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Title in alphabetical order - number of eps if known
Summary: taken from a site or based on the 1st episode if I can't find any info
My First Impressions: I give my first impressions honestly, I do have
specific tastes and I don't expect you to think the same thing as me, but it's
there for those who know whether they have similar or very different tastes
from me.
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Summary: Hashiba Kyouya is a 28 year old game developer. With his company going bankrupt, and him losing his job, he returns to his hometown. Looking at the success of creators of his age, he finds himself regretting his life decisions as he lay distressed on his bed. But when he opens his eyes, he finds that he has travelled 10 years back to the time before he entered college. Will he finally make things right? This is a story about a failed person who is given a second opportunity to follow his dreams.
My First Impressions: <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: Frustrated with his dead-end job and life, Reiji suddenly realized one day that he was transported to an alternate world. The skill he picks up there is the skill of making medicine. He is disappointed not to have a combat skill, but the potions he makes become popular overnight, and he opens a drugstore with the money he accumulated. And so, Reiji enjoys a slow life made possible with his skill, catering to clients who come to his store.
My First Impressions: I tried watching this and go through 1.5 episodes, but the characters are so shallow and there's just nothing that makes me want to keep watching this. It's kind of 4-koma style but then it's not funny enough for that either. <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: The anime's story is set in Shibuya, and centers on Ryuuhei. As a child, he looked up to his older brother, but watched him perish in a mysterious incident right before his eyes. Now a high schooler, Ryuuhei shows no outward signs of the trauma of that nightmarish incident, and spends most of his leisure time kickboxing. One day, while kickboxing, he encounters a creature that calls itself Tris, and is bitten by it, resulting in him having a strange dream.
My First Impressions: I tried watching this but the art and animation were pretty bad, and the story didn't seem that interesting either. <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: It was just a usual morning. Shiroyanagi Akira, a high schooler who loves games and Konpeito (Japanese sweets), has suddenly been dragged into a battlefield by a mysterious girl who calls herself Mion. The participants are told that they are "erased from the family register, involved in an experiment, and gained certain powers."
Akira is determined to win the game with his newfound powers and destroy the organization. Armed with a power no one expects and his "brain" skills, the new period of intelligence battle of begins!
My First Impressions: I tried watching this one, but the art was intolerable, I turned it off after a couple minutes. <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: "O, Hero!" With that cliched line, Souma Kazuya found himself summoned to another world and his adventure--did not begin. After he presents his plan to strengthen the country economically and militarily, the king cedes the throne to him and Souma finds himself saddled with ruling the nation! What's more, he's betrothed to the king's daughter now...?! In order to get the country back on its feet, Souma calls the wise, the talented, and the gifted to his side. Five people gather before the newly crowned Souma. Just what are the many talents and abilities they possess...?! What path will his outlook as a realist take Souma and the people of his country down?
My First Impressions: It's certainly different from most of your iseki anime. It feels more like an economics and governance lesson than anything else so far. Good enough to keep watching for now.
Link: ANN
Summary: Like the Takarazuka Revue, the young women who go to the arts academy Kouka Kageki High School play all the parts of musical theater, be they female or male. Narata Ai is a jaded former idol performing female roles—her roommate, playing male roles, is bright-eyed country girl Watanabe Sarasa. From the school to the stage to the rest of their lives, there is no challenge these young women can't face with their passion for performance.
My First Impressions: <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: Mukai Naoya has loved Saki Saki since grade school, and when she finally accepts his feelings, he's at his happiest. But one day, a cute girl named Minase Nagisa confesses to him! Not wishing to choose only one over another, Naoya chooses to go out with both of them!! What will be of this love triangle that challenges morality itself?
My First Impressions: <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: Nagumo Koushi finds himself homeless, penniless, and without relatives to care for him. As he lies on the street, he gets picked up to become the "dorm mother" of a dormitory full of troubled women's university students. Surrounded by idiosyncratic and difficult older women, Koushi begins a "slightly ecchi new life."
My First Impressions: <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: Kinji, who lacks any kind of work ethic, is a layabout in his modern life. One day, he finds himself transported to another world–but not in a grand fantasy of a hero welcomed with open arms. He's immediately shoved into a terrible job! Now enslaved by an evil mining company in a fantasy world, Kinji's about to really learn the meaning of hard work!
My First Impressions: I tried watching this, but the character and art style combined were so off putting that I stopped after a couple of minutes. <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: Lucifer, Satan, and the other five princes of hell: how will these brothers handle everyday lives at their demon academy?
My First Impressions: <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: Saltorine Ardalake, or Sally, is a bright, cheerful princess who wants to go on an adventure because she is bored of her tiny little castle in the countryside. One day, a hoard of vicious demons known as "Oni" come knocking on her doorstep, threatening the lives of everyone in the Kingdom. Thankfully, they are saved by a lone traveler named Kibitsu Mikoto who slays these monsters with a mysterious "Peach Eye". Shocked by the dangers of the outside world, Sally decides to set off on a journey of her own. Little did she know that she will set in motion a chain of events that will come to determine the fate of this magical world.
