Coming of Age/2005 Titles

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Coming of Age: (Story/Location) A story in which the main character is confronted with issues related to their transition from adolescence (innocence) to adulthood (responsibility). Most typically found in a modern romance story in which the main character has to confront his/her feelings over their (first) love and/or deciding about the path in life (setting goals, attending college, getting a job etc.).

Title Rating Synopsis
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Eureka 7 Buy See Eureka Seven

Eureka Seven
Buy A 14 year-old boy named Renton lives with his mechanic grandfather and struggles with the boredom of a quiet town in which nothing ever happens. At least until a giant LFO mech named Nirvash, in need of repair, crashes into their house. The pilot, a young girl name Eureka is part of Gekko-State renegade group, who have been branded as being criminals by the military. They are a group of surfers who specialize in using mecha's to ride the strange ‘trappa’ waves that on special boards that allow them to surf and soar the heavens. Eureka invites Renton to join their group, telling him that he has a special bond with her LFO, a mecha unit named the Nirvash.
Eureka Seven: Psalms of Planets Buy See Eureka Seven
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Gunparade Orchestra
Watch Ishida Saryou is assigned to be the new commander of the 4th division in Aomori. This squad is the laziest of the whole army because they are assigned into a remote mountain town far away from civilization and never attacked by the Ginju. Displacing a popular and older Lieutenant Ishida finds herself with a bunch of pampered spoiled crew who hates her. They cause many obstructions such as disobeying orders, sending in falsified reports, and blaming Ishida for all of their problems that result from it.
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I's Pure
Buy Seto Ichitaka-kun has always admired Yoshizuki Iori-chan from a distance. She is in the drama club and he's just a watcher that is almost a stalker. One day his best friend hands him a magazine that features up and coming stars and this month features Iori in many provocative poses! Ichitaka is stunned. Here the girl he likes is more worldly than he thought. In class that day they decide that two people are going to put on a play to welcome the freshmen class. The 2 people? Seto and Iori, of course. Too bad that during their project planning phase Ichitaka drops a photo composition of a nude body with Iori's head, right in front of this girl... and things don't exactly get easier when Akiba Itsuki, Seto's childhood friend and his self-acclaimed fiancé, returns from America to move in at the house of Ichitaka's family...
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Kamichu!
Buy In a quiet village town, the supernatural and ordinary coexist in a quiet harmony. And then one day, a normal junior high school girl named Hitotsubashi Yurie tells two of her school friends that she has suddenly become a god last night. But she still has problems to get the boy she likes to even remember her name...
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Lamune
Rent Two childhood friends have spent many summers growing up together. When Tomosaka Kenji first moved to a new village many years ago he met a special little girl at the beach, at a time when ocean was shining like ‘lamune’ (Japanese for lemonade). It was only the next day when he learned that girl that he met lived next-door but a bond between them had already formed. The two kids grew up together, sharing a view on each other’s bedroom windows separated by only some two meters of distance. And then suddenly during the summer of their second high school year, the relationship between the two teen-aged friends slowly begins to change...
Lamune ~Glass Bin ni Utsuru Umi~ Rent See Lamune

Loveless (TV)
Buy Twelve-year old Aoyagi Ritsuka lost his only kin when his brother, Aoyagi Seimei, was killed under mysterious circumstances. One day, he meets Wagatsuma Soubi, who claims to know his brother. It turns out that Soubi and Seimei used to be a fighting pair, whereby Soubi was the "Fighting Machine" and Seimei was the "Sacrifice". Now that Seimei is gone, Soubi 'belongs' to Ritsuka who will become his new "Sacrifice". After learning that Seimei was killed by an organization known as the "Seventh Moon", Ritsuka decides to join forces with Soubi and investigate the truth behind his brother's death.
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Mai-HiME Omake Special
Rent

A collection of omake (extras) special shorts for the Mai-HiME series. The shorts can contain additional information on the series or be comical in nature with plenty of fanservice. The various characters in the series get a featured omake.

My Wife is a High School Girl Watch See Okusama wa Joshi Kousei
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Naruto
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Despite his ambition to become the greatest ninja ever known in a village full of shinobi warrior-magicians, young Naruto starts the series as the town pariah, and must fight to gain the respect of his peers and teachers -- each a study in comic emotional imbalance -- all in a world full of treachery, nine-tailed fox demons, and free-flying shuriken the size of manhole covers.

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Okusama wa Joshi Kousei
Watch

Onohara Asami is a cute, 17 years old 2nd year high-school student. What nobody knows is that she`s actually already married, to her physics teacher Ichimaru Kyosuke-sensei, whom she addresses as Danna-sama (husband/master). However, in order to be allowed to marry her Danna-sama, her father had to agree to the marriage. He did, but only after drawing up a contract which states that Ichimaru-sensei will NOT have sexual relations with his daughter until she graduates from high school. Both Asumi and Ichimaru-sensei have to keep the marriage a secret lest he be fired from his job. Can Ichimaru-sensei keep to the terms of the contract? Can the two keep the marriage a secret from the many folks who constantly seem to butt in?

Okusama wa Joshikousei Watch See Okusama wa Joshi Kousei
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Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven Buy See Eureka Seven
Genre
Action(5) Action Comedy(1) Comedy(5) Drama(9)
Horror(1) Romance(8) Romantic Comedy(2) Suspense(1)
Tragedy(1)
Setting
Fantasy(6) Modern(8) Sci-Fi(2)
Demographic
All Ages(3) Seinen(1) Shounen(1)
Style
Acquired Taste(1) Kawaii(1) Moe(1) Surreal(1)
Keywords
Adventure(5) Bishounen(1) Boys Love(1) Dark(2)
Dating Sim Spinoff(2) Deities(1) Depression(1) Ecchi(1)
Fan Service(4) Fighting(2) Friendship(3) High School(6)
Magic(2) Mahou Shoujo(2) Mecha(2) Middle School(2)
Ninja(1) Omake(1) Pantsu(1) Pervert(1)
Sequel(1) Slice of Life(6) Soul Mates(2) Stalking(1)
Supernatural(1) Yuri(1)
Type
ONA(1) OVA(2) Short(3) TV(8)
Release Year
2007(1) 2006(4) 2004(3) 2003(1) 2002(1)
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