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Surreal/High School Titles


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
A

Azumanga Daioh: The Movie
Buy An extremely short movie, five minutes long, but actually was in theaters in Japan. Introduces all the girls and several of the gags that can be seen throughout the TV Series and Manga.
C

Clannad (Movie)
Watch Clannad is set in a high-school located in some Japanese town. Okazaki Tomoya is a third-year student who is just coasting in school and haunted by nightmares since his mother died in a car accident when he was little. After losing his sports scholarship at high school (due to getting severely hurt in a fight with his father), he just goes to school to get away from him.
D
Double Wish Watch See W - Wish
H

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Buy When his parents decided to move, Maebara Keiichi found himself having to leave behind both his friends and the big city life to transfer to the small village of Hinamizawa with it’s small one-room middle school. Adjusting well, Keiichi found a few close friends and together they pass the days playing games and flirting. And then one day, Keiichi happens to hear of an unsolved murder that occurred in the village some five years ago. In asking about the details surrounding the murder, his close friends claim to know nothing. On the day after a village spring festival (the anniversary of the first murder), Keiichi is quietly approached by a policeman who is investigating the disappearance of two people that night before. Keiichi learns there has been not been just one murder, but a number of murders, each happening on the anniversary of the first event and he begins to wonder if the village is hiding a dark secret. And suddenly things get really strange when one of Keiichi’s school friends warns him not to ask any more questions or else risk the same fate of a student who abruptly disappeared and ‘transferred’ out the year before……..
K

Kanon (2006)
Buy One snowy winter's day... I sit on a bench near the station, waiting to meet my cousin Nayuki Minase; it`s been seven years since I last saw her.This place is far from the town where I was born and lived until yesterday. This is where Nayuki lives with her mother, who has offered to take me in, now that I am forced to move so suddenly. And this is the town in which my faintest, cloudiest childhood memories are set...
Kanon Remake Buy See Kanon (2006)
W

W - Wish
Watch Junna is very close to and supportive of his twin sister Senna. The tragedy that took away their parents, also took away Junna's memory of the past, but they both make the best while still living together in their family's house and attending the same elite high school. But time moves on, no matter how hard one tries to forget. At school, Junna meets and becomes friends with the quiet and reserved Kishida Toma, and urges her to participate in the high schools cherry blossom festival. And then Junna meets a childhood friend whom he knew from before the accident, and he remembers something from his forgotten past her name, Haruhi. And with Haruhi clinging to Junna's arm, calling him her onii-chan, will he remember his promise to Senna to spend the festival day together? And slowly the memories of the past return, but what hidden truths might be reveled.
W Wish Watch See W - Wish
W: Wish Watch See W - Wish
When Cicada's Cry Buy See Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
X
xxxHOLiC - A Midsummer Night’s Dream Buy See xxxHOLiC - Manatsu no Yoru no Yume

xxxHOLiC - Manatsu no Yoru no Yume
Buy

Yuuko-san receives an invitation for the opening of an auction from a mysterious unknown sender. Likewise, fanatical collectors are summoned to an old mansion whose owner doesn't make an appearance. One after another, each collector disappears and a number of other strange occurrences happen during the night. The questions of what exactly it is that's being auctioned and who the owner of the mansion is must be solved in order for Yuuko-san and Watanuki-kun to get to the bottom of this.

xxxHOLiC: The Movie Buy See xxxHOLiC - Manatsu no Yoru no Yume
あずまんが大王(劇場短編) Buy See Azumanga Daioh: The Movie
カノン Buy See Kanon (2006)
Release Year
2007(1) 2006(2) 2005(1) 2004(1)
Type
Movie(3) TV(3)
Setting
Modern(4)
Keywords
Action(1) Action Drama(1) All Ages(1) Comedy(2)
Coming of Age(1) Dating Sim Spinoff(2) Depression(2) Drama(3)
Harem(1) Horror(1) Mystery(1) Romance(3)
Romantic Comedy(1) Short(1) Slice of Life(1) Supernatural(2)
Swordplay(1) Tragedy(2) Video-game inspired(2)
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