Genshiken - Recommendations

• DVD Special (2 eps)
• 2017

• TV (12 eps)
• 2017

Just as soon as she enters Sakaneko Private High School, Asagadani Minoa is dragged into the anime club by her classmate, Kamiigusa Arisu, even though she knows next to nothing about anime. A classmate, Kouenji Miko, along with other anime-loving senpais, quickly turn her into an anime fan. Fighting off the incessant shut-down threats of the student council, and completely oblivious to the coming apocalypse, the anime club talks about anime in the club, at Akihabara, at anime Meccas, and at hot springs.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2016

Tamaki Honda, a first year high school student, joins the peculiar SNS Club. With nothing but her wits and her artistic skills, she must traverse the world of doujin (self-published) game development. As new issues arise within the development of game making, Tamaki learns more about her club member’s odd personalities.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2014

The girls of the "groping for ideas club" continue their search for non cliché club ideas, while keeping up with their usual antics in the process.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2015

Koharu is recruited into an unusual "groping" club only for the reason that she doesn't overlap with the other members' characters. Groping club is in fact an unofficial club with no real activity or purpose, prompting the girls to work on finding one. Strange daily life ensues, where club activities consist of first coming up with club stereotypes, then figuring out a new way to operate such a club.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2020

First year high schooler Midori Asakusa loves anime so much, she insists that "concept is everything" in animation. Though she draws a variety of ideas in her sketchbook, she hasn't taken the first step to creating anime, insisting that she can't do it alone. The producer-type Sayaka Kanamori is the first to notice Asakusa's genius. Then, when it becomes clear that their classmate, charismatic fashion model Tsubame Mizusaki, really wants to be an animator, they create an animation club to realize the "ultimate world" that exists in their minds.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2013

Koharu is recruited into an unusual "groping" club only for the reason that she doesn't overlap with the other members' characters. Groping club is in fact an unofficial club with no real activity or purpose, prompting the girls to work on finding one. Strange daily life ensues, where club activities consist of first coming up with club stereotypes, then figuring out a new way to operate such a club.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2013

Yui, Yukari and Yuzuko have just entered high school, eager to have a great time. They quickly become the sole members of the Data Processing Club, using the computers frequently to look up information and find interesting videos. Whether they're debating the merits of sauce on curry bread, trying to determine how some women manage to have huge breasts or dealing with the sweltering heat, these three friends will also manage to have fun in the process. 

• TV (12 eps)
• 2013

Kodaka, Sena, Yozora and the rest of the Neighbors Club are back, and continue on their quest to learn what it’s like to make friends. There’s never a dull day for the gang, whether they’re debating the merits of “family friendly” yaoi anime, having a soda party or even heading to the amusement park. And whether Kodaka is enduring an especially awkward bath session with Pegasus or hosting Maria for an overnight sleepover, one thing’s for sure: he and the Neighbors Club are in for plenty of misadventures!

• OVA (2 eps)
• 1991

Ken Kubo is a normal man with a normal job who is besotted in a normal way with a female friend. But life turns distinctly abnormal when he meets an otaku, Tanaka, and is indoctrinated into the obscure world of anime, model guns, and garage kits. As Kubo finds himself shunned by those he cares about, he becomes only more determined to evolve into the ultimate being - the Otakuking! But Kubo is not the only one coming to terms with society. While he strives to mould the world into a perfect haven for people like him, otaku all across Japan are laying bare their strange, lonely lives for the first time… and it’s not a pretty sight.