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Tsuritama (Anime)
Fishing = Friendship (and Aliens)

Toriko (Manga)
Guys killing monsters and eating them

Houshin Engi (Manga)
Guy on flying hippo builds an army to defeat an evil fox demon

Houshin Engi (Anime)
Not as good as the Manga

Noblesse (Manhwa)
Ancient vampire wakes up in modern day, hilarity ensues...and then evil organizations invade South Korea, action ensues

+Anima (Manga)
Children with Animal powers travel the world

Kill Me Kiss Me (Manhwa, Volume 1)
Girl pretends to be her male cousin to get close to her crush, gang violence ensues

Kill Me Kiss Me (Manhwa, Volume 2-5)
Girl's male cousin is now the main character, more gang violence

5 Star Stories (Manga)
It's complicated but it boils down to- Giant Robots

Baccano (Anime)
Chaos, immortals and gangsters in 1940's America
(Also Isaac and Miria are the greatest people on the face of the planet)

Durarara (Anime)
Chaos, headless rider and street gangs in modern day Japan
(Baccano's slightly more coherent cousin)

Air Gear (Manga)
Epic Rollerskating

Princess Tutu (Anime)
A duck falls in love with a prince and turns into a ballerina to gather the scattered pieces of his heart while fighting off the evil crows...
(Better than it sounds once you make it past season 1)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga/Anime)
The Jostar family goes through bizarre adventures...also Mayan Vampires...and Mexican Nazis...and that's not even getting to part 3...

Angel Sanctuary (Manga)
Fallen Angel reincarnated as Japanese high school boy falls in love with his sister, tragedy ensues

Shiki (Manga/Anime)
Vampires slowly kill off a small mountain town to take it over

Black Cat (Manga)
Former assassin goes on adventures with psychic guy and shape shifting girl while evil stalker laughs and does evil things...

Black Cat (Anime)
A severe disappointment to fans of the Manga
Though evil stalker guy was done magnificently

Darker Than Black (Anime, season 1)
Chinese Electric Batman

Darker Than Black (Anime, season 2)
Chinese Electric Hobo
(Don't watch it, it ruins the characters and even now I try to erase that horror from my memories)

One Piece (Anime/Manga)
Pirates are awesome
(Read this series if you haven't already)

Hunter x Hunter (Manga/Anime)
Little boy and his friends go on adventures

Bleach (Anime/Manga)
Boy sees dead people killing dead people and becomes a killer of dead people
(Good series but you should drop it after the villain decides he wants to be a butterfly)

Category Freaks (Manga)
Demonic creatures killed and eaten by a group of paranormal investigators and their pet bunny girl (Killed by investigators, eaten by bunny girl)

D.Grey-Man (Manga)
Kid with deformed arm kills demons- also gay clown

Change Guy (Manhwa)
Nerdy guy and delinquent guy switch bodies, epicness ensues (of the humorous and awesome variety)

Death Note (Anime/Manga)
Guy finds notebook that kills people, becomes serial killer claiming to be God
Insomniac Detective with a sweet tooth hunts him down- also apples

Demon Diary (Manhwa)
Sweet innocent kid gets chosen to be the next demon lord, hilarity ensues as the demon teacher tries desperately to make the kid a proper evil demon lord

Stein's Gate (Anime)
Guy builds a time machine using a microwave, epicness ensues

Kamisama Hajimemashita (Manga/Anime)
Girl becomes new land god, gets her own fox demon familiar, romance ensues

Detective Conan (Anime/Manga)
Teenage detective gets turned into a little kid by an evil organization
Decades pass and he never grows up

Devil and Devil (Manga)
A Demon and Angel fall to Earth badly injured and posses the bodies of two twin brothers...hilarity and awesomeness ensues

DNAngel (Manga)
Boy in love love with girl who's in love with boy's alter ego who's in love with girl's twin sister who's in love with boy, also magic

Fairy Cube (Manga)
Boy sees Fairies, horrible things happen, it's a Yuki Kaori manga, what'd you expect?

Dragon Knights (Manga)
3 Knights try to return home after killing the Demon lord...complications arise

Eyeshield 21 (Manga)
Epic American football in Japan

Angelic Layer (Manga)
People making dolls beat the shit outta each other

Chobits (Manga)
Computers are people

Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga/Anime)
Little girl accidentally unleashes magics of mass destruction upon her town, has to catch 'em all

Descendants of Darkness (Manga)
A Shinigami and his partner solve mysterious deaths- gayness ensues

.Hack//Series (Manga/Anime/Video Game)
Virtual reality gaming is dangerous

Fruits Basket (Manga/Anime)
A sweet girl meets a family with emotional issues and helps them get over it…also they turn into animals

Full Metal Alchemist (Manga/Anime)
People learn they're not supposed to mess with the forces of nature or they'll end up with a robot arm…also tons of symbolism

Getbackers (Manga)
Two guys steal things back
(also they're totally not gay for each other)

Full Metal Panic (Manga/Anime)
Child soldier sent undercover to pose as regular Japanese high school student, hilarity ensues

Full Metal Panic Fumofu (Anime)
More high school fun…also giant mouse costume…which he rewires into a battle suit...

