One Piece: Episode of Alabasta - The Desert Princess and the Pirates
ワンピース エピソードオブアラバスタ 砂漠の王女と海賊たち
Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates escort Princess Nefertari Vivi back to her homeland of Alabasta, a desert kingdom worn down by a three-year drought and on the brink of civil war. Behind the chaos stands Crocodile, who runs the criminal syndicate Baroque Works and means to topple Vivi's father, King Cobra, and seize the throne. This compilation film retells the Alabasta arc with new animation rather than presenting a new story.
Major Season 3
メジャー 第3シリーズ
Goro Shigeno enrolls at Seishu High School, a former girls' school with no baseball program, and sets out to build a team from nothing and aim it at the powerhouse Kaido High. With almost no players willing to join and support from a girl named Shimizu, Goro pushes the ragtag club toward the summer tournament. This third Major season continues Goro's lifelong drive to become the world's best pitcher.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ファントムブラッド
Jonathan Joestar, heir to a wealthy English estate in the late 19th century, sees his quiet life upended when his father adopts an ambitious orphan named Dio Brando. Dio sets out to take everything Jonathan has, and his scheming leads him to a mysterious Stone Mask that turns its wearer into a vampire. This theatrical film condenses the original Phantom Blood arc and never received a home-video or streaming release.
Naruto Shippuden
NARUTO -ナルト- 疾風伝
Naruto Uzumaki returns to Konohagakure after two and a half years training under Jiraiya, stronger but still fixated on bringing his former teammate Sasuke Uchiha back from Orochimaru's grasp. His homecoming coincides with the Akatsuki — a group of S-rank criminals — intensifying their hunt for the tailed beasts sealed inside hosts like Naruto. Reunited with Sakura Haruno under Kakashi Hatake's command, he confronts enemies that outclass anything he faced as a genin. This sequel picks up directly after the original Naruto series.
5 Centimeters per Second
秒速5センチメートル
Takaki Tōno and Akari Shinohara become close friends after she transfers to his Tokyo elementary school, but her family's move to Tochigi pulls them apart. Told across three episodes spanning childhood to adulthood, the film follows Takaki as the distance between them grows — from a winter train journey to reach her, through his isolated high school years on Tanegashima, to his adult life in Tokyo where the memory of Akari still lingers.
Nodame Cantabile
のだめカンタービレ
Shin'ichi Chiaki, a perfectionist pianist and violinist at Momogaoka College of Music, dreams of becoming a conductor but cannot study abroad due to a crippling fear of flying. His ordered world collides with Megumi Noda — nicknamed Nodame — a free-spirited, spectacularly messy pianist who lives next door and plays entirely by ear. Nodame latches onto Chiaki as her self-declared boyfriend, and her untamed talent forces him to reconsider what musicianship can look like.
Tokyo Majin
東京魔人學園剣風帖 龖
Quiet transfer student Tatsuma Hiyuu arrives at Magami Academy in Shinjuku, where his martial skill quickly earns the friendship of the delinquent Kyoichi Horaiji. A sudden disturbance in the Ryumyaku, the city's underlying flow of arcane energy, awakens latent powers in Hiyuu, Horaiji, and three classmates. Together they face Kozunu Tendo, who has stirred a long-buried evil that now threatens Tokyo.
Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny
一騎当千 Dragon Destiny
In a modern Japan where rival high schools wage war through fighters bound to the spirits of Romance of the Three Kingdoms warlords, cheerful brawler Hakufu Sonsaku carries the magatama of Sun Ce and the destiny that comes with it. As Nanyo Academy clashes with Sousou Moutoku's Kyosho Academy and Ryuubi Gentoku's Seito High, Hakufu still cannot control the raging 'dragon' inside her. This second TV season continues directly from the first Ikki Tousen series.
Hidamari Sketch
ひだまりスケッチ
Yuno earns a spot at Yamabuki Art High School and moves into the Hidamari Apartments across the street to be near it. There she befriends her neighbors: classmate Miyako and second-years Hiro and Sae. Episodes drift through the four girls' everyday routines around the apartment building and the art department, from cooking and school assignments to quiet evenings, told mostly through Yuno's eyes.
