Anime List
Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari (Dub)
Meg, faithful and gentle, Jo, independent and energetic, Beth, quiet and shy, Amy, amiable and precocious–the four sisters live vigorously and happily at home with their gentle mother while waiting for their father to return from the Civil War. Helping each other, they challenge their fates and grow up to become wonderful women.
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TV Series
Completed
1987
Ai no Wakakusa Yama Monogatari
The comic story of Shizuka, the eldest daughter, who lives at home, showing no signs of getting married; her mother, who is both annoyed with Shizuka, and at the same time concerned about her window of eligibility; her sister Ikumi, with whom she gets along, even though they fight; and her father, who feels henpecked in this all-female household.
The strange incidents that happen with this family, which otherwise seems completely ordinary, will make you laugh out loud. The original manga is currently serialized in Takeshobo's Manga Club.
The title is a pun on the long running Nippon Animation version of Little Women, "Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari."
TV Series
Completed
1999
Ai Shite Night
Hashizo has lost both parents when still a baby. He live with his elder brother – Go Kato who is the lead singer of the emerging rock band “Bee Hive”. This is a newly borned stars....
Hashizo has lost both parents when still a baby. He live with his elder brother – Go Kato who is the lead singer of the emerging rock band “Bee Hive”. This is a newly borned stars.
Yaeko Mitamura is an 18 year old girl working in her father’s Okonomiyaki restaurant.
There’re many unexpected things happen between Hashizo, Go, and YaeKo which make A romantic story with love, jealousy and famous.
TV Series
Completed
1983
Ai Shoujo Pollyanna Story
Motherless since birth, Pollyanna was an ordinary happy-go-lucky girl, leaving peacefully with her father, the vicar. Then one day her life changes completely when her father dies and she has to live with her aunt whom she has never met before. In the beginning, she seems to be detested by her but as time passes, they develop a very strong bond.
TV Series
Completed
1986
Ai Tenchi Muyo!
The franchise is celebrating its 20th anniversary with this new project.
Fall 2014
Completed
2014
Ai Tenchi Muyou! (Dub)
The franchise is celebrating its 20th anniversary with this new project.
TV Series
Completed
2014
Ai to Yuuki no Pig Girl Tonde Buurin
“Look! In the sky…It’s a bird…It’s a plane…It’s Super Pig?!” One fateful day, Karin, a junior-high student, found what she thought was an injured piglet. However, the piglet was just exhausted from hunger. After the piglet regained his health by eating Karin’s apple, he revealed that he is a prince, Tonrariano III, from a planet called Boori… more “Look! In the sky…It’s a bird…It’s a plane…It’s Super Pig?!
” One fateful day, Karin, a junior-high student, found what she thought was an injured piglet. However, the piglet was just exhausted from hunger. After the piglet regained his health by eating Karin’s apple, he revealed that he is a prince, Tonrariano III, from a planet called Booringo. Tonrariano wanted to reward Karin for helping him and so he transformed her into a pig with superpowers. Karin was not at all pleased with the gift because she wanted to become a pretty superheroine like “Cutey Chao” (a parody of Cutey Honey), not Super Pig. Reluctantly, she became more interested in her role as Super Pig when she found out that she can turn into someone like “Cutey Chao” if she can collect 108 pearls through doing good deeds for other people.
TV Series
Completed
1994
Ai to Yuuto: Hajimete no Otsukai
Ai and Yuuto: Their First Errand is a short, independent anime from 2013, directed by KUMOI Seiji (雲井聖司) while he was a student at Kobe Design University.
Special
Completed
2013
Ai Yori Aoshi
Hanabishi Kaoru is a junior in college, living out an ordinary life of studying and friends. One day, he meets a girl whom he discovers is his old friend Sakuraba Aoi, a girl whom he was supposed to have an arranged marriage with. Together, the two rediscover aspects of their pasts that they had tried to suppress while setting out in their lives with one another. Unfortunately, there are a lot of unwanted guests that keep lurking around in their lives. How is their love going to unfold?
TV Series
Completed
2002
Ai Yori Aoshi (Dub)
Kaoru Hanabishi, a college student who lives alone, met a beautiful but bewildered girl dressed in a kimono at a train station. He volunteered to guide her way to the address she was looking for, which happened to be in his neighborhood, but turned out to be an empty lot. Not knowing what to do next, Kaoru invited the devastated girl to his apartment and asked for any additional clues to her destination. She supplied him with a photo of two children whom Kauru immediately identified as himself and Aoi Sakuraba, his childhood friend. It turned out that the girl in front of him is Aoi Sakuraba herself, his betrothed fiancee who came all the way to Tokyo to marry him. Her revelation was not only surprising but also reminded the deepest part of Kaoru's memory for why he left the Hanabishi family in the first place.
TV Series
Completed
2002
Ai Yori Aoshi Enishi
Hanabishi Kaoru is a junior in college, living out an ordinary life of studying and friends. One day, he meets a girl whom he discovers is his old friend Sakuraba Aoi, a girl whom he was supposed to have an arranged marriage with. Together, the two rediscover aspects of their pasts that they had tried to suppress while setting out in their lives with one another.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of unwanted guests that keep lurking around in their lives. How is their love going to unfold?
TV Series
Completed
2003
Ai Yori Aoshi Special
Hanabishi Kaoru is a junior in college, living out an ordinary life of studying and friends. One day, he meets a girl whom he discovers is his old friend Sakuraba Aoi, a girl whom he was supposed to have an arranged marriage with. Together, the two rediscover aspects of their pasts that they had tried to suppress while setting out in their lives with one another.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of unwanted guests that keep lurking around in their lives. How is their love going to unfold?
