Looking back at Summer 2010 anime (July - September) — this is the full roster ranked by score. Whether you're catching up or revisiting favorites, the whole season's here.
While spending the summer at his aunt's house, the young but sickly Shou makes an amazing discovery: after following the house cat into the bushes, he gets a glimpse of a miniature girl about the size of his finger! Calling her kind "Borrowers," as they survive on tiny bits of...
Celty Sturluson is tasked to deliver a suspicious red handbag as part of her courier duties—the problem is: it is being sought by several organizations. As she makes her way through Ikebukuro toward the place the bag is supposed to be brought to, she is chased by mysterious men...
Upon arriving at the train station of death, an impure soul is granted a second chance at life against his will. Reincarnating into the body of Makoto Kobayashi, a 14-year-old boy who recently committed suicide, the soul is tasked to identify the boy's greatest sin in life...
Life is idyllic and unassuming in the small town of Sotoba, a simple place where everyone knows everyone. However, tragedy strikes when Megumi Shimizu, a young girl with high aspirations, unexpectedly passes away from an unnamed illness. Over the torrid summer months, as more...
Rikuo Nura, a part-youkai and part-human boy, grew up as the young master of the Nura Clan. While he treated the clan, which consists of youkai of all shapes and sizes, like family, he soon learned that he was the only one among his classmates who saw youkai in this light. To...
On his first day of high school at the formerly all-girl's Ousai Private Academy, Takatoshi Tsuda is called out for his untidy uniform by the student council president Shino Amakusa. In apology for delaying Takatoshi for his first class—and stating that the group needs a male...
When Satoshi Yabe, the newest teacher at an elementary school, is assigned as the homeroom teacher of class 6-3, he is in for a shock. The class is full of chaos and eccentric students, but none are more troublesome than the mischievous Marui triplets. Mitsuba is sadistic and...
"Alpha Stigma" are known to be eyes that can analyze all types of magic. However, they are more infamously known as cursed eyes that can only bring destruction and death to others. Ryner Lute, a talented mage and also an Alpha Stigma bearer, was once a student of the Roland...
The deadly confrontation with the Devil King, Oda Nobunaga is over, but the struggle for supremacy continues in Warring Countries-era Japan, as the armies of Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin repeatedly engage battle at Kawanakajima. Meanwhile, on the easternmost side of the...
Continuing after the Level Upper incident, another phenomenon torments Misaka. A phenomenon called "Someone's Watching," its effect feels like the electricity in one's body flow backwards. With the help of her friends, Misaka fights against the unknown enemy.
Led by Yamato, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Sai are assigned to capture Mukade, a rogue ninja who is pursuing the ancient chakra Ryuumyaku located underneath the Rouran ruins. While the Ryuumyaku has been sealed by the Fourth Hokage, the group fails to prevent Mukade from...
As she strives to be an upstanding student council president, Misaki Ayuzawa maintains the same dedication to her secret part-time job at a maid cafe. As if Misaki's everyday life is not busy enough, the people around her only make it more hectic. Each colorful member of the...
The gang goes to an indoor swimming pool for some fun in the sun. As expected, all hell breaks loose when Tomoki goes on one of his perverted missions. Meanwhile, Nymph is having some issues with the loss of her master and considers asking Tomoki to be her replacement master. ...
In the year 2314 AD, the world is at peace. Thanks to the sacrifices of Celestial Being and its mobile suit pilots, the people of Earth experience a time of prosperity and unity, enjoying tranquil lives once thought impossible. Celestial Being, an organization once painted as...
Two years ago, Junichi Tachibana had a date on Christmas Eve but was stood up instead. Since then, he has had a hard time showing others his true feelings in fear of being rejected again. However, as luck would have it, Junichi may have a second chance at love when he meets...
After recovering from an accident, shy and small 15-year-old Hiyori Nishiyama is finally able to attend school again after a year. While trying to introduce herself in front of her class, she is interrupted by the tall and outgoing Yuushin Hirose. To make matters worse, their...
In the future, androids known as Parents have gained popularity for their ability to perform a wide variety of tasks, including shopping and household chores. When Keiichirou Kuro finds an older model of a Parent in a junk pile, he feels compelled to take it home. With no...
As a child, Fuu "Potte" Sawatari and her late father would often visit his hometown of Takehara and take pictures of the surroundings together. Now, five years since their last visit, Fuu and her family have moved to the town so that she can start attending high school. Although...
Tomboy Ryouko Ookami is a fierce boxer and the assigned bruiser of her club. Of course, no normal high school club needs a bruiser, but the Otogi Bank operates more akin to an actual bank. Here, the students can ask for favors from the club as long as they promise to return the...
