ANIME TV SHOWS
By: Michael F. Sandicho
SWORD ART ONLINE
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Released March 14, 2013
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Produced by A-1 Pictures
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Plot: The year is 2022, and gamers have
lined up on launch day for Sword Art
Online, a hotly-anticipated MMORPG
that lets players connect to an immersive
virtual reality world with special helmets
called Nerve Gear. Kirito is one such
gamer who's eager to jump back into
action and having spent a great deal of
time as a beta tester. But soon, Sword Art
Online's 10,000 players discover that not
only are they unable to log out, the only
way they can return to their physical
bodies is by beating the the game, but
death in game means death in the real
world. Kirito must now fight while helping
his friends to survive this horrible death
game.
SOUL EATER
meister named Maka
Albarn, a student at the
DWMA. She is bent on
turning her weapon
partner, Soul, into a
Death Scythe to surpass
her father, whom she
dislikes. To do so, she
must defeat 99 evil souls
and 1 witch's soul and
have Soul devour them.
She later makes friends
with two other meisters,
Black☆Star and Death
the Kid, and their
weapon partners
NARUTO
 Released
October 3, 2002
 Produced
 Plot:
by Studio Pierrot
Naruto Uzumaki wants
to be the bes ninja in the
land. He’s done well so far,
but with the danger of the
Akatsuki organization,
Naruto knows he must train
harder than ever and
leaves his village for intense
exercises that will push him
to his limits and possibly
make him stronger.
PHI BRAIN
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Released October 2, 2011
Produced by Sunrise
Plot: Kaito, a puzzle-loving high
school freshman, is selected as
a candidate for "Phi Brain". He
and his friend Nonoha find an
"unsolvable puzzle" near their
school. The puzzle turns out to
be a life-threatening
"philosopher's puzzle" created by
the mysterious group P.O.G.
(Puzzle Of God). After
successfully solving the puzzle,
Kaito is designated as a Solver
and is joined by other Solvers as
they battle P.O.G. all over the
world by solving the
"philosopher's puzzles".
ATTACK ON TITAN
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Released December 9, 2013
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Produced by Wit Studio and Production I.G
(production cooperation)
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Plot: The series follows the story of Eren
Yeager, his adopted sister Mikasa
Ackerman, and their friend Armin Arlert.
After the outermost Wall is breached by
Titans, including the 60-meter tall skinless
Colossus Titan and the abnormally
intelligent Armored Titan, and his mother
dying in the resulting destruction, Eren vows
revenge against the Titans and later enlists
in the military, accompanied by Mikasa
and Armin. Years later during his first battle
against the Titans, Eren discovers that he
has the ability to transform into a Titan at
will. Seen as a threat to mankind by some,
and as a ray of hope by others, Eren joins
his companions in a desperate fight to
protect what remains of their society while
looking for answers to the mysteries
surrounding the Titans, the Walls, and his
own existence as well.
BLUE EXORCIST
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Released April 5,2011
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Produced by A-1 Pictures
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Plot: The story revolves around Rin
Okumura, a teenager possessing
abnormal strength and endurance who,
along with his twin brother Yukio, was
raised by Father Shiro Fujimoto. One day,
Rin learns that he is the son of Satan, the
strongest of all demons. Witnessing Shiro
dying to protect him, Rin ends up doing
what his guardian asked him never to
do: draw the demon-slaying blade
Kurikara, which restrains his demonic
powers, from its scabbard. From that
moment on, Rin not only gains
permanent demonic features like fangs,
pointed ears, fiery "horns" and a tail, but
also the power to ignite himself into blue
flames that can destroy almost anything
they touch.
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Released November 17, 2013
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Produced by Production I.G.
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Plot: Guilty Crown's setting begins in 2029
when an unidentified "Apocalypse Virus"
spreads and plunges Japan into a state
of emergency in a chaos known as the
"Lost Christmas". An international
organization known as the GHQ
intervenes with martial law and restores
order to Japan at the cost of its
independence.Ten years later in 2039,
Shu Ouma, a 17-year-old high school
student who keeps to himself in school,
meets Inori Yuzuriha, the lead singer for
Egoist, while visiting one of his favorite
places on his way home from school. Shu
is a big fan of Inori, a singer who has
taken the Internet world by storm.
However, he also discovers the other side
of her, which is that she is a member of
"Funeral Parlor", a resistance group that
aims to liberate Japan from the GHQ.
Shu starts taking a part in the actions of
"Funeral Parlor" and the "king's mark"
appears on his right hand. This "mark"
bestows on him the power to reach
inside another person's body and extract
and materialize a weapon from it.
GUILTY CROWN
CHROME SHELLED REGIOS
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Released 18, 2013
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Produced by Zexcs
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Plot: In a post-apocalyptic polluted
earth overrun with mutated beasts
called Filth Monsters (Contaminoids in
Funimation's translation), humanity is
forced to live in large mobile cities
called Regios and learn to use
weapons called DITE and harness the
power of Kei to defend themselves. In
the Academy City of Zuellni, Layfon
Alseif is hoping to start a new life
without Martial/Military arts and forget
his past. However, his past has caught
the attention of Kalian Loss, the
Student Council President and Nina
Antalk, a Military Arts student and
Captain of the 17th Platoon, who
instantly recognizes his abilities and
decides he's the perfect candidate to
join her group. The series follow
Layfon's life in Zuellni and occasionally
has flash backs of his life in Glenden.
BAKEMONOGATARI
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Released July 3,2009
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Produced by Shaft
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Plot: The Monogatari series revolves around Koyomi
Araragi, a third-year high school student, who's almost
human again after briefly becoming a vampire. One
day, a classmate of his, the reclusive Hitagi
Senjōgahara, falls down the stairs into Koyomi's arms.
He discovers that Hitagi weighs nothing, in defiance of
physics. Despite being threatened by her to keep
away, Koyomi offers his help and introduces her to
Meme Oshino, a strange middle-aged man living in
an abandoned building, who cured him of being a
vampire. Once Koyomi helps solve Hitagi's problem,
she agrees to become his friend. As the series
progresses, Koyomi finds himself involved with other
girls, each afflicted by different "oddities", including
the ghost of a child called Mayoi Hachikuji, his
underclassman Suruga Kanbaru, Nadeko Sengoku, a
friend of his sisters, his classmate Tsubasa Hanekawa
and his own younger sisters Karen and Tsukihi. To deal
with the spectres, Koyomi relies on guidance from
Oshino and, later, from Shinobu, the same vampire
who attacked him, now with the appearance of an
eight-year-old girl.