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Series

Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid 1-4
Hereafter refered to as "FMP!TSR" Outline: This is more of a direct sequel to the first FMP series, rather than a followup to Fumoffu (as far as I can gather). Sousuke's mission to protect Chidori is terminated by Mithril, owever
there are still secret agencies out to try and get the "Black Technology" from "Whispered" individuals like her.

Honey and Clover 1-4
Kind of a cute romantic comedy. Takemoto Yuuta, Mayama Takumi, and Morita Shinobu are college students who share a small apartment. Even though they live in poverty, the three of them are able to obtain pleasure through small things in life. The story follows these characters' life stories as poor college students, as well as their love lives when a short but talented 18 year old girl called Hanamoto Hagumi appears.

Gakuen Alice 1-4
Cutsie magical-girl comedy show, seen comparisons drawn with shows like CCS and Childs Toy Outline: In a small country school, Sakura Mikan and Imai Hotaru are classmates and best friends - in their own way. Ditzy,
emotional Mikan seems ill-matched with aloof, emotionless Hotaru, yet they are together all the time... until Hotaru gets called away to study at the strange and forbidding Alice Academy. In her anguish at being left behind, Mikan finally decides to follow her friend - and doing so, she makes a strange discovery.

Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu 1-3
Outline: Asaba Naoyuki is an ordinary high school student. As a member of his school's press club, he's just spent the summer camping outside the local military base, in hopes of seeing the UFOs that are secretly kept
there, according to local legend. Returning to school, he meets a strange girl, Iriya Kana, and gradually comes to realise that she is more than merely strange

Suzuka 1-4
Don't be fooled, it's not a Love Hina clone...
Outline: To continue his studies, the young Yamato Akizuki has to go and live with his aunt. He doesn't have to pay a rent but in exchanges he has to maintain the residence. Besides having a public bath it's also
occupied by three pretty tenants, Yuuka Saotome, Megumi Matsumoto and Suzuka Asahina. Yamato falls quickly for the charm of the beautiful and sporty Suzuka but alas for him everything separates them...

Zettai Shounen 1-3
Odd slow burner, Yokohama Shopping Log / Ghibli-ish
Outline: Aizawa Ayumu is a young boy, who is sent to a small town called Tana to live with his father for a while. Ayumu used to live in Tana, and now his memories of the time are shrouded in mystery - apparently
something happened when he was a child. Enter Miku, a young girl who knows more than she tells, weird glowing lights floating around, reflections of UFOish objects in the eyes of cats and dogs, a nosy female
announcer, a forest with a mysterious past, and a weird boy called Wakkun, who wears the clothes Ayumu used to when he was a child, and you get the world of Zettai Shonen, where mysteries remain mysteries amidst a slow,
normal, everyday life.

Shuffle 1-4
Bit worried by the demon/human world merging thing (Overfiend anyone?), but seems to be a cute comedy, nice elf-girls :-)
Outline: 10 years have passed since the three worlds of the humans, gods and devils merged. Tsuchimi Rin is a highschool student who goes to National Verbena Academy. He spends his time with his childhood friends Fuyo Kaeda and Midoriba Itsuki. One day two beautiful girls from the world of gods and devils
transfer to his class.


2x2 = Shinobuden - Crazy ninja comedy, Excel Saga levels of humour, showed episode 1 of this at last week's meeting

Aishiteruze Baby - Comedy, high school lothario must play "mother" to orphaned five year old girl

Ashita no Nadja - Victorian adventure in the style of Nadia of Blue Water / Cerulean Sand

Azusa will help - One episode OVA, flagging baseball team take on an android maid to help them improve, Mahoromatic stylee

Battle Programmer Shirase - Comedy, Super-uber-hacker takes on jobs for a mysterious corporation, but prefers to be
paid not in money, but with old technology and stuff...

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo - This appears to be another off-the-wall comedy, as Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo uses his secret art of nose hair
combat to save the Earth (WTF!!)

Bottle Fairy - Cute little fairies that live in bottles, and try to learn about the world from a less than bright child

Cat's Eye - Team of female cat burglars, run a cafe by day and nick art treasures by night, predictably, one of them is dating the cop in charge of their case (he doesn't know it of course!)

DearS - SciFi comedy, Beautiful aliens crash on Earth and integrate into Japanese society. Takeya (a high school student) distrusts them, but (surprise, surprise) ends up having to take one in and teach the alien how to speak and behave.

