The central page for the latest anime list & status
Currently:
Anime being watched: Shugo chara
Anime previously watched: Tokyo Mew Mew
Why: Shugo Chara had gone downhill a lot but, after quitting it, decided to start back up and finish it.
On list to be seen:
Clannad
Description: Tomoya is labelled as a delinquent at his school because he is constantly late and skips classes, but he seems to have little care about how others perceive of him. Everything in his life seemed dull and unchanging until one morning he meets Nagisa Furukawa on the road to his school; he finds her muttering to herself to give her more motivation for the day. She has an odd habit of saying the names of foods she is going to eat to encourage herself. Nagisa has been sick for almost a year last year and subsequently has to repeat her third year of school. But now all her friends have graduated and she feels alone. For some reason, after hearing Nagisa talking to herself, Tomoya becomes interested and befriends her. Source. Following this meeting, Nagisa decides to revive the school’s drama club. In his attempt to help by recruiting new members, Tomoya befriends several other girls at the school, two of which have their own mysterious past.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #49 out of 1,115
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars based on 176 votes
Why it’s own the list: It doesn’t sound like something I’d be interested in but it has excellent reviews and ratings along with an outstanding ranking so I’d thought I’d give it a whirl.
Gunslinger girls
Description: “Henrietta” was an innocent little girl when her entire family was massacred and she was left for dead. She was rescued by a privately-owned social welfare organization and given cybernetic components over her battered body. Brainwashed by the organization, she and four other girls now work as cold-blooded assassins, doing the dirty work for the Italian government.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #313 out of 1,115
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars based on 32 votes
Why it’s own the list: I chose it because it sounded interesting
Hanasaku Iroha
Description: Matsumae Ohana, a 16 year old girl, moves out of Tokyo and starts working at a hot spring hotel, which is located on a hill surrounded by cherry blossoms. Matsumae has yet to decide her future. The story will also feature other teenage girls who are looking for their dreams and excitements.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #1,056 out of 1,115
Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars based on 50 votes
Why it’s own the list: It didn’t sound interesting but had outstanding ratings even more so than Clannad so I decided to try it out
Kodomo no Omocha
Description: Kurata Sana is a frenetic eleven-year-old child actress with an extremely overprotective agent, a mother who is an eccentric award-winning author, and a burning desire to do well in school. However, as much as she wants to be a good student, the antics of the boys in her class make learning impossible, according to Sana anyway. And in her eyes, Hayama Akito is the worst offender of them all. A junior-high war of the sexes ensues, and Sana eventually realizes through the chaos that Hayama may not be the “devil boy” she’s made him up to be.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #262 out of 1,115
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars based on 38 votes
Why it’s own the list: It came highly recommended with good ratings, good popularity, and good reviews. It doesn’t initially sound interesting to me but from experience anime can really surprise you.
Kurokami
Description: In this world, there are three identical looking people in existence who split between them an energy-like force called ?Terra.? This energy can be attributed to the amount of ?Luck? or ?Life Energy? that an individual possesses. There also exists beings who observe the human world, maintaining the balance of Terra, known as the ?Coexistence Equilibrium.? These beings possess ability that surpass that of a normal human being and reside in hiding in places known as the ?Pure Place? in tribes. They are called the Terra Guardians. This is a tale of battle that begins with a chance meeting between a human boy named Keita and a young Tera Guardian girl named Kuro.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #209 out of 1,115
Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars based on 49 votes
Why it’s own the list: It came highly recommended with good ratings, good popularity, and good reviews. It sounds semi-interesting.
School Rumble
Description: Tsukamoto Tenma is an ordinary 2nd year high school student who has fallen in love with one of her classmates, Karasuma Ooji. However, currently she is unable to confess her feelings to him. To make things worse, she found out that Karasuma is transferring to another school in a year. On the other hand, Tenma’s other classmate, Harima Kenji (who is a delinquent) is also in love with Tenma. Not being able to confess his feelings, Harima gets depressed day by day.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #136 out of 1,115
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars based on 65 votes
Why it’s own the list: Like the others on the list to be seen, it got excellent ratings, reviews, and rankings so I decided to watch it although it doesn’t initially sound interesting to me. (Anime has a tendency to really surprise you!)
Seto no Hanayome
Description: A young boy gets saved from drowning by a mermaid but, according to mermaid law, if a human sees a mermaid’s true form, both have to be killed. The only solution to the problem is for him to marry her.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #228 out of 1,115
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars based on 46 votes
Why it’s own the list: It got excellent reviews, rankings, and ratings so I decided to watch it. To me, though, it does sound somewhat interesting.