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan 2
撲殺天使ドクロちゃん2
This second OVA set returns to middle-schooler Sakura Kusakabe, still living with the angel Dokuro, who was sent from the future because he is fated to invent immortality. Whenever his behavior worries her, Dokuro caves his skull in with her spiked club Excalibolg, then revives him good as new. The new episodes pile on more angels around the household, including Dokuro's sister Zakuro, keeping the routine of casual gore, slapstick, and reset firmly in place.
Piano Forest
ピアノの森
Kai Ichinose grows up in a red-light district but slips into the nearby forest at night to play an abandoned piano only he can coax sound from. When transfer student Shuhei Amamiya — son of a celebrated pianist and raised on rigorous lessons — is dared to play that same forest piano, the two boys meet over the instrument. Their music teacher Sosuke Ajino, a retired master pianist, recognizes Kai's untrained gift and pushes him toward formal training. This is the 2007 feature film adaptation.
Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai
劇場版ポケットモンスター ダイヤモンド&パール ディアルガVSパルキアVSダークライ
Ash Ketchum, Dawn, and Brock arrive in Alamos Town for a Pokémon Contest at its Space-Time Towers, just as the legendary Pokémon Dialga and Palkia tear into a clash that ripples through the town's reality. The townsfolk blame the nightmare-spreading Darkrai, but the lone Pokémon is trying to shield Alamos from the destruction the two deities leave in their wake. The tenth Pokémon feature film.
Higurashi: When They Cry - Cat Killing Chapter
ひぐらしのなく頃に外伝 猫殺し編
This standalone OVA, bundled as a bonus with the first Higurashi anime's DVD box sets, drops Keiichi, Mion, Rena, Satoko, and Rika into a lighter detour through the village of Hinamizawa. After losing a bet, the group parades around town in costume and wanders toward Yagouchi, an abandoned settlement, where Mion recounts a grim local legend and a frightening memory from her childhood. A side story rather than an entry point, it sits between the question arcs and the answer arcs of the main series.
Baccano!
Baccano!
Firo Prochainezo is about to become the youngest member of the Martillo Camorra family in 1930 New York when an immortality elixir — lost since a 1711 alchemists' summoning aboard a ship — resurfaces and tangles his fate with a dozen others. Eccentric thieves Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent hop the transcontinental train Flying Pussyfoot, where a Lemures cult hijacking collides with a bloodbath. Events across 1711, 1930, and 1931 interlock as the elixir passes through every hand.
School Days
School Days
Makoto Itou, a student at Sakakino Academy, rides the same train as Kotonoha Katsura every morning and secretly sets her photo as his phone wallpaper, following an urban legend that the charm will bring his crush closer. His classmate Sekai Saionji spots the photo and volunteers to play matchmaker, but her own feelings for Makoto surface after she steals a kiss at the train station. The love triangle between the three classmates escalates sharply from there.
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版：序
Shinji Ikari arrives in Tokyo-3 at his estranged father Gendou's summons and is thrust into the cockpit of Evangelion Unit-01, a giant bio-mechanical weapon, to fight monstrous beings called Angels threatening what remains of humanity after the Second Impact. Alongside fellow pilot Rei Ayanami, Shinji battles a series of Angel attacks while struggling to connect with a father who sees him only as a tool. This first Rebuild of Evangelion film retells the opening arc of the original series.
The Familiar of Zero: Knight of the Twin Moons
ゼロの使い魔 ～双月の騎士～
Louise and her familiar Saito return as heroes in Tristain after defeating Albion's forces, but an uneasy truce with the conquered kingdom opens room for new threats. Queen Henrietta must navigate court politics while a hidden adversary plots against the crown. Louise's newly awakened Void magic gives her enough power to level a village, though controlling it is another matter. This second season continues directly from the first.
Higurashi: When They Cry – Kai
ひぐらしのなく頃に解
Rika Furude, the shrine maiden of Hinamizawa, has been living through the same few weeks over and over — each time watching her friends descend into paranoia and violence, each time dying before she can stop it. In this second season, Rika's awareness of the time loops moves to the foreground as she and her companion Hanyū search for the root cause of the village's recurring tragedies, working through the answer arcs that resolve the mysteries the first season posed.
