Acquired Taste: These are titles which may take a while to get used to. As such, you should watch several episodes before making up your mind. FLCL, Di Gi Charat, & Serial Experiments Lain are examples of such titles.
Not a genre but actually a demographic. Refers to anime based on manga that was originally serialized in a magazine targeting girls of any age. American fans seem to often be confused and classify any show that has romance and/or major female main characters as shoujo-- this is wrong.
Anime based on manga targeting young women would be called josei. (though very little of the manga targetting young women gets made into anime-- the only ones I can think of are Ebichu and Momoiro Sisters.)
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
 Ayashi no Ceres |
Rent | Twin brother and sister Aki and Aya Mikage are about to celebrate their 16th birthdays. Earlier on, Aya had visited a psychic and was told the fated day when the moon and stars of 16 would meet is coming, and that all hell and doom would break loose. Mysteriously their grandfather invites them over for a "birthday party" and gives them a gift which brings out new powers. Now suddenly the entire Mikage family wants Aya killed since "she will bring them nothing but harm." Aki is no longer allowed to see Aya. Along with that, an ancient legend of a Tennyo (girl from the heavens) is said to have come down to Earth and bathed in a river. A nearby fisherman spotted her and stole her hagoromo (feathered robe) that was hanging on a tree nearby. Without it she could not return to her home in the heavens, and was forced to marry the man and have his children. |
| B | ||
 Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru |
Avoid |
This is a very taboo story about incest and love between twins. Yori`s attitude has changed. He and his twin sister, Iku, used to be inseparable as children, but lately Yori`s been different -- eager to be apart from Iku. Iku worries that he hates her, but the truth is far more scandalous. Now, Yori would risk losing everything to have his little sister. Iku loves her big brother enough that she would never risk losing him, and so she`ll do what it takes to keep them together... but Yori doesn`t want to have her that way -- as a sister dedicated to her twin. Can Iku ever love Yori not as a brother but as a man? |
| C | ||
| Ceres, Celestial Legend | Rent | See Ayashi no Ceres |
| F | ||
| Fille Révolutionnaire Utena | Buy | See Shoujo Kakumei Utena |
| I | ||
| I Love My Younger Sister | Avoid | See Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru |
| 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. |
| MariMite | Buy | See Maria-sama ga Miteru |
| O | ||
| Ominous Ceres | Rent | See Ayashi no Ceres |
| R | ||
| Revolutionary Girl Utena | Buy | See Shoujo Kakumei Utena |
| S | ||
 Shoujo Kakumei Utena |
Buy |
Once upon a time there was a princess grieving over the deaths of her mother and father. Before this princess appeared a prince traveling upon a white horse. |
| T | ||
| The Virgin Mary is Watching You | Buy | See Maria-sama ga Miteru |
| マリア様がみてる | Buy | See Maria-sama ga Miteru |
| 僕は妹に恋をする | Avoid | See Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru |
| 妖しのセレス | Rent | See Ayashi no Ceres |
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