Top Anime of 1985

Urusei Yatsura OVA

うる星やつら

Ataru Moroboshi, Lum, and the rest of the Tomobiki cast turn up in stand-alone Urusei Yatsura side stories that never made it into the TV run or the films, one supernatural mystery per episode. Highlights include "Inaba the Dreammaker," in which the characters glimpse possible futures, and "Raging Sherbet," built around Ran's disastrous attempt to start her own business. Each episode stands on its own, tied together only by the same cast and town.

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Vampire Hunter D

吸血鬼ハンターD

Action

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

In the year 12,090, on a ruined world ruled by vampire nobles, the farm girl Doris Lang is bitten by Count Magnus Lee and hires a passing hunter to kill him before she turns. That hunter, known only as D, is a dhampir, half human and half vampire, who carries a wisecracking parasite in his left hand. D rides for the Count's castle to face Lee, his daughter Larmica and the monsters the noble sends after Doris. It adapts the first of Hideyuki Kikuchi's novels.

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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

機動戦士Ζガンダム

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

Seven years after the One Year War, civilian teenager Kamille Bidan crosses paths with the corrupt Earth Federation task force known as the Titans while visiting the Green Noa colony. A clash with the Titans officer Jerid Messa drags Kamille and his family into the conflict, and he ends up piloting a stolen Gundam Mk-II for the rebel AEUG. This sequel to the original Mobile Suit Gundam continues the Universal Century war between the Titans and those resisting them.

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High School! Kimengumi

ハイスクール！奇面組

Shounen

Comedy

Rei Ichidou and his friends Gou Reietsu, Kiyoshi Shusse, Dai Monohoshi and Jin Daima make up the Kimengumi, the Funny-face Club of Ichiou High School: five underachievers whose strange faces are matched only by their stranger personalities. Classmates Yui Kawa and Chie Uru keep getting pulled into their antics, and so do rival cliques like the Pretty-boy Brigade and the Rebel Crew. Even the teachers end up swept into the chaos the five leave in their wake.

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Lupin III: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon

ルパン三世バビロンの黄金伝説

Action

Adventure

Comedy

A set of ancient stone tablets surfaces in New York City, pointing toward a legendary hoard of Babylonian gold, and Lupin III wants it before anyone else can claim it. Standing in his way are Marciano, a mob boss whose family first uncovered the treasure generations ago, and his rival Kowalski, while a drunken old woman named Rosetta holds pieces of the puzzle neither gangster has found. Inspector Zenigata gives chase with a squad of policewomen as Lupin's crew treks from Manhattan toward the source of the legend.

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Urusei Yatsura Movie 3: Remember My Love

うる星やつら3 リメンバー・マイ・ラブ

Shounen

Fantasy

Romance

As a baby, Lum was cursed by a witch left off the guest list at her naming celebration: she would never find happiness with her true love. Years later an amusement park opens in Tomobiki, and during a magic show there Ataru Moroboshi is turned into a pink hippopotamus. Lum chases the magician responsible through the park's hall of mirrors, where a portal opens and carries her off to another dimension, and Tomobiki quietly begins rearranging itself around her absence.

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Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars

ドラえもんのび太の宇宙小戦争

Kids & Family

Action

Sci-Fi

Kicked off the set of the space movie Gian and Suneo are shooting, Nobita starts filming his own with Doraemon and Shizuka and finds what looks like a toy rocket. That night its pilot turns up in his room: Papi, a tiny humanoid who is the president of the planet Pirika, which has fallen to the dictator Gilmore. Shrinking themselves with one of Doraemon's gadgets to play at Papi's size, the children promise to keep him safe, but Gilmore's intelligence agency, the PCIA, has already followed him to Earth.

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Angel's Egg

天使のたまご

Experimental

Fantasy

Drama

In a ruined, near-silent city of stone, a young girl wanders alone, cradling a large egg she guards as though something precious sleeps inside. She meets a solemn young man who carries a cross-shaped weapon and questions her faith in the egg, telling her the only way to learn what it holds is to break it open. Their wandering through the dead city carries this near-wordless OVA, directed by Mamoru Oshii.

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Touch

タッチ

Shounen

Sports

Drama

Tatsuya and Kazuya Uesugi are twin brothers who grew up next door to Minami Asakura. Everyone assumes Kazuya, gifted and hardworking, will end up with her, while Tatsuya, who could match his brother's talent but never tries, keeps his feelings for Minami to himself. Kazuya pitches for Meisei High's baseball team, aiming at the Koushien tournament Minami has dreamed of since they were children. Tatsuya's quiet decision to stay in the background shapes everything that passes between the three of them.

Top 250

Top 250

Urusei Yatsura OVA

Vampire Hunter D

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

High School! Kimengumi

Lupin III: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon

Urusei Yatsura Movie 3: Remember My Love

Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars

Angel's Egg

Touch