Curated playlist
Madman Entertainment anime
- Super Dimension Fortress MacrossA pop star who never existed had a real hit song in the anime Macross.
- Bleach (TV series)Bleach, the Japanese anime television series, ran for 366 episodes on TV Tokyo between 2004 and 2012. It adapts the manga Bleach by Tite Kubo. Studio Pierrot produced it, and Noriyuki Abe directed. The title is written in capital letters,…
- Fullmetal Alchemist: BrotherhoodFullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood began with a notice printed in the 20th volume of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, released in August 2008. Its author, Hiromu Arakawa, used that volume to announce that a second anime adaptation was already…
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone ComplexGhost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is set in the year 2030, in a Japan where many people have replaced their bodies with prosthetics and become cyborgs. It is an anime television series about an elite law enforcement unit that…
- Cowboy BebopCowboy Bebop lost its toy company sponsor after early footage showed it would never sell spaceship toys.
- Neon Genesis EvangelionDirector Hideaki Anno called Neon Genesis Evangelion a metaphor for his own four-year depression.
- Oh My Goddess!A wrong number connects a college student to a goddess who offers him one wish. He wishes she will stay forever.
- Ranma ½Ranma ½ is a Japanese manga by Rumiko Takahashi about a teenage martial artist whose body changes with the temperature of the water that touches him. Ranma Saotome has trained in fighting since early childhood. He spends the series hunting…
- Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)Ghost in the Shell flopped in theaters, then became a video hit. In August 1996 it topped Billboard's video sales chart.
- Berserk (1997 TV series)The 1997 Berserk anime opens with its hero already scarred. Guts, a lone mercenary, has lost an arm and an eye.
- 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…
- 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…
- Initial DInitial D is a Japanese street racing manga written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno, and its hero starts each day delivering tofu. Takumi Fujiwara is a high school student. For years he has made those early morning runs in his father…
- Naruto (TV series)The anime series Naruto opens on Naruto Uzumaki, a young orphan ninja who wants nothing more than recognition from his peers. His dream is to become the Hokage, the leader of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Nobody around him takes that…
- Haruhi SuzumiyaHaruhi Suzumiya is a Japanese light novel series by Nagaru Tanigawa, illustrated by Noizi Ito, and it helped solve a math problem that had stayed open since 1993. In 2011, a crowd on 4chan set out to answer a puzzle inspired by the anime's…
- Claymore (manga)The magazine that launched Claymore shut down exactly six years to the day after the manga began.
- Haikyu!!Haikyu!!, a Japanese manga written and drawn by Haruichi Furudate, had more than 75 million copies in circulation by December 2025. That total places it among the best-selling manga series of all time. Its subject is a high school…
- Revolutionary Girl UtenaRevolutionary Girl Utena begins with a teenage girl in a boys' school uniform who raises a sword to win another girl's hand. Her name is Utena Tenjou, and the prize is Anthy Himemiya, a mysterious student known as the Rose Bride. Anthy is…