Baki the Grappler
グラップラー刃牙
Baki Hanma trains relentlessly to surpass his father, Yujiro Hanma, the man widely called the strongest creature on Earth. To close that gap, Baki throws himself into brutal matches, including an underground arena run by the Tokugawa family where fighters from every discipline meet with no rules. Boxers, judoka, karateka, and brawlers from around the world test him as he pursues the title his father holds. This 2001 series is the first television adaptation of the Baki manga.
Beyblade
爆転シュート ベイブレード
Takao Kinomiya dreams of becoming the world's best Beyblade player, spinning customized tops in arena duels. After incidents in his neighborhood, he teams up with the strategist Kyouju and the rivals Kai, Max, and Rei to form the Bladebreakers, aiming to win the world championship. Each blade houses a bit-beast — Takao's holds the dragon Seiryuu — and mastering these spirits is the key to climbing through the tournaments.
Cat Soup
ねこぢる草
Cat Soup follows Nyaata, a kitten whose older sister Nyaako falls gravely ill and slips toward death. When Nyaata drowns by accident and finds himself half in the spirit world, he wrestles half of Nyaako's soul back from the psychopomp Jizō, leaving her alive but hollow-eyed and only partly present. To restore her, the two siblings set off through a wordless, surreal dreamscape. This experimental short, based on Nekojiru's manga, plays out almost entirely without dialogue.
Initial D: Third Stage
頭文字D Third Stage
Akina's undefeated downhill racer Takumi Fujiwara, who learned to drive delivering tofu in his father's Toyota AE86 Trueno, faces graduation and a decision about what comes next. Ryosuke Takahashi offers him a place on a touring team that races other crews across Japan. Before answering, Takumi settles unfinished business: a rematch with Emperor's Kyoichi Sudo, a duel with rival's son Kai Kogashiwa, and his strained relationship with Natsuki. This theatrical film bridges the TV series toward Project D.
One Piece: Clockwork Island Adventure
ワンピース ねじまき島の冒険
While the Straw Hats relax on a beach, thieves make off with the Going Merry, sending Luffy and his crew after their stolen ship. The trail leads to Clockwork Island, a town of gears and clocks held together by a fragile central engine, now ruled by the Trump Pirates under the would-be Pirate King known as the Bear King, who has seized Nami. Luffy, Zoro, and the others scale the island to take her back, crossing paths with the thief brothers Akisu and Borodo. This is the second One Piece feature film.
Fruits Basket
フルーツバスケット
Tohru Honda, a recently orphaned high-schooler living in a tent to avoid burdening anyone, stumbles onto land owned by the Sohma family and is taken in by the novelist Shigure Sohma. At school, she already knows the reserved Yuki Sohma — the prince of their class — but her arrival at the Sohma household reveals a family secret: thirteen members are cursed by the spirits of the Chinese zodiac, transforming into their zodiac animal when embraced by someone of the opposite sex. As Tohru befriends more Sohmas, including the hot-tempered Kyo, she learns each carries the weight of the curse differently.
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
カウボーイビバップ 天国の扉
Spike Spiegel and the Bebop crew stumble onto a massive bounty when a tanker truck explodes on a Mars highway, releasing what appears to be a biological weapon. The trail leads to Vincent Volaju, an ex-soldier believed dead, who plans to unleash the pathogen across Alba City during a Halloween parade. Spike, Jet, Faye, and Ed race to stop Vincent before the virus spreads. This theatrical film is set between episodes 22 and 23 of the original TV series.
Shaman King
Shaman King
Yoh Asakura, a laid-back thirteen-year-old shaman, can see and channel the dead. Partnered with Amidamaru, the ghost of a six-hundred-year-old samurai, Yoh enters the Shaman Fight—a tournament held once every five hundred years to crown the Shaman King, a medium powerful enough to reshape the world. His fiancée Anna Kyoyama pushes his training to brutal extremes, while a far more dangerous shaman named Hao pursues the title with plans to annihilate non-shamans.
Pokémon 4Ever: Celebi - Voice of the Forest
劇場版ポケットモンスター セレビィ 時を越えた遭遇
A young trainer named Sammy is hunted alongside Celebi, a time-traveling Pokémon, and the two leap forty years into the future to escape a poacher. There, Sammy meets Ash, Misty, and Brock, but the Iron-Masked Marauder of Team Rocket arrives chasing Celebi, armed with Dark Balls that turn captured Pokémon vicious. Ash and Sammy carry the wounded Celebi toward the Lake of Life and its healing waters while the Marauder closes in on the Voice of the Forest. This fourth Pokémon feature is a standalone story.
