Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu (and sequel)

comedy/romance

Age rating: D15+

Nogizaka Haruka is the famous ‘princess’ of her family.  She seems perfect and untouchable.  Then her secret is found out, but what is that secret?!?!?!  The princess is an otaku!?!?!?!  After Yuuto Ayase discovers this, the two become friends, but of course it’s a shoujo romance, so you know more than that is going to happen.  This one get a 6, minus a point and a half for dirtiness here and there.  The sequel gets a 4, minus the same point and a half.  This show is almost ecchi in some places.  I wish they would have rated it as such.  The first season was okay despite the drunk stripping sister and sensei, but the sequel was dumb.  It’s ‘Let’s push Haruka and Yuuto together and try to get them to do indecent things and then interrupt them in the middle of it’ over and over again.  I finally got tired of it and stopped after watching the ninth episode.  

 

Pandora Hearts

fantasy

Age rating: 15+

Oz Bezarius, heir to one of the duke houses, has just turned fifteen. His life is rich and carefree, darkened only by the constant absence of his father. At his coming-of-age ceremony, however, everything changes. For no reason that he can discern, he's cast into the prison known as the "Abyss", only to be saved by a "chain" known as Alice, the bloodstained black rabbit. It is unknown why was he cast into Abyss, how does Alice factor into it all, and what does the organization known as "Pandora" want with him.  Has an interesting storyline, but is a little dark for my taste.  I got to episode 5.  After that, I didn’t have much of a desire to watch the rest.  For that reason, I didn't feel I could honestly rate this one.

Detective Academy Q

mystery/school-life

Age rating: 13+

Kyu Renjo wants to be a detective.  One day he learns of a school specifically for training detectives and decides to apply.  He ends up getting in and the rest of the story follows him and his class’s mystery solving adventures, along with their rivalry with some of the other students at the school.  Very fun.  Incredible mystery scenarios.  This anime was just so simply good, that you can't say a whole lot about it.  I give it a 10.

Kaze no Stigma

comedy/action/drama/fantasy

Age rating: 15+

Kazuma Kannagi was considered useless within his family because he could not use Enjutsu, the power to control flames. When he was defeated by Ayano Kannagi, one of his relatives, in a bout to decide who the wielder of Enraiha, a sword that was wielded by the family heir, he was banished from the family. Four years later, he returns, now a master of Fuujustu, the power to control wind, with a new name: Kazuma Yagami. Soon after his return, he is reunited with Ayano and his younger brother, Ren, who is also gifted in Enjutsu. Soon, however, Kannagi family members are killed and the murder weapon is revealed to be Fuujutsu. Now Kazuma has to fight his family to prove that he is not the murderer. Awesome, even though it does have a few dirty things here and there. Interesting plot. It gets a 9.