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Ai wa KAT-TUN

ONA · 2012 · Comedy

Synopsis: The mobile content developer MTI released a series of mobile phone anime shorts inspired by the all-male musical group KAT-TUN. Animated versions of the singers Kamenashi Kazuya, Taguchi Junnosuke, Tanaka Kouki, Ueda Tatsuya, and Nakamaru Yuuichi appear in unintentionally romanti…

★ 5.1

eX-Driver the Movie Specials

Special · 2002 · Comedy

Synopsis: Three short bonus shorts featured with the movie, featuring Lisa, Lorna and Souichi in events set just before where the movie takes off. These bonus shorts are done in comedic style, mainly with camera pans and zooms on still images. (Source: Wikipedia)

★ 6.0

Manga Nippon Mukashibanashi

TV · 1975

Synopsis: This series is an anthology of old Japanese tales. (Source: AniDB)

★ 4.0

Shoujo Fight: Nora Inu-tachi no Odekake

OVA · 2009 · Drama, Sports

Synopsis: The story follows Neri Ooishi, a high school girl who is a talented volleyball player. She once was the captain of an elementary school team that went all the way to the national tournament. However, she spent three years as an alternate at a junior high school renowned for its v…

A Second Away From A Kiss

Kiss made, Ato 1 Byou.

ONA · 2018 · Romance

Synopsis: He said he'd stop one second before we kiss... So why are we really kissing right now!? My first kiss is on stage performing a play......! We've been friends since we were kids, and Izuru's always bossing me around. I have to write the script for our school festival play, which i…

★ 3.9

Kamishibai Kintaro

Kamishibai Kintarou no Maki

Movie · Fantasy

Synopsis: Kintaro, gentle and strong, is popular in the forest. He eventually becomes a great samurai with the name Sakata no Kintoki. (Source: Japanese Animated Film Classics)

★ 4.8

The Journey Home

Space Bug

TV · 2018 · Action, Adventure

Synopsis: This story is about Mick, a sleeping chironomid. Insects are taken up into space for use in experiments by humans. An epic space adventure of Mick and his friends of their journey back home to Earth. The development plans and experiments are aborted by humans for no known reason,…

★ 4.8

Christmas

Music · Supernatural

Synopsis: A girl creates a talisman and makes a wish for good weather on Christmas day. A fantastical and destructive event plays out that brings more than good weather. The song done by the band "amazarashi" as a part of their ワンルーム叙事&#3543…

★ 5.5

Symphonic Poem: Jungle Emperor Leo

Anime Koukyoushi: Jungle Taitei

OVA · 1991 · Adventure

Synopsis: Actually, that 1991 date is misleading. The Symphonic Poem originated with the music Isao Tomita wrote for Jungle Emperor in 1965. He re-worked his music into a long form which tells a story by itself. (This form of music was termed "symphonic poem" or "tone poem" by composers in…

★ 5.8

Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirou

TV · 1994 · Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Synopsis: Shimajiro a tiger boy, Mimirin a rabbit girl, Torippii a parrot boy, Ramurin a sheep girl has an adventure in challenge island where they live.

★ 5.8

Heisei Period Dog Tale Bow

Heisei Inu Monogatari Bow

TV · 1993 · Adventure, Comedy

Synopsis: Bow is a homeless dog, who enjoys his carefree life. This dog is no super-hero. He drools when he's hungry, he wags his tail when he's happy, and he barks when he's excited, just like an ordinary dog but even uglier and stupider! His dumb innocence often leads to disaster. But so…

★ 3.9

The Mechanism of Spring

Haru no Shikumi

Movie

Synopsis: Short film by Atsushi Wada about Spring.

★ 4.3

RECORDER

Movie · Music

Synopsis: Short animation by Ryu Kato.

★ 5.3

Wata no Kuni Hoshi Pilot

Special · Fantasy

Synopsis: Pilot for The Star of Cottonland which was later made into a feature film in 1984 by Mushi Production. Both are based off a manga created by Yumiko Oshima from the 1970s. (Source: Bowl of Lentils)

★ 5.3

gdgd Fairies 2 Episode 0

Special · 2012 · Comedy

Synopsis: Special in which the fairies hold a round table discussion.

★ 5.0

Shin Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru Majinzan

OVA · 1989 · Action, Adventure, Comedy

Synopsis: Set a few months after the original series, Wataru is called into action once again!

★ 5.2

Pattenrai!! Minami no Shima no Mizu Monogatari

Movie · 2009 · Slice of Life

Synopsis: The year is 1917, and under Japanese occupation, Taiwan suffers from terrible drought and famine. Residents of the Chianan Plain live in squalor, their lives defined by the daily struggle of carting water home. When Yoichi Hatta, a Japanese civil engineer, arrives with a plan to …

★ 4.7

You Can Enjoy!

Tabechatta tte Ii no ni na!

ONA · 2018 · Comedy

Synopsis: “You Can Enjoy!” is a surreal and easy-going comedy cartoon created to introduce Fukushima Prefecture’s wonderful agricultural and marine products to the whole world. The story is set in Farm Academy on Happy Island where the products are studying hard preparing for shipment. (So…

Moshi Moshi, Terumi Desu

ONA · 2018 · Slice of Life

Synopsis: The "telephone romantic comedy" follows a girl named Terumi, who works for a telephone company that has an anti-internet policy, and a middle school boy named Rintarō who is in love with her. (Source: Anime News Network)

★ 4.1

Kaidan

Movie · Supernatural

Synopsis: Iki mixes old and new technologies to create a film that evokes both the sights and sounds (hum of cicadas) of a hot Japanese summer. Black and white photographs of a Shinto shrine, summer landscape and an old Japanese-style house provide the backdrop and CGI technology adds the …

★ 5.5

Norakuro-kun

TV · 1987 · Comedy, Mystery

Synopsis: October, 1987, Autumn. In Suganami, Tokyo, there lives the Kinoshita family whereby the father draws very little pay out of his job as an ordinary salaryman. In order to cover expenses, he decides to let out the second floor of their apartment to earn additional rental income. On…

★ 4.2

Beginning of fashion

Fashion no Hajimari

ONA · 2005 · Comedy

Synopsis: The theme of this animation is "fashion". (Source: aokijun.net)

★ 4.1

Animated Self Portraits: A Portrait of Kawamoto

Kihachiro Kawamoto's Self-Portrait

Special · Comedy

Synopsis: A stop motion short film by Kihachiro Kawamoto. This short film humorously shows what happens when the artist creates a being that insists on 'creating' the artist.

★ 5.3

Kuro ga Ita Natsu

Movie · 1990 · Drama

Synopsis: Hiroshima, summer of 1945. A young girl named Nobuko saves a starving kitten from crows. She wants to keep the kitten, but her parents dismiss the idea. Nobuko eventually convinces them to let her keep it. She and her brother Makoto name the cat Kuro. Kuro quickly brings joy and …