Tenchi Muyo!

Tenchi Muyo! by Masaki Kajishima and Hiroki Hayashi is an all time favorite, hands down. It brings back such great memories of when I used to watch this along with other shows on Toonami (which was sadly "killed" in 2008, however on Wikipeda.com it states: It is set to be revived starting on May 26, 2012 as part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block. Which means tomorrow! But this may all be completely wrong so  don't get your hopes up -_-).
      If you have no idea what "Tenchi" is then you must have been living under a rock for some years.

WIKI:

The original series began with a six episode OVA called Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki released in Japan on September 25, 1992. The series was released by Pioneer LDC in the United Kingdom on 1994. As its popularity grew, it spurred a seventh episode titled Tenchi Muyo! Special: The Night Before the Carnival  and a stand-alone Mihoshi Special. The second OVA series was directed by Kenichi Yatani and released on 1994, featuring episodes 8–13. The third OVA series was also directed by Kenichi Yatani was released on 2003, featuring episodes 14-19 followed by a special twentieth episode.
A twenty-six episode TV anime series called Tenchi Universe was released on 1995 retelling and expanding upon the original six-episode story, documenting in an alternate timeline the adventures of the cast as well as changing the back stories of some characters. Tenchi in Tokyo is another alternate version, chronicling Tenchi Masaki's move to Tokyo. Additionally, there are spin-off series (such as Magical Girl Pretty Sammy, Tenchi Muyo! GXP,  ), as well as adapted into manga. The franchise has also spawned soundtrack CDs and other merchandise released both in Japan and in the United States.

 Movies:

An anime film titled Tenchi the Movie: Tenchi Muyo in Love created by Hiroshi Negishi is a continuation of the Tenchi Universe TV series. A film titled Tenchi the Movie 2: The Daughter of Darkness was created by Naoko Hasegawa. A third film titled Tenchi Forever! The Movie is the sequel to Tenchi Muyo in Love and was adapted into a manga titled Tenchi Muyo! In Love 2: Eternal Memory.

Manga:

The Tenchi manga consists of two series written by Hitoshi Okuda: Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-oh-ki and Shin Tenchi Muyo! (which has no connection to the aforementioned Shin Tenchi Muyo TV series). They have been released in English as No Need for Tenchi and The All-New Tenchi Muyo!. It is based on OVA series 1 and 2. Since the manga originally began in Japan before the release of OVA 2, the OVA 2 elements are not introduced immediately at the beginning.
 
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Genre: Adventure, Action, Fantasy, Harem
  
Summary: 

Tenchi Muyo! follows the adventures of Tenchi Masaki, an ordinary teenager whose quiet life in the mountains of Okayama is shattered by the arrival of a diverse group of alien girls. Although having a bunch of beautiful women living at home might sound like no bad thing, Tenchi soon discovers the downside to this arrangement when the girls start using their special powers to fight for his affections! 
 
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A Certain Magical Index

A Certain Magical Index by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura is a manga I'm sure I read before. Scrolling through FUNimation's channel on youtube.com I came across it and from just reading the summary I knew I did. It was interesting and I felt like I was opened to a different world (even though it similar to our own).

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci- fi

Summary:
 
In a world where magic is as real as science, high-school student Kamijo comes to the aid of a young nun named Index. She's on the run from a magic society that covets the massive library of forbidden knowledge stored in her memory.

Watch it here on Youtube.com :3

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DearS

DearS by Banri Sendo and Shibuko Ebara (their pen name Peach-Pit) is funny as hell. I have only watched the anime but I can tell that there would be more of a plot in the manga. It is a kind of mature though, so all children have been warned.  I absolutely love the teacher in here too, as well as the beginning song lol.

Genres: Harem, Romance, Comedy, Sci-fi

Summary:

Exactly one year prior to the beginning of DearS, humanity made unprecedented contact with extraterrestrial life. Forced to crash land into Tokyo Bay when, en route to their home planet of Thanatos, their spacecraft breaks down, 150 humanoid aliens are naturalized into Japanese society and affectionately nicknamed "DearS"; a portmanteau of the words "Dear" and "Friends".

