The Anime Raiders collection of Anime

 

I have moved the long-winded essay about anime to the end, which explains my collection and how I got it, to facilitate browsing a bit better. To go directly to the essay, click here.

 

 I speak Japanese, so a lot of what I have is in the raw. I have divided the following into 4 parts: 1) Anime I still want and haven't found on my own  - and THESE titles I'm willing to talk trade about, usually only in Raw Japanese, 2) Raw Japanese Titles  - some are DVD, some are VHS, some direct from TV, 3) fansubs I have collected over the years, 4) commercial titles available in the U.S.  - for better or worse. I have also added two more sections: Japanese Dramas and Manga. If you see a series highlighted in RED it means that I'm watching that series now. If it is in a weird GREY I've already watched it (although I may be watching it again - I almost always have Kodomo no Omocha or Maison Ikkoku going  ^_^). If it is GREEN it's the next item on my list.

 

 Douzo....

 

1)      Stuff I want  - If you've got it, e-mail me at creed at animeraiders dot com. If you've got something you think I might be interested in and it's not on this list, e-mail me to discuss it. Keep in mind I'll probably want it in Raw Japanese, no subtitles, although I am open to exceptions. Also keep in mind that I live in the U.S., in San Francisco, so trades to certain countries can be problematic. And as stated before, I'm not a fansubber - you won't get fancy packaging or labels from me, and I have no interest in SVHS. This first list is in order of preference. All others are alphabetical

 

One 2 - Sequel to One, which I have

Sweet Mint  - I was part of a failed effort to bring this one to the U.S.

Tsuyoshi-kun Shikkari Shirou! (Also known as Ganbatte Tsuyoshi-kun! and Hang in there Tsuyoshi!)  - This one isn't coming to the U.S. anytime soon. Anybody out there have it?

Akachan to Boku

Risky Safety

Refrain Blue

Captain Harlock TV

One Piece (after episode 120)

Little Memoru TV

End of Summer Climax

Dousoukai

Maroko

Starlight Scramble

Lupin III TV  - I can get this one on my own as a local store carries it, so no rush.

Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar Special

Beautiful World

Mahoromatic 2nd Season

Wandaba Style

 

 

And here's a list of other stuff I want, but it won't kill me not to have it. I you INSIST on getting me a gift work from the list above ^_^:

 

 

Gunbuster

Sorcerous Stabber Orphen

Gene Shaft

Demon City Shinjuku

Darkside Blues

Devilman Lady

Eat Man '88

Knights of Ramune

Patlabor

Taruto

Queen Emaraldas

Legend of Reyon

And of course anything I haven't collected in full below

 

 

 

2)      Raw Japanese - Anything you see incomplete here I'm collecting on my own already

 

1,000 Nen Jou Ou (aka Queen Millennia) 42 episodes, 1 movie

3X3 Eyes  - 7 episodes  - As a general rule I don't care for horror, but this is one of two that I especially like. The Manga is incredible, and I recommend it to anyone who has a strong enough command of the language. The Manga runs 40 volumes!

A Heat for all seasons - 3 episodes (hentai)

Aa! Megamisama 26 Episodes Finally! In 2005 comes a TV Series!!!!! WAHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Aa! Megamisama Sorezore no Tsubasa 24 episodes even more episodes!!!!

Aa! Megamisama Tatakau Tsubasa - 2 OAVS done to celebrate the 20th anniversary of  the manga.

Ace wo Narae - 26 episodes, 1 movie

Ace wo Narae 2 - 13 episodes - interestingly enough, this is the sequel to Shin Ace wo Narae

Agent Aika  - 4 OAVs - more panty shots per minute than any anime I've ever seen.

Ah! My Goddess Movie  - great film. Great music, which is part of the point

Ah! My Goddess OVAs  - These are the 5 OVAs that most people have already seen and are commercially available in the U.S.

Ah! My Goddess TV  - these are 48 short cartoons involving the mini-goddesses, now available in the U.S. Don't look for Morisato-kun though. The foil in this series is a rat named Gen-chan, who also appears in little shorts in the Manga. There is one episode called 'Rainy Day - that has no dialogue, and is of Oscar caliber. I sent a tape of it to Spike & Mike's offices but never heard back.

Ai My Me! Strawberry Eggs!  - 13 Episodes  - If you order this series from Japan, get volume 5 with the box. You won't regret it. This is my current new favorite - the ending is AMAZING!!!!!! Lots and lots of extras on the Japanese DVDs. There's a U.S. release and the advertising campaign is very misleading. The story has a lot more heart to it than the ads suggest.

Ai Yori Aoshi  - 24 episodes

Ai Yori Aoshi Enioshi - 12 more episodes

AIKa R-16 Virgin Missions - 3 OAVs - a sort of prequel to Agent AIKa, from before she got the golden bustier and was just a normal high school girl whose father runs a salvage operation. Fun, very ecchi.

Air 13 episodes

Air Gear 25 episodes

Air Summer Tokubetsu Hen - 2 OAVs

Akage no Anne - 50 episodes This is the old Masterpiece Theatre version of Anne of Green Gables, overseen by Miyazaki

Amaenaideyo! - 12 episodes, 1 special

Amaenaideyo - Katsu!! - 12 episodes

Angel Links - 13 episodes a new story set in the world of Outlaw Star

Angelic Layer - 26 episodes. Fun series from the Evil Geniuses of Cute, a.k.a. Clamp. This one is a ton of fun, and contrary to expectations, went in a direction the Manga did not. Very uplifting, with a couple of unexpected twists. Nice work, Clamp!

Angelium - 2 OAVs

Angel Heart 51 episodes

Angel Sanctuary - 3 OAVs

Antique Heart - OAV - pretty simple little ghost story

Ao no Kaori - OAV

Aquarian Age - Sign for Evolution 13 episodes

Arc The Lad  - 26 episodes

Argento Soma - 25 episodes and an OAV. A young man is simply trying to give his girl a birthday present, while being a student at a military complex in Montana. But the girl is killed when an experiment by one of her professors is interrupted by the military, and he winds up the only survivor, horribly disfigured. The robot they were building escapes. Then a 13-year old girl named Harriet comes to be in control of the robot (called "Frank", Yousei-kun (Japanese for fairy or elf - Harriet calls it that), or Extra-1, depending on who is talking), thinking it will reunite her with her dead parents. All the while the military complex wants to use the robot to defend earth against a re-appearance of invading aliens. Then a mysterious stranger appears at the hospital bed of the injured man and offers him a way in to defeat the monster. His name is changed to Soma and he is inserted into the military unit whose job it is to protect the Earth. Or is he hallucinating the whole thing? Hints are continuously dropped suggesting so. And this is only the first 3 episodes! Then it goes in directions not planned for. The show is 24 episodes, the OAV (taking place 6 years later) and then an extra episode that happens sometime in between. Well worth the time.

Aria the Animation - 13 episodes - The future: Mars has been turned into a planet of water. So let's follow the life of a young emmigre who wants to be a gondola pilot! Pretty good show.

Aria the Natural 26 episodes, plus a special sequel to ARIA the ANIMATION

Aria the OVA - ARIETTA a simple one-shot that furthers the story yet again.

ARIA the Origination - 14 episodes and now the finale, that wraps up the whole 53 episode story arc from start to finish. Well worth the ride.

Armitage III - Dual Matrix - New OAV series that picks up 6 years after the first left off. No, I DO NOT have the version with Juliette Lewis.

Arujuna - Chikyuu Shoujou (Earth Girl)

Asatte no Houkou – 12 episodes a great little title about a little girl and a grown woman caught up in a wish that changes both of their lives. The pace is slow, but the payoff is fantastic.

Attack No. 1 104 episodes

Aura Bancho Psychic Academy - 24 short little episodes, each about 7 minutes, about a boy who transfers to the Psychic Academy thinking he has no powers - but everyone else believes he may be the strongest Psychic ever. Cute. And despite a copious amount of skin it isn't a Hentai title. I rather enjoyed it.

Automatic Maiden - 12 episodes (also known as Mahoromatic)

Avenger - 13 episodes

Ayakashi 12 episodes - there are spirits called Ayakashi that various people can control due to a freak snow storm several years ago. Why is everyone interested in the Ayakashi one young man can control - even though he doesn't know anything about it?

Ayashi no Ceres  - 26 episodes - overall disappointing. A lot of the plot from the Manga has been removed.

Azumanga Daiou - Episodes 1-26

Baby Love OAV

Baccano! 16 episodes - how do I describe this one? This is an anime told in non-liner fashion about a group of gangsters who can't be killed by ordinary means, and a number of others who interact in their lives in the early 1930s. That sentence doesn't really do it justice though. This series is heckafun.

Bakuretsu Tenshi 26 episodes

Bakuretsu Tenshi Infinity - movie

Bamboo Blade 26 episodes

Bartender 11 episodes – simple little short anime about bartenders and the drinks they make. Includes some interesting recipes. I actually tried the “Black Velvet”

Battle Angel - OAV Movie

Bible Black - This one's Hentai - and it's just plain sick. Not recommended. I only have the first volume, and won't be getting the second.

