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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,…

★ 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…

★ 4.5

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)

★ 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.

★ 4.8

Move to the Future

MOVE TO THE FUTURE

ONA · 2019 · Sci-Fi, Slice of Life

Synopsis: A short series about moving in the future by transportation company Art Corporation. List of commercials: • #00: Prologue (プロローグ) • #1: Mirai e no Tabidachi (未来への旅立ち) • #2: Mirai o Tsukuru Basho (未来を作る場所) • #3: Mirai no Hikkoshi (未来の引越) • #4: Hikkoshi de Hakobu Mono (引越で運ぶもの) • #…

★ 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…

★ 5.2

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 …

★ 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 …

★ 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…

Gift±

ONA · 2018 · Horror

Synopsis: With the growing demand for high-quality organ transplants in Japan, many underground organizations have carried out kidnapping and murder operations to obtain organs for sale; surgeon doctors also started practicing. It even began to intervene in outside countries like China. Ou…

★ 5.7

Violence Voyager

Movie · Drama, Horror

Synopsis: On their way to another village, two children are looking for a shortcut through the mountain, but instead stumble into an amusement park called Violence Voyager, and everything goes wrong.

★ 3.9

The Garden of Pleasure

Kairaku no Sono

Movie · Music

Synopsis: The riveting harmonies of music may conjure images in one's mind to accompany the noises they hear. In the case of Erik Satie's composition "Trois morceaux en forme de poire," perhaps some indiscriminate geometry would be suitable. Experimental animator Masaki Okuda attempts to s…

★ 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)

★ 3.3

Rhythm

RHYTHM

Movie

Synopsis: A comfortable rhythm composed of light and shadow. Director Ogino-style absolute movie which freely manipulates geometric figures.

★ 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 …

★ 5.3

gdgd Fairies 2 Episode 0

Special · 2012 · Comedy

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

★ 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…

★ 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!

★ 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.

★ 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…

★ 5.4

L'Œil du Cyclone

Music

Synopsis: Masanobu Hiraoka's 2015 non-narrative animated short. Abstract music video made for French musical group EZ3kiel's L'Œil du Cyclone track.

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)

★ 4.6

Tomorrow Will Become Better!: Half a Sweet Potato

Ashita Genki ni Nare!: Hanbun no Satsumaimo

Movie · 2005 · Drama

Synopsis: The story is about a 5-year-old girl who lived in just after World War II when people were struggle for living. (Source: AnimeNfo)