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Series · 1999

Infinite Ryvius

無限のリヴァイアス

A young person in a spacesuit sits among cockpit controls.

After a disaster at the Liebe Delta training station, 487 young people escape aboard the mysterious spacecraft Ryvius. With the adults gone, they wait for rescue. Attacks keep following the ship, forcing a stranded student population to fight for survival.

Complete television anime · Approx. 10 hours · 26 episodes

Themes & tropes:SurvivalMood:Tense

Series · 2023

Insomniacs After School

君は放課後インソムニア

Genres:Drama
Ganta and Isaki sit beneath a telescope and a star-filled sky.

Unable to sleep at night, Ganta Nakami discovers that the school observatory offers a place to rest. Isaki Magari has found the same refuge for the same reason. The two start sharing the abandoned room and a problem they cannot easily explain to their classmates.

2023 television anime · Approx. 5.2 hours · 13 episodes

Themes & tropes:BelongingMood:Gentle

Film · 1999

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

人狼 JIN-ROH

Kazuki Fuse stands beneath a blue night sky.

After a deadly police operation, Kazuki Fuse is sent for re-evaluation in an alternate postwar Tokyo. He meets Kei Amemiya while struggling with what happened. Their growing connection unfolds amid rival police interests and a government crackdown, making personal loyalty difficult to separate from the demands of his armed unit.

Standalone film · Approx. 102 min · one film

Themes & tropes:Freedom and controlMood:Tense

Series · 2020

Jujutsu Kaisen

呪術廻戦

Gojo extends his hand through a field of broken glass.

Yuji Itadori swallows a cursed finger to save fellow students and becomes the vessel of Ryomen Sukuna. Sent to Tokyo Jujutsu High, he learns to fight curses born from human emotions. The dangerous force he has taken into himself is also why the jujutsu world considers him a threat.

TV through Culling Game Part 1 (2026) · Approx. 24 hours · 59 episodes

Series · 2008

Kaiba

カイバ

A pale, green-haired figure turns to look over his shoulder.

In a world where memories can be stored, traded and moved between bodies, Kaiba wakes without any memory of his own. A pendant containing a woman's photograph is his only personal clue. Forced to flee, he travels between planets while trying to discover who he is.

Complete television anime · Approx. 4.8 hours · 12 episodes

Series · 2024

Kaiju No. 8

怪獣8号

Kaiju No. 8's skull-like face and glowing eyes against a blue night background.

At 32, Kafka cleans up the monsters defeated by Japan's Defense Force while hoping to join it himself. A new chance to apply coincides with his ability to become a kaiju. Training, friendships and monster battles now depend on keeping that transformation hidden from the organisation he wants to serve.

Seasons 1–2 · Approx. 9.2 hours · 23 episodes

Themes & tropes:TransformationMood:Energetic

Series · 2012

Kids on the Slope

坂道のアポロン

Kaoru faces the taller Sentaro in their school classroom.

In 1966, reserved student Kaoru moves alone to relatives in Kyushu. His meeting with Sentaro, a classmate feared as a delinquent, introduces him to jazz and an unfamiliar kind of friendship. Music connects him with a group whose affections are not as straightforward as playing the same tune.

Complete television series · Approx. 4.6 hours · 12 episodes

Themes & tropes:BelongingMood:Reflective

Series · 2018

Laid-Back Camp

ゆるキャン△

Rin looks ahead from inside the hood of her winter coat.

After moving to Yamanashi, Nadeshiko cycles out to see Mount Fuji and gets stranded when darkness and bad weather spoil the trip. Rin, who is camping by herself, helps her. Their meeting introduces different ways of enjoying the outdoors, alone and with other people.

Main television seasons 1–3 · Approx. 15 hours · 37 episodes

Themes & tropes:CampingMood:Gentle

Series · 2003

Last Exile

ラストエグザイル

Lavie wears flying goggles around her neck in a green interior.

Claus and Lavie work as aerial couriers aboard a small flying craft inherited from Claus's father. They dream of crossing the vast storm known as the Grand Stream. A delivery involving a mysterious girl and the battleship Silvana pulls them into the struggle between their world's powers.

Original television work · Approx. 11 hours · 26 episodes

Themes & tropes:Working lifeMood:Tense

Series · 2013

Log Horizon

ログ・ホライズン

Shiroe looks sideways through his glasses above the high white collar of his coat.

Thousands of players are trapped inside the online fantasy world of Elder Tale. Veteran strategist Shiroe teams up with old friends, then confronts problems that combat knowledge cannot settle: protecting beginners, dealing with powerful guilds and making their city a place where people can live together.

Three TV seasons · 62 episodes · Approx. 25 hours · 62 episodes

Film · 2018

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

さよならの朝に約束の花をかざろう

Genres:DramaFantasy
Maquia looks upward against a background of blue flowers.

Maquia belongs to a people who live for centuries while retaining a youthful appearance. When an invasion destroys her home, she escapes and finds a human baby whose mother has died. Raising Ariel gives her a family whose relationship with time is very different from her own.

Standalone 2018 animated film · Approx. 115 min · one film

Themes & tropes:BelongingCaregivingMood:Reflective

Series · 2016

March Comes in Like a Lion

3月のライオン

Genres:Drama
Rei and the three Kawamoto sisters stand on a sunny street.