Binbou Shimai Monogatari 10 episodes - a cute, quick, short series about two young sisters living on their own. Their mother died with the birth of the younger sister, and the father ran away to escape from gambling debts. They're aged 14 and 7 respectively, living on their own. It's a simple and nice little story.

Black Blood Brothers 12 episodes – Yeah, yeah, yeah, I could tell you all about the fight between vampires and all that, but this one’s actually fairly light and simple.

Black Cat 23 episodes, plus an extra

Black Heaven  - 13 episodes - . Dude! Crank It Up! This one is better known in Japan as Kaichou Ouji - the job title (and name) of the lead Character, Tanaka Ouji. He used to be a rock guitar God, but now he's a Salaryman with a wife and a kid. And for some reason, his guitar playing is the only thing saving Earth from an invasion. Weird, but fun - especially the trio of girls who make trouble in every episode. I strongly recommend watching this one with some sake in your glass.

Black Lagoon 12 episodes

Black Lagoon the Second Barrage – 12 more episodes

Bleach 1-156, 1 movie (Memories of Nobody)

Blood+ 50 episodes this one is hecka fun. A girl named Saiya is kinda sickly and requires blood transfusions. She lives with her father and two brothers and run a small restaurant in Okinawa. But Saiya is not who she seems, although she doesn't yet remember it. She's actually a vampire hunter, several centuries old. She just needs to remember. And once she does, what happens to her family? This one's very deep and has an onion full of layers. great stuff.

Blue Drop - 13 episodes I nearly passed on this one, until I ran into the manga. About a young girl attending a public school for the first time and her roommate, who may actually be the advance of an invading alien army.

Blue Flames - OAV

Blue Seed - 26 episodes (VHS) - I've been  long time fan of 3 X 3 eyes, so now I'm finally catching up to some of his earlier work. Cool stuff.

Blue Seed Beyond - 3 OAVs

Blue Submarine No. 6  - 4 OAVs

Bokura ga Ita 26 episodes

Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuru-chan 8 episodes - Easily the most violent anime I have ever seen, and one of the funniest.

Boogiepop Phantom

Boundry Between Dream and Reality - Hentai series with a funky unreality twist. Intriguing story, terrible animation. With a little development it could have been very good.

Boys Be  - 13 episodes - a really cute set of stories set in high school life.

Brave Story – Movie

Buttobi CPU  - 3 OAVs

Buzzer Beater 13 episodes

Buzzer Beater 2007 - 13 episodes

Byousoku 5 Centimeter

Candy Boy - short feature

Canvas 2 - Nijiiro no Sketch - 24 episodes

Card Captor Sakura - 70 episodes and 2 movies - Boy, do I love this show! My copy is from the original VHS release, which includes extras at the end of each show talking about fashion and the various costumes.

Catblue: Dynamite – Okay now… a Japanese anime. In English. Subtitled in Japanese. About a cat transformed into a human who can talk to ghosts… it was pretty good.

Catgirl Nuku Nuku TV - 14 episodes

Cat's Eye  - 73 episodes - kind of a Charlie's Angels in reverse, with a fairly deep backstory. They're three sisters (the middle one is Hitomi - same name as my daughter) who steal various things while running a coffee shop called "Cats Eye", all to find their mysterious and missing father. Fun series.

Chobits - 24 episodes - Just like the Manga, it starts out slow and pedantic, but then really picks up steam. The plot runs almost exactly as the Manga did, but without the obvious tie-in to Angelic Layer that the Manga did. Oh, it's still there, but it's much more subtle. Very good series.

Chocotto Sister 24 episodes

Cho Gals! Kotubuki Ran - 24 episodes

Clannad 23 episodes, 1 movie Another great slice of life anime from the people who gave us Air and Kanon. I'm collecting the wide-screen version. This one freakin' rocks.

Class Reunion – Dousoukai – 4 OAVs

Claymore 26 episodes Have demons attacking your city? Call on the Claymore Girls! 1/2 human, half demon, they fight for you for a fee. Actually, it's a pretty serious anime, following one Claymore named "Claire", who has some surprising secrets of her own, and the young man she befriends while attempting to save his villiage.

Clover - a short from the Same guys who did X and Card Captor Sakura

Cluster Edge - 25 episodes

Code Geass - Lelouch of the Rebellion 25 full episodes, a couple of half episodes, and a series of picture book specials

Code Geass - Lelouch of the Rebellion - Black Rebellion

Code Geass - Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 1-9

Code-E - 12 episodes. A good title about a girl who can generate Electrical fields. However, the last episode is a disaster

Comic Party  - 13 episodes  - not that good really, other than a great intro to the first episode and lots of in-jokes that reference 'To Heart - (which is a great title). It gets interesting towards the end. My copy has tons of extras, including cast and crew interviews, games, and extra animation.

Comic Party Revolution - 13 more episodes

Cool Cool Bye - OAV

Cosplay Complex

Cowboy Bebop  - 26 episodes and 1 movie - I finally started watching the copy I bought 2 years ago and it appears my copy is a Chinese bootleg from the original Japanese. I won't be trading it so don't ask. Still, pretty damned good. Especially the music (I'm a fan of Konno Yoko). I have a DVD player that can turn the subtitles off, so I can still watch it. I recommend watching the movie before you watch episode 23.

Coyote Ragtime Show - 12 episodes This one was a lot of fun about chasing down a scoundrel of a bank robber and his mission to help the daughter of his old partner. It was way too short.

Cream Lemon - 36 episodes

Cream Lemon New Generation - 4 OAVs

Creamy Mami  - 52 episodes, 1 OVA, 1 Movie  - This is the first Shoujo/Mahou title I ever collected, and it's still my favorite. I wrote a review of it for a magazine a few years ago. I even have a VCD collection of the first 10 episodes in CHINESE

Crest of Stars - 13 episodes, 1 OAV, 1 movie - Sequel to Sekai no Senki

Cutie Honey - 25 episodes

D4 Princess - 24 short episodes

Daa! Daa! Daa!  - 78 episodes. Take a young girl and transplant her at a distant relative's temple because her parents are working for NASA in the U.S. Then have the man who runs the temple get a call from the Dali Lama to study with him, leaving his teenage son. Now toss in an abandoned baby from outer space, and its baby-sitting shape-shifting pet. Fun ensues. Great show. (Special thanks to Aya the Vampire Slayer for finding me the last three episodes!)

Da Capo Second Season - 26 episodes

Da Capo II - 13 episodes

Dai Mahou Touge 8 episodes - a cute magical girl short series about a homicidal maniac. ^_^

Daphne in the Brilliant Blue 9-24 (1-8 is in the subtitled section)

Darker Than Black 25 episodes, plus 1 DVD only episode I tend to collect almost everything that Kanno Yoko does the music for, and this one is about a group of psychics led by one who can produce electric shocks hunting other people with various paranormal abilities. Great show.

Dead Girls - The Red Garden OAV. Same girls, far inthe future.

Dead Leaves - Movie - If you ever want to see Anime in a whole new way, this is the title for you. About as weird as anime ever gets.

Demshitta! Powerpuff Girls Z 52 episodes Yes, the anime version of PPG! It actually is a lot of fun.

Dennou Coil - a Circle of Children 26 episodes, a special and a couple of review episodes - this one is hella fun, about a group of kids and their glasses (which are actually computer screens) who live in a virtual world that includes virtual pets, their homework, and viruses. Can they find the "Meta-bug" that may hold the secret to the world behind the scenes? And why does one of them want to find this information so desperately that she's had her body modified? It's animated in the style of Studio Ghibli works.

Der Pianist - Movie - actually, I don't know what to think here. It's obviously anime, but it's in German.

Dirty Pair Movies - 3 of them!

Dirty Pair Flash - 16 OAVs

Doukyuusei  - 4 OAVs

Doukyuusei 2 Special - Sotsugyousei (The Graduate)  - 3 OAVs - mostly just a simple love story with lots of skin showing. No real sex so it isn't Hentai per se. Not a bad little story actually.

Dragonaut - The Resonance 25 episodes a fun anime about a group of people and the dragons/space creatures they are attached to, and the romance between two of them

Druaga no To - The Aegis of Urik 12 episodes - this one was fun - about a young warrior always in the shadow of his brother who comes into his own leading a party on the same adventure his brother is. It starts out very silly and has its comedic moments, but the turns deadly serious in the last few episodes, and ends with a cliffhanger that leaves you frustrated and waiting for the sequel to come out in 2009.

DVINE/LUV - 4 OAVs, Hentai. Here's an unusual Hentai - it has a PLOT!!!!!! ^_^ It's the touching tale of a young adventurer and how he conquers 7 different women. Oh, and there's some stuff about a princess with a disease, the search for a secret elixir, lots of bad D&D stuff, and a weird mix of modern and ancient technology.

ef - a tale of memories - 12 episodes Imagine trying to live your live when you can only remember the past 13 hours. Great show.

