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Muybridge's Strings

Muybridge no Ito

Movie · 2011 · Drama

Synopsis: The destiny of photographer Eadweard Muybridge and that of a Japanese mother clash poetically in this exploration of the irrepressible human desire to make time stand still. (Source: AniDB)

★ 4.9

SOS TV Walpurgis Night Fever

ONA · 2010 · Comedy, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Stuck on the desolate planet Walpurgis, two intrepid girls named Garnet and Crystal, along with their robotic bat Carrot, can only dispatch emergency broadcasts into space and hope that someone will eventually come to their rescue. In an attempt to increase the distress signal's …

★ 5.8

Twin Signal

TWIN SIGNAL: Family Game

OVA · 1996 · Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Signal, a robot companion built for Nobuhiko, is attacked by Pulse, one the its creator's previous prototypes. Reprogrammed by Dr. Otoi's mysterious rival, Pulse is loaded down with weapons and sent on a mission by Otoi: steal the most recent robot technology, and obliterate anyt…

★ 2.9

Generation of Chaos III: Time of the Seal

Generation of Chaos III: Toki no Fuuin

OVA · 2003 · Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Synopsis: Fuujin Year 130 (Medieval times when magic and gods were of great importance). Two years ago, the great war in the "Old Fuujin Continent" was controlled by the "Zenon Country" who possessed great power. In Randia, a small country to the south, the young prince Alfred is attacked …

★ 6.2

Alps no Shoujo Heidi: Heidi to Clara-hen

Movie · 1996 · Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: Condensed version of the second half of the TV series.

★ 4.7

Sakura Taisen: Kanadegumi

OVA · 2012 · Music

Synopsis: Sakura Taisen: Kanadegumi follows a girl named Miyabi Neko and her interactions with five attractive young men. The story takes place in Tokyo and centers on an imperial opera company named Kanadegumi. Bundled with a limited first edition of Shimada Chie's Sakura Taisen: Kanadegu…

★ 4.3

Enclosed World

Kakomareta Sekai

ONA · Drama

Synopsis: Kakomareta Sekai is a short animation done by Shinkai Makoto using Lightwave 3D. It is inspired by Japanese novelist Murakami Haruki's book Sekai no Owari to Hard-Boiled Wonderland (Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World). The music was done by Tenmon, who's also respons…

★ 5.9

Universe

Music · Fantasy

Synopsis: Music video for the song Universe by Maaya Sakamoto. Under the night sky feebly illuminated by innumerable twinkling stars, a little girl wanders alone through a magic world between darkness and dawan, that is not today and not tomorrow, inhabited by 6 billion solitudes. What wil…

★ 4.7

Mahou Tsukai Tai! vs. Shamanic Princess

OVA · Comedy, Fantasy, Mahou Shoujo

Synopsis: A parody-esque epilogue to both Shamanic Princess and Mahou Tsukai Tai!. As a marketing ploy back when Shamanic Princess was first released, buyers who purchased all six first edition LD's of both Shamanic Princess and Magic User's Club, and sent in their proof of purchases befor…

★ 6.3

Tenkuu Senki Shurato: Sousei e no Anto

OVA · 1991 · Action, Fantasy

Synopsis: This is the continuation of the TV series. The battle for the celestial sphere is over. Gai and Shurato have been erased from history. However, another danger is coming ahead, and the eight guardians are sent back to Earth to investigate. As Shurato tries to win back his friends …

★ 5.3

Sugar Bunnies

TV short · 2007 · Comedy

Synopsis: A group of 14 twin bunnies do various jobs in their homeland of Bunniesfield. One day, they were given a task from the Two Queens due to their mastery in desserts and were sent to Earth. They landed in the house of a little girl named Sophia, who they befriend, and teach her how …

★ 6.3

GALACTIC PATROL Lensman

TV · 1984 · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: The young Kimball Kinnison is leaving home for a wider education when a Galactic Patrol ship crashes on his family's land and the dying pilot gives him a mysterious Lens. Half-sentient, the Lens now implanted in his hand becomes the focus of changes in Kim's life including his fa…

