The Winter 2010 lineup (January - March) had some real standouts. Here's every show from the season, ranked by the community — from heavy hitters to under-the-radar picks worth checking out.
On a cold December day, Kyon arrives at school prepared for another outing with his fellow SOS Brigade members. However, much to his surprise, he discovers that almost everything has changed completely: Haruhi Suzumiya and Itsuki Koizumi are nowhere to be found; Mikuru Asahina...
In an Edo-era Japan lush with a variety of sword-fighting styles, Shichika Yasuri practices the most unique one: Kyotouryuu, a technique in which the user's own body is wielded as a blade. The enigmatic seventh head of the Kyotouryuu school, Shichika lives quietly in exile with...
Shinichi Chiaki is quickly making a name for himself as the principal conductor of the revitalized Roux-Marlet Orchestra, and Megumi "Nodame" Noda has made leaps and bounds as a pianist at the Conservatoire de Paris. However, tensions mount between the two as Nodame feels left...
In the year Universal Century 0096, three years after Char Aznable's failed attempt to force human migration into space, life continues in the colonies orbiting Earth. One such colony, at Side 4, is home to Banagher Links, a 16-year-old who lives a quiet life among his...
In Tokyo's downtown district of Ikebukuro, amidst many strange rumors and warnings of anonymous gangs and dangerous occupants, one urban legend stands out above the rest—the existence of a headless "Black Rider" who is said to be seen driving a jet-black motorcycle through the...
Some of the characters get together and talk about "regrets" they have after 4 years of anime Gintama. Soon they fight over who gets more screen time. Special animation shown at the Gintama Haru Matsuri 2010 live event.
In the Japan of the future, employing androids for various purposes is nothing out of the ordinary. However, treating androids on the same level as humans is frowned upon, and there is constant paranoia surrounding the possibility of robots defying humans, their masters. Those...
Young flower enthusiast Tsubomi Hanasaki is often modest and quiet. But with her family moving to a new town, she aims to reinvent her image at her new school as someone more confident and outgoing. On moving day, she dreams of a mysterious tree in the sky guarded by a warrior...
When we first met Yuno, she'd just been accepted to the prestigious Yamabuki Art School, and it was up to her new neighbors at Hidamari to help her find her way in the big scary world. Now a seasoned vet of the Hidamari Apartments herself, Yuno's newest challenge is to help the...
Fleeing from the consequences of his decision at the Hell's Gate, superpowered Contractor Hei and his companion Yin take refuge in a quiet inn, adopting the guise of a married couple in order to not draw suspicion. In an attempt to recover from recent events, Hei befriends the...
It is almost the end of the year, and Houkago Tea Time has been invited to participate in a live house on New Year's Eve! The iconic band members are Yui Hirasawa, the carefree guitarist who is enthusiastic to play music; Mio Akiyama, the shy bassist who gets embarrassed easily;...
On the outskirts of the country of Helvetia rests the tranquil town of Seize. Upon its cobbled streets, citizens go about their daily lives, undisturbed by the increasingly tense military relations between Helvetia and the neighboring Roman Empire. It is under these...
As one of the 12 Seleção that needs to save the country in order to win a game, Akira Takizawa decided to become the "King of Japan." With that in mind, after his return from the U.S.A., the remaining Seleção will also need to follow up on their own plans as they strive to outdo...
An internet-only stand-alone special episode of Katekyou Hitman Reborn! on the Shounen-Jump website, where the main characters go to various tourist spots in Japan. It will be made available on DVD in July 2010, and extra scenes will be included.
Fumizuki Academy is not a typical Japanese high school. This unique institution has implemented a new and innovative system to sort its students. At the end of their freshman year, students take a test that divides up the student body. The highest scorers are placed into A...
The second arc of Tales of Symphonia that takes place in the flourishing world of Tethe'alla. This OVA takes place up to two-thirds of the game, prior to the Derris-Kharlan arc.
The pasta-loving North Italy, stalwart Germany, and timid Japan continue their misadventures through history as they reenact various events leading up to and during the Second World War. This includes the turbulent relationship between Hungary and Prussia, the War of Austrian...
In Fuyuki City, the Fifth Holy Grail War is about to commence a lengthy battle of blood, death, and misery. High school student Rin Toosaka has trained her entire life for this moment—to become a magus capable of being a Master in the war. Summoning her Servant known as Archer,...