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
さよなら絶望先生
Nozomu Itoshiki, a high school teacher whose name reads as 'despair' in kanji, finds catastrophe in every corner of daily life and sinks into theatrical gloom over social norms, government policies, and misspelled signs alike. His polar opposite, the relentlessly optimistic student Kafuka Fuura, reinterprets every crisis as something positive. Classmates like hikikomori Kiri Komori and obsessive perfectionist Chiri Kitsu pile on their own fixations, turning each episode's topic — censorship, conformity, modern manners — into satirical chaos.
Mononoke
モノノ怪
A wandering figure known only as the Medicine Seller moves through Edo-period Japan, confronting mononoke — malevolent spirits that feed on human anguish. Before he can draw his exorcism sword, he must uncover each spirit's Shape, Truth, and Reasoning, forcing those around him to face the buried emotions that summoned the mononoke in the first place. A spinoff of the Bakeneko arc from Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, the series unfolds as self-contained multi-episode arcs.
Sword of the Stranger
ストレンヂア -無皇刃譚-
A nameless ronin known only as Nanashi agrees to guard Kotaro, a boy on the run across Sengoku-era Japan with his dog Tobimaru. A contingent of Ming Dynasty warriors, led by the skilled Western swordsman Luo-Lang, is hunting the child — his blood is the key ingredient in an immortality ritual ordered by the Ming Emperor. Nanashi has bound his katana to its sheath, vowing never to draw it, but keeping Kotaro alive may force him to break that oath.
Devil May Cry
デビル メイ クライ
Dante runs Devil May Cry, a one-man demon-hunting shop perpetually buried in debt, taking odd jobs brokered by his agent Morrison between slices of pizza and games of pool. When he rescues a young orphan named Patty Lowell on a routine case, she latches onto his life and starts redecorating his office despite his protests. Trish and Lady drift in and out with their own hunts, while a low-level demon named Sid quietly collects powerful artifacts in the background.
Naruto Shippuden the Movie
劇場版 NARUTO -ナルト- 疾風伝
Naruto, Sakura, Rock Lee, and Neji are assigned to escort the priestess Shion to a shrine where the body of the demon Mōryō is sealed. A man named Yomi has already freed Mōryō's spirit and offered his own body as a vessel, intent on building a "Thousand Year Kingdom" by reuniting the demon with its original form. Shion can reseal Mōryō, but her power comes with a price — her visions have foretold Naruto's death on the mission.
Death Note: Relight
DEATH NOTE リライト
In the shinigami realm, the death god Ryuk recounts the human story he witnessed to a fellow shinigami: how high schooler Light Yagami found a Death Note that kills anyone whose name is written in it, and used it to wage a secret campaign against criminals as the figure the public dubbed Kira. His killings draw out the masked detective L, who closes in on Kira's identity. Released as two television specials, this is a condensed recap of the Death Note anime, not new story content.
Clannad The Motion Picture
劇場版 CLANNAD
Delinquent high schooler Tomoya Okazaki drifts through his days with little direction until he meets Nagisa Furukawa, a shy upperclassman repeating her final year after a long illness. He agrees to help her revive their school's defunct drama club, pulling other students into the effort. This standalone feature film retells the Key visual novel as a single self-contained story, condensing and reworking the arc rather than following the TV series continuity.
Zombie-Loan
ゾンビローン
Michiru Kita has the Shinigami Eyes, which let her see a ring around the neck of anyone close to death, darkening as the end nears. She notices that two classmates, Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana, wear pitch-black rings yet are still alive: the pair survived a fatal accident by borrowing time from Zombie-Loan, and now hunt zombies to repay the debt. Once they learn what Michiru can see, they recruit her to help track down the dead who refuse to stay dead.
Shigurui: Death Frenzy
シグルイ
In early Edo-period Japan, Lord Tokugawa Tadanaga orders a tournament fought with live steel rather than wooden swords. The opening bout pits the one-armed Fujiki Gennosuke against the blind Irako Seigen, two former disciples of the dreaded sword master Iwamoto Kogan. From there the story turns back seven years to the Kogan dojo, where both men trained, vied to be named the school's heir, and were set on the collision course that left each of them maimed. A brutal historical drama steeped in the discipline and cruelty of the samurai code.
