Ahem. Anyway, this list is a comprehensive list of all the anime and anime-related media I've watched at least a significant portion of, enough to form what is in my mind a qualified opinion of what I thought of the show. I group shows into three categories: good, which I recommend; meh, which I didn't care for but you may like; and bad, which are just plain bad.
In addition to blessing you with my opinion, I have also done my best to provide links to watch these shows in a free and unquestionably legitimate manner, primarily through the sites Crunchyroll and Hulu, along with FUNimation's official web site. YouTube links are also present, but only if the show has been uploaded by the rightsholders. I will also leave secondary links if the show is available on Netflix Instant Streaming or is included in Amazon Prime Instant Video. Be sure to leave a comment if you have a good link for a show, even if I already have another link to it, and be sure to report when a link goes bad.
3 January 2015 update:
- Added the following shows to the Good List:
- Aldnoah Zero
- Amagi Brilliant Park
- Blue Exorcist
- Chaika: Avenging Battle
- Gugure! Kokkuri-san
- I can't understand what my Husband is Saying
- Invaders of the Rokujyoma
- Kino's Journey
- Lord Marksman and Vanadis
- Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
- Ouran High School Host Club
- Psycho Pass: Extended Edition
- Psycho Pass: Season 2
- Rage of Bahamut: Genesis
- Re: Hamatora
- Sabagebu!
- Summer Wars [Movie]
- The Fruit of Grisaia
- Yona of the Dawn
- Added the following shows to the Meh List:
- A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd
- Akame ga Kill
- Deadman Wonderland
- Garo The Animation
- Alert: I have not bothered checking for broken links on any existing shows. All links on added shows, if present, will function.
- Moved Mekakucity Actors to the meh list. I was overly harsh on it in my initial judgement.
- Entries from the FATE series have been removed pending a proper viewing.
The Good List:
I highly recommend you watch each of these if you have the time.
- A Certain Magical Index - A completely luckless loser with the ability to cancel out supernatural phenomenon keeps getting worse and worse luck. It all starts when he finds a nun named Index laying on the balcony of his dorm, and gets worse when he discovers that sorcerers are trying to kill her. [Full Review] (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Ah! My Goddess - A kindhearted nerd with a horrible life gets sent a Norse goddess who will grant one wish of his. Without thinking, he wishes to have the goddess's companionship forever. It's granted, and now he has to live with the consequences: that he's now constantly bothered by the goddess's annoying sisters, as well as the demons that now attack him just to hurt her. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Flights of Fancy - The second season, which is listed separately because it's released in America by a different company. It's still the same show, with even the same voice actors in the dubs. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Aldnoah Zero - Mars declares war on earth following the assassination of a diplomatic envoy. Most of earth's military is destroyed, though a single trainee mecha pilot manages uses the power of his own autism to defeat multiple Martian supermechs.
- Amagi Brilliant Park - Rollercoaster Tycoon, the anime! A narcissist is hired to be the manager of a failing theme park run by fairies with no business sense. He decides to do everything in his power to turn the park into a raving success, if only to not get shot by his psycho secretary.
- Angel Beats - A high school in the afterlife where not being a gun-toting delinquent results in your vanishing into thin air. (Also streaming on: Hulu, Amazon Prime)
- Another - A deadly curse plagues a high school. Except it kills its victims in the most laughably over-the-top ways. Great if you mistake it for a comedy, but kind of dumb if you try to take it seriously as it's meant to be. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Attack on Titan - The last of humanity, safe inside their sealed-off Texas-sized region of the earth, receives a brutal reminder of why Titans are to be feared when the outer walls are breached and a city-wide massacre ensues, with many more to come and no way to push them back let alone defend themselves. (Also streaming on: Hulu, Netflix)
- Baccano - Prohibition era gangsters accidentally become immortal, and there's at least a four-sided war on a single train, where the world's greatest hammy idiot duo gets caught in the crossfire. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Baka and Test - (Season 1) At one high school, a student's grades determines the strength of their battle avatars. Just don't watch Season 2, okay? (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation, Netflix)
- Birdy the Mighty: Decode -
M. NightShyamalan is attempting to obtain an alien supernuke in order to destroy the world. The only one who can stop him is the intergalactic cop Birdy, currently working undercover as a model. Also, Birdy just happens to be sharing her body with a normal high school student, on account of accidentally BRUTALLY MURDERING him. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation) - Black Lagoon - As bad as it is to be a brownnosing clerk in a giant faceless corporation, you really shouldn't wish for a more exciting life, or else you'll end up kidnapped by modern-day pirates and hunted down by mercenaries hired by your own company to kill you before you reveal any company secrets you don't even know. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Blast of Tempest - Two abnormal teenagers, one a violent delinquent and the other a sociopath with morals, become the special agents of a castaway magician in order to prevent a cult from resurrecting an evil god of destruction and avenge the death of one of the teenagers's sister. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Blue Exorcist - A seemingly normal, perhaps a bit overly violent, teenager discovers in the hardest way possible that his father is Satan. His response is to become an exorcist and kill Satan. Unfortunately, just becoming an exorcist is easier said than done. (Also streaming on: Netflix)
- Bodacious Space Pirates - Japan's Firefly, except it lasted longer than 14 episodes. A high-school girl inherits her father's pirate ship and crew, and has to balance her school life with "pirating" luxury liners and doing other work that comes her way. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- BTOOOM! - An online game based around the concept of throwing bombs to kill other players becomes real, much to the horror of its players who now find themselves trapped on an island with little hope for survival, even without everyone else trying to kill them. This is an extremely violent and dark show: NOT FOR CHILDREN. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Canaan - A photographer and reporter duo, both in way over their heads, end up partnering up with an assassin with synesthesia to stop a terrorist organization from unleashing biochemical weapons at a meeting of world leaders. (Also streaming on: Amazon Prime)
- Carnival Phantasm - A parody of Fate Stay/Night and Tsukihime that's so off the wall that it breaks your brain. Knowing the original material does not help in understanding what's going on, but this is the kind of show where it's even funnier if you don't.
