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Series · 2018

A Place Further Than the Universe

宇宙よりも遠い場所

Four girls in bright expedition clothing walk across Antarctic snow beneath a blue sky.

Mari Tamaki wants to do something with her school years but keeps hesitating. She joins Shirase Kobuchizawa’s plan to reach Antarctica, where Shirase’s mother disappeared during an expedition. Two more girls join a journey that turns an unlikely ambition into a shared practical undertaking.

Complete original television series · Approx. 5.2 hours · 13 episodes

Themes & tropes:BelongingMood:Driven

Film · 2016

A Silent Voice

聲の形

Genres:Drama
Two school students stand beside a river beneath flowering cherry trees.

Shoya seeks out Shoko, the deaf girl he bullied at school, hoping to address the harm he caused. Their attempt to reconnect involves classmates who also took part. The film follows awkward conversations, guilt and the difficulty of listening without making forgiveness a condition of an apology.

Standalone film · Approx. 130 min · one film

Series · 2017

ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.

ACCA13区監察課

Genres:DramaMystery
Jean stands beside red illustrations of other characters.

Jean Otus travels between thirteen autonomous districts to inspect the organisation that keeps their kingdom running. His unhurried manner makes him difficult to read. ACCA turns the duties of an auditor into a way of approaching a state whose political relationships are less settled than they first appear.

TV series plus animated Regards epilogue · Approx. 5.8 hours · 13 episodes

Themes & tropes:Working lifeMood:Intriguing

Film · 1985

Angel’s Egg

天使のたまご

Genres:Fantasy
A pale-haired traveller carries a cross-shaped weapon before a luminous orb.

A girl carries an egg through a city partly submerged in water, believing that an angel waits inside. A boy searching for a bird from his dreams joins her. As they explore the ruins, his curiosity about the egg puts their fragile new friendship under pressure.

Standalone OVA · Approx. 71 min · one film

Themes & tropes:Faith and doubtMood:Surreal

Series · 2020

Appare-Ranman!

天晴爛漫!

Appare smiles beneath brass goggles, with red and white hair.

An engineer and a samurai are stranded in America at the end of the nineteenth century. With no money for the journey home, Appare and Kosame enter a transcontinental race from Los Angeles to New York, using a steam-powered vehicle they build themselves.

Complete TV · Approx. 5.2 hours · 13 episodes

Themes & tropes:CraftingMotor racingMood:Driven

Series · 2005

ARIA The ANIMATION

ARIA The ANIMATION

Akari smiles in her white gondolier uniform.

Akari Mizunashi comes from Earth to the water-covered planet Aqua to train as an Undine, a gondolier and guide in Neo-Venezia. Her working days combine boat practice, new friendships and encounters around a city modelled on Venice. Small changes in its weather and routines become occasions to explore.

The ANIMATION · complete 2005 installment · Approx. 5.4 hours · 13 episodes

Themes & tropes:Working lifeMood:Gentle

Series · 2013

Attack on Titan

進撃の巨人

Eren faces the Colossal Titan above the burning city wall.

Humanity shelters behind enormous walls from Titans that eat people. Eren wants to explore outside, but a giant taller than the defences destroys that fragile safety. He joins Mikasa and Armin in military training, where learning to fight the creatures begins with meeting the demands of their instructors.

Season 1 · Approx. 10 hours · 25 episodes

Themes & tropes:SurvivalMood:Tense

Series · 2002

Azumanga Daioh

あずまんが大王

Chiyo and her school friends cluster together in their uniforms.

Ten-year-old Chiyo Mihama enters high school among classmates five years older than her. She joins a group whose very different habits make lessons, school events and ordinary conversations unpredictable. Their teacher Yukari is often as much a source of disorder as the pupils she is meant to manage.

Complete television series · Approx. 11 hours · 26 episodes

Themes & tropes:School lifeMood:Playful

Series · 2014

Barakamon

ばらかもん

Handa stands beside the water in an open landscape.

Calligrapher Seishu Handa is sent to a remote island after punching an influential figure in his profession. He expects space to work, but the local children and their neighbours keep entering his life. His unfamiliar home becomes a place to reconsider both his writing and the way he treats people.

Complete 2014 TV series · Approx. 4.6 hours · 12 episodes

Themes & tropes:BelongingWorking lifeMood:Playful

Series · 2017

Black Clover

ブラッククローバー

Two sword-wielding fighters lead an ensemble surrounded by flames and blue lightning.

Asta wants to become Wizard King in a kingdom where magical ability and family background decide a person's opportunities. He cannot cast a spell, but gains a sword that cancels magic. His rivalry with Yuno and battles alongside the Black Bulls turn that unusual advantage into a team effort.

Original series · Approx. 68 hours · 170 episodes

Themes & tropes:Ambition and statusMood:Energetic

Series · 2004

Bleach

ブリーチ

An orange-haired swordsman in black robes raises a broad blade above the Bleach logo.

Ichigo can see ghosts, but protecting them becomes his job when the Soul Reaper Rukia lends him her powers. Her decision draws them into conflict with Soul Society, the authority governing the afterlife. Battles begin with threats to Ichigo's family and grow into disputes over the rules Rukia must obey.

Original series · Approx. 146 hours · 366 episodes

Themes & tropes:Freedom and controlMood:Combative

Series · 2022

Bocchi the Rock!

ぼっち・ざ・ろっく!

Genres:DramaMusic
Hitori looks up from a pavement with a guitar case on her back.