Toradora
Description: Despite Ryuji Takasu’s gentle personality, his eyes make him look like an intimidating delinquent. Class rearrangements on his second high school year put him together with his best friend, Yusaku Kitamura, and his hidden crush, Minori Kushieda. Along with these two comes Kushieda’s best friend, Taiga Aisaka. Her delicate appearance contrasts with her brutal personality. Secretly in love with Kitamura, Taiga agrees to help Ryuji with his love interest as long as he helps her get closer to hers.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #39 out of 1,115
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars based on 222 votes
Why it’s own the list: First of all, it looks really good and seems very interesting, second, it has a ranking of #39 in popularity out of 1,000+
Saw and liked:
Tokyo Mew Mew
Description: Momomia Ichigo, is your average twelve year old girl that is until one eventful date. her crush masoya ayoama asks her to attend an endangered species exhibit and after a series of events she gets hit by a ray that turns her into a cat. now her and four other girls must band together to fight of the chimera and alien who are invading their planet. On her first date with the cutest boy in school, Ichigo is zapped by a mysterious ray that scrambles her DNA with that of the endangered Iriomote wildcat. The next day, Ichigo discovers that she has developed the agility (and occasionally the ears and tail) of a cat, as well as the power to transform into a pink-haired superheroine, Mew Ichigo. She and four other girls, each endowed with the genes of a different “Red Data” animal, have been selected for the top-secret Mew Project, which aims to protect the Earth from an alien menace known as Deep Blue.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #190 out of 1,115
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars based on 46 votes
My Review:
This was a really good anime and is also a “Magical Girl” anime.It started off like most other magical girl anime’s do and grew into a cutesy type anime like Kamichama Karin.
The anime, however, quickly turned a different direction. It transitioned from “cutesy” type to a more “sad” type anime, much to my surprise at the ending segment. This new direction really added a lot of “newness” to it which is the reason it surprised me.
I would recommend this anime to others as I really liked it.
Asatte no Houkou
Description: Iokawa Karada lives with her older brother Hiro in a small town. One day Karada bumps into a stranger, a woman named Nogami Shouko that turns out to be Hiro’s ex-girlfriend. However, in a bizarre twist of fate, while standing by the town’s fabled wishing stone, Karada and Shouko swap ages: Karada becomes a young adult while Shouko becomes a small child.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #594 out of 1,115
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars based on 19 votes
My Review:
This anime was very serious, unlike other anime I’ve seen. Very little action happened in each episode and, in fact, the only real action happened at the very end of the episode. Unlike most other anime, this anime had no over acting, was not over dramatic, and really had no background music hardly since it’s so serious.
I really liked this anime because of it, it was a -very- down to earth anime that will put you in tears on many episodes. It focuses on both lives equally. The visitor life with her ex-husbands affair, her poor life choices, and missed opportunities. The girls life with her sadness & depression along with tragic events in her life.
The only “real” fictional thing in this anime is the age swap, everything else is completely based in reality and will leave you hooked till the end.
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Kamichama Karin
Description: Karin Hanazono is an orphan, living with her relatives. Her life has never been easy, her studies are not well, she is not the best in sports and technically she is miserable. Left with only a ring as a memento from her departed mother, she suddenly finds her life changed, as she was mourning her pet cat, Shii-chan. On that night she met a strange boy, Kazune Kujyou. After that event, she experiences several mysterious incidences that soon led her to find out that she is a little goddess. Finding others like her she soon sets out to understand herself better as her mysterious powers grow and she becomes beset by opponents.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #243 out of 1,115
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars based on 39 votes
My Review:
This was the funniest anime I think I’ve ever seen. Your practically rolling on floor laughing through most of the anime. Like most anime it it’s category it also get’s very serious and has a tearjerker ending (in a good way). I would highly recommend this anime.
This anime is also really big on visual cues and expressions which other anime don’t usually have much of thus really adding to the humor.
It is slightly mysterious throughout since most of the characters backgrounds and reasoning remain a mystery until the last few episodes. this is a must see.
