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Series · 2007

Den-noh Coil

電脳コイル

Yasako points at the round detective badge on her shirt.

Yasako moves to a city where networked glasses add virtual pets and software tools to ordinary streets. When her digital dog disappears, a children's detective agency helps her search. Schoolyard rivalries and experiments with the glasses gradually reveal mysteries that the adults around them cannot always see.

Complete series · Approx. 11 hours · 26 episodes

Themes & tropes:Augmented realityMood:Intriguing

Series · 1985

Dirty Pair (1985 television series)

ダーティペア

Red-haired Kei looks ahead from a spacecraft interior.

Kei and Yuri are the Lovely Angels, trouble consultants employed by the WWWA to solve problems across the galaxy. Their assignments turn difficult disputes into spacefaring action. The 1985 television anime follows their professional partnership, separate from later Dirty Pair adaptations and films.

1985 TV + two-part 1987 OVA · Approx. 11 hours · 26 episodes

Themes & tropes:Working lifeMood:Energetic

Series · 2019

Dororo (2019)

どろろ

Hyakkimaru stands against red with blades extending from his prosthetic arms.

Young thief Dororo travels through war-torn Japan with Hyakkimaru, a swordsman whose missing body parts were traded to demons by his father. Hyakkimaru fights those demons to recover what was taken. Their journey links violent supernatural encounters with the immediate problem of surviving as outsiders.

Complete 2019 television adaptation · Approx. 10 hours · 24 episodes

Themes & tropes:Identity and selfMood:Intense

Series · 2006

Ergo Proxy

Ergo Proxy エルゴプラクシー

Re-l’s pale face and blue eyes emerge against a dark textured background.

Re-l Mayer investigates a murder in Romd, a domed city where humans live alongside robots under close government control. An encounter with a strange being unsettles that managed world. Her search for an explanation leads toward the unknown beyond the city’s boundaries.

Complete television anime · Approx. 9.6 hours · 23 episodes

Series · 2005

Eureka Seven

交響詩篇エウレカセブン

Nirvash crouches in a dark industrial building.

Renton longs for a life beyond his provincial home. When Eureka arrives with the machine Nirvash needing repairs from his grandfather, a distant ideal becomes someone standing in front of him. The military pursuit following her draws his household into a much larger conflict.

Original television work · Approx. 21 hours · 50 episodes

Themes & tropes:War and military lifeMood:Driven

Series · 2024

Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells

ハズレ枠の【状態異常スキル】で最強になった俺がすべてを蹂躙するまで

Touka reaches upward while falling through a dark space.

Touka is summoned to another world with his classmates, then discarded when a goddess grades his abilities as the lowest rank. Left in ruins where survival is considered impossible, he tries to escape using the status-effect skills she rejected. Surviving gives his journey a target: revenge against the goddess.

Series · 2013

Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club

Free!

Genres:DramaSports
A swimmer in a navy cap adjusts his goggles before entering the pool.

Haruka’s quiet high-school life changes when Rin, a childhood swimming teammate, returns and challenges him to a race. Haruka reunites with Makoto and Nagisa, and they recruit Rei to form Iwatobi High’s swimming club. Old friendships become entangled with the wish to compete again.

Original 2013 television series · Approx. 4.8 hours · 12 episodes

Themes & tropes:BelongingMood:Driven

Series · 2023

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

葬送のフリーレン

A white-haired elf carrying a suitcase looks back at two companions in a flowering meadow.

After helping defeat the Demon King, the elf Frieren outlives companions whose ten-year adventure felt brief to her. She begins another journey with a new travelling party, revisiting places and memories she once passed over. Quiet conversations, everyday errands and dangerous magic make her pay closer attention to other people's lives.

Series · 2012

From the New World

新世界より

A pink-haired pupil in a white robe looks ahead.

In a future society where humans possess telekinetic powers called Cantus, Saki and her friends enter the school that teaches them to use those abilities. Their education opens onto a hidden history, other intelligent beings and dangers that unsettle their understanding of the world.

Complete television anime · Approx. 9.6 hours · 25 episodes

Themes & tropes:Freedom and controlMood:Uncanny

Film · 2011

From Up on Poppy Hill

コクリコ坂から

Genres:Drama
Umi raises signal flags beside a school building.

In Yokohama in 1963, high-school students Umi and Shun develop a friendship against the backdrop of a changing Japan. A secret connected to their families threatens to pull them apart. Their personal uncertainty sits within a city preparing for a very public future.

Standalone animated film · Approx. 91 min · one film

Themes & tropes:Memory and the pastMood:Reflective

Series · 2019

Fruits Basket (2019 adaptation)

フルーツバスケット

Tohru and members of the Sohma family gather on and around a staircase.

After her mother’s death, Tohru Honda lives in a tent until the Sohma family takes her in. Her new household has a secret: members of the family carry an animal transformation curse. Tohru becomes involved in relationships governed by rules that reach well beyond an unusual living arrangement.