Gravitation (Manga)
Hyperactive spazz lead singer of a band falls in love with a grumpy jaded romance author, gayness ensues

Gravitation Remix (Manga)
ALL the Rape

Half Prince (Novel)
A girl cross-plays as a guy in an online game, epicness ensues

Half Prince (Manhua)
Not as good as the novel but still really good

Hetalia (Anime/Manga/Webcomic)
Nations of the world personified as people, lots of shipping and the world map now looks like a mass orgy

ID (Manhwa)
An asian martial artist ends up in Tolken-esque fantasy world, epicness ensues

No. 6 (Anime)
Boy finds out the Utopia he lives in isn't perfect…conspiracies, killer wasps and other stuff happens- also gay (?)

Laon (Manhwa)
Fox demon searches for his(her?) missing tails, horror ensues

Loveless (Manga)
Amnesiac boy meets much older man, they go into battle together with lots of S&M themes and words…also people have cat ears that symbolize virginity

Ludwig Revolution (Manga)
A prince wanders through darker and edgier fairytales in search of a bride
(It's by Yuki Kaori as well)

Mythical Detective Loki (Manga/Anime)
Norse god Loki gets sent to Earth in the form of a child and starts a detective agency

Petshop of Horrors (Manga)
A petshop in Chinatown sells creatures that test the morals of humanity
Find a shop like this in your local Chinatown :)

Petshop of Horrors (Anime)
They made a few episodes before canceling the project :(

Night Exile (Manga)
Amnesiac vampire wanders the world in search of his memories

Genjuu no Seiza (Manga)
Boy finds out he's the reincarnation of the king of a place with magical animal guardians…he absolutely refuses the role and has to deal with spiritual animals following him everywhere

Elixer (Manga)
An Alchemist travels the world searching for the Elixer…ends up helping people

Shin Petshop of Horrors (Manga)
A new Petshop is set up, this time in Japan

Monster (Anime/Manga)
A Doctor saves the life of a little boy who turns out to be a serial killer

Naruto (Manga)
A boy with a demon fox sealed inside him wants to be a ninja

Naruto (Anime)
Filler of DOOM

Nurarihyon no Mago (Manga)
Yakuza demons

Penguin Revolution (Manga)
ALL the Crossdressing!

Saiyuki (Manga)
Journey to the West if all the characters were sexy men (who are possibly gay for each other)

Shounen Shinkaron (Manga)
Boy angsts over the fact that he's identical to his father (who's pretending to be a teenage pop idol)

Spiral: Bonds of Reasoning (Manga)
High school detective is challenged by cat-eyed murderers

Ubel Blatt (Manhwa)
Little elf boy out for revenge on the friends who betrayed and killed him years ago
(Sex and violence ensues)

Vampire Game (Manga)
Vampire lord seeking revenge on the man who killed him reincarnates as a kitten

Vampire Doll (Manga)
Vampire lord gets his soul sealed inside a female wax doll…hilarity ensues

Vampire Knights (Manga)
Sorta like Twilight without the werewolves and the Edward equivalent is her brother…
(Don't hate me, this is just my opinion, to be fair Vampire Knights is a lot better written than Twilight will ever be)

W Juliet (Manga)
A girl who looks like a guy meets a guy who's pretending to be a girl so he can have his family's permission to become an actor

XXXHolic (Manga/Anime)
A boy who sees dead people works for a suspicious women to try and get rid of his ability to see dead people, also crossover with Tsubasa

Tsubasa (Manga/Anime)
Cardcaptor Sakura remake, also crossover with XxxHolic

Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga/Anime)
Delinquent boy gets killed and brought back to life to be a demon hunter

Level E (Manga/Anime)
Aliens are trolls (the internet kind)

Nightmare Investigator/Yumekui Kenbun (Manga)
A Baku (dream-eater) eats people's nightmares, you can count the number of happy endings throughout the series with with just your fingers)

Ayatsuri Sakon (Anime/Manga)
A boy and his puppet solve mysteries

Blood Lad (Manga)
Otaku Vampire meets normal human girl

Blue Exoircist (Manga)
Satan's son becomes an exorcist

Cute x Guy (Manga)
A girl wants to become sexy to attract a boy she likes so her scientist dad gives her some medicine…which makes her become sexy…a sexy boy…

