Anime I have watched in the last year or so - Red Garden
Five very different young women are apparently only linked by the facts that they are all pupils at an exclusive New York private school and that they shared a friendship with a girl who has seemingly committed suicide. They are summoned to a meeting in a car park by a mysterious woman, who threatens them with dire consequences if they do not attend. There they are forced to fight for their lives against a man who transforms into a beast-like monster before their eyes. Eventually they receive horrifying revelations about the events of the night before the battle, which none of them had been previously able to remember.
Red Garden is urban fantasy, unusually set in the US. The plot is eventually revealed to be a loose variation on vampires versus werewolves although this is never stated to be the case and the parallels are somewhat tenuous. The characterisations are good, the girls never fully resolve their differences and the youngest of them, far from becoming the mascot, is, (understandably, under the stress of their circumstances) actually bullied for being weak and ineffectual. None of the characters are completely sympathetic (with the partial exception of the usual Mary-Sue main character, who is actually shown to be something of a priss) but none of them are really bad either. In short, they're well drawn characters with flaws and backgrounds of their own. The show doesn't short on the secondary characters either, although, predictably, I would have liked to have found out more about Paula, the head of Grace, the powerful student council clique.
The production values are very high, the character designs are almost photo-realistic, without being overly heavily CGI-ed, with the odd exception of the noses which occasionally look exaggerated from certain angles. The music is good (I particularly liked the end theme to the first half), with a bizarre exception. Every now and then, the main characters have a tendency to break into song in a highly incongruous fashion. I recommend you fast-forward these sections.
Five girl band, dark urban/high-school fantasy, low-level super powers.
It won't change your world but it's a solid 24 episodes of entertainment. 7/10.