Higurashi no Naku Koro ni [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
10.
On June 1983, Keiichi Maebara moves with his family to Hinamizawa, a peaceful rural village. He quickly befriends his new schoolmates Rena Ryugu, Mion Sonozaki, Satoko Hojo, and Rika Furude, usually spending their leisure time playing board games.
4620 users added this.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
10.
The story picks up after what happened in season one. Things that are left unexplained in the first season get explained in the new season in three separate arcs.
4549 users added this.
Animatrix [OVA]
Rich Furude gave it a
10.
Witness the true beginning of the Matrix: how men created the machines and how those machines stood up against their masters, and the effects of the great war that waged between them, which in the end led to the fall of mankind. Watch the ship Osiris and its efforts to warn the remaining humans of the imminent attack; follow a champion who happens to break free from the Matrix; explore the exploitation of a glitch in the overall system; observe the story of the Kid and how he was found by Neo; travel with an investigator who tracks the well-known hacker Trinity; and learn the secrets of the Matrix in other wondrous ways.
315 users added this.
Umineko no Naku Koro ni [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
9.
Set in the year of 1986, Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Translated as Umineko: When they cry in English) tells the tale of the affluent Ushiromiya family during their yearly tradition to gather in the island of Rokkenjima. But during this time in the island, family bonds are not strengthened.
1127 users added this.
Spice and Wolf [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
9.
While visiting a town a peddler named Kraft Lawrence meets the local god known as Holo the Wise Wolf. She asks if he would take her to her home up north and many adventures happen along the way.
6170 users added this.
Clannad [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
9.
Tomoya is labelled as a delinquent at his school because he is constantly late and skips classes, but he seems to have little care about how others perceive of him. Everything in his life seemed dull and unchanging until one morning he meets Nagisa Furukawa on the road to his school; he finds her muttering to herself to give her more motivation for the school day.
13594 users added this.
Spice and Wolf II: The Wolf and the Amber Melancholy [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
9.
Continuing where the first series left off, it follows Kraft Lawrence a experienced traveling merchant and his sharp tongued wolf god companion Holo on their journey to return to Holo's home to the north called Yoitsu. A tender relationship has blossomed between the characters, as they make deals, travel between cities, encounter religious fanatics or vice versa and mostly just do what a traveling merchant has to do to get by.
978 users added this.
Serial Experiments Lain [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
9.
Lain Iwakura appears to be an ordinary girl, with almost no experience with computers or technology. Yet the sudden suicide of a schoolmate, and a number of strange occurrences, conspire to pull Lain into the world of the Wired, where she gradually learns that nothing is what it seems to be.
1555 users added this.
Baccano! [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
9.
During the late 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling aide Ennis, are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixir.
3609 users added this.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei [OVA]
Rich Furude gave it a
9.
The endless cycle of murders has been broken and Rika is finally able to settle down for a normal life with her friends. However, she is involved in a traffic accident and wakes up in a world where everything is different.
2051 users added this.
Black Rock Shooter [OVA]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
Mato Kuroi just got into junior high school, and on the first day, someone catches her eye; her classmate Yomi Takanashi. The two meet.
1592 users added this.
Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
Makoto Niwa is a high school boy who, since his parents are away on business, lives with his aunt’s family. It is there he meets his mysterious cousin of the same age Erio Touwa—who happens to tie a futon around her upper body and is a self-proclaimed alien.
363 users added this.
Fractale [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
The story takes place in an island, where a "Fractale System" is beginning to collapse. One day, Crane finds an injured girl called Phryne under a cliff.
120 users added this.
Higashi no Eden [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
On November 22, 2010 ten missiles strike Japan. However, this unprecedented terrorist act, later to be known as "Careless Monday," does not result in any apparent victims, and is soon forgotten by almost everyone.
38 users added this.
Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
An art student named Jin Mikuriya carves a statue from the wood of the Kannagi tree only to have the statue come to life in the form of a goddess, who has now taken over the statue. He and "Nagi" work together to destroy the impurities that are gathering in the town.
107 users added this.
Kobato. [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
The story follows Kobato, a sweet but naïve girl on a mission to collect and fill a bottle with “konpeito”. In order to obtain a konpeito, Kobato must heal a person’s suffering heart.
454 users added this.
Kurokami [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
Keita Ibuki is an independent and struggling freelance computer programmer who had a chance meeting on one night with a high Mototsumitama named Kuro. He gives her his dinner, a bowl of ramen, and tries to protect her when she is attacked in an ambush by an unknown Mototsumitama.
577 users added this.
Nekogami Yaoyorozu [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
Koyama Yuzu is running an antique shop. Mayu, a cat god (nekogami), is living off Yuzu and leads an idle life playing games.
