Curated playlist
Bandai Entertainment anime titles
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone ComplexGhost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is set in the year 2030, in a Japan where many people have replaced their bodies with prosthetics and become cyborgs. It is an anime television series about an elite law enforcement unit that…
- Cowboy BebopCowboy Bebop lost its toy company sponsor after early footage showed it would never sell spaceship toys.
- Mobile Suit GundamMobile Suit Gundam, a Japanese anime series created by Yoshiyuki Tomino, once drew a crowd of 15,000 people to a single film premiere on the 22nd of February 1981. Police and the media feared that the gathering could turn into a riot. The…
- Akira (1988 film)Akira opened in Japan on the same date its story says Tokyo was destroyed. Otomo chose that symmetry on purpose.
- K-On!In a Japanese school-band anime, guitarist Yui Hirasawa had only ever played the castanets.
- Haruhi SuzumiyaHaruhi Suzumiya is a Japanese light novel series by Nagaru Tanigawa, illustrated by Noizi Ito, and it helped solve a math problem that had stayed open since 1993. In 2011, a crowd on 4chan set out to answer a puzzle inspired by the anime's…
- 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.
- Lucky Star (manga)Lucky Star, a four-panel comic about high school girls, also spawned chemistry textbooks.
- Code GeassCode Geass is a Japanese anime television series produced by the studio Sunrise, and its premise rests on a single dangerous gift. The gift is called Geass, and it is the power of absolute obedience. Whoever receives it can issue a command…