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Yoshiko Hanabatake and Akuru Akutsu are childhood friends who happen to be complete opposites; Akuru is smart and serious to a fault while Yoshiko is playful and lacks even the most basic common sense. Though Yoshiko claims to like Akuru, he does not feel the same way and often responds violently to her constant idiotic behavior.
An odd-couple gag comedy specializing in slapstick and ecchi.
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To its everyday Japanese customers nothing seems out of place at the western-themed restaurant Nekoya. However, every Saturday its doors open to exclusively serve the varied denizens of an alternate dimension resembling a medieval high-fantasy world.
A semi-episodic show about both food and character interactions. While most of its time is spent on scenes at the restaurant, which are almost completely dialog-driven, conflict-centered events from the alternate world also occasionally make an appearance along with small patches of ecchi.
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A princess from a small country, Lion has transferred into Pirari Academy in order to learn about being a Logicalist. There she meets many other girls from different backgrounds, all with their own reasons for becoming Logaicalists.
Though a sequel to Luck & Logic, this features a different setting, a new cast, and drops nearly all of the action/drama elements. It has a minor ecchi/yuri streak and apart from one or two episodes it’s almost entirely a standard schoolgirl daily life show.
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Though a gifted soccer player, due to his extreme germophobia Aoyama has developed an eccentric style of play where he avoids contact with both the ball and other players as much as possible. A quirk that puts him at odds with the hot-headed Kaoru Zaizen, who believes Aoyama doesn’t take the game seriously enough.
A gag comedy with a strong soccer focus and somewhat limited joke variety.
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At first glance the girls of Shinjugamine high school seem to be just normal everyday students, but they are in fact elite fighters trained to combat incursions by mysterious creatures called Irous. However, after having won two major battles in the past they’ve since grown complacent and sloppy… so much so that they must now undergo complete retraining.
A schoolgirl show based on a game featuring a mix of action, comedy, idols, daily life events, and minor ecchi content. While the story takes place after certain events in the game, it does not seem to be necessary to play that in order to watch this.
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Suddenly, without warning, characters from popular works of fiction begin appearing in the real world. Souta Mizushino finds himself at ground zero of the phenomenon and seems to be recognized by the apparent instigator of the incursions, despite being just an ordinary student with no creations of his own. What is his connection to this mysterious girl and how will the authors and artists cope with coming face to face with their creations?
An action drama with a strong 4th-wall breaking focus, moderate comedic presence, and a couple concentrated spots of ecchi. The first half is heavily skewed toward physical conflict between the creations while the second features more dramatic tensions regarding the creators’ work.
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The town of Sakurada is home to a monitored population, many of whom possess special abilities of some form. Kei Asai’s is the ability to remember everything perfectly, which puts him in an ideal position to work with Misora Haruki. Her’s can periodically ‘reset’ the world to a state up to 3 days prior; everything returns to how it was at that earlier point and normally everyone, including herself, loses any memory of what occurred during the reset period. Being unaffected by the memory loss, Kei becomes the only one able to direct that power.
It starts out as a laid-back detective-like series with a secondary focus on a complicated love triangle. Then in the second half things become more adversarial, though the romance elements remain the same. Overall it’s mainly dialog-driven while also containing a few deadpan comedy and action elements.
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Jun’ichi Hashiba is in his second year of high school and has never had a girlfriend. Neither has any of his three friends, and one day after school they decide that he should ask out the flashy Yukana Yame. To his surprise… she accepts.
A heavy-ecchi romantic comedy, focused mainly on erotic fantasizing and the perverted behavior of the secondary male characters.
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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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The Kameido high school’s tennis club consists of four girls who don’t actually play much tennis, instead being preoccupied with everything from aliens, to where to take a vacation, to simple everyday activities that become anything but.
Completely random episodic comedy delivered at a breakneck pace. To catch all, or even most of the jokes requires frequent pausing.
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