Eiji - OAV

Eikyuu Alice Rondo - 12 episodes

El - Strange little Hentai title where the good guys are more sadistic than the bad guys, and the bad guys are the kind who if your daughter brought one home you'd stab him with a steak knife - interesting V.R. twist towards the end though

El Cazador de la Bruja 26 episodes - a road trip story about a bounty hunter and the young girl with mysterious powers she's assigned to find and then protect, from the people who gave us Noir. Not bad.

El Hazard - The Magnificent World  - 13 episodes

El Hazard - The Wanderers - 26 episodes

El Hazard - The Alternative World - 13 episodes

Elemental Gerald 26 episodes

Ergo Proxy 23 epidodes

Eureka 7 50 episodes

Excel Saga - 26 episodes This is actually a Chinese sub, but as I don't read Chinese it might as well be raw.

Ex-D  - 6 OAVs

Fancy Lala  - 26 episodes  - not quite as cute as Creamy Mami, but it's still good. The final 2 episodes are surprisingly powerful, and the ending comes out of nowhere and is wonderful.

Fashion Lala - Harborlight Story - OAV  Features the same magical creatures as Fancy Lala, and a girl named Miho, but the overall story is somewhat darker. Evil aunt and cruel girls and all that. Okay, confession - technically, this is the fansub by Anime Miners, and it's a pretty good DVD. However, I can turn the subtitles off and therefore have put it in this list.

Fate/Stay Night - 24 episodes

Fighting Beauty Wulong 25 episodes

Fighting Beauty Wulong Rebirth 25 more episodes

Figure 17 - 13 episodes

Flame of Recca  - 42 episodes

FLCL - gotta love the title

Forbidden Love - 2 episodes (hentai)

Freedom 7 OAVs - this is a series of OAVs from the creator of AKIRA, about a group of young men living (along with the entire Human Race) who don't have much to do - race bikes and generally get into trouble and so forth. When two of them wind up on a punishment detail to pick up garbage on the surface of the moon, they discover that the Earth, long believed to be barren, may have life after all... A great OAV series.

Fruits Basket - 26 episodes.  - Stays true to the Manga for 24 episodes, and then smacks you with one incredible emotional punch for the last two episodes. Very, very, very good. The Japanese DVDs have the commercials and some of them are VERY funny. The first anime company I consulted for had me try to buy this series.

Fruits Cup - 2 episodes (hentai)

Full Metal Alchimest Extras there's going to be a season two!!! I have season one in the fansubs.

Fushigi na Melmo - 26 episodes old school!

Fushigi na Shima no Flone - 50 episodes this is the anime "World Masterpiece Theater" version of Swiss Family Robinson

Fushigi Yuugi  - 52 episodes of TV, 9 OAVs  - One of the Best

Fushigi Yuugi Eikouden - 3 OAVS - Take the story ahead a few years, to the wedding of Taka and Miaka, with Miaka several months pregnant. Why is Taka suddenly back in the book again? Why is the new Suzaku no Miko so jealous of Miaka? Good stuff here. Great followup.

Futakoi Alternative 13 episodes - take the original (in fansubs) and cross it with Gunslinger Girl. Cool.

Futari Etchi! (Step Up Love Story) - 4 OAVs - Sweet little Hentai about two virgins who get married and haven't a clue what they're doing... but manage to get there anyway...and it's not hardcore! This title also has the distinction of the most interesting warning screen I've ever seen (you know "keep the lights on and don't sit to close to the TV..."). For the first OAV the flash on a cell-phone e-mail. On the second they're on a billboard scroll outside a hotel. I rather enjoyed this one.

Future Boy Conan (Mirai Shounan Conan) 26 episodes, 1 movie

G On Riders 14 episodes

Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight! 12 episodes, 1 OAV - this was a fun little short about 5 girls in high school in the year 2035.

Galaxy Express 999 113 espiodes - one of the all-time classics of anime, from the creator of Spaceship Yamato.

Galaxy Railways (Express) II 24 episodes

Gall Force

Galley Fake 37 episodes

The Game  - another Hentai about training girls for a pleasure boat. Kind of weak, actually.

Gankutsuo - Count of Monte Cristo 13-24 (end) previous episodes are in the fansubs section

Garasu no Kamen (2005) 51 episodes - damned fine re-working of one of the classics. If you look further down you’ll see “Mask of Glass”, a 37 episode series from the 1980s that is the same story, but stopped long before the end of the series. The manga is still in progress and I’ve heard rumors that this series will go to the very end.

Gatekeepers - 24 episodes - I really don't know anything about it, but it looks neat.

Gatekeepers 21 - 6OAVs

Gedo Senki Tales from Earthsea - Movie

Genmukan - some hentai

Genshiken - 12 episodes

Genshiken 2 - 12 more episodes

Getsumento Heiki Miina - 11 episodes - How do I explain this one? It's about a high school girl who is a sportscaster by day and a superhero by night, powered by carrots who gets her orders from a secret alien base on the moon. Simple right? It's actually based on a part of the live action comedy Densha Otoko.

神霊狩／GHOST HOUND 22 episodes Boy, how do I even begin to explain this one? It is about a boy who is trying to come to terms with the death of his older sister - whom he barely remembers, and two friends - a transfer student with a horrible secret in his past, and the rebel kid whose own father committed suicide some years back, about the same time the first boy's sister died. There's a flooded town, a temple with a young girl who can see spirits, out of body experiences, hypnotism, snarks... in short it's one of the most original and interesting anime to come along in years.

Ghost Hunt - 25 episodes - this was a fun little show about a girl who goes to work for Shibuya Psychic Research Center to replace a camera she accidentally broke, and she falls in with a group of psychics and holy people who go hunting for ghosts and other phenomenon. Lots of fun.

Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex - 26 Episodes  - more about the police unit than about any individual character (which is how the movie was). More Kanno Yoko music, which is cool. Now that I've seen it, I have to admit I was impressed. When this one comes out in the states you should really pick it up. Some of the events in the last 4 episodes are astonishing, and Kanno-sensei's music is among the best she's done.

Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig 26 more episodes - Stolen Plutonium. A plot against the Prime Minister. A rogue agent who may not even be a real person. A separatist plot. Fun stuff!

Ghost in the Shell - Innocence movie - a sequel to the original movie, not the TV show. Pretty astounding animation.

Ghost In The Shell - Solid State Society - it's now two years after the events in 2nd gig. The Major left the force ages ago and new threats abound - starting with the kidnapping of children and the suicides of the suspects. But is the Major really gone? Or is she starting to use her ability to move her body from one close to the next all part of a way to trap the bad guys? Good stuff.

Ginban Kaleidoscope - 12 episodes

Gin-iro no Kami no Agito - movie

Girls Bravo 11 episodes - sort of about a young man who is allergic to women, except for the one from another planet who is prone to nudity. Actually a fun series.

Girls Bravo 2nd Season 13 Episodes - Okay, I admit it. I'm a pervert. I'm comfortable with that. Continued from the previous series.

Girls High - 13 episodes and 2 short specials - This one was simple, a bit ecchi, and fun to watch. Just a silly slice of life about 6 1st year high school girls.

Gokujou Seitokai - 26 episodes - your basic story of an all-girls school and.... hand puppets?

Golden Boy  - 6 OAVs

Goshusho-sama Ninomiya-kun - 12 episodes a fairly silly love comedy about a young man who is stronger than he thinks and the girl he is forced to live with, who happens to be a Succubus, and a rich girl who ends up as his maid. It was silly and fun.

Gravitation  - 13 episodes - your basic love story between an up-and-coming rock star and a writer. The hitch? They're both men. Interesting story.

GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka)  - 43 episodes  - There is also a live-action TV series of this, which I also have. This is the story of 22 year-old Onizuka, who became a teacher to pick up on young girls, but instead gets assigned to a class of hoodlums. Then one very cute girl in the class seems to be everything Onizuka ever dreamed of, only to set him up for blackmail by the hoodlums. He's got troubles, yes? Actually, no. Onizuka is actually a legendary gang leader - and these kids have no idea what they're in for!!!! The first episode comes across like an OAV.

Gun X Sword - 26 episodes

Gunslinger Girl - 13 episodes - fairly "noir-ish" look at a group of young girls (grade school age) who are also master assassins. Fun series.

Ginslunger Girl - Il Teatrino - 13 episodes - a continuation of the previous story, although the girls are all a bit older now. There will be 2 DVD only episodes later this year.

H2 (DVD) - 41 episodes - another great story by one of the masters, Mitsuru Adachi

.hack//Roots 1-26 episodes

.hack//G.U./Trilogy - Movie

Hana Yori Dango - Movie - you read that right, movie. I have the TV series down in fansubs. I was walking down Clement Street (near my house in San Francisco) when I noticed a new Japanese place. I went in. It's just a little grocery store, with food imported from Japan. And one DVD - this one. They don't have any other DVDs and I bought it, so they have none now.