Ranma 1/2 (Manga/Anime)
Boy turns into girl when hit with cold water, martial arts action and hilarity ensues

Legend of Sun Knight (Novel)
The Sun Knight is the holiest most pure hearted man alive, he's forgiving, graceful, perfect, always has a smile on his face and would really like to beat the shit out of the man who started that 'Sun Knight is perfect' tradition 'cause he's sick of smiling all the time and not being able to curse or be violent and being forced to be graceful in everything he does (even falling down the stairs)
(I love this novel soooo much, there's a Manga for it as well but the art is…weird…)

Denpa Kyoushi (Manga)
Genius Otaku becomes a teacher

Kagerou Days (Manga/Vocaloid song series)
Kids with special powers form a club, also the world is ending, also two kids caught in a groundhog day loop, also your life is a lie

Day of Revolution (Manga)
Boy finds out he's actually a girl due to a genetic problem so he decides to start his life over as a girl

Princess Princess (Manga/Anime)
Three boys are forced to dress as girls in their all boy school to provide the school with fanservice
(Incidentally, Mikoto's girlfriend is the boy/girl from Day of Revolution)

Samurai Highschool (Manga)
A twin brother and sister switch identities to enter a Samurai highschool for the different gendered classes

Kunisaki Izumo no Jijou (Manga)
Boy is forced to dress as a girl for Kabuki plays
(Somehow gains a harem of boys…)

Twin Signal (Manga/Anime)
A combat robot with a glitch turns into a chibi whenever his assigned human sneezes

Black Rock Shooter (Anime)
Break the Cutie, the Anime
(Possibly Yandere, the Anime)
(When jealous bitches attack)

Future Diary (Anime/Manga)
People killing each other to become God, also Yandere

Angel Desentsu (Manga)
A really scary looking kid with a pure heart of gold ends up becoming the bancho of his high school accidentally

Angel Beats (Anime)
Bunch of high school kids in purgatory try to beat the shit out of the angel

Yakitate Japan (Anime)
Epic bread-making

Yakitate Japan (Manga)
Doesn't have the Giant Flying Manta Ray ending that the Anime had
Instead they achieve Wold Peace through Bread

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Boku no Pico (Anime)
The fuck did I just watch?! Ew…

Toriko (Anime)
A useless female character was added for fan service and nothing else

Akazukin Cha Cha (Manga)
Little Red Riding Hood is a witch in training and her love interest is the Wolf

Akazukin Cha Cha (Anime)
Little Red Riding Hood is a magical girl and her love interest is the Wolf

Butterfly (Manga by Aikawa Yu)
A trap and his man-slave preform exorcisms

Monochrome Factor (Manga)
Boy gets turned into a shadow, strange white haired man keeps flirting with him as they destroy shadow monsters to protect the world

Magi: Magical Labyrinth (Manga)
Aladdin is a cute shota boy with a genie in a flute who teams up with Alibaba and go on adventures

Fudanshism: Fudanshi Shugi (Manga)
Boy cross-dresses and learns about yaoi-fangirl culture to get close to the girl he loves, she falls in Lesbians for him

Evangel (Manga)
An Angel goes to Earth to destroy Demons (but actually just wants to flirt with girls) and his Demon best friend hangs out with him for fun

Earthian (Manga)
Two male Angels go to Earth to decide if Humanity should be destroyed, end up falling in love with each other instead, conspiracies happen

Chrno Crusade (Anime/Manga)
Nun with a Gun and her little Demon sidekick

Amahara-Kun + (Manga)
A Trap tries to convert other boys into Traps

One (Manhwa)
A look into the music industry and how the idols are treated, drama happens

Digimon Zero (Anime)
A group of kids get sent to another world full of monsters where they have to take down the evil guy

Digimon Zero 2 (Anime)
Four years later the kids and some new kids have to go back to the other world to take down an evil dictator

Digimon Tamers (Anime)
Unrelated to the previous two shows, now the monsters come into the Human world and the kids have to protect the world from the evil bad guys
(Alternately, they got the guy who writes about horrible enrich abominations to make a children's series)

Digimon Frontier (Anime)
What if Digimon was a Power Ranger series?

Digimon Data Squad (Anime)
Don't watch it, the games based of it are pretty decent though (if a little Pokemon rip-off-ish)

Prince of Tennis (Manga)
In which Gary-Sues play tennis and nothing of real importance happens

Prince of Tennis (Anime)
Tennis caused the Extinction of the Dinosaurs. Also nothing of great importance happens.

Sakuratetsu Taiwahen (Manga)
Time-Travelers, Aliens, Mole People, Demons and the President of the United States of America all want the land property of a Japanese High School student who fights them all off to protect his house.