Five elementary school children are spending their summer break camping at a remote mountain village. While on a hunt for their missing rabbit, Pyon-kichi, they find an injured dog in a field with crop circles. After nursing the dog back to health, they are shocked when he...
Nobita asks Doraemon to take him somewhere they can dive and as a result the robot-cat uses several gadgets to make it possible for both to able to swim on an imaginary ocean above sea level. Inadvertently a mermaid ends up on Nobita's backyard when they turn off the illusion....
Anzu goes to a kindergarten with her friends, the shy Koume and the eccentric Hiiragi. Together they try to make their caretaker, Tsuchida Naozumi, fall in love with Anzu. However, he is clearly more interested in the pretty Yamamoto Nanako, a fellow kindergarten teacher who...
Tsubomi Hanasaki is woken by her best friend Erika Kurumi only to find out that their two fairies, Coffret and Shypre, have left just leaving a note explaining where to find them. Fairy Park is not only the destination of both girls, it is also the meeting point of all other...
While riding with Jack Atlas and Crow Hogan, Yuusei Fudou's Stardust Dragon is captured by Paradox, a mysterious Turbo Duelist from the future, during a Turbo Duel and turned into a Sin Monster. With the help of the Crimson Dragon, Yuusei chases after Paradox as he enters a time...
Ookiku Furikabutte recap OVA where the TV series has been reassembled into two 90 minute episodes.
A recap OVA summarizing the ten-year TV series up to the Impel Down arc.
Maeda Toshiie and Matsu visit Chousokabe Motochika, who governs Shikoku. They tell Motochika unreasonable demands from Nobunaga. Motochika rejects them and urges Maeda to betray Nobunaga. Meanwhile Keiji tries to convince Mouri Motonari to join the fight against Nobunaga, and is...
One day, a stone carving bearing an uncanny likeness to Keroro arrives at Fuyumi's place. To solve this mystery, the Keroro Squad travels to the isolated and mysterious Easter Island. There, they meet harmless spirits known as Mana, and the odd twins Io and Rana. Lastly, there...
It is almost Valentine's Day, and grim reaper Grell Sutcliff finally receives the opportunity to become the heroine of her very own harem battle. Whilst making chocolates for the demonic butler Sebastian Michaelis, Grell's preparations are interrupted by a whole host of handsome...
Lupin III aims to steal a Japanese cultural treasure "Jigoku Nyorai Zo," which is found in the recreation facilities of Nazi Germany. However, this valuable object is also targeted by Morgana, a mysterious figure who leads a ninja thief gang.
Global political figures such as The Pope, Kim Jong Il, George W. Bush and recent Japanese Prime Ministers play riichi mahjong against each other.
Based on a shounen gag manga by Masuda Kousuke serialised in Monthly Shounen Jump.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun specials that were released on the 1st and 5th Blu-ray and DVD volumes.
Mini Flash anime from the limited-edition DVDs volumes (episodes 1-6) and Blu-ray Box (episodes 1-8, of which 7 and 8 were new additions to the Blu-ray box).
After the death of his parents, Yuuto Amakawa lives a pretty ordinary life in the city. The only problem he has to worry about while attending school alongside Rinko, his next-door neighbor, is his cat allergies. That all changes on his sixteenth birthday, when an Ayakashi—a...
Summarized version of the 50-episode TV series. Includes all the highlights.
For their silver anniversary, Vanilla and Coconna return to Uoodo along with Gotho in the hopes of reuniting with Chirico. Once there they find a red shouldered AT at the Battling arena.
The war between the Heike clan and the Genji clan continues. This time, Nozomi has to fight a powerful supernatural enemy and make a choice: protect her friends and stay by Kurou's side, or choose her first love, Masaomi, which is the leader of the Heike, and her enemy.
Once upon a time, there lived an old man and his wife in a mountain. One night, he found a bunch of mice heading to somewhere. He followed them and saw the mice playing Sumo. The man and his wife happened to know the mice living in their house always lose the matches, and they...
Mai invites Reito to go with her to the beach and also says that she prefers him over Tate. But little does he know, that this is actually part of a plan for revenge.
Three-minute long music video released together with the Blu-Ray version. It's placed right after the ending credits of episode 13 as an "epilogue" but in fact it show events that happened after the last scene of the anime (the one with Hiromi and Shinichiro) and before the real...
