Anime catalog

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Found: 2,640

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…

★ 5.1

Little Polar Bear: Shirokuma-kun, Doko e?

Movie · 1990 · Adventure

Synopsis: Based on the childrens' book Little Polar Bear by Dutch author Hans de Beer.

★ 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…

★ 6.1

Circuit no Ookami II: Modena no Ken

OVA · 1990

Synopsis: The adventures of Ken Ferrari, a former racer and motor journalist with an appetite for women. Based on the manga by Satoshi Ikezawa.

★ 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)

★ 5.0

My Melody no Akazukin

Movie · 1989 · Fantasy

Synopsis: My Melody stars in the re-created story of Little Red Riding Hood.

★ 5.1

Gensei Shugoshin P-hyoro Ikka

OVA · 1988 · Adventure, Fantasy

Synopsis: Based on Kaori Kimeki's fantasy manga serialized in "Princess" magazine.

★ 4.6

Lupin tai Holmes

Special · 1981 · Mystery

Synopsis: Based on a story by Maurice Leblanc.

★ 6.2

Chou Supercar Gattiger

TV · 1977

Synopsis: A scientist invents 5 special solar powered cars that can be joined into one supercar. The cars are given to the scientists son and his friends to compete in the racing circuit, but they are pursued by an evil organization that wants the secret of solar power. (Source: AniDB)

★ 4.5

Kotowa Jiten: Hetana Teppou mo Kazu Ucha Ataru!

Special · Action

Synopsis: Amateur animation by 20-year-old Hikeaki Anno while he was studying at Osaka University of Arts. The short is an animated form of the idiom "even a poor marksman will hit the target with enough shots".