Yuri Seijin Naoko-san (2012) - Recommendations

• TV (39 eps)
• 1983

• TV (12 eps)
• 2023

Umika is a sweet yet shy high school girl. She has trouble speaking to others and dreams of having a friend from another planet. But her lonely school life takes a cosmic turn when she meets transfer student Yu, an alien with telepathic powers! The two become close and promise to go to space one day. So, they decide to build a rocket and shoot for the stars, making new friends along the way.

• TV (13 eps)
• 2008

Birdy Cephon used to be a butt-kicking intergalactic Federation investigator who took down bad guys where they stand; Tsutomu Senkawa used to be a normal student with shy tendencies and a penchant for exploring abandoned houses. However, when Birdy accidentally killed Tsutomu while trying to apprehend a famous criminal on Earth, Geega, both of their lives changed forever! Now, while Tsutomu's body is reconstructed in a faraway place, the two must share the same body – Tsutomu controlling it by day, and Birdy taking over when she spots a criminal in need of tough justice. All Tsutomu wants is to live a normal life; can he manage to cope with Birdy's enormous eating habits, intense muscle use, and easily irritable attitude?

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2003

As Mehm spends more time at the Tokino household, she begins to air her concerns over the lack of progression in Valkyrie and Kazuto’s marriage. Sensing that the young Valkyrie may not be mentally ready to be a bride, Mehm decides to train her using a set of special training cards, each containing a different matrimonial scenario. Though, when everyone else arrives at the bathhouse, Mehm’s training exercise soon becomes a full on competition between the girls to determine who will make the best bride...

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1986

The gang from Tomobiki has dealt with a lot of strange things in the past, but they may finally have met their match! They have been called to Mendou’s estate to create an independent film with a giant cherry tree as a background, but as the work begins, strange things begin to occur. Everyone’s memory begins to fade, Lum starts to lose her powers, and for the first time ever Lum’s Stormtroopers are looking at other women! As the day continues, they begin to question the meaning of their lives, as they try to get to the bottom of what is going on in their town.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2006

Keroro and Fuyuki are on their way home from the toy store - where they bought the latest Gunpla model – when they happen upon a mysterious shrine. Keroro manages to break a strange crystal at the site, but he glues it back together and thinks nothing of the ordeal – that is, until he returns home and finds a strange cross on his face. Soon after, most of Tokyo’s residents also have the same red cross on their faces, granting them the power of telepathy – something that Keroro sees as an opportunity to invade Earth. But what is the true nature of these strange marks, and who is the sinister Kiruru?

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2007

After Momoka gives Fuyuki a strange creature in a jar, the Keroro Platoon and friends head to a South Pacific island for a holiday; but on the first night there, the group is attacked by giant sea creatures that kidnap Natsumi! When she regains consciousness, Natsumi is greeted by two aliens: Maru, a female, and Meru, a male who makes Natsumi his princess and creates a deep-sea world from her memories. Meanwhile, Keroro and the others must now figure out who these two aliens are, think of a way to rescue Natsumi, and perhaps save the world from flooding whilst they’re at it!

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2008

• TV (12 eps)
• 2002

Kazuto Tokino lives his tranquil life attending high school by day and running the family bath house by night; but his peace is all set to change. One fateful day, the Beautiful Princess Valkyrie crashes her spaceship into Kazuto’s public bath, killing the high-schooler outright! In order to revive him, Valkyrie gives the teen half of her soul, with the unfortunate side-effect of reverting the princess back to a child in both body and mind. Now the young Valkyrie is moving in to the bathhouse and, with her brash sister Hydra and over-protective catgirl maid Sanada following close behind, it seems Kazuto’s peaceful life is long behind him…

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2006

One lazy Sunday morning, Rika is taking things easy when a strange woman emerges from the bathroom mirror, scaring the living daylights out of her. The woman is Ymir, an old school acquaintance of Valkyrie who has come to Earth for a school reunion that, much to the surprise of Kazuto and the others, is to be hosted at the Tokino bathhouse! In addition to the various alumni of the Academic Planet descending upon the bathhouse in the most bizarre of ways, Akina is appointed as the priestess at the Farewell Star Banquet, a special ceremony held once every nine hundred years in honour of the passing of the Slepni comet. Now everyone, including the Valhalla Princesses, must head to a satellite near Pluto for this once in a lifetime banquet!