Anime catalog

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YAWARA! Special: Zutto Kimi no Koto ga... .

Special · 1996 · Action, Comedy, Drama

Synopsis: Yawara Inokuma competes for Japan in the Atlanta Olympic Games as she meets with several familiar faces throughout the tournament. (Source: ANN)

★ 6.1

Mecha-Doc

Yoroshiku Mechadoc

TV · 1984 · Action, Comedy, Sports

Synopsis: Mechadock is a powerful race car obtained from a simple economy car, which is able to race on any ground.

★ 5.4

ASIENCE: Kami wa Onna no Inochi

Special · 2007 · Drama

Synopsis: A short revolving around the Japanese proverb: "Hair is the heart of a woman". Beautiful animation directed by Kazuto Nakazawa!

★ 5.1

Open Your Mind

Mezame no Hakobune

OVA · 2005 · Fantasy

Synopsis: The plot of Open Your Mind follows the extraterrestrial origin of life, coming from outerspace as six deities (Intermission act), evolving into water (Sho-ho) then emerging to the air (Hyakkin) and to the ground (Ku-nu). Each one of these creatures rules one of the six elements o…

★ 5.0

Hoshi no Umi no Amuri

OVA · 2008 · Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: The 3D modeled anime is set in Year 019 of the Insonity Progressive Revolution - a future era in which mankind has evolved into a new species called Adapters. Three very young Adapter girls from Japan, China and France set out on a space adventure that will affect the rest of the…

★ 6.1

Mega Man: Upon a Star

Rockman Hoshi ni Negai wo

OVA · 2002 · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: "This Anime (Episode 2, to be exact), where Rockman travels from the Game-World to the real world, to learn some cultural differences about Japan, was intended to be a Special Episode for the original Mega Man Cartoon Series by Ruby-Spears, which aired around 1995 in the US. As i…

★ 4.0

Eguchi Hisashi no NANTOKA NARUDESHO!

OVA · 1990 · Comedy

Synopsis: Part anime, part live action, and part puppet show. This MAL entry duration will reflect the anime segment only. Nantoka Narudesho is a series of seemingly unrelated sketches. Viewer-be-warned, some sketches have not aged well and would be found extremely offensive due to racism,…

★ 5.8

Blue Sonnet

Akai Kiba: Blue Sonnet

OVA · 1989 · Action, Drama, Music

Synopsis: Sonnet is a cyborg/esper from a harsh background and now trained to be the ultimate warrior and most powerful weapon in the world. She is sent to Japan to watch Komatsuzaki Lan, who is thought to be controlled by the rage of the esper Akai Kiba (Crimson Fang). Lan is a quiet girl…

★ 6.1

Sakura Wars: ~Su~Mi~Re~

Sakura Taisen: Sumire

OVA · 2002 · Adventure, Drama, Mecha

Synopsis: For years the defense and safety of the Imperial city rested on the shoulders of Sumire Kanzaki of the Flower Division. But this, as with all things, must fade away. As the top star of the Imperial Theatre Company, Sumire was the power and the light from which her comrades drew t…

★ 5.3

True Love Story Summer Days, and yet...

True Love Story Summer Days; and yet...

OVA · 2003 · Romance

Synopsis: When Morisaki Yuuta ran into a girl in the school hallway that day, he had no idea his life would change forever. As a member of the photography club and a fledgling to the world of women, Yuuta's life has been turned upside down by the entrance of not one, but several women into…

★ 6.1

Wild 7

OVA · 1994 · Adventure

Synopsis: An elite police crime fighting team is formed using convicted criminals. Using their first hand knowledge of the criminal mindset, the Wild 7 are first sent after a gang of Bank robbers. Then in Wild Biker Knights they are sent after a huge crime syndicate that has many high powe…

★ 5.7

Fluximation

Music

Synopsis: 14 short music videos for Utada Hikaru's album "Exodus". Directed by Koji Morimoto, Kazuto Nakazawa, Hideki Himura, Hiroyuki Kitakubo, Jiro Kanai, Yoshiharu Ashino, Yasuhiro Aoki, Atsuko Fukushima, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Daisuke Nakayama. (Source: AniDB)

