I’ve been enjoying Toradora!, Nodame Cantabile Paris Chapter, Eve no Jikan, and Kannagi. Sampled some others which I didn’t pursue.
Kannagi is another boy-meets-magical-girl anime. That said, it’s a delightful series. The hero carves a figure of a girl out of an old tree-trunk which came from the site of a shrine. He is shocked when the carving disintegrates and in its place appears an attactive girl, Nagi, who seems to be a manifestation of the shrine-goddess Kannagi. In time-honoured fashion, Nagi comes to live with him. The resulting complications are well handled, and are much to do with finding out who exactly Nagi is, a subject about which she herself seems vague. And she’s an appealing character, whih long hair, long legs and a white swishy miniskirt which probably absorbed much of the animation budget… There’s quite a lot of mild fanservice here.