- Chaika - The Coffin Princess - A strange silver-haired girl with a speech impediment and magic sniper rifle hires two out-of-work sabotuers as bodyguards while she continues her quest to recover her father's body and give him a proper burial.
- Avenging Battle - Season 2. Chaika and the others discover the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and it is one awful truth. It's even more awful than the rushed ending, which the show handled well.
- Chaos;HEAd - A highly-delusional loser "interested only in 2D girls" becomes the object of affection of two real-life girls. One is a total stranger he witnessed committing a brutal murder, and the other is a kind and attractive nerd who fell in love with him at first sight. He's not sure which girl is more frightening. He's also not sure anything he experiences is real anymore, especially once he becomes the prime suspect of the murder he witnessed. (Also streaming on: Netflix)
- Chobits - A farmboy with a nasty habit of loudly talking to himself finds a humanoid robot in the garbage, and decides to try to fix it and keep it for himself, despite being almost entirely computer illiterate. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation, Netflix)
- Clannad - A juvenile delinquent decides that perhaps life is actually worth taking seriously, and through the struggles which comes with it discovers that yes, it is worth it despite the severe struggles. (Also streaming on: Amazon Prime)
- After Story - The story continues, focusing on the relationship of our hero and his girlfriend, a relationship which goes down in flames due to circimstances beyond their control, and brings them both down with it. (Also streaming on: Amazon Prime)
- The Count of Monte Cristo: Gankutsuou - This is what happens when Japan takes a classic western novel, changes the setting to 2000 years in the future, and animates it in a rather bizzare art style. Somehow, this resulted in one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. The story itself is about how a mysterious Count infiltrates the aristocracy by befriending the son of a renowned general as part of a mysterious and epic master plan. (Also streaming on: YouTube, Hulu, FUNimation)
- Cuticle Detective Inaba - The insane tale of a police werewolf-turned-private eye as he chases down the Mafia Don Valentino, who is a goat. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Daily Lives of High School Boys - Read the title. Naturally it's a comedy.
- Darker than Black - Japan's Heroes. With the arrival of a region known as Hell's Gate 10 years ago came the contractors, people like humans but in place of emotions have superpowers. The government tries to keep this a secret, but nevertheless competing criminal organizations use hired contractors to do their dirty work. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- The Devil is a Part Timer - After losing to humanity's hero, Satan flees to modern day Japan and gets a job at McDonald's. (Also streaming on: FUNimation)
- Dog Days - A foreign exchange student from England is transported to a land even further away from home, where his skills in extreme athletics make him the perfect warrior in the so-called "wars" fought in this mysterious world where all the people for no adequately explained reason have animal ears and tails. It's clearly a kid's show, and it's good for what it is.
- Dokkoida!? - Budget cuts have forced the Galaxy Federation Police to do some pretty wacky things, such as testing out some prototype power suits by recruiting random earthlings as testers and unleashing supercriminals upon them. When higher ups finally notice the stupidity, they turn the whole thing into a reality TV show. (Also streaming on: Amazon Prime)
- Dragon Crisis - A middle-school student and his cousin save a dragon from an organized crime lord, only for the dragon to fall madly in love with the student.
- Dusk Maiden of Amnesia - A lonely amnesiac ghost founds the paranormal investigation club at her school with the help of her only friend, a boy who can actually see, hear, and touch her. Later, an oblivious idiot joins the club, as well as the ghost's living grandniece. Together the four attempt to decipher the past of the ghost, and find out why she died and why she can't remember. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- The Eccentric Family - The adventures of a family of shape-shifting tanuki from Japanese mythology in modern-day Kyoto. A very character driven dramedy, with a very naturally flowing plot. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Eden of the East - Meet the Savior of Japan: some guy who woke up in front of the White House with a gun and a cell phone, but no memory...and no clothes. Surprisingly, this is a serious show, and a good one at that. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation, Netflix)
- El Cazador de la Bruja - In the heart of Mexico, a young amnesiac witch is being brutally hunted down by bounty hunters, save for one that was hired to ensure she survives. These two partners shake off their pursuers as they travel through Mexico, constantly getting each other's nerves in the process. By the way, I could sure go for some tacos. Taco, taco, taco! (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Engaged to the Unidentified - My fiance is an alien. I think. Whatever I never met him before he and his sister decided to move in with us. I just hope they're not terrified by my even stranger older sister. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Excel Saga - Amidst a backdrop of an incompetent, idiotic, and hyperactive secret agent working for an evil organization trying to take over the world, this show somehow manages to turn every episode into a parody of something different, from Power Rangers to Latino soap operas. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- FLCL - Want to know what it's like to have an acid trip? If so, then this is the show for you! (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- The Fruit of Grisaia - A prison-like high school has only six students, but each of these six students have mental issues of their own to deal with in addition to family troubles and dark pasts, all of which can put all of their lives in danger at any moment.
