Anime recommendations: shounen (for boys), action, adventure

on 9.01.2009

This page is temporary until I can create a post for each recommended series.

Titles are 'approximately' ordered by favorite to less favorite, but don't let that throw you off, I recommend all the anime on this page.
Organized in table format with info links, descriptions, and studio info; because it's interesting to see a trend in the good studios.


    Title

    One-Line Description
    Studio
    Code Geass / Code Geass R2
    The country of Japan is conquered by Brittania, spawning a wave of revolution, where a young man make a contract with a strange woman to gain the power of suggestion.  Like Death Note meets Gundam with CLAMP as the character designers.
    Mainichi, Sunrise
    Mai Hime
    A group of girls with the ability to see the red star next to the moon are thrown into battles with their 'children' - mechanized weapons that respons to their commands.
    Sunrise
    Soul Eater
    Young students at the Shibusen Academy aim to make their weapons into Death Scythes by obtaining 99 Kishin souls and one witch's soul.  Could have ended better - but all is well till the last 10 minutes....
    Bones, Dentsu
    Hunter X Hunter
    A boy goes in search of his father, who is a well-known Hunter.  Gon must become a Hunter himself in order to find him.

    Nippon Animation
    Claymore
    Women fused with the blood of youma are used by an organization for hire to kill youma.
    Madhouse
    Kekkaishi
    Two feuding families with the ability to see ayakashi are sworn to protect the land of Karasumori, a land overflowing with power which attracts evil ayakashi.  And this sacred / cursed land resides underneath a school.
    Sunrise, Yomiuri
    Kure-nai
    A high school boy working as a negotiator is given the task of protecting a young girl of a wealthy family, from her own family.
    Brains Base
    Gundam 00Gundam 00 S2
    A group of young pilots aim to end all war with their superior mobile suits.  Supposed to be the 'first' Gundam installment.  Season 2 occurs 4 years after the first.
    Sunrise
    Neon Genesis Evangelion
    "The classic mecha anime."
    Gainax
    Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
    A samurai with the fate of the 'eternal assassin' must seek out and destroy an evil energy bent on leading the world to ruin.
    Bandai, Sunrise
    X TV
    Two sides with supernational powers fight over the end of the world, story by CLAMP.
    Madhouse
    Witch Hunter Robin
    Secret organization who hunts down and prosecutes 'witches', with the help of their own fire witch.
    Bandai, Sunrise
    Eureka Seven
    "Evangelion for kids", mechs that ride on trappar currents flowing over the world, and a mercenary ship fights against the military.
    Bones, Bandai
    Gunslinger Girl
    Young girls who are at the edge of death are taken in by the Social Welfare Agency, given cybernetic bodies, and trained to be assassins for the government.
    Madhouse, Bandai
    Chevalier d'Eon
    During the time of the French Revolution, a young man seeks to find his sister's killers.
    Production I.G.
    One Piece
    A young boy named Luffy sets out to become the Pirate King.
    Fuji TV, Toei
    Toward the Terra (Terra e)
    Similar to X-men. Humans with supernatural powers known as Mu, are discriminated against and chased to the ends of the universe.  But what the Mu are really are looking for is a way to coexist with the humans.
    Aniplex, Mainichi

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