Mysterious Unidentified Boy Gedoh (Manga)
Girl meets guy who's actually two guys who is an animal doctor, much weirder than it sounds

Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka (Anime)
Boy becomes a Magical Girl Zombie

Violinist of Hamelin (Manga)
People use musical instruments as weapons to defeat the evil demon king, hilarity ensues

Violinist of Hamelin (Anime)
They took out all the humor and replaced it with angst, this does NOT make the series better

666 Satan/O-Parts Hunter (Manga)
Kid with Satan sealed inside him tries to take over the world, ends up saving it

Hayate Combat Butler (Anime/Manga)
Boy in debt ends up working for a rich girl as her bodyguard/butler, hilarity ensues

Kyouran Kazoku Nikki/Diary of a Crazy Family (Anime)
A cat demon, secret agent, talking lion, biological weapon, jellyfish, drag-queen and a little girl are sent to be a family together, hilarity ensues

Tiger and Bunny (Anime)
Superheroes sold out and spent their time advertising for companies (they do still fight crime though, but it's all on television so everyone can watch)

Black Blood Brothers (Anime)
More Vampires, actually a pretty decent series

Jing: King of Bandits (Anime/Manga)
A thief who straps a bird to his arm to use as a lazier gun travels the world stealing things and seducing women

Read or Die (Anime)
Paper bending is badass

Magic User's Club/Mahou Tsukai Tai (Anime)
Exactly as it says on the title (with real magic and plenty of fanservice)

Harlem Beat wa Yoake made (manga)
Can't tell if this is supposed to be yaoi or not…

Tactics (Anime/Manga)
A writer tries to earn money to support himself, his Kitsune servant and his Tengu boyfriend (?). He ends up preforming exorcisms instead (which don't pay at all)

Sword Art Online (Novel/Anime)
Moar video games are dangerous

Tokyo Mew Mew (Manga/Anime)
A girl gets turned into a Magical Cat-Girl to fight off Aliens, half the cast are named after food

Mew Mew Power (4Kids version of Tokyo Mew Mew)
Everyone has a different name and the ending makes no sense since 4Kids cut out all the plot.

Onmyou Taisenki (Anime)
It's like if Digimon were played on the Kinect or a Wii

Onmyou Taisenki (Manga)
Prequel to the Anime version

High School of the Dead (Manga)
Bunch of high schoolers survive a zombie apocalypse
Fanservice ensues

High School of the Dead (Anime)
Now with more boob-bounce

Katanagatari (Anime)
A guy who refuses to wear a shirt and his female companion travel Japan beating up people and stealing their swords

Ben-To (Anime)
People beating the shit outta each other to buy a Bento lunch

The Melancholy Haruhi Suzumiya (Anime)
Slightly over-rated show about a girl who's actually God and the people who try to keep her happy so she doesn't bring about the end of existence

Wolf's Rain (Anime)
A group of Wolves try to find Paradise in a post-apocalyptic world
The ending will make you cry

Star Driver (Anime)
Fabulous over the top magical boy mecha show

Jellyfish Princess/ Kuragehime (Anime)
A cross-dresser helps a group of nerdy girls try to save their apartment complex from being demolished

Jellyfish Princess/ Kuragehime (Manga)
Story of the Anime continued, since in the Manga they still haven't saved the apartments yet

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Saint Young Men (Manga)
Jesus and the Buddha rent an apartment together in Japan

Seikon no Qwaser (Anime/Manga)
Breast Feeding, the series (apparently it gives you super powers)

Kuuchuu Buranko (Anime)
….did they make this series while on drugs? WTF?!
(Seriously though, you should check it out)
Shapeshifting (?) psychiatrist helps people work out their problems

Mononoke (Anime/Manga)
An unnamed Medicine Seller travels Japan exorcising demons. Supporting cast are all Metaphors. Very colorful art.

Arata Kangatari (Manga/Anime)
Two boys named Arata from different dimensions, one is modern day Japan and the other a medieval fantasy world, switch places and have to live each other's lives.

Baby Please Kill Me (Manga/Anime)
A Loli assassin attends elementary school

Lupin III (Anime/Manga)
A master thief goes on wacky adventures with a gunman, samurai and sexy lady (who looks different every time she shows up) while a police inspector tries to arrest him

Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman (Anime)
Lupin III in feudal Japan
(Actually it's Robin Hood in feudal Japan)

Ratman (Manga)
Timid boy becomes demonically evil looking superhero

Basquash (Anime)
In the future people play basketball with giant robots

Bastard (Manga/Anime)
A dark sorcerer was sealed inside a little boy, he gets unsealed to help save the world

Yugioh (Original Manga/Anime season Zero)
Boy solves ancient egyptian puzzle and gets possessed by the spirit sealed inside.