Baki the Grappler: Maximum Tournament
グラップラー刃牙 最大トーナメント編
This 2001 Group TAC series, a continuation of the Grappler Baki anime, throws teenage fighter Baki Hanma into Mitsunari Tokugawa's underground Maximum Tournament. Thirty-eight fighters, many of them masters of their own disciplines, are gathered to settle who is strongest beneath the surface of an ordinary arena. Baki battles a parade of brutal opponents in his ongoing quest to one day surpass his monstrous father, Yujiro Hanma.
s-CRY-ed
スクライド
After an earthquake called the Great Uprising splits a region into the wealthy Mainland and the lawless Lost Ground, a fraction of the survivors awaken powers known as Alter. Kazuma, a Native Alter user, takes mercenary work to support himself and his young friend Kanami Yuta, until he clashes with Ryuho, an Alter agent of the Mainland enforcement group HOLY. Their collision sets off a running rivalry between the freelance Kazuma and the disciplined HOLY operative across the ruins of the Lost Ground.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
In 2065, Earth is overrun by ghostly alien Phantoms that kill on contact by draining the spirit from living things, driving survivors into domed cities. Scientist Aki Ross, herself infected and racing against time, works with her mentor Dr. Sid to gather eight specific spirit signatures she believes can neutralize the Phantoms. She is backed by Captain Gray Edwards and his Deep Eyes squad while General Hein pushes for a far more destructive solution. This photorealistic CG feature film was the first of its kind.
Spirited Away
千と千尋の神隠し
Ten-year-old Chihiro Ogino stumbles into an abandoned theme park that turns out to be a bathhouse for spirits, run by the witch Yubaba. After Yubaba transforms her parents into pigs, Chihiro takes the name Sen and begins working in the bathhouse to survive and find a way to free them. A mysterious boy named Haku helps her navigate the spirit world, though his own ties to Yubaba remain unclear.
Hellsing
Hellsing
Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing commands the Hellsing Organization, a secret branch of the British government tasked with destroying vampires and other undead threats to the Crown. Her most powerful weapon is Alucard, an ancient vampire bound to the Hellsing family, who takes a newly turned police officer named Seras Victoria as his fledgling. When a wave of artificial vampires begins sweeping through England, Integra deploys Alucard and Seras to trace the source.
Hikaru no Go
ヒカルの碁
Hikaru Shindo finds an old Go board in his grandfather's shed and wakes the spirit of Fujiwara-no-Sai, a Go master from the Heian era who only he can see. Sai, who longs to play the perfect move he calls the Divine Move, begins dictating games through Hikaru, and one of those games crushes Akira Toya, a boy already playing at professional strength. Drawn in by Akira's drive and Sai's passion, Hikaru sets out to learn the game himself.
InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time
犬夜叉 時代を越える想い
A shard of the Shikon Jewel frees Menomaru, the moth demon son of Hyoga, a yokai that InuYasha's father struck down two centuries earlier. Bent on avenging his father and unsealing his inherited power, Menomaru turns his sights on InuYasha, Kagome, and their companions. This first InuYasha feature film sits alongside the TV series rather than continuing its main story.
Rave Master
GROOVE ADVENTURE RAVE
Haru Glory, a teenager from quiet Garage Island, is named the second Rave Master and inherits the holy Rave stones, the sword Ten Commandments, and a strange creature named Plue. To restore the scattered Rave fragments and counter the corrupted Dark Bring stones, he sets out against the criminal organization Demon Card. Along the way he falls in with an amnesiac girl named Elie, who carries a hidden power within her.
Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection
るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚- 星霜編
Years after the Tokyo arc, former assassin Kenshin Himura still wanders Japan seeking to atone for the lives he took as the Hitokiri Battōsai, while his wife Kaoru waits at home for his returns. This OVA, released in the West as Samurai X: Reflection, frames the later life of the couple largely through Kaoru's eyes, as Kenshin's absences strain his bond with their son Kenji.
