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Adventure anime and manga
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind arrived in Japanese cinemas on the 11th of March 1984, carrying a story set one thousand years after an apocalyptic war…
- Castle in the SkyCastle in the Sky opened in 103 Japanese theaters on the 2nd of August 1986, carrying on its shoulders the future of a brand-new animation studio that had…
- 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 is a Japanese manga series created by Rumiko Takahashi, and it begins with a betrayal. In 1496 Japan, a priestess named Kikyo and a half-demon she…
- NarutoNaruto Uzumaki was born into a lie. On the night of his birth, his father, the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze, sealed a monstrous nine-tailed fox called…
- Dead LeavesDead Leaves opens with two strangers waking up naked on a dystopian Earth, stripped of every memory they once had. Their names are Retro and Pandy.
- Vicky the VikingVicky the Viking is a German-Japanese animated television series that first reached audiences on the 31st of January 1974, when it debuted on the German TV…
- Vinland Saga (manga)Vinland Saga is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Makoto Yukimura, and it begins with a boy who wants nothing more than to kill a man.
- Yu-Gi-Oh!Yu-Gi-Oh! began as a single question: what if a bullied teenager could become an invincible hero, not through strength, but through games?
- Fist of the North StarFist of the North Star opens with a single phrase that would eventually conquer the internet decades after anyone first read it: "You are already dead."…
- Astro BoyAstro Boy is a small android with jet engines in his feet, a machine gun hidden in his hips, and the ability to feel. Osamu Tezuka created him in 1952 for a…
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no YaibaDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba began its life in Weekly Shonen Jump on the 15th of February 2016 as a quiet manga about a charcoal-selling boy whose family…
- 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 KaisenJujutsu Kaisen is a manga series written and illustrated by Gege Akutami that debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump on the 5th of March 2018, and went on to become…
- Rurouni KenshinRurouni Kenshin opens on a man carrying a sword he has sworn never to use. It is 1878, the eleventh year of Japan's Meiji era, and Himura Kenshin wanders the…
- Porco RossoPorco Rosso is a 1992 Japanese animated film by Hayao Miyazaki about a man who has become a pig. Not metaphorically. Marco Pagot, an Italian ace from the…
- The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the SunThe Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun arrived in Japanese cinemas in 1968, carrying ambitions that no anime film had openly declared before it.
- Fullmetal AlchemistFullmetal Alchemist began in a single magazine page published on the 12th of July 2001 in Monthly Shōnen Gangan, the monthly anthology put out by Square Enix.
- Bleach (manga)Bleach began with a drawing of a kimono. Tite Kubo, a manga artist whose previous series had just been cancelled, sat down with the image of a death god…
- Cat SoupCat Soup is a 2001 Japanese animated experimental short film that opens on a kitten drowning in a bathtub. That accidental death sets everything in motion.
- 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-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…
- Claymore (manga)Claymore is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Norihiro Yagi, and it opens on a world where the line between human and monster is drawn in…
- Gurren LagannGurren Lagann opens underground, where humanity has forgotten the sky. A meek fourteen-year-old named Simon spends his days digging deeper into the earth…
- Baccano!Baccano! begins on a ship called the Advenna Avis in 1711, where a group of alchemists summons a demon and walks away with eternal life.
- Blue ExorcistBlue Exorcist opens with a teenager pulling a sword from a scabbard - and discovering he is the son of Satan. Rin Okumura does not learn this quietly.
- Cobra (manga)Cobra, the manga series by Buichi Terasawa, opens not with a hero striding across a starfield, but with an ordinary office worker named Johnson who is bored.
- Lone Wolf and CubLone Wolf and Cub begins with a one-year-old placed before two objects: a ball and a sword. His father, Ogami Itto, the shogun's executioner, watches in…
- Black CloverBlack Clover, the manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Tabata, opens with a premise that sounds almost like a joke: in a world where every person is…