Hitori practises guitar alone and longs to play in a band, but finds talking to other people painfully difficult. An encounter with drummer Nijika brings her into Kessoku Band. The skills she has developed in isolation now have to work in rehearsals and performances with strangers.

Original 2022 television series · Approx. 4.8 hours · 12 episodes

Themes & tropes:BelongingCommunicationMood:Driven

Series · 2000

Boogiepop Phantom

ブギーポップは笑わない Boogiepop Phantom

A short-haired school pupil looks down in profile in a shadowed setting.

Girls trade stories about Boogiepop, a mysterious figure said to kill people before their beauty fades. Around that urban legend, an ordinary-looking school world becomes a place where a familiar face may be connected to a danger nobody fully understands.

2000 television anime · Approx. 4.8 hours · 12 episodes

Themes & tropes:School lifeMood:Uncanny

Series · 2023

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill

とんでもスキルで異世界放浪メシ

Fel’s green eyes look down at noodles hanging from a red bowl beneath his muzzle.

An office worker summoned to a fantasy kingdom discovers that his unusual talent is ordering groceries from Japan. Mukohda would rather cook than fight, but his meals attract Fel, a legendary wolf-like creature. Their journey mixes hunting work, familiar seasonings and the demands of a very large appetite.

Series · 2019

Carole & Tuesday

キャロル&チューズデイ

Carole and Tuesday stand at the centre of a group above the series title.

On a colonised Mars where artificial intelligence produces much of the culture, Carole and Tuesday want to make music themselves. Carole works to get by in the capital; Tuesday comes from a wealthy home where her ambition is not understood. Their chance meeting brings those different lives together.

Complete television series · Approx. 9.2 hours · 24 episodes

Themes & tropes:BelongingWorking lifeMood:Driven

Film · 1986

Castle in the Sky

天空の城ラピュタ

Sheeta smiles among white doves.

A young miner, Pazu, meets Sheeta after she falls from the sky carrying a mysterious crystal. Pursued by pirates and the military, they search for Laputa, a floating city. Their escape becomes an adventure in which an old legend attracts people with very different intentions.

Standalone film · Approx. 124 min · one film

Themes & tropes:Journeys and questsMood:Energetic

Series · 2006

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ

Lelouch holds a sheet of paper while standing outside the academy.

Japan has become Area 11 under Britannian occupation. Lelouch obtains Geass, a mysterious power he intends to turn against the empire. His childhood friend Suzaku serves in its military and pilots the Lancelot combat machine, placing the two boys on different sides of a struggle over how the country should change.

Original TV continuity and R2 · 50 episodes · Approx. 20 hours · 50 episodes

Themes & tropes:Freedom and controlMood:Tense

Series · 1998

Cowboy Bebop

カウボーイビバップ

The Bebop crew and their dog gather against an orange background.

In a solar system linked by warp gates, bounty hunters Spike and Jet travel aboard the Bebop looking for paying work. Faye, young hacker Ed and an unusually intelligent dog join their unsettled household. The crew’s jobs take them between planets while their own histories remain difficult to leave behind.

Original television anime · Approx. 11 hours · 26 episodes

Series · 1999

Crest of the Stars

星界の紋章

Jinto wears a white uniform and an ornate band across his forehead.

Jinto becomes an aristocrat of the spacefaring Abh because of his father's political bargain. Travelling towards the imperial capital, he meets Lafiel, an Abh princess serving as a military trainee. An enemy attack turns their journey into an escape through wartime danger.

Complete Crest of the Stars television work · Approx. 5.6 hours · 13 episodes

Themes & tropes:War and military lifeMood:Tense

Series · 2009

Cross Game

クロスゲーム

Ko reaches upwards in front of baseball practice netting.

Ko grows up close to the four Tsukishima sisters and becomes drawn into their family’s connection with baseball. A childhood dream of reaching Koshien stays with him as he enters high school. On the field, he has to turn ability into something a team can use.

Complete original television series · Approx. 20 hours · 50 episodes

Themes & tropes:Sporting competitionMood:Driven

Series · 2022

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

サイバーパンク エッジランナーズ

A fighter in a yellow jacket stands before a white-haired woman and an ensemble of armed figures.

David cannot afford the future his school promises. A powerful implant gives him a way into Night City's mercenary crews, where he finds work, friends and Lucy. The action follows his increasingly dangerous upgrades, while the romance asks what he and Lucy actually want from a life together.

Original series · 4 hr 13 min · 10 episodes

Themes & tropes:Body implantsMood:Intense

Series · 2006

Death Note

デスノート

Two young men face opposite directions beneath a radiant cross, with a red apple beside the Death Note title.

Light finds a notebook that can kill anyone whose name and face he knows. When he begins using it, the detective L tries to uncover his identity while keeping his own hidden. Their contest turns surveillance, conversations and carefully staged traps into weapons in a talkative psychological thriller.

Original series · 14 hr 48 min · 37 episodes

Themes & tropes:Cat and mouseMood:Tense

Series · 2024

Delicious in Dungeon

ダンジョン飯

Marcille holds a wooden spoon near her mouth.

Laios returns to a dungeon to rescue his sister Falin after a dragon swallows her. With his party’s money and supplies lost, he proposes eating the monsters they encounter. The expedition turns survival into a question of what can be caught, prepared and shared on the way down.

Season 1 · Approx. 10 hours · 24 episodes

Themes & tropes:Living with natureMood:Playful