- Fullmetal Alchemist - The world developed alchemy instead of science, and two brothers have to suffer with the consequences of attempting to use alchemy to bring their mom back from the dead. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation, Netflix)
- Brotherhood - A remake of the above, this time with less filler. Oh, and it wildly diverges after the brothers break into a certain thought-to-be-closed alchemy lab, enough that it becomes its own show. (Also streaming on: Netflix)
- Full Metal Panic - A 16-year-old elite mecha pilot and former child soldier is sent on his most difficult mission yet: providing covert protection to a Japanese high-schooler. He epic fails the covert part, not that the bad guys even notice. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Fumoffu - Season 2, where the show focus entirely on comedy, and it is made of win. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- The Second Raid - Season 3, where the show returns to its action-comedy roots, staying as good as ever. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet - A Mobile Suit Gundam pilot finds himself in Waterworld. He is completely out of place, and is very slow to adapt to concepts like freedom, which are brand new to him. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Ghost Hound - The essence of the human mind is explored in a show where science and spiritualism both fail to explain what is going on with this kid who keeps having out-of-body experiences, and is unsure if what happens during them is real or not. (Also streaming on: Amazon Prime)
- GIRLS und PANZER - Apparently in Japan, it's proper for all high-school girls to learn all the finer points of the highly traditional martial art of operating a tank. Surprisingly enough the show is not as comedic as you'd think, taking the tank battles seriously and portraying them realistically, apart from the whole nobody dies thing. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Golden Time - You know your college days are going well when you end up accidentally stealing your new-found friend's girlfriend, and he's not even mad about it because she goes psycho whenever those two are together. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Gugure! Kokkuri-san - A delusional schoolgirl who thinks she's a doll gets haunted by a caring fox spirit, and then an infatuated dog spirit, and then a good-for-nothing tanuki, and then... Also, the girl's only friend is an alien.
- Gunslinger Girl - Italy's Social Welfare Agency isn't what it seems; they take in young girls with serious injuries, give them cybernetic implants, brainwash them, and train them to be ruthless assassins. Despite this, the girls are all still children. (Also streaming on: FUNimation)
- Il Teatrino - The second season, which focuses more on the action and less on the moral implications of the agency's experiments. (Also streaming on: FUNimation)
- Hamatora - A small and hilariously poor private detective agency headed by an oblivious idiot uses superpowers to fight crime and solve mysteries which the police can't handle.
- Re: Hamatora - Just the second season. If you ask me, not as good as the first.
- Hayate the Combat Butler - A kidnapping attempt is mistaken for a confession of love, resulting in the kidnapper becoming the butler of a ludicrously rich girl half his age, who's madly in love with him.
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Season 3 of this show takes it into a whole new direction: it actually has a plot. Surprisingly enough, it does this without sacrificing any of the comedy that makes it so enjoyable.
- Cuties - Focusing on further developing the female characters of Hayate no Gotoku, this series ultimately culminates in an epic parody of romance and harem anime well worth the initial lack of plot.
- Hetalia: Axis Powers - A sketch comedy where the characters are based on heavily stereotyped versions of real-world nations, the sketches are based on heavily exaggerated versions of historical events, and when you're not laughing, you're learning. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation, Netflix)
- World Series - Seasons 3 and 4 of Hetalia, which expands the focus past the major players of WWII and into the rest of the world. (Also streaming on: Netflix)
- Paint it White [Movie] - The nations deal with an alien invasion, or at least try to when they're not bickering with each other for stupid reasons. Except Switzerland and Lichtenstein, who are protected by a neutrality forcefield. (Also streaming on: Netflix)
- Howl's Moving Castle [Movie] - After a chance encounter with the famous womanizing wizard Howl, a young woman is cursed by one of Howl's enemies to take the appearance of an old woman. She sets out to find Howl, hoping that he can undo the curse. Unfortunately, rule number one of the curse is that she can't talk about the curse, but that's the least of her concerns as she finds herself caught in the middle of an all-out war, as an enemy of both the invaders and her own kingdom's defending army, all because of her association with Howl.
- Hozuki no Reitetsu - A happy-go-lucky comedy about the second in command of Japanese hell, a being who causes even Satan to flee in terror of his presence. Inadvertently. Maybe. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Humanity Has Declined - Sure, the world may have nearly ended, the few humans that remain are starving to death, and the fairies - the only ones that can help the humans - can't even comprehend their plight, but we have to look at things on the bright side: which is, uhhh... DID THAT BREAD ROBOT JUST... WHAT THE HECK AM I WATCHING?! Whatever it is, I think I like it! (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Hunter x Hunter - In order to find his missing dad, a child tries to become a licensed Hunter, and in doing so makes friends with good but extremely dangerous people.
- I can't understand what my Husband is Saying - Husband and wife comedy short. The wife has an actual job, but the husband is a basement-dwelling nerd.
- If Her Flag Breaks - A romantic comedy parodying the concept of "flags", such as death flags and friendship flags. If you've been in anime or gaming culture, you'll probable get what it refers to. And then, it gets really weird in the last two episodes. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Inu X Boku: Secret Service - An incredibly rich girl with no social skills, and who happens to be part monster, moves out of her home and is assigned a bodyguard who's completely attached to her in the matter of a dog to its master, which seriously annoys her. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Invaders of the Rokujyoma - Don't you just hate it when a bunch of hot chicks try to steal your cheap-ass apartment as part of their respective plans for world domination?
- Irresponsible Captain Tylor - A complete bumbling idiot, through luck dumb beyond all possibilities, enlists in the space force, becomes the captain of a ship, and routinely destroys entire enemy fleets, all in a way which makes one wonder if he's actually a super genius acting the fool.
- Is This a Zombie? - A chainsaw-wielding magical girl screws up a memory-erase spell and instead she accidentally transfers her powers into a zombie. Thankfully, the zombie's actually a pretty decent guy, so it all works out well enough to make a hilarious comedy. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Is the Order a Rabbit? - In a small town with three rabbit-themed coffee houses, nothing happens, other than a bunch excellent heartwarming and comedic interactions courtesy of the many well-characterized characters. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Ixion Saga DT - An immature-yet-hilarious parody of fantasy stories, in which a lousy gamer is summoned into a world much like those in the video games he plays. Naturally he becomes a legendary hero who saves the world. By being a useless idiot with occasional moments of brilliance.
