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Coming-of-age anime and manga

  • Kiki's Delivery ServiceIn 1987, Group Fudosha approached Kadono's publishers to adapt the novel into a feature film. The studio sought either Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata for…
  • Spirited AwayTen-year-old Chihiro Ogino and her parents Akio and Yūko travel to their new home. Akio takes a shortcut through a tunnel leading to what appears to be an…
  • NarutoIn 1995, Shueisha published Karakuri, a one-shot manga by Masashi Kishimoto. This early work earned an honorable mention in the 1996 Hop Step Award.
  • 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…
  • The Boy and the HeronHayao Miyazaki stood before a press conference in Tokyo on the 14th of September 2013 and declared his retirement from feature animation.
  • 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…