Danzai Otome - Recommendations

• TV (25 eps)
• 2006

After winning the Prime Mat martial arts tournament, Mao Lan is determined to live as a normal high school girl; but as always, trials and tribulations stand in her way. She’s tasked with training three new recruits who have a harrowed and painful past, and is often caught in the middle of their grudge-induced fights. In addition to school and normal school girl activities, Mao Lan is also considering entering the newest Prime Mat tournament. Can she once more fight her way to glory?

• TV (25 eps)
• 2005 - 2006

Mao Lan is a typical seventeen-year-old girl with a not-so-typical life. She’s been trained since childhood by her perverted grandfather to be a master in their family’s secret martial arts style, and is tasked with training the old men that visit their dojo – not to mention trying her best to be seen with all of her clothes on!  In addition to dealing with the dojo’s newest recruit and a nosy sports reporter, Mao Lan must also train to enter the martial arts competition Prime Mat at her grandfather’s insistence. His old friend, it seems, has made a startling request that she’s unable to refuse: he wants Mao Lan to defeat his very own granddaughter in the ring!

• DVD Special (1 ep)
• 2007

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2010

A recap episode, covering episodes 1-7 of Dance in the Vampire Bund.

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2005

At Toudou Gakuen High, the kids run around in gangs, pitching their martial arts against each other to prove who is the strongest. As always team “Katana” comes out on top since it’s led by none other than the most powerful fighter anywhere – Shin Natsume. On the face of it, Shin is a fun sort of guy who cares for his friends and protects his sister, Maya; however, slowly, everyone starts to suspect that something more sinister lurks behind his easy smiles and equally easy wins. As Maya and Shin's friends, Bunshichi and Mitsuomi, are about to find out, Shin has a secret past of horror and destruction... and it’s coming back to haunt them all!

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1989

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2009

Rin and her classmates are beginning the fourth grade. While Aoki and Seiji remain suspicious of each other's intentions regarding the young girl, Rin unexpectedly becoming the class representative continues to confuse Aoki in his attempt at understanding the precocious child.

• OVA (2 eps)
• 1996 - 1997

Linn Suzuki made her way to Tokyo in search of her elder brother but found trouble instead. Lovely Detective Miho Kuon comes to Linn's aid as she is accosted by thugs, and thus begins their adventures together. Linn must endure geeky magicians, fierce tree spirits, and her 100-year-old master all while trying to stay clothed! Full of action and fanservice, Kotetsu is a debacle of martial arts mayhem.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2006

In an alternate version of Earth, the Cold War is still in effect after 140 years. The world has been divided into the East and West Bloc, each with powerful organizations and assassins running the show. Agent Mylene Hoffman is as sexy as she is deadly, and while she isn’t bedding with the enemy, she works for Western Bloc’s elite Zero Zero organization as a top-rate spy. With assassins at every turn and an unending war on the horizon, Mylene will use her wiles to charm and kill the enemy – all without breaking a nail!

• TV (12 eps)
• 2017

Kazuya Kagami's most treasured possession in the world is the obi left to him by his late mother. The scent of cherry-blossoms infused into it helps him through his day - but he never expected it to save his life, becoming a beautiful kimono-clad girl who calls herself an "artifact spirit." Her name is Kiriha, tsukumogami of the sash, who naturally moves in with him, as he is her "owner." Throw in Chisato, his bespectacled friend, an overprotective older sister who wants to take baths with him, a busty priestess, a seductive sorceress named Kokuyoura, and Kazuya's life has just gotten a lot more...interesting.