Better Than It Sounds/Anime and Manga H-K
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- 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.
- Hare + 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 X Blade: Hyperactive skirt-chasing sword-mistress collects stars for a living.
- 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.
- 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.
- Highschool Dx D: A guy dies in the first episode and is reborn as a devil. He wants a harem yet doesn't know he has one.
- OR: What happens if To Aru Majutsu no Index had its Ecchi elements ramped Up to Eleven.
- OR: Religion wars are going on around the world and at the center of attention is a a perverted boy.
- High School 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 kungfu 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.
- Or: Yu-Gi-Oh off of crack.
- Or: The life of A Boy and His X becomes increasingly centered around a board game and a man crush. Obsessively so.
- Or: Playing board games has never been so epic!
- Or: A sports anime with no sport.
- 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.
- Howls 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.
- Ichigo Mashimaro: Obnoxious narcissist seeks attention from an implied pedophile.
- IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix: Giant robot racing league.
- IGPX microseries: War-games involving cat brain.
- Ikki Tousen: Ancient Chinese military leaders reincarnated as modern Japanese high school girls. Nudity ensues.
- I'll (Generation Basket): Japanese guys play basketball. Then they play some more.
- Immortal Rain: Howl's Moving shoujo Trigun.
- I My Me Strawberry Eggs: A Gym teacher crossdresses to prevent his dog from being shot.
- Infinite Stratos: Boy gets no respect from female peers, even when he can pilot mechasuits that only females can use
- Initial D: Sleep-deprived tofu delivery boy in a 20-year-old Toyota compact outdrives pro racers in much more expensive machines. Police are... nowhere to be found.
- Interstella 5555: The most popular band in the world opposes their manager without talking.
- Or: It’s “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” in reverse!
- Or: It's what happens when a Widget Series and a WTF series are collided at high velocity.
- Inumimi: A guy's Unwanted Harem consists of his dogs. This is in no way creepy.
- Inuyasha: Teenage girl collects jewelry with her boyfriend, whose late dad is a real son of a bitch.
- Or: Girl breaks a giant pearl. 70% of what follows is filler, and another 5% is flashbacks.
- Iono the Fanatics: A European queen goes to Japan to recruit a lesbian harem.
- IRIA: Zeiram the Animation: A young woman adjusts to a stressful new career and pursues a vendetta against a man with a really big hat.
- Irresponsible Captain Tylor: Military officials assign a man to share a ship with crazy people (including Jason Vorhees) in hopes that he'll get killed. Hilarity Ensues.
- Or: Jerk Sue flies randomly around space. Has his personality reprogrammed by a chip in his brain in the middle of the series. This is followed by several holodeck episodes.
- I''s: Guy takes three years to tell his high school crush how he feels. She says she's felt the same way the whole time. Then he dumps her. They get back together after he's beaten into a coma.
- Jack Frost (manhwa): Hellsing in high school. Decapitations ensue.
- Jigoku Shoujo: The path to hell is paved with the internet.
- 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.
- Kage Kara Mamoru: A teenage Ninja who poses as a nerd complete with coke-bottle glasses is charged with looking after a dim-witted girl somehow ends up attracting a number of different girls despite the fact that he is too busy protecting the girl in question.
- Kaichou wa Maid Sama: A man-hating maid tries not to fall in love with a "perverted alien" from the Pheramone Planet.
- Kaiji: A guy is forced to pay off a debt through gambling. The first gamble is a simplified version of a very, very common game.
- Kakurenbo: A kid tries to find his little sister by playing a really weird version of hide-and-seek.
- Kaleido Star: Spunky Japanese acrobat gets put through hell in order to make it big with American knockoff of Cirque du Soleil.
- Kamen no Maid Guy: Crossdresser takes up job as bodyguard.
- Kendo practitioner with Gag Boobs must endure the "service" of a Humanoid Abomination and her fat otaku brother perving over her for a year to earn an inheritance. Only a girl with a nail bat and whistle can save her.
- Kamen Rider Spirits: Crisis Crossover featuring bug-themed superheroes.
