Friday, August 6, 2010

Sumomomo Momomo: Chijou Saikyou no Yome (すもももももも ~地上最強のヨメ~)

Inuzuka Koushi is a smart high school student who aims to become a public prosecutor. Unfortunately for our good guy, he was born into a martial arts family whose head (i.e. his father) only knows one language: violence. When Koushi was still a baby, his father made a pact with his biggest rival to marry Koushi to his opponent-turned-friend's daughter. The union of the two blood lines is supposed to bring forth Earth's strongest martial arts clan.

Skip forward: Koushi is in high school, oblivious to the marriage arranged for him at his birth. Enter Kusuryuu Momoko: sugar bomb, airhead, loli martial arts artist and Koushi's self-proclaimed bride (the strongest on Earth, no less). Her wish for sexual intercourse meets with Koushi's square refusal as he has absolutely no desire to get it on with someone who looks like she could be his little sister, not to mention that he doesn't have the foggiest idea who she actually is.

Meanwhile, a war has broken out between the martial arts families. For Koushi, this means that numerous fighters are out to challenge him. As if that weren't bad enough, our protagonist also has a fight phobia due to a traumatic incident that took place in his childhood. Now it is up to Momoko and her superhuman fighting skills to protect her "husband". Will the two sweethearts survive the trials and tribulations ahead of them? More importantly, will Momoko get her way receiving a baby from Koushi?



Main Title Sumomomo Momomo: Chijou Saikyou no Yome (すもももももも ~地上最強のヨメ~)
Type TV Series, 22 episodes
Year 06.10.2006 till 16.03.2007
Categories Action, Comedy, Ecchi, Harem, Manga, Martial Arts, Ninjas, Pantsu, Seinen, Slapstick, Sudden Girlfriend Appearance, Super Power
Resources Allcinema, ANN, Official page

Ai Yori Aoshi (藍より青し)

Hanabishi Kaoru is a junior in college, living out an ordinary life of studying and friends. One day, he meets Sakuraba Aoi, an old almost forgotten friend, to whom he is apparently engaged. Together, the two rediscover aspects of their pasts that they had tried to suppress while setting out in their lives with one another. Unfortunately, there are a lot of unwanted guests who keep interfering with their romance.



Main Title Ai Yori Aoshi (藍より青し)
Type TV Series, 24 episodes
Year 11.04.2002 till 26.09.2002
Categories Boing, College, Comedy, Daily Life, Harem, Manga, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Sudden Girlfriend Appearance
Resources Allcinema, ANN, Official page

Nyan Koi! (にゃんこい!)

Kousaka Junpei is a second-year high school student who despises cats and has an allergy to them. It just so happens that his high school crush is Mizuno Kaede, a girl who adores cats. One day, while walking home from school, Junpei kicks an empty can and unfortunately beans the local neko-jizou-sama (the guardian deity of cats). He finds he can now understand what cats are saying, including his family's own ill-tempered cat, Nyamusasu. However, if he does not grant cats a total of 100 wishes, he will turn into a cat himself.



Main Title Nyan Koi! (にゃんこい!)
Type TV Series, 12 episodes
Year 02.10.2009 till 18.12.2009
Categories Comedy, Ecchi, Harem, High School, Manga, Shounen, Super Deformed
Resources Allcinema, ANN, Official page

Tokimeki Memorial: Only Love (ときめきメモリアル OnlyLove)

Aoba Riku has just transferred to a new high school because of his father's job, and things aren't quite what he expected. The headmaster's secretary controls the school while espousing the virtues of academic freedom, the teachers are even stranger than normal teachers, and half the student body is walking around with animal ears on. On his very first day, Riku is unfortunate enough to find himself at the center of the student council's latest event, which has him running for his life. All this on top of the normal high school rigour of popularity contests, crushes, and homework makes it unsure whether Riku will be able to survive this new school.



