Here are descriptions of the stuff we are watching:

Gintama: Aliens invade the Edo era, rendering everything wacky.  Our heroes
run a delivery service in a suddenly-Day-Glo version of medieval Japan.
Wacky slapstick and wordplay humor, starring the voices of Mayama from Honey
& Clover and Mugen from Samurai Champloo. (The latter plays the commander of
the Shinsengumi, who wears a cravate.)

Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto: Grim, slightly supernatural samurai
action in the mid-19th century dying days of the shogunate.  Not to be
confused with Tenpou Ibun Ayakashi Ayashi, which is a little earlier in
history and a fair bit different in theme.

Ouran High School Host Club: Goofball prettyboy antics.  You liked it last
semester, so we'll watch more.

Sexy Commando Gaiden Sugoiyo! Masaru-san: This is our semester for stuff
with long, confusing titles.  Here is more absurd comedy about a transfer
student finding his way into a very silly martial-arts club.

Shinesman: An older parody of the whole mechanized sentai-team thing,
starring a bunch of wage-slave middle managers who are conscripted to pilot
their company's new mecha squadron.  They're not very good at being giant
robot heroes.

Lupin III: Legend of the Gold of Babylon: This is probably the weirdest of
the Lupin feature films, combining an interminable motorcycle stunt
sequence, a Babylonian god buried under New York City, and Zenigata's
Angels.  Starts kinda slow, but the payoff is more than worth it.

Code Geass: CLAMP supplies the character designs for a straightforward
Sunrise robot show about rebellion against England's total global
domination.  The robots look kind of Patlabor-ey.  It's an interesting clash
of styles.

Red Garden: Visually distinctive drama about supernatural forces encroaching
on the students of an American private high school.  Kind of like what you'd
get if Japanese people took Buffy the Vampire Slayer seriously.

Patarillo: Not Patarillo Saiyuki, which blows.  This is the original early
'80s adaptation of Phil's favorite manga series about a petulant midget
dictator and a tall-dark-n-handsome MI6 agent.  Continues this semester's
theme of unrestrained wackiness.

Hataraki Man: A lot like a Japanese live-action drama show, but animated.
Our heroine is an investigative reporter for a weekly newsmagazine,
hopelessly failing to balance her job and her personal life.

Bartender: It's about a bartender.  This belongs to that uniquely Japanese
entertainment genre, "obsessive exploration of a particular career or
craft."  In this case, it's obsessive exploration of mixology.  Much more
fun than it sounds like.

Genshiken OVA: Another episode of COUP: The Animation, drama and yucks with
the members of a college geek club.  In this installment, "I'm Ogiue, and I
Hate Otaku."

Sasuga no Sarutobi: '80s slapstick comedy about an overweight teenage ninja.
This is where Naruto stole a hell of a lot of its humor from.

Space Pirate Captain Harlock Endless Orbit SSX: Captain Harlock sails the
sea of stars being stoic and manly and awesome.  This series follows more
directly upon the origin story in the famous Harlock feature film, Arcadia
of My Youth.

Howl's Moving Castle: Slightly scattered, richly detailed fairy tale from
our man Hayao Miyazaki.  Not his best, but his lowest common denominator
ain't all that low.

DFS.