An extra episode of Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Itekureta Koto. One year after the events of the main series, the girls have moved on. Kanon has decided on her future occupation and wants to go into oceanography. Meanwhile in the sea, Marin and her group find a lost sea cow...
A Dance in the Vampire Bund recap episode featuring re-edited footage from the first 7 episodes.
Comedy parodying famous samurai generals and historical events.
Shin Koihime†Musou characters sing theme songs on stage at a live event.
Special included in BD vol. 5.
Two five minute specials based on homonym games. Natsuya receives a mission from Professor Hastings to protect Pokémon and destroy the Pokémon Nappers, who poach and control wild Pokémon.
Due to his father's job, 15-year-old Hiroshi Kuzumi and his family move to the mountain town of Jouga. While some teenagers might have to worry about fitting in or feel out of place in a new environment, Hiroshi is welcomed enthusiastically at school by most of his new...
An exclusive picture drama released with the Blu-Ray Box Set of Seto no Hanayome. The first part starts out with gags and the characters drawn in a simplistic chibi style. It's followed by a quick recap and then goes into the main picture drama story.
The life of the French poet André Marie Chénier during the period of radical social and political upheaval in France.
Picture Drama included in the Blu-Ray release. Arika and Eristin have just transferred to a new school. On their way home they found a wounded lost cat and they decided to look for its owner.
Animated Flash shorts based on the light novel series "Haiyore! Nyaruko-san." In these shorts, Nyarlko, an anthropomorphized female version of Nyarlathotep from the Cthulhu Mythos, is constantly being told off by Mahiro, a normal human boy, for all the crazy or stupid things she...
Music video for Kenshi Yonezu's song World's End Umbrella animated by Minakata Laboratory. The song was also released on his 1st album titled "Hanataba to Suisou".
Full version of the story featured in the TV series. Released as a special.
Fujyoko is a 24 year old office worker. She admires her fashionable senpai Takayo, but one day she meets her at a doujinshi event.
Boku, Otary-man (otaku + salaryman) is a autobiographical manga of the author Yoshitani, who is also working as a system engineer. It's about a slice of life of an office worker, who is a little bit otaku.
Nisshin Seifun Group commissioned 4 commercials for a mascot, Konyara, from Studio Ghibli to promote their company. The first commercial was for their 110th anniversary.
Following the destruction of the magical floating device from OVA 1, the Magic Academy falls to earth, but unfortunately lands on and breaks a demon seal, releasing hundreds of ancient demons into the forest around the academy. The teachers are barely keeping the demons away and...
The story is set during the turbulent years of the shogunate, as dark forces try to undermine the shogun's power in Edo-era Tokyo. Shirou Sumiya is the leader of the "Way of the Paper Drawing" clan which captures the chaos of the struggles with rapid brush strokes. Sumiya is...
An original short film by Inaba Takuya depicting a strange world in black & white. Premiered at Tokyo Anima! in 2013.
A Romance of the Three Kingdoms retelling using SD Gundams.
The second collaboration between Kawasaki Frontale and Tentai Senshi Sunred.
Byururu came from the straw world. At night the kitchen turns into a magical forest inhabited by witches. Here Byururu sets out on an adventure.
In the near future, a girl yearning for death and a robot who has been near her since she was a child continue moving in eternity. (Source: Annecy)
The offensive and defensive battles between Nobuo, an office worker, and Chi-Sui Maru, a mosquito.
A planet with 6 inhabitants only. In order to match the tuning of the radio, the main character walks around and meets the 5 other inhabitants. A strange SF short animation.
An exclusive music video special released with the Blu-Ray Box Set of Seto no Hanayome.
Crafty Gecko and General Tiger attack the Goat Village with plans to build an amusement park. Even worse, they intend to turn the castle of Wolfie (Grey Wolf) and his wife, Wolnie (Red Wolf) into a public toilet! To save their captured families from the fierce animal gang and...
A boy and his stuffed bunny and their magical adventure. Sung by Michiluca. Animation by Dalbiez&Tournaire.
Reinya appears to be an ordinary girl working at a convenience store but she is in fact, the Phantom Thief Reinya. Together with her assistant Chūtarō in their secret hideout right below the local convenience store, Reinya hatches plans to steal various treasures made of gold....
A parody of Doraemon. Din Dong, a common cat which pretends to be magical, accompanies his useless masters and his friends in Hong Kong.
The third Eagle Talon movie.