A Child's Time
こどものじかん
Twenty-three-year-old Daisuke Aoki begins his first job teaching Class 3-1 at Futatsubashi Elementary School, where nine-year-old Rin Kokonoe declares herself his girlfriend and pursues him with provocative persistence. Aoki brushes off her advances as a child's game until they grow bold enough to unsettle him, and he starts to suspect that Rin's behavior traces back to a troubled home life with her late mother and her guardian cousin Reiji. His classroom becomes a daily test of how to handle a student he cannot reach in any ordinary way.
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 2: A Study in Murder – Part 1
劇場版 空の境界 第二章『殺人考察（前）』
In the autumn of 1995, high schooler Mikiya Kokutō notices a kimono-clad classmate named Shiki Ryōgi standing alone in the rain and gradually befriends her, even as a serial killer begins leaving mutilated bodies around Mifune City. Shiki carries a second personality — a male alter named SHIKI — and her own moods grow stranger as the murders multiply. This chronologically first chapter of the Kara no Kyōkai film series is the prequel-set opening of the seven-part theatrical run.
Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture
もやしもん
Tadayasu Sawaki starts at a Tokyo agricultural university with a strange gift: he can see and talk to microbes, which appear to him as palm-sized cartoon creatures. The son of a mold-starter maker, he enrolls alongside his friend Kei Yuki, heir to a sake brewery, and soon draws the attention of eccentric professor Keizo Itsuki, who wants to study his ability. Between fermentation experiments and campus mishaps, Tadayasu's talent keeps pulling him into the messy science of brewing and bacteria.
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 1: Overlooking View
空の境界 俯瞰風景
In September 1998, Shiki Ryougi — a young woman who can perceive the death-lines in any object — investigates a wave of suicides at the abandoned Fujou Building, where several high-school girls have leapt from the roof with no apparent motive. Between visits from her friend Mikiya Kokutou, Shiki works under magus Touko Aozaki at the Garan no Dou detective agency. When she spots ghostly figures drifting above the rooftop, she climbs the building to uncover what binds the dead to the tower.
Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor
逆境無頼カイジ Ultimate Survivor
Kaiji Itō, an unemployed drifter who spends his days drinking and vandalizing luxury cars, is cornered by the loan shark Endō over a co-worker's debt that has ballooned to nearly four million yen. Endō offers one way out: board the gambling ship Espoir for a single night of restricted rock-paper-scissors, where winners erase their debts and losers face forced labor. Kaiji accepts, stepping into a rigged underworld of psychological games run by the Teiai Corporation.
Demon Detective Nougami Neuro
魔人探偵脳噛ネウロ
Neuro Nougami is a demon who feeds on mysteries, and having exhausted every puzzle in his own world he crosses into the human one to hunt for richer ones. He latches onto high schooler Yako Katsuragi, whose father was found dead in a case ruled a suicide, and uses her as the public face of a detective agency. While Yako fronts the investigations and Neuro pulls the strings from behind, the pair take on murder cases across Tokyo, each crime a fresh meal for a creature chasing the one mystery that might finally satisfy him.
Afro Samurai: The Movie
AFRO SAMURAI 劇場版
As a boy, Afro watched his father — holder of the Number One headband that marks the world's greatest warrior — beheaded by the gunman Justice, who claimed the band for himself. Years later Afro wears the Number Two headband, the only one allowed to challenge Number One, and cuts a bloody path toward Justice while every fighter below him hunts the band on his own head. This feature condenses the five-episode TV series into a single film, joined by Afro's wisecracking companion Ninja Ninja.
Good Luck! Ninomiya-kun
ご愁傷さま二ノ宮くん
High schooler Shungo Ninomiya, a capable martial artist, shares a large house with his mercenary older sister Ryouko. When Ryouko takes in the Tsukimura siblings, Shungo ends up living with Mayu, a young succubus sent to overcome her terror of men and learn to control powers that knock out any male who gets near her. Her incubus brother Mikihiro moves in too, and Shungo's home turns into a comedy of clashing supernatural houseguests.
