Anime Like Kowloon Generic Romance

The Second Kowloon Walled City is a lawless city of squalor that was cobbled together over the ruins of its previously demolished predecessor. However, for its residents that live there, they find the squalor and the nostalgia that it brings endearing.

Amidst the flickering streetlights and moldy alleys is Reiko Kujirai, a 32-year-old real estate agent who has fallen in love with her co-worker, Hajime Kudo. While they get along, Kudo keeps her at an arm’s length. One day, when Kudo sleepily wakes up and kisses her, she is thrilled, only to be told that he mistook her for someone else.

After his parents died, Shinpei went to live with the Kofune family on Hitogashima Island. After leaving for school in Tokyo he has not been back since, but after receiving word that one of the two Kofune daughters, Ushio, drown tragically, he returns for the funeral.

However, with bruises on her neck, there is some doubt if Ushio’s accident was truly an accident.

As he considers her death, strange things begin to take place on this island that forces Mio, Ushio’s sister, to recall an old tale about how seeing a person that looks just like yourself foretells your own death.

Three years ago, humanity made first contact with alien life when an ominous giant mother ship full of invaders suddenly appeared in the sky over Tokyo.

However, while the invaders remained inside their ship, the Japanese government scrambled to fight back, investing heavily in weapons production to target the mother ship and any smaller craft that may come out of it, sparking controversy among pacifist movements.

While the day that the mother ship appeared changed everything. In reality, it changed nothing. Kadode Koyama and Ouran Nakagawa live their final days as they always have – hanging out with friends and doing what any care-free high school girls would do.

Unfortunately, as they grow up and graduate, moving onto college, the situation with the mother ship grows increasingly more dire. As time begins to count down for humanity, they come to realize that the real threat to humanity is humanity itself.

In a rickety old building in Akihabara, mad scientist Rintarou Okabe and his lab assistants work on so-called future gadgets.

However, their most successful contraption to date, the Phone Microwave, a machine that can turn bananas into gel, also has the added function of sending emails into the past, thus altering the flow of history.

After a disaster fifteen years ago caused society to collapse, the survivors struggle to eek out an existence. Alongside trying to scrounge together food, clean water, and electricity, these survivors are also plagued by the appearance of man-eating monsters.

Two young survivors, Maru and Kiruko, wander the wasteland and make money off Maru’s ability to kill these man-eaters with a touch. Together, they are searching for a place called Heaven that they both hope will hold the answers to the tragic burdens that they hold in their heart.

Tsukasa Mizugaki has failed his college entrance exams, but he manages to land a job at the Sion Artificial Intelligence Corporation.

This corporation is responsible for the creation of Giftias, or highly advanced androids which are almost indiscernible from normal humans. However, unlike humans, Giftias have a maximum lifespan of around nine years and four months.

Terminal Service One, the station Tsukasa was assigned to, is responsible for collecting Giftias that have met their expiration date, before they lose their memories and become hostile.

After college, unsure of what to do with his life, Rikou gets a job at a convenience store.

There, he becomes visited by a high school dropout with a pet crow as well as has rekindled feelings for a senpai that visits the store one day.

This is the story of the growth of several individuals as they take their first steps into adulthood.