Otousan to Issho! (Light Novel) - Recommendations

• TV (45 eps)
• 1985 - 1986

Jun is a very intelligent little girl who spends her time making all kinds of inventions. It goes as far as creating two small robots, Kichinosuke and Yukinojo, who become her best friends. Because of her intelligence, Jun gets into college at a young age. There she meets and falls in love with a boy from her class called Zero. Zero is interested in motorbikes but not in school so he is skipping the courses. He is behind in school and thus is found much older than the other students and is therefor humilated. On the other hand is Jun too young to be in college, so they make fun of her too. Thanks to their common passion for mechanics, Zero sympathizes with Jun. This is the start of a series of adventures where little Jun will try to allure her charming prince.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2010

It’s a quick time jump to the 26th century where a school trip to a rebuilt 21st century city turns into a wild adventure for teenaged Shinichi. While chasing a talking deer that steals his bag, he runs into a strange girl trying to elude even stranger pursuers, and then things get really wild! It’s a mad dash through a city of the past as two young people discover a chance at a new future in COICENT!

• Music Video (1 ep)
• 2021

The official music video for Subarashii Shinsekai by Bajune Tobeta & Bonjour Suzuki.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1984

The students of Tomobiki are working long hours and preparing feverishly for tomorrow, when the student fair finally will begin. It has been a long, difficult job, and everyone is relieved, knowing it will soon be done – but there’s a catch. They soon discover that days, possibly weeks have passed, yet they never reach tomorrow, and the student fair still has not begun. As they desperately try to discover what is happening to their world, their beliefs on reality and the world of dreams are radically challenged. Is the gang doomed to repeat the same day for the rest of their lives?

• TV (12 eps)
• 1997

The nerdy Techno Rejiro has lived in his nuclear bomb shelter all his life, monitoring the world outside -- a spectator to life, rather than a participant. One day, a mysterious girl named Hitomi stumbles upon his grounds, thereby opening the door to the real world, figuratively speaking. With his horde of unusual technological contraptions, he sets out to discover why this girl stirs unfamiliar feelings within him, though he might not have her full cooperation...

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1983

Ataru, the ever unlucky wretch, has the fortune to be marrying a gorgeous alien princess. Unfortunately, it’s not going to be Lum. At the age of 6, it seems Ataru accidentally engaged himself to a beautiful princess through a game of shadow tag, and being the fool he is, he completely forgot about it until now! However, the princess Elle has never forgotten, and has lived dreaming and waiting for the day when she can come and take her husband. Of course, Lum won’t stand for it, and will stop at nothing short of intergalactic warfare to keep her man!

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2003

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1988

Long ago, before Lum and Ataru met (before they were born, even), Lum’s grandfather made an agreement. After being tricked by a merchant into eating a poisoned mushroom, he traded his granddaughter-to-be’s hand in marriage for an antidote. Now, 120 years later, Lum has grown to a marriageable age, and the merchant has come to collect his due! When Lum is kidnapped, Ataru must go on a planetary chase to get her back, initiating a sequence of events that will end the adventures of the Tomobiki gang once and for all…

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1991

Princess Lupica's quest to find the most lecherous man in the universe leads her to Ataru, whom she abducts to obtain the most powerful love potion in the universe. Will her schemes to marry the tofu man go according to plan, or will Ataru make a few conniving plans of his own to use the potion to create his longed-for harem? Lum pursues her abducted darling with the aid of Oyuki and Benten, but will they make it in time before everything goes awry?

• OVA (11 eps)
• 1985 - 1991

The often weird and outrageous adventures of Lum, Ataru, and the rest of the residents of Tomobiki continue with an autumn tea party of memories, a sentient satellite seeking dreams, a bureau of rabbits that literally shape the future, a profitable summer sherbet scheme, tragic ghostly romance, amorous personal ninja guards, cooking induced transformations, deadly goats, a candy of love, and a highly contagious yet charming disease.