Action Comedy: Much like ACTION (Lots of shooting, explosions, and the like) except it has comedy thrown in as well.
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.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| B | ||
 Bleach |
Buy |
Kurosaki Ichigo is not your ordinary 15 year old, because he has always had the ability to see and interact with those spirits and ghosts that remained behind and are hidden to ordinary people. And one fateful day, a female Shinigami (soul reaper) named Kuchiki Rukia appears before him as she is hunting for an evil spirit. During the confrontation with the daemon, both Ichigo and Rukia are seriously injured, and Rukia has to transfer her powers to Ichigo to assist him in defeating the evil Hollow. But in doing so, she loses all of her power and she now expects Ichigo to continue in her task of fighting and defeating those fallen spirits whom she calls Hollows, who exist only to devour other innocent souls. |
| D | ||
| Don`t Leave Me Alone, Daisy | See Misutenaide Daisy | |
| F | ||
 Final Approach |
Rent |
Mizuhara Ryo is a normal high school student, living alone with his younger sister Akane. They were very happy together, at least until a mysterious girl in jet-powered parachute crashes through their window and into their lives. A very beautiful Masuda Shizuka introduces herself as Ryo's new fiancé, him having been chosen as her perfect partner by a secret supercomputer, and they are now engaged under a secret national project to address the declining birthrate. And to emphasize the importance of the project, thirty black suited men break into the house, to hold Ryo down and quell his screaming complaints. Shizuka informs Ryo and Akane that she is there to stay! |
 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 |
 Gokusen (Live Action) |
Rent |
Gokusen tells a story about the young rookie teacher Yamaguchi Kumiko who is brave enough to accept as her first teaching assignment a position at the toughest high school in the district. While appearing to be very young and cute, she has to hide the fact that she is the daughter of a Yukusa leader, and that all of her brothers are active members in the Yukusa. But it is her family background that helps her to deal with the problems that occur at school in her own special way... |
| M | ||
 Misutenaide Daisy |
Having grown up in a bomb-shelter surrounded only by his inventions, and cared after by an introverted mad-scientist of a grandfather, Techno may be one bright young man, but his social skills are severely lacking. One day, a hapless girl attempts to ‘break into’ his fortress and becomes the fixated object of his affection. Poor Hitomi now has to deal with constant attentions of a genius boy who can pop out anywhere, and insists on calling her “his Daisy!” | |
| R | ||
 Ranma 1/2 |
Buy |
Saotome Ranma is a boy with a problem. He is cursed so that whenever cold water hits him, he turns into a young red haired girl. Further complicating maters is that his father Genma has arranged for Ranma to marry one of the daughters of Tendou Souun, his former training companion. Of the daughters Kasumi (the sweet one and homemaker), Nabiki (the scheming one), and Akane (the violent one), Akane is chosen to be Ranma's bride. |
| Ranma 1/2 Nettôhen | Buy | See Ranma 1/2 |
| S | ||
 School Rumble |
Buy | The petite and quiet Tsukamoto Tenma is in the second year of high school. With a nip of spring in the air, she has developed romantic feelings for a fellow student, Karasuma Ooji-kun, (not that he has a clue.) Having learned that Karasuma will be leaving for another school next year, she has promised herself that she would confess to him, no matter what, and she enlists the assistance of her little sister and friends to help her in her various plots to be alone with her Ooji-kun. But what of the scary motorcycle riding delinquent classmate, Harima-kun? Is it possible that he has fallen hard for Tenma-chan? To what lengths might a lovesick student go too to be with the person they hold most dear? |
| スクールランブル | Buy | See School Rumble |
| ブリーチ (Japanese) | Buy | See Bleach |
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