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 | |
| E | ||
 Eyeshield 21 |
Kabaykawa Sena has always been looked after by Mamori-neechan (his older sister) and with her help, he was able to pass the entrance exam for the high school that she is currenlty attending. Being smaller in size, Sena has always been bullied by other students and his new school is no different. One day, while trying to escape from three school bullies, he shows an incredible ability in running and dodging through a crowd, which is noticed by one of his fellow schoolmates. Sena finds himself forcibly recruited to play on the high school’s (American) football team as a running back. Not wanting to loose a player of his ability to another school, the team decides to hide his identity, demanding that he participate as a mystery player, and give him a nickname of “Eyeshield 21”. |
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| 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 | ||
 Gakuen Senki MURYOU |
Buy |
In the year 2070, a strange alien ship appears over Tenmo, a small city of Japan, generating a lot of attention. While its giant size appears to be threatening, it just hovers for a while, causing a city wide electrical blackout, but does nothing more. And then second giant alien robot appears to attack the first one. After a short battle, they both disappear, the city is not damaged and no one is injured. But everyone in town is treating this as common every day event? Unable to deny or disclaim the incident, the Japanese government has to admit that aliens do exist, and begins to talk about the need to defend the country against a possible invasion. |
 Ghost Hunt |
Buy |
Seventeen-year-old Kazuya Shibuya is the president of the Shibuya Psychic Research Center, a think tank that studies psychic phenomenon. The firm investigates various strange occurrences at the behest of its clients, while Shibuya`s assistant, Mai Taniyama, deals with her love/hate relationship towards her boss. |
 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 |
 Gokujou Seitokai |
Buy |
Randou Rino lost her mother a year ago, and has been on her own since then. Now that her savings are running low, she is having to rely on the kindness of her penpal, someone named 'Mr. Poppitt'. Her penpal offers to set Rino up with a scholarship at an all-girls high school, with accommodations at a nearby apartment, but events somehow seem to go very wrong when Rino first arrives. And what kind of high school has an Assault and Covert Division as part of its School Council?! |
 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!” | |
| Muryo - the Record of School Wars | Buy | See Gakuen Senki MURYOU |
| N | ||
 Narue No Sekai |
Buy | Kazuto is saved from a morphing universal terrorist by one of his high school classmates who proves that she can swing a mean baseball bat if needed. This fourteen year old quickly finds himself with a cute girlfriend who is anything but ordinary. As if the problems ones first date were not enough, his girlfriend Nauru Nanase is also a half alien, with the ability to teleport. Can their friendship survive the interference of not only his meddling big sister, but also from the alien terrorists and other forces that are trying to drive Nauru off the planet earth. |
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