Macross Frontier (Macross F)


Genres: adventure, drama, romance, science fiction
Themes: Mecha, Military, Real Robot
Plot Summary: Macross Frontier marks the 25th anniversary of the Macross anime franchise. It is a direct sequel to the first Macross series and Macross 7 and follows the lives of Alto Saotome, Ranka Lee and a pop idol named Sheryl Nome on board the Macross Frontier colonization fleet. After the war against the Zentradi aliens, Humankind has spread across the universe in order to ensure its survival. The Macross Frontier fleet is part of a effort to spread and maintain the culture of humanity.
Number of episodes: 25
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8586
http://www.macrossf.com/
Nabari no Ō (Nabari no Ou/隠の王)




Genres: action, comedy, drama, supernatural
Themes: modern ninjas
Plot Summary: Rokujou Miharu is a boy who has a hijutsu (hidden technique) living inside of him. This hijutsu is the power of creation. Many ninja clans are seeking it as the one who possesses it becomes the ruler of the ninja world. Rokujou's classmate Kouichi started a nindou ("Way of the Ninja") club at school with Kumohira, his English teacher. Both Kouichi and Kumohira are secretly ninjas. They tried to persuade Rokujou to join the ninjutsu club. At first, he was reluctant, but after being attacked by group of ninjas trying to get his hijutsu, he joins. He must become the Ruler of Nabari in order to survive.
Number of episodes: 26
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9102
http://www.nabari.tv/index0.html
S.A (Special A)




Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Plot Summary: Hikari Hanazono, the main character, has always been second to Kei Takishima. While Hikari considers Kei a rival and somewhat of a friend, Kei loves Hikari. Everyone knows this, but she is too dense to notice. Their wrestling loving fathers first introduced them to one another when they were 6 years old. Assuming that she was the best in wrestling, young Hikari challenged Kei to a wrestling match only to be thoroughly defeated by him. Ever since that fateful incident, Hikari swore to beat Kei in school grades, a sporting event - anything. To do this she has enrolled in the same school as Kei since elementary. Now she attends Hakusenkan, an ultra elite school, that costs her carpenter father a lot of money. Hikari and Kei are the top two students in the school, with Kei holding firmly to that number one position.
Number of episodes: 24
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8769
http://special-a.jp/
Vampire Knight


Genres: drama, romance, supernatural
Themes: Girls with guns, Gothic Lolita, Male harem, Vampires
Plot Summary: Yuki's earliest memory is of a stormy night in winter, wherein she was attacked by a vampire... And then rescued by another. Now 10 years later, Yuki Cross, the adopted daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, has grown up and become a guardian of the vampire race, protecting her savior, Kaname, from discovery as he leads a group of vampires at the elite boarding school. But also at her side is Zero Kiryu, a childhood friend who’s hatred for the creatures that destroyed everything he held dear, is now determined never to trust them. This coexisting arrangement seems all well and good, but have the vampires truly renounced their murderous ways, or is there a darker truth behind their actions. Is Kaname's infatuation with Yuki the beginning of a forbidden romance, or is it something in her forgotten past that draws him to her. Because in this world of secrets, nothing is as it seems. And the price of misplaced trust may even be worse than death.
Number of episodes: 26
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9009
http://www.vampire-knight.jp/
Kure-nai (紅)

Genres: action, comedy, drama
Plot Summary: Based on a series of light novels, Kure-nai is about the adventures and misadventures of 16-year-old Kurenai Shinkurou. Shinkurou is an authority in settling disputes between people, and finds his life turned upside down one day when he is assigned as a bodyguard for Kuhouin Murasaki, the daughter of a powerful plutocratic family.
Number of episodes: 12
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8518
http://www.samidareso.com/
To Love-Ru (o LOVEru -Toraburu)


Genres: action, comedy, romance, science fiction
Themes: Ecchi
Plot Summary: The story is about Yuuki Rito, a high-school boy who cannot confess to the girl of his dreams, Sairenji Haruna. One day when coming home and sulking in the bath-tub a mysterious, nude girl, appears out of nowhere. Her name is Lala and she comes from the planet Deviluke, where she is the heir to the throne. Her father wants her to return to her home planet so she can marry one of the husband candidates, but she decides that she wants to marry Rito in order to stay on Earth.
Number of episodes: 26
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9091
http://www.j-toloveru.com/
xxxHHOLiC: Kei (xxxHOLiC◆継)

Genres: comedy, drama, fantasy, horror, mystery, psychological, slice of life, supernatural
Plot Summary: Still working to get his wish complete, Watanuki finds himself into more mess than he can handle when certain facts about his everyday life gets revealed and when he needs to learn the lesson of Yuuko the hard way.
Number of episodes: 13
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8551
http://www.tbs.co.jp/holic/
Kanokon