TV Series
Completed
2002
Ai Yori Aoshi: Enishi - Miyuki
Ai yori Aoshi: Enishi - Miyuki is a 16 minute Christmas special set before the beginning of the first season.
Based on manga chapters 43-44 and would also fit as episode 21.5 of the first season.
Special
Completed
2003
Ai Yori Aoshi: Enishi (Dub)
Two years after meeting Aoi, Kaoru and gang are still up to their normal habits. Kaoru now in grad school and the tenants being as rowdy as ever what will become of Aoi and Kaoru's love.
Two years has passed since Aoi and Kaoru were freed from the bonds of their families. They continue to live their normal lives with their usual friends in their house.
TV Series
Completed
2003
AIKa (Dub)
A catastrophic earthquake has left Tokyo, and most of the Earth for that matter, under the sea. Aika is a salvager who retrieves various remains from the watery ruins. When Aika accepts the dangerous mission of locating and obtaining the mysterious Lagu, she discovers that she's not the only one after it.
OVA
Completed
1997
AIKa R-16 Virgin Mission
Aika Sumeragi, a sixteen year old high school student, offers her services as a C-class Salvager by spreading posters at school after getting her C-class Salvager license. She is immediately hired by Eri Shinkai, Aika’s wealthy class president and founder of the Treasure Hunting Club. After being introduced to Karen Minamino, a mysterious girl with unknown background and a butterfly insignia on her left breast, the club starts an oceanographic expedition on Eri’s private cruiser to uncover the riddles encoded in Karen’s insignia.
During their journey more questions arise as Risako Nagisa, the schools form teacher, attempts to sabotage the expedition and capture Karen, and a suspicious underwater airport is found by the team with Aika’s beloved Beluga submarine. While the pieces of the puzzle slowly come together, Karen’s life is turned upside down when the team discovers ancient technology to which Karen is the key and traces of biogenetic experiments.
TV Series
Completed
2007
AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission (Dub)
Aika is a smart and athletic high school girl. She is so competent that she successfully passes the salvagers license test, obtaining a C-class license. Yet, she is young and hotheaded, so much so that Gota still treats her as a child. Due to this personality, no one is willing to hire her for salvaging jobs.
Since she had taken the trouble to get her license, she decides to post an ad in her school to attract clients. She manages to get the attention of Erika, a daughter of a rich family and the leader of the treasure hunting club. She asks Aika to salvage something from the sea and Aika delightfully accepts the request.
However, upon seeing the state-of-the-art submarine loaded onto Erika's private cruiser and discovering their destination, Aika realizes the terrible nature of her assignment. This results in a clash with a group of high school girls in the southern islands.
Who is the mysterious girl named Karen? So begins Aika's newest challenge!
OVA
Completed
2007
Aika Zero OVA
The new OVA, titled “AIka Zero,” will take place 3 years after Aika R-16 & 7 years before the original Agent Aika classic. That puts our heroine at 19 years old, & the character designs reflect as much. 19-year-old Aika seems like a cross-over between the cute & young 16-year-old Aika from R-16, & the sexy mature 26-year-old Aika from the original.
TV Series
Completed
2009
AIKa: Special Trial
A bonus episode about Aika and company moving to a new office.
Special
Completed
1998
Aikatsu on Parade!
Raki Kiseki is a second-year middle school student who transfers to Star Harmony Academy to become an idol. However, when she uses an Aikatsu Pass she received from her big sister (an Aikatsu engineer), something mysterious happens. Lots of doors appeared before her, and when she opens them, she meets Aikatsu idols she never knew before, such as Yume Nijino (Aikatsu Stars!). Raki vows to design her own premium dress and perform in it on stage.
Fall 2019
Completed
2019
Aikatsu on Parade! (ONA)
"Dream School Grand Prix" to decide the No.1 idol school among five schools representing the Aikatsu world will be held! In this competition where top idols representing each school compete on stage, Dream Academy's new idol Noel Otoshiro is selected as one of them?! For each idol's dream, a new story starts running into the shining future!
ONA
Ongoing
2020
Aikatsu Planet!
Aikatsu Planet! is a collectible card game by Bandai and a spin-off of Aikatsu!, another collectible card game by Bandai. A live-action and anime hybrid adaptation made by BN Pictures began airing on January 10, 2021.
TV Series
Ongoing
2021
Aikatsu Stars!
The series will feature a new protagonist named Yume Nijino. Yume aims to become a top idol, and she enrolls in the Yotsuboshi Gakuen (Four Stars Academy). This academy has a special group called the S4, who are the top four active idols in the school. Yume and the other first-year students aim to become a part of the S4.
Spring 2016
Completed
2016
Aikatsu!
1The anime series is about the Aikatsu, a special card game about producing idols. The girls who’re from Starlight Academy, a prestigious school with both middle and high branches, train to become idols and take part in various auditions. And they will use Aikatsu card which contain digitalised dresses and accessories from various manufacturers. How well they succeed is often dependent on choosing the right combination of cards.
The video games cast players in the role of a new student, who must train to become an idol and reach the top.The series follows Ichigo Hoshimiya , ordinary middle school girl. But when her best friend, Aoi, invites her to join the idol training academy, her whole world is turned upside down. As she encounters all kinds of rivals and learns what it takes to be an idol, she uses her Aikatsu Cards to challenge countless auditions.
TV Series
Completed
2012