Yugioh (Duelist Manga/Anime)
The spirit possess the boy to play card games to decide the fate of the world

Yugioh GX (Anime)
There is a school built to teach children how to play card games which will decide the fate of the world

Yugioh 5Ds (Anime)
People play card games on motorcycles to decide the fate of the world

Yugioh Zexel (Anime)
They play card games to decide the fate of the world
(I don't even have to watch it to know that is the plot)

Beelzebub (Manga/Anime)
Delinquent gets stuck raising the demon-lord's son
(Would you like this baby? The series)

Black Lagoon (Anime)
Regular office worker gets kidnapped and joins a band of sea pirates

Birdy the Mighty (Anime)
Alien girl and human Japanese high school boy end up sharing a body, the girl fights crime

Black Jack (Anime/Manga)
An unlicensed surgeon is really good at his job

Blade of the Immortal (Manga/Anime)
An immortal swordsman wanders around and gets into lots of fights

Alien 9 (Anime/Manga)
Elementary school girls are chosen to wield parasitic symbiotes to combat aliens
Body horror ensues

Blue Seed (Anime)
Demon plants invade Japan

Bobobo-Bo-Bo-Bobo (Anime/Manga)
What is this I don't even

Papuwa (Manga/Anime)
Pure crack is what this is…and it's glorious. Also this series is very gay

Papuwa, the new series (Anime)
The little brother of the main character from the first series takes over as the new main character, more crack ensues. This is even gayer than the prequel and it is wonderful.

Bokurano (Anime)
Some kids play a video game but it turns out to be real
Giant robots and mind screw
(Kinda like Ender's Game)

Bashing Angel Dukuro-chan (Anime)
A loll angel with a steel mace kills the main character over and over again

Xam'd Lost Memories (Anime)
Boy turns into an organic robot thing

Bubblegum Crisis (Anime)
Girls dress like Power Rangers and fight evil robots

Buso Renkin (Anime/Manga)
Boy gets his heart replaced with a sword made out of Alchemy
The gay butterfly man is the best character in the series

Tsuchikage Ran (Anime)
Drunk swords woman and cat-girl ninja wander Japan

Casshern Sins (anime)
A pretty boy android wanders a destroyed Earth searching for his memories

Cheeky Angel (Manga/Anime)
Boy makes a wish on a Genie to become the manliest man on Earth, the Genie grants him the opposite. Gang violence and epicness ensues

Chi's Sweet Home (Manga)
A baby kitten gets adopted, adorable-ness ensues

Another (Anime)
There's someone in class who's not supposed to be there. There's someone who's already dead and hasn't realized it.

Claymore (Manga/Anime)
Girls with swords kill demons
Anime ending was bullshit, the manga is still going

Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion (Anime)
A prince gains mind control powers and tries to over throw his father's reign. Also there are giant robots

Cromartie High School (Anime)
Normal boy transfers into an all delinquent high school, hilarity ensues

Cyborg 009 (Anime)
Cyborgs escape from the organization who made them as weapons in order to live in peace, each have their own special powers

Deadman Wonderland (Manga/Anime)
Boy framed for murder is sent to prison where he has to bleed to stay alive

Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou (Anime)
High school boys doing random things

Natsume Yuujinchou (Anime)
Boy who sees ghosts inherits a notebook full of demon's names, now they come after him to get their names back

Gong Hua (Novel)
In the forest live the Leaves and a Flower. Though the Leaves are supposed to treasure the Flower they threw the him away. Then the Flower is found by humans…tragedy ensues

Desert Punk (Anime)
In a world that's a desert wasteland people act like assholes to stay alive

DNA2 (Anime/Manga)
A playboy fathers 100 children and causes overpopulation, an agent is sent back in time to prevent this but ends up causing it to happen earlier

Dragon Half (Manga/Anime)
A half dragon half human girl falls in love with a dragon slayer, hilarity ensues

Eiken (Anime)
So much boobs that it's creepy / gross

Elfen Lied (Anime/Manga)
Girls with psychic powers kill people

Excel Saga (Anime)
Just Crack and Insanity

Puni Puni Poemy (Anime)
Excel Saga's drug addict cousin

Flame of Recca (Anime)
It's like if Yu Yu Hakusho was about Ninjas
Anime has a bullshit ending, go read the Manga

Flame of Recca (Manga)
Essentially modern day Ninjas, main character uses Fire powers

Serial Experiments Lain (Anime)
This is why you say 'No' to drugs
Also, the internet is nightmare fuel

Cuticle Tantei Inaba (Anime)
Werewolf detective with a hair fetish…and plenty of crack
WHY IS HE DOING A MAGIAL TRANSFORMATION?!!?