- Kamichama Karin: A mostly-talentless, extremely unfortunate girl who is depressed because her only friend (her cat) recently died becomes a god. She isn't very good at that, either.
- Kamichu!: Middle school girl wakes up one morning as a goddess, and doesn't let it go to her head.
- Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne: Two thieves compete to steal cursed artwork.
- Kämpfer: Guy becomes a girl and realizes he's suddenly much more popular with women, much to his dismay.
- Kannagi: Nature Spirit lives with boy who carved a statue of her, while going around cleaning up the mess he inadvertently made.
- Kannazuki no Miko: Two priestesses (and a third guy) cope with a Love Triangle and the rebirth of Orochi. No pretense is made of the latter being in any way more important than the former.
- Or: Your typical Moe meets a Tall, Dark and Bishoujo Stalker with a Crush and helps her to battle Humongous Mecha.
- Or: Reincarnated Schoolgirl Lesbians Miko priestesses fight mythological monster (reincarnated in one of the priestesses' other Love Interest, his Troubled but Cute Aloof Big Brother, a Catgirl Kawaiiko, an Idol Singer, a Mangaka, a pervert nun with large breasts and a Dumb Muscle Psychopathic Manchild) with HumongousMechas.
- Or: Underage lesbians in giant robots fight other characters in giant robots on the moon. Some characters can't decide which side to fight on in their giant robots.
- Kanamemo: Young orphan girl works at a tiny newspaper delivery company with other zany girls. Hilarity Ensues.
- Kanon: Amnesia of varying degrees strikes multiple young people in a small city where coming Back From the Dead is secretly dirt common.
- Kara no Kyoukai:: Nice guy falls in love with fetishist of fine kitchenware with a hot-line to The Force.
- Karakuri Circus: The only ones who can stop a 200-year-old cycle of hatred are a circus troupe. They fight with puppets.
- Karakuridouji Ultimo: Stan Lee creates two robot boys to fight each other.
- Karas: Starts off with a mid-air sword-fight between two jet planes.
- Nobody is entirely sure what is happening afterwards, but it is well animated.
- Kare Kano: Over-achieving girl meets over-achieving boy. Together, they learn how to under-achieve.
- Karin: Oddball day-walker accidentally falls in love with a human boy with really small eyes. She is very embarrassed.
- Karneval: Boy joins a psuedo-military organization because a human-shaped rodent...thing wants to return some jewelry.
- Alternatively: Small animal looks for his previous human companion with the help of a boy and people from a government agency.
- [[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl|Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl]]: Boy is killed in a UFO accident and is brought back to life as a girl, and becomes the center of attention in a lesbian Love Triangle.
- Katana: A high school student talks to swords.
- Katekyo Hitman Reborn: A baby trains a kid to be a Mafia boss while repeatedly shooting him in the head.
- Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran: Two women travel around, often fighting bad guys. Alcohol ensues.
- Kekkaishi: Two kids who are neighbors hang around their school at night and fight demons using boxes.
- Baking nut is forced into tedious family job of fighting monsters instead of getting a good education.
- Kekko Kamen: Woman fights crime by running through a city almost completely naked.
- Kemono no Souja Erin: A girl learns how to look after animals. She becomes extremely skilled at it and has to hide her skill from the political forces who are after her as a result.
- Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple: A wussy high schooler with no friends wants to learn self-defense; ends up becoming the focal point of the battle between good and evil.
- Keroro Gunsou: A quintet of easily-distracted aliens plot to take over the Earth. They are regularly thwarted by a teenaged girl and her nerdy brother.
- Kiddy Grade: A two-girl team of cyborgs restores order to the galaxy using raw strength, techno-wizardry, and... lipstick?
- Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer: An abandoned girl has given up hope of meeting her mother and passes the time by playing with dolls.
- Kimagure Orange Road: A teenage boy from a family of espers ends up in a love triangle with a sexy, kick-ass capricious girl and her tomboyish, hug-happy best friend.
- Kimba the White Lion: An effeminate prince protects his kingdom while trying to make peace with the race that killed his parents.
- Kimi ni Todoke: Awkward high school romance is awkward. Especially when everyone thinks you've climbed out of a well to curse them.