Hanaukyou Maid Tai  - 6 OAVs

Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora - 6 episodes

Hand Maid May  - 10 episodes

Hanoka - 13 short episodes - this is a 12 episode (with one re-cap) anime done entirely in flash animation, about a young woman in a planetary war who partners up with a magical girl to take the fight to the enemy. all episodes combined are only about 40 minutes, and it was hecka-fun.

Happy Lesson - 3 OAVs - okay, how would YOU like it if you had to live with not one, not two, but FIVE of your teachers? Each one of which being slightly crazier than the other? Cute little story based upon a Manga that looks like it could have gone into a full series, but didn't.

Happy Lesson TV - 13 episodes, 1 OAV, a few short stories and cosplay interviews with the cast okay, so I have the TV series now. Stop bugging me about it. Much like the OAV series but even more so. The OAV from the TV series suddenly shows a lot more skin than earlier episodes.

Happy Lesson Advance - 13 more episodes - More adventures with 5 moms - one of whom may have ANOTHER "adopted" kid. The way this one ends makes me believe that there will be one more series (and there is – 3 OAVs I have down in fansubs)

Happy 7 the TV Mange - 13 episodes

Harlock Saga  - 6 OAVs - not really sure I like this one. Harlock mostly just transports the other characters from the Ring of the Neibulung to the places they need to be in the story. And it only covers the first opera

Harukanaru no Toki no Naka de 26 episodes

Harukanaru no Toki no Naka de - Maihitoyo (movie)

Hataraki Man 11 episodes, 1 special – this one was a lot of fun, about a female reporter and the people in her office.

Hataru no Hako (Grave of the Fireflies) movie - Damned good movie about starvation and the lives of two children during and after world war two. Bring a lot of hankies.

Haunted Junction - a series of OAVs (haven't watched yet, haven't counted)

Hayate no Gotoku! 52 episodes  the HILARIOUS story of a young man whose parents left him in serious debt and how he comes to be a butler/protector/combat butler of a very rich young girl. This one was well worth the ride, and a second series is in the works!

Heroic Age 26 episodes the story of a space war between two races where the salvation of the human race is a member of a third race (og whome there are only 5 beings) with the ability to fight in space single-handedly. It's a pretty good story, with some political intrigue that builds bit by bit.

Hiatari Ryoukou - 48 episodes, 1 movie yet another Adachi masterpiece. Thanks to Jonathan for this one.

Hidamari Sketch 12 episodes, 2 specials - a quick and fun little anime about a year in the life of 2 art school high school kids living by themselves in an apartment building across from their school. It was a lot of fun and skipped around styles.

Hidamari Sketch Fan Disk, x365 Preview - some specials and an inside look at the second series.

Higurashi No naku Koro ni 26 episodes This is a must watch - one of the darkest shows to come along in a long time. Just how do these people fall under the influence of a spitefull god, and how do they die over and over again?

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Nekogoroshi special - a special one-off episode with lots of cosplay and cats.

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai 24 more episodes - the "Kai" here means "solution", and this time one of the characters is trying to break the cycle of killings. Well done.

Hitohira 12 episodes a quick and fun little anime about a high school freshman who can barely speak and the school play that turns her into a confident and outspoken young woman.

Honey and Clover 24 episodes, 1 special

Honey and Clover Chapter F

Honey and Clover II 12 episodes

Hooligan - 2 episodes (hentai)

Hoshi Neko Full House 4 OAVs

Hoshizora Kiseki OAV

Howl no Ugoku Shiro - movie Howl's Moving Castle!!!!

I Love You - 2 OAVs

ICE - 3 OAVs - to be honest, it isn't very good, but it's the futuristic story of a society populated only by women trying to solve how to become pregnant. Sort of. Well, not really. It involves the worst single piece of voice acting I've ever heard in an anime - the female lead seems to have no emotional range at all, and sounds stuffed-up.

Ichigo 100% 12 episodes, 3 OAVs

Ichigo Marshmallow - 12 episodes, 1 cast episode

Ichigo Marshmallow OAV Series - 3 episodes and some extras

Idol Densetsu Eriko (Legendary Idol Eriko) - 51 episodes One of the early classics

Idol Master Xenoglossia 26 episodes

Idol Tenshi Youkoso Youko – 43 episodes and this is another one

Immoral Sisters - 2 OAVs

Infinite Ryvius 26 episodes

Innocent Venus – 12 episodes A quick little one about a girl who is wanted by the government and the two young soldiers who are trying to protect her.

Inukami 26 episodes

Inukami! The Movie

Inuyasha TV  - 166 episodes (final episode is a double), 4 movies and a TV special  - It stays remarkably true to the Manga, which is a good thing. My guess is that we’ll see a 5^th movie… This is the second-longest complete series I’ve collected. It will move to 3^rd when I have all of Prince of Tennis

Iria: Zeiram the Animation  - 6 OAVs - Interesting little tale of a special bounty hunter and the monster that keeps invading her life. I liked the Egyptian touches, but this was fairly run-of-the-mill.

Irresponsible Captain Tylor  - 26 episodes, 8 OAVs

I's Pure 6 episodes

Izumo Takeki Tsurugi no Senki 12 episodes

Jigoku Shoujo - 27 episodes - not 26 as some would have you believe. This one rocks! At exactly midnight you can access a web site that will allow you to meet Enma Ai, the girl who takes people to hell. You can send one person to hell for any reason if she gives you one of her dolls. But there is a price.... And for some reason Ai has a connection with a little girl who is the daughter of a reporter investigating the deaths and disappearances associated with this web site... The best show of the end of 2005/beginning of 2006

Jigoku Shoujo - Futakomori 26 episodes - Sequel to the series above. This time you get to find out the back stories of all of the assistants to Enma Ai, and she has a new one who is chaos personified. A worthy follow up to the original series, with one story that refers back to the original and feeds through several different plots.

Jinki: Extend 12 episodes

Juuni no Kikkoku - 39 episodes - Literally, 12 countries. About a high school girl who is forced (along with two sort of friends) into a foreign land where they don't even speak the language - and she's supposed to become Empress! Great one.

The Kabocha Wine 95 episodes This is an old series about a young boy who has been raised around nothing but girls and women and decided to escape by enrolling in an all-boys high school. Alas, they went co-ed last year. Once there, he meets the largest girl he’s ever seen, who instantly falls for him. Despite being voiced by the same actor who did Ataru in Urusei Yatsura, this character is a blowhard, but is actually a nice guy. Fun series.

Kage Kara Mamoru - 12 episodes

Kakkyuusei  - 4 OAVs. A bit Hentai, but more of a focus on romance. Recommended.

Kamichama Karin 26 episodes

Kamichu! - 16 episodes A quick summer series about a young girl who wakes up one morning and realizes she's a god. Exceptionally good animation, very reminiscent of Studio Ghibili, and a cute story as well. The best series of the summer of 2005.

Kamisama Kazoku - 13 episodes

Kannatsuki no Miko 12 episodes

Kanokon 12 episodes - fairly ecchi anime about a group of young girls who are actually animals in disguise who all have crushes on the same boy, led by a large-breasted fox who can merge with him. Silly, but fun.

Kanon 24 episodes - I don't think there is enough good things that anyone can say about this show. It's jaw-droppingly good. Yuuichi returns to Hokkaido for his final year of high school hoping to remember events from his last visit 7 years ago. Little does he yet realize that almost everything happening in the present has to do with his past...

Karas - 6 OAVs

Karin 24 episodes Imagine a young girl. Imagine that her relatives are all vampires. But she's a reverse vampire. She needs to give blood instead of take it from her victims. Imagine someone spots her, and agrees to keep her secret. Imagine a vampire hunter as well. Imagine anime high school romance. Imagine.... a comedy! I've been enjoying this one.

Karte - Another Hentai. But this time she's a NURSE!  : p

Kashimashi - Girl Meets Girl - 12 episodes + one extra episode

Kaze no Tani To Naushika - one of the best movies ever made, let alone Anime. The United Nations awarded this film a prize, which they almost never do.

Keitai Shouo 6 short episodes - this is an interesting little anime; the first made specifically to be watched on a cell phone. There were 5 episodes and then people got to vote on which girl the hero would wind up with, which was then turned into a 6th and final episode.

Kemonozume – 13 episodes – I’m not sure how to really describe this one. It was great though. About a group of people who have been fighting man-eating monsters for centuries. But the heir to the leadership post has fallen in love with one of them. Surreal, strange animation. Well worth the watch.

Kenkou Zenrakei Suiebu Umisho - 13 episodes - a fun title about a swimming club bound for the nationals who gets a new member who swims like a fish and likes to practice nude.

Kereshi Kanojo no Jijou  - 26 episodes - love this one, but there's so much visual candy going on that I really wonder if The Right Stuf can pull it off. (Update  - they just previewed the DVD and it actually looks pretty sharp! However, I have my Japanese DVDs so I'm cool. Besides, I've heard some complaints that the subtitles are slow). Go read the Manga - the Anime only goes through volume 9 and the Manga is still in progress at volume 20 although the end is in sight. Also known as Karekano.

