainland, and began a slow decline. The key to saving the island lies in three girls who belong to the three families. But they are bound by old traditions, and are conflicted. On that island, a lone man washes ashore. The man claims to be from the future, and he begins a solitary struggle to change the island's fate.



Tags: Time Skip , Amnesia , Tragedy , Time Manipulation , Heterosexual , Coastal , Love Triangle , Female Harem , Shrine Maiden , Male Protagonist , Tsundere

Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu

Also known as Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-.

Studio: WHITE FOX , Funimation , Kadokawa Shoten , Media Factory , AT-X , TV Tokyo , Magic Capsule
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Romance , Thriller

In the story, Subaru Natsuki is an ordinary high school student who is lost in an alternate world, where he is rescued by a beautiful, silver-haired girl. He stays near her to return the favor, but the destiny she is burdened with is more than Subaru can imagine. Enemies attack one by one, and both of them are killed. He then finds out he has the power to rewind death, back to the time he first came to this world. But only he remembers what has happened since.



Notes:
The first episode aired with a runtime of ~50 minutes as opposed to the standard 25 minute long episode.
In the Winter 2020 season, Re:ZERO was rebroadcast and re-edited to fit into an hour time-slot. This edit included the first OVA and added slight modifications to certain scenes throughout. It also added an additional scene at the end of the final episode.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Isekai , Time Loop , Tragedy , Alternate Universe , Male Protagonist , Witch , Magic , Gore , Cult , Unrequited Love , Love Triangle , Body Horror , Heterosexual , Maids , Suicide , Primarily Female Cast , Elf , Yandere , Demons , Politics , Femboy , Butler , Coming of Age , Tomboy , Travel , Twins , Assassins , Seinen , Kemonomimi , CGI , Meta , Kuudere , Nekomimi , Dragons , Body Swapping , Crossdressing , Tsundere , Foreign , Curses , Cohabitation , Medieval

Plunderer

Also known as Plunderer.

Studio: GEEKTOYS , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Fantasy , Romance

Every human inhabiting the world of Alcia is branded by a “Count” or a number written on their body. Depending on how each person lives their life, this Count either goes up or down. For Hina’s mother, her total drops to 0 and she’s pulled into the Abyss, never to be seen again. But her mother’s last words send Hina on a quest to find a legendary hero from the Waste War—the fabled Ace!



Tags: War , Post-Apocalyptic , Military , Tragedy , Magic , Time Manipulation , Fugitive , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Swordplay , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Tanned Skin , Lost Civilization , Isekai , School

Sword Art Online

Also known as Sword Art Online.

Studio: Aniplex , A-1 Pictures , Genco , DAX Production , Aniplex of America , ASCII Media Works
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Romance

In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology called Nerve Gear. One day, players discover they cannot log out, as the game creator is holding them captive unless they reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they die in real life. Their struggle for survival starts now...



Tags: Virtual World , Isekai , Death Game , Video Games , Male Protagonist , Swordplay , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Primarily Female Cast , Female Harem , Unrequited Love , Artificial Intelligence , Travel , Fairy , Time Skip , Found Family , Tragedy , Incest , Prison , Fishing , Amnesia , Primarily Male Cast , Inseki , Rescue

Sagrada Reset

Also known as Sagrada Reset.

Studio: David Production , flying DOG , Asmik Ace , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Media Factory , BS11 , A-Sketch , Radio Osaka , Parco , Teichiku Entertainment , Sony PCL , e-notion , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Mystery , Romance , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

The ability to reset time might seem like the ultimate superpower, but if you forget what was going to happen when you reset it, how would you know what you needed to change? Or if you'd make things better or worse? That's the paradox that faces Misora Haruki until she's paired with Kei Asai, who remembers everything, even if they happened in timelines that have been reset. But there's still a catch: each reset point can be used only once and anything that happens in the 24 hours before a new one can be set will be locked in time forever.

In a town where a mysterious agency seems to be controlling everything from the shadows and everyone has unexpected powers, the lives of Kei and Misora's friends and classmates will depend on how carefully they can use the Sagrada Reset.



Tags: Time Manipulation , Super Power , Philosophy , Detective , Meta , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Conspiracy , Amnesia , Kuudere , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , School , Tragedy , School Club

Tokyo Ghoul

Also known as Tokyo Ghoul.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Marvelous , TC Entertainment , Studio Pierrot
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

The suspense horror/dark fantasy story is set in Tokyo, which is haunted by mysterious "ghouls" who are devouring humans. People are gripped by the fear of these ghouls whose identities are masked in mystery. An ordinary college student named Kaneki encounters Rize, a girl who is an avid reader like him, at the café he frequents. Little does he realize that his fate will change overnight.



Tags: Gore , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Survival , Torture , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Anti-Hero , Seinen , Coming of Age , Urban , Police , Cannibalism , Detective , Crime , Henshin , Primarily Adult Cast , Mythology , Heterosexual , College

16bit Sensation: ANOTHER LAYER

Also known as 16bit Sensation: Another Layer.

Studio: Aniplex , Studio Silver , BS11 , TOKYO MX , Contents Seed
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Konoha Akisato is an illustrator that loves beautiful girls and bishojo games. Her dream is to become a super-popular illustrator, so she is working hard at a bishojo game production company, but reality isn't that kind... With the golden age of social network games in full force, Konoha's company isn't doing well, and she works as a sub illustrator, spending her days painting the backs of random background characters.

One day, the owner of a game shop gives her a classic bishojo game. With all her excitement over the golden age of bishojo games, she opens the package to "Dokyusei," and is enveloped by a bright light. Konoha then realizes that she just traveled back in time!

She ends up in the year 1992! It's the dawn of the bishojo game era! Konoha ends up working at a company called Alcohol Soft. Will she be able to think about, draw, and create all the beautiful girls she’s ever wanted?!

A story about a girl and her overwhelming love for beautiful girls—"Now, let's begin!"



Tags: Video Games , Software Development , Time Manipulation , Otaku Culture , Work , Female Protagonist , Drawing , Primarily Adult Cast , Historical , Anachronism , Aliens , Urban , Dystopian , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Age Gap

Rewrite

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

Rewrite is set in the fictional city Kazamatsuri, where treeplanting and afforestation have caused the city to become overgrown with trees and flowers in much the same way that other cities are filled by buildings. However, while most of the city appears to be rural, there are many traditional city elements as well. While set in a modern setting, the city also gives off a strange sense of nostalgia.

Tennouji Kotarou lives here. He's a high school student who has the ability to rewrite his own body; he can become stronger and faster at any time he chooses. He investigates supernatural mysteries with five girls from his school.



Note: The first episode aired with a runtime of 48 minutes as opposed to the standard 24 minute long episode.

Tags: Tragedy , Super Power , Male Protagonist , School Club , Primarily Female Cast , School , Reincarnation , Female Harem , CGI , Kuudere