Genres: comedy, romance, supernatural
Themes: Ecchi
Plot Summary: Kanokon's story revolves around Kouta Oyamada, a young first-year high school student who moves from the country to the city and thus transfers to Kunpo High School. On his first day at his new school, a beautiful second-year female student named Chizuru Minamoto asks him to meet her alone in the music room. When he arrives, she reveals her that she is in fact a fox deity and from that day on the two hang out together. Nozomu is a first year female student at Kouta's school, she is in fact a wolf deity and in love with Kouta, and a rival of Chizuru for Kouta's affections.
unning time: half hour
Number of episodes: 12
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9000
http://www.kanokon.com/
Itazura na Kiss (Mischievious Kiss)


Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Plot Summary: In the romantic comedy story, a high school girl named Kotoko finally tells a fellow senior named Naoki that she has loved him from afar since she saw him on their first day of high school. However, Naoki, a haughty "super-ikemen" (handsome male) with smarts and sports talent, rejects her offhand. Fate intervenes when a mild earthquake ruins Kotoko's family house. While the house gets rebuilt, Kotoko and her dad stay at the home of her dad's childhood friend...whose son is Naoki.
Number of episodes: 26
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9193
http://itakiss-anime.jp/index.htm
Soul Eater



Genres: action, adventure, comedy, supernatural
Plot Summary: Set in the Shinigami technical school for weapon meisters, the series revolves around 3 groups of each a weapon meister and a human weapon. Trying to make the latter a "Death Scythe" and thus fit for use by the Shinigami, they must collect the souls of 99 evil humans and 1 witch.
Number of episodes: 51
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9070
http://www.souleater.tv/
Kamen no Maid Guy (Masked Maid Guy/仮面のメイドガイ)







Genres: comedy
Themes: ecchi, Maids
Plot Summary: Fumiwara Naeka is a granddaughter of a billionaire and the heir to his fortune. She is pursued by those who desire her inheritance. In order to protect her from them, an agent is dispatched in the form of a male maid, who looks like a masculine samurai wearing a mask and has teeth like a shark's. Wearing a maid uniform, Kogarashi gives his best effort to serve Naeka. His noisy and pushy services make her daily life exciting.
Number of episodes: 12
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8193
http://www.maidguy.com/
Amatsuki

Genres: adventure, fantasy
Themes: Historical
Plot Summary: Ordinary high school student, Tokidoki Rikugō, has to take supplementary History classes, to boost his failing grade, at a state-of-the-art museum. This museum allows the visitor to use high-tech virtual reality to reconstruct a realistic Edo of the Bakumatsu period. However, once the simulation begins, Tokidoki is attacked by a strange creature. After something happens to his left eye, he realizes that he is not wearing the VR goggles - it is no longer a simulation; he's trapped in the virtual world and has no way of getting back.
Number of episodes: 13
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9029
http://amatsuki.com/web/index.html
Library War (図書館戦争)

Genres: action, comedy, romance
Themes: Military
Based on: "Library War" (novel series) by Hiro Arikawa
Plot Summary: In a slightly different timeline than ours, the explosion of information and misinformation came to be considered a direct threat to society. In a daring decision, it was decided to create a new government agency dedicated solely to information management. Some thirty years later, in 2019, the government still monitors and controls information, suppressing anything they find undesirable, but standing against their abuses of power are the libraries, with their special agents called ‘the book soldiers.’
Number of episodes: 12
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8951
http://www.toshokan-sensou.com/
The Tower of Druaga: the Aegis of Uruk (Druaga no Tō ~the Aegis of URUK~)

Genres: adventure, comedy, fantasy, romance
Themes: parody
Plot Summary: The Summer of "Anu": In a summer once every five years, demons in the mysterious Tower of Druaga lose their powers due to the magic spell cast by a god named "Anu". King Gilgamesh, ruler of the kingdom Uruk, uses the appearance of demons as an excuse to invade the tower and find out the construct's secrets. As 80 years passed, the Uruk army managed to fight back the demons and built a fortress city and safe haven on the very first floor of Druaga - Metz Kier. Thus begins the story of a warrior named Jil who, finding companions along the way, embarks on a quest for the fabled Blue Crystal Rod, a powerful artifact rumored to be in the highest floor of Druaga. However, other competitors, including the kingdom of Uruk itself, want the treasure, all for their own reasons.
Number of episodes: 12
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8746
http://www.druaga-anime.com/
Blassreiter



Genres: action, science fiction
Plot Summary: Faced with an outbreak of demonic blood, which transforms humans into insane and hideous creatures bent on violence and death, only one man can stand against the tide of destruction. Joseph Jobson, the only man able to control his cursed demonic form, must hunt down the man who cursed him and save the world from apocalypse.
Number of episodes: 24
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9069
http://www.blassreiter.com/
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