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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…
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • The Lord of the Rings: The War of the RohirrimIn June 2021, New Line Cinema announced a fast-tracked anime film to secure the rights to J. R. R. Tolkien's novels before they expired.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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…