Better Than It Sounds/Anime and Manga T-W

Please sort new titles alphabetically by the English release name of the anime or manga to avoid double-entries.

Tactics: In the Taisho era, a teenaged-looking albino 30-something ethnologist/wizard tries to feed his household of mythical-beings disguised as humans, by taking a series of odd-jobs as a writer, translator, or ghost-buster.
Taishō Baseball Girls: Japanese school girls play baseball... in 1925.
The Tarot Cafe: An immortal decides to end her life with the help of Satan so she can be with her ex-boyfriend. The ex is a dragon.
The Tatami Galaxy: A college student is stuck repeating the same two years of college until he returns a toy.
Team Medical Dragon: Open-heart surgery becomes more dramatic than ever before.
Tears to Tiara: King Arthur's sister marries a demon king so they can fight the ~~Roman~~ Holy Empire.
Tekkaman Blade: A loud Jerkass and his buddies trash his family's garden.
Tenchi Muyo: High-school student prefers to remain "just friends" with hot alien girls.
- Or: A Shinto priest has a family reunion.
  - Tenchi Universe: Same as above, IN SPACE!
  - Tenchi in Tokyo: Same as above, IN TOKYO!
  - Tenchi Muyo GXP: Same as above, WITH A NEW CHARACTER!
  - Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari: Same as above, IN ANOTHER WORLD, WITH ROBOTS!
  - Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual: Same as above, ON A PARALLEL EARTH, WITH DIFFERENT CHARACTERS, WITH ROBOTS!
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: A miner and a delinquent team up with an underage girl for the purpose of fighting a race war.
- THE POWER OF HAM defeats evildoers! There are also giant robots.
- Almost everything is a robot and/or has to do with drills. Badassness ensues.
- 14-year old kid uses Mini-Mecha to destroy Humongous Mecha using the power of how awesome he is. Don't watch it if you know a lot about physics.
- Beady-Eyed Loser fights Humongous Mecha using a Mini-Mecha powered by awesomeness. Physics gets murdered on a regular basis.
- The ultimate anime for drill enthusiasts.
- Guy takes over the world, he then fights a badly drawn stick figure so he can kill his girlfriend.
- A charismatic rebel leads some of the last surviving humans in a war against mutant tyrants and extra-dimensional aliens. The hero is his young miner friend.
- Alternatively: Man fueled by Hot Blood fights a king and an Eldritch Abomination with digging implements.
Tentai Senshi Sunred: A cold war between a Sentai hero and his nemesis takes place in a small town. The town takes the nemesis' side.
The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye: A girl with an eye on her forehead travels the desert in a talking tank with her alien boyfriend and sometimes kills things.
Those Who Hunt Elves: A musclebrained karate freak, an Oscar-winning Actress, a Japanese Teenage Gun Otaku Girl, and a giant tank possessed by the spirit of a cat run around a fantasy world, trying to return home by forcibly removing the clothes of every female elf they can get their hands on.
Thunderbirds 2086: Cooler-looking than the puppet version, but most of the stories aren't.
Tiger and Bunny: An old-fashioned Adult Child and a stuck-up Batman counterpart reluctantly team up to fight crime through the power of Product Placement.
Time Bokan: Good time-travelers in a bug-shaped robot fight evil time-travelers in a skull-shaped robot over a big rock.
Tokyo Babylon: Bisexual, sociopathic veterinarian/assassin with a floral theme makes a bet with a fashion-challenged Uke, wins, and kills the uke's sister. It takes place to an 80's soundtrack.
- X 1999: Sequel to the above. A fight between an Emo Teen and his best friend gets a bit out of hand.
Tokyo Mew Mew: Genetic experiments become battle waitresses. Bigfoot is possessed by an alien.
To LOVE-Ru : Manga and anime with Fan Service, an Ordinary High School Student, Fan Service, a Magical Girl, Fan Service, a continuously-growing Unwanted Harem, Panty Shots, and Fan Service.
Tomie: A beautiful compulsive liar with the ability to regenerate manipulates men into killing her in increasingly horrible ways.
Tona Gura: A girl's joy at being reunited with her childhood crush is cut short when she learns puberty hit said childhood crush especially hard.
Tono To Issho: The day-to-day trials and tribulations of vassals to historically significant warlords of the Sengoku era. Kyupah!
Toradora!: A scary looking guy helps an obsessed midget find love.
- A grumpy, violent martinet and the an obsessive homemaker hook up. Their genders are reversed.
Tower of God: A young boy stalks his mother/girlfriend/playmate and sets fate in motion. Five years later he blurs gender boundaries.
Toriko: A cook and a gourmet travel the world looking for new food for a menu.
Tramps Like Us: A woman makes a 20-year-old man her pet.
Transformers Cybertron: Giant robots summon glowing poker chips from the sky with their Battle Auras in order to invoke Big Freaking Gun's, every non-melee Spam Attack trope, and a lot of other Rule of Cool ones too. There's a storyline somewhere too, but...
Translucent: A young actress gains a superpower powered by angst. This makes her angsty, of course.
Triangle Heart 3 Sweet Songs Forever: Two siblings who are actually cousins live in a Fantasy Kitchen Sink. Terrorists want to kill and/or marry their Idol Singer friend. None of the above is the winning girl.
- Or: Nanoha's family has an unrelated side-story.
Trapeze: A psychiatrist in a bear suit decides the best way to treat everything is a gigantic Vitamin B shot.
Trigun: A gun-toting pacifist and his genocidal brother emerge from a lightbulb. Humanity responds to being simultaneously saved and fucked by trying to kill the pacifist.
Trinity Blood: A guy who eats vampires acts like a complete idiot while occasionally eating vampires and making a scythe out of his blood. Nanomachines started it.
- A theoretically Catholic vampire deals with his family issues.
