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Adventure anime and manga

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)One thousand years after the Seven Days of Fire, a vast forest swarms with giant mutant insects. The air carries poison that kills any human who breathes it…
  • Castle in the SkyOn the 15th of June 1985, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata founded Studio Ghibli in Tokyo. The new studio emerged from the commercial success of Nausicaä of…
  • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (TV series)Ufotable announced the anime adaptation of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba in June 2018. Director Haruo Sotozaki and producer Hikaru Kondo led the project.
  • The Cat ReturnsIn 1995, Studio Ghibli released a film titled Whisper of the Heart. That project introduced Baron, a cat figurine who came to life within a fantasy sequence.
  • InuyashaInuyasha began its journey on the 13th of November 1996, when it debuted in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine. The series ran for eleven years and…
  • NarutoIn 1995, Shueisha published Karakuri, a one-shot manga by Masashi Kishimoto. This early work earned an honorable mention in the 1996 Hop Step Award.
  • Dead LeavesHiroyuki Imaishi directed the 2004 Japanese animated science fiction film Dead Leaves. Production I.G created the animation while Manga Entertainment handled…
  • Vicky the VikingThe year 1963 marked the publication of a children's book titled Vicke Viking by Swedish author Runer Jonsson. This novel won the Deutscher…
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!In the opening scene of the story, a timid high school student named Yugi Mutou solves an ancient Egyptian artifact known as the Millennium Puzzle.
  • Astro BoyOsamu Tezuka first introduced the character Atom in April 1951 as a supporting figure within his comic series Ambassador Atom.
  • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no YaibaKoyoharu Gotouge submitted a draft titled Kimetsu no Yaiba to Weekly Shōnen Jump editor Tatsuhiko Katayama in 2015. The initial concept featured swords and…
  • Captain Harlock (manga)The year 1977 marked the beginning of a new era in Japanese comics. Leiji Matsumoto launched his space opera series in Akita Shoten's Play Comic magazine.
  • Jujutsu KaisenIn the world of Jujutsu Kaisen, every living being emits a power source called Cursed Energy. This energy flows from negative emotions that naturally exist…
  • Rurouni KenshinIn December 1992, a prototype story titled Rurouni: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story appeared in the Weekly Shōnen Jump Winter Special issue for 1993.
  • Porco RossoHayao Miyazaki began work on Porco Rosso in 1989 with a manga titled Hikōtei Jidai. The project started as a planned short film for Japan Airlines to show…
  • The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the SunIn autumn 1965, Isao Takahata began work on a project that would become his first feature film. The title was Horus, Prince of the Sun.
  • Cat SoupNyata, an anthropomorphic kitten, lies in a bathtub after accidentally drowning. His sister Nyaako leaves the house holding hands with Jizō, a psychopomp…
  • Howl's Moving Castle (film)Studio Ghibli announced the production of two films in September 2001. The second project was an adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones' novel Howl's Moving Castle.
  • Tetsujin 28-goMitsuteru Yokoyama returned to Kobe as a fifth-grader after being evacuated to Tottori Prefecture during World War II. The city lay flattened and reduced to…
  • Gurren LagannIn the year 2007, a story began in a fictional future where humanity lived underground. Simon, a fourteen-year-old digger from Giha village, spent his days…