The stage of Kuroshitsuji II opens on the life of Alois Trancy, the young heir to the Trancy earldom. Though he is privileged now, such was not always the case for the hot-tempered boy. Kidnapped and forced into slavery at a young age, he was eventually rescued and returned...
Special episode of Yumeiro Pâtissière shown at the Ribon event along with Hiyokoi.
An OVA that takes place during the manga's middle school storyline.
On her first day of junior high school, Mato Kuroi meets Yomi Takanashi. Though Yomi is initially taken aback by Mato's straightforward personality, the pair quickly becomes friends and begin to spend time together daily. As a sign of their friendship, Mato gives Yomi a cell...
Love Live! School idol project. DVD bundled with the debut CD single of the fan-voted idol project. (Source: AniDB)
The story revolves around Maya, the daughter of the former Headmaster of Waldstein Academy, and a time traveling agent Fumiaki Uchida. In the year 2012, the world had been invaded by aliens and time travelers were sent back to the year 1999 in order to find and destroy the...
Second season of the everyday life of the lady with many cats. Based on a blog by the cat owner. Actress Miki Nakatani (Ringu, Densha Otoko) will take over the series' voice acting duty in second season.
While enjoying a barbecue alongside team members and peers, Naruto Uzumaki stumbles upon a strange old bottle that houses a genie! The mythical being is willing to grant three wishes, but in a flurry of excitement, Naruto ends up wasting the first two. Outraged, Sasuke Uchiha...
The shapeshifting Pokémon Zorua and Zoroark are captured by a mysterious group intent on using their illusory powers for their own gain. They unleash Zoroark on Crown City, forcing her beforehand to take the form of Suicune, Entei, and Raikou, the guardians of the town. As...
Short prologue OVA, bundled with manga volume vol.10. Elsie receives from Dokurou Skull, hell's branch chief of "counter measures", the task to go on earth and capture evil spirits that have escaped from hell.
The Carrot Military Service special unit, Cat Shit One, is an elite private military fighting force. Members Perkins and Botasky are stationed in the Middle East to conduct reconnaissance on an insurgent base where hostages are being held. However, things quickly escalate when...
Komaki Manaka daydreams about classmate Kono Takaaki but is too shy to talk to boys. As Takaaki-kun helps her in the library they resolve to have training sessions there, calling each other by first name. When Manaka addresses Takaaki-kun outside the library, his buddy Kosaka...
A Kure-nai OVA featuring new character designs closer to the novel/manga.
A Hutch movie.
Graduation Production made by three students graduated from the National Taiwan University of Arts. The main character of little girl in the story confronts a robbery and strays from the road she is familiar with. After passing a hedge, she enters an unknown world and unfolds a...
A promotional video that was shown to the public at Comiket 78, and uploaded to YouTube and posted on the official website. It was also included with the first Blu-ray/DVD volume of the Matsuri OVA. It is done in the style of a visual novel game played on a Nintendo DS screen. ...
Haru and Natsu are not human. They do not know what it means to be anything but a robot. Abandoned by their previous owner, Haru and Natsu are taken in by a scientist named Masa. Haru wants to feel, wants to understand how to act human, and wants to know what it means to love....
The Digital World is in a state of war, with the evil Bagra Army attempting to collect fragments of the Code Crown. Whoever manages to collect all 108 fragments will become king of the Digital World. An evil group of Digimon, known as the Bagra Army, are determined to get their...
It's summer vacation. In front of Ginga and Co, who are excited about a Beyblade tournament, Helios, a mysterious youth, stands in their way. In his hands, he possesses "Sol Blaze", a Beyblade that has been passed down since ancient times. As intense battle between Ginga vs....
As we enter the 21st century, the relationship between sports and technology is getting closer and closer. Sports products are enhanced by technological advances. The designs of footballs and football shoes require detailed information and computer tests in order to produce...
A recap film of the first 6 episodes of the TV series. Anne is an orphan full of imagination. When she arrives at her new home she learns that sometimes you have to be a sensible person too; at the same time her unique character changes, or at least attracts, the people around...
Extra short anime "Ura-On!!" included in the limited edition of the K-ON!! Blu-ray.
Haru Irei, who witnessed the 1/1 scale RX-78-2 Gundam in Odaiba, becomes inspired to build Gunpla, which is a portmanteau of Gundam Plastic model kit. Haru purchases a one of a kind gunpla, the GPB-X80 Beginning Gundam. After building the kit, Haru, now a Gunpla Builder, and the...
Set in Tokyo in the near future, when all humanity has been wiped out, a lonely basset hound wanders around a deserted city. Its only wish is to feel the warmth of a human being once more.
