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- Street Fighter: Assassin's FistJoey Ansah and Christian Howard released a short film called Street Fighter: Legacy on YouTube in 2010. This project served as a proof-of-concept for their…
- 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: ExtendShirō Tsunashima began writing the manga series Jinki: Extend in the early 2000s. The story first appeared in a magazine called Monthly Comic Blade published…
- Kurau Phantom MemoryIn the year 2100, a twelve-year-old girl named Kurau stands in her father's laboratory on what should have been her birthday.
- 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)On the 1st of July, 2019, a young boy named Eren Yeager stood atop a wall that had protected humanity for a century. He watched as a massive creature…
- Captain Harlock (manga)The year 1977 marked the beginning of a new era in Japanese comics. Leiji Matsumoto launched his space opera series in Akita Shoten's Play Comic magazine.
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen TrainTanjiro Kamado steps onto the Mugen Train with his sister Nezuko and friends Zenitsu Agatsuma and Inosuke Hashibira. They board to assist Flame Hashira…
- 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 NameMakoto Shinkai stood in the fishing village of Yuriage on the 14th of July 2011. The ground beneath his feet still trembled from the massive earthquake that…
- Momotaro: Sacred SailorsThe Japanese Naval Ministry issued a direct order to director Mitsuyo Seo in 1943. He was tasked with creating a feature-length animated film for World War…
- 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)Kagami Yoshimizu began writing a four-panel comic strip in December 2003. The series appeared in Kadokawa Shoten's Comptiq magazine that month.
- 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.