Essence of Anime

I recently typed up a list of anime reviews for one of my friends, with a one-line essential summary.  I thought they were pretty funny, and since this is my blog, that means the editors think it's pretty funny too, and it posts.  :-D


Without further ado:  Essence of Anime
(Some spoilers ahead.)

Title: Rating
Executive Summary: "Better than it sounds."

Ah My Goddess! 5/5
Shy, quiet guy has a magical girl enter his life.  Her siblings rage magical war.

Black Cat 2/5
Little girl hunted by bad guys.  Lone wolf kicks butt with a pistol.

Bleach 5/5
Highschool boy gets a giant sword, and hunts monsters.

Chobits 2/5
Pervert finds a girl with amnesia.  He proceeds to treat her like his daughter, and they fall in love.

Cowboy Bebop 3/5
Iconoclast bounty hunters have misadventures.  Vaguely reminiscent of Firefly.

Death Note 5/5
Highschool student turns meglomaniac when he discovers he can kill people.

Element Hunters 4/5
Elementary school students fight Pokemon.  Some science words are used.

Escaflowne 2/5
Girl ends up in Wonderland.  All the boys love her.

Evangelion 1/5
Boy pilots mecha.  His life sucks.  Then everyone takes LSD.

Full Metal Alchemist 6/5
Two brothers use magic to do good, and save the country.
Series rebooted as "Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood."  Both are awesome.

Full Metal Panic 5/5
15 year-old soldier saves violent girl from Russians.  Some mecha.

Gin Tama 4/5
Chaotic-good Samurai fights aliens in post-Modern Edo.
Random episodes are perverted (in a toilet humor sense), but the rest are awesome.

Great Teacher Onizuka 4/5
A Real-Man teaches highschool.

Hakuouki 3/5
Girl pretends to be a boy, but is found out.  Period drama, Edo Japan.  Magic?

Haruhi Suzumiya 5/5
A 14-year-old girl is all-powerful, but doesn't know it.

Honey And Clover 5/5
Art students live life.  One of them is a little girl.

Ichigo Mashimaro 5/5
5th graders play afterschool.  One of them is a narcissist.

InuYasha 6/5
Girl time-travels to Feudal Japan and falls in love with a half-demon.  Epic.

K-ON! 5/5
Highschool girls form a band and eat cookies.

Minami-ke 3/5
Three sisters try to be normal.

Mushishi 4/5
A man solves problems caused by magical bugs.

Nabari No Ou 2/5
A kid has undisclosed magical powers.  Ninja fight over him.

Naruto 6/5
Ninja children fight and make friends.

Ninja Scroll 0/5
Really slow.

Nodame Contabile 5/5
A concert pianist and a conductor... fall in love?

Ouran Host Club 4/5
Poor boy is enslaved by rich kids at a private school.  They find out he's a girl.

Saiunkoku 4/5
Girl dreams of being a man, but everyone keeps being smitten with her.  Vaguely set in China.

Saiyuki 1/5
Some demonic-ish people fight on a quest.

Samurai Champloo 4/5
Girl convinces two Samurai to stalk her.

School Rumble 5/5
Forget love triangles, these high school students have a love dodecahedron.

Seirei No Moribito 5/5
Kid swallows something magical and alive.  Epic fantasy drama.

Shamanic Princess -5/5
Most awful series ever.

Shaman King 2/5
Kids fight using ghosts.

Skip Beat 3/5
Girl swears revenge on her childhood friend, because he's a jerk... but he's a rock star.

Soul Hunter 1/5
Gods run China.

Suzuka 2/5
Loser falls in love with track star.

Toradora 5/5
Chibi misfit with anger problems finds a friend.

Trigun 4/5
Super-human gunslinger refuses to kill anyone.

Tsubasa Chronicles 5/5
Counterpart to xxxHOLiC.   Fantasy quest.

Witch Hunter Robin 3/5
Girl can shoot fire... but why?

Working!! 5/5
So... many... crazy people!

xxxHOLiC 5/5
Kid meets a witch.  They become friends.

Zetsubou Sensei 0/5
Social commentary.  Also creepy.

EDIT: Apparently, in order to get the right timing and emphasis on my terseness, it helps to read some of them as if you were Strong Bad... or so I'm told.