- King of Bandit Jing: Teenage boy with horny, wisecracking crow sidekick (that doubles as a Wave Motion Gun) travels psychedelic world, steals things, imparts Aesops.
- Kinnikuman: A bungling, garlic-powered alien superhero becomes Earth's greatest professional wrestler.
- Kinnikuman Nisei/Ultimate Muscle: The flatulent, cowardly son of the previous guy follows in his father's footsteps of barely-competent heroism in the wrestling ring.
- Kino's Journey: A traveler and a talking motorcycle roam the earth and Try Not to Die.
- Or: Every country in the world is going straight to Hell. An androgynous motorcyclist pretends not to notice.
- Kobato.: A Magical Girl without magic powers goes on a mission to collect candy. She is accompanied by a demonic stuffed toy dog who knows kung-fu and can breathe fire.
- Kodomo no Omocha: A perpetual motion machine in the shape of an 11-year-old TV star talks really fast and occasionally says really outrageous things.
- Koe De Oshigoto: A 16-year old high-school girl is forced by her older sister to do voice acting for an adult game company. She finds herself enjoying it and even displays a knack for it. No, it is not a porno.
- Koi Kaze: A guy in his mid-twenties who still lives with his dad goes on a date with a girl 12 years younger than him. Gradually they fall in love. They're siblings.
- Koihime Musou: Ikki Tousen with lolis, lesbian sex and pubic hair jokes.
- K-On: Schoolgirls stay after school to practice their music, but instead eat cake and talk.
- Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka: Male zombie becomes a Magical Girl and shares his house with three females: A Cute Mute Necromancer, a Magical Girl, and a Vampire Ninja.
- Kujibiki Unbalance: A spin-off show about a bunch of teams that may or may not be students, who may or may not be trying to become the next student council.
- Kunisaki Izumo no Jijou: A high school boy who aspires to be a man of man keeps on finding himself playing female roles in his family kabuki troupe against his wishes because he is just too attractive. Hilarity Ensues.
- Kuragehime: A cross dressing man tries to save a group of geeky girls' apartment building.
- Kure-nai: A poor high school boy takes care of a seven-year-old girl whose goal is to learn to fall in love. Make the mistake of calling this a Lolicon show, and you will bring the wrath of its fans down upon your head.
- Kurohime: A gunslinger decides to kill God because God Is Evil. So's she but at least she's got an excuse.
- Kurokami: In a world where people die upon meeting their lookalikes, an angsty high school student helps a super-powered girl punch the hell out of bad guys.
- The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: A band of misfits barely make a living off dead people.
- Kuroshitsuji: An effeminate boy sells his soul for a highly skilled butler.
- Kuroshitsuji II: Another effeminate boy sells his soul for five highly skilled servants, including one highly skilled butler who wears glasses and is exponentially more emotionless than the last one. Conflict ensues partially because the second boy's soul is not as orgasmically delicious as the first one's.
- See also: The description for Count Cain several pages back.
- Or: Hellsing for girls. Substitute vampires for demons, cool for cool, Les Yay for Ho Yay, add more shota implications, more {{Fanservice, more plot, and you're set
- Or: A boy and his butler live an adventurous life in England. Boy has completely useless servants. Butler is stalked by a gay death god. They fight crime.
- Kyouran Kazoku Nikki: A family consisting of a supernatural cop, a Catgirl, a loli, a lion, a biological weapon, a gay man and a jellyfish attempt to teach each other the love of family to not destroy the world.
- Kyo Kara Maoh: Bullying sends victim to another dimension to become the most powerful king of all worlds. There are also demons who may or may not be gay.
- Or: Teenage Japanese boy falls through a toilet into another world. He thinks he's in a classic medieval shonen series, but what no one's telling him is that he's really a magical girl.
- Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora: A Japanese teenager with an increasingly messed-up family tries to murder three expies and a blonde girl (each of whom can summon magic mecha) because he thinks that's what his dead brother probably wanted. The blonde one falls in love with him and helps him in his quest. He falls in love with one of the expys. His brother wasn't dead and he gives up eventually.