Mozaik Role is an original song by DECO*27. It was uploaded to YouTube on January 19, 2014. (Source: Vocaloid Wikia)
A college student and his friends—Seitarou Higuchi, Akashi, Ozu, and Ryouko Hanuki—share various stories about a submarine that can travel through land, each one trying to outdo the others in terms of creativity. Ranging from a journey to stop the melting of the ice caps, to a...
Recaps of Nurarihyon no Mago.
Heroman specials released in DVD/BD volumes 2, 5 and 8.
CJ7: The Cartoon loosely adopts the original plot of how a father and a son accidentally pick up an alien named CJ7. Based on Stephen Chow's 2008 hit comedy CJ7, the film has a newly developed storyline in which CJ7 protects the environment and saves the earth.
The story of the anime revolves around Hanako, a girl who lives in a supernatural world apart from our own. Hanako appears when schoolchildren are in trouble; she is a benevolent version of an enduring Japanese urban legend about Hanako, a ghost who lives in a toilet at the...
In a future governed through the lens of a camera, where people eat synthetic food and pursue an online existence in lieu of physical contact, a group of children begin meeting up in the real world. The aloof Ayumi Kono, the genius hacker Mio Tsuzuki, and the socially awkward...
22nd Anpanman short movie.
Sometime in the near future, in an age in which we have established contact and communications with planets outside our galaxy, Scan2Go has become a huge phenomenon throughout all of outer space. Giant races are held at every locality, with each racer gunning for the title of...
An independent anime project by Nosferatu. The film was screened at the Mini-Cinema Tollywood in Shimo-Kitazawa, Setagaya, Tokyo starting Saturday, August 21, 2010. (Source: AniDB)
Comedy parodying famous samurai generals and historical events.
A recap of Gundam, Gundam Z, Gundam ZZ, and Char's Counterattack as experienced by Char Aznable, as well as a precursor to Gundam Unicorn. Originally a live event consisting of a public recitation done by Char's voice actor with simultaneous screenings of the anime, the DVD...
In their new adventure, Yuuna and Stitch move from their small island Izayoi to the Okinawa main island where Yuuna is supposed to visit a school. A new cast of friends awaits them there as well as a new crisis approaching from space. (Source: AniDB)
Six minutes long CGI anime of Moyashimon, bundled with the limited edition of the manga volume 9.
Music video for Electric Love feat. Hatsune Miku by Hachioji-P.
Five shorts to promote the Japanese electricity company Kyushu Electric Power (Kyuden). Tetsuro and Maetel visit five interplanetary stops (including Earth) and see how each locale deals with energy.
A short manner movie where Flower explains that it's illegal to record movies from the cinema with a handycam, etc... (Source: AniDB)
On a planet very similar to the earth... Here, the missile mechanoids started to have its own will and control, and were driving the human beings into serious danger. Shaleen was the last ICHIRIN-SHA (unicyclist) in the world, traveling the world on his beat up motor unicycle....
A flash anime featuring Airuu, the helper cats in the original Monster Hunter game.
The Darkness Civilization has attacked the Fire Civilization! Shobu, together with Rekuta, goes to the world of Duel Masters to help the Fire Civilization. However, when Shobu arrives, he is shocked to see a badly beaten Storm XX, said to be the Fire Civilization's trump card....
Music video for the song Love: Sayonara wa Iwanai by Marie Ishikawa. The video was animated by Aya Shiroi.
BD specials styled as "previews" in an alternative magical-girl setting.
The Anpanman Grand Prix is a land, air and sea race around Anpanman World using specially built cars. A grumpy young girl from Flower Land called Maggie causes an accident that wrecks Creampanda’s race car. After helping him fix it, she enters the race as his partner. (Source:...
Tachikawa Tetsuya is a freshman at a new high school and he wants to become a great archer, like his late grandfather, Fudou. One day, a new transfer student joins his class. In a surprise to everyone, it is a cute girl and not a guy like the rumors were saying... The name is...
A PV for Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai shown at the Comiket 78 and later included on BD/DVD Volume 5. Features original animation not present in the series. (Source: AniDB, edited)
MMD music video for the song Monochro∞Blue Sky by Noboru↑-P, featuring Hatsune Miku. The song was included on Farm Records' Vocaloid compilation album "EX:P2 ～Ex:Producers2～".
Tayo the Little Bus is about exciting adventures that are to happen in the metropolitan city where different vehicles live with harmony with one another. Tayo is just starting to learn his route in this busy city centre and on his journey, he is making many new friends. Full of...
With her synthesized voice and trusty leek, the acclaimed virtual diva Miku Hatsune, as a clay figure, sings "Ievan Polkka." However, would thinking the song would end without incident be a little too hopeful? [Written by MAL Rewrite]
The 16th-century shogun Oda Nobunaga wakes up in a high school girl's body.