I Me My Strawberry Eggs (Anime)
Sexism, the series
Guy cross dresses to become a gym teacher, helps students work out their issues and make the school a better place

Sands of Destruction / World Destruction (Game)
A boy learns that he is the Apocalypse. He, a girl and a teddybear end up traveling the world and seeing how corrupt it is, the girl constantly telling him that he should destroy the world already.
Awesome game, spend all skill points on the Flurry attacks, they don't do a lot of damage at first but they hit many times and can chain up to deal massive damage later in the game

Sands of Destruction / World Destruction (Anime)
They changed practically EVERYTHING. Naga and Rhia have completely different personalities, Kyrie is a whiny useless moron and everything is made 'Kid friendly' and humorous. They took out everything that made the story good and we're left with a lame, boring pile of crap. Seriously what happened?! I know they already had to tone down the game in terms of the violence but this is ridiculous!

Sands of Destruction / World Destruction (Manga)
Better than the Anime…the characters personalities are still a little different from the game but thank god it's not as bad as the Anime….*shuders*
Also the story is somewhat different, a lot darker than the game surprisingly

The Devil king is a Part-Timer / Hataraku Maou-sama (Anime)
The demon king from a magical world falls into modern day Japan and must work at McDonalds to earn a living
(It's not like he has much on his resume to get a better job, Demon Lord does not count as previous job experience)

s-CRY-ed (Anime)
It's kinda like XMen but Anime

Towa no Quon (Anime)
It's even more like XMen but Anime

Iris-Zero (Manga)
In a world where all children/teenagers have vision related super-powers, one boy doesn't and is horribly discriminated because of it

Nobunaga no Chef (Manga)
A modern day 5-star chef goes back in time and ends up working for Nobunaga

Bunny Drop (Anime)
Warning this anime may cause diabetes

Mushishi (Anime)
Micro-organisms = Demons

Watamote / Watashi ga Motenai no wa duo Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui / No Matter how I Look at it, it's your Fault I'm not Popular (Anime/Manga)
Creepy girl wants to make friends
Warning, some of this might hit a bit close to home

Slayers (Anime)
Classical Fantasy Adventures
(Darkness beyond twilight, crimson beyond blood that flows…)

Kubera (Manhwa)
A girl with a god's name travels the world to try and get revenge for the destruction of her village. We sympathize with the 'bad-guys'. This is a war with no villains, only victims.

Iron Knight (Manga)
A boy turns into a monster and decides to use his powers to help humans.

Itsuwaribito (Manga)
A boy uses Lies to help people

Kurogane (Manga)
A swordsman dies and is rebuilt into a cyborg…in ancient Japan

Liling-Po (Manga)
A thief, a warrior and a government worker travel to find stolen treasures. Conspiracies and shipping ensue.

Silver Diamond (Manga)
Boy with plant-based powers gets transported to a world of eternal desert and tries to bring back green life. Yaoi-hints ensue.

Witch Hunter (Manga)
They hunt witches. What do you want from me?

Bartender (Manga)
He tends a bar. And gives life advice.

Adekan (Manga)
A naive, good hearted policeman becomes friends (or more) with an umbrella salesman (who used to be an assassin)
Nakedness and gayness ensue.

9 no Puzzle to Mahou Tsukai / 9 Puzzles and the Wiseman (Manga)
Online avatars and internet crimes

AKB49-Renai Kinshi Jourei (Manga)
Guy cross dresses as a girl to secretly help his crush when she auditions to join an idol group. Guy ends up accepted into the idol group.

Ana no Mujina (Manga)
Boy gains trickster/Kitsune-ish powers. Uses his trickster abilities to take down bad guys.

Boku wa Ne (Manga)
Single father hires a beautiful babysitter to look after his children…heartwarming family bonding ensue.

Bokura no Kiseki (Manga)
Medieval Princess reincarnates as Japanese high school boy. He wants to deny his memories and past life but the events surrounding her death in the past begin to cause trouble for his current life.

Bookmark of Demise (Manga/Vocaloid song series)
In this game you must kill the 'Fox'. If the 'Fox is not found, every other player will die…

Hell Hell (Manga)
Demon children sent to the Human realm to kill each other, last one standing becomes king.
(OMG their hair is soooo fluffy!!!!)

Heaven!!! (Manga)
Girl with spiritual powers meets delinquent boy. Delinquent boy gets possessed by a womanizing ghost.

Jiu Jiu (Manga)
Demon hunter girl and her two Half-Wolf familiars live together.

Kill no More (Novel)
An Assassin swears to never kill again. He meets a boy and they both get blackmailed into going to a school that teaches Magic, Dragon-riding and Giant Robot piloting.