Bamboo Blade
バンブーブレード
Toraji Ishida is a broke kendo instructor whose nearly empty high-school club offers little hope, until a former senpai bets him a year of free sushi that his own girls' team can win a match. Scrambling for talent, Toraji meets Tamaki Kawazoe, a small but ferociously skilled kendoka raised at her father's dojo. As he coaxes Tamaki and a handful of other recruits into the club, the mismatched team slowly takes shape around practice, rivalries, and Toraji's stomach.
Ghost Hound
神霊狩／GHOST HOUND
In the small Kyushu town of Suiten, fourteen-year-old Tarou Komori still suffers nightmares and out-of-body episodes years after he and his sister were abducted and only he came back. He falls in with two other boys carrying their own childhood traumas, Makoto and Masayuki, and together they find they can cross into a parallel "Unseen World" that ordinary people cannot reach. As the boundary between that realm and Suiten weakens, the three begin investigating the strange phenomena spreading through the town. Production I.G built this series around concepts from Masamune Shirow.
Clannad
CLANNAD
Tomoya Okazaki, a disaffected high school delinquent, meets Nagisa Furukawa on the path to school one morning as she mutters the names of foods she likes to motivate herself. He learns she has been held back a year due to illness and dreams of reviving the school's disbanded drama club. With nothing better to occupy his time, Tomoya helps Nagisa rebuild the club, and along the way discovers that the people around him carry burdens he never bothered to notice.
Shakugan no Shana: Season II
灼眼のシャナII
Yūji Sakai, the Mystes carrying the Treasure Tool Midnight Lost Child, and the Flame Haze Shana continue their fight against Crimson Denizens in Misaki City. A new transfer student named Fumina Konoe arrives bearing an uncanny resemblance to Hecate of Bal Masqué, and while suspicions prove unfounded, Konoe latches onto Yūji — deepening the rivalry between Shana and Kazumi Yoshida for his attention. As daily life grows more complicated, Bal Masqué sets a new plan in motion that targets Yūji directly. This second season continues from the events of the first.
ef: A Tale of Memories.
ef - a tale of memories.
Aspiring manga artist Hiro Hirono meets the energetic Miyako Miyamura on Christmas Eve in the seaside town of Otowa, just as his childhood friend Kei Shindou is realizing her own feelings for him. In a parallel thread, Renji Asou keeps running into the shy Chihiro Shindou, Kei's twin, at an abandoned train station, and learns that her memory resets every thirteen hours after a long-past accident. Adapted from minori's visual novel, the series threads the two romances together as Renji and Chihiro begin writing a novel that her notebook can hold onto for her.
Bleach the Movie: The DiamondDust Rebellion
劇場版 BLEACH The DiamondDust Rebellion もう一つの氷輪丸
Tenth Division captain Tōshirō Hitsugaya is escorting the King's Seal through Soul Society when the convoy is ambushed by a Soul Reaper named Sōjirō Kusaka, backed by two assassins called Yin and Yang. The Seal is taken, Hitsugaya vanishes from his post in pursuit, and Soul Society brands him a traitor and orders his capture. In the human world, Ichigo Kurosaki finds the wounded captain and is drawn into the hunt as Kusaka turns out to wield Hyōrinmaru — the very zanpakutō Hitsugaya himself carries. This second Bleach feature film is set during the TV series timeline.
Mobile Suit Gundam 00
機動戦士ガンダム00
In a near-future Earth split among three power blocs warring over the last fossil fuels, the private group Celestial Being unveils advanced mobile suits called Gundams and a stated goal of ending all war through direct armed intervention. Setsuna F. Seiei, a former child soldier, pilots the Gundam Exia as one of four Gundam Meisters who strike at any nation engaged in combat. Their campaign forces the rival blocs to begin uniting against them.
Shugo Chara!
しゅごキャラ！
Amu Hinamori is a grade-schooler known to classmates as 'cool and spicy,' a front that hides her shy nature, until one morning she wakes to find three colorful eggs that hatch into Guardian Characters named Ran, Miki, and Su. They help her draw out the selves she wishes she could be, and the school's Guardians recruit her as the Joker to chase down X Eggs, corrupted versions of people's dreams sought by the Easter company hunting a wish-granting egg called the Embryo.
