Various thoughts on a variety of topics.
Shows that I have not watched to completion.
After being killed in a car accident Keika You discovers that he’s become a ghost. Making matters worse, due to circumstances beyond his control he ends up forced to make a contract with an exorcist to help fight evil spirits.
A mixed-genre series that’s weighted heavily toward comedy, with a style of humor heavy on facial/body deformation.
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Tokio, a perennially late junior-high student, suddenly finds himself as the newest member of the Space-Time Administration Bureau after Calen makes a crash-landing in 2016 and picks him up on a whim. Their mission? To find the wacky ‘true history’ not recorded in history books.
This is the kind of show western morning/afternoon cartoons resemble, being episodic and featuring a light/silly form of comedy with a bit of mecha action.
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Ami is a slightly clumsy college student without any hobbies, until one day she sees someone riding a folding bike. Despite having long had an interest in biking she never tried it herself due to a fear of falling, and the folding bike looks just compact enough to inspire her to try.
A slice of life cycling series with a noticeable ecchi streak and comedy based on awkward character behavior.
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While rummaging through his grandfather’s stored things for something to pawn, Hikaru ends up possessed by the ghost of a Go instructor from the Heian period. Soon enough Hikaru becomes interested in the game as well and starts trying to become a better player.
Unlike many of this sort of series, this one doesn’t really have any comedy to speak of. It treats the game as deathly serious and even the school life portions focus on darker topics such as bullying and jealousy.
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Returning home to France after a business trip to Japan, Oscar has brought many souvenirs for his grandson. Among them is a young Japanese girl who has come to work as a live-in maid. Will she be able to adapt to this radically different environment?
An ambling daily life show set in 19th century Paris. It’s mostly ‘cute girl doing everyday things’ with touches of comedy and drama every so often to liven things up.
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One Monday morning the protagonist has a fateful encounter, ending up injured by a schoolgirl’s large breasts. The girl’s name is Ai and the two end up spending each Monday morning together on the train.
Shot from the perspective of an unnamed salaryman, the show consists of everyday segments of his life from week to week. Sometimes it features the train ride with Ai, sometimes it features his job, and sometimes it features places he goes to try to ease his job-related stress.
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One day while setting up a meeting for her boss, Tokine Amino finds herself transported to a strange alternate dimension. There she meets a floating mascot character who explains that she must solve a riddle in order to escape this closed space.
Part slice of life comedy and part quiz show. Instead of being episodic it takes a more narrative-driven approach, showing scenes from the protagonist’s daily life that suddenly get interrupted by a trip to the riddle dimension.
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Sawako Machida loves books and trivia, wanting to be seen as a knowledgeable intellectual. The only problem is she can’t be bothered to actually read any books and so just makes things up as she goes along.
A fast-talking comedy heavy with literary references that are often explained with a large paragraph of text in the middle of the screen. The humor is centered on Sawako’s pretensions and the extreme passion the other students in the library have for literature.
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The five main characters of Glass no Kamen are transplanted into a modern-day school setting, where they seek to enliven the mundane through passionate performance.
A gag-comedy parody of the Glass no Kamen manga series. While the gags are centered on random school related topics, they all feature slightly exaggerated versions of the characters’ normally over-dramatic behavior. You’ll likely need to have either read the manga or watched one of the various Anime adaptations to get much out of it.
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The National Special-Level University Exam, a grueling test that anyone seeking happiness or success in this world must pass. Its existence has given rise to two types of people, those that try to pass through diligence and study and those that try to pass by cheating. Now Mu-Ming the cheater and Qiao Yi the learner have set out to take the exam and free Mu-Ming’s father from wrongful imprisonment.
A cartoon-like battle shounen fond of extreme over-exaggeration. Everything here from the setting, to the battles, to the character interactions is pushed well over the top.
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