Gong Hua / Black Flower (Novel)
The Black Flower is abandoned by the Leaves who were supposed to care for it. A kind Human taught it love. The death of that Human taught it hate. The Black Flower now lives only for vengeance.

Kimi to Himitsu no Hanazono (Manga)
Tomboy goes to all-girl's school to try and learn femininity. Her girly and dainty roommate is actually a guy.

Maria + Holic (Manga)
Lesbian goes to all-girl's school. Her girly and dainty roommate is actually a guy.

Hana Kimi (Manga)
Girl cross-dresses as a boy to get close to her crush. Hilarity ensues.

Kare Kano (Manga/Anime)
Girl pretends to be perfect. Meets boy who is also perfect. The two see through each other's masks and fall in love. Lots of Shojo sub-plots ensue.

Prunus Girl (Manga)
Guy meets really cute girl who turns out to be a guy.

Ai Ore (Manga)
Guy who looks like a girl dates a girl who looks like a guy.
(I got bored halfway through the 1st volume)

Charming Junkie (Manga)
Girl makes a scary face when she's nervous. Girl wants to learn to be cute and adorable. She learns from an adorable girl with a sweet smile…who's actually a boy.

Never Give Up (Manga)
Girl who looks like a guy falls in love with a guy who looks like a girl.
(OMG you stupid girl just kiss him already! You both love each other what the hell is stopping you?!)

Tokyo Crazy Paradise (Manga)
Girl cross-dresses as a guy to be a bodyguard to the heir to a Yakuza family.
(This manga starts to get offensively sexist…most manga that focus on cross-dressing seem to end up this way...)

My Barbaric Girlfriend (Manga)
A violent girl and a timid boy switch bodies. Everyone around them agrees it suits them more.
(This manga offends me)

Love in the Mask (Manhwa)
Girl forced to cross-dress as a boy to be a rich man's daughter's bodyguard.
(It started out pretty good…but then romance and love-triangles ensue and it seems that the instant a girl falls in love with a guy she becomes completely helps…and apparently cannot live without him.)

Clear up After Rain (Manga)
A bunch of boys turn into girls whenever it rains.

I'm a Royal Tutor in my Sister's Dress (Manga)
Look at the title.

Houou Gakuen Misoragumi (Manga)
Lesbian forced to attend an all-boy's school by her mother who thought this would 'cure' her daughter's sexual orientation.
(…The mother's motives are offensive to me…)

Shishunki Bitter Change (Manga)
Boy and girl switch bodies. Seems to focus more about learning empathy towards others and addressing the feelings of the characters.
(This is good, it's not just some romantic comedy like most gender-bent-body-switches, it's about two people being forced to walk a mile in each other's shoes, literally)

Pretty Face (Manga)
A guy gets into an accident and his face is destroyed. Crazy doctor plastic surgery-ed his face into a cute girl's…the girl he has a crush on. He gets mistaken for his crush's twin sister who went missing years ago…
(It's…kinda a stupid manga…if you're into cringe-worthy moments…)

No Bra (Manga)
Guy meets a cute girl…who happens to be a guy.

He's Dedicated to Roses (Manga)
Girl cross-dresses as a guy to get into street fights. Eventually falls in love with a guy and suddenly loses all her independence because 'waa that boy I love doesn't life me'
(Yes, I am quite bitter about this manga)

Pheromomania Syndrome (Manga)
A girl who looks like a guy is in love with a guy who…you know what, I don't even have to say it. As a note, this manga is hilarious.

Wagaya no Oinarisama (Manga/Anime)
Two boys gain a Fox-spirit guardian. Hilarity ensues. Also the Fox keeps changing gender.

Yubisaki Milk Tea (Manga)
A guy starts cross-dressing as a curiosity…begins to enjoy it.

IS- Otoko Demo Onna Demo Nai Sei (Manga)
The lives of Inter-sexed people. People who aren't one gender of the other.

Brocken Blood (Manga)
ALL THE CROSS-DRESSING

Kaichu! (Manga)
Guy meets a cute girl who's actually a guy…
(Seriously, how many times are we gonna see this plot?!)

Charisma Doll (Manga)
Girl dresses up as a gender indeterminate idol singer.

Divine Melody (Manga)
Fox demon makes a promise to be friends with a boy and girl who saved her. 100 years later she/he tracks down the boy and girl's reincarnations. The girl is a princess, the boy is a demon hunter. Tragedy ensues.

Vanilla Ice (Manhwa)
A girl who looks like a guy and a guy who looks like a girl. You know where this is going.

Mint na Bokura (Manga)
Guy cross-dresses to attend his twin sister's boarding school because he doesn't want to be separated from her. Love triangles and dodecagons ensue.

Animal X (Manga)
Yaoi and dinosaurs

Anata to Scandal (Manga)
Girl falls in love with a guy she sees on the train…who is actually a girl.