Kidou Shinsengumi Moeyo Ken - 13 episodes

Kimagure Orange Road  - 48 episodes, 8 OAVS, 2 Movies  - One of my all-time favorites. I started learning Japanese because of this show.

Kimi Kiss - Pure Rouge 24 episodes

King of Bandit Jing - 13 episodes

Kodomo no Jikan OAV - there's the girl who is in love with her teacher, her friend who is in love with her, and their third friend with the big rack who is in love with the brother of the first one. And oh, yeah, they're all in grade school. Lolicon has made it bigtime, and a TV show is soon to follow!

Kodomo no Jikan TV Version 12 episodes - the censored version, which can be even funnier given how things get covered and bleeped out. The show takes a very dark and surprising turn towards the end, which the manga doesn't, so be warned.

Kodomo no Jikan 6 DVD Version (12 episodes) This series is hilarious and disturbing. Not so much nudity really, but lots of swearing and having cute 8-year old girls ask their teacher to explain what fellatio is. If you can't handle that, don't watch.

Kodomo No Omocha  - 102 episodes, 1 OAV - READ THE MANGA! IT'S BRILLIANT! And it ends completely different than how the Anime ends. This is perhaps the fastest-paced show ever done. The tone is fast and furious, and it NEVER lets up. There have been moments where I have doubled over in laughter. This is split into two DVD box sets  - Shougakusei and Chuugakusei.

Koharu Biyori 3 OAVS about a young man who buys a robot maid for himself so that he can dress her up in costumes. But she's looking for a relationship.

Koikoi 7 13 episodes

Kurenai 12 episodes - Wow. How does one begin to describe this show, the best anime of Spring 2008? It's about a young man, Kurenai Shinkurou, who works as a low-lever enforcer for a mysterious woman with various ties to roganized crime and the wealthy and powerful, who wants to work on better jobs than the simple ones he's been doing. She his boss gives him the assignment of protecting a 7 year-old girl named Murasaki, who it is evident has come from a life of luxury to now room with Shinkurou in his one-room apartment. But the little girl has a secret that defines her entire existence, and Shinkurou has skills that no one suspects. Great anime.

Kurenai no Buta  - Movie  - Also known as Porco Rosso. It's set on the eve of WWII, but it's about a WWI flying ace from Italy who was turned into a half-pig.

Lamune - 12 episodes

Laputa - Movie - Disney finally released it!!!!!!! They've called it Castle in the Sky, and it came out April 15, 2003! This is one of my favorites.

Last Exile - 26 episodes - Imagine a world where the wheel was never invented, but flying machines were. Insert a story about two kids growing up trying to discover what happened to their fathers. Great stuff.

Lemon Angel Project - 13 episodes

Licca & The Enchanted Ring - OAV - not to be confused with Super Doll Licca-chan

Little Women - 24 episodes

Little Women 2 - Nan to Joe Sensei 40 more episodes

Lost Universe - 26 episodes - everyone tells me this is Slayers in Space.

Love Get-Chu ~Miracle Seiyuu Hakusho~ 25 episodes Great little show about a young girl who moves to Tokyo to become a voice actress, and her adventures there.

Love Hina  - 25 episodes, 2 OAVs, 1 live action concert featuring the cast - This is probably the funniest show to come along in YEARS!!! I haven't laughed so hard in a long, long time.

Love Hina Again - Okay, I have it now, so stop bugging me. 3 OAVs, and they're hysterical. Finally introduces Kaneko.

Love is the Number of Keys - some hentai

Loveless 12 episodes

Maburaho - 24 episodes

Macross  - 26 episodes, 1 movie, 1 music special

Macross II  - 6 OAVs

Macross Plus  - 4 OAVs  - Macross 7 is in the next section

Macross Frontiers 1-11 I have both versions of episode 1

Magic Night Rayearth  - 49 episodes, 3 OAVs - an early effort by CLAMP, about 3 girls transported to the Kingdom of Cephiro (from Tokyo Tower no less) to save a Princess. Drawn very funny, with sudden switches back and forth between traditional animation and super-deformed. The second part of the story is far more serious than the first. The OAVs are like an alternate universe version of the first story, with some of the characters of the second story.

Magical Canan - some hentai

Magical Stage Emi  - 38 episodes, 1 movie - The TV series is fun. The movie is more of a mood piece, but a good one.

Mahou Shoujo Ai - 5 episodes (hentai)

Mainichi ga Nichiyoubi 6 OAVs

Marmalade Boy - 76 Episodes, 1 movie - One of the great teen soap operas!!! My DVDs have some extras and interviews

Marohaba Heartful Days  26 episodes

Mahou Sensei Negima 26 episodes TV series based upon the manga listed below. From the maker of Love Hina. Great fun, and almost as zany as Love Hina.

Mahou Sensei Negima Spring OAV – the first of 4 OAVs to come.

Mahou Sensei Negima Summer OAV – the second of 4 OAVs to come.

Mohou no Takkyuubin (Kiki's Delivery Service) - movie - a young witch goes to find her place in the world.

Mahou no Yosei Persia - 48 episodes - a bit different from the other Magical Girl series, the girl's name really is Persia, and she's just come home from Africa to live with her parents in Japan. Then it gets strange... at episode 20 the whole formula changes and it's a lot of fun. Then at episode 32 it changes again. Something I've noticed - a lot of the same minor actors from Creamy Mami and Magical Stage Emi also appear in this one. Kidokuro from Creamy Mami is now a Kappa.

Majikano - 13 episodes about a girl who discovers that a non-magical boy will be a big part of her future, and she hates him. Alas for her, his three sisters are all magic users themselves, as is almost everyone else around him. Fur series - especially the whole bit about the talking panties.

Majokko Meg-Chan 72 episodes

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's 13 episodes

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS 26 episodes

Magical Pokahn - 12 episodes (or 24, depending upon your point of view) and 3 OAVs - this one was hysterical. I laughed so hard that I had to be hospitalized, where they gave me a transfusion of strawberry juice and sent me on my way. Then I grew a tail and cat ears. It's THAT funny.

Magister Negi Magi - Negima! 26 more episodes another try at the same series - it works in spots, but digresses from the manga at about 10 minutes into the first episode and never looks back.

Maicchan Machiko Sensei 95 episodes

Mai Hime 26 episodes

Mai Otomihe 26 episodes

Mai Otome Zwei 4 OAVS

Maison Ikkoku  - 96 episodes, 2 OAVs, 1 movie - Perhaps the best anime ever in terms of pure story. I watch it once every few years, because it shows everything that a great story can be.

Mama wa Shougaku Yon Nensei 51 episodes

Mamotte Shugogetten OVAs  - 8 OVAs  - there's also a TV series

Maria-sama ga Miteru 1-3 - My source for the Raws skipped out on me, so I've collected this in subtitled format instead.

Maria-sama ga Miterieu 3 - 5 OAVs

Martian Successor Nadesico  - 26 episodes, 1 movie - much sillier than it has the right to be, and has some clever bits about a show within the show, especially in episode 14.

Mask of Glass  - 37 episdoes, 3 OAVs - If you like Oniisama e (Brother dear brother) or Aim for the Ace you'll like this one.

Maze  - 26 episodes

Meine Leibe 13 episodes

Meine Leibe Weider 13 more episodes

Memories Off - 6 OAVs

Mermaid's Forest  - Movie  - a great stand alone title by the creator of Ranma, Maison Ikkoku, and Inuyasha. Mermaid flesh can give immortal life, but only to a select few....

Mermaid's Scar  - Movie  - companion to Mermaid's forest

Metropolis  - Movie  - just got this - very cool. Love the soundtrack.

Mezzo DSA - 13 episodes - FINALLY got this one!

Mimi o Sumaseba - a great movie. If you don't have it go get it. The most original use of a John Denver tune I've ever heard. The last two minutes will make your jaw drop. One of the last few Studio Ghibili movies not available in the U.S.

Minami-ke 13 episodes - a nice little slice of life about 3 sisters living on their own. Of course, they're a little bit strange... There's a sequel as well that is the next item on this list.

Minami-ke Okawari - 13 more episodes see? sequel.

Minky Momo  - 126 episodes, 3 OAV, 1 movie, 2 specials - this is actually 2 separate TV series, done 10 years apart, starring different girls named Minky Momo. The two series have the same theme though, and their plot lines become entangled towards the end of the second series. And my sources tell me there's a third in the works!

Miyori no Mori - movie

Mizuiro Jidai - 47 episodes

Moetan - 13 episodes

Momoji - 4 episodes (hentai)

Miyuki  - 37 episodes and a music video collection - Sweet little title by the same guy who brought us Touch. About a young man and his little sister, named Miyuki, and his girlfriend, also named Miyuki. Unfortunately, it doesn't finish the story that’s in the Manga.

