Various thoughts on a variety of topics.
While the source material has been completed, this only adapts a portion of it.
The phoenix, a mythical creature representing eternal life and rebirth whose blood is thought to grant immortality. These are the stories of those both past and future, selfish and selfless, who have crossed its path.
A collection of drama-heavy short stories focused on destiny and cycles of life/death.
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Kyouichirou Hiiragi hopes to become a scholar and has traveled far from his hometown in order to study at Tokyo’s Imperial University. Instead, he soon finds himself caught up in the army’s plan to weaponize spirits.
A character drama with a bit of action that introduces comedy in the form of occasionally chibified appearances.
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Overjoyed to finally be moving out of his uncle’s house into a school dorm, Yuushi Inaba’s plans are thrown into disarray when the dorm building burns down before the school year even starts. Desperate to find somewhere else to stay, he gets a lucky last minute break and is offered the use of a storage room in a certain apartment building… a complex frequented by many different kinds of supernatural creatures.
A semi-episodic progression of often dramatic occurrences with equal parts coming of age and comedic slice of life aspects.
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Otoku Juku, a fabled institution that accepts dropouts from across Japan in order to turn them into the manliest of men. Its methods are extreme however and it more closely resembles a prison than a school.
Starts out as a comedy with minor action elements that parodies manly men stereotypes, eventually fully transforming into a serious action-drama by the halfway point.
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Government-affiliated spiritualist by day and dominatrix by night, Misaki Saiki does not particularly enjoy either job and wishes for a more normal life. Something that seems forever out of reach due to both her albino appearance and ability to see ghosts.
A multi-genre series with a large amount of ecchi, occasionally bordering on the pornographic, distributed throughout. The comedy style is mostly reaction-based while the drama is on the darker side of the spectrum.
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Not every day has to be a life or death experience, and in the downtime between world-shaking events the mages of the Fairy Tail guild often find themselves doing more mundane things such as cleaning a pool, training at the beach, or relaxing at a water park.
A collection of side-stories primarily focused on ecchi and comedy. Though most of them take place at various points during the parent series (1 & 3 are in the 69-97 range, 4 is post-123, 5 is between 170 & 171, and 7-9 are post-201), a couple (2 & 6) are stand-alone what-ifs.
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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.
Detecting an abnormality in the past which threatens to cause the extinction of the human race, the Chaldea organization puts into motion a plan to send Master/Servant pairs through time to ensure humanity’s survival. However, after an act of sabotage only a single unprepared reserve recruit manages to make it through the process.
An adaption of the related game‘s prologue that starts out closer to a daily life comedy and later turns into an action-drama. Though for the most part unrelated beyond terminology, much of the movie takes place in an alternate version of Fate/Stay Night‘s setting (only the servants remain, some of whom have switched roles).
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Following World War III the Japanese military began to shift its focus toward training magicians, and to facilitate this nine specialized schools were created with the focus of producing both new magical technology and soldiers. Two uncommonly talented siblings have just been accepted to the most prestigious of these schools… only to find themselves drawn into a variety of conspiracies hatched by foreign powers.
An exposition-heavy action drama with minor spots of ecchi which uses reaction humor for comic relief. While it does revolve around a school, the focus ends up more on the military and the two protagonists’ personal lives.
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Centuries in the past seventeen beasts appeared and wiped out the human race while the other races fled to floating islands. There they now live out their lives with the fairies, who resemble human girls and are the only ones able to use the weapons humanity left behind, acting as a defense against any of the beasts that manage to attack from the surface. Into this new order steps Willem Kmetsch, a human who was frozen in time and has become a caretaker for these living weapons.
A mixed-genre series that starts out as almost a slice of life comedy before eventually fully transforming into an action-infused romantic drama. As far as ecchi content goes, there are only a few scenes scattered around.
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