- Princess Resurrection - The main protagonist, middle-school aged student Hiro, has died, rather stupidly. Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, he finds himself resurrected as a half-immortal blood warrior in perpetual servitude of the chainsaw-wielding, coldly-brilliant Princess Hime. As she's perpetually-besieged by her siblings in a struggle for the throne of monster-kind, Hiro finds himself dying a lot more to suit his new life mission.
Though this is not first and foremost a harem anime, it bears worth mentioning that a good harem anime has a fine balance to it: if it becomes overly kinky, or the love interests act unrealistically clingy, it can insult the viewer's intelligence. Princess Resurrection deftly avoids this, partly because Hiro is just a bit too young to get into any serious romance with the leading ladies, and so the focus actually switches to a wide variety of cool supernatural scenarios mostly involving assassins after the princess. - Maria+Holic - The main character, Kanako, really hates boys, and has transferred into an all girl Christian missionary school looking to find her soul mate. The catch? As fate would have it, her first crush is shattered when she discovers that the most popular girl in school, Mariya, is actually a highly affluent, cross-dressing boy with a somewhat sadistic sense of humor. He moves right in as her roommate to manipulate and prevent her from divulging his secret.
Despite the somewhat risque nature of the plot, Maria+Holic is actually a relatively clean show - though there is the occasional cleavage there's not a nipple to be found. The most morally questionable aspect is that Kanako's lusting over her fellow classmates is occurring in a (relatively lax) Christian missionary school, and the Mariya plays a number of cruel humiliation games on Kanako because because he finds her behavior repulsive.
Not too many animes succeed in making me laugh out loud anymore, and the bizarrely premised Maria+Holic pulled that off more than once in its 12 episode run. It possesses both excellent comedy and character development. The depth of the two main characters alone is pretty outstanding, as they possess quite a few self-conflicting characteristics.
In terms of progress on my own game designs... incubation continues. I find free-writing tends to produce the best results. I'm not sure it's technically possible to wedge everything I'd like to get done into one game. It's not the platform's fault, it has more to do with the scope of what I'm trying to do.