Curated category
Comedy anime and manga
- NarutoNaruto Uzumaki was born into a lie. On the night of his birth, his father, the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze, sealed a monstrous nine-tailed fox called…
- 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.
- One PieceThe surface of the Blue Planet consists mainly of the Blue Sea, divided by a massive continental mountain range called the Red Line.
- Dragon Ball ZDragon Ball Z premiered on Fuji Television on the 26th of April 1989, and from that first episode it was chasing something its predecessor never quite…
- 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.
- Crayon Shin-chanCrayon Shin-chan is a Japanese manga series created by Yoshito Usui, and from its first appearance in 1990, it has never quite behaved the way anyone…
- Cat SoupCat Soup is a 2001 Japanese animated experimental short film that opens on a kitten drowning in a bathtub. That accidental death sets everything in motion.
- K-On!K-On! began not with a grand origin story but with a small crisis: a high school light music club on the verge of being shut down, saved by four girls who…
- KonoSubaKonoSuba begins with an embarrassing death, one so ill-timed that a goddess found it worth mentioning the moment she met Kazuma Satou.
- My Neighbors the YamadasMy Neighbors the Yamadas arrived in Japanese cinemas on the 17th of July 1999, looking like nothing Studio Ghibli had ever released before.
- Mind Game (film)Mind Game arrived in Japanese cinemas in 2004 as the directorial debut of Masaaki Yuasa, a film that would go on to earn a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes…
- Lucky Star (manga)Lucky Star began, in its creator's own words, as nothing special. Kagami Yoshimizu told Newtype USA in June 2005, "I don't really think my production process…
- Cobra (manga)Cobra, the manga series by Buichi Terasawa, opens not with a hero striding across a starfield, but with an ordinary office worker named Johnson who is bored.