Ai has always lived in the shadow of his brother Zero, one of the strongest psychics of this generation. After Ai's aura tests true and he is recommended to the Psychic Academy (where his first love Orina attends), he sets off to follow his path. Once arriving in this chaotic place, where people can fight using just the power of their auras, new friends (such as the well-endowed Myuu) are drawn to his side. As he is forced to fight against those who hate psychics and psychics alike, he is also faced with a difficult choice: the girl from his past, or his new fiery soulmate?
Kazuki Shikimori is a 17-year old junior studying at Aoi Academy, an elite school for the magically gifted. However, unlike enrollment to the school would suggest, his magical prowess is below-average. In fact, he can only use magic eight times in his life, or he will die. But not all is not lost: Kazuki's family tree includes the latent genetic material for magical greatness. After that information leaks out, Kazuki suddenly becomes the most popular male student in the school, and girls from powerful magician families begin chasing him to get his genes.
Both Maburaho and Psychic Academy are about a shy loser male lead who is still loveable all the same for his strength of heart. The male lead happens to possess incredible dormant potential which has limitations restricting its use; this puts them in the below-average underdog role. In both anime, the theme of schools and girls are ever present, as well as a sense of fantasy.
Some years into the future, a strange, unexplainable natural disaster has broken off a piece of the Japanese mainland. Known as the Lost Ground, it is now inhabited by people with Alters -- machine-like extensions of their own will. In order to keep the peace on the Lost Ground, the HOLY organization uses its own Alter capabilists to police the region. In the midst of the chaos is a young man named Kazuma, whose life will soon change forever as he discovers his hidden abilities, and how to wield them.
Both of these series have strikingly similar plotlines. In both series, there arises a new sub-population of people with extraordinary powers of a psychic nature. In psychic acadeny these powers are known as "auras", while in s-cry-ed they are known as "alters". In both series, each person has their own individual type of aura/alter. Each series also has a governmental group that is seemingly trying to corral & educate these special people, but which seem to have something more sinister up their sleeves.
Psychic academy has a lighter tone than s-cry-ed, but if you liked the plot of one, you will also like the other.
Mifune Densuke wasn’t anything special in the prestigious Zashono Academy. That is, until he was selected to be a member of club Eiken – a group with the most overly-voluptuous female members of the school. Instantly falling for the charming, intelligent and curvaceous Chiharu, Mifune frequently finds himself in embarrassingly compromising situations with the object of his affections. As an innocent school competition commences, the club find themselves swimsuit bungee jumping, riding a yogurt slide and performing fellatio on some bananas – all in the good name of Eiken!
In present-day Japan, a rising decline in the birth rate has prompted the government to intervene, thus forming the R.T.P. committee whose goal is to promote arranged marriages. Due to the sensitive nature of the issue, however, a test run was deemed mandatory, and young Ryo Mizuhara (chosen by the world's best supercomputer) was selected as the test subject, much to his own dismay. With the megalomaniac Shizuka Masuda appointed as his fiancee and secret agents in his face at every turn, can Ryo manage to save his sanity, let alone his bachelor lifestyle of the past?
Ichigo, an ordinary high school student who is tough in a fight has just one unusual trait -- he can see ghosts. One day he is attacked by a hollow, a vengeful spirit, which would have killed him except that he was saved by a girl named Rukia. She is a Shinigami, a guide to the afterlife and slayer of evil spirits. Unfortunately many hollows want to devour his spiritual power and Rukia is hurt fighting to protect him. After giving her powers to Ichigo so he can save himself, she finds she can't take them back. Now Ichigo has to do her job. He is now a student -- and Shinigami!