This is a term coined to identify things like jiggling breasts, cleavage shots, panty shots, bra shots, closeup shots of women's breast, legs, butt, etc., and mild nudity all for the purposes of "servicing" the audience and having no relevance to the plot or characters of a series. The term has a second meaning covering things like massive action sequences, explosions, fights, etc., but it mostly refers to the first meaning.
Self-explanatory. High school (grades 10-12) should play a major role in the title. Azumanga Daioh is an excellent example of this category. A typical High school series will include a Sports Festival, a Cultural Festival, and a school Trip.
Self-explanatory. In addition to having a romance, there should be humor too, often directly tied to the romance story. Love Hina, Aa! Megami-sama! OVA, Chobits, and TONS more titles all fall under this genre.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| F | ||
 Full Metal Panic ~Fumoffu~ |
Buy | This is the sequel/sideseries to Full Metal Panic and follows the manga. Now that the events in FMP are over, Sosuke and Chidori are once again classmates in high school. However, Sosuke hasn't lost any of his military training and starts things off by blowing up his shoe locker after discovering someone had been in it and may have booby trapped it (a girl had left him a love letter in the locker). From there, it just gets better as the series parodies various elements of Japanese life or just has the two in wacky school-related adventures. Will Chidori and her trusty harisen be able to whack Sosuke into a normal man she can have a relationship with? Or will Chidori become more like Sosuke and become a military babe he would really love? |
| Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu | Buy | See Full Metal Panic ~Fumoffu~ |
| G | ||
 Girls Bravo |
Rent |
Born very short in size, Yukinari has always been picked on by girls. His life is so full of violent and abusive girls, that he has become gynophobic, and being touched by a girl causes him to break out in hives. One day, after being kicked in the face by Kirie-chan, he falls in the bathtub and passes through to another world where he meets a very sweet and kind Miharu-chan. Yukinari is surprised to find out that he does not react when being touched by Miharu, and he is amazed at how interested she is in him. |
| GIRLSブラボー | Rent | See Girls Bravo |
| M | ||
 Maburaho |
Buy |
Shikimori Kazuki is a 17-year old high school student at the prestigious school for magic users, Aoi Academy. All students have magical abilities and have a certain number of spells they can cast in their life -- normal students can cast several thousand spells and very powerful students, like the very rich Kazetsubaki Kuriko, can cast over 100,000 in their life. But for poor Kazuki-san, he can only cast eight. After that, if he attempts to use magic, it will only result in his turning to dust. As such, he is shunned by the girls at school and really has no friends to speak of. |
| O | ||
| One*2 | Watch | See Onegai Twins |
 Onegai Twins |
Watch |
Maiku Kamishiro is a high school student who recently lost his adoptive parents and is living alone in a house he recalls from his childhood -- a house he saw on TV during the UFO flap in Onegai Teacher. Miina Miyafuji and Karen Onodera also saw the house on TV and also remember living there as kids. So both (separately) head out on their own to visit this house. Both claim to be sisters of Maiku and all three have strange, blue eyes. What does it all mean? |
| P | ||
| Please Twins | Watch | See Onegai Twins |
| おねがい☆ツインズ | Watch | See Onegai Twins |
| まぶらほ (Japanese) | Buy | See Maburaho |
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