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Aggressive Retsuko

Also known as Aggretsuko.

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Some offices have stereotypical dynamics: the chauvinistic pig of a boss who never does any real work; the employees whose goal is to suck up to the boss; the ones whose lives seem perfect; and the individuals who have all the actual work pushed onto them. Retsuko the red panda is in the last group, as she stays late most nights to make up the work her coworkers are too lazy to do themselves.

Her relief from the stress of her everyday life comes in the form of singing death metal at a local karaoke club. Night after night, Retsuko channels her grief into a microphone and considers the place to be her own personal sanctuary. But as she moves further away from her comfort zone and the ideas people have of her, she discovers that letting others into her world of death metal may not be such a bad thing.

Tags: Work , Office Lady , Anthropomorphism , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Female Protagonist , Animals , Metal Music , Chibi , Office , Primarily Animal Cast , Unrequited Love , Flash , Rock Music

Detroit Metal City

Studio: Studio 4°C
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music

Led by phallus-waiving terrorist-from-hell Johannes Krauser II (guitar/vocals,) and given pulsing, throbbing life by indestructible drummer Camus and bassist Alexander Jagi, Detroit Metal City is the hottest ticket on the concert circuit! There's just one catch. That "hottest ticket" is just a meal ticket, and beneath the makeup, these ultimate head-bangers are hired doppelgangers who don't even LIKE what they do! Jaggi is actually Wada, who wants to play glam rock; Camus is Nishida, an anime fan with an appalling weakness for curry and NSFW videos; and Krauser is... oh the shame... street-singing Soichi Negishi, whose dreams of singing happy pop hits seem hopelessly doomed by the success of his rage-fueled alter ego! Worse, he can't even tell anyone who Krauser is. Not even the girl he likes, who HATES DMC! Will rage against the corporate machine consume Negishi's tortured soul? Is there life after death metal? What it's like to put your head in a jet engine and turn up the volume?



Tags: Band , Surreal Comedy , Parody , Metal Music , College , Urban , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Gender Bending , Rural , Drugs

Aggressive Retsuko Season 2

Also known as Aggretsuko: Season 2.

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Red panda Retsuko continues to work at her cyclic office job, with the occasional stress-venting via death metal karaoke on the side. With the company of her newfound friends Gori and Washimi, life is more enjoyable than ever before. But some new shake-ups to her status quo threaten to add more stress to her life. At the office, new employee Anai seems like a fine addition to the company. Yet when Retsuko is placed in charge of his training, she finds that beneath his steadfast dedication, he may pose a threat to the stability of the workplace. Meanwhile, at home, Retsuko's mother pays an abrupt visit, fully intent on having her daughter finally settle down and find a man. With this in mind, she sets Retsuko up for various marriage appointments, much to her chagrin.

Now, Retsuko finds all the more reasons to head to the karaoke bar and unleash her furious diatribes. However, knowing that this will not truly solve her problems, she decides to make a more spontaneous choice to avoid her issues. And so, Retsuko finds herself set upon another self-reflecting journey, coming to learn more about herself and love, with the ever cathartic support of death metal karaoke.

Tags: Work , Female Protagonist , Anthropomorphism , Animals , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Metal Music , Chibi , Office Lady , Office , Coming of Age , Musical Theater , Love Triangle , Primarily Animal Cast , Unrequited Love , Heterosexual , Flash

Aggressive Retsuko Season 3

Also known as Aggretsuko: Season 3.

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Retsuko’s rage rises another octave when she finds herself moonlighting with an underground idol group to pay off her debts.



Tags: Anthropomorphism , Female Protagonist , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Metal Music , Animals , Urban , Idol , Office Lady , Chibi , Primarily Animal Cast , Unrequited Love , Gyaru , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Flash

Aggressive Retsuko

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

The show centers on Retsuko, a 25-year old red panda who works in her dream company's accounting department. But it turns out that she is forced to keep doing more and more impossible tasks by her superiors and co-workers. She doesn't talk back to them, but she still has to let off steam, so she ends up going to karaoke by herself and singing death metal.



