Anime catalog

Year to: 1988 Reset

Found: 2,262

★ 3.9

Hatanosuke Takes Down the Inazuma Gang

Hinomaru Hatanosuke: Inazuma-gumi Tobatsu no Maki

Movie · Action

Synopsis: Short film where the hero Hatanosuke battles with an evil gang of thieves.

★ 4.9

Mighty Orbots

TV · 1984 · Adventure, Comedy, Mecha

Synopsis: Set in the twenty-third century, Mighty Orbots relates the adventures of Rob Simmons, a scientist, and his robots (called Orbots)—Tur, Bort, Beau, Crunch, and Ono—all members of the Galactic Patrol, the Earth-based futuristic police force. The focal point of the program is their …

★ 4.1

Sea Roar

Umi no Uta

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: In a fishing village, a scrapped boat is cremated. Old fishing boats on the verge of death dream of deep-sea fish running through alleys, fishermen pulling their nets, the crying specter of a young girl... Various imagery appear and retreat like waves on a shore, inviting viewers…

★ 3.9

December Song

12-gatsu no Uta

Movie

Synopsis: Short film by Tadanari Okamoto originally projected on three screens, and re-edited for domestic release many years later, set to a poem by Noriko Ibaraki of the same name.

★ 5.4

Judo Sanka

TV · 1974 · Drama, Sports

Synopsis: Based on Hiroshi Kaizuka's manga. The last TMS sports-themed anime series ("Star of the Giants" was the first). Because of low ratings, the series was pulled off the air before later episodes of the original manga could be adapted.

★ 5.5

Spooky Kitaro: Crash!! The Great Rebellion of the Multi-Dimensional Yōkai

Gegege no Kitarou: Gekitotsu!! Ijigen Youkai no Daihanran

Movie · 1986 · Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Synopsis: Movie based on the 1985 TV anime with an original plot.

★ 4.6

Choro Q Dougram

Movie · 1983 · Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Malcontents on the Deloyer colony agitate for the independence of their world from the Earth Federation. In an unexpected coup, the elected Governor declares martial law and sets himself up as absolute dictator. With the approval of the Federation, he rules the planet with an iro…

★ 4.4

Karma

Movie

Synopsis: "In his early experimental short Karma (カルマ, 1977), Aihara uses water as his central motif. The film is hand drawn and appears to be shot on 16mm using a blue filter. At first we can only see tiny specks on the screen, coming and going like snow flurries. The specks gradually gro…

★ 5.3

Fair, then Partly Piggy

Hare Tokidoki Buta

Movie · 1988 · Comedy

Synopsis: Noriyasu seems like an average third-grader, but his life goes haywire after he catches his mother reading his private daily journal. In an effort to astonish her, he begins writing outlandish lies about a giant snake in the bathroom, cooking pencils for dinner, and a rain of pig…

★ 4.5

Ddoli and Zeta Robot

Movie · Action, Adventure, Mecha

Synopsis: A boy finds a toy robot which turns out to not to be an ordinary toy.

★ 4.4

Fushigi na Kusuri

Movie · Slice of Life

Synopsis: Puppet animation by Tadanari Okamoto.

★ 5.2

Superbook 2

Personal Computer Travel Tanteidan

TV · 1983 · Adventure, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: The book fell onto a computer keyboard, giving anybody the ability to see into the past from Sho's home via the monitor. Ruffles, Chris' dog, managed to get lost in time, prompting Zenmaijikake and Sho's cousin Hisashi to search for her. Sho and Azusa kept watch and control of th…

★ 4.6

Bakuhatsu Gorou

TV · 1970 · Comedy, Sports

Synopsis: The non-athletic head of the school newspaper department participates in various club activities, including a number of sports clubs, with disastrously hilarious results. (Source: AniDB)

★ 4.0

The Bear Brothers

Kyoudai Koguma

Movie · Adventure

Synopsis: Spring—birds are singing, frogs are dancing. A cave mother tells the bear to play outside with his brother's son. But beware of scary humans. When a bear takes sumo and eats honey, the hunter shoots with a gun. Two people who saw the human for the first time finally arrive at the…

★ 4.8

Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari

Special · 1979 · Drama

Synopsis: This is the true story of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam during WW2. Anne's father realizes on time the danger the Jews face and hides his family (his wife Edith and his two daughters Margo (16) and Anne (13), along with four more people, in "the house behind". For…

★ 4.0

Animated Revue "Spring"

Manga Revue Haru

Movie

Synopsis: A lighthearted anime about spring time. It was originally set to an elementary school song. The film features several vignettes.

★ 4.5

Shadow

Kage

Movie · Drama

Synopsis: Independent animation by Hayashi Seiichi.

★ 3.5

The Cat Purr Dance

Nyago Dance

Movie · Music

Synopsis: Several mice make a wreck of a home with their antics and dancing. The mice parents scold them for it. When the house cat comes home from a night of drinking, he convinces the mice to dance for him, at which point he spooks them by pretending to try and bite them.

★ 4.2

Dream of a Snowy Night

Yuki no Yoru no Yume

Movie · Drama

Synopsis: A young girl wanders outside on a snowy night, trying to find a place to stay.

★ 6.0

Shin Kyojin no Hoshi II

TV · 1979 · Sports

Synopsis: A continuation of the popular baseball saga about the star pitcher of a professional baseball team. (Source: AniDB)

★ 4.2

Abe George Kattobi Seishun Ki: Shibuya Honky Tonk

OVA · 1988 · Drama, Ecchi

Synopsis: This story is based on one of the famous Japanese writers "George Abe"'s troubled boyhood. Although he was born in wealthy family, he starts keeping company with yakuza...

★ 5.4

Ikkyuu-san

TV · 1978 · Action, Sports

Synopsis: High-school student Ikkyuu knows nothing about baseball, but his talents are recognized by the manager of the baseball club, and he takes up this enchanting sport. While his ignorance of the game leads him to make many mistakes, Ikkyuu - who is in fact a descendant of ninja - dis…

★ 5.1

Tiger Mask: War against the League of Masked Wrestlers

Tiger Mask Fuku Men League Sen

Movie · 1970

Synopsis: Summary of episode 23 to 26.

★ 5.5

Mr. Pen Pen

Special · 1986 · Comedy

Synopsis: Pen-Pen, the hat-and-tie-wearing prince of Penguin Land, turns up unexpectedly on little Mika's doorstep. and invites himself and his zany friends to stay. Based on the manga by Muroyama Mayumi, serialised in Shougaku Ninensei. (Source: AniDB)