X
X -エックス-
Kamui Shirou returns to Tokyo after six years away, drawn back by a destiny that names him the one who will decide humanity's fate at the close of 1999. Two factions form around him: the Dragons of Heaven, who maintain the spiritual barriers that hold the city together, and the Dragons of Earth, who mean to tear them down so the planet can shed humankind. As his childhood friends Fuma and Kotori are pulled into the conflict, Kamui must choose which side his power will serve. Adapted from CLAMP's manga.
Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden
まほろまてぃっく
Mahoro is the strongest combat android of Vesper, a secret agency fighting alien invaders, but her power source is nearly spent. Offered a choice between a few more days as a warrior or a longer quiet life with her abilities stripped, she chooses the latter and asks to spend it as housekeeper for Suguru Misato, the orphaned teenage son of the officer she once served. She moves into his home and takes up domestic life while her countdown ticks down.
The Prince of Tennis
テニスの王子様
Twelve-year-old Ryoma Echizen returns from America and enrolls at Seishun Academy, whose middle-school tennis team, Seigaku, is among the strongest in Japan. A prodigy raised to chase his father's shadow, Ryoma earns a spot on the starting lineup as a first-year, winning over older teammates who first resent his age. Alongside captain Kunimitsu Tezuka and the rest of Seigaku, he sets his sights on the National Middle School Tennis Championship.
Digimon Tamers
デジモンテイマーズ
Takato Matsuki, a fan of the Digimon card game, scans his drawings with a newly transformed D-Power and brings his creature Guilmon to life in Shinjuku. He soon meets fellow Tamers Rika Nonaka and Henry Wong, partnered with Renamon and Terriermon, as wild Digimon begin crossing into the real world. The intelligence agency Hypnos works to send them back, while the children defend the city. This third Digimon series tells a self-contained story set apart from the earlier Adventure continuity.
Noir
Noir
Mireille Bouquet, a Paris-based contract killer, takes a job alongside Kirika Yuumura, a Japanese teenager who fights with lethal precision but remembers almost nothing of her own past. The two adopt the codename Noir and work assassinations together, drawn on by a shared clue: a melody and a fragment of memory that ties Kirika to the murder of Mireille's parents. As they take contracts across Europe, a secret organization watches both women and the name they carry.
Metropolis
メトロポリス
In the towering city of Metropolis, humans live above robot laborers they blame for their poverty, and the powerful Duke Red has just completed the Ziggurat, a vast new complex. Detective Shunsaku Ban and his nephew Kenichi arrive investigating a wanted scientist, and Kenichi becomes separated with Tima, an advanced android the scientist secretly built. Unaware she is a robot, Kenichi protects Tima through the city's lower depths, while Duke Red intends to seat her at the heart of the Ziggurat's hidden weapon. This feature film is directed by Rintaro from a script by Katsuhiro Otomo, based on Osamu Tezuka's manga.
R.O.D - Read or Die
R.O.D -READ OR DIE-
Yomiko Readman is a substitute teacher and obsessive bibliophile who works secretly for the British Library's Special Operations Division under the codename The Paper, able to bend and weaponize any sheet of paper. When she buys a rare first edition, she is attacked by superpowered clones of historical figures, the I-jin, who want the handwritten sheet music hidden in its pages. The music belongs to a lost Beethoven work that kills anyone who hears it, and Yomiko is drawn into stopping the people rebuilding it. This is the three-part OVA.
Detective Conan: Countdown to Heaven
名探偵コナン 天国へのカウントダウン
Conan Edogawa, the Detective Boys, and Professor Agasa join Ran, Sonoko, and Kogoro Mouri at the newly built Nishitamashi Twin Towers, the tallest buildings in Japan, ahead of their grand opening. A string of murders strikes people tied to the towers, each killing marked with broken sake cups. As Conan untangles the pattern, the Black Organization's Gin and Vodka close in on someone of their own attending the same private viewing. This is the fifth Detective Conan feature film.
Prétear: The New Legend of Snow White
新白雪姫伝説プリーティア
Sixteen-year-old Himeno Awayuki, struggling to fit into the wealthy family her father married into, is approached by seven Leafe Knights who name her the Prétear. By merging with one knight at a time she channels his element — wind, sound, fire, light, ice, water, or grass — to purge the demon larvae draining the world of its life force, Leafe. As Himeno works alongside the knights Hayate and Sasame, the Princess of Disaster moves to smother the world in darkness.