Maria Watches Over Us
マリア様がみてる
Yumi Fukuzawa is an unremarkable first-year at Lillian Girls' Academy, a Catholic school in Tokyo where older students mentor younger ones as their soeur, or "sister." When Sachiko Ogasawara, one of the academy's most admired girls, offers Yumi her rosary, Yumi is drawn into the Yamayuri Council that oversees student life. Alongside fellow newcomers and council members like Yoshino and Shimako, she navigates the school's quiet rituals and the bonds between paired sisters.
Wolf's Rain OVA
Wolf's Rain OVA
Kiba and the wolves Tsume, Hige, Toboe, and Blue press on toward Rakuen (Paradise) with the flower-maiden Cheza after leaving Jagara's keep, trailed by the humans Hubb, Cher, and Quent. These four OVA episodes form the original conclusion to the television story, not aired on TV and released directly to DVD. They continue the journey from where the broadcast run stopped and should be watched after the main series.
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
イノセンス
In 2032, Public Security Section 9 cyborg Batou is paired with the mostly-human detective Togusa to investigate a string of killings by malfunctioning gynoids — doll-like androids that have turned on their owners. The trail leads through the underworld toward the robotics firm Locus Solus, while Batou, still haunted by the absent Major Motoko Kusanagi, weighs what separates a manufactured mind from a human one. This film is a sequel to the original Ghost in the Shell.
Hunter x Hunter: Greed Island Final
ハンター×ハンター G・I Final
This OVA continues Gon Freecss and Killua Zoldyck's run through Greed Island, the deadly video-game world Gon entered chasing leads on his missing father, Ging. Under the brutal training of the veteran Hunter Biscuit Krueger, the pair sharpen their Nen to keep clearing the game's card-collecting challenges, while the player-killer Genthru and his Bombers hunt other participants to seize their cards. Concluding the Greed Island arc, it adapts the corresponding chapters of Yoshihiro Togashi's manga.
One Piece: The Curse of the Sacred Sword
ワンピース 呪われた聖剣
Landing on Asuka Island, Luffy and the Straw Hats learn of the Shichiseiken, a beautiful but cursed blade that a local village is sworn to keep sealed. Roronoa Zoro vanishes from the crew, lured away by Saga, a childhood friend now bent on reviving the sword's power. Searching for Zoro, the pirates meet the young priestess Maya and find themselves caught between Saga's scheme and the curse that once destroyed the Kingdom of Asuka. This feature film is a standalone story focused on Zoro.
Paranoia Agent
妄想代理人
Tsukiko Sagi, the shy designer behind the wildly popular mascot Maromi, is attacked on her way home by an assailant on inline skates wielding a bent golden baseball bat — a figure the media dubs Lil' Slugger. Detectives Keiichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa take the case, but as more victims surface, each one under intense personal pressure at the time of their attack, the investigation spirals into something stranger than a serial assault.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG
攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX 2nd GIG
Two years after Section 9's first dissolution, Major Motoko Kusanagi and her team are back under Chief Aramaki, this time handed Japan's mounting refugee crisis. Roughly three million Asians displaced by the previous world wars are crowded onto the reclaimed island of Dejima, and a wave of attacks claimed by a faction known as the Individual Eleven keeps tying their unrest to terror. Tracking the case, Kusanagi crosses paths with the ex-soldier Hideo Kuze, whose link to her own past predates Section 9. This second season directly continues Stand Alone Complex.
Dead Leaves
デッドリーブス
Retro, a man with a television for a head, and Pandy, a woman marked by a red patch over one eye, wake naked on a ruined Earth with no memory and bodies capable of superhuman violence. Their rampage through Tokyo for food and clothes lands them in Dead Leaves, a prison built into the shattered Moon. Inside, the pair tear toward a mass breakout while the warden's experiments fill the cells with disposable mutants. This 50-minute OVA is directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi.
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light
遊☆戯☆王 デュエルモンスターズ 光のピラミッド
Set after the Battle City finals, Yugi Muto and his rival Seto Kaiba are pulled into a duel engineered from the shadows by the ancient sorcerer Anubis, freed when his tomb and its relic, the Pyramid of Light, are unearthed. Kaiba plays a card secretly slipped into his deck, sealing away Yugi's three Egyptian God Cards as Anubis works toward his own revenge against the Pharaoh. This theatrical feature stands apart from the TV series.
Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys
劇場版 ポケットモンスター アドバンスジェネレーション 裂空の訪問者 デオキシス
Years after a meteorite carrying Deoxys clashed with the sky guardian Rayquaza near the poles, Ash, May, Brock, and Max arrive in the robot-run metropolis of LaRousse City. There they meet Tory, a boy who has feared Pokémon ever since witnessing that battle as a child. When the recovered Deoxys returns to search the city for a green crystal and Rayquaza follows it back into the open, Ash and Tory are caught between the two as LaRousse's automated systems turn on everyone. This is the seventh Pokémon feature film.