Main Title Tokimeki Memorial: Only Love (ときめきメモリアル OnlyLove)
Type TV Series, 25 episodes
Year 03.10.2006 till 27.03.2007
Categories Daily Life, Dating Sim - Visual Novel, Harem, High School, Love Polygon, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Sudden Girlfriend Appearance
Resources Allcinema, ANN, Official page

Nagasarete Airantō (ながされて藍蘭島)

Ikuto Touhohin just had a fight with his old man, one that led him to make a rash decision to run away from home. He boards a ship, deciding to take a vacation, but the ship is suddenly hit by a huge storm - one that sends Ikuto overboard! When he regains consciousness, he realizes he is still alive… on some island. An isolated island. An isolated island with nothing but girls. Beautiful girls. Stranded on an island with only girls, no electricity, gas, radio, television… like he was back in the stone age.

Nagasarete Airanto revolves around Ikuto Tohoin, the main protagonist, who ran away from home because of a fight with his father. Due to a life-long dream of wanting to board a ship, Ikuto decides to take a vacation on a cruise ship; the ship is suddenly hit by a huge storm, throwing Ikuto overboard. He wakes up the next day to discover he is on an uncharted island populated by girls. Ikuto finds himself to be extremely popular on the island, due to the fact that no other men currently live there. As a result, nearly the entire island starts pressuring Ikuto to become their husband — all except a young girl named Suzu and her extremely old grandmother. Suzu's grandmother decides that Ikuto will live with Suzu for the time being, but Ikuto initially finds it difficult to adjust, especially with the entire island population after him night and day. Meanwhile, Suzu does her best to protect Ikuto from the masses. However, Ikuto still does not want to stay on the island, and soon after arriving, he attempts to leave by boat, but discovers the island is completely surrounded by whirlpools and tornadoes, eliminating escape by sea or air, thus impossible to leave. With no other choice, Ikuto starts to settle into life on the island.



Main Title Nagasarete Airantō (ながされて藍蘭島)
Type TV Series, 26 episodes
Year 05.04.2007 till 27.09.2007
Categories Anthropomorphism, Comedy, Daily Life, Fantasy, Harem, Manga, Shounen, Slapstick
Resources Allcinema, ANN, Official page

Onegai Teacher (おねがい☆ティーチャー)

The story is about Kei, a guy who accidentally hangs out at the lake where Mizuho appears when she gets out of her spaceship. But when he thinks of it as a dream, the next day at school the woman who takes over class is the same one as the one he saw at the lake!

Utterly confused, he still thinks it's a dream, but when she moves in as his neighbour and he helps her out, things are really getting weird and they even are forced to marry because of it. But how do you marry an alien while nobody is supposed to know about the marriage - nor the fact that the woman is both an alien and your teacher?
Not even mentioning that the teacher/alien is a gorgeous woman ... and that some classmate already has her eye on Kei.



Main Title Onegai Teacher (おねがい☆ティーチャー)
Type TV Series, 12 episodes
Year 10.01.2002 till 28.03.2002
Categories Aliens, Humanoid, Romance, School Life, Sudden Girlfriend Appearance
Resources Allcinema, ANN, Official page

Kannagi (かんなぎ)

Mikuriya Jin decided to use a piece of the sacred tree to carve a statue for his middle-school project and while moving it outside, the statue happens to touch the ground transforming into a cute girl. Her name is Nagi, a Shinto spirit, the guardian of the village, and she is really annoyed that her sacred tree was cut down. Having no place to live, Nagi is forced to move in with Jin and tries to accept her new existence by venting her anger against bugs by squashing them... by cleaning the "impurities".

Nagi has a rival in a little sister guardian deity, who lives in a shrine located on the other side of the river. Well, Zange-chan has woken up too and decides to become the top teen-idol of the village, much to Nagi's dismay.



Main Title Kannagi (かんなぎ)
Type TV Series, 13 episodes
Year 04.10.2008 till 27.12.2008
Categories Comedy, Fantasy, Goddesses, Manga, Romance, Slapstick
Resources Allcinema, ANN, Official page

Zero no Tsukaima (ゼロの使い魔)

Louise Valliere is a 2nd year student at the esteemed Magic Academy High School, but all of her classmates call her 'Zero Louise'. While no one doubts her magic ability, it is just that all of the spells that she casts just go wrong, usually with disastrous and explosive results. Rumour has it that none of the spells that she tried to cast have ever gone as expected, which is how she picked up her nickname — Zero.