- Jormungand - A child soldier from the middle east is recruited by a black market arms dealer, entering a world of treasonous espionage, covert wars, and the constant threat of assassination. (Also streaming on: FUNimation)
- If Her Flag Breaks - A romantic comedy parodying the concept of "flags", such as death flags and friendship flags. If you've been in anime or gaming culture, you'll probable get what it refers to. And then, it gets really weird in the last two episodes.
- Kaze no Stigma - A banished failure of a fire mage returns to his home, now a freelance demon hunter and unrivaled wind mage. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation, Netflix)
- Kemeko DX - An alien girl in a super deformed miniature robot suit fights a megacorp that's secretly taking over earth, and a random middle-schooler gets forcibly married to her.
- Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple - A kid tired of being bullied by quite-literally everybody, including the nerds, decides to learn martial arts under the intense training of multiple borderline-sadistic masters. Unfortunately his new and rapidly-acquired skills end up drawing the attention of a street gang that wants him to join or die, but that's only if his masters don't get him killed first. (Also streaming on: FUNimation, Netflix)
- Kiki's Delivery Service [Movie] - A young witch-in-training and her sarcastic cat leave home, and the witch decides to work in delivery as both a source of income and training.
- Kill la Kill - Complete insanity about a schoolgirl who wants revenge on her father's killer, bloodthirsty sex-offending superpower-granting ultra-revealing school uniforms, the most hyperactive girl ever, and more. (Also streaming on: Hulu, Netflix)
- Kino's Journey - A traveler and talking motorcycle travel across the world, taking time to visit and learn the history of the many city states they come across, help fellow travelers in need, and explore the world they live in. (Also streaming on: Amazon Prime)
- Kokoro Connect - A mysterious being known as Heartseed decides to start screwing with the lives of a five-member after-school club purely for his own amusement, doing things like making them randomly swap bodies, uncontrollably act out on impulses, and other annoying things like that. Eventually they learn to cope with these difficulties and live fairly normal lives, signaling Heartseed to take more drastic measures. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Kotura-San - A girl born with the ability to read minds ruined her own life and the lives of her family when she was barely old enough to walk, and wasn't even aware that her ability was special. Just when it can't get worse, when she's almost completely given up on life, things change for the better when she meets a perverted daydreamer who loves to annoy her, one of the only people to ever give her any "positive" attention.
- Last Exile - Claus and Lavie's careers as freelance airborne couriers comes to a violent end when their aircraft is shot down on the job and the two are forced into service on a ship they were making a delivery to. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Fam, the Silver Wing - Two years after the original series (and in a different setting), an idiotic child sky pirate and her partner end up pressed into service on the same ship Claus and Lavie were after they attempted to hijack it and failed miserably. Once allowed to leave, they instead decide to stay and help them take down the Federation, which is hell-bent on peace through world domination. (Also streaming on: FUNimation)
- Listen to Me, Girls, I'm Your Father - A college student is forced to take in his nieces after their parents die in a plane crash. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Little Busters! - A group of five friends decide to start a baseball team at their school for fun, but find that recruiting enough members for a team involves so much more than asking people to join. Add to it that there's a supernatural secret to this world, and you get an overall serious comedy show which is shockingly interesting. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Little Witch Academia - Japan's Harry Potter. A young girl enrolls in a witch's academy, only to discover she's a complete idiot on everything related to magic, including her being a fan of a famous stage magician.
- Log Horizon - Trapped in an online game made real, a gamer known as the Villain in Glasses takes charge of the frightened mass of confused players, bringing much needed law and order to the realm through his trademark gross, underhanded abuse of people's trust and the game mechanics. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Lord Marksman and Vanadis - Medieval European warfare and politics are accurately depicted, except for our protagonists: a hilariously overpowered archer and a technically-not-naked female knight.
- Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions - A formerly-delusional boy accidentally makes friends with a currently-delusional girl, and things spiral out of control from there. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Maoyu - The "Demon King", actually a highly intelligent hot chick, proposes to the hero of the human realm that instead of killing her, they should work together to bring a peaceful end to the war, introducing ideas and technologies leading to events very reminiscent of the Agricultural Revolution in Europe, as well as the Protestant Reformation. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- The Master of Killing Time - You know that kid you used to sit next to who'd mess around the whole class and not get caught? This is about him, except turned up to 11.
- Mayo Chiki - A high-schooler overcomes his phobia of women after accidentally discovering that one of the most popular male students at his school is actually a girl in disguise.
- Medaka Box - A well-endowed first-year becomes her school's student council president based on her promise to institute a suggestion box and her good-natured but domineering and borderline-psycho personality. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun - A parady of shoujo, anime and manga typically of the romance genre with girls for their target audience. This anime's target audience however is anybody with a functional sense of humor.
- Muromi-San - A completely insane comedy about a boy, wanting nothing more than to fish off of his favorite pier, who gets constantly harassed by an annoying mermaid and her friends.
- My Little Monster - All she was supposed to do was deliver handouts to a delinquent who was suspended from school after a violent fight on the first day, but what she ended up doing was becoming his only friend, the only one who would ever show him any human decency.
- My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy - At seemingly random points, our unlucky hero is forced to choose one of two options which ignore all common sense and the laws of physics, are usually extremely embarrassing and perverted, and are always hilarious to the audience.
- My Ordinary Life - If by ordinary you mean one of your best friends is a robot girl created by an 8 year old professor who also owns a talking cat, then yes, it's your ordinary life.