Mononoke Hime  - movie  - and an intense one at that. About the battle between a young girl raised by a wolf god and the warrior woman who wants to kill the gods, and the young man who exiles himself from his home village in order to save it - who winds up in the middle.

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water  - 39 episodes, 1 movie - This one starts simple then gets real complex real fast. Takes a great deal of liberties with the story of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but in the end it's worth it. Great extended series in the middle about being stranded on a deserted island. Good series, with a postscript that's absolutely amazing. The movie you can skip - the series ends perfectly.

Mushishi - 27 episodes (well, the episode between 20 & 21 is a recap as the series took some time off)

Muteki Kanban Musume - 12 episodes

Naisho no Tsubomi - 3 OAVs - a nice little slice of life about a 5th grade girl who's mother becomes pregnant, and how she discovers how life works with a little help from her friends. Has a small Sci-fi twist and a romance as well.

Najica - 12 episodes

NANA 47 episodes

Nanaka 6/17 - 12 episodes

Nanako Ketai Shinsho - Literally, Nanako Comedy Medical Experiment. 6 OVAs about a Genetic experiment that both the U.S. Military and the Catholic Church want to co-opt for their own purposes - but the story centers around the VERY ditzy maid of three mad scientists - named Nanako interestingly enough - with huge breasts (TORPEDOES - give me a frickin' break here, you could put an eye out with one of those!) and her interactions with one scientist in particular. Or is SHE the experiment...

Nanatsuiro Drops - 12 episodes This one was a lot of fun; the story of a boy who is accidentally cursed into becoming the stuffed animal companion of a new magical girl

Narue no Sekai - 12 episodes

Natural  - 2 OAVs, Hentai. Basic male fantasy video.

Nazca  - 12 episodes

Neko no Ongaishi - Movie (includes the wild short, Gibiliizu episode 2) - She saves a cat, and it turns out the cat is a prince. The prince's father decides to reward the girl by giving her to his son as a bride. Girl runs to a famous cat known as "The Baron" for help. Sounds simple, but it's quite sweet. "The Baron" comes from the great studio Ghibili film "Mimi wo Sumaseba". This is Studio Ghibili's 2002 release, and there are moments of sheer breathtaking magic. The shorts that accompany it are also quite good.

Neon Genesis Evangelion  - 24 episodes, 2 movies  - the movies were originally supposed to be TV episodes but got expanded for a number of reasons. I pretty much had the Character of Rei figured out around episode 22, but the movies really pounded some of that into dust. Where this one goes can give you nightmares. Great show.

Nishi no Yoki Majo - Astraea Treatment - 13 episodes

Nodame Cantabile 23 episodes - First was the manga, then the live action, and now the anime - which stays very true to the manga. Fun stuff!

Noein - 24 episodes

Neo Ranga - 48 episodes - I can't really explain this one, but let's try anyway. Imagine 3 sisters who are picked out by a particularly vengeful god from an island half owned by the Japanese and half owned by the French. Imagine that the god/monster decides to come to Tokyo, and everyone finds out. Now suppose that at least one of the sisters would like to see the town destroyed by the monster. Each episode is only 15 minutes, and is tons of fun. Update! My disc 4 is defective!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! And this series is hard to find in the original Japanese! I had to go and buy disc 4 of the American release. AND disc 5!!!

Ningyo no Mori 11 episodes  - the TV version of Mermaid's Forrest by Takahashi Rumiko.

Noir 26 episodes   - Supremely cool. Many people find this a bit slow and pedantic, but I like it. I rather like girls with guns -_^

Nymphs of the Stratosphere - 3 OAVs

Okusama wa Joshikousei - 13 episodes (or 26, depending upon how you want to count) - a summer series about a high school senior and a teacher at her school who secretly married, and their efforts to keep it secret until she graduates. Cute, kinda ecchi, and surprisingly romantic.

Okusama wa Mahou Shojo - 13 episodes

Omohide Poroporo - movie - a lesser known Studio Ghibili title, well worth the time

On Your Mark -  How would you like to have YOUR music video done by Studio Ghibili? That's what happens here. It's only 8 minutes long, but it's very cool.

One - 4 OAVs - Just who is Oehara Kouhei and why do people remember him one moment and not the next? Very intriguing little ghost story.

Onegai Teacher - I'm not sure how many episodes. I'll let you know when I watch it.

One Piece 1-120, movies 1-3, specials 1-3 hate the character design, love the show. I bought the official Chinese DVDs, which are dubbed in Chinese but keep the original Japanese on a second soundtrack, which is how I will watch it. This show is SUPREMELY long, so far over 200 episodes. Once I have the entire series it will be the longest I have ever collected – a record currently held by Sailor Moon.

Orishitate Musical Nerima Daikon Brothers - 13 episodes

Otogi Zoshi - 26 episodes

Otome wa book ni Koishiteru – 13 episodes – a Harem anime about a boy dressed like a girl so he can attend an all-girl’s Catholic school. But it’s not the sex-drenched show you might expect, and it runs in directions that while predictable are also not really run of the mill either. I liked it.

Outlaw Star - 24 episodes

Panchira Teacher - 2 episodes (hentai)

Pani Poni Dash - 26 episodes

Paprika - Movie

Paradise Kiss - 12 episodes - About a girl named Yukari who is discovered to become a fashion model, and the very strange group of fashion designers she works with. This one was great.

Peach Girl 25 episodes

Persona - Trinity Soul 26 episodes An interesting series about 3 brothers and their ability to use their "Persona"s to create psychic mechas that battle. It's more complicated than that, and more than a bit emo, but still a good watch.

Petopeto-san - 13 episodes A very surreal show about a girl going to school for the first time, in 7th grade. Why hasn't she gone to school before now? Well, she's 1/2 ghost... GREAT SHOW.

Photon - 6 OAVs

Pilot Candidate  - 12 OAVs

Pretear - Just arrived.

Pretty Cure Max Heart 47 episodes, 2 movies

Pretty Cure Splash Star 49 episodes, 1 movie (the next series is down below)

Prism Ark - 13 episode a quick and simple anime about a school for wizards and swordsmen/women and how two students become their leaders.

Project A-ko  - 6 movies. Great Parody. Last time I tried to count, I found parodies and take-offs from over 100 different titles.

Pumpkin Scissors - 24 episodes

Puni Puni Poemi - 2 OAVs

Rain, The Little Girl and my Letter OAV - this is amateur anime!

Ranma  - - 161 episodes, 12 OAVS, 2 Movies  - doesn't take the story as far as the Manga does (most of the stuff involving Ranma's Mom is gone, as well as the story of the last two volumes of the manga) but still loads of fun. I finally upgraded to digital format.

Ray - 13 episodes and 1 making of special

Read or Dead - Hard to beat a 3 OAV series about a girl who has the ability to control... wait for it.... PAPER!!!!!!

Rec - 9 short episodes (okay, 10)

Record of Lodoss War Original  - 13 OAVs  - If you're the D&D type this is the series for you

Record of Lodoss War TV  - 26 episodes  - a later version of the tale.

Red Garden 22 episodes - oh man oh man does this show rock!!!! 4 high school seniors with nothing in common have a mutual friend murdered. And they were all witnesses although they can't remember it. Then a woman shows up and tells them to start fighting demons... GREAT FREAKIN' SHOW

Red Lotus - another Monster Hentai title

Reideen - 26 episodes the most interesting take on mechas to come along in a while - about the son of a missing archeologist who manages to connect with alien technology in the form of a mecha called Reideen. The show takes into account things like gravity and the effect of huge machines on the surroundings - it's surprisingly well done.

Rental Magica 24 episodes - a show about a group of paranormal people solving crimes involving other paranormals. Fun little series.

RG Veda - 2 OAVs of sword and sorcery (there should have been more) from the Evil Geniuses at CLAMP.

Rocket Girls - 12 episodes - a young girl goes searching for the father who abandoned her before her birth and becomes the first Japanese person in space in the Japanese Space program. Fun, cute little show.

R.O.D. TV 26 episodes the TV series version of Read or Dead - actually takes place sometime later than the OAV series. Our heroine has vanished, but a friend of hers who happens to be a writer is doing a book signing in Hong Kong, when she meets three sisters who have the same talent with paper as the star of the OAV series. Mayhem ensues. GREAT series!

Romeo X Julet 24 episodes A most amazing re-imagining of the classing Romeo & Juliet story, featuring characters from other plays, Willie himself (as himself) and a very complicated politicalstructure. A damned fine show.

Rosario + Vampire 13 episodes The anime version of the manga. Not as dark, and more of a "monster of the week" type of anime.

Rose of Versailles 1-4

Rozen Maiden Traumend - 12 episodes the sequal to Rozen Maiden

Rozen Maiden Ouverture – 2 more episodes in the same world

Rurouni Kenshin - 94 episodes, 4 OAVs, 2 Movies. Interesting Samuari Drama. Just came in.

