Curated playlist
Fantasy anime and manga
- Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XVBrotherhood: Final Fantasy XV launched on the 30th of March 2016 at an event called "Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV", a dedicated media showcase for the game, and its first episode aired the same night. The series ran until the 17th of…
- The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can EnterThe Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter begins in a world where hidden dungeons are the stuff of legend. Few people ever find one. Noir Stardia found one. What he discovered inside was more surprising than any treasure: Olivia Servant, a…
- Last Order: Final Fantasy VIILast Order: Final Fantasy VII arrived in Japan on the 14th of September 2005, bundled inside a special release called Advent Pieces: Limited. Only 77,777 copies were produced, and they sold out months before they even reached shelves,…
- InuyashaInuyasha is a Japanese manga series created by Rumiko Takahashi, and it begins with a betrayal. In 1496 Japan, a priestess named Kikyo and a half-demon she loves are tricked into turning against each other. He steals the sacred Shikon…
- 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 Kurama inside him to save their village. Then Minato died. Naruto grew up scorned by…
- Oh My Goddess!Oh My Goddess! began with a wrong number. Keiichi Morisato, a college sophomore, accidentally dials the Goddess Help Line and finds himself face to face with a divine being named Belldandy. She tells him her agency has received a system…
- Pom PokoPom Poko, a 1994 animated film from Studio Ghibli, opens not with heroes or villains but with raccoon dogs fighting each other over scraps of shrinking forest. The film was written and directed by Isao Takahata and released in Japan on the…
- One PieceThe surface of the Blue Planet consists mainly of the Blue Sea, divided by a massive continental mountain range called the Red Line. Two vast oceans stretch out on either side of this barrier, creating a world where travel is restricted by…
- 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 reached. The creative team behind it had been drafted from Saint Seiya, a different show…
- Final Fantasy: Legend of the CrystalsFinal Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals holds a specific claim that no other animated work can match: it was the first piece of animated media ever produced for the Final Fantasy series, and the first direct sequel to any game in the…
- Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014 TV series)Ronja, the Robber's Daughter holds an unusual distinction: it is Studio Ghibli's first television series. At its center is a girl coming of age inside a world ruled by a robber clan, testing herself against a forest full of dangers. What…
- Dragon QuestDragon Quest, the Japanese role-playing franchise that first arrived on the Famicom on the 27th of May, 1986, turned into something Japan had never quite seen before. Schoolchildren skipped class to wait in stores. Over 300 of them were…
- The Lord of the Rings: The War of the RohirrimThe Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim arrived in cinemas in December 2024 as something the franchise had never attempted before: a full-length anime film set two centuries before Bilbo Baggins finds the One Ring. The project began…
- Neon Genesis Evangelion (franchise)Neon Genesis Evangelion first aired on TV Tokyo in October 1995, looking for all the world like another giant-robot action show. Teenagers piloting mecha. Monsters from the sky. The familiar furniture of the genre. But by the time the…
- Final Fantasy: UnlimitedFinal Fantasy: Unlimited launched on TV Tokyo on the 2nd of October 2001, slotting into a 6:30 PM Tuesday timeslot aimed squarely at younger viewers. The premise was bold: an anime adaptation of Square Enix's enormously popular Final…
- Black CloverBlack Clover, the manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Tabata, opens with a premise that sounds almost like a joke: in a world where every person is born with magical power, the hero has none at all. Asta cannot use magic. He has…