- Nanana's Buried Treasure - A ghost haunts some poor kids's apartment until he agrees to dig up her hidden treasures, treasures hidden in dungeons which make Indiana Jones's adventures look like child's play. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Negima! - An all-girls middle school gets a new teacher: an extremely British 10-year-old. It turns out that he's secretly a wizard, that is, if you can even call it secretly, considering how bad he is at hiding it. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Negima!?: Magister Negi Magi - A remake which keeps the same characters and premise, but is more focused on a central plotline unique to this version of the show. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Night Raid: 1931 - Japanese spies in China take part in major events leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War, which later became how Japan was involved in World War 2. And to appeal to people not interested in the history, the spies all covertly have superpowers. (Also streaming on: Crunchyroll [Missing Bonus Episodes], Amazon Prime)
- No Game No Life - A brother-and-sister duo of lifeless hardcore gamers enter a world where all problems are resolved by games, and decide to use their gaming skills take over this world. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Nobunagun - Our main character discovers that she's the reincarnation of Oda Nobunaga, and responds to this revelation by picking up a minigun and going on a psychotic rampage against Giant Enemy Crabs. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Non Non Biyori - Nothing ever happens in the countryside, but that doesn't stop the only four students of their school - and the one guy who never talks - from enjoying it, and you from enjoying watching them. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos - Nyarlathotep, one of the Outer Gods from the Cthulu Mythos, takes the form of a cutesy silver-haired girl and helps protect some random kid from space criminals trying to kill him for no adequately explained reason.
- Oh! Edo Rocket - The government of medieval Japan has decided to ban all luxuries, especially fireworks, leading a young firework maker to make a moon rocket using his fireworks expertise while he and his friends mock the absurdity of the entire premise. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Oreimo - Life can be hard on you when you're normal and your little sister is little miss perfect. Life is even harder when you discover she has a dirty, dirty secret, and you decide to help cover it up for her in an attempt to improve your distant relationship with her, leading to her declaring you her life councilor. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Our Home's Fox Deity - After coming under the threat of attacks from demons due to their family affiliation, a high schooler and his younger brother receive a bodyguard in the form of a fox deity from Japanese mythology, a bodyguard who ends up causing more problems than she solves with her carefree and childish nature. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Ouran High School Host Club - A poor nerd attending a private school for the ultra rich under scholarship is forced to join the host club, where "the best looking young men at the school entertain girls with too much free time on their hands." It's only after the nerd proves to be a natural host that they discover she's a girl, making the whole situation even more awkward. (Also streaming on: Netflix)
- Outbreak Company - The Japanese government hires a major anime fan to strength relations and cultural ties with the peoples of a more magical parallel universe by exporting anime culture to them. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Pani Poni Dash! - A 10-year-old MIT graduate goes back to Japan to be a high-school teacher while being secretly observed by idiotic aliens. Meanwhile her pet rabbit gets constantly abused by a sadistic cat with a god complex. That's just the first five minutes of this absurdist comedy one wall short of a full room. (Also streaming on: FUNimation)
- The Pet Girl of Sakurasou - Aside from his excess sympathy for abandoned kittens, our hero is the only normal person in the den of total freaks that is his dorm complex, Sakura Hall. When a girl mentally incapable of living on her own also moves in to the dorms, he's forced to be her caretaker against his wishes. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- The Pilot's Love Song - Trainee pilots discover first hand that the peaceful voyage they're on isn't so peaceful after all; it's war, a living hell for the survivors.
- Polar Bear Cafe - A children's cartoon about a cafe run by a pun-loving polar bear and it's many eccentric customers, most of whom are heavily stereotyped animals. Still enjoyable for adults too.
- The Princess and the Pilot [Movie] - An ace pilot is tasked with the hopeless mission of sneaking the princess to safety across an ocean controlled by the enemy fleet, with no escort and only defensive weapons.
- Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they? - Problem children with extreme powers are transported into a fantasy world, where they use their powers to win "gift games" and bring the no-name community they join up with back to prosperity.
- Psycho-Pass - In the near future, Japan has become a society based entirely around analyzing one's psychological health, and preemptively locking away potential criminals and other dangerous people. The problems in the system become apparent after a series of horrific murders leaves the police baffled at how it's possible. (Also streaming on: FUNimation)
- Extended Edition - A re-edit of season 1. Half the episode count, though they're twice as long and have some bonus scenes spliced in.
- Season 2 - Compared to Makishima's one-man revolution, this new villain is just bland and lame, and Akane is now completely incompetent and yet the least incompetent officer in the force. Still a well-done show, but feels phoned-in compared to season 1.
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Being a magical girl isn't fun and games; it is a life of fighting to the death on a daily basis, a life which will not end even remotely well. If you're lucky, you'll be chopped into pieces in front of all your friends, the last thing you see being the horrified looks on their faces. If you're unlucky, well, you don't want to know. (Also streaming on: Hulu, Netflix)
- Rage of Bahamut: Genesis - An over-the-top-and-then-some adventure in which a dashing rogue escorts a mysterious girl to a place he doesn't have the directions to while evading the combined forces of heaven, hell, the kingdom, and his much more honorable arch rival.
- Read or Die - Three book-obsessed private detective sisters are hired as bodyguards for an author with serious writers block, and the four get caught in the middle of a plan to take over the world by controlling the flow of information, especially in book form. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Recorder and Randsell - A 3 minute glimpse at the daily lives of a elementary school student who looks like an adult, and his high school student sister who looks like she's an elementary school student.
- Red Line [Movie] - Death Race, on crack, in space.
- RWBY - An American-made anime about a team of schoolgirls at an academy for training monster hunters, each of whom have a horrific past they don't like bringing up. (Also streaming on: YouTube, Rooster Teeth)
- Sabagebu! - I think it's about an all-female airsoft club, but I'm too busy laughing at the insanity to fully comprehend what's going on.