The character drawings in this anime were particularly good as well
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Full Moon wo Sagashite
Description: Twelve-year-old Kouyama Mitsuki was devastated when she was diagnosed with a malignant tumor of the throat. She had made a promise to the boy she loves that she would one day become a singer, but her illness made singing impossible. To make matters even worse, two angels of death, Takuto and Meroko, appeared to Mitsuki and informed her that she only had one year left to live. This news provides an even greater motivation for Mitsuki to fulfill her dreams, and with a little bit of divine intervention, she begins her quest to become a professional singer so she can be reunited with Eichi before time runs out.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #162 out of 1,115
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars based on 63 votes
My Review:
This is a deeply moving anime, a truckload of tearjerker moments, scenes, and episodes just as there are plenty of happy and goofy moments.
This anime got really good reviews and ratings, it also captured the attention of many famous painters and artists in Japan. It’s extremely inspirational and I’d recommend it to anyone.
This is one of the most emotional anime’s I’d ever seen, the episodes jump from happy and cheerful to sad and moving so quickly you can’t help but to exclaim shortly through the series “What happened to the cheerful episodes”… Nevertheless, I would highly recommend this to anyone.
On a side note: the show has really good music which ended up being released in Japan on it’s own album and the character drawings were excellent.
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Sailor Moon
Description: One day, Usagi Tsukino, clumsy 2nd-year middle school student (8th grader), stumbles upon a talking cat named Luna. Luna tells her that she is destined to be Sailor Moon, “champion of love and justice”, and she must search for the fabled Moon Princess. Usagi finds friends that turn out to be destined senshi as well, and together they fight to save the world from the certain doom brought upon by the Dark Kingdom (Queen Beryl, the generals, Metallia).
Viewing ranking among other anime: #60 out of 1,115
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars based on 139 votes
My Review:
Sailor Moon was extremely famous in Japan, it redefined the “Magical Girl” category which was pretty different beforehand and was one of few anime’s to become extremely popular throughout the world in most all the major and some minor countries.
It became so popular in America that when America was wanting to cancel importation of the show, a group of fans got together and formed a group called “Save Our Sailors” or “SOS” for short. They started a petition to gather as many signatures as possible to prevent cancellation of the show in America and gathered 30,000 signatures immediately preventing the cancellation. Link Here
In Japan, Sailor Moon remains unquestionably an irreplaceable classic. Countless money went into it’s development between the storyline, the animations, and the award winning music.
Italy considers it equally as great and is beginning to redevelop it.
Sailor moon was so great, in fact, that it was one of few anime’s to have a live action created after it (Non-Animated Remake) and even a Japanese Musical
I would definitely recommend watching it and largely enjoyed it but it’s entire storyline ranges exactly 200 episodes and 5 major installments making it quite long for most people
Beware of the last 10 or so episodes in each story arc, they’re always !!really!! sad and big tearjerkers.
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Mamotte! Lollipop
Description: The story revolves around female protagonist Nina Yamada, a seventh grader who accidentally swallows the Crystal Pearl thinking it was candy. The pearl is the goal of a sorcery examination where the students must retrieve it to pass. But since Nina has swallowed the pearl, she is now the target. Fortunately for Nina, two of the examinees decide to protect her from the other students while they work on a potion to extract the pearl from Nina.
My Review:
I really liked this anime and wouldn’t mind going back to watch it again but it’s a little different than other anime. The main character is a “Hopeless Romantic” or in other words she’s continuously all the time thinking about her “Knight in shining armor” which get’s a little tiring after a while.
Despite being a little goofy I truly enjoyed it, but the “Knight in shining armor” get’s real annoying after a while and thus others may not like the show as a whole.
The show does have a few emotional episodes that are not so goofy as they are sad, one in particular covers san’s tragic background regarding her mothers death.
Despite all that,I’d suggest giving this anime a go, but even though it’s one of my favorites it’s certainly not at the top of the list.
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Shinryaku! Ika Musume
Description: The sea in our world has been polluted. All sorts of trash were thrown into the sea, making it unpleasant deep under the sea. One of the inhabitants of the sea, Ika Musume (Squid Girl) seeks to exact revenge on humanity for throwing trash into the sea. Clueless about the surface, she seeks to invade humanity alone, trying to rule over the world, only to find herself slaving away at one of the nearest beach-houses for breaking a side of its wall.
My Review:
This anime was definitely one of my top favs, about a girl from the sea who comes to invade humanity, alone, but ends up working on some beach shack repairing the damage she caused.
It’s hilarious but a little different than other anime, each single episode contains several “mini” episodes usually not related to one another but does follow a storyline.
I’d recommend this – the series is not that long but really funny. I’d watch it again myself.