Takeya Ikuhara is a temperamental seventeen-year-old Japanese student attending the fictitious Koharu High School with a strong prejudice against the DearS. Due to a childhood scare, he believes that the aliens are fake, worthless beings that have generated nationwide overhype.

On his way home from school he discovers a homeless DearS who, after fainting and much to his annoyance, he feeds and shelters in his apartment. The girl, who he nicknames Ren, is infantile and friendly, and grows obsequious and dependent upon Takeya, a responsibility he tries to disassociate himself from. Her oblivious tenacity keeps her around, however, and over time, realizing Ren's genuine care and empathy for him, Takeya has a change of heart. Unfortunately, because Ren is deemed defective, DearS headquarters orders her arrested.

Watch DearS here on Youtube.com~ 

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Serial Exerpiments Lain

Serial Experiments Lain is an anime series directed by Ryutaro Nakamura and produced by Triangle Staff.I grew up watching this show lol. I remember my older sister and I staying up really late to watch this when we had school the next day but never cared. Lain is an avant-garde anime first and foremost, however, so sometimes the meaning of subjects might be harder to understand.

P.S.
The anime series was licensed in North America by Geneon (formerly Pioneer Entertainment) on DVD, VHS and LaserDisc. However, Geneon closed its USA division in December 2007 and the series went out-of-print as a result. However, at Anime Expo 2010, North American distributor Funimation Entertainment announced that it has licensed the series and will be re-released in 2012. It was also released in Singapore by Odex. The video game, which shares only the themes and protagonist with the series, was never released outside Japan.

Watch Serial Experiments Lain on Youtube.com~!

Genre: Cyberpunk, Psychological thriller, Science fiction

Plot Summary: 

Spoiler alert for readers whom have never seen Lain!

Serial Experiments Lain describes "the Wired" as the sum of human communication networks, created with the telegraph and telephone services, and expanded with the Internet and subsequent networks. The anime assumes that the Wired could be linked to a system that enables unconscious communication between people and machines without physical interface. The storyline introduces such a system with the Schumann resonance, a property of the Earth's magnetic field that theoretically allows for unhindered long distance communications. If such a link was created, the network would become equivalent to Reality as the general consensus of all perceptions and knowledge. The thin line between what is real and what is possible would then begin to blur.

Eiri Masami is introduced as the project director on Protocol 7 (the next generation internet protocol in the series' time frame) for major computer company Tachibana Labs. He has secretly included code of his own creation to give himself control of the Wired through the wireless system described above. He then "uploaded" his consciousness into the Wired and died in real life a few days after. These details are unveiled around the middle of the series, but this is the point where the story of Serial Experiments Lain begins. Masami later explains that Lain is the artifact by which the wall between the virtual and material worlds is to fall, and that he needs her to get to the Wired and "abandon the flesh", as he did, to achieve his plan. The series sees him trying to convince her through interventions, using the promise of unconditional love, charm, fate, and, when all else fails, threats and force.

In the meantime, the anime follows a complex game of hide-and-seek between the "Knights of the Eastern Calculus", hackers who Masami claims are "believers that enable him to be a God in the Wired", and Tachibana Labs, who try to regain control of Protocol 7. In the end, the viewer sees Lain realizing, after much introspection, that she has absolute power over everyone's mind and over reality itself. Her dialogue with different versions of herself show how she feels shunned from the material world, and how she is afraid to live in the Wired, where she has the possibilities and responsibilities of a goddess. The last scenes feature her erasing everything connected to herself from everyone's memories. She is last seen unchanged – re-encountering her old friend Alice, who is now married. Lain promises herself that she will look after Alice.

P.P.S
Fun Facts~

Apple Computers and Lain: Lain contains extensive references to Apple computers, as the brand was used at the time by most of the creative staff: writers, producers, and the graphical team. As an example, the title at the beginning of each episode is announced by the Apple Computer Speech synthesis program "PlainTalk", using the voice "Whisper". Tachibana Industries, the company that creates the NAVI computers, is a reference to Apple computers: "tachibana" means "Mandarin orange" in Japanese. NAVI is the abbreviation of Knowledge Navigator, and the HandiNAVI is based on the Apple Newton, one of the world's first PDAs.

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