Kira Kira Labyrinth (Manga)
Girl who hates guys goes to an all girl's school, her roommate is secretly a guy. He's there because he wants to figure out the reason for his sister's suicide in that school 2 years before.

Ai no Shintairiku (Manga)
Guy decides he's going to live as a girl from now on.

Cinderella Boy (Manga by Tumeno Makoto)
A tall girl cross-dresses to join an all male idol group.

Cinderella Boy (Manga/Anime by Monkey Punch)
A guy and girl private detective team are killed in an 'accident'. A scientist saves their lives by joining them together so that one mind and body will be in charge until the clock strikes midnight upon which the mind and body will switch to the other.

Le Chevalier D'eon (Manga)
A swordswoman defeats evil people…problem is, she's dead and is actually a ghost possessing her brother's body in order to fight against evil.
(Actually pretty good)

Here is Greenwood (Manga)
Slice of life following the weird kids in the Greenwood dormitory.

Alto (Manga by Koio Minato)
Boy pretends to be a girl in order to pilot airplanes, because in their world only women are allowed.

Marginal (Manga by Hagio Moto)
Women went extinct.
(Kinda dark…)

Moon child (Manga)
…so…mermaids apparently come from the moon or something…

Golden Boy (Manga/Anime)
A guy travels Japan and despite being a bit of a pervert, he helps out the people he meets on his journey.
(Check it out, if you ignore all the fanservice it's actually a pretty good series)

Ppoi! (Manga)
A story of a boy growing up and the experiences he goes through.
(Very slice of life, very cute)

Nisekoi (Manga)
A girl and boy pretend to be in love to prevent their families from killing each other.
(It eventually become a harem series)

The world God only Knows (Manga/Anime)
A guy uses Dating Sim logic to get girls to fall in love with him. Demons are involved somehow.

Sankarea (Manga)
A guy who likes zombies somehow turned a girl from his class into a zombie.

Attack on Titan (Manga/Anime)
Humanity tries to defend itself from giants that eat them. Epicness ensues.

Cage of Eden (Manga)
It's like a mix of LOST and Survivor but with lots more people dying. Vaguely reminds me of Lord of the Flies.

Onepunch-Man (Manga)
Main character can defeat anyone with one punch. He is bored as shit because of the lack of challenge.

Yamada-kun and the 7 Witches (Manga)
Look at the title.

Assassination Classroom (Manga)
A class of middle schoolers have to kill their tentacle monster homeroom teacher to save the world.

Demonic Detective Nuero (Manga)
A demon who eats mysteries decides to become a detective.

Claymore (Manga)
Girls with swords kill demons.

Rosario + Vampire (Manga)
Human guy accidentally gets enrolled in monster high school. Vampires, Succubus and Witches ensue.

Hajime no Ippo (Manga)
Boxing. Actually pretty good.

Love Stage!! (Manga)
All the Yaoi!

Black Butler / Kuroshitsuji (Manga/Anime)
A boy and his butler/demon from hell.

Soul Eater (Manga/Anime)
Kids fight while using other kids as weapons. Epicness ensues.

Minami-Ke (Anime)
Three sisters and their daily lives. Hilarity ensues.

Mysterious Girlfriend X (Manga)
Boy and girl begin dating because he's addicted to her drool…

Usotsuki Lily (Manga)
Boy hates men to the point he'll punch his own reflection. He dresses as a girl to avoid that.

Katekyo Hitman Reborn (Manga/Anime)
Timid boy gets a baby Mafia kid as his tutor. A male harem eventually ensues.

Ajin (Manga)
Boy dies and comes back to life. Government wants to destroy him.

Reimei no Arcana (Manga)
Princess is sent away in an arranged marriage. No one wants her but romance eventually ensues.

Pokemon (Anime/Manga/Video Games)
Do I seriously have to describe this to you?

Mahou Sensei Negima! (Manga)
Child wizard becomes English teacher at a Japanese Middle School.

Shaman King (Anime/Manga)
Boy sees ghosts. Boy combines with ghost to battle with other people.

Sakamoto Desu Ga? (Manga)
The most epic boy in the world goes about his life. Everyone around him gets character development.

Host Club (Anime/Manga)
Girl is mistaken for a guy and forced to join her school's Host Club to work off a debt after she accidentally broke an expensive vase.

Dragon Ball (Anime/Manga)
7 Dragon Balls will grant a wish. Characters search for them and have violent adventures.

Dragon Ball Z (Anime/Manga)
More violent adventures. The world is saved several times. Also Aliens.

Dragon Ball GT (Anime)
More violent adventures. More Aliens.
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spiritwinned's avatar
Cool! That's a lot of series! :)