Saber Marionette J to X  - 27 episodes  - yeah, yeah, I know, this is the third series and I don't have the other two. I also haven't watched it. Pbbbhht!

Saikano - 13 episodes

Sailor Moon  - yes, all 5 series (200 episodes, 4 movies, 3 specials  - this one qualifies as a guilty pleasure. My kids love the show and so do I. Give me more Sailor Saturn!

Saint October 26 episodes this one is a bit over the top - about three girls who even call themselves the "loli girls" who fight against organized crime. Well, it's kind of organized. Oh yes, they're magical, and they're protecting an alien disguised as an 8 year old boy.

Saint Seiya - 114 TV episodes, 4 movies - a group of young men fight for the right to use powers given from the constellations, who then battle each other for the title of best fighter. Seiya is the one who can control the powers of Pegasus. But what are these powers REALLY for? One of the early classics.

Sakura Diaries  - 12 episodes - This one was okay, but the ending was a bit unsatisfying. It starts rough but gets a lot better as it goes. A story that make you root for cousins to fall in love. ^_^

Sakura Wars  - 43 episodes, 1 movie - Haven't watched it yet but it looks good.

Sakura Wars New York - 6 OAVs

Samurai 7 13-26 (continued from the fansubs)

Samurai Girl Real Bout High School (I know nothing about this one, but the title is cool)

Samurai XXX - 2 episodes (hentai)

School Rumble 26 episodes another series following the trend of making the "Don't sit too close to the TV" opening part of the show, and different each time.

School Rumble Ichi Gakki Hushuu 2 OAVs

School Rumble Ni Gakki 26 episodes

Seikai no Senki  - 23 episodes

Sen to Chihiro no Kami Kakushi - Spirited Away - The only thing on this list I actually saw in Japan (aside from an episode of Prince of Tennis). One Great movie. I was on a train heading for my hotel from a meeting about a TV show when I saw a movie theater in Ueno playing this. I hopped off the train and spent the next 2 1/2 hours entranced. The DVD is great too, with tons of extras and previews, and the entire movie in storyboards.

Sennen Joyuu - Millinium Actress - Movie - this one was great! About an actress remembering her roles, and how a single incident from her youth affected her entire career and every performance she ever gave. Has a great technique to bring you into her movie roles by stepping in and out of them as the movie progresses. By the director of Perfect Blue – who has more talent than most regular film directors.

Sentou Yousei Shoujo Tasukette! Mave-chan

Serial Experiments Lain  - 16 episodes - this one is so cool you'll need a scraper to get the ice off your screen. About a girl who may be a world-class hacker, or an experiment created by the internet, or just a girl who hears voices in electricity. Like I said, very cool stuff.

Seven of Seven 25 episodes, 1 OAV - A young girl named Nana is living with her grandfather, the wacky inventor, while her parents are working in the US (San Francisco, to be specific), when an experiment of her grandfather's splits her into seven almost identical versions of herself - each with a different aspect of her personality. Will Nana get into the high school of her dreams? Will she be with her secret crush? Will the 7 Nana's become an unstoppable crime-fighting force? Silly, but lots of fun.

Sex Ward - 2 OAVs

Sex Warrior Pudding - 2 OAVs

Sexy Angels Return to the Court - 2 episodes - Yes, it's Hentai, supposedly about a volleyball championship, but face it, it's porn.

Sexy Commando - 50 short episodes

Sexfriend - 2 OAVs - yes, it's hentai. Duh... but a bit cuter than most and if you’re into it it’s worth the price of admission.

Shakugan No Shana - 24 episodes, 1 OAV and a few extras - This was a fun series based on a series of sci-fi novels about a girl hunting down a specific type of demon. Unfortunately, most of the people she protects are already dead and just don't know it yet. Then she meets one of these dead one called a "Torch" who figures out he's already dead....

Shakugan No Shana the Movie (Director's Cut) - looks like a re-cap of the first storyline, with a few extras.

Shakugan no Shana II 24 more episodes picking up right where the previous series left off.

Shigofumi - 12 episodes - how would you react if a young girl brought you a letter from someone dead? Fun series, all too short.

Shin Ace wo Narae - 25 episodes A do-over of the original series, with more of the story from the manga

Shinigami no Ballad - 6 episodes Of course the Japanese would come up with a cute little girl as the grim reaper ^_^

Shion no Ou 22 episodes

Shuffle - 24 episodes

Shuffle! Memories - 12 more episodes and an OAV - kind of a recap of the previous eps

Shuusaku - a three episode Hentai about a janitor who is blackmailing every girl in a private boarding school into having sex with him. He's a sadist. By the time he finally gets what he deserves the sexiness has long worn off and it's just a dull study in sadism. Don't go there.

Simoun 26 episodes, plus a Seiyuu Special This one is hard to describe. Picture a world where everyone is born female, but can become male later if they choose. Now picture special priestesses who can fly special machines that can only be started with a kiss. Now throw in a war. Strange but fun show - lots of eye candy.

Sister Princess  - 26 episodes  - I haven't watched this yet, but it has the same 'cute - look as Card Captor Sakura!

Sister Princess Re Pure - another 13 episodes in the same story

Sketchbook ~full colors~ 13 episodes a simple slice of life anime about a high school art club, told from the point of view of a girl who chooses to be quiet in class. And some of the neighborhood cats.

Sky Girls - OAV a quick OAV about a group of young girl soldiers who fly specialized mechanical machines against monsters. More fun than it sounds.

Sky Girls TV 26 episodes The TV version of the OAV above, that starts at the formation of the group and their recruitment into the defense forces, all the way through their final mission. A lot of fun really.

Slayers TV  - 26 episodes

Slayers Next  - 26 episodes

Slayers Try  - 26 episodes

Slayers 4 Movies, 6 OAVs

Snow Sugar - 24 episodes

sola 15 episodes - a simple love story in the vein of Claanad and others that quickly evolves into something else - and the girl isn't human and maybe some others in the story aren't either...

Solty Rei - 24 episodes

Someday's Dreamers (Mahou tsukai ni Taisetsu na no) 12 episodes- a young girl named Yume has come to Tokyo to learn how to control her magical power (magic is tightly regulated and controlled in this version of Tokyo). And maybe teach her teacher something about himself in return. Slow character piece, but quite good.

Soukou no STRAIN - 13 episodes - A very interesting one about a war and the conflict between a brother and sister. Oh, and mechas and loli-dolls too ^_^

Sousei no Aquarion 26 episodes

Space Pirate Mito 2 – 13 more episodes - Aoi-kun's wierd genetic code has turned him into a girl, but that hasn't slowed him down. He's now the Empress of the galaxy but still hasn't finished high school. And now someone from the distant past has been resurrected to challenge for the throne. And she's insane. Fun show.

Spaceship Yamato TV - 78 episodes - this is the old series Starblazers from the 1970s, in its original form. True space opera - with the grand old battleship Yamato dredged out of its grave to save the Earth, and only 400 days to do it in. Great series. Okay, technically three great series, but the continuity works.

Speed Grapher 24 episodes

Spice and Wolf - 13 episodes - this is about a traveler/trader named Rolenz in a vaguely midievil period who discovers a wolf goddess riding in his wagon and agrees to let her travel with him. It's a pretty simple story, although a lot of time is spent on the economics of trading when each town uses a different monetary system. All in all, it was fun to watch.

Spiral (bonds of reason) 25 episodes - This is about a high school boy with the skills of Sherlock Holmes, and no real desire to use them. He's compared to the older brother who vanished 2 years previous while working on a case. But it appears that current events are about to drag him and his brother's wife (a homicide detective) into the old case. A young girl who is the school newspaper reporter also gets involved early on. My copy is taped direct from the broadcast, including commercials (the first episode was broadcast during a Typhoon, and has weather reports all over it). Acquired from a shop in Roppongi that I have a relationship with. It's kinda moody, so I recommend watching in short spurts.

Spriggan - movie

Sprite: Between Two worlds  - 2 OAVS  - This one's a Hentai wannabe.

Starship Operators 13 episodes

Steamboy the Movie (from the creator of Akira) Visually very stunning, about a boy who’s grandfather and father are fighting over the use of an incredible steam engine – and the effects the technology would have on Victorian England.

Steam Detectives  - 26 episodes - picture if you will a world where the internal combustion engine was never invented, and everything runs on steam. Now throw in mechas and detectives. Kinda strange. I really didn't enjoy this one until the last 5 episodes or so, when it really started to kick ass. And I never saw the end coming. On that alone I recommend the series.

Steel Angel Kurumi  - 24 episodes, 1 special

Steel Angel Kurumi 2 - 12 more episodes!

