Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

This year`s 21st issue of Kodansha`s Weekly Shonen Magazine will announce on Wednesday that a third television anime adaptation of K ´ji Kumeta`s Sayonara Zetsub ¨ Sensei manga has been green-lit. Zan Sayonara Zetsub ¨ Sensei will premiere on UHF television stations throughout Japan in July. Hiroshi Kamiya, the winner of the Best Lead Actor Award at this year`s 3rd Annual Seiy « Awards, will reprise his role as the world`s most negative person who happens to teach a high school class. [Source: ANN]

Aired : 2009-07-05  =>  0000-00-00
Episodes: [13]

Zatch Bell!

When he holds a mysterious red book and chants a spell, a lightning attack comes forth. When this strange boy Gash arrives at his house, the life of lazy middle-schooler Kiyomaro Takamine is thrown into chaos!! Gradually, Gash`s true identity and abilities are revealed! Children from the demon world come and attack one after another!! What is the destiny of Kiyomaro, who has decided to fight alongside Gash!? New super-intense battle action!!

Aired : 2003-04-06  =>  2006-03-26
Episodes: [150]

Zegapain

The story, which occurs in Chiba Prefecture and Maihama, follows a highschool boy who participates in extracurricular activities (swimming) and suddenly finds out that he is able to see things that others cannot. Not long after that, he suddenly gets drawn into the middle of a battle between giant robots, where he ends up piloting one of them.

But the question is... is any of it real?

Aired : 2006-04-06  =>  2006-09-28
Episodes: [26]

Zenki

The evil seeds are once again a menace, and Zenki is the legendary weapon against this evil. Zenki has one feisty personality, but because of the current holder of the bracelet that controls him, he has two bodies, in the same entity. Hard to explain, watch it.

Aired : 1995-01-09  =>  1995-12-25
Episodes: [51]

Zenryoku Usagi

Aired : 2008-01-05  =>  0000-00-00
Episodes: [52]

Zero no Tsukaima: Princess no Rondo

Based on a series of light novels written by Yamaguchi Noboru and illustrated by Usatsuka Eiji.

Plot Summary: Following Saito's heroic actions in the War with Albion in season two, Saito & Louise return to Tristain, only to have the runes which bind Saito & Louise disappear. Saito & Louise struggle with a relationship no longer defined as Master & Familiar, as they search for an Elf who has the power to restore the dead to life, and may hold the key to understanding Saito's loss of the Gandalfr's power.

Aired : 2008-07-07  =>  2008-09-29
Episodes: [12]

Zettai Karen Children

In the future, people with ESP are becoming more widespread. The Japanese government has hired three of the most powerful ESPers in Japan to work for B.A.B.E.L. (Base of Backing ESP Laboratory), but all three are ten year old girls with questionable attitudes.

Aired : 2008-04-06  =>  0000-00-00
Episodes: [51]

Zettai Shounen

"I wonder what I want to do..." The boy who doesn`t discover anything about himself. One day during his summer vacation, in the forest of the rural village that he visits, he encounters a strangle little child accompanied by fairies of light.

"I`m not needed by anyone..." The girl who doesn`t accept herself. One day during winter, she comes across a wounded fairy of light in a street corner in the city.

A pure heart is what will save this world, which has now starting to come apart. "Zettai Shounen" is a story about the boy and girl who are guided along by fairies of light to save the world.

"Aizawa Ayumu is a middle-school boy who does not attend school. He is currently spending his summer with his father in a rural town 2 hours away from Tokyo. His parents are divorced and this is the first time he will be seeing his father after a span of four years. Ayumu was initially reluctant to go but his mother offered him a mountain bike if he went. After having been in town for a few days, it seems that everything has been slightly odd lately. The flowers bloom out of season, strange lights appear in the sky and the people are acting in strange ways. Then one day, while riding his bicycle, Ayumu encounters a young boy named Wakkun who wants to play with him. Ayumu agrees but then finds the boy gone and a small spaceship flies into the sky."

"Kisa Tanigawa is a high-school girl living in Yokohama who`s shut herself from the world. She neither visites the school anymore, nor does she frequent with many people. One evening on her way home, she spots some spheres of light fighting each other near a bridge and follows them. She finds one of those spheres, seemingly wounded, later in a tunnel and takes it home where she gives it a name, Bun-chan, for the sound it makes. When awakened before next dawn by it, she takes a look outside and sees a large object looking like an ufo above the city. It grows clearer for a moment and then disappears."

Aired : 2005-05-21  =>  2005-11-19
Episodes: [26]

Zipang

Based on the manga by Kaiji Kawaguchi.

