July-2008 Update List

The Gokusen
Genres: comedy, drama, slice of life
Themes: School, Yakuza
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Kumiko “Yankumi” Yamaguchi enters Shirokin Gakuen Private School to become a math teacher. She’s assigned as the homeroom teacher for class 2-4, populated by a gang of delinquents…

Naruto
Genres: action, comedy, drama, fantasy
Themes: ninja
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Naruto closely follows the life of a boy who is feared and detested by the villagers of the hidden leaf village of Konoha. The distrust of the boy has little to do with the boy himself, but it’s what’s inside him that causes anxiety. Long before Naruto came to be…

Hayate the Combat Butler
Genres: action, comedy, romance, slice of life
Themes: Parody
Plot Summary:
Abandoned by his parents and given a monumentally large debt as a Christmas present, 16-year old Ayasaki Hayate is at the lowest point of his life. Desperately trying alter his hapless fate, he decides to kidnap someone to hold for a ransom. Due to an ill choice of words, the girl he tries to kidnap misunderstands the action as a confession of love….

Junjou Romantica
Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Themes: Yaoi
Plot Summary: Misaki is suddenly having some unexpected and odd problems. What started as a need for some college entrance exam tutoring has somehow led him to being romanced by a suave older man who also happens to be his big brother’s best friend. Confused by all of his brand new emotions…

Slam Dunk
Genres: comedy, tournament
Themes: Basketball, Sports
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: Sakuragi Hanamichi is a junior high punk used to getting into fights and being rejected by girls but upon entering high school he meets the girl of his dreams, Haruko Akagi….

Hidamari Sketch
Genres: Slice of Life, Comedy
Yuno has just begun school where she always wanted, Yamabuki High School.
She moves out and into an apartment by herself in a complex called Hidamari-so, which is right in front of the school. There, she meets a classmate, Miyako, and a senior student, Hiro….

Ghost in the Shell SAC 2nd GIG
Genres: action, drama, psychological, science fiction
Themes: Military, Police
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic world where the internet and cybernetics has blurred the borders between societies; the members of Public Security Section 9 are reinstated to assist in solving numerous cases of cyber crime….

Kamichu
Genres: comedy, drama, magic, romance, slice of life, supernatural
Themes: gods, moe, school
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: Yurie Hitotsubashi was just an average middle school student living in the city of Onomichi on Japan’s inland sea in the easygoing times of the 1980s….

Shonan Junai Gumi
Genre : Action, Drama, Shounen, Slice of Life
Plot Summary: Follows the adventures of Eikichi Onizuka and Ryuji Danma together known as Oni-Baku, Shonan’s strongest fighting duo as they try to lose their virginities, while trying to survive through high-school….

Vampire Knight
Genre : Supernatural - Romance - Drama
Plot : Cross Academy is different from other schools. It has a Day Class and a Night Class, with different uniforms and no interaction between these two classes. Secretly, students of the Night Class are all vampires, led by Kuran Kaname, a noble vampire who 10 years prior saved Cross Yuki from the attack of a stray vampire….

Shura no Toki
Genres: action
Themes: Historical, Martial Arts, Samurai
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: Legends tell of an invincible martial art known as Mutsu Enmei-Ryu, an unarmed style that allows the user to defeat any number of armed opponents using incredible speed and strength…

Shaman King
Genres: action, adventure, comedy, drama, supernatural, tournament
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary:
Asakura Yoh is a shaman, a person who communicates with ghosts. He enters the Shaman Fight, for whoever wins the tournament gets to commune with the Great Spirit, God. . . that and his fiance Anna wants to be the wife of the Shaman King….

Innocent Venus
Genres: adventure, drama, science fiction
Themes: Mecha, Military, Post-Apocalyptic
Plot Summary: In the year 2010 AD, Hyper Hurricanes born concurrently all over the world caused severe damage. Five billion people lost their lives, decreasing the world’s population to 3 billion.Existing economies and militaries were wiped out. Countries were frozen under solid ice…

Tokyo Tribe 2
Genres: action, drama
Plot Summary: This is the other side of Tokyo, a Tokyo of a different color. There, various tribes are living. The SARU from Japan’s Musashino, WU-RONZE of Bukuro, and HANDS of Shindyuku… Young men living in the city…the public of modern times builds a home out of corruption, these young men of the sordid side of life…

Oh! Edo Rocket
Genres: comedy, drama
Themes: Historical
Plot Summary: In Edo during the mid-1800’s, fireworks maker Seikichi Tamaya and his friends struggle to live under the harsh frugality laws imposed by the strict city magistrate, which ban all luxuries, including fireworks. One day, a strange girl stops by Seikichi’s shop with an equally strange request…

Asatte no Houkou
Genres: drama, romance, slice of life, supernatural
Plot Summary: Karada is a young girl who hates being treated like a child and who wishes to be grown up. Shoko is an aloof, unhappy young woman who has just returned from overseas. When they meet by coincidence one night at a local shrine where they both like to make wishes, they exchange ages…

Strawberry Marshmallow
Genres: comedy, slice of life
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: Ichigo Mashimaro follows the life of Nobue Itoh, her younger sister Chika, and her friends. The basic premise of the show can be summed up in “cute girls do cute things in cute ways”, be it trying to quit smoking, going outside to play, celebrating a holiday, or doing school work….

Perfect Girl Evolution
Genres: comedy, romance
Plot Summary: Kyouhei, Ranmaru, Takenaga, and Yukinojou are beautiful, handsome, young men living in a huge mansion. One day, their landlord, whom they call “Auntie”, asks them a favor: to make her niece, Sunako, who’s going to be living with them, into a respectable young lady….

Kamichama Karin
Genres: magic, romance
Plot Summary: Karin Hanazono is an orphan, living with her relatives. Her life has never been easy, her studies are not well, she is not the best in sports and technically she is miserable. Left with only a ring as a memento from her departed mother, she suddenly finds her life changed, as she was mourning her pet cat, Shii-chan….

Girl’s High
Genres: comedy, slice of life
Themes: ecchi, School
Plot Summary: Eriko and her friends Yuma and Ayano are excited about entering high school. Their excitement leads to their breaking of the rules when they toured the school before the opening ceremony…

Shadow Star Narutaru
Genres: drama, horror, supernatural
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: During her summer holiday at her grandparents house Tamai Shiina, a young and cheerful schoolgirl, meets a strange looking creature. They befriend each other and Shiina names it “Hoshimaru - The Round Star”…

Kenko Zenra Kei Suiei Bu Umisho
Genres: comedy
Themes: Ecchi, Sports, Swiming
Plot Summary: Kaname Okimura, a student of Prefectoral Umineko Shougyou High (”Umisho” for short), joined the school’s swimming club in order to learn how to swim, but the club is filled with weirdos, let alone teaches him swimming. Then, a sunny, happy-go-lucky girl named Amuro Ninagawa…