DearS - Recommendations

• TV (12 eps)
• 2003

Kazuto, Valkyrie and the others have all returned from Planet Valhalla and life returns to normal. Kazuto and his sister are still balancing school with running the family bathhouse, Akina is looking after Hydra at the temple, and Valkyrie continues to live her carefree existence of playing and reading manga. Plus with the arrival of Chorus, the most bizarre of the Valhalla princesses, and Raine dropping in whenever she pleases, life at the Tokinoyu bathhouse has never been so busy. Though with the appearance of the mysterious ‘Valkyrie Ghost' the relaxed life they've all been enjoying seems set to be interrupted. Just what does this ‘Valkyrie Ghost' want, and why does Kazuto continue to be drawn to her?

• TV (12 eps)
• 2002

Kei Kusanagi is a shy teenage boy with no romantic experience whatsoever... until he finds out that his hot new teacher is actually an alien! In order to conceal her identity, the two are forced into a pretend marriage... but is it really a pretense, or are they actually falling in love?

• OVA (6 eps)
• 1992 - 1993

Tenchi Masaki lives a quiet life helping his grandfather at the temple. Quiet, that is, until he accidentally unleashes a strange and beautiful space pirate from her 700-year-old prison. Things rapidly get worse for Tenchi when the royal princess Ayeka, cute Sasami, ditzy galaxy police agent Mihoshi and scientifically insane Washu crash land in his back garden to join the mayhem. Will Tenchi be able to shake off the unwanted romantic advances of these women, and what secret does his history hold?

• 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 (6 eps)
• 1992

Yota is a young man who is in love with his friend Moemi, but there's a catch: she's confessed her love for his best friend! Heartbroken, he finds himself in a mysterious video store that offers him Ai, a video girl who can fulfill his every desire. Thanks to his broken VCR, this dream becomes reality when she suddenly... emerges from the TV?! With a real life video girl on his hands to give advice and set him straight, Yota might just stand a chance of winning over the heart of Moemi, and curing his unbearable heartache...

• OVA (4 eps)
• 2016 - 2017

There are wedding bells in the air for Nobuyuki and Rea, meaning the Masaki household is about to get a whole lot livelier! The guest list is teeming with family members from Jurai and friends from all over the known galaxy, all wanting to see Nobuyuki and his bride. While Ryoko and Ayeka bond over having little to do with the family, Minaho sets her sights on her nephew Tenchi. Meanwhile, Airi is stuck at the GXP Academy, working overtime to finish her paperwork in time for the ceremony. However, as the day draws near, a more pressing matter begins to arise - who exactly is Rea, and where did the blushing bride come from?

• TV (24 eps)
• 2002

In the present, the Japanese government has been conducting experiments to genetically engineer a human: a girl named Rizel. The experiment was a success -- sort of. While healthy and cheerful, 12-year-old Rizel also ended up possessing the uncanny need for “love” to further her development, as well as tears which were in fact volitile explosives! When sadness can end up destroying a city block, what's a girl to do except... get married?! For Iwari Tomori, the young man chosen as the most appropriate partner for Rizel, life is about to change, for better or for worse!

• OVA (6 eps)
• 2012 - 2015

• OVA (3 eps)
• 2016

• TV (11 eps)
• 2004

Yukinari is blessed with an clinical fear of women, commonly known as gynophobia. In addition to his mental ailment, he has the misfortune of being short and weak, making it easy for women to overwhelm him further. Even when his childhood friend, Kirie, approaches him, he immediately breaks out in hives. Thus, life is very lonely for Yukinari, until suddenly in the strangest way possible, he is transported into another world, and into the arms of the beautiful shoujo, Miharu! This time, for the first time ever, he doesn't react. Could this be the start of something special?