2019 adaptation · all three TV seasons · Approx. 25 hours · 63 episodes

Themes & tropes:BelongingTransformationMood:Uncanny

Series · 2003

Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)

鋼の錬金術師

Edward extends his shining mechanical arm in a dark interior.

Edward and Alphonse Elric attempt forbidden alchemy to restore their dead mother and lose parts of their own bodies instead. Alphonse's soul is bound to armour; Edward uses mechanical limbs. They travel in search of the Philosopher's Stone and a way to recover what was lost.

Complete 2003 television anime · Approx. 21 hours · 51 episodes

Themes & tropes:TransformationMood:Reflective

Series · 2009

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

鋼の錬金術師 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

Edward and Alphonse Elric within the Brotherhood ensemble key visual.

Edward and Alphonse Elric try to revive their mother through alchemy and lose parts of their own bodies instead. Edward uses mechanical limbs; Alphonse's soul inhabits armour. The brothers search for the Philosopher's Stone to restore themselves, while Edward's military work brings them into dangerous conflicts with other alchemists.

Complete series · Approx. 26 hours · 64 episodes

Themes & tropes:TransformationMood:Driven

Series · 2004

Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

巌窟王

A blue-eyed young man looks ahead against patterned clothing.

Young aristocrat Albert travels with his friend Franz to escape a dull life in Paris. On the Moon he meets the wealthy, charismatic Count of Monte Cristo and invites him into Parisian society. Albert's admiration gives a dangerous stranger access to the world of his family.

Complete television anime · Approx. 9.6 hours · 24 episodes

Themes & tropes:RevengeMood:Intriguing

Series · 2007

Gurren Lagann

天元突破グレンラガン

Simon and other characters appear beneath a giant robot.

Simon and Kamina live beneath the surface, where digging is part of daily survival. A small machine and an unexpected attack open a route into the world above. Their journey brings them into conflict with giant machines and the powers that keep humanity underground.

Complete television anime · Approx. 11 hours · 27 episodes

Themes & tropes:Freedom and controlMood:Energetic

Series · 2000

Hajime no Ippo

はじめの一歩

Genres:DramaSports
Ippo wears red boxing headgear and raises his gloves.

Ippo helps his mother run a fishing-boat business and is bullied at school. A professional boxer, Takamura, intervenes one day and introduces him to boxing. Ippo’s wish to become stronger gives him a reason to attempt the demanding training that follows.

Three television-series packages · Approx. 50 hours · 127 episodes

Themes & tropes:Sporting competitionMood:Driven

Series · 2001

Hellsing (2001 television series)

HELLSING

A young woman in a blue uniform looks to one side at night.

The Hellsing Organisation protects Britain from supernatural threats under Integra Hellsing's command. Its most formidable hunter, Alucard, is himself a vampire. The 2001 television adaptation places a monster in the service of an institution determined to destroy his kind.

Complete 2001 television anime · Approx. 5 hours · 13 episodes

Series · 2024

HIGHSPEED Étoile

HIGHSPEED Étoile

The NEX Race cast and a pink racing car stand beside the pit lane.

Rin Rindo enters NEX Race, a competition whose machines can exceed 500 kilometres per hour. Established teams are trying to defeat its dominant champion when the new Buzen Racing entrant arrives. Rin has to find her place in a sport already organised around experienced rivals.

Complete TV · Approx. 4.8 hours · 12 episodes

Themes & tropes:Motor racingMood:Driven

Series · 2006

Higurashi: When They Cry (original television anime)

ひぐらしのなく頃に

Rena smiles in her school uniform beside a wooden building.

Keiichi moves to rural Hinamizawa in the summer of 1983 and quickly finds friends at school. Their games and everyday company give the village an inviting surface. The annual Watanagashi festival brings a different discovery: a recurring pattern of deaths and disappearances.

Original mystery cycle + Rei · Approx. 23 hours · 55 episodes

Themes & tropes:Crime and investigationMood:Tense

Series · 2021

Horimiya

ホリミヤ

Genres:Romance
Miyamura wears earrings and casual clothes in warm light.

Popular Kyoko Hori and unobtrusive Izumi Miyamura discover that their classmates’ impressions do not describe their whole lives. An accidental meeting makes them keepers of each other’s secrets. Their growing closeness draws Miyamura into a circle of friends whose own feelings are rarely straightforward.

Initial 2021 TV adaptation · Approx. 5.2 hours · 13 episodes

Film · 2004

Howl’s Moving Castle

ハウルの動く城

Howl's crowded walking castle stands against a cloudy sky.

A witch turns Sophie, a young hat-maker, into an elderly woman. Looking for a way to break the spell, she joins the wizard Howl's moving household, which includes an apprentice and a fire demon. Romance and domestic comedy develop as a war threatens the people living in the castle.