One of the most import 2nd year student rituals is the summoning of a familiar. A familiar once summoned will stay with the magician for rest of their life. A mage's magical familiar can appear in the form of any creature — as small as a mouse, as a fearsome fire salamander, and perhaps even as a dragon for an exceptional mage. True to form, Louise's familiar summoning spell goes very wrong and pulls Hiraga Saito from his life as a high school student (in Japan) into the magic world. The ritual is sacred and once started, cannot be changed, so Louise accepts her fate and gives Saito a kiss (on the lips) to seal their bond. The other students take delight in teasing Zero Louise at having summoned an ordinary commoner as a familiar, but they have forgotten that familiars are magical creatures and by their nature — are never ordinary or common.



Main Title Zero no Tsukaima (ゼロの使い魔)
Type TV Series, 13 episodes
Year 03.07.2006 till 25.09.2006
Categories Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Feudal Warfare, Magic, Military, Novel, Parallel Universe, Romance, Seinen
Resources Allcinema, ANN, Official page

Aa! Megami-sama! (2005) (ああっ女神さまっ (2005))

Morisato Keiichi is looking forward to university life. But in reality, he has no luck in anything, and he has trouble with clubs, love, etc. The truth is that he has an unlucky star above his head. One day, Keiichi is stuck watching the dorm while his senpai are away, and has a mountain of chores to do to boot. But Keiichi is a good-natured person, and is set about doing his duties. As he is about to finish his final chore, he makes a phone call to his senpai. But the words that came through the receiver are, 'Goddess Help Line.' Shortly afterwards, a beautiful goddess named Belldandy appears in front of him from the mirror of his room.



Main Title Aa! Megami-sama! (2005) (ああっ女神さまっ (2005))
Type TV Series, 24 episodes
Year 07.01.2005 till 08.07.2005
Categories Angels, Contemporary Fantasy, Fantasy, Goddesses, Magic, Manga, Romance, Seinen, Sudden Girlfriend Appearance
Resources Allcinema, ANN, Official page

Hayate no Gotoku! (ハヤテのごとく!)

16-year-old Hayate is really down on his luck. Because his unemployed parents are good-for-nothings who waste what money they have on gambling, Hayate had to start working at a young age to help out his family. Although such experience has made him inhumanly fast and tough and skilled at things boys aren't normally skilled at, it has also left him in an awkward position, as his parents have racked up such a huge gambling debt that they have sold Hayate to the yakuza for the value of his organs. In a desperate attempt to avoid that fate, Hayate decides to become a “bad guy” and kidnap someone to be held for ransom, but his efforts to do so are mistaken as a confession of love by the girl he targets. When he helps save the (as it turns out) ultra-wealthy 13-year-old Nagi from real kidnappers, she takes him in and gives him a job as her new personal butler (and love interest) until he can pay off his debt. But Hayate is more attracted to Nagi's beautiful teenage maid Maria, and head butler Klaus is initially disapproving of the boy with such a poor look. And then there's Nagi's pet Tama, who is also a force to be reckoned with.



Main Title Hayate no Gotoku! (ハヤテのごとく!)
Type TV Series, 52 episodes
Year 01.04.2007 till 30.03.2008
Categories Comedy, Manga, Parody, Shounen
Resources Allcinema, ANN, Official page

School Rumble (スクールランブル)

Tsukamoto Tenma is an ordinary 2nd year high school student who has fallen in love with one of her classmates, Karasuma Ooji. However, currently she is unable to confess her feelings to him. To make things worse, she found out that Karasuma is transferring to another school in a year. On the other hand, Tenma's other classmate, Harima Kenji (who is a delinquent) is also in love with Tenma. Not being able to confess his feelings, Harima gets depressed day by day.

