Various thoughts on a variety of topics.
Tokyo’s “Himote House” is inhabited by the three Himote sisters along with two of the youngest’s former classmates, Minamo Arai and Tae Hongou. All five young women have relationship troubles… and all five also have supernatural abilities.
An absurdist, often dialog-driven, romance-themed daily life comedy. Note that each episode concludes with an ad libbed slumber party segment.
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Although Lu-Ying is safe and the Red Flower Gang has been defeated, World War II is on the horizon and the Japanese army is making moves to wipe out gang activity by employing martial artists of their own. Worse, the German army is in Shanghai as well looking to secure the List of Hope which Guise had intended to use in the creation of a sanctuary city.
An action series threaded with various types of comic relief. Though a sequel to Souten no Ken, the storyline here is almost entirely self-contained with little relation to previous events.
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Suddenly killed in a traffic accident, 2nd-year highschool student Sakura Minamoto awakens to find herself in a creepy zombie-filled house. Running for her life she manages to escape… only to discover that she herself is a zombie, raised from death to revitalize the fading Saga Prefecture as part of a zombie idol group.
An idol comedy focused on reaction and absurdist humor including a number of secondary dramatic subplots and a few horror elements.
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The holiday season is here and Retsuko is becoming increasingly obsessed with Instagram. Worried about this development, Haida tries to work up the courage to ask her out to a Christmas party.
An extra episode of the 2018 Aggressive Retsuko series featuring the same variety of comedy. It can be watched as a stand-alone.
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Lost in the forest while investigating rumors of a western-style mansion and mysterious girl, Akari Amano ends up being saved by the vampire Sophie Twilight. Sophie as it turns out is both the inadvertent source of the rumors and, aside from appearance and diet, not much different from a normal person. Akari meanwhile is overjoyed to have found a real doll-like girl and instantly accepts Sophie’s invitation to visit her house.
A yuri-themed romantic comedy with a subfocus on daily-life situational humor.
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What happens to a hero who’s outlived their usefulness? Unfortunately, in many cases they end up either abandoned or sentenced to death. The Hero Retirement Agency seeks to change that harsh reality by transporting them to Earth and teaching them how to live as normal people.
A character drama with a large amount of comic relief and minor ecchi aspects.
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On a day just like any other Tomari Hinowa’s life unexpectedly changes when he gets chosen to be the wife of the mysterious Kanenogi. As it turns out he’s not the only one in his class married to a supernatural creature, and the group of them soon end up becoming friends.
A school-life romantic comedy with a central arranged marriage theme and occasionally random style of humor.
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While attending college Hana meets and falls in love with a man who reveals himself to be a werewolf. Yet far from being a problem the revelation instead only enhances their relationship, which quickly progresses from living together to having children. The city is a dangerous place for a wolf however and shortly after the birth of their second child the man is killed in a freak accident… leaving Hana to raise the two ‘wolf children’ alone.
A daily life journey with an early focus on romance and a few bursts of drama.
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Caught up in a terrorist attack, Shintarou Kisaragi and the various members of the Mekakushi-Dan have to come up with a plan to both incapacitate the attackers and protect the other hostages from harm.
An alternate version of the events shown in Mekakucity Actors‘ 1st and 3rd episodes. There’s not much point in watching it as a stand-alone.
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Having read about a treasure being kept in the university library’s storage room, a group of students decide to break in one night to search for it. The treasure turns out to be a pair of mummies from whom one of the students steals a particular stone known as a ‘life stone’. Its theft awakens the mummified zombies, who quickly set off to retrieve the stone at any cost.
A movie featuring occasional nudity which mixes comedic character behavior, violent horror, and action.
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