Curated playlist
ADV Films
- Super Dimension Fortress MacrossA pop star who never existed had a real hit song in the anime Macross.
- A.D. VisionA.D. Vision began when a man watched My Neighbor Totoro. It convinced a game importer to sell anime in America.
- Street Fighter (TV series)In the Street Fighter cartoon, Ken Masters is a con-man more interested in getting rich than fighting.
- Neon Genesis EvangelionDirector Hideaki Anno called Neon Genesis Evangelion a metaphor for his own four-year depression.
- Oh My Goddess!A wrong number connects a college student to a goddess who offers him one wish. He wishes she will stay forever.
- Jinki: ExtendIn the manga Jinki: Extend, a robot unit commander ordered her own daughter kidnapped.
- Kurau Phantom MemoryA lab accident scattered twelve-year-old Kurau into light. When she reformed, another being came back with her.
- Fist of the North StarAn editor's used-bookshop find led to the manga Fist of the North Star.
- Sailor MoonSailor Moon, the Japanese manga written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi, has sold over 46 million copies worldwide. That makes it one of the best-selling manga series in history, and one of the best-selling shōjo series. The story opens…
- RobotechRobotech stitched three unrelated Japanese anime series into one 85-episode American show.
- Fire EmblemFire Emblem is a Japanese fantasy strategy franchise published by Nintendo, and in 2010 it was handed a hard number. Nintendo told the developers at Intelligent Systems that their next game had to sell more than 250,000 units. If it fell…
- Dragon HalfDragon Half's heroine Mink loves a dragon slayer, yet her own mother was a dragon.
- Final Fantasy: UnlimitedFinal Fantasy: Unlimited was planned for 52 episodes but ran only 25. Low ratings and a film flop cut the anime short.
- Final FantasyHironobu Sakaguchi planned to quit games if Final Fantasy failed. The 1987 role-playing game saved Square instead.