Step-sister - 2 OAVs

Stratos 4 - 13 episodes

Stratos 4 Advance - 8 episodes

Stratos 4 Code X – 2 episodes

Strawberry Panic 26 episodes

Suika - some hentai

Summer Season OAV

Summer Season 2 OAV

Sumomomo Momomo 22 episodes unlikely title, funny show

Super Defense Force Mao-chan - 26 episodes of weirdness from the Creator of Love Hina

Super Doll Licca-chan  - through episode 19 (got bored with it - although I may resume this one now that I've seen a couple of later episodes)

Suzuka - 26 episodes

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu - 14 episodes This is one of the most fun anime I've seen in a long time. The episodes go out of order, and some of what happens is just plain nuts. Suzumiya Haruhi wants to meet an alien. Little does she know that she's being watched by one, and a time traveler, and an ESPer, and others.... and the story is told from the point of view of a perfectly normal high school senior. This one was fun.

Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekiseu - a live action series of concerts featuring the cast of the anime

Sword of the Stranger - movie

Tactical Roar - 13 episodes that should have been a few more. It was great for 12, but 13 seemed awfully rushed. It's about an all female crew of a ship patrolling the high seas for modern day pirates and terrorists. The women and girls are all thrown for a loop when the little brother of the Captian comes aboard to do computer upgrades....

Tales of Eternia  - 13 episodes

Tales of Phantasia - 4 episodes

Tales of Symphonia - 4 OAVs

Tekkon Kinkreet - movie

Temptation - some hentai

Tenchi Muyo OAV Series - The first series of 13 OAVs

Tenchi Muyo TV  - 26 episodes  - this one gets old to me...

Tenjou Tenge - 24 episodes - I don't get into fighting anime much, but this one was fun, and ended too soon. If you only ever watch one fighting anime, watch Air Master, but this one is a close second and has a GREAT opening song.

Tenjou Tenge Ultimate Fight - 2 OAVs - continuing to the final fight - they play like two more TV episodes.

Tenkousei  - 4 OAVs  - a simple little romance, with a touch of Hentai. Fine title.

Tenkuu Danzai Skelter Heaven OAV

Terra e... 24 episodes, plus the episode 15.5 special - this is based upon a very old manga about a growing conflict between people with ESP and people without. a pretty good series.

The Third - Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo 24 episodes - I'm not really sure how to explain this one. It's about a girl named Hanoka, who travels the desert with her computer/tank companion on various missions for the government, or a race of aliens, or for herself. She meets a strange man named Ix who may be shaping her destiny, but the aliens are looking for "The Third" - a legendary person of amazing power. But Hanoka has a secret all her own...

This is My Master 13 episodes

To Heart  - 13 episodes - I especially love the little short films at the end of each episode.

To Heart 2 - 14 episodes - actually the third series

To Heart 2 OAV Series - 3 more episodes!

To Heart - Remember My Memories Specials - 7 little DVD extras from the second series

Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo - movie

Tokimeki Memorial - Only Love 25 episodes a fun series based upon the video game. well worth the effort.

Tokimeki Tonight - 34 episodes

Tokko - 13 episodes

Tokyo Godfathers - movie

Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpushou - 14 episodes

Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenbu Hen - 13 episodes

Tonari No Totoro - movie - about two young girls who move to the country with their father while their mother recovers from a serious illness - and the supernatural cat-like creatures they meet there.

Touch  - 101 episodes, 5 movies - This one is one of the greats. Don't let ANYONE tell you about the plot until you've watched at least 25 episodes – and you have the courtesy to do the same. The show makes a major turn at that point and when I watched it (without having been warned) it was the greatest surprise I've ever had in an Anime show. This is the most requested show for trades on my list.

Touka Gettan 26 episodes

Trigun  - 26 episodes

Trinity Blood 24 episodes

Trista of the Deep Blue Sea – 2 OAVs

true tears 13 episodes - a quick little anime about a young man trying to write a children's book and three girls in his life - all of whom have an impact on him. One he dates, one is his best friend's girlfriend, and one comes to live with his family after her parents die. Nice little story with a couple of interesting twists.

Tsubasa Reservior Chronicle 26 episodes (most in HDTV!)Torikago no Kuni no Himegimi

Tsubasa Reservior Chronicle Theatrical –

Tsubasa Reservior Chronicle Second Season 26 more episodes

Tsukiyomi Moon Phase 25 episodes - a story about a CUTE vampire?

Twin Signal - 3 episodes

UFO Princess Walkrie - no idea what this one is about. another 26 episodes though

UFO Princess Walkrie - Toki to Yumo to Ginga no Utage - 2 episodes

UFO Robo Grendizer - 74 episodes

Ultimate Girl - 12 episodes

Ultra Maniac - 26 episodes This one is a download project. The anime isn't much like the Manga at all, but it's hella fun. The character designs are fantastic. About a girl and her half-magic friend.

Urusei Yatsura Movies 1-5. Yeah, I know there's a lot more out there. I've got over 100 episodes in the commercial U.S. release though.

Urusei Yatsura TV 196 episodes, 12 OVAs - I finally have them all!!!!! Bwahahahahahahahah!!!!!

Usigi-chan de Cue! 3 episodes

Uta-kata 12 episodes

Utawarerumono 26 episodes

Venus Versus Virus - 12 episodes This one could have been better; a girls versus monsters anime with the girls having a connection they're not even aware of. It felt like it ended an episode too soon.

Video Girl Ai  - 6 OAVs - Cute, but only goes through the first 5 volumes of a 13 volume Manga. About a girl who jumps out of a video into a boy's lap. That was planned. What was unplanned was that the boy's VCR was faulty, and the girl comes out different that pictured on the video.

Very Private Lesson - 2 OAVs

Vexille

Vision of Escaflowne Movie  - somewhat different from the TV series

Voogie's Angel - 3 episodes

War of the Raccoons (Ponpoko) - movie - This one's part of the Disney deal with Studio Ghibili, finally released in the summer of 2005. The story works on a pure Disney level. Well, except for the raccoon balls thing. Serious Cajones! The raccoons are simply trying to stop developers from ruining their home....

Weiβ Kruez - 26 TV episodes and 2 OAVs - SERIOUSLY hardcore. Gotta love a show where the good guys are assassins using a flower shop as a front, get their missions from a.................spoilers follow................ Police Chief who happens to be the younger brother of the next Prime Minister - who is the BAD GUY! Hella fun.

Weiβ Kruez Gluhen, 13 episodes - New series, and a sequel of sorts - ... Aya is working with some new recruits and the others don't even start showing up until episodes 5 and 6, and it's clear that Omi has left the gang. However, bit by bit their separate missions start to cross paths. It starts out looking like a parable for the rise of Hitler (right down to referring to the bad guy as Fuhrer) but then goes in a direction not expected. Great stuff. The characters have been redesigned but the way they operate and even the voice talent is the same as before. And this series is DARKER than the previous one!!!!!! I won't tell you about the ending, but it is NOT ambiguous.

Welcome to the NHK ni Youkoso! 24 episodes

Wellber no Monogatari - Sisters of Wellber 13 episodes - a pretty straightforward anime about a thief who is escorting a princess across a continent, with some political intrigue and a couple of funny characters. I enjoyed it.

Wellber no Monogatari - Sisters of Wellber II 13 more episodes - now it's the trip back home and the hunt for the killers of Tina's parents. It's best to look at the two series as a single arc.

Wife with Wife - some hentai

Wings of Rean - 6 episodes

Winter Garden – 2 episodes

Winter Garden OAV

Witchblade - 24 episodes

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge 25 episodes

Yami no Matsuei  - 13 episodes

Yawara! - Episodes 1 through 99 are from laser disc, currently the best available format. Episodes 100 through 124 are from the original TV broadcast, commercials and all. I have the second movie, and am looking for the first'A great series overall - the ending gets compressed a bit, but the second movie completes it just as it should be. DVDs are now out in Japan, but it's over $1000 to collect them. I think I'm going to have to wait.

Yawaraka Sangokushi Tsukisase!! Ryofuko-chan 4 OAVS - this amazingly silly series is about a Chinese warrior and his right hand man, his valet, and his horse - magically transported in the middle of a battle to modern-day Japan. Oh, and the warrior and his right hand man are turned into little girls, the valet into a stuffed animal, and the horse - well, is still a horse. Astonishingly silly, kind of ecchi, but loads of fun.

Yes! Precure5 49 episodes, 1 movie - the third Pretty Cure series

Yes! Precure5 Go Go! 1-9 - the 4th Pretty Cure Series!

Yesterday Once More - movie

Yoake Mae Yori Ruri-iro na Crescent Love – 12 episodes

Yomigaeru Sora - Rescue Wings - 12 episodes, a great little slice of life anime about a young man who has just joined Japan's version of the Coast Guard as a Helicopter pilot, and his trials and tribulations to earn the trust of the people he works with. Good series

Yotsunoha 2 OAVs - a nice little effort about 4 friends from jr. high who each went to different high schools, but they buried a time capsule. Now they're all high school seniors and are meeting again to dig up the capsule - only someone beat them to it.

You're Under Arrest  - 78 episodes - The animation quality deteriorates the further you get into the first season, but the storylines still smoke. This is actually 2 series  - the first of which is actually comprised of the original 4 OAVs plus another 48 episodes.

You're Under Arrest - NO Merc