Acquired Taste/2004/Modern Titles

Acquired Taste: (Style) These are titles which may take a while to get used to. As such, you should watch several episodes before making up your mind.

Modern: (Setting) These are titles which have a modern feel to them; the story takes place in the present day (of the creation of this anime), give or take a few years.

Title Rating Synopsis
B

BECK
Buy Yukio (also known as Koyuki) is somewhat of a fourteen-year-old loser. He's not very popular, athletic or musically talented. In fact he is so lame that his favorite musician is a canned-mainstream-te­en-idol singer. But when he gets reconnected with his childhood friend, Izumi, and meets up with the hip Ryusuke, a musician with connections to the very popular American Band, Dying Breed, his life gets turned around. In learning about rock-n-roll music, he quickly aspires to learn the guitar and gain a spot in Ryusuke's new band - Beck.
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad Buy See BECK
G

Genshiken
Rent Kanji Sasahara is a first year college student. He watches a lot of Anime and reads Manga. He was thinking of joining the Manga club when another student Makoto Kohsaka strikes up a conversation with them about joining. Kanji is embarassed and leaves. Later he visits the Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture (Aka a bunch of Otaku's). While alone in the club room, he looks up the skirt of a Haruka doll (KGNE), and is caught red handed flipping through their porn collection. He is so mortified, but finds out it was a form of Hazing and the other guys were just waiting nearby for the president to catch him in the 'act'!. "Now that we know we're the same kind" Genshiken member Madarame says, "how about you join us?"
Ghost Talker's Daydream Watch See Teizokurei DAYDREAM

Green Green - Wakaba & Sanae (special)
The boys have gone and the all-girl high school has returned to 'normal'. But girls can get into a lot trouble on their own too.
K

Koi Kaze
Buy

Koushiro has lost his way in life. His steady girlfriend broke up with him because their relationship was not going anywhere and she tell him that she has fallen out of love with him, and his job at a dating service was not bringing him any measure of happiness. During his commute home, he sees a high school student on the train, and feels a strange spark of connection. The next day they happen to meet again, he approaches her and asks to spend some time together. In an amusement park, they spend some time and talk, where Koushiro finds himself opening up to her, shedding tears at the memories of his broken heart, and where he finds himself being comforted by her.

L
Love Wind Buy See Koi Kaze
M
Maria Watches Over Us Buy See Maria-sama ga Miteru

Maria-sama ga Miteru
Buy Yumi is a first year student at the Lillian School For Girls, an exclusive all girl's catholic school. The school has a tradition that older girls take a younger girl as their little sister or "soeur" in order to instruct and look out for them. Though Yumi admires Sachiko, a reserved second year student who is a member of the student council, she has no hopes of being chosen as her soeur. When an innocent encounter leads Sachiko to impulsively ask Yumi to be her soeur, Yumi is suddenly brought into the inner circle of the Roses, who are the members of the student council. With Sachiko at her side, Yumi begins to unravel and understand the relationships between the Roses and their soeurs and figure out her own feelings for Sachiko.

Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~
Buy It is now Spring, and a new term is about to start at the Lillian Academy. The relationships between the Roses continues to unfold, in this beautifully expressive tale.
MariMite Buy See Maria-sama ga Miteru
MariMite: ~Haru~ Buy See Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~
T

Teizokurei DAYDREAM
Watch Misaki Saiki is just your run of the mill dominatrix. By day she is wearing a red studded leather outfit. After work she runs around in gogo boots and a mini-skirt. Her typical day also includes stopping by local magazines where she does interviews and gives 'free' prizes to the winners of contests. But later, her side job is much more interesting: For certain large fees, she hunts down ghosts that are endangering people and send them off to the next world. Because Misaki is a 'Spirit Medium', a person able to see ghosts.
The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture Rent See Genshiken
The Virgin Mary is Watching You Buy See Maria-sama ga Miteru
Genre
Action(1) Comedy(2) Drama(5) Parody(1)
Romance(3)
Setting
Demographic
Seinen(1) Shoujo(2) Shounen(1)
Style
Creepy(2) Silly-funny(1) Weird(2)
Keywords
Coming of Age(1) Ecchi(2) Fan Service(2) Friendship(2)
High School(4) Incest(1) Lolicon(1) Music(1)
Music Oriented(1) Occult(1) Otaku Theme(1) Shoujo Ai(2)
Slice of Life(4) Supernatural(1) Yuri(1)
Type
OVA(1) TV(5)
Release Year
2005(2)
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