Myself; Yourself
マイセルフ；ユアセルフ
Five years after moving away, sixteen-year-old Sana Hidaka returns to the town of Sakuranomori expecting to slip back into his old life. He reunites with childhood friends Nanaka Yatsushiro and Aoi Oribe and his old best friend Shusuke Wakatsuki, but finds them changed. Nanaka, once warm and gentle, now meets him with cold distance, and Sana slowly learns that the years apart left marks he never saw coming.
Minami-ke
みなみけ
The three Minami sisters share a household and an ordinary routine of school, friends, and home. Haruka, the eldest, keeps the place running; middle sister Kana is loud and gullible enough to fall for any scheme; and the youngest, Chiaki, is a sharp-tongued grade-schooler who treats Kana's antics with open contempt. Each episode follows their daily back-and-forth and the friends who drift through the apartment, with no overarching plot beyond the comedy of how the three of them deal with one another.
Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE: Tokyo Revelations
ツバサ TOKYO REVELATIONS
Syaoran and his companions arrive in a ruined, acid-rain-soaked Tokyo while hunting for Sakura's scattered feathers, only to run into Kamui and his group amid the wreckage. This three-episode OVA adapts the manga's Tokyo arc, the stretch CLAMP's story uses to break open long-buried truths about Syaoran's origins and the cost of the feather quest. Produced by Production I.G, it continues directly from the Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle television series.
KimiKiss: Pure Rouge
キミキス pure rouge
Kouichi Sanada's quiet high-school routine shifts when his childhood friend Mao Mizusawa returns from years in France and moves into his home while her parents stay abroad. Alongside his friend Kazuki Aihara, Kouichi navigates first crushes and the awkward distances between classmates as several overlapping romances take shape across their school year. The cast trades confessions, missed signals, and slow-building feelings in a grounded campus setting.
Genshiken 2
げんしけん2
The university otaku club Genshiken returns for a second season with Sasahara stepping up as the new club president and the prickly artist Ogiue still struggling to settle in among the members. With a slot of their own secured at the upcoming ComiFes, the club shifts from wandering the convention as buyers to producing and selling its first doujinshi, pooling everyone's talents under deadline. This season directly continues the original Genshiken anime.
Dragonaut: The Resonance
ドラゴノーツ -ザ・レゾナンス-
Jin Kamishina, the only survivor of a shuttle accident that killed his family, is pulled into a hidden war after he witnesses a creature attack and is saved by a girl named Toa, who turns out to be a dragon. The asteroid Thanatos looms over Earth, and the ISDA trains pilots to bond with dragons against the threat it carries. Jin joins their ranks as he learns what Toa is and what hunts the planet from orbit.
Heroic Age
ヒロイック・エイジ
Humanity, the youngest race called the Iron Tribe, is hunted to the brink of extinction by the dominant Silver Tribe. Aboard a ship searching for a savior, the clairvoyant princess Dhianeila finds Age, a young man raised by the vanished Golden Tribe who carries within him one of the last Nodos — Bellcross, a colossal warrior form he can unleash. As Age fights for the Iron Tribe against the Silver and Bronze Tribes, Dhianeila guides him toward the prophecy meant to decide humanity's survival.
Toward the Terra
地球へ…
In a far future, humanity has handed its survival to supercomputers that breed children artificially and test every fourteen-year-old for fitness; those who fail are erased. Jomy Marcus Shin expects to pass until his exam awakens the Mu factor, marking him as one of the psychic mutants the system hunts. Taken in by the dying Mu leader Soldier Blue, Jomy is named his successor and must lead the exiled Mu toward Terra, the ruined Earth they have never seen but still call home.
Big Windup!
おおきく振りかぶって
Ren Mihashi arrives at Nishiura High School convinced he is a terrible pitcher after years of being blamed for his middle school team's losses. Coach Momoe pulls him onto the new baseball club, where catcher Takaya Abe takes charge of his pitches and slowly rebuilds his confidence. As the freshly assembled Nishiura squad trains toward its first real games, Mihashi learns to trust the teammates calling the plays behind him.