- The Sacred Blacksmith - A large-chested female knight proves to be completely incompetent at her job and nearly gets herself killed. Despite this, she receives a special assignment: guarding a Demon Sword. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Senyu - A five-minute-episode parody of RPG video games. Low on plot, and high on rapid-paced humor.
- Servant x Service - Japan's The Office. Being a civil servant is not a boring job in this workplace comedy full of the wacky and bizarre. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Shakugan no Shana - What would you do if on the first day of high school you found out that your existence was eaten by a demon and it's only a matter of time before what's left of you fades away, with nobody remembering you as ever existing? Panic, that's what. And when you're done panicking, what would you do with your remaining time? This show answers that question. [Full Review] (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Silver Spoon - A city kid enrolls in an agricultural high school, where good grades mean nothing if you aren't ready to get up at 4AM to tend to chicken coops. He's completely out of place and is routinely faced with the harsh realities of where food comes from, but manages to survive. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- SKET Dance - A high-school club consisting of a really lame guy, a delinquent tomboy, and a nerd who talks through his computer does odd jobs while providing endless laughter to the audience. And then it explores the origins of the club members, where it gets DEAD. NUTS. SERIOUS. providing a realistic and tragic explanation for how the characters became who they were.
- Soranowoto - A girl joins the army to become a trumpet player, only to be stationed in a town near the edge of the world, and in a unit with only four others, all of whom do basically nothing all day.
- Speed Grapher - Standing up against the completely depraved and perverse elite of Japan is a lone photographer with the best superpower ever: everything he takes a picture of explodes. (As a very disturbing show suitable only for ages 18+, no link will be provided.)
- Spice and Wolf - A travelling merchant gains a fairly unusual business partner: a wolf goddess who's fallen out of favor with the village that worships her. Together the two use their respective talents to succeed as merchants while constantly bickering with each other. (Also streaming on: FUNimation, YouTube [First Season only], Netflix [Second Season only])
- Spirited Away [Movie] - Japan's Alice in Wonderland. After her parents stop their car at a spa resort for demons and steal their food, with the result of them becoming cursed and turned into pigs, a young girl is forced to find a job there if she is going to have a hope of survival, let alone saving her parents.
- Squid Girl - Japan's Spongebob. A squid girl rises out of the ocean to take revenge on mankind for polluting the ocean, only for her to end up stuck working in a diner on the beach. (Also streaming on: Netflix [First Season only])
- Steins;Gate - Wannabe mad scientists accidentally create a time machine out of their microwave, and use it to send text messages to the past. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C3 - The airsoft team at an all-girls boarding school recruits a shy girl with an overactive imagination, after one of their members catches her in the middle of a hilariously embarrassing episode where she was pretending to be Rambo. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Summer Wars [Movie] - A nerd accidentally helps an AI take over the backbone of the internet by solving a math problem, which results in the AI triggering a nuclear apocalypse. The fight to stop the AI from succeeding makes even less sense to anyone who knows anything about technology, and despite being this stupid it still manages to be a very entertaining movie.
- Sunday Without God - A child journeys through a post-apocalyptic world where the dead don't quite die unless properly buried by a gravekeeper, hoping to bring peace to the world in the face of insurmountable evils. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Sword Art Online - The world's first Virtual Reality MMORPG has officially been released! Unfortunately, it has a few hidden "features" in it, namely that nobody can log out until the game is beaten, and if they die in the game or if anyone in the outside world tries to forcibly log them out, they'll die in real life. This sends the players into a desperate struggle to survive in a world where everything is trying to kill them, a struggle that is portrayed extremely realistically. [Joke Rant] (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Tenchi Muyo
- GXP - A mostly-unrelated spinoff of Tenchi Muyo staring a different random japanese teenager as the protagonist, this one being unlucky beyond all possibilities. After he unknowingly enlists in the Galaxy Police, he quickly becomes captain of a decoy ship due to his bad luck's ability to cause pirates to attack every single ship he steps on. (Also streaming on: Netflix)
- Time of Eve - Androids have become common place in Japan, and though they look human, they act distinctly like robots. If their behavior were to change to become more human, how would we react? Would we be scared? Should we be scared? And most importantly, why? (Also streaming on: Crunchyroll [Premium Only])
- Toradora - The school's two reputed psychos team up to help each other win over their respective loves, who are their respective best friends. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Trigun
- Badlands [Movie] - Vash the Stampede is forced to deal with a grave mistake he made, letting a hardened criminal go free. (Also streaming on: Netflix)
- The UNLIMITED Hyobu Kyosuke - A terrorist organization fighting for human rights to be given to people with ESP powers recruits a new member, an ESPer whose ability is to cancel out other abilities. Also, he isn't the titular character; the terrorist leader is, and for good reason.
- Upotte!! - Characters representing assault rifles from around the world all attend a school in Japan, despite Japan's strong gun control laws. Join FNC, M16A4, L85A1, and SG550 as they struggle to deal with a pervy and clueless new teacher, engage their older siblings in urban warfare, and overall enjoy their time going to school. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Usagi Drop - Define awkward: following the passing away of your grandfather, having to take care of his illegitimate child, your six-year-old aunt. To make things worse, you're a single 30-year-old man with absolutely no parenting experience, the girl's mother is nowhere to be found, and the rest of your family is too ashamed of her existence to want anything to do with her. Have fun!
- Wagnaria!! - A high-school student goes to work at a family restaurant full of eccentric characters. Surprisingly, he's the most messed up of them all. (Also streaming on: Hulu [First Season only])
- Witchblade - A single mother desperate to maintain custody over her daughter is discovered to unknowingly be in possession of the "Witchblade", and is hired by a shady arms manufacturer to hunt down their escaped prototypes in exchange for keeping child services away from her and her daughter. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Witch Craft Works - Witch protects normal guy from other witches, and the show doesn't even try to take itself seriously.
