Top Anime of 1992

Porco Rosso

紅の豚

Marco Pagot is an Italian World War I fighter ace turned freelance bounty hunter, chasing sky pirates over the Adriatic. Somewhere in the years between the war and now he took on the body of a pig and the name Porco Rosso. When the pirates hire a brash American flyer named Donald Curtis to settle accounts, Porco limps to a Milanese workshop where the teenage engineer Fio Piccolo rebuilds his seaplane for the rematch.

Great

Movie|1|Summer 1992

FINISHED

Bastard!!

BASTARD‼-暗黒の破壊神-

Action

Fantasy

The Four Lords of Havoc march on the kingdom of Metallicana: ninja master Gara, thunder empress Nei Arshes, the strategist Kall-Su, and the dark priest Abigail. High priest Geo answers with a desperate gamble and breaks the seal holding the sorcerer Dark Schneider, once allied with those same invaders, inside a child's body. Restored to his old power, Dark Schneider is the only one who can stand against his former comrades, though nobody, not even Princess Sheila Tuel Metallicana, is sure whose side he is really on. This OVA is the original 1992 anime adaptation of the manga.

Good

OVA|

FINISHED

Ranma ½: Nihao My Concubine

らんま1/2 決戦桃幻郷! 花嫁を奪りもどせ!!

Action

Shounen

Romance

Ranma Saotome and the rest of the group are shipwrecked by a storm and washed up on a remote island where Toma, its self-declared ruler, has already carried off every woman among them to fill out his harem. Ranma scrambles to get Akane Tendou and the others back, with Mousse taking an unusually large share of the rescue effort this time around. The island's own terrain turns into one obstacle after another along the way.

FINISHED

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

ドラゴンボールZ 激突!! 100億パワーの戦士たち

Action

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Word reaches Dende that the newly settled New Namek has been seized by the Big Gete Star, a gigantic parasitic machine-planet draining the world for fuel and enslaving its people. Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, and the others travel to free the Namekians, only to find the invasion led by a familiar enemy: Cooler, rebuilt as the metal-bodied Meta-Cooler and able to copy himself into an army. This sixth Dragon Ball Z film pits the heroes against endless Meta-Cooler duplicates at the machine's core.

FINISHED

Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!

ドラゴンボールZ 極限バトル!! 三大超サイヤ人

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

A backup of Dr. Gero's mind, hidden in an underground supercomputer, completes the androids the late scientist built to kill Goku. Androids 13, 14, and 15 activate and ambush Goku at a city mall, forcing him, Trunks, Vegeta, Piccolo, Krillin, and Gohan into a running battle. When 14 and 15 fall, Android 13 absorbs their cores and grows into a far deadlier form. This is the seventh Dragon Ball Z film, a standalone feature set during the Android arc rather than part of the TV story.

FINISHED

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki

天地無用！魎皇鬼

Action

Sci-Fi

Comedy

Tenchi Masaki finds a legendary sword hidden in a cave on his family's shrine grounds and accidentally frees Ryoko Hakubi, a space pirate who's been sealed inside for seven hundred years. After Tenchi manages to fend off her attack, Ryoko takes an immediate liking to him and moves into his house; she is only the first of several alien women who end up doing the same. As his household fills up with visitors from across the galaxy, Tenchi starts uncovering the truth about his own hidden powers and ancestry.

FINISHED

Midori: The Girl in the Freak Show

地下幻燈劇画少女椿

Experimental

Drama

Horror

Orphaned after her mother's death, a young girl named Midori is taken in by a traveling freak-show troupe and forced to work as their dogsbody, abused and tormented by the performers around her. Her treatment shifts only when Masamitsu, a dwarf magician-hypnotist, joins the show and takes an interest in her. Hiroshi Harada animated this ero guro feature almost single-handedly over five years, adapting Suehiro Maruo's manga.

FINISHED

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: The Afterglow of Zeon

機動戦士ガンダム0083 －ジオンの残光－

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

Three years after the One Year War, the Delaz Fleet, a rogue Zeon force loyal to the late Gihren Zabi, breaks the peace. Its ace Anavel Gato infiltrates the Federation's Torrington base in Australia and leaves with the nuclear-armed Gundam GP02A Physalis. Rookie pilot Kou Uraki takes the GP01 Zephyranthes after him, backed by Anaheim engineer Nina Purpleton and the crew of the carrier Albion. This film condenses the thirteen-episode 0083 OVA into a single theatrical cut.

FINISHED

Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again

超時空要塞マクロスII -Lovers Again-

Action

Sci-Fi

Romance

Eighty years after Space War I, rookie reporter Hibiki Kanzaki films the Marduk fleet arriving over Earth and comes back with Ishtar, an Emulator whose songs drive the invaders' soldiers into combat. He keeps her in the city and starts showing her what human music is for, while ace pilot Silvie Gena works the defense from a cockpit. This six part OVA was made outside the main Macross continuity and runs as a parallel story.

#10

FINISHED

Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden: Golden Wings

銀河英雄伝説外伝　黄金の翼

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

Reinhard von Müsel learns that his sister Annerose has been taken into the imperial court. Getting her back means climbing the Galactic Empire's officer ranks faster than anyone expects from the son of an impoverished noble house. Siegfried Kircheis goes with him. Their first postings put them under high-born superiors who assume the pair will wash out. This side story sits before the main Legend of the Galactic Heroes series and takes its designs from Katsumi Michihara's manga rather than from the animated series.