14 users added this.
Shangri-La [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
The story is set in a neo-futuristic age, in which Tokyo has turned into the world;s largest jungle polis hat absorbs carbon dioxide. A tower city called Atlas houses the rich and privileged, and is the object of yearning of all that are not allowed to enter.
159 users added this.
Black Rock Shooter [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
It isn't the world you know. There wanders a girl with jet-black hair, ebony clothes, and a strikingly blue, glowing eye.
1619 users added this.
Yumekui Merry [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
Yumeji Fujiwara, a young male student like any other, gained the power to see the aura of other people's dreams, and is able to predict what kind of dream they will have the following night, after an event that occurred 10 years ago. Since then, he started to have weird dreams with cats following him for an unknown reason, where he learns thanks to the boss of the cat army, John Doe, that his body is needed to access the real world.
313 users added this.
Avatar: The Last Airbender [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
In a lost age the world is divided into four equal powers: Water Tribe, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. In each nation there's a group of gifted people known as Benders who have the ability to manipulate their native element using martial arts and elemental magic.
8230 users added this.
Sword Art Online [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
In the year 2022, the gaming industry has reached a new height after the development of the NerveGear, a helmet-like controller that allows the user to fully dive their senses into the world of virtual reality. After a closed beta with only 1,000 testers, the Virtual Reality MMORPG Sword Art Online is launched.
30806 users added this.
Death Note [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
The story of Death Note revolves around a high school student called Yagami Light. His life changed when he saw a supernatural notebook that fell from the sky.
33324 users added this.
Clannad After Story [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
Events in After Story take place immediately after the end of the first part, but extends into the next ten years, where Tomoya and Nagisa live together as a family. Life continues on for Tomoya.
7504 users added this.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
Aliens, Espers, and Time Travelers collide around a young girl with the most ultimate power. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is about a girl known as Haruhi and a boy she meets in school.
9231 users added this.
Spirited Away [Movie]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
Chihiro and her family are on their way to their new house in the suburbs when her father decides to take a shortcut along a lonely-looking dirt road. After getting out of the car and walking along a path for a while, they discover an open-air restaurant filled with food but with no workers or customers present.
17295 users added this.
Kill la Kill [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
This show is set at Honn0ji Academy, a fictional high school in post-apocalyptic Japan that is dominated by its fearsome student council, led by Satsuki Kiryuin. The council members wear special uniforms called Goku Uniforms that grant them superhuman abilities, which they use to oppress the rest of the school's students and staff.
12061 users added this.
Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai! [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
Yuuta Togashi suffered from chuunibyou while he was in middle school. When he graduated, he put that dark history behind him and forgot about it.
2272 users added this.
Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai. [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
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Once, there was a group of close childhood friends. However, by the time they entered high school, they had grown apart from each other.
1361 users added this.
Bleach [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
8.
Kurosaki Ichigo is not your average, everyday 15-year-old high school student. He has from as far he can remember always had the ability to see ghosts and spirits.
25059 users added this.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
7.
Academy City is a highly developed place in terms of technology. It is said to be 20 to 30 years ahead of the rest of the world.
1503 users added this.
Toaru Majutsu no Index [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
7.
Set in a world where science clarifies supernatural powers. In a huge college that has power development in its curriculum.
1561 users added this.
Kyouran Kazoku Nikki [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
7.
Thousands of years ago the God of destruction ,Enka, died saying thats its child would destroy the world.Thousands of years later the potential children of Enka are found (some human , some not) and take part in the Peaceful Family Operation in order to discover who the true child of Enka is and stop them from destroying the world by teaching them the importance of family love.
76 users added this.
Teen Titans [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
7.
The teen titans Robin, Raven, Starfire, Beast boy and Cyborg 5 superpowered teens use the powers to fight the forces of evil
2552 users added this.
Elfen Lied [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
7.
Mutated homo sapiens that have a dangerous telekinetic power is being captured and isolated in laboratories by the government. One of the sixth-sense-possessing humanoids escapes loses her memories and winds up living with a boy from her past.
14651 users added this.
Chobits [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
7.
In an alternate version of the present day, we have computers known as Persocoms that can be designed to look like toy figures, animals, and even people. Our story focuses on one such Persocom named Chi and her new owner, Hideki Motosuwa, who is too broke to buy one and yet is lucky enough to have found Chi in the trash.
8275 users added this.
Bamboo Blade [TV]
Rich Furude gave it a
7.
Toraji Ishida is a high school kendo teacher. His friend and fellow kendo teacher makes him a bet: if Ishida can assemble a girl's kendo team that can defeat his girl's team in a practice match, he'll treat Ishida to free meals at his father's Sushi restaurant for an entire year.
517 users added this.