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Shu meets a quiet girl named Lala-Ru during an otherwise ordinary day. A strange machine interrupts their encounter and carries them into a distant future where war has become everyday life. Helping a stranger places him inside a world organised around violence.

Taku and his friend Yutaka expect another ordinary school year until Rikako transfers from Tokyo. Her arrival changes their friendship, and a trip involving Taku and Rikako feeds rumours at school. The television film follows young people trying to understand relationships that have stopped feeling simple.

Taeko leaves her Tokyo office job for a holiday helping with the safflower harvest in Yamagata. Memories of her fifth-grade self keep interrupting the visit: family disagreements, school embarrassments and a first crush. Rural work and childhood comedy prompt her to reconsider the adult life she wants.

Grid hopes success in the virtual-reality game Satisfy will pay his debts. A legendary blacksmith class gives him the ability to make exceptional equipment, but he still lacks money, materials and experience. This profile covers only the opening two episodes, where a crafting advantage meets impatience and practical costs.

Momonga stays inside his favourite online game as its service ends, only to find that he cannot log out. Still wearing his skeletal avatar, he now commands a fortress whose non-player characters have acquired lives of their own. The former player must work out what his authority means in an unfamiliar world.

Photographer Kouya meets Haruka, a teenage driver racing for a small family-run Formula 4 team. He decides to help, though Haruka resists the encouragement. Getting the car onto the grid requires sponsorship, mechanical work and trust, giving both a reason to accept help from other people.

A device designed to let therapists enter patients' dreams is stolen. Dr Atsuko Chiba investigates through Paprika, her dream persona, as waking life becomes difficult to distinguish from fantasy. Satoshi Kon turns the investigation into a succession of shifting rooms, bodies and images whose rules can change without warning.

An assault in Tokyo's Musashino district is initially suspected to be an invention by its victim, Tsukiko. When similar attacks follow, the unidentified assailant becomes known as Shonen Bat. Finding him means confronting the pressures surrounding the people he attacks.

Patema leaves her underground home and discovers that the surface world's gravity pulls her towards the sky. Age, a boy whose feet stay on the ground, tries to help her. Their opposing gravities make holding on to each other a practical necessity in an adventure about trust and perspective.

Industrial robots called Labors have become part of ordinary work, bringing a new category of crime with them. Tokyo's police establish a special vehicle division to respond. Young officer Noa Izumi enters this world alongside the new Ingram police machine.

Mima leaves her pop group to become an actress, taking roles that unsettle her fans and her own sense of who she is. A stalker follows her, people around her are murdered, and visions of her former idol self make it harder to separate her work from reality.

Peco and Smile are friends in the same high-school table-tennis club, but they approach the game differently. Peco advertises his confidence; Smile rarely smiles. A Chinese exchange player and a coach determined to develop Smile’s ability disturb the balance between their friendship and their competitive ambitions.

By 2075, passenger spacecraft regularly connect Earth, space stations and the Moon. Hachimaki collects orbital debris for a living while dreaming of owning a spacecraft. New recruit Tanabe joins his poorly regarded department, where everyday work brings her into conflict with colleagues whose attitudes differ sharply from hers.

Magical tanuki live in wooded hills until the construction of a Tokyo suburb threatens their home. They turn their ability to transform into a defence against development. Their campaign brings Japanese folklore into direct conflict with the expansion of a human city.

A young boy named Sosuke befriends Ponyo, a small fish who wants to become human. Her determination carries a magical disturbance from the sea into his coastal home. A child's friendship becomes inseparable from the changing waters around the town.

In the Adriatic, a flying ace turned bounty hunter makes his living with the face of a pig. Porco Rosso's clashes with sky pirates bring him a rival in the American pilot Curtis. Aircraft, coastal towns and an unwanted reputation surround his uneasy independence.

Searching for a cure to his curse, Ashitaka reaches an ironworking town fighting the gods of a nearby forest. Lady Eboshi protects the town's people; San fights for the wolves who raised her. The conflict gives each side lives to defend, without making their interests easy to reconcile.

Ahiru is a struggling ballet student who wants to dance with Mytho, a boy whose heart has been lost. Transforming into Princess Tutu lets her search for its missing pieces. Ballet and fairy-tale magic become ways of approaching emotions that the prince can no longer feel.

Madoka Kaname is an ordinary middle-school student whose life changes when she encounters the world of magical girls. Kyubey offers the possibility of a wish, while an experienced magical girl introduces Madoka and her friend Sayaka to the work that accompanies that offer.

Ayato Kamina is on his way to an exam when an attack transforms his familiar Tokyo. A girl resembling someone in his drawings leads him towards the enormous RahXephon. Escaping the city means discovering that the place he called home has been sealed away from the outside world.

Subaru arrives in a fantasy world and tries to help the silver-haired girl who first helps him. His unusual ability returns him to an earlier point after death. Repeating events gives him another chance to intervene, but leaves him carrying experiences that the people around him do not share.

JP drives a customised Trans-Am into an interplanetary race where rivals carry weapons and the host planet threatens military intervention. Distorted machinery, extreme angles and saturated colour make speed the main attraction in Takeshi Koike's standalone film, with a romance between races.

Utena Tenjou becomes involved in a duel with student-council member Saionji and enters an extraordinary arena. There she meets Anthy Himemiya, the girl called the Rose Bride. School authority, ritual combat and the promise of revolution become entangled around their encounter.

Kakeru is running through the city when Haiji approaches him on a bicycle and asks whether he likes to run. Haiji brings him to an old apartment building with nine residents. The apparently simple offer of a spare room carries an unexpected sporting plan.