★ 6.4

VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire

VS Kishi Ramune & 40 Honoo

TV · 1996 · Comedy, Fantasy

Synopsis: Baba Lamunade is followed home by two strange peddler girls who give him a CD-rom game. After he beats "The Legend of Lamuness", the girls come out of his computer and bring him to DokiDoki Space. He is the third descendant of the hero Lamuness who must stop Don Genosai from resu…

★ 6.8

Plastic Model Wrestling Sanshiro

Plawres Sanshirou

TV · 1983 · Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Plawres is a wrestling game that the players make their robots, which are about 30 cm tall, fight in the ring. The main character, Sugata Sanshirou, is a plawres player. Using his plawrestler, Juohmaru, he beats strong rivals. (Source: ANN)

★ 5.9

Haguregumo

Movie · 1982 · Comedy

Synopsis: The year is 1866, the twilight of the Tokugawa era. As Japan boldly moves into a new age, one man couldn't possibly care less. That man is Kumosuke Haguregumo, a retired samurai who has since become the town fool. Though he still carries his twin-bladed katana, Kumosuke spends hi…

★ 5.9

The Legend of Ninja Kamui

Ninpuu Kamui Gaiden

TV · 1969 · Action, Adventure

Synopsis: Kamui is a ninja from the Edo period who has decided to leave his clan. After doing so he is pursued relentlessly by the members of his former clan; who consider him to be a traitor and therefore wish to kill him. Kamui then wanders around Japan to escape from them by using his i…

★ 6.4

5-tou ni Naritai.

Movie · 1995 · Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: Story of a girl born with a bad leg. Ritsuko longs to go to school and make lots of friends but it is not so easy. Her mother is very protective of her and at school she is teased by her classmates for her strange way of walking. Will she manage to keep her smile?

★ 4.8

Lime-iro Ryuukitan X CROSS: Koi

TV · 2005 · Drama, Mecha, Romance

Synopsis: It was Meiji 38 (1905), the Russo-Japanese War that had begun since the previous year was getting hard. In this severe circumstance, they reorganized the Raimu Squad. The members of the Raimu Squad were the girls. They were just like other ordinary girls who went to schools and y…

★ 5.8

Babel II

Babel Nisei (1992)

OVA · 1992 · Action, Mecha, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Life seems simple for Koichi, a young student, until he learns that he is the reincarnation of an alien protector who crashed onto the mantle of responsibility as"defender of the Earth", Koichi/Babel teams up with a trio of super-powered alien companions to battle the the dark fo…

★ 4.9

Odin: Photon Space Sailer Starlight

Odin: Koushi Hansen Starlight

Movie · 1985 · Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: In the year 2099, mankind has colonized parts of the Solar System thanks to the evolution of space travel. To venture further beyond what man has accomplished, the space vessel Starlight is launched. After rescuing a mysterious girl from a wreckage near the asteroid fields, the c…

★ 6.1

Tenshi no Shippo Chu!

TV short · 2003 · Fantasy, Romance

Synopsis: Somewhere, there was a young man. A kind hearted young man who loved animals but, the most unfortunate things happen to him. The place where he works going bankrupt, bumping into a signboard as he walks in the streets. He is just completely burdened with bad luck. However, his li…

★ 5.2

MAPS

OVA · 1994 · Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: While looking for the ledgendary Mapman, the last surviving member of the Nomad Star tribe, Lipumira finds him in Tokyo. His name is Gen Tokishima and he is the only one able to get one part of the starmap hidden within the Earth. After retrieving the piece, Gen must make a decis…

★ 5.2

St. Luminous Mission High School

Saint Luminous Jogakuin

TV · 1998 · Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural

Synopsis: Kaihei is a rather normal high school student but soon discovers that his deceased grandfather has left him the chairman position of his all-girls high school, St. Luminous Mission High School. Besides being the only male student on campus, he is also now the young chairman in ch…

★ 5.6

Wrath of the Ninja

Sengoku Kitan Youtouden Soushuuhen

Movie · 1989 · Action

Synopsis: The year a comet races across the sky, splitting the heavens, from the depths of the Earth the dark god shall arise once again. Then, the dark evil lurking in the shadows shall come out of the depths of Hell and show itself in the present world. The emotions of the blade of the w…