The game is set in the distant future in a parallel dimension called the Cosmic Ark. There is a race of long-dormant, gigantic robots called Arks, which have suddenly awakened to find their galaxy being ruled by the evil Chaos. Since they lay dormant for aeons, the three...
High above a lush countryside, a group of young children are soaring through the sky. Equipped with jetpacks, they joyfully zip around the atmosphere, leaving trails of smoke in their wake. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
The Amars go on an adventure in the forest.
Music video for Asa ga Kuru mae ni: Sasurai Version single by Japanese rock band Tsuru.
Collaboration of Peeping Life and PS3. A DVD containing 6 PS3 related Peeping Life episodes was given out at the 2010 Tokyo Game show.
Short film by Takashi Ohashi, visually syncopating music by Onishi Yoshito.
Music video for Kenshi Yonezu's song Wonderland to Hitsuji no Uta animated by Minakata Laboratory. The song was also released on his 2nd album titled "OFFICIAL ORANGE".
Koji Morimoto, the acclaimed Studio 4°C co-founder who worked on The Animatrix, Genius Party, and Memories, directed an animated music video for the electro rock band Masterlink. The music video is for "Super Speed," the title track on the band's second CD single. Morimoto had...
Music video for the song Kimi no Kimochi sung by Satoshin (Shin Satou), a well know picture book writer, and Rina (Rina Hatakeyama), a famous child actress, that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. The song was released as a maxi single that same month. The video was...
Music video for the song "Juujika You and I" from the Base Ball Bear's album Cypress Girls. This features vocals reminiscent of Michael Jackson funk.
Picture drama and pilot released on the Loups=Garous #Overture BluRay. It was a stand-alone release separate from the film, it contained various bonus material like the picture drama and pilot as well as staff interviews and trailers.
Animated music videos for songs from the third 10th anniversary album "Do You Remember That Night?" by Sugiurumn, featuring a variety of accompanying artists. The album is a compilation of tracks from his previous discography, with That Night feat. Tomomi Ukumori as the only...
A short animation by Ryoji Yamada combining dreams and pictures.
Nanao Tabito's song Kensaku Shounen held a music video contest. Where anyone could create a music video and submit it for prize money. Saigo no Shudan competed with an entirely animated piece and won the grand prize.
Set in the eastern Japanese prefecture of Ibaraki, Agukaru centers around Sanae Baraki, a farmer’s daughter who can see spirits. Every day she works on her field together with such spirits to produce the best agricultural goods. However, there is a group that aims for that...
Music video by Kouki Tange and YELLOW BRAIN for the song Aishiteru by Monkey Majik in their three-song album under the same name. It features a blend of live-action and animation.
A collaboration between Mameshiba and Kinako, a 2010 Japanese film based on a true story of a dog trainer, meant to promote the latter's release the following month.
The opening video for Nagao Takena's film screening event in Kobe, Japan that was organized by the Horror Eiga Koujou Iinkai MebiusRing. The video features the song Intoxica by The Centurians.
HIFANA's unique live performances and track-making skills have inspired club music fans around the globe. Their full-length album "24H" was released on July 28, 2010. Based on the concept of "1 day : 24 hours," the album is made up of 12 audio tracks plus 12 video tracks...
A music video for Dreaming Pupa: Yumemiru Bokura by Pupa.
Sixth grader Nozomi Nanase spends a summer with her grandfather, a family doctor in a rural clinic. In the mountain village in the midst of nature, animals and insects live powerful and fearless. One day, Nozomi discovers that lizards have special cells that can regenerate...
It happened in Japan in the near future. The term "Company" has been joined in the latest salary cyborg, the Afro-kun ☆ mechanism.
It is decided that you are not needed on this earth. "I can't take care of you any longer!!" A weary and strong mother put Takashi in a car and drove to a deserted place. "No more! I can't help it! It's impossible for me! I'm sorry." With these words, the mother left Takashi...
Xiao Long is a modern day middle-school student, who, after being transported 3,000 years back in time to the ancient kingdom of Jinsha, discovers his true destiny. Jinsha is a beautiful and magical place but plagued by a mysterious evil energy which its inhabitants fear they...
Music video for the song Tracking Elevator by Shuugo Tokumaru.
Music video for the song Shiawase no Yocchore yo!! by Tomotaka Okamoto and the Kotonomi Jidou Gasshoudan that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.
Music video for the song Ya Ya Ya by ORANGE RANGE.
Based on community ratings, The Secret World of Arrietty is the highest-rated anime from Summer 2010 with a score of 7.90. Other top picks include Durarara!! Specials and Broken Blade 3.
There are 123 anime from the Summer 2010 season tracked on MyAnimePulse, including 26 TV series, 27 movies, and 27 OVA/ONAs.
The summer anime season covers July - September. Most new anime in this season begin airing in July.
