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Anime Relations: Aoi Bungaku Series

These are my targets so far for Zerg's 2015 anime challenge, completed entries will be be struck through.

➤Watch an anime with no voice actors
Cat Soup
➤Watch a non-slice of life anime starring a child protagonist (pre-teens)*
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
➤Watch an anime starring non-human (or humanoid) characters
Shirokuma Cafe
➤Watch an anime that features a non-Japanese title
Death Parade
➤Watch an anime where the director (or anyone else important on the staff) has only worked on that one anime
➤Watch a movie that is not a continuation of an established franchise, a multi-movie series and is not directed by the following names:
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Isao Takahata
- Satoshi Kon
- Mamoru Hosada
- Makoto Shinkai
- Yasuhiro Yoshiura
- Masaaki Yuasa
- Mamoru Oshii
Sword of the Stranger
➤Watch a sports anime where the sport in question has a real life Japanese athlete that has actually accomplished something notable internationally within the last five years
One Outs
➤Watch an anime adaptation of a work of literary merit
Aoi Bungaku
➤Pick a (favorite) writer, director, animator, studio etc. and watch their least recognized work
Medaka Box
➤Watch anything by Tezuka Osamu
Black Jack
➤Watch an anime within the top 500 you've never heard of
Kimi ni Todoke
➤Watch a cyberpunk anime**
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
➤Watch a space opera
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
➤Watch one of the many "girls with guns" anime***
Canaan
➤Watch an anime where the opening/ending does not feature a song sung in Japanese
Mushishi
➤Watch an anime movie that has been submitted for an Oscar
Kaze Tanchinu
➤Watch Sazae-san
➤Watch a pre-1990s mecha anime that was made by someone not named Tomino
Gunbuster
➤Watch an anime featured in the World Masterpiece Theatre
Les Miserables: Shoujo Cosette
➤Watch an anime from the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s
➤Watch a debut work of an anime studio/director
Lupin III - Hayao Miyazaki
➤Watch a full filmography of a favorite director (independent or otherwise)
Akiyuki Shinbou
➤Watch a magical girl show where the cover art distinctly does not feature the color pink
➤Watch an anime that is relevant to your major/career/studies
RD Sennou Chousashitsu
➤Watch a shounen anime where the main character does not possess spiky hair
➤Sort your anime list based on ratings, starting with the highest rated first. Move down the list, and rewatch the first three shows (or less?) where you cannot name at least three characters. Shows with less than three characters are obviously excluded.