Rei Kiriyama is a teenage professional shogi player living alone after losing his family. The Kawamoto sisters, Akari, Hinata and Momo, draw him into a household very different from his solitary flat. Competition at the board sits alongside the slower task of accepting company and care.

Both television series · main story · Approx. 19 hours · 44 episodes

Series · 2023

MF Ghost

MFゴースト

Genres:Action
Kanata at the steering wheel wearing a radio headset.

Kanata Rivington arrives in Japan from Britain to race in MFG and search for his father. In a near future dominated by self-driving electric cars, the competition brings petrol-powered machines onto public roads. Kanata chooses a Toyota 86GT, relying on his driving skills against more powerful cars.

Season 1 · Approx. 4.8 hours · 12 episodes

Themes & tropes:Motor racingMood:Driven

Film · 2001

Millennium Actress

千年女優

Genres:DramaRomance
A young woman in a red kimono stands before portraits in costumes from different periods.

Two documentary makers visit retired actress Chiyoko to record her life story. As she remembers, they appear inside scenes that shift between her experiences and her film roles. A search for a man she once helped carries the film through changing periods, genres and versions of her past.

Standalone film · Approx. 87 min · one film

Themes & tropes:Memory and the pastMood:Reflective

Series · 2016

Mob Psycho 100

モブサイコ100

Mob uses his psychic powers, surrounded by a pink aura.

Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, has psychic powers but struggles to express himself. He works part-time for Reigen, a supposed psychic who relies on Mob to handle real spirits. Mob wants an ordinary teenage life, including getting fitter and closer to his crush, while powerful emotions threaten his self-control.

Season 1 · Approx. 5 hours · 12 episodes

Themes & tropes:CommunicationMood:Playful

Series · 1979

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979 television series)

機動戦士ガンダム

Amuro cries out beside a cockpit monitor.

During the war between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon, an attack on Side 7 turns civilian Amuro Ray into the pilot of the Gundam. The original television series begins its military conflict through a young person caught in a colony raid.

Complete 1979 television anime · Approx. 18 hours · 43 episodes

Themes & tropes:War and military lifeMood:Tense

Series · 2007

Mononoke (2007 television series)

モノノ怪

The Medicine Seller holds his sword against a field of colourful umbrellas.

A travelling Medicine Seller confronts supernatural beings produced through human suffering and entanglement. His sword cannot simply cut down whatever appears. He must establish the being’s form, the truth of what happened and the human reason behind it before he can draw the weapon.

2007 television series · Approx. 4.6 hours · 12 episodes

Themes & tropes:Memory and the pastMood:Uncanny

Series · 2007

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

精霊の守り人

Balsa looks across a rocky landscape in an early Moribito episode.

Balsa, a travelling bodyguard, is hired to protect a prince carrying the egg of a water spirit. His own empire wants him dead. Keeping him alive requires spear fights, shelter, food and help from people who understand the spirit, making protection a continuing responsibility rather than a single rescue.

Series · 2005

Mushishi

蟲師

Ginko with white hair and a pipe, standing in woodland.

Ginko travels between communities affected by mushi, forms of life that are neither plants nor animals. His work is to understand what happens when their existence crosses human lives. One visit brings him to an isolated boy whose drawings become real, turning a local mystery into an encounter with unfamiliar life.

Original series · Approx. 10 hours · 26 episodes

Themes & tropes:Living with natureMood:Reflective

Film · 1988

My Neighbor Totoro

となりのトトロ

Genres:Fantasy
Satsuki carries Mei beside Totoro beneath umbrellas in the rain.

Satsuki and Mei move to the countryside near the hospital treating their mother. Exploring their new house and the woods brings them into contact with small creatures and the enormous forest spirit Totoro. The film follows the sisters' discoveries and family worries at an unhurried pace.

Standalone film · Approx. 86 min · one film

Themes & tropes:CaregivingMood:Gentle

Series · 2002

Naruto

NARUTO -ナルト-

A blond ninja in orange reaches forward, with three teammates arranged behind him.

Naruto wants to become Hokage so the village that rejects him will recognise him. Training and missions place him alongside teammates he competes with and must learn to trust. The original series builds its ninja battles around deception, coordinated attacks and a rivalry that becomes increasingly personal.

Original series · Approx. 88 hours · 220 episodes

Series · 2008

Natsume’s Book of Friends

夏目友人帳

Natsume carries a patterned cloth through a moonlit forest beside Nyanko-sensei.

Takashi Natsume can see spirits, an ability that has made ordinary friendships difficult. He inherits his grandmother Reiko’s Book of Friends, which binds the spirits whose names she collected. With Nyanko-sensei beside him, Natsume begins returning those names and meeting the people and spirits connected to them.

TV series through season seven · Approx. 34 hours · 86 episodes

Series · 2007

Nodame Cantabile

のだめカンタービレ

Chiaki reacts with surprise in a stylised comic image.

Chiaki studies piano at a music university but wants to conduct. A fear of flying keeps him from pursuing the overseas training he imagines. Meeting Nodame, an unconventional pianist whose playing catches his ear, disrupts both his frustration with music and his orderly habits.

All three television series · Approx. 17 hours · 45 episodes

Themes & tropes:Music and performanceMood:Playful