Top Anime of 1990

Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might

ドラゴンボールZ 地球まるごと超決戦

The Saiyan space pirate Turles, who looks unsettlingly like Goku, plants the seed of the Tree of Might on Earth, a parasitic plant that drains a planet's life into fruit that grants immense power to whoever eats it. As the land withers, Goku, Krillin, Gohan, and the other fighters try to bring the tree down before the world dies. This feature film stands apart from the TV series' main storyline.

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Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest

ドラゴンボールZ この世で一番強いヤツ

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Dr. Kochin gathers the Dragon Balls and wishes his mentor Dr. Wheelo's buried laboratory free of the ice that swallowed it decades ago. Wheelo survives as a brain in a tank and wants the body of Earth's strongest fighter. His bio-warriors seize Bulma and force Master Roshi, whom Wheelo still takes for the world's strongest, to come along. Goku follows them to the frozen mountain fortress, with Gohan and Krillin close behind. This is the second Dragon Ball Z feature film.

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Dragon Ball Z: Bardock, The Father of Goku

ドラゴンボールZ たったひとりの最終決戦〜フリーザに挑んだZ戦士孫悟空の父〜

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Bardock, a low-class Saiyan soldier and Goku's father, is clearing the planet Kanassa for Frieza's forces when a dying Kanassan hands him the power to see the future. The visions show him the end of the Saiyan race, and no one on Planet Vegeta will believe the warning. Set years before Dragon Ball begins, this TV special follows Bardock as he sends his infant son Kakarot away to Earth and turns on Frieza alone.

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Record of Lodoss War

ロードス島戦記

Action

Fantasy

Drama

Parn, the son of a disgraced knight, leaves his village of Zaxon to clear his father's name and prove himself a fighter on the war-torn island of Lodoss. He soon falls in with the high elf Deedlit, the dwarf Ghim, the priest Etoh, and the sorcerer Slayn, and their band is drawn into the conflict stirred by the dark island of Marmo and the Grey Witch Karla. This OVA adapts the original Lodoss novels.

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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

ふしぎの海のナディア

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

At the 1889 Paris Exposition, young inventor Jean meets Nadia, a circus performer who guards a mysterious blue gem called the Blue Water and longs to return to her homeland in Africa. Pursued by thieves and by the Neo-Atlantean forces of the masked Gargoyle, who covet the jewel's power, the two fall in with Captain Nemo and the crew of the submarine Nautilus. Together they cross the seas, chasing the secret behind the Blue Water and Nadia's own origins.

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Kennosuke-sama

剣之介さま

Comedy

Kennosuke lives in modern Tokyo with parents who keep house the way samurai did four centuries ago, and the arrangement turns into a problem on the morning he has an important date to get to. Shinobimaru, who shares the household, is pulled into the outing, and the comedy comes from the distance between the family's manners and an ordinary city street. This single OVA adapts one of Akira Toriyama's one-shot manga and was issued as part of the Akira Toriyama the World video line.

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Pink: Water Thieves Rain Thieves

ピンクみずドロボウあめドロボウ

Action

Comedy

Pink is a bandit in a desert where the only thing worth taking is water, and the Silver Company owns every drop of it, so she takes it from them. Cobalt Blue, White and Black fill out the small cast around her. This short film adapts one of Akira Toriyama's one-shot manga and came out in the Akira Toriyama the World video line, which is as far as it goes: it establishes the desert, the company and the raid, and stops there.

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Violence Jack: Hell's Wind

バイオレンスジャック〜ヘルスウインド編〜

Action

Drama

Horror

After the Kanto Hell Earthquake, a group of survivors has built a settlement called Hope Town as a first step back toward a peaceful life. The biker gang Hell's Wind rides in and tears it apart, killing Jun's boyfriend Tetsuya, carrying off the town's women and leaving the remaining townsfolk helpless. Violence Jack, the giant drifter with a jackknife, walks into the middle of the raid and shrugs off the gang's gunfire, and an orphaned boy asks him to go after the young teacher the bikers have dragged back to their camp. This OVA adapts a stretch of Go Nagai's Violence Jack manga.

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Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet

ドラえもんのび太とアニマル惑星

Kids & Family

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Nobita Nobi wanders through a drifting pink mist near his home and finds himself in a strange forest, and when he later leads Doraemon back through it, the mist turns out to be a passage to another world. On the far side lies a planet where animals walk, talk and live like people while keeping their land green, and the pair befriend Chippo, a curious dog boy. Shizuka, Gian and Suneo join the trip just as Chippo's people learn that the Nimuge plan to seize their planet.

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Dragon Warrior

ドラゴンクエスト～勇者アベル伝説～

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

Abel sets out from Aliahan after Baramos abducts Tialah, the girl the village sage Yogi entrusted with the legendary Red Stone. Baramos wants that stone to wake the Great Dragon, and the Blue Stone Abel carries is the only thing that can seal the creature once it rises. Gathering companions as he goes, Abel follows the trail across a world of slimes and monster-ridden roads. The series is built loosely on Dragon Quest III, keeping the game's creatures and a few names while telling a story of its own.

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City Hunter: Bay City Wars

シティーハンターベイシティウォーズ

Thriller

Action

Shounen

Ryo Saeba hasn't made it to the grand opening of a new Tokyo Bay resort run by one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, but Kaori and Miki have, and they end up hostages along with every other guest. The attackers serve General Gilliam, a drug-lord dictator ousted from his country by American military intervention, whose daughter Luna, a computer specialist, is ready to turn the hotel's system into a weapon against the United States. Ryo and Umibozu have to free the hostages and stop the strike. This short theatrical feature first screened on a double bill with City Hunter: Million Dollar Conspiracy.

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Devilman: The Demon Bird

デビルマン妖鳥シレーヌ編

Action

Supernatural

Horror

Having merged with the demon Amon to become Devilman, Akira Fudo fights to keep his human conscience intact while demons hunt down everyone close to him. When Jinmen, a monstrous creature made from the faces of the dead, and the winged demon Sirene both come after him, Akira is forced deeper into the violence he's trying to hold back. This OVA is the second chapter of a trilogy adapting the original Devilman manga, following Devilman: The Birth.

Top 250

Top 250

Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might

Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest

Dragon Ball Z: Bardock, The Father of Goku

Record of Lodoss War

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

Kennosuke-sama

Pink: Water Thieves Rain Thieves

Violence Jack: Hell's Wind

Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet

Dragon Warrior

City Hunter: Bay City Wars

Devilman: The Demon Bird