Romeo × Juliet
ロミオ×ジュリエット
On the floating island of Neo Verona, Leontes Montague seizes power in a bloody coup and slaughters the ruling House Capulet, sparing only the infant Juliet. Fourteen years later, Juliet has grown up hidden from the tyrant and fights his oppression as the masked vigilante known as the Red Whirlwind. When she crosses paths with Romeo, Montague's gentle son, neither knows the other's name or bloodline, and the two are drawn together across the feud that destroyed her family. This anime reworks Shakespeare's play into a fantasy of dragons and rebellion.
Gurren Lagann
天元突破グレンラガン
Simon, a timid digger in an underground village, unearths a small mecha he names Lagann and uses it to break through to the surface alongside his fearless 'big brother' Kamina and the rifle-wielding Yoko Littner. Above ground, they discover humanity has been driven underground by the Spiral King Lordgenome and his army of Beastmen piloting giant Gunmen. Kamina captures an enemy Gunmen and combines it with Lagann to form Gurren Lagann, rallying a growing band of surface fighters against Lordgenome's forces.
Darker than Black
DARKER THAN BLACK -黒の契約者-
After spatial anomalies known as Hell's Gate and Heaven's Gate appear, people called Contractors emerge — individuals with supernatural abilities who must perform a compulsive remuneration each time they use their power. In Tokyo, the masked assassin Hei operates for a shadowy organization called the Syndicate, posing as a Chinese exchange student named Li Shenshun by day while hunting rival Contractors and unraveling the mysteries behind Hell's Gate at night.
Claymore
Claymore
Clare, ranked No. 47 among the half-human, half-Yoma warriors known as Claymores, hunts shape-shifting demons across a medieval island on behalf of a shadowy group called the Organization. Quieter and weaker than her peers, she carries a private motive: vengeance against an Awakened Being named Priscilla, the creature that killed her mentor, the legendary No. 1 warrior Teresa. Accompanied by Raki, a boy orphaned by a Yoma attack, Clare cuts her way through increasingly dangerous assignments while the Organization's true intentions stay hidden.
Lucky☆Star
らき☆すた
Konata Izumi is an athletic, intelligent high-school girl whose grades suffer because she spends her free time on anime, manga, and video games. Together with her friends — the diligent tsundere Kagami Hiiragi, her easygoing twin sister Tsukasa, and the gentle bookworm Miyuki Takara — the series turns mundane school life into extended riffs on eating chocolate cornets, cramming for exams, and navigating awkward conversations. Adapted from Kagami Yoshimizu's four-panel manga and produced by Kyoto Animation, the show is dense with otaku in-jokes and pop-culture references. Each episode ends with the Lucky Channel segment, a mock variety show hosted by the increasingly unhinged idol Akira Kogami.
Lovely★Complex
ラブリー★コンプレックス
Risa Koizumi towers over her classmates at 172 cm while Atsushi Ōtani barely reaches 156, and their constant bickering has earned them the label of the class comedy duo. After their respective crushes — the tall Ryōji Suzuki and the petite Chiharu Tanaka — end up dating each other, Risa and Ōtani grow closer through shared heartbreak and a mutual love of the rapper Umibōzu. What starts as friendship turns complicated when Risa realizes her feelings for Ōtani run deeper than she expected.
Kaze no Stigma
風のスティグマ
Kazuma Yagami, once banished from the fire-wielding Kannagi clan for lacking their elemental talent, returns to Japan four years later as a Contractor — a master of wind magic and the most powerful Fūjutsu user alive. His cousin Ayano Kannagi, the clan's hotheaded heir and wielder of the sacred sword Enraiha, is forced to work alongside him when a string of attacks targets the Kannagi household. Together with Kazuma's younger brother Ren, they track threats that blur the line between family grudge and outside conspiracy.
Afro Samurai
Afro Samurai
Afro, a lone swordsman in a futuristic feudal Japan, wears the Number Two headband — the only ticket to challenge the Number One, said to grant godlike power. As a child, Afro watched a gunslinger named Justice behead his father to claim the Number One headband, and he has spent his life cutting through anyone in his path to reach Justice on Mount Shumi. His only companion is Ninja Ninja, a wisecracking figure who shadows him through every blood-soaked encounter along the way.