- The World God Only Knows - A hardcore gamer known as The God of Conquest is so addicted to dating simulators that he can't even put the game down when he takes a bath. A demon from Hell mistakes him for a real god and recruits him to help drive out loose souls by winning the hearts of the real-life girls they're possessing. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Godesses - Season 3 skips a few romantic conquests to get to a turning point in the story, where there's actually a serious plot in addition to the hilarious comedy poking fun of the romance genre.
- xxxHolic - No, this isn't about some guy with a pornography addiction. Instead, it's about some guy who starts working part-time for a wish-granting witch so that he can have his own wish granted: to never see another supernatural being again, let alone be relentlessly pursued and assaulted by them. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Yona of the Dawn - The king is assassinated, the throne stolen, and the princess and her bodyguard only narrowly escape with their own lives. Once over the shock, the princess vows to take the throne back, even if she has to by herself.
- Yurumates3Dei - 3 minute doses of insanity at an apartment complex full of people who failed their college entrance exams.
Personally, I didn't care for these, but you might like them.
- Akame ga Kill - A naive young villager seeking aid for his village from the capital soon discovers just how depraved the capital is, and joins a crack team of assassins allied with the rebel army in response.
- Arata the Legend - Two people name Arata, one constantly bullied in modern-day Japan, and the other framed for assassinating the princess in a fantasy world, switch lives. This means that half of the show is a somewhat generic fantasy adventure, while the other half we barely get to see is a comedy masterpiece.
- Aria: the Scarlet Ammo - A high school trains elite soldiers, detectives, and the like, and the otherwise worthless main character becomes super competent whenever he gets turned on. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- Arpeggio of Blue Steel - Battleship meets Water World, the Anime!
- Best Student Council - A girl goes to a new school along with her self-aware hand puppet, and joins the absurdly overpowered student council. Unfortunately it jumps the shark about half way through when it introduces a new character.
- Beyond the Boundary - Something about high school students who fight monsters nobody else can see. It's extremely generic. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Deadman Wonderland - A teenager is framed for murdering every one of his classmates, sent to an amusement park prison, discovers he has blood-themed superpowers just like the psycho who murdered his classmates, discovers the entire prison is cover for a fight club, and is forcibly entered into the fight club. My major complaint is that the show completely forgets the zany setting and focuses entirely on the fights, which are about as cliched as they get for anime. (Also streaming on: Netflix)
- Dog & Scissors - A book-obsessed man gets murdered while saving the life of a stranger, reincarnates as a dog, and gets adopted by the stranger he saved, who is, by an amusing coincidence, his favorite author. And a scissors-wielding sadist. Unfortunately the jokes get old long before the series is over. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Durarara!! - You'd think that stuff would happen in a show about a farmboy moving to an inner city neighborhood full of street gangs and mythical beasts, but you'd be surprised by how boring it can be. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Eyeshield 21 - A ragtag American Football team probably wins the championship. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- The Familiar of Zero - A kid from modern-day Japan is accidentally teleported into a fantasy-type world, where he is forced to become the familiar of the complete failure of a magician who summoned him.
- Folktales from Japan - Read the title. Interestingly, its art style reminds me of Rocky and Bullwinkle, but it lacks all of the humor of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
- Fruits Basket - A homeless highschool girl becomes the housekeeper for a family which is cursed to turn into animals whenever they get hugged by someone of the opposite sex. (Also streaming on: FUNimation)
- Garo The Animation - A witch hunt against demon-hunting knights leaves only a few survivors as the only ones who can save the kingdom from a clandestine takeover. But instead of focusing on that, it's the story of a lousy father who raises an even lousier son, and the story ends in Deus Ex Machina and multiple suicides.
- A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd - Some guy who can see the future molests a girl in the process of saving her life, and then is recruited by an organization of "secret helpers" called shepherds. Has some good jokes in it, but otherwise it's a dime-a-dozen show.
- I Couldn't Become a Hero, so I Reluctantly Decided to get a Job - With the demon king having been slain, a hero-in-training gets a job as a retail sales clerk, where his skills are entirely wasted on training the new employee: the demon king's daughter. Unfortunately this show is very unnecessarily perverted, which keeps me from fully enjoying or recommending this show.
- The Knight in the Area - Two young soccer playing brothers get into a car accident. One of them ends up dead, while the other survives only because he had his brother's heart transplanted into him. The survivor becomes more like his more-skilled brother, and probably leads his soccer team to victory.
- Kuroko's Basketball - It's an anime about basketball; nothing to see here unless you're into that sort of thing.
- Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions
- Heart Throb - Season 2 of the show, and by this point the joke has gotten old. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Magi - Japan takes on Middle Eastern folklore in this crossover of Aladdin and Alibaba, where the two team up to become rich by looting ancient dungeons, using the rewards to pursue their own selfish pleasures and to rally against the injustices of society, starting with slavery. And then, it turns into ultra-generic-anime #2,321. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Medaka Box
- Mekakucity Actors - A shut-in gamer ends up joining a group of vigilantes after he heroically turns around a hostage situation. Don't be fooled by how awesome that sounds; the camera in this show has such a serious case of ADHD that it's unwatchable. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- My Neighbor Totoro [Movie] - After moving into the country, two children discover that the region they now live in is "haunted", populated by benevolent spirits.
- My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU - An antisocial smart-alec is forced to participate in a school club dedicating to helping other people around school, which is led by an antisocial genius. Their interaction is great, until the show forgets Comedy is in the title. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Nobunaga the Fool - Throw dozens of famous historical characters in a blender, filter out all historical context, and add Gundam suits for flavor. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Oreshura - An "anti-love" high school student is blackmailed into being the fake boyfriend of the most popular girl in school, by said most popular girl. She is a psychopath with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and the show tries to play this for laughs, though in my mind it just fails miserably. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Panty & Stocking Featuring Garterbelt - This is what happens when Japan makes an American-style cartoon with adult themes. It's insane, it's funny, but it crosses way too many lines in my opinion; so many lines, that I don't feel comfortable providing links to this show.
