Blue Spring - Recommendations

• TV (12 eps)
• 2016

In Gakuban Prefectural High School, there's a boy who just might be the coolest human being alive - a first-year student with style and finesse that solves every problem with ease, and looks absolutely fabulous in the process. Women adore him, children idolize him, and delinquents are frustrated by their inability to defeat him. The teachers can't outwit him, and when there's an animal in trouble, even the raging winds can't hold him back! Whether he's thwarting bullies, sword fighting with an angry bee, or eluding the unwanted attentions of a smitten middle-aged lady, he will always succeed and he will always look unimaginably cool while doing it. Haven't you heard? He's Sakamoto!

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1996

• OVA (3 eps)
• 1991 - 1993

• OVA (2 eps)
• 1988 - 1989

Teaching, Mako thought, would be a walk in the park. With no overtime and long winter and summer vacations, she’d be able to easily save money for the day that she could retire – or so she thought. For Mako has been assigned to the worst of the worst, class 2-D of Ushi High, a group comprised solely of delinquents! In addition to having to tame these unruly boys Mako finds herself with another task as well – to become the new coach for the rugby team, at her principal’s request. Can Mako convince her boys to fight on the playfield instead of brawling in the streets?

• OVA (2 eps)
• 1995

Shimada Aki and Akaki Naomi are best friends since their childhood. Shimada is tricky and won't be serious with anything that's not fun or profitable to him unless provoked; Akaki, on the contrary, is straightforward and more caring. However both are talented at fighting (bullying). This manga is a comedic and fun story of the careless high school buddy's accidental fights that makes them known to all Japan's scary and influencial gangsters.

• DVD Special (1 ep)
• 2016

Sakamoto's old classmates want to make a movie about his past deeds. They discuss what kind of movie would be best, and wonder what he is doing in America since he left to join a space program. Is he thwarting American bullies? Being chased by a mob of adoring female astronauts? Flying a rocket to Mars? With Sakamoto, you never know!

• TV (51 eps)
• 1987 - 1988

Ryo Saeba and Kaori Makumura are private detectives who make up the City Hunter team -- problem solvers who can be hired by writing 'xyz' in a certain train station. Ryo's uncanny accuracy with a gun is surpassed only by his lecherous tendencies, while Kaori provides the sideline support -- usually in the form of a 50,000 kg mallet to keep Ryo's ecchiness under control!

• TV (50 eps)
• 1984 - 1985

The world’s most infamous criminal, Lupin the Third, continues his global crime spree. With plenty of help from faithful friend and master gunman Jigen, katana-wielding samurai Goemon, and the tricky, manipulative Fujiko, no job is too big or too difficult. From trying to locate Al Capone’s stash of gold or the precious group of paintings known as the ‘Angel Collection’, to diving for treasure hidden in the depths of the Bermuda triangle, Lupin can nab any loot he desires. But with the relentless Zenigata hot on his tail, it won’t be an easy ride.

• OVA (3 eps)
• 2010

• TV (12 eps)
• 2021

Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It’s an effortless performance, and, ultimately … a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst—and he’s about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be!