Steamboy
スチームボーイ
Ray Steam, a young inventor in an alternate steam-powered England, receives a sealed metal sphere mailed by his grandfather Lloyd. The Steam Ball holds enough compressed energy to drive an entire industry, and the moment it reaches him, agents of the O'Hara Foundation come demanding it back. Caught between his grandfather and his father Eddy, Ray runs through Manchester and London trying to keep the device from being turned into a weapon.
Naruto: Hidden Leaf Village Grand Sports Festival
ナルト 木ノ葉の里の大うん動会！
Naruto Uzumaki and the rest of Konoha's young ninja gather for a village-wide sports festival, where the winning team earns a full week off from missions. Paired with Sakura and Sasuke on Team 7, Naruto pushes through relay races and contests against Rookie Nine and Team Guy, all while a far more urgent problem hounds him: he desperately needs to find a working bathroom. This short OVA special is a one-off comedy bundled with the first Naruto film, not part of the main story.
Girls Bravo: First Season
GIRLSブラボー first season
Yukinari Sasaki breaks out in hives whenever a girl touches him, the result of years of ridicule that left him allergic to women. When his neighbor Kirie Kojima kicks him into his bathtub, he is whisked away to Seiren, a world populated almost entirely by women, and there meets Miharu Sena Kanaka, the one girl who doesn't trigger his condition. Miharu follows him back to Earth, and as more visitors from Seiren move into his home, Yukinari's daily life turns into a string of misunderstandings. This first season runs eleven episodes.
Elfen Lied
エルフェンリート
Lucy, a Diclonius — a mutant born with invisible telekinetic arms called vectors and small horns on her head — escapes a coastal research facility in Kamakura, killing guards with her vectors as she goes. A head wound during the breakout splits her personality, leaving her childlike and mute under the name Nyu. University student Kouta and his cousin Yuka take the disoriented girl in, unaware of what she is or that armed teams are already moving to recapture her.
Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow
劇場版 NARUTO -ナルト- 大活劇!雪姫忍法帖だってばよ!!
Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi escort actress Yukie Fujikaze to the Land of Snow for a film shoot, only to discover she is Koyuki Kazahana, a princess who fled as a child when her uncle Dotō seized the throne by force. Dotō's Snow ninja ambush the group to capture Koyuki and the hexagonal crystal her father left her, which is said to unlock a hidden treasure beneath the frozen kingdom.
Gantz: Second Stage
GANTZ 2nd Stage
Kei Kurono and his old classmate Masaru Kato died in a train accident and woke in a Tokyo apartment ruled by a black sphere called Gantz, which arms the recently dead and sends them to hunt aliens hidden in the city. Having already survived two missions, the pair are pulled back into Gantz's lethal game, where points are the only path out and any survivor can be summoned again at any moment. This second stage continues the original run and escalates the targets the team is ordered to kill.
DearS
DearS
A year after an alien ship crash-landed in Tokyo Bay and its stranded passengers were folded into Japanese society as the friendly "DearS," high schooler Takeya Ikuhara finds a collapsed DearS girl on his way home and takes her in. The girl, whom he names Ren, has no grasp of ordinary human customs and immediately declares Takeya her master and herself his slave, upending his preference for a quiet life as she clings to him at school and at home.
Samurai 7
サムライ7
Kirara, a water priestess of Kanna village, sets out to hire samurai who will defend her farming community from the Nobuseri, former soldiers fused with machine bodies who plunder each harvest. She recruits the battle-worn veteran Kambei and the eager young swordsman Katsushiro, gathering seven fighters in all. This retelling of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai moves the story to a far-future world rebuilt after a great war.
Bleach: Memories in the Rain
ブリーチ ～Memories in the Rain～
Shown at the Jump Festa 2004 Anime Tour, this standalone special retells an early stretch of Bleach as a single episode centered on Ichigo Kurosaki and his mother. On the anniversary of Masaki's death, Ichigo and his family visit her grave and cross paths with Rukia Kuchiki, when the shape-shifting Hollow Grand Fisher attacks his sisters Karin and Yuzu. The fight forces Ichigo to face how his mother died and what the Hollow has to do with it.
Mind Game
マインド・ゲーム
Nishi, an aimless aspiring mangaka, runs into his childhood crush Myon on the train just as her family's troubles pull him into a confrontation with two yakuza. Shot dead in the chaos, he refuses the afterlife, claws his way back to life, and goes on the run with Myon and her sister. Their escape ends inside the belly of an enormous whale, where the three meet a castaway who has lived there for decades. Masaaki Yuasa directs this feature in constantly shifting animation styles.