- Pumpkin Scissors - In the aftermath of a massive war, the Army's War Relief Unit does its best to do help the citizens recover from the devastation of the war. This leads to the unit discovering a massive government conspiracy that among other things wants the unit dead for knowing too much. (Also streaming on: FUNimation)
- Rozen Maiden
- Zuruckspulen - A loser in college with a lousy job has his life turned upside down when his past self from a parallel universe contacts him and instructs him to make a doll, which then comes to life and slaps him. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- The Severing Crime Edge - This simple story of boy meets girl, only boy is obsessed with cutting hair, girl has uncuttable hair, boy is the only one who can cut her hair, girl is being ruthlessly hunted by the descendants of serial killers, and boy is one of said serial killer descendants. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Soul Eater - Death, the jolly, kind-hearted fellow he is, decides to create an academy for training living weapons and their meisters to hunt down semi-demonic creatures and witches. It's a good idea, except all of his students are complete idiots, and about half-way through the writing quality goes on a downward spiral, never to recover. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation, Netflix)
- Space Brothers - Two brothers saw a UFO, and as a result decided that they'd both become astronauts when they grow up. Well, they both grew up, but only one of them kept his promise; the other just lost his job after a heated argument with his supervisor, and now his only prospect for a decent job is to make good on his promise while he still can.
- Sword Art Online
- Sword Art Online II - The second season. Just when you think it's doing something different and isn't the same fairy trash, it turns right back into the same fairy trash and part two of season one.
- Trigun - This is the story of Vash the Stampede, a legendary outlaw with a 60 billion double-dollar bounty on his head. They say he can dodge bullets, never misses with his gun, and leaves entire towns demolished in his wake. In truth, he's a complete imbecile that couldn't hurt a fly if he wanted to. Unfortunately, it jumps the shark about half-way through when it forgets that it's supposed to be a comedy and starts getting weird. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- World Conquest Zvezda Plot - Some little girl wants to take over the world, and may actually accomplish it. Problem is, as time went on it got very cliched and stupid. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
Unless you enjoy watching crap, you should stay away from these.
- 11eyes - A bunch of high school students are suddenly launched into a world where everything is trying to kill them. Then everybody becomes psycho stupid in a way that provokes me to anger. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- A Certain Scientific Railgun - A stand-alone spinoff of Index which follows the secondary character Misaka Mikoto, or Railgun. It's supposed to be comedic, but based on the first episode-and-a-half, 10% of the jokes are actually funny, while the other 90% revolve around lesbians doing perverted things, usually involving panties. I'm not watching any further, nor am I providing any links to this offensive of a show, a show that BETRAYS the comic book it's based on.
- Baka and Test
- Season 2 - The show forgets what it's about and instead focuses on just the topic of perverts trying to break into the girls locker room. (Also streaming on: FUNimation)
- Elfen Leid - Nothing more than a vehicle for mindless violence and full frontal nudity. In my opinion this is hentai (pornographic), and as a result I will never provide a link to this show.
- Galilei Donna - Descendants of Gallileo Gallilei, all young girls, are wrongfully declared criminals and on the run from interpol. One is entirely unlikable, the other is obnoxiously cute and smart, and the third is a lawyer.
- Grenadier - A swordsman with a dark past meets a big-boobed sharpshooter with a revolver, and the two set off to bring peace to the land, one random village at a time. Unfortunately half-way through it devolves into stupid cliche boss fights.
- Guilty Crown - In a post-apocalyptic Japan ruled by a mercenary army, an ordinary high school student gains superpowers and joins the resistance movement. Pretend it got canceled after episode 15, OR YOU WILL NEVER GET OVER YOUR STUPIDITY-INDUCED HEADACHE. It gets so bad that it prompted me to write an angry blog post about it. [Angry Rant] (Also streaming on: FUNimation)
- HENNEKO - A wish-granting cat-shaped idol raises hell against a closet pervert by granting his wishes and the wishes of his friends in the worst ways possible for him, which gets highly predictable fast. (Also streaming on: Hulu)
- Noir - Two female assassins, one of whom has complete amnesia, team up under the title Noir and kill people for a living. I have two major problems with the show. The first is that neither of these assassins have any characterization. The second and much more serious problem is that their plans consist entirely of running in head first and shooting everything that moves. Sorry, but after playing Hitman and watching Burn Notice, I can't accept that any of their plans could possibly result in anything but both of them dying in about 3 seconds flat. (Also streaming on: Hulu, FUNimation)
- School Days - An incredibly boring romance story where everybody eventually becomes psycho stupid. The only good part is the end where everybody kills each other.
- Shakugan no Shana
- Seasons 2 and 3 - The show forgets what it's about, quickly turing into a poorly-written romantic drama for the first half of season 2. In the second half, stuff that makes no sense keeps happening allowing the heroes to win for no good reason. Then at the start of season 3 there's a twist which makes absolutely no sense and remains entirely unexplained, which is what made me give up all hope on the show. (See season 1 in the Good List for review and links)
- Sword Art Online
- Extra Edition [Movie] - If I had any interest in watching a second season of Sword Art Online, EXTRA EDITION just completely killed it. [Extremely Critical Review]
- Voices of a Distant Star - Boyfriend, normal kid, and girlfriend, mecha pilot IN SPAAAACE, attempt to maintain a REALLY long distance relationship over cell phones which were ancient at the time they made this show, let alone in the futuristic setting. And nothing else happens.
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