#11

FINISHED

Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds

ドラえもんのび太と雲の王国

Kids & Family

Sci-Fi

Shounen

When Nobita Nobi insists in class that heaven sits above the clouds and gets laughed at, Doraemon offers a better answer than searching for it: build a kingdom up there themselves. With a cloud-hardening gas and a stack of other gadgets, the two sculpt mountains, rivers and a whole town out of cloud, then sell shares to Shizuka, Gian and Suneo to pay for it. The new realm is barely finished before they learn the clouds were never empty, and that a sky-dwelling people have lived there far longer than they have.

#12

FINISHED

Ushio & Tora

うしおととら

Action

Shounen

Supernatural

Ushio Aotsuki finds a demon named Tora sealed beneath his family's shrine, held there for five hundred years by a spear driven through its chest. Freeing Tora to fight off an attack on the town binds the two together instead, and Ushio has to keep wielding the spear to control his new, reluctant ally as supernatural threats close in. This 10-episode OVA adapts only the opening chapters of a much longer manga, stopping well short of the full story.

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#13

FINISHED

Yu Yu Hakusho

幽☆遊☆白書

Action

Shounen

Supernatural

Yusuke Urameshi, a 14-year-old delinquent with no interest in school or rules, dies after pushing a child out of the path of a speeding car. The afterlife's prince Koenma, caught off guard by the selfless act, offers Yusuke a second chance at life, on the condition that he serve as Spirit Detective, investigating demon activity in the human world. Guided by the ferry girl Botan and joined by rival-turned-ally Kazuma Kuwabara, Yusuke takes on cases that pit him against increasingly dangerous apparitions.

#14

FINISHED

Dragon Ball Z: Gather Together! Goku's World

ドラゴンボールZ あつまれ！悟空ワールド

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Packaged with the Terebikko toy in Japan, this interactive OVA has Son Gokuu, Gohan, and their friends firing trivia questions about the Red Ribbon Army, Saiyan, and Freeza sagas straight at the viewer. Woven between the quiz segments is a stand-alone time-travel story that finds the group racing to stop a threat before their first encounter with Cell. Vegeta and Future Trunks join the questioning as well.

#15

FINISHED

Maison Ikkoku: Prelude

めぞん一刻プレリュード -めぐる春の桜のように…-

Drama

Romance

Seinen

Before she ever became the exhausted manager of Maison Ikkoku, Kyoko Otonashi was a new bride settling into married life with her husband, Soichiro, and the stray dog he had brought home. This prequel special traces their courtship and short marriage, filling in what led Kyoko to the widowhood that opens the TV series and why she now calls the dog by her late husband's name. It plays as a quiet, standalone piece that sits alongside the main story.

#16

FINISHED

Tokyo Babylon

東京BABYLON

Thriller

Drama

Supernatural

Subaru Sumeragi, the thirteenth head of the Sumeragi clan and one of Tokyo's most powerful onmyouji, is hired to exorcise a construction site where his employer has just died under mysterious circumstances. The only suspect is a man who keeps walking away from situations that should have killed him, and a grieving young woman shows up convinced he murdered her brother. With his twin sister Hokuto and the veterinarian Seishirou Sakurazuka at his side, Subaru sets out to uncover what is really protecting the man from death.

#17

ONGOING

Crayon Shin-chan

クレヨンしんちゃん

Kids & Family

Slice of Life

Comedy

Shinnosuke Nohara, a crude and mischievous five-year-old, lives with his parents Hiroshi and Misae in the suburban city of Kasukabe in Saitama. Better known as Shin-chan, he buries his family in embarrassment with blunt remarks and inappropriate antics while roaming the neighborhood with his kindergarten friends and the family dog. The episodes follow his everyday misadventures at home, at preschool, and around town, occasionally tipping into outlandish territory.

#18

FINISHED

Video Girl Ai

電影少女

Shounen

Ecchi

Drama

Yota Moteuchi rents a video tape from a mysterious shop hoping to see idol Ai Amano, but his broken VCR pulls her physically out of the screen instead. Ai was programmed to help Yota win over his crush Moemi Hayakawa, yet the malfunction leaves her with unpredictable emotions of her own. As Yota's best friend Takashi complicates the triangle, Ai has to decide whether she is still just a video, or something more, before the rental company comes to reclaim her.

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#19

FINISHED

Sailor Moon

美少女戦士セーラームーン

Shoujo

Action

Fantasy

Usagi Tsukino, a clumsy middle-schooler in Tokyo's Azabu-Juban district, meets a talking cat named Luna who reveals she is Sailor Moon, a Guardian destined to protect the Earth. Luna tasks her with finding the other Sailor Guardians and a lost princess. One by one, Ami Mizuno, Rei Hino, Makoto Kino, and Minako Aino awaken as Sailors Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus, while the masked Tuxedo Mask aids them against the Dark Kingdom's hunt for the Silver Crystal.

Top 250

Top 250

Porco Rosso

Bastard!!

Ranma ½: Nihao My Concubine

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki

Midori: The Girl in the Freak Show

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: The Afterglow of Zeon

Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again

Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden: Golden Wings

Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds

Ushio & Tora

Yu Yu Hakusho

Dragon Ball Z: Gather Together! Goku's World

Maison Ikkoku: Prelude

Tokyo Babylon

Crayon Shin-chan

Video Girl Ai

Sailor Moon