It’s also a cutesy type anime if you like those kind
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Shugo Chara
Description: Every child has an egg in their heart, unseen at first, an egg with the would-be self of their dreams. Hinamori Amu, part of a group called the Guardians, protect those eggs from becoming x-eggs, eggs filled with resentment and resignation that gives children troubles. Amu’s job is to capture and restore x-eggs to their orginal form. She does this with the help of her three Shugo Chara (guardian characters or her would be selves), Ran, Miki and Su. Thanks to them she can change her character and abilities, and so fight against the mysterious organization Easter which aim is to find a special egg called Embryo using the x-eggs.
My Review:
This was one of those anime that I didn’t think I would be interested in but turned out to love it. I liked it so much that I’m going to finish all 100 episodes
It was really good and I’d highly recommend it but it’s also under the “Magical Girl” genre so it’s in the same genre as “Sailor Moon” and “Kamichama Karin” – you’ll usually like it if you like “Magical Girl” shows in general.
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Vocaloid (Japanese Band not TV Show)
Description: Vocaloid is a high ranking Japanese band which uses several different cutting edge technologies for live performance, most of which no other band in the world has. The band singers and performers are completely fake (anime) and their voices are synthesized (also fake). The other band members are real though. Each concert is about 2:30 hours in length and features high quality music, special effects, costumes, and character drawings. Vocaloid is internationally famous and always has sold out concerts and encores. They’ve also begun international tours with the first stop Los Angelo’s, CA.
My Review:
I’m a huge Vocaloid fan and own all of the concert discs so far. Vocaloid also has a ton of non-concert media like games, albums, and music videos which I like to watch.
My favorite characters are, hands down, the Kagamine Fraternal Twins Rin & Len.
I would highly recommend the band as it’s pure fun to sit through and for the people who don’t like the idea of an animated singer may be pleasantly surprised.
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Saw and disliked:
Dragon Ball
Description: Bulma is a girl in search of the mystical dragonballs that when brought together grant any wish. In her search she bumps into the owner of one of these balls, a strange boy named Goku. The two then set off together, Bulma in search of the dragonballs and Goku on a quest to become stronger.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #66 out of 1,115
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars based on 140 votes
My Review:
This anime was terrible, the entire show, plot of the show,and even every single character to some extent revolved in some way around mature or adult content in a cheap humor kind of way. I started watching it because I had watched Dragonball Z, which had none of that, when it aired on TV and wanted to see the story arc before that. The show only continually got worse and it seemed that every character except for about 2 or 3 were perverts.
The show was widely popular in Japan and considered a classic since it was at one time extremely famous.
I would not recommend this to anyone else and eventually quit watching it as it just got too bad, never improved.
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Telepathy Shoujo Ran
Description: Ran is a bright and energetic first-grader in junior high school who possesses supernatual abilities. Together with Midori (her friend who also has supernatural powers) and Rui, the threesome are constantly embroiled in mysterious circumstances. Ran is troubled by her powers because it seems to spark off the ill intentions of people in contact with her. However, with the support of her family and peers, Ran learns to deal with her ‘other’ side and accepts who she is. The threesome also learn how to team up as a whole and solve these mysterious events.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #880 out of 1,115
Rating: 2.5 of 5 stars based on 9 votes
My Review:
I just thought the quality was poor, the storyline wasn’t planned out that well, some things didn’t make sense, and the acting seemed pretty bad. It certainly wasn’t my favorite not would I recommend watching it.
I only really got through 2 episodes before dropping off, not only was the quality bad but it was kind of silly and some of the characters looked goofy.
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Hayate no Gotoku
Description: 16-year-old Hayate is really down on his luck. His unemployed parents are good-for-nothings who waste the money they have on gambling. One day, his parents have racked up a huge gambling debt that they had to sell Hayate to the yakuza for the value of his organs. In a desperate attempt to avoid that fate, Hayate decides to become a “bad guy” and kidnap someone to be held for ransom, but his efforts to do so are mistaken as a confession of love by the girl he targets.
Viewing ranking among other anime: #169 out of 1,115
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars based on 66 votes
My Review
It’s just stupid, very bizarre, and makes no sense. It’s the same type of show as Dragonball where everything is bizarre and makes no sense. The only thing that makes any sort of sense is the core plot but even that’s sort of silly.
I especially stopped watching it when they started talking to the camera and when an entire episode is dedicated to him delivering food to this girl at school.
