Curated category
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 MemoryKurau Phantom Memory begins with a birthday gone wrong. A twelve-year-old girl named Kurau follows her father, Dr. Amami, into his lab.
- 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)FLAG is built around a photograph taken in the fictional war-torn country of Uddiyana. Saeko Shirasu, a 25-year-old front-line war photo-journalist, captured…
- 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…