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle: Girl suffers a bad case of amnesia. She and her friends must travel to regain her memories, while dealing with more moles than a Whack-A-Mole factory. Mind Screw ensues.
Tsukihime: An Ordinary High School Student slices a girl he never met before into seventeen pieces. She gets better and enlists him to fight vampires.
- An anemic boy slices a girl he never met before into seventeen pieces. They then sleep and hunt together.
20th Century Boys: Guy with psychic powers becomes really obsessed with middle-school friend's fanfiction.
The Tyrant Falls in Love: Kind-hearted, dark-haired Seme rapes violent, gay bashing, long-haired Uke and later blackmails him into having sex once a week. Angst and Denial ensues. Title refers to the uke.
Ubel Blatt: A guy comes back to life as a little kid after eating a fairy so he can kill some heroes.
Uchuu Senkan Yamato: A World War II-era battleship is equipped with a really powerful gun and sent off into space to fight alien invaders.
UFO Princess Valkyrie: A bath-house owner is killed and resurrected by an alien girl, which causes her to revert to childhood. Then her sisters and a Catgirl maid show up, and things get really weird.
Ultimate Girls: 100ft tall girls make like Ultraman to defend Tokyo from evil, but they lose power (and their clothes) even faster than he does.
Ultimate!! Hentai Kamen: A man wearing only two pairs of underwear fights crime.
Umisho: An ocean-dwelling nudist joins a mediocre high school swim team full of weirdos that is managed by guy who can't swim because of a pathological fear of mermaids.
Until Death Do Us Part: A blind man protects a thirteen-year-old girl who says he's her future husband.
Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru: A previously-female teenage boy and his mostly-male harem fight pretty demons. Everyone likes to touch each other a lot.
Urusei Yatsura: An alien loses a game of tag to a perverted slob. She decides to marry him.
Utawarerumono: Masked man is rescued by people with animal ears, and gets caught up in their little war. Said war isn't the main plot.
Uzumaki: Inexplicable spirals spell certain doom for a small town in Japan.
- Alternately: A town in Japan is destroyed by geometry. Readers are scarred for life.
- Or: Everyone in a town goes crazy, indulges in a little Art Major Biology, and dies.
Vampire Doll: Ancient and powerful vampire lord gets stuck in a wax doll, is now a young girl who summons candy.
Vampire Game: A girl adopts a cat. The cat has a grudge to settle.
Vampire Hunter D: A Hammer Horror Western starring a guy who gets into arguments with his hand.
Vampire Knight: A schoolgirl is surrounded by Bishounen vampires and proceeds to get in a love triangle. Everyone starts drinking everyone else's blood, probably to stay alive.
Vampire Princess Miyu: Japanese Vampire fights demons. Actually much scarier than it sounds.
Vandread: The Battle of the Sexes is Serious Business.
Vassalord: Just how much UST can there be between two male vampires? Let's find out.
Veritas: High schooler inherits electricity powers and lots of drama from a guy who he only knew for a few months.
Violinist of Hameln (manga): A bunch of teenagers with Nice Hats and instrument names set out to kill demons.
- Violinist of Hameln (anime): Same as above, but angstier and only slightly more animated. Equally funny, but not on purpose.
Vinland Saga: A bunch of Vikings duke it out in The Dung Ages. A princess with no boobs is involved.
Vision of Escaflowne: A psychic high school track star helps in the fight against Isaac Newton's evil mecha army on a highly improbable moon made by Atlanteans.
Voices of a Distant Star: A drama centered around a teenager's disconnection anxiety due to her poorly performing cellphone.
The Wallflower: A group of Bishounen housemates must turn a Gorn-loving girl into a demure young Japanese lady to avoid paying their rent. She's not having any of it.
- The girl in the well from The Ring is forced to live with four useless Bishonen by her aunt. Hilarity Ensues.
Wangan Midnight: An 18-year-old high school student drives an allegedly-possessed car.
Wedding Peach: A hopelessly romantic girl beats up demons while wearing a wedding dress. It's not Sailor Moon, honest.
Weiss Kreuz: A group of androgynous, sexually ambiguous young men pose as florists to cover-up their lucrative business as assassins.
Welcome to The NHK: Four crazy people lack a psychiatrist.
- Or: A depressed college dropout converses with his fridge, finds redemption in creating anime porn with his neighbour.
Windy Tales: Strangely drawn high-school students learn how to manipulate wind, which apparently is something even cats can pull off.
Witchblade: Single mom gains a bracelet of mass destruction and a sexy-as-hell outfit. It's a tear jerker.
- Or : A young woman finds a high-profit job, seduces the company's CEO and fights (literally) to keep her daughter by herself.
Witch Hunter: Soul Eater + King Arthur + the Chinese Empire + Rule of Cool + Technical Pacifism (usually). The protagonist's little sister likes him too much.
Witch Hunter Robin: An anime adaptation of Law and Order goes off the rails when the bad guys start throwing fire around and crushing people with their minds. Do not confuse with the above series.
W Juliet: A manly woman and a girly man with daddy issues fall in love.
Wolfs Rain: A group of bickering quadrupeds in human disguise go looking for paradise in the company of a girl who's made from plant DNA.
Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest: Snarky Wolf Man manages to wow and/or infuriate everyone he comes across, including a formerly emotionless Yakuza and his weird girlfriend.
Working!!: Average family restaurant with dysfunctional staff somehow still has customers.
The World God Only Knows: The God of Video Games teaches you how to save the world by bagging chicks using the power of TROPES.
- Or: Man plays Dating Sim with real girls. This somehow works.
- Outcast gaming nerd acquires demonic contract to smooch cute girls, resents it.
World Of Narue: A half-Japanese girl has family problems because of her father's previous marriage and the Theory of Relativity.