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Funimation
- Street Fighter: Assassin's FistStreet Fighter: Assassin's Fist began not as a studio commission but as a passion project. Joey Ansah and Christian Howard released a short film called…
- Cowboy BebopCowboy Bebop arrived on Japanese television in 1998 with a tagline its own director would later call an exaggeration: "a new genre unto itself." That…
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (TV series)Ufotable announced the anime adaptation of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba in June 2018. Director Haruo Sotozaki and producer Hikaru Kondo led the project.
- 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…
- 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…
- Jinki: ExtendJinki: Extend is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shiro Tsunashima, built around a single strange premise: two girls from different eras…
- Kurau Phantom MemoryKurau Phantom Memory begins with a birthday gone wrong. A twelve-year-old girl named Kurau follows her father, Dr. Amami, into his lab.
- FunimationFunimation started not in a boardroom but in a conversation between two relatives. In the early 1990s, a Japanese-born businessman named Gen Fukunaga…
- Fist of the North StarFist of the North Star opens with a single phrase that would eventually conquer the internet decades after anyone first read it: "You are already dead."…
- Akira (1988 film)Akira exploded onto Japanese screens on the 16th of July 1988, the same date the film's own story marks as the day Tokyo was obliterated by a mysterious…
- Attack on Titan (TV series)Attack on Titan is a Japanese dark fantasy anime series that began as a manga by Hajime Isayama in 2009 and became, by nearly any measure, one of the most…
- Captain Harlock (manga)Captain Harlock first appeared in the pages of Play Comic, a manga magazine published by Akita Shoten, in January 1977. Leiji Matsumoto wrote and drew every…
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train"Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba , The Movie: Mugen Train" became the highest-grossing film of 2020. That year, COVID-19 had shuttered or reduced theaters…
- Black ButlerBlack Butler, the manga series written and illustrated by Yana Toboso, opens on a single night in Victorian-era London that changes everything.
- 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…
- Speed RacerSpeed Racer began not as a television show, but as a comic book rooted in two films that captivated a young artist in Japan.
- Your NameYour Name began, in a sense, on the ruined streets of a fishing village called Yuriage. Its director, Makoto Shinkai, visited the town in July 2011, months…
- Momotaro: Sacred SailorsMomotaro: Sacred Sailors screened for the first time on the 12th of April 1945. Director Mitsuyo Seo made it by order of the Japanese Naval Ministry.
- Claymore (manga)Claymore is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Norihiro Yagi, and it opens on a world where the line between human and monster is drawn in…
- 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…
- Serial Experiments LainSerial Experiments Lain began with a dead girl's email. In the summer of 1998, a teenager named Chisa Yomoda had jumped to her death.
- Baccano!Baccano! begins on a ship called the Advenna Avis in 1711, where a group of alchemists summons a demon and walks away with eternal life.