2002/TV/Modern Titles

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TV: (Type) All anime series done for TV should go into this slot.

Modern: (Setting) These are titles which have a modern feel to them; the story takes place in the present day (of the creation of this anime), give or take a few years.

Title Rating Synopsis
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.hack Rent See .hack//SIGN

.hack//SIGN
Rent It's the near future, and there is only one video game, called "The World." In the virtual reality of "The World", all sorts of people play. However, once a character named Tsukasa is unable to log out, and weird events start happening, "The World" starts to seem much more mysterious than anyone ever thought.
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Ai Yori Aoshi
Buy Kaoru Hanabishi just wanted to help. Aoi Sakuraba just wanted to find her first love. They never realized they were looking for each other. Ever since their arranged marriage 18 years ago, Aoi had been in love with Kaoru, but she traveled to Tokyo to meet him when she learned the marriage had been called off. While Kaoru is impressed by Aoi's loyalty, innocence and beauty, to accept her affection, he might have to return to the Hanabishi Clan and the emotional and physical pain he suffered during his childhood... Their self-control and their love will be put to the test when she moves in and he tries to stay a gentleman!
AYA Buy See Ai Yori Aoshi

Azumanga Daioh
Buy

A wildly funny series following the lives of a wacky group of schoolgirls and their teachers through three years of high school.

B
Bluer Than Indigo Buy See Ai Yori Aoshi
C
Case Closed Rent See Meitantei Conan

Chobits
Buy One fateful night, Hideki was walking home from his new job when he discovered a very cute persocom in the trash. Hideki names his new persocom Chii, but what he doesn't know is that Chii could possibly be one of the legendary "Chobits" - persocoms with their own personality instead of merely an installed operating system.
Corazón Hambriento (Spanish) See Hungry Heart - Wild Striker
D
Detective Conan Rent See Meitantei Conan
E

E's Otherwise
Buy In a future country wracked by a civil war and unrest, the twelve controlling companies have drawn on the awesome and devastating physic powers of a group to gifted teenagers (called E's) to create an ultimate hit squad. But one of team members is bothered by the death and destruction they are causing, and begins to ask questions that the government would prefer not be asked and definitely, not be answered.
F
Fighting Spirit Buy See Hajime no Ippo

Full Metal Panic
Buy

A hidden military organization named Mithril mobilizes three crack troops (Sousuke, Kurz, & Mao) to secretly protect a young Japanese girl, Chidori Kaname, from being kidnapped. Sousuke Sagara is assigned to be her personal bodyguard and must go undercover as a fellow high school student while not letting her know she's in danger or that he's protecting her. Unfortunately, Sousuke has little experience in understanding life as a normal high school student thus he considers just about any little action or thing around him to be a threat on Kaname.


Full Moon wo Sagashite
Buy A comedy-drama about a 12-year-old girl named Kouyama Mitsuki who wants to be a pop singer even though she has throat cancer. Her life undergoes a drastic change after she's visited by a pair of Shinigami Takuto and Meroko (soul Reapers) who tell her she's only got a year to live. All that makes the girl's determination to become a singer even stronger, and her attitude drives the two Shinigami to feel sorry for her, thus they turn the girl into her own 16 year old future self and compeat for her dream to become a singer.
G

Get Backers
Buy The show's heroes are Midou Ban and Amano Ginji, a pair of 21 year olds making their living running a Recovery Service called "Get Backers" -- at clients' requests they steal back anything from mysterious boxes to run-away teens to a person's happiness.
Genre
Action(10) Comedy(10) Drama(11) Mystery(3)
Romance(6) Romantic Comedy(4) Suspense(4) Tragedy(3)
Setting
Fantasy(2) Historical(1) Sci-Fi(5)
Demographic
All Ages(4) Children(2) Kid at heart(2) Seinen(1)
Shoujo(3) Shounen(1)
Style
Acquired Taste(1) Kawaii(1) Silly-funny(1) Surreal(1)
Keywords
Adventure(3) Angels(1) Animals(1) Artificial Girls(1)
Bishoujo(1) Bishounen(1) College(1) Coming of Age(2)
Computers(1) Dark(1) Dating Sim Spinoff(1) Depression(2)
Ecchi(2) Elementary School(1) Epic(2) Fan Service(1)
Fighting(3) Friendship(2) Gun-action(1) Harem(2)
High School(6) Magic(2) Martial Arts(1) Mecha(2)
Middle School(1) Music(4) Police(3) Psychics(2)
School Comedy(1) Shinigami(1) Slice of Life(2) Soul Mates(1)
Spinoff-Sequel(1) Spiritual(2) Sports(3) Supernatural(3)
Swordplay(3) Tenchi Clone(1) Violent(1) War(1)
Type
Release Year
2006(1) 2005(1) 2004(1) 2003(8) 2001(3) 2000(2) 1999(1) 1998(1)
1997(1) 1996(1)
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