Better Than It Sounds/Anime and Manga H-K

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H

  • Haibane Renmei: Dead children are trained to be angels in a walled city.
    • Haruki Murakami crossover fic with winged lolis hatched from cocoons and a train.
  • Hana Kimi: A girl cross-dresses and enters an all-boys boarding school on the other side of the world in order to hang out with a guy she's seen on TV but never met. She doesn't do a very good job of keeping her gender a secret, accidentally makes another boy think he's gay, and somehow ends up sleeping in the same bed as said idol an improbable number of times. UST ensues.
  • Hands Off!: Pretty boy moves in with Grandfather and seemingly germaphobe cousin. Finds out he has psychic powers. Uke and cousin, along with boisterous friend, become impromptu detectives. Labeled as comedic drama. Should be labeled incestuous boy-love.
  • Happiness!: A show about magical schoolgirls, where the most popular character is a trap.
  • Haré+Guu: A boy gets eaten by a monster. An alcoholic young woman adopts a cute little girl. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Hataraki Man: The story of a Workaholic.
  • Haunted Junction: The Student Council President of a haunted high school wants to quit and can't.
  • Hayate the Combat Butler: A young bum works for a bitchy but cute midget. He's very good at his job.
    • Or: Rich girl falls for attempted kidnapper.
  • Hayate × Blade: Hyperactive skirt-chasing sword-mistress collects stars for a living.
  • Hell Girl: The path to hell is paved with the internet.
  • Hellsing: Vampire Nazis decide to reenact World War II, and the Catholic Church decides to give the Crusades another go. Dracula objects sternly. Most of the cast are expies of Hentai characters.
  • Heroic Age: 3 warring groups which are in no way reminiscent of Starcraft pay way too much attention to the rule-book.
  • Heroman: American teenage boy (probably) repairs a broken toy robot and uses it to fight against 7ft tall alien Cockroaches.
  • Hidamari Sketch: Daily happenings at an art school.
    • OR: Four cute high-school girls who live in the same apartment building.
  • High School DxD: A guy dies in the first episode and is reborn as a devil. He wants a harem yet doesn't know he has one.
  • Highschool of the Dead: Improbable Jiggle Physics ensue as high school students survive a Zombie Apocalypse
    • Or, High School Students try to survive Zombie Apocalypse. Instead, they are too busy being High School students with overly complicated love lives.
    • Or, a lovesick young man, his girlfriend, a lady samurai, a rich genius, her hapless chubby boyfriend, the school nurse, and a Tagalong Kid fight the living dead.
  • Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: A ragtag bunch of True Companions are broken horribly and put themselves back together with The Power of Friendship.
    • Or: Bunch of gamers kill their friends in increasingly horrific ways. Fan Service tropes ensue.
    • Or: Harem comedy anime (supposedly) about a guy who wears a dress a lot. Then the series decides it wants to be horror.
    • Or: Little girl with a drinking problem and one week to live who thinks that a god talks to her travels between towns in the countryside trying to fix things, usually failing horribly.
    • Or: Killer lolis and time warps.
    • Or: A bunch of girls of various ages are in a club with a guy where everyone plays games and wears fan service-y outfits. Everyone dies repeatedly, and then they are saved by The Power of Friendship.
    • Or: Viewers get Mind Screwed while the writers show that lying is bad.
    • Spirited Away Chapter: Boy thinks his potential love interests are trying to kill him, so he kills them.
    • Eye Opening Arc: A girl kills almost everyone important to her because her twin sister wasn't given a doll.
    • The Grand Finale: A bunch of murderers, a Yakuza princess, a pedophile, a suspicious guy, a kung fu master, and the villain from the sequel (sorta) go up against a nurse. She loses.
    • Embarrassment Chapter: A bunch of girls run around a pool trying to pants the local bishi. Come to think of it, is there any more to it than that?
    • Penalty Loving Chapter: Boy dreams he's a pervert. Inception ensues.
    • Umineko no Naku Koro ni: Three years later, a filthy rich family with no relation to the previous cast gathers on an island to decide how to split their inheritance.
      • Or: Guy tries to prove that magic doesn't exist while playing a dangerous game with his family.
      • Or: People argue over the genre of the work. Then they die. Then they argue some more. Then the fans start yelling at each other in rather colorful language.
      • Or: Guy tries to prove to a witch that she doesn't exist.
      • Or: Try and solve this murder mystery. In the meantime, enjoy this documentary on the mating rituals and dominance hierarchies of the common Troll.
  • Hikaru no Go: Boy becomes possessed, then plays a board game.
  • Himechan no Ribon: A girl gets to borrow a ribbon for a year. Romance ensues.
  • Hols: Prince of the Sun: A boy and his pet bear get roped into killing the devil. Meanwhile, a girl who said boy acts kindly to, tries to turn his whole village against him several times. They're still friends at the end.
  • Homunculus: A head injury causes a man to hallucinate. For Science!!
  • Honey and Clover: Young male goes to University and fails to get laid.
  • Houkago Play: A gamer and his abusive girlfriend bum around in his room making obscure game references and fueling their UST.
  • Houshin Engi: An evil fox seduces the emperor of China, lazy guy with a bunny hat is sent to stop her along with his flying hippo.
  • Hotarubi No Mori E: A little girl gets lost in a forest and is repeatedly hit on the head by a mask wearing boy she can't touch. Romance ensues.
  • Howl's Moving Castle: An old woman breaks into a con man's house. Romance ensues.
  • Hozuki-san Chi no Aneki: A high-school student is really, really, really in love with his step-sister. This becomes the source of her constant amusement.
  • Hunter X Hunter: Boy passes the world's most grueling license exam, then uses a fishing pole to fight an evil clown, a band of shady mercenaries, and other maniacs.
    • Or maybe this: Two boys take an exam; one flunks it and the other barely passes. Then, they go beat up some handicapped people, hang out with gangsters, play an ultra-violent video game, and stomp on an ant colony.

I

J

  • Jack Frost (manhwa): Hellsing in high school. Decapitations ensue.
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Life is hard for people with similar-sounding names.
    • Phantom Blood - A young man gets help from a well-dressed Italian gentleman to stop the vampire that killed his father, using wine and yoga breathing techniques.
    • Battle Tendency - A young man and his friend face super powered loincloth-clad vampires, using oil, soap bubbles and balls as their weapons. The Nazis lend a hand.
    • Stardust Crusaders - A man in a new suit prevents mamas boy's mother from boring suburban life. Boy retaliates angrily.
    • Diamond is Unbreakable - A group of teenagers set out against a serial killer after one of the friends is murdered.
    • Vento Aureo - Effeminate mobsters plan to kill their boss after being set up.
    • Stone Ocean - Rebellious girl adjusts to prison life while trying to protect/save his father, who happens to be a marine biologist. The Miami Dolphins make a guest appearance.
    • Steel Ball Run - A 1890 version of the Cannon Ball run; they find Jesus along the way.
  • Junjou Romantica: An 18 year old is forced to live with his brother's perverted author of a best friend. 18 year old is creeped out for 5 seconds.
    • Or: Three gay couples display their enormous libidos and complete inability to communicate.
  • Jyu-Oh-Sei: A set of twins fight for survival on a planet comprising only of plants. One twin dies in the first episode.

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