Curated playlist
Geneon USA
- Oh My Goddess!A wrong number connects a college student to a goddess who offers him one wish. He wishes she will stay forever.
- Dragon Ball ZDragon Ball Z got its name because its creator wanted the series to end.
- Paranoia AgentIn Paranoia Agent, a Japanese anime television series created by director Satoshi Kon, none of the victims can recall the face of the boy who attacks strangers in Musashino, Tokyo. Each of them remembers the same three things. Golden…
- Sailor Moon (TV series)A fan petition with over 12,500 signatures brought Sailor Moon back to American TV.
- Akira (1988 film)Akira opened in Japan on the same date its story says Tokyo was destroyed. Otomo chose that symmetry on purpose.
- Panda! Go, Panda!In Panda Kopanda, a girl home alone finds a panda cub asleep on her back doorstep.
- Cardcaptor SakuraCardcaptor Sakura begins when ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto accidentally opens a book in her basement. The book was made by a sorcerer named Clow Reed, and it holds a set of magical cards that now scatter into the world. Unless she gathers…
- Samurai ChamplooSamurai Champloo opens with a coin toss that decides whether two swordsmen keep trying to kill each other. Heads, and their duel goes on. Tails, and they must first help a young woman search for a samurai who smells of sunflowers. This…
- HellsingHellsing is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kouta Hirano. Its central vampire is Alucard, the original and most powerful of his kind. He serves the family of the man who defeated him one hundred years before the story…
- Fate/stay nightFate/stay night began as an unfinished college story. Kinoko Nasu finished only one of its three routes in 1999.
- Hajime no IppoHajime no Ippo opens its hero's boxing life with a test involving falling leaves. A professional boxer named Mamoru Takamura sets a bruised high school boy a task. Catch ten leaves from a tree at the same moment, with a single week to…
- Serial Experiments LainThe anime Serial Experiments Lain begins with a dead girl's email.
- Bastard!!Kazushi Hagiwara's manga about a dark wizard names its characters, spells and places after rock and metal bands.
- Higurashi When They CryHigurashi When They Cry is a Japanese murder mystery, released as a dōjin soft visual novel by the circle 07th Expansion. It opens in June 1983, when a boy named Keiichi Maebara moves to the village of Hinamizawa and befriends five girls.…