Dogtato-kun - A dog that's a potato, or a potato that's a dog? Short 5 minute episodes about Dogtato and his other genetically
diverse friends from Veggie-town.

Galaxy Angel S4 - The continuing adventures of the GA team as they search the galaxy for "lost technology" and generally goof around!

Girls Bravo - Slightly ecchi comedy, high school pleb has a slight case of gynephobia(!) breaking out in a rash near girls. Rather inconveinent when he's transported to a mysterious planet full of girls...

Great Detectives Poirot and Marple - Young Mabel West sets out to be a detective and assistant to the great Hercule Poirot, which is allowed, just so long as she visits here great aunt, Jane Marple

Hani Hani: Operation Sanctuary - Game to anime conversion, high schooler Naoki Kuzumi can't recall his life further back than 5 years, until one day someone literally drops into his lap!

Macross Zero - Taking place in 1999 before the Zentraedi arrive, this is a prequel to the Macross Saga detailing the final days of the war between UN Spacy and anti-UN factions

Mahou Shoujo Tai - Young Alice believes very firmly that magic is possible, and one day is transported to a world ruled by an elite of witches. Alice soon sets out to learn magic and shake things up.

Monster - Somewhat dark medical mystery/supernatural drama, seems to have been well liked at the recent Amecon04

Panda Z(eto) - A parody of MazingerZ, these are short 4 minute episodes about the adventures of Pan Taron in his giant Panda-Z robot, somewhat like "silent" movies, this show uses music/effects and text to present the tales

Pretty Cure - Magical girl show, two refugees from the Garden Of Light drop into the lives of two high school girls, endowing them with new powers becoming Cure Black and Cure White - together PRETTY CURE!

Pugyuru - Another comedy anime of short episodes, Cheko-chan is a bizarre maid with weird friends (edible snow spirit, talking squid and a Yankee bully). Sent to change the life of a high school student (why are there so many high school students in anime?)

Ragnarok The Animation - Anime based on a game based on a Korean manga ( I think...) Medieval inspired magic and fantasy in the style of Lodoss War, .Hack/Sign, or Scrapped Princess

Re: Cutie Honey - A remake of Cutie Honey TV based off the live action CH movie (where can I get a copy...) The mysterious cosplayer Cutie Honey thwarts the evil plans of the Panther Claw organisation

Rizelmine - An "old" but funny series, Iwaki comes home from school one day to discover that he's been married to the young girl Rizel - all legal and above board, although the 3 dark suited "papas" who pop-up seem to be very keen for Iwaki to make this work going so far as to bribe his parents

Sailor Moon (live action) - Yep, the first few episodes of the live action drama of the well known Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
series, magical girls, transformations, cats etc. etc.

Sensei no Ojikan - High school comedy somewhat in the style of Azumanga Daioh, well meaning high school teacher Suzuki Mika is just a wee bit shorter than most of her students, so not taken very seriously

Sergeant Frog - Kero kero, Kero kero, Kero kero, Kero kero, Kero kero. Frog like aliens attempt to invade the Earth, then call the whole thing off leaving poor old Sgt. Kero to continue the plan on his own

Soukyuu no Fafner - High schoolers (AGAIN!) defend the world against aliens in the giant dragon robot Fafner

Starshipgirl Yamamoto Yohko TV - Followup to the 1997 OVA series In a freak accident, ace pilot Yamamoto Yohko is sent back to the year 1999, where she loses her memory. However flashbacks of her battles help to reunite her with the Terra team and her winning ways.

Super Mobile Legend Dinagiga - Kinda Gunbuster-ish, 6 would be pilots compete to gain a robot license at a training institute, but they're soon called on to pilot the mecha Dinagiga and defend the Earth (AGAIN?)

The Melody of Oblivion - Mecha vs. monsters as our hero attempts to discover the mystery of the so called Meros Warriors that once defended the world against the demons

Wind-A Breath of Heart - This seems like an ordinary romance as childhood friends reunite, but there may be more mystery behind the scenes... This is ep 1 of the OVA and 1-4 of the TV series. They're done by different companies in different continuities so can be watched separately

Wonderful Days - Korean animated scifi film, in the middle of the 21st century the city of Ecoban is constructed to live off the pollution generated by mankind. As time passes pollution decreases and Ecoban faces an uneasy problem as it must continue to pollution the environment to survive --



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