Music video for the song Music Video Orchestra by Omodaka.
A song about how encounters in your casual life and ability to connect with others through smiling is a treasure that carries with you for a lifetime.
Stuck on the desolate planet Walpurgis, two intrepid girls named Garnet and Crystal, along with their robotic bat Carrot, can only dispatch emergency broadcasts into space and hope that someone will eventually come to their rescue. In an attempt to increase the distress...
A promotional video for Chinka, a proposed anime series from Danny Choo's Studio Mirai production studio. Announced in 2010, the series never came to fruition. Choo describes the story as follows: Since a few years ago, there have been many cases of arson. In the rural town of...
More than twenty years ago, an evil summoner committed "Great Summon". One third of human beings were killed, and devils and monsters invaded the Earth. One day, a painter, Tamura Fukutaro, moves into an apartment house called "Ashiaraiyashiki" and gets involved in the troubles...
Let's go, Let's go, Let's go to the starrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... Let's go. (Source: Official site)
A promotional anime for Nissan Soap's Fafa laundry mascot. These two ONA films were promoting the AiR Fafa project. The project itself was a type of augmented reality app that people could play with. North American viewers may recognize Fafa under a different name "Snuggle"....
Once again happy to have someone watching her from the real world, Hinako wants to spend some quality time together with her viewer, even though it is quite late. Unwilling to let the opportunity pass her by, she allows her viewer to sleep alongside her. Over the course of the...
Stop-motion anime about a girl named Ratio who lives in a forest with her icy monsters and creatures. Every day she goes out explores new things.
Kewpie, the babylike doll that the late American artist Rose O'Neill created for Ladies' Home Journal magazine in 1909, will celebrate its 100th anniversary this December with its first animated project. (Source: ANN)
On a legendary island shaped like an unusually regular turd, a population of turd-people and insanely aggressive animals go about their hilarity-packed day to day lives. Central character Yoshiko Un is known as Unko-san, but you're unlikely to meet her--the island appears only...
In the year 2735, mankind has begun to venture into space to find a new home after Earth's environment succumbs to global warming and the bombardment of asteroids into the atmosphere. During their voyage, the Space Migration Fleet encounters an alien race from the planet Iccus....
Keshikasu-kun is an anthropomorphism anime about stationery. The main character is the eraser Keshikasu who aims to be an idol of the stationary world. He fights against other stationary and erases a mechanical pencil or gets crushed by a permanent marker.
Damen is a coined word combining "Dame (failed)" and "Men". It's a collection of short stories about women's experiences with "Damen (failed men like swindler, liar etc.)".
The 7th DVD of Sugar Bunnies Fleur! contained the unaired episode 27 finale and an unaired recap episode.
The Frogman Company presents, a Tumulus Cinderella Story! Once upon a time, a gentle girl named Coffy lived a life of misery, being treated like trash by her sister-by-law Daniel and her family. Coffy was not allowed to go to the dance party where Prince Charles would choose his...
A special that features six stories - four animated, and two live-action. The four animated stories and their animators are "Muryou no Denwaki" ("Free Phone") by Pantagraph, "Atarashii Asobi" by Tayuta Mikage, "Kōtta Jikan" by Tetsuro Kodama, and "Gogo no Kyouryuu" by Takashi...
I can dance! I can sing! So, I can speak English! Hello Cocomong is a series of musical episodes teaching kids through song and dance. A large amount of episodes are aimed to teach English to Korean speaking children, though the intention is lost with the official English dub of...
Frostlight, a naive girl, disregards the fortuneteller's warnings, and tries too hard in keeping Westwind's heart. Her attempts catch the attention of Asura, and a war breaks out. Frostlight quickly boards a mysterious ship and departs on a perilous and fantastic journey. This...
The third season of Ninja Tamamaru.
A music video for the song "Ninja Negizou" by Alberto Shiroma. Aired as part of NHK's Minna no Uta program.
Music video for the song Akubi Neko by Youmou & Ohana that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.
Two promotional videos featuring various Sanrio characters.
Based on community ratings, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya is the highest-rated anime from Winter 2010 with a score of 8.60. Other top picks include Katanagatari and Nodame Cantabile Finale.
There are 112 anime from the Winter 2010 season tracked on MyAnimePulse, including 24 TV series, 22 movies, and 25 OVA/ONAs.
The winter anime season covers January - March. Most new anime in this season begin airing in January.
