Curated category
Anime with original screenplays
- Super Dimension Fortress MacrossIn 1980, a group called Studio Nue proposed a science fiction project named Battle City Megaload. The initial sponsor was the Wiz Corporation, which agreed…
- Cowboy BebopThe year 2071 stretches across a solar system scarred by a hyperspace gateway accident that rendered Earth nearly uninhabitable.
- Neon Genesis EvangelionIn 2015, fifteen years after a global cataclysm known as the Second Impact, teenager Shinji Ikari is summoned to the futuristic city of Tokyo-3 by his…
- Dead LeavesHiroyuki Imaishi directed the 2004 Japanese animated science fiction film Dead Leaves. Production I.G created the animation while Manga Entertainment handled…
- 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 MagicaIn the fictional city of Mitakihara, Japan, a middle school student named Madoka Kaname and her best friend, Sayaka Miki, encounter a small, cat-like…
- Panda! Go, Panda!The Japanese government announced a loan of giant pandas to Ueno Zoo in September 1972. This diplomatic gesture from China sparked an immediate cultural…
- 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…
- 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 HonnêamiseIn September 1984, Hiroyuki Yamaga and Toshio Okada stood before Shigeru Watanabe of Bandai to pitch a project that would become Royal Space Force.
- Serial Experiments LainChisa Yomoda sends an email to her classmates from beyond the grave. The message claims she has abandoned her physical form to exist within the Wired, a vast…
- 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…