Howl's Moving Castle
ハウルの動く城
Sophie, a quiet young hat-maker, is cursed by the Witch of the Waste and transformed into a ninety-year-old woman. Unable to tell anyone what happened, she wanders into the Wastes and finds her way aboard the steam-powered walking castle of the wizard Howl. Inside she strikes a deal with Calcifer, a fire demon bound to the castle's hearth, and settles in alongside Howl's apprentice Markl. As a war between neighboring kingdoms escalates, Howl is pressured to fight for the crown — and Sophie searches for a way to break both her curse and his.
Destiny of the Shrine Maiden
神無月の巫女
Himeko Kurusugawa and Chikane Himemiya are classmates at Ototachibana Academy in the town of Mahoroba, unaware that they are the reincarnated solar and lunar mikos. When the eight-headed Orochi of legend stirs once more, their sealed identities awaken and call them to pilot divine mecha against the threat. Himeko's childhood friend Souma Ougami is bound to the Orochi as one of its heads, but turns against his fate to protect her, while Chikane's devotion to Himeko deepens into something fiercer.
InuYasha the Movie 4: Fire on the Mystic Island
犬夜叉 紅蓮の蓬莱島
Ai, a young half-demon, flees Hōrai Island and crosses paths with Inuyasha, who once stood on that same island fifty years earlier. Drawn back with Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and Shippō, Inuyasha finds the half-demon children there held under the rule of the Four War Gods — Ryūra, Jūra, Kyōra, and Gōra. This fourth InuYasha feature film sends the group to free the island and forces Inuyasha to face the marks the War Gods left on him long ago.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
魔法少女リリカルなのは
Nine-year-old Nanoha Takamachi rescues an injured ferret who turns out to be Yuuno Scrya, a young mage from another world hunting twenty-one scattered artifacts called Jewel Seeds. He hands her an Intelligent Device named Raising Heart, and Nanoha's sudden aptitude for magic pulls her into the search. Racing her for the same Seeds is Fate Testarossa, another girl mage gathering them for her own ends.
Bleach
BLEACH
Ichigo Kurosaki, a Karakura Town high schooler who can see ghosts, gains Soul Reaper powers after Rukia Kuchiki is wounded protecting his family from a Hollow. Taking on her duties, he hunts the masked spirits threatening the living while Rukia slowly loses her own strength. When the Soul Society sentences Rukia to death for transferring her powers to a human, Ichigo and a small band of allies — guided by the exiled shopkeeper Kisuke Urahara — break into the Seireitei to rescue her.
Genshiken
げんしけん
Shy university freshman Kanji Sasahara joins the Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, a campus club whose members live and breathe anime, manga, doujinshi, and games. Among the regulars are the blunt veteran Madarame, the cosplay-obsessed Kanako Ohno, and the handsome Kohsaka, whose normie girlfriend Saki Kasukabe keeps wandering into the clubroom and clashing with otaku life. Together they argue over their favorite fictional anime, save up for doujin conventions, and turn fandom into a daily routine.
BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad
BECK
Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka, a bored fourteen-year-old drifting through middle school, rescues a strange-looking dog named Beck and meets its owner Ryusuke Minami, a guitarist just back from New York with plans to start a band. Ryusuke teaches Koyuki guitar, and as the band BECK takes shape around them — with bassist Taira, drummer Saku, and rapper Chiba — Koyuki discovers he has a voice that stops crowds cold.
School Rumble
スクールランブル
Tenma Tsukamoto, a cheerful second-year at Yagami High, struggles to confess her crush on the enigmatic Oji Karasuma, a classmate whose only visible passion is curry. Meanwhile delinquent-turned-manga-artist Kenji Harima has transferred back to school solely to get close to Tenma, only to find her obliviousness and single-track devotion to Karasuma blocking him at every turn. Misunderstandings pile up across Class 2-C as neither love triangle resolves and the comedy keeps escalating.
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
巌窟王
On a vacation to a lunar carnival in the year 5053, the teenage Viscount Albert de Morcerf falls into the orbit of a glittering nobleman known only as the Count of Monte Cristo, and brings the stranger home to Paris as the guest of his prominent family. The Count, in turn, accepts every invitation his enemies' children extend, weaving himself into the social calendar of the very Parisian elite who once destroyed him as the sailor Edmond Dantès. Gonzo's adaptation transplants Alexandre Dumas's revenge novel into a baroque space-age future, told from Albert's perspective as he begins to sense something wrong beneath his new friend's charm.
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
遊☆戯☆王 デュエルモンスターズ GX
Jaden Yuki enrolls at Duel Academy, the island school founded by Seto Kaiba to train the next generation of Duel Monsters players, and lands in Slifer Red, the lowