Various thoughts on a variety of topics.
Specializing in the study of mysterious creatures, the renowned geneticist Sousuke Banba investigates stories of UMA sightings across the country.
A mostly episodic series of horror stories with visuals resembling a 3D picture drama. While most focus on drama, some include action elements or minor comic relief.
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The sudden death of Zeon Zum Deikun from a suspiciously-timed heart attack triggers violent riots throughout the space colonies, leading directly to the formation of a new power which stands opposed to the Earth-based Federation government. Deikun’s two surviving children find themselves targets and are forced into hiding, eventually taking drastically different paths through life to end up on opposing sides of the conflict between the Federation and newly minted Zeon forces.
A character-focused war drama laced with action scenes and reaction-based comic relief. It’s a prequel to the first Gundam series and can be watched without having seen anything else in the franchise.
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Outwardly Akomi Natsuki’s boyfriend appears to be a sophisticated college student; in reality he’s a complete airhead whose only redeeming feature is his good looks. His friends from high school are no better and they often gather to discuss serious matters in the most roundabout way possible.
A random-style gag comedy with a focus on dialog-heavy situational and reaction humor.
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It’s been over 25 years since we last saw the Matsuno sextuplets and now they’re all grown up. Yet… nothing really seems to have changed. Will they every be able to find a job, move out of their parents’ house, or get a girlfriend?
An episodic gag comedy featuring an assortment of reaction-based, random-style, 4th wall breaking, slapstick, and parody humor. It does not require any familiarity with either of the Osomatsu-kun prequels.
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The three realms (heavenly, human, and boundary) keep their balance by cycling souls from one to another, often by force, with the responsibility of transferral falling to the boundary realm’s Black & White Warriors. The youngest of these are Heng Wang and Liang Yan, a unique pair who have never completed an assignment and only seem to excel at being late.
An action-drama with an initially large streak of comic relief which almost entirely disappears by the halfway point.
In a world where text-based communication has begun to dominate discourse, a virus has appeared that causes certain Kanji to run amok. To counter this threat the DEAVA organization has gathered up people with Verbalism abilities to pilot special mecha called Aquarions.
An action series with a large comedic streak and minor romance elements which becomes more of a multi-genre series in the second half. While the OVA that precedes the first episode is a crossover between Aquarion and Evol, the series proper has no connection to those shows beyond a few setting details.
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Ougi Oshino, a mysterious individual claiming relation to Meme Oshino, has inserted themselves into Koyomi’s life and begins to take great interest in both his past and future. An interest which puts him on a collision course with Izuko Gaen.
This portion of the Monogatari franchise is specifically tied to Monogatari: Second Season, Tsukimonogatari, and Koyomimonogatari: The first three stories take place after Koyomi episodes 6 & 7 and focus on Koyomi’s past, the fourth is a recollection of his side of Nekomonogatari (Shiro) told following Tsuki‘s events, and the remaining three continue from Koyomi‘s last episode to conclude the highschool chapter of his life.
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Training so hard that he went prematurely bald, the part-time hero Saitama has become the strongest man alive. So strong that most enemies are utterly annihilated by a single punch… so strong that he barely feels much of anything anymore. One day he meets a young cyborg who desperately wants to become his disciple after witnessing that power, and his condition for this is for the two of them join the Hero Association together.
An action-heavy and somewhat gory battle shounen parody. Though initially comedy-centric and focused on Saitama, it eventually adopts more of an ensemble structure while introducing hints of drama.
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Six kids from around the globe have come to Japan for a 10-day homestay. Originally staying together at Shigeru’s, they’ve since been split up among the members of Maruko’s class to better experience normal Japanese life. The boy from Italy takes a strong interest in Maruko and, to her great annoyance, ends up at her house.
Part comedy and part inspirational, this movie tells an essentially stand-alone story. The comedy, which is personality/reaction-based, ends up secondary to Andrea’s search for his grandfather’s friends and his eventual bonding with Maruko.
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When the CGS mercenary group is contracted to transport the leader of a Martian independence movement to Earth, they become the target of Gjallarhorn, a police-like organization which seeks to keep Mars under Earth’s control through any means necessary. Earth however is not united, and the mercenaries quickly become entangled in an elaborate political scheme.
A mecha action drama with child soldiers as the protagonists. Like many Gundam series it focuses on the themes of colonialism, prejudice, rivalry, and chains of revenge. Less common are the mafioso elements it eventually adopts.
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