My First Impressions: Watched 3 episodes so far and the art/animation isn't great, but not too bad. The story is interesting enough so far that I'll keep watching for now.
Link: ANN
Summary: The anime's story centers on Minato, a boy who stopped playing water polo due to a certain incident in the winter of his third middle school year. He picks the sport back up again with a new team when he starts in high school, but the fledgling team runs into many problems.
My First Impressions: <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: Link your minds, unlock the future. In 2020 of the solar calendar, grotesque organisms called Others have begun eating people. To take down this new enemy, the Other Suppression Force is formed. Saved by this elite team as a child, psychokinetic Yuito enlists, bravely withstanding the training. On the other hand, prodigy Kasane was scouted for her abilities. But Kasane's dreams tell her strange things, dragging the two into an unavoidable fate.
My First Impressions: I tried watching this, but couldn't. The art and animation were difficult to watch, and the characters seem so stereotypical. <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: Rio is a callous orphaned boy living in the slums. At only 7-years-old, he realizes he's actually the reincarnation of Amakawa Haruto, a Japanese university student with a tragic past. While still reeling from this shocking epiphany, Rio also comes to learn that he possesses extremely potent magical abilities and uses his new powers to solve the kidnapping case of a little girl. His good deed is acknowledged, and he's rewarded by being enrolled into... a prestigious academy for noble children...?
My First Impressions: After 3 episodes, I'm not sure the story has really started, but it moves at a fairly quick pace which I can appreciate. It's interesting enough but I can't say there's anything particularly special. Will keep watching for now though.
Link: ANN
Summary: When the duke was a young boy, a witch made it so that any living thing he touched died. Unable to cope with such a cursed child, his family sent him away to live in an old mansion. Now a young man, his only companions are an elderly butler and his childhood friend, a buxom, blonde maid named Alice. Despite the fact that touching the duke means instant death, Alice is constantly teasing him, getting close and flirting mercilessly. But even though Alice loves to make the duke blush, her affection for him is the real deal. Can the two figure out a way to break the witch's spell?
My First Impressions: <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: One former idol goes to Okinawa and finds a new life helping a struggling aquarium from shutting down.
My First Impressions: I tried watching this and it was just so slow... The aquarium art/animation was also pretty bad. <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: Empty classrooms, boring days. It was supposed to be a normal summer vacation just like any other. Suddenly, the school begins to drift through another dimension, and 36 boys and girls are left there, awakening to their supernatural abilities. Amidst the whirlpool of questions that come to mind one after another, survival in a supernatural world begins.
My First Impressions: I tried watching ep 1 but I really don't like the art and animation style, so didn't watch more than a couple of minutes. <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: Kimizuka Kimihiko was the assistant to a beautiful detective named Siesta -- until Siesta died, anyway. Now, Kimitsuka has encountered a girl who bears an uncanny resemblance to his former boss...
My First Impressions: It almost seems like they're trying to make the detective girl to be like Sherlock Holmes, but her explanations don't make a lot of sense. <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: Misumi Makoto was just an ordinary high school student when he, due to certain circumstances his parents were facing, gets summoned to the other world to become a "hero." The goddess of the other world, however, insults him for his "ugly face" and strips his "hero" title, before casting him off to the wilderness at the edge of the world. As he wanders the wilderness, Makoto encounters dragons, spiders, orcs, dwarves, and all sorts of non-human tribes. Because Makoto comes from a different world, he is able to unleash unimaginable magical powers and combat skills. But just how will he handle his encounters with various species and survive in his new environment?
My First Impressions: I watched about 1.5 episodes, and between the not very good art/animation and the really dumb characters, I didn't find any reason to continue. <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: Omota Uramichi, 31 years old, stars as a gymnastics teacher on the educational TV program "Together with Mama." He might be sweet, but all boys and girls are inevitably scared off whenever they get a glimpse of the adult darkness that's the result of "Mister Uramichi's" emotional instability...?!
My First Impressions: <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN
Summary: Rumors revolving around The Book of Vanitas, a clockwork grimoire of dubious reputation, draw Noé, a young vampire in search of a friend's salvation, to Paris. What awaits him in the City of Flowers, however, is not long hours treading the pavement or rifling through dusty bookshops in search of the tome. Instead, his quarry comes to him...in the arms of a man claiming to be a vampire doctor! Thrust into a conflict that threatens the peace between humans and vampires, will Noé cast in his lot with the curious and slightly unbalanced Vanitas and his quest to save vampirekind?
My First Impressions: I watched most of the first episode and while not terrible, had nothing to entice me to continue watching. <not watching unless recommended>
Link: ANN