My Bride is a Mermaid
瀬戸の花嫁
Nagasumi Michishio nearly drowns during a summer trip to the Seto Inland Sea, only to be rescued by Sun Seto, a mermaid and daughter of a yakuza-style mermaid clan. Under mer-society law, a human who learns a mermaid's identity must die — unless they marry. Forced into an engagement, Nagasumi returns home to find Sun transferring to his school, with her overprotective father Gōzaburō infiltrating the faculty to keep watch over the couple.
Hayate the Combat Butler
ハヤテのごとく！
Saddled with a 156-million-yen debt his runaway parents left behind, unlucky teenager Hayate Ayasaki tries to escape loan sharks and ends up rescuing Nagi Sanzenin, the young heiress of an enormous fortune. Mistaking his desperation for a love confession, Nagi takes him on as her personal butler. Hayate works off the debt at the Sanzenin mansion alongside the head maid Maria, fielding the eccentric demands of the otaku-obsessed Nagi and the dangers that follow a girl with that much money.
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
精霊の守り人
Balsa, a wandering spear-wielder who hires out as a bodyguard, saves the young Prince Chagum from drowning and is asked by the Second Queen to protect him. The Mikado, Chagum's own father, has ordered the boy killed, convinced he is possessed by a water spirit. Balsa takes the job as the eighth and final life she has vowed to save, and the two flee across the New Yogo Empire with assassins on their trail.
Bokurano
ぼくらの
At a seaside summer camp, fifteen children explore a grotto and meet a man calling himself Kokopelli, who invites them to test a game: piloting a giant robot to defend Earth from fifteen attacks. Fourteen sign the contract before waking on the shore, sure it was a dream. That night two colossal robots appear, and the children are pulled inside one they name Zearth to fight the first enemy. The creature Koyemshi then explains the rule that turns the game into a trap.
Den-noh Coil
電脳コイル
In the town of Daikoku, augmented-reality glasses called Den-noh Megane overlay a digital layer onto everyday streets, and the children who wear them treat that cyberspace as a playground. Yuuko "Yasako" Okonogi moves to Daikoku for the summer with her family, bringing along a virtual pet named Densuke left to her by her late grandfather. She soon falls in with other kids who use illegal hacking tools to chase glitches and obsolete spaces, drawing her into the strange corners where the town's digital world bleeds into the real one.
Bakugan Battle Brawlers
爆丸バトルブローラーズ
When mysterious cards rain from the sky, Dan Kuso and his friend Shun Kazami turn them into a game built around Bakugan, marble-like creatures that spring open into monsters in battle. Dan, partnered with the Pyrus Dragonoid called Drago, forms the Bakugan Battle Brawlers with Runo, Marucho, Julie, Shun, and Alice. Their games soon prove to be more than play, as the friends are pulled into the conflict over Vestroia, the Bakugan's home dimension.
Nagasarete Airantou
ながされて藍蘭島
After a fight with his father, fourteen-year-old Ikuto Touhouin storms off to sea and is swept overboard by a sudden storm, washing up on the uncharted island of Airantou. He is found and revived by Suzu, a kind but scatterbrained island girl who takes him in. Ikuto soon learns Airantou lost nearly all its men years ago, leaving its young women starved for a husband, and his arrival sets off a frantic competition for him that Suzu keeps having to fend off.
Sola
そら
Yorito Morimiya is a high schooler obsessed with the sky, papering his ceiling with photos of it and slipping out before dawn to shoot the sunrise. One night he meets Matsuri Shihou, a girl who turns out to be a Yaka — an ageless being who cannot bear sunlight and has never seen a blue sky in daylight. Their meeting draws Yorito into Matsuri's flight from Takeshi Tsujidou, a man hunting her, and into the question of what the daytime sky could mean to someone who can never stand under it.
Princess Resurrection
怪物王女
Middle-schooler Hiro Hiyorimi dies saving a young woman from a falling accident, only to be revived as a servant in her honor guard. The woman is Hime, a daughter of the Monster King, and his new half-living life binds him to her household alongside the android maid Flandre. Hiro is pulled into Hime's fight against the siblings who keep sending vampires, werewolves, and other monsters after her in a contest over the royal succession.