Tsukamoto Tenma is always chasing after the rather unusual Karasuma Ooji, to no avail. Her over-the-top methods don't even seem to register, but she keeps trying. Harima Kenji, the class rebel, is desperately trying to confess his feelings to Tenma, also with no luck. It's a comedy love-triangle, with humour that comes in from left field!



Main Title School Rumble (スクールランブル)
Type TV Series, 26 episodes
Year 05.10.2004 till 29.03.2005
Categories Comedy, Daily Life, High School, Love Polygon, Manga, Parody, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Slapstick
Resources Allcinema, ANN, Official page

To Love-Ru (To LOVEる)

The story is about Yuuki Rito, a high-school boy who cannot confess to the girl of his dreams, Sairenji Haruna. One day when coming home and sulking in the bath-tub a mysterious, nude girl, appears out of nowhere. Her name is Lala and she comes from the planet Deviluke, where she is the heir to the throne. Her father wants her to return to her home planet so she can marry one of the husband candidates, but she decides that she wants to marry Rito in order to stay on Earth.

Commander Zastin has been ordered to bring Lala back and has already battled Rito. He reports to the emperor that Rito would be suited to marry Lala, after hearing Rito say that marriage is impossible unless it is with the person you love (Rito was actually defending himself, but Zastin and Lala thought he was defending Lala). With this speech, Lala truly falls in love with Rito and decides that she wants to marry Rito. Her father decides that, if Rito is able to protect Lala from her fiances, then he can be her fiance, but if Rito can not do so, Lala's father will kill Rito and destroy Earth.



Main Title To Love-Ru (To LOVEる)
Type TV Series, 26 episodes
Year 04.04.2008 till 26.09.2008
Categories Aliens, Boing, Comedy, Coming of Age, Demons, Ecchi, Harem, Humanoid, Love Polygon, Manga, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Sudden Girlfriend Appearance, Violent Retribution for Accidental Infringement
Resources Allcinema, ANN, Official page

Seto no Hanayome (瀬戸の花嫁)

Nagasumi visits his grandmother near the sea during the summer. While visiting, he goes for a swim, and drowns right after entering the water. Fortunately for him he is saved by a young mermaid. Later as he tells the story to his family, a young girl named San appears at his home and begs Nagasumi to marry her.

She’s followed by two large thugs and they take both him and his parents to San's home under the sea. If that wasn’t strange enough, it turns out San's parents are mob bosses. Nagasumi is left with the choice of either death or marrying San. He chooses to marry a mermaid.

This would likely be that, except San's father and some members of the mob are not exactly thrilled to have Nagasumi courting San and are determined to bring an end to their relationship - or him. And there is also the matter of keeping it a secret that San is a mermaid.



Main Title Seto no Hanayome (瀬戸の花嫁)
Type TV Series, 26 episodes
Year 02.04.2007 till 01.10.2007
Categories Comedy, Coming of Age, Mafia, Manga, Middle School, Parody, School Life, Shounen, Slapstick, Super Deformed, Underworld, Yakuza
Resources Allcinema, ANN, Official page

Love Hina (ラブひな)

Keitarou and his childhood sweetheart make a promise to be accepted at and to meet each other at the prestigous Toudai University before she moved out of his life. About a decade later, Keitarou has become an artist and a daydreamer, having ranked 27th from the last in the national practice exam. When his grandmother leaves the all-girls dormitory, he becomes the residential manager and soon meets up with two Toudai applicants who may have been that sweetheart, since he's forgotten her name. Then there the other tenants like young Shinobu who was in despair until Keitarou helped her, Motoko the swordsmaster who sees men as evil distractions, Kaolla Su the genius child inventor and the sneaky Kitsune.



Main Title Love Hina (ラブひな)
Type TV Series, 24 episodes
Year 19.04.2000 till 27.09.2000
Categories Comedy, Daily Life, Ecchi, Harem, Manga, Nudity, Romance, Shounen, Violent Retribution for Accidental Infringement
Resources Allcinema, ANN, Official page