Tags: Episodic , Work , Office Lady , Primarily Adult Cast , Animals , Chibi , Female Protagonist , Metal Music , Satire , Anthropomorphism , Primarily Animal Cast , Office , Flash

Aggressive Retsuko Season 4

Also known as Aggretsuko: Season 4.

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

The fourth season of Aggressive Retsuko.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Office Lady , Anthropomorphism , Female Protagonist , Urban , Animals , Chibi , Metal Music , Espionage , Primarily Animal Cast , Flash , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love

Aggressive Retsuko: We Wish You A Metal Christmas

Also known as Aggretsuko: We Wish You A Metal Christmas.

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Red panda Retsuko, worked to the bone, unleashes her frustration in the form of death metal. Lately, though, she's found another joy—getting the most likes possible on her Instagram posts. In fact, it is said that social media attention can release endorphins. As Christmas falls upon the city, Retsuko's hunger for validation only grows, pushing her to find new ways to embellish and sugarcoat her otherwise drab life for the internet to see.

Tags: Urban , Metal Music , Snowscape , Animals , Female Protagonist , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Animal Cast

Aggressive Retsuko Season 5

Also known as Aggretsuko: Season 5.

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

The fifth and final season of Aggressive Retsuko.

Tags: Anthropomorphism , Female Protagonist , Chibi , Urban , Metal Music , Animals , Primarily Adult Cast , Office Lady , Flash , Homeless , Primarily Animal Cast , Politics , Idol , Video Games

Kachou Ouji

Also known as The Legend of Black Heaven.

Studio: AIC , APPP
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Music , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Ouji Tanaka has a wife, a child and a mundane job as a salary man in Tokyo's modern society. But life wasn't dull for him to begin with; 15 years ago, he was known as "Gabriel", leader of a short-lived heavy metal band called Black Heaven. Ouji's life gets a sudden change in direction when he is invited by a mysterious blonde woman named Layla to pick up his Gibson Flying V and once again display his "legendary" guitar skills, not knowing that his music generates power for a massive weapon in an intergalactic war.



Tags: Band , Family Life , Space , Male Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , War , Rock Music , Metal Music , Netorare , Rotoscoping , CGI , Nudity

Haigakura

Also known as HAIGAKURA.

Studio: TYPHOON GRAPHICS
Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Nozomu wants to be a writer, but for now she's just trying to find the right story. Walking home from school one day she bumps into some guys, and even though it's an accident, they hassle her until she is saved by a mysterious man. His name is Ichiyou, and he is searching for Gods. Nozomu sends him along his way only to be approached by Tenkou, who is searching for his Master. Nozomu reunites Ichiyou and Tenkou; (and their abusive relationship), and gets a view of another world. The two men are on a journey to find the Gods. The world that was once supported by four evil Gods, has fallen to a crisis. Using song and dance, it is up to the kashikans to bring back the Gods which fled from their confinement…

Tags: Josei , Gods , Magic , Metal Music , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Achronological Order , Primarily Male Cast

Detroit Metal City: Birth of the Metal Devil

Also known as Detroit Metal City: Birth of the Metal Devil.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Romance

This is a special introductory episode of Detroit Metal City.

Tags: Parody , Band , Metal Music , Male Protagonist , Seinen

BanG Dream! Ave Mujica

Status: Not_Yet_Released
Genres: Drama , Music , Slice of Life

The latest anime project in the BanG Dream! franchise, spotlighting the band members in Ave Mujica.

Tags: Band , Rock Music , Primarily Female Cast , Metal Music , Female Protagonist , Full CGI

Aggressive Girl

Also known as Aggressive Girl.

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres:

Music video of OTMGirls feat. Aggretsuko performing the song 'Aggressive Girl'

Tags: Metal Music , Idol , Primarily Animal Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Adult Cast

Oshiri Kajiri Mushi 1

Also known as Bottom Biting Bug.

Studio: Kinema Citrus
Status: Finished
Genres:

A gag comedy about Oshiri Kajiri Mushi XVIII, a 10-year-old insect who goes to Biting School to inherit his family's Biting Shop business.



Tags: Full CGI , Suicide , Nudity , Kids , Drugs , Metal Music , CGI