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Anime with original screenplays

  • Super Dimension Fortress MacrossSuper Dimension Fortress Macross began its life in Japan in October 1982 with only three episodes completed. The show's creators at Studio Nue had spent…
  • 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…
  • Neon Genesis EvangelionNeon Genesis Evangelion arrived on TV Tokyo in October 1995 and left viewers arguing, confused, and deeply moved in ways that animated series rarely managed.
  • 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.
  • Kurau Phantom MemoryIn the year 2100, a twelve-year-old girl named Kurau stands in her father's laboratory on what should have been her birthday.
  • Puella Magi Madoka MagicaPuella Magi Madoka Magica arrived on Japanese television on the 7th of January 2011, and within weeks it had upended everything audiences thought they knew…
  • Panda! Go, Panda!Panda! Go, Panda! hit Japanese theaters in 1972, weeks after the government announced China would loan a pair of giant pandas to the Ueno Zoo.
  • 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…
  • Flag (TV series)Ryosuke Takahashi directed Flag, a thirteen-episode anime series that premiered on the 6th of June 2006. Bandai Channel hosted the initial broadcast as a…
  • Royal Space Force: The Wings of HonnêamiseRoyal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise began not in a studio but in a proposal handed to a toy company executive in September 1984.
  • Serial Experiments LainSerial Experiments Lain began with a dead girl's email. In the summer of 1998, a teenager named Chisa Yomoda had jumped to her death.
  • Space Runaway IdeonSunrise produced Space Runaway Ideon in 1980, immediately following the massive success of Mobile Suit Gundam. Director Yoshiyuki Tomino led the project with…