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Two kids, Mirai and Yuuki, spend the day at a robot fair on a nearby island when an powerful earthquake strikes Tokyo. They find themselves stranded amidst the results of aftermath of this disaster and must find their way home with the help of Mari, a single mother who happens to be a very good Samaritan……

Major is a baseball series which revolves around Honda Goro as he grows up and pursues his dream of following his father to becoming a professional baseball player. There are many seasons which focus on different parts of Goro’s life – the first season starts off with a brief introduction to Goro and his past as a five-year-old, and then leaps forward three years. The rest of the season is spent focusing on Goro forming a little league team and participating in his first tournament……

I’ve heard all sorts of bad things about Major, a series that many people seem to think epitomizes the worst aspects of shonen sports.  And who knows, maybe further along the series will indeed take a downturn, but after watching the first six episodes, I must say that even if you refuse to watch the rest of the series, this first “prologue” batch is worth seeing even standalone.  And not as a sports series, but…

I originally wrote this post as a list of top ten anime, and have since expanded it to fifteen.  I usually don’t believe that ranking my favourites has any point, since they span various genres and cannot be compared directly – but a list of fifteen seems somewhat disorganized without them.  So keep in mind that these are hazy rankings at best, and probably change according to my mood at any given time.

15. Mushishi

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This installment of the Stars franchise brings us the third arc in the story of Jinto and Lafiel. The story revolves around a captured planet which serves as a housing site for prisoners. It is currently in a state of anarchy, with multiple people from…..

Banner of the Stars continues the story established in Crest of the Stars, with Jinto and Lafiel both being members of an attack vessel (Lafiel is the Captain). The story begins with them finishing their training and eventually being assigned to a very dangerous mission which involves protecting a region from a fleet that is much larger than their own……

Crest of the Stars is an anime series adapted from the beginning of a series of sci-fi novels written by Morioka Hiroyuki. Although I am not really a fan of science fiction as a genre, Planetes convinced me to give any setting or genre a chance, and I was told that Crest of the Stars was very character-oriented, which I enjoy. So I gave it a shot.

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Three homeless street wanderers – a former deadbeat dad, a gruff-voiced transgendered “woman”, and a runaway teenager – come across a crying baby in a dumpster. They argue over what do with it at first, but eventually settle on tracking down the parents who abandoned her. They set off on a path littered with unexpected detours and coincidences that alternately bring them close to danger and ……