★ 5.9

Mirai Shounen Conan: Tokubetsu-hen - Kyodaiki Gigant no Fukkatsu

Movie · 1984 · Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Shaken by repeated earthquakes, Industria will soon be overtaken by water. While its inhabitants are diligently preparing to flee from the isle, they are unexpectedly ambushed by Lepka, an enemy whom they had believed to be dead. Lepka has been hiding underground, waiting for an …

★ 5.0

Uchuu Enban Dai-Sensou

Movie · 1975 · Action, Mecha

Synopsis: The pilot movie of Grendizer. It is about Duke Fleed, a fugitive of the planet fleed, who was kicked out of his planet by the Armies of Vega. Fleed and the daughter of the king of Vega were in love before the war between their planets. The armies of Vega continue their fight with…

★ 6.5

Chibi Maruko-chan Movie (1990)

Movie · 1990 · Comedy

Synopsis: Chibi Maruko chan is the nickname of a sweetly obnoxious 9-year-old girl. She tricks her grandfather, ponders for hours over how to spend her allowance, and hates sitting next to ugly boys. She talks, feels and lives just as real kids do. As the second term commences, Maruko and …

★ 5.8

Stratos 4 Advance: Kanketsu-hen

OVA · 2006 · Comedy, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: With Mikaze Honjou shot, the newly-awakened Miharu Oozora on the run, and the rest of the Shimoji team scattered, things are not looking good. To make matters worse, new swarms of comets show up, threatening to strike even the Shimoji base itself. Now is the time for the girls to…

★ 4.5

PuriGorota: Uchuu no Yuujou Daibouken

OVA · 2008 · Adventure, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: First appeared in Nodame Cantabile manga as a fictional anime series. Later, in episode 4 of the live-action TV drama it appeared as a theatrical movie. Finally, the "movie" was completed and included in Nodame Cantabile anime DVD as an extra feature. (Source: ANN)

★ 6.0

Chocchan Monogatari

Movie · 1996 · Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: This feature length film is based on autobiography of Cho "Chocchan" Kuroyanagi, who is better known as the mother of an actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. The story starts in pre-World War 2 Japan when Chocchan marries violinist despite the objection of both of their families. They liv…

★ 5.8

Mrs. Pepperpot

Spoon Oba-san

TV short · 1983 · Adventure, Slice of Life

Synopsis: An older woman wears a small spoon around her neck but every now and then, she shrinks to the size of a mouse because of the spoon. She sees the world then from a completely different perspective and has all kind of strange adventures together with Wendy, the mouse and many other…

★ 6.6

Kyouryuu Boukenki Jura Tripper

TV · 1995 · Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Synopsis: On a school yachting trip, fifteen children of various ages are mysteriously transported to another world where dinosaurs still roam. While attempting to return home, they encounter talking dinosaurs, revolutionaries, pirates, a princess and primitive scientists. These unlikely a…

★ 6.7

Muka Muka Paradise

TV · 1993 · Adventure, Comedy

Synopsis: Uiba Shikatani, the daughter of a pet shop owner, is heartbroken after some reptile eggs fail to hatch. In his attempts to cheer her up, her father brings home a large, striped egg, which he hopes will successfully hatch (unexpectedly into a green dinosaur whom they call "Muka-Mu…

★ 6.1

All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku TV Specials

Bannou Bunka Neko-Musume Specials

Special · 1999 · Action, Adventure, Comedy

Synopsis: Special episodes that take place between episodes 10 & 11 of the TV series.

★ 5.6

Dr.

Music · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: The video's story is set in the year 3000 on an Earth that has been reduced to ruins by weapons of mass destruction and environmental destruction. An animated alter-ego of Amuro is the lone survivor who wants to restore the once beautiful planet. She attempts to "convey a message…

★ 5.1

sound / phantasma / mirror

Kagami no Genon

Movie · 2004 · Slice of Life

Synopsis: A short amateur movie by Kojiro Shishido. Winner at the 10th annual Student CG Contest held in 2005. It shows great sensitivity towards the delicate gradations of light and shadow in the natural world, with a matching delicate soundtrack by Shishido himself. (Source: AniDB)