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Action anime and manga

  • Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XVBrotherhood: Final Fantasy XV launched on the 30th of March 2016 at an event called "Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV", a dedicated media showcase for the game…
  • Cowboy BebopCowboy Bebop arrived on Japanese television in 1998 with a tagline its own director would later call an exaggeration: "a new genre unto itself." That…
  • Last Order: Final Fantasy VIILast Order: Final Fantasy VII arrived in Japan on the 14th of September 2005, bundled inside a special release called Advent Pieces: Limited.
  • Durarara!!Durarara!! begins with a headless rider on a black motorcycle that sometimes neighs like a horse, weaving through the neon-lit streets of Ikebukuro.
  • Battle Angel AlitaBattle Angel Alita opens on a garbage dump. Not a metaphor, not a mood-setter, but a literal scrap heap raining down from a floating city high above.
  • Attack on Titan (TV series)On the 1st of July, 2019, a young boy named Eren Yeager stood atop a wall that had protected humanity for a century. He watched as a massive creature…
  • Tower of GodTwenty-Fifth Bam stood beneath a vast and mysterious Tower for most of his life. He had only one companion named Rachel to keep him company during those…
  • Attack on TitanAttack on Titan begins in the year 845, when two enormous humanoids punch through the outermost of three great circular walls and leave a boy named Eren…
  • DororoDororo begins with a bargain no father should ever make. A powerful daimyo named Kagemitsu Daigo strikes a pact with 48 demons, offering them anything they…
  • Tetsujin 28-goTetsujin 28-go arrived in 1956, the creation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama, and it asked a question that would echo through decades of Japanese popular culture: what…
  • Tokyo RevengersIn 2017, a twenty-six-year-old part-time worker named Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his ex-girlfriend Hinata Tachibana has been murdered.
  • Final Fantasy: UnlimitedFinal Fantasy: Unlimited launched on TV Tokyo on the 2nd of October 2001, slotting into a 6:30 PM Tuesday timeslot aimed squarely at younger viewers.