Anime catalog

Olympic Games on Dankichi Island

Dankichi-jima no Olympic Taikai

Movie · Comedy, Sports

Synopsis: Short movie from 1932.

Mahou Tsukai Chappy

Mahou Tsukai Chappy

TV · 1972 · Mahou Shoujo

Synopsis: Chappy's story is much like Mahou Tsukai Sally (Little Witch Sally). Chappy becoming sick of the old customs of her people, left the Land of Magic for the human world. Soon her family sees how much she has in the other realm that they decided to join her new home. Chappy is known…

My Ski Trip

Oira no Ski

Movie · Comedy, Sports

Synopsis: The sun rises, but snow begins to fall immediately. Two rabbits wearing skis emerge from two houses covered in snow. The two rabbits go to wake Tanuko, the sleepy raccoon dog, and invite him to go skiing. Tanuko, who does not know how to ski, is apprehensive at first, but decides…

PONY METAL U-GAIM Promotion Film

PONY METAL U-GAIM Promotion Film

Special · Action, Mecha, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: This is a short little pilot film inserting Yuu Morisawa, the heroine of Creamy Mami, into the mecha world of Heavy Metal L-Gaim. After Yuu Morisawa is killed in a car accident, she is rebuilt as Pony Metal U-GAIM in a scenario à la Astroboy. Put to a high-energy Japanese pop son…

Apache Baseball Team

Apache Yakyuugun

TV · 1971 · Action, Sports

Synopsis: A former baseball star who suffered a career crippling injury takes over as coach of a team of misfits in a poor village high school. (Source: AniDB)

Bats & Terry

Bats & Terry

Movie · 1987 · Comedy, Drama, Sports

Synopsis: Bats & Terry are the two tough guys in the school. They don't take crap from anyone, not even teachers. They will fight anyone necessary, and will defend strangers (especially pretty girls) from danger. They're good at it too. Some people are in terror of them, and some love them…

Fashion

Fashion

Movie · Comedy

Synopsis: Experimental anime from animation pioneer Yoji Kuri from 1960.

The Black Woodcutter and the White Woodcutter

Kuroi Kikori to Shiroi Kikori

Movie · 1956 · Fantasy

Synopsis: Within a wintry forest live two woodcutters: one clad in black and the other in white. While the black-clad woodcutter sees no consequences for exploiting the forest's resources as much as he can, the white-clad woodcutter strives to live in harmony with the forest creatures. As …

The Legend of Kentauros

Kentauros no Densetsu

OVA · 1987 · Action, Drama

Synopsis: The Centaurs are a racing team of 93 bikers from the port city of Yokohama who are named after the legendary Greek horse/men. Arthur and Ken fall out over their love for the same lady deciding to settle their competition with a race. Film based around the Kentauros biker gang.

Ganso Tensai Bakabon

Ganso Tensai Bakabon

TV · 1975 · Comedy

Synopsis: A comedy about a former genius who has now become very eccentric and senile. His family deals with all the crazy problems he and his old friends cause around the neighborhood. (Source: AniDB)

Private Norakuro in Boot Camp

Norakuro Nitouhei: Kyouren no Maki

Movie · Action, Adventure

Synopsis: The Company and Regimental Commanders engage in an idle chit-chat, blithely ignorant of the troops forging ahead under the previous "Forward March" command. Norakuro and his fellow recruits march gamely forward, regardless of the obstacles that may lie in their way. However, a ho…

Kouya no Shounen Isamu

Kouya no Shounen Isamu

TV · 1973 · Action, Adventure

Synopsis: The adventures of Isamu, a young boy living in the Far West, searching for his real father.

Goliath the Super Fighter

Gowappa 5 Gordam

TV · 1976 · Action, Adventure, Mecha

Synopsis: Five youths from Edo City explore a strange rocky island and discover the mecha that Doctor Hoarai had been creating in order to resist the impending attack by a race of subterranean rock people. Doctor Hoarai was ridiculed by the scientific community for his predictions that suc…

Pelican Road: Club Caroucha

Pelican Road: Club Caroucha

OVA · 1986 · Comedy, Drama, Romance

Synopsis: High School boy Kenichi Watanabe is crazy about his MBX50 motorcycle. He and his buddies organize a motorcycle club, which they call Culture.

Galaxy Investigation 2100: Border Planet

Ginga Tansa 2100-nen Border Planet

Special · 1986 · Horror, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: This work was produced as the ninth special animated piece for the 24-hour television program by Tezuka Production, which took full charge of the original story, screenplay and director. Tezuka Osamu crafts a love story in the time when humans are expanding into space at the end …

Doraemon: It's Autumn!

Doraemon: It's Autumn!

Special · 1986 · Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Bikkuriman

Bikkuriman

TV · 1987 · Comedy, Fantasy

Synopsis: In a world divided between angels and evil creatures, only the young hero Yamato Shintei has the power to defeat the demons...

Sweet Friday

Yasashii Kinyoubi

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: An animation mixing hand-drawn and cut-out techniques depicting the daily rituals of weekday morning that is occasionally interrupted by flights of fantasy delivered in stroboscopic flashes. Showing scenes of brushing teeth and face washing, Tanaami describes the film to be like …

Call of the Wild

Kouya no Sakebigoe: Hoero Buck

Special · 1981 · Adventure, Drama

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Jack London. Buck, a half German Shepherd half Saint Bernard who's life is pretty peaceful and happy living with the Millers’ in California. However, one day he is tricked and sold off. He ends up in the snowy North where he has become a sled dog during the …

Tora-chan no Kankan Mushi

Tora-chan no Kankan Mushi

Movie · Drama

Synopsis: Tora-chan and Miike are working on the side of a tuna steamship and manage to run afoul of the short-tempered captain. But the captain makes plenty of trouble on his own!

Danemon's Monster Hunt at Shojoji

Shoujouji no Tanuki-bayashi Ban Danemon

Movie · Supernatural

Synopsis: A young samurai accepts a job to clear out a haunted castle, only to find it inhabited by beautiful women. The women are secretly a group of tanuki that try to divert the young warrior from his mission. (Source: AniDB)

The Bat

Kaumori

Movie · Drama

Synopsis: Once upon a time, the birds and the beasts fought each other in a war. It was a terrible conflict, and the clever bats would side with the birds when the birds were looking victorious, and then they would become allies of the beasts when that side was winning battles. At last the…

Kikou Kai Galient OVA

Kikou Kai Galient OVA

OVA · 1986 · Action, Adventure, Mecha

Synopsis: The first two episodes are summaries of the TV series, the third one (Crest of Iron) takes place in an alternate universe.

Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King

Nezha Nao Hai

Movie · Adventure, Fantasy

Synopsis: The film is an adaptation of a story in Chinese mythology (in particular, the epic fantasy novel Fengshen Bang) about the warrior deity Nezha. After a gestation period of 3.5 years, Lady Yin, the wife of General Li Jing, gives birth to a flesh ball, which becomes a lotus flower, …