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Daddy Long-Legs

Ashinaga Oji-san

Special · 1979 · Comedy, Drama

Synopsis: An orphan girl receives a scholarship for a prestigious school from an anonymous benefactor who she refers to as Daddy Long Legs. Note: This TV special is not related to the 1990's series directly. (Source: AniDB)

★ 4.5

The Story of Mr. Sorry

Je Bul Chal-ssi Iyagi

Movie · Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Synopsis: An unprecedented media show is on air at a TV broadcasting studio. The show is asking people whether a spider that drove an assemblyman crazy should be publicly executed or not. The spider in question is Je Bul-chal(meaning 'my mistake'), a hardworking young individual who became…

★ 4.9

Big Fish & Chinese Flowering Crabapple

Da Yu Hai Tang

ONA · Adventure, Drama, Romance

Synopsis: In 2004, Liang Xuan produced a flash short film which was the prototype of the animated film Da Yu Hai Tang, which won the DIGIID Award of Intel 2004 China Digital Festival.

★ 6.2

King of Classroom, Yamazaki

Gakkyuu-Ou Yamazaki

TV · 1998 · Comedy

Synopsis: Yamazaki comes to Earth from an other planet, hoping to conquer our planet. But he soon realizes, that in order to conquer the world, he has to conquer a his own classroom first. That's why he comes up with lots of different ideas to get everybody to follow him. Also, he spends m…

★ 4.4

Highschool Aurabuster: Hikari no Mezame

OVA · 1999 · Drama, Fantasy

Synopsis: Animation of a very popular novel series by the writer WAKAGI Mio (若木未生), also adapted as a manga by MORI Makoto (杜真琴), serialised in LaLa. The novels feature illusatrations by KOUGA Yun (高河ゆん), and the character designs for the anime are based on these. The OVA is an original …

★ 4.9

Shin Shounan Bakusouzoku Arakure KNIGHT

OVA · 1997 · Adventure

Synopsis: Shonan Route 134: Like the wind, like a shadow, men running with a roar, without knowing their life. They turn approaching enemies into corpses. They rule the darkness of Shonan. (Source: Toei Video, translated)

★ 4.5

Cat City

OVA · 2006 · Fantasy, Horror

Synopsis: A fantasy world with only cats as far as the eye can see. The awe and fear a person can feel in a world that doesn’t know mankind, the world of Cat City invented by HAGIWARA Sakutaro, is depicted with sense by the art of KANAIDA Etsuko. The commercial editor URAHAMA Shojiro edits…

★ 4.6

Time Bokan 2000: Kaitou Kiramekiman

TV · 2000 · Action, Adventure

Synopsis: More Time Bokan adventures.

★ 4.7

Kuroi Ame ni Utarete

Movie · 1984 · Drama

Synopsis: Black rain, which contained plenty of radioactivity, poured into Hiroshima just after the bombing. The effects of the death ash extend to the second and third generations and still cast the shadow of death behind the living witnesses. (Source: Official Site)

★ 6.2

Chikkun Takkun

TV · 1984 · Comedy, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: The "Waruchin Ceremony" has been stolen from All Star, a planet that exists in the outskirts of space. The computer that is built into it is programmed to make anything possible. The thief is actually the villain, Doctor Bell. Doctor Bell schemes to invade the other planets throu…

★ 4.4

Maken Liner 0011 Henshin Seyo!

Movie · 1972 · Action, Mecha, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: A medium long anime movie (50 minutes) released as one of the programs of 'Toei Manga Festival', and screened with a live-action film "Kamen Rider vs. Ambassador Hell" and others. A near-future Sci-Fi mecha action film featuring four cyborg dogs. An original story based on the co…

★ 6.6

Rainbow Samurai

Oi! Ryouma

TV · 1992 · Adventure, Drama, Sports

Synopsis: In the middle of the 19th century, Japan was still closed off from the outside world. There were just the beginning signs of reformation in the long regime of Shogun Tokugawa. In the remote countryside, on the island of Shikoko, a young boy named Ryoma is growing up in a lower-cl…

★ 4.6

Red Bean Soup

Oshiruko

ONA · Comedy

Synopsis: A young man tries to get a cold drink on an extremely hot day.

★ 6.1

Bumpety Boo

Hey! Bumboo

TV short · 1985 · Adventure

Synopsis: Bumboo is a very strange car-like creature with a cute yellow body. He was born from a mysterious egg at an automobile factory. Having heard the first cries of a newborn baby, a boy named Ken comes to the factory and meets Bumboo. They soon become good friends and set out on thei…

★ 4.6

Ape Escape

Saru Getchu: On Air

TV short · 2006 · Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Synopsis: An evil monkey, Specter, has escaped a circus, using a mind-controlling device which allows him to become smarter and have access to controlling the monkeys. Kakeru is called over by a professor in order to capture all the monkeys, including the one's who's controlling them: Spec…

★ 5.2

Sekai Kei Sekai Ron

OVA · Psychological, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Regarding the destruction of the world, the light relation between the world and me.

★ 4.2

The Man Next Door

Tonari no Yarou

Movie · Comedy

Synopsis: For the man living next door, a quiet and restful sleep seems to be an elusive wish. Experimental short animation from 1965 from pioneer Yoji Kuri.

★ 5.2

Onegai! Samia Don

TV · 1985 · Fantasy

Synopsis: In england, in the mid-80s, three kids encouter the last genie of the sands, who can grant one, and only one wish per day. But the magic does not last, at the sunset, everything disappears. Each episode follows a typical day where the three kids are wishing for every kind of wack…

★ 4.9

Vampiyan Kids

TV · 2001 · Comedy, Fantasy

Synopsis: Have you ever heard of the Vampirians? One noble family of such vegetarian vampires have been banished from Monsterland for their inability to scare humans. To lift the exile set on the family, Papa, the head of the household, must scare 1000 humans. To this end, he attempts to u…

★ 4.1

Devil's circuit

Akuma no Kairozu

Movie

Synopsis: A series of still images of a highrise building made into an animation resulting in what one might call an experimental art film.

★ 3.7

A Place Where There Are Moths

Ga no Iru Tokoro

Movie

Synopsis: A Place Where There Are Moths depicts the conflict between drab concrete block apartment living and the natural environment in Japanese cities. The forces of nature are represented by the motif of a tree whose leaves metamorphose into orange moths and take over a middle-aged woma…

★ 5.5

Zoku Attacker YOU! Kin Medal e no Michi

TV · Romance, Sports

Synopsis: Young and ambitious girls strive to do their very best to become NO.1 team in the sport world of volleyball. Outside the court, they face the problem of termination if they don’t win along with family, love and friendship dilemmas.

★ 5.1

Visions of Frank

OVA · 2005

Synopsis: A series of 9 animated shorts based on the Frank comics by Jim Woodring, featuring computer/CGI, traditional cel, stop-motion, and even sand painting techniques. Contributing animators and musicians include COCOA, Eri Yoshimura, Naomi Nagata, TAMAPRO/DROP, Taruto Fuyama, Masaki M…

★ 6.0

Yu Yu Hakusho Opening & Ending Encyclopedia

Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho: Eizou Hakusho - Opening Ending Encyclopedia

Special · 1995 · Action, Comedy

Synopsis: A special that acts as an epilogue to Yu Yu Hakusho, with the opening and ending songs from the anime interspersed throughout.