Curated playlist
Aniplex
- Daemons of the Shadow RealmDaemons of the Shadow Realm is a Japanese manga by Hiromu Arakawa, and it opens with a pair of twins described as "born between day and night." Their names are Yuru and Asa. They come from a premodern village called Higashi, and a prophecy…
- Bleach (TV series)Bleach, the Japanese anime television series, ran for 366 episodes on TV Tokyo between 2004 and 2012. It adapts the manga Bleach by Tite Kubo. Studio Pierrot produced it, and Noriyuki Abe directed. The title is written in capital letters,…
- Fullmetal Alchemist: BrotherhoodFullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood began with a notice printed in the 20th volume of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, released in August 2008. Its author, Hiromu Arakawa, used that volume to announce that a second anime adaptation was already…
- Berserk: The Golden Age ArcBerserk: The Golden Age Arc recast almost every Japanese voice, but not the English ones.
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen TrainDemon Slayer: Mugen Train topped the 2020 worldwide box office. It was the first non-American film to do so.
- Black ButlerIn Black Butler, a demon ignores a cult's summoning and answers a twelve-year-old boy's call instead.
- Naruto (TV series)The anime series Naruto opens on Naruto Uzumaki, a young orphan ninja who wants nothing more than recognition from his peers. His dream is to become the Hokage, the leader of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Nobody around him takes that…
- Soul EaterAtsushi Ohkubo's manga Soul Eater runs on a strict counting rule. A living weapon must absorb the souls of 99 evil humans, followed by one witch, in exactly that order. Break the sequence and the tally starts over from zero. A rule like…
- Fate/stay nightFate/stay night began as an unfinished college story. Kinoko Nasu finished only one of its three routes in 1999.
- Solo LevelingSolo Leveling, a South Korean fantasy web novel by Chugong, follows a hunter named Sung Jin-woo. Everyone in his line of work knows him as notoriously weak. One day he enters a rare and overwhelmingly powerful double dungeon, and it nearly…
- Ghost of TsushimaGhost of Tsushima is a 2020 action-adventure game from Sucker Punch Productions, published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Its hero is Jin Sakai, a samurai defending Tsushima Island during the first Mongol invasion of Japan, which began…
- Gurren LagannIn the anime Gurren Lagann, the hero Kamina dies in episode eight. Simon must then carry the story.
- Flag (TV series)A stolen flag sends a covert army unit into a war zone in the anime FLAG.
- Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XVThe climax of Kingsglaive was an invasion scene cut from the game Final Fantasy XV.
- Baccano!In 1711, alchemists aboard the ship Advenna Avis summon a demon and walk away with eternal life.
- Sword Art OnlineSword Art Online opens with 10,000 players logging into a virtual reality game for the first time on the 6th of November, only to discover that they cannot log out. The year is 2022, and each player wears a helmet called the NerveGear,…