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Philosophical anime and manga
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)One thousand years after the Seven Days of Fire, a vast forest swarms with giant mutant insects. The air carries poison that kills any human who breathes it…
- Cowboy BebopThe year 2071 stretches across a solar system scarred by a hyperspace gateway accident that rendered Earth nearly uninhabitable.
- Neon Genesis EvangelionIn 2015, fifteen years after a global cataclysm known as the Second Impact, teenager Shinji Ikari is summoned to the futuristic city of Tokyo-3 by his…
- Princess MononokeHayao Miyazaki composed the preliminary ideas for what would become Princess Mononoke in 1980 after releasing his first film, The Castle of Cagliostro.
- The Wind RisesHayao Miyazaki began conceiving the story of The Wind Rises in 2008, marking his first feature film since Ponyo. He published a manga series based on this…
- Monster (manga)In December 1994, a manga titled Monster began serialization in Shogakukan's Big Comic Original magazine. The story centers on Kenzo Tenma, a Japanese…
- Serial Experiments LainChisa Yomoda sends an email to her classmates from beyond the grave. The message claims she has abandoned her physical form to exist within the Wired, a vast…