A modern detachment of the Japan Defense Force finds itself transported back in time to 1942. The JDF force must decide whether or not to change the course of history by involving itself in WWII.

Aired : 2004-10-07  =>  2005-03-31
Episodes: [26]

ZOIDS

Days have past and past from the age of wars. Zoids Battle becomes sports, and players are called "warriors". Both Imperial Force and Republice Force try to capture Zoid as a weapon, and three children protect it from unsympathetic adults.

Zoids New Century takes place 4000 years after classic Zoids.

Aired : 2001-01-06  =>  2001-06-30
Episodes: [26]

ZOIDS Chaotic Century

Zoids are beast-like fighting machines used in both everyday use such as transportation, and special use such as war. Some types of Zoids, know as Organoids, are miniature Zoids that are living organisms. These Organoids have the capability to fuse with a non-living Zoid and make it much more powerful.

Van (Ban) Freiheit discovers a Zoid Organoid in an abandoned laboratory while running from two strangers piloting Zoids. Also in the laboratory, in an animated suspension tube is a strange girl. He breaks the tube open and takes her and the Organoid with him. Spotting a ruined Shield Liger Zoid outside nearby, the Organoid fuses with it and repairs the damages. Making his escape, Van names the Organoid Zeke, and decides to keep him as a friend. The girl, who says her name is Fiona, wants to find something called Zoids Eve, and so Van, Zeke, and Fiona begin their adventure.

Aired : 1999-09-04  =>  2000-12-23
Episodes: [67]

Zoids Fuzors

R.D. is a delivery boy who works for a company called Mach Storm in order to earn money to search for the legendary Alpha Zoid. A Zoid that he heard rumors about from his dad that he passionately believes in. Mach Storm also doubles as a Zoid Battling team. In R.D.`s first Coliseum Zoid Battle, he encounters a team that can fuse Zoids. R.D. soon discovers that he has a Zoid that can compatably fuse with his Zoid, Liger Zero. After this happens R.D.`s adventure to discover the truth about the Alpha Zoid begins.
(taken from Animenewsnetwork)

Aired : 2004-10-03  =>  2005-04-03
Episodes: [26]

Zoids Genesis

Natural disasters have devastated planet Zi, killing off almost all life. A thousand years later humans have gradually re-established civilization, salvaging ancient Zoids through diving and mining efforts. In a village whose most previous item is a giant sword which they worship as a holy symbol. A teenage boy discovers an ancient Liger-type Zoid while on a deep water salvage operation. Suddenly the village is attacked by skeletal Bio-Zoids intent on stealing a powerful generator located in the village. Our teenage hero awakens the Liger and discovers that the town`s sacred sword is the Liger`s weapon, together they fight off the mysterious Bio-Zoids. At least for now...

Aired : 2005-04-10  =>  2006-03-26
Episodes: [50]

Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou

Sequel to Natsume Yuujinchou.. Natsume Takashi, with the help of Nyanko-sensei, continues his adventures to free spirits contracted by his grandmother Natsume Reiko in the "Book of Friends".

Aired : 2009-01-06  =>  0000-00-00
Episodes: [13]

Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

Aired : 2008-01-06  =>  2008-03-30
Episodes: [13]

Zombie-Loan

Michiru Kita is a special girl who possesses Shinigami Eyes, which allows her to see a dark ring around a person's neck. This ring symbolizes the person's impending death; once they are marked to die, a gray line, which is invisible to normal people, appears on their neck, and once the ring turns completely black, the person dies. Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana, two boys in her class, both have black rings around their necks, but to her surprise, they are not yet dead. It is revealed that after a tragic accident that was supposed to kill them both, the two boys made a deal with a secret loan office called the Zombie-Loan. In return for keeping them alive, the two have to hunt zombies for the loan office. When Michiru gets involved with them, she finds that her life has just become more complicated.

Aired : 2007-07-04  =>  2007-09-12
Episodes: [11]

Zone of the Enders: Dolores

49-year-old James Lynx was an officer (LEV pilot) in the United Nations global arm. One day he received notification that his wife -- a Martian scientist -- was killed during a lab experiment.
Hateful and resenting him for letting her go, his children blamed him and cast him aside. Depressed and in despair, James quit the military and took up a job as a transporter between Earth and Mars. He had a slight hope his wife was still alive, so to find her he wanted to be out there. After a few years had mostly given up all hope and turned to drinking, until one day he receives an orbital frame by the name of "Dolores", sent by his dead wife. With this, he began to hope he might find her and set off on a wild adventure to find the truth and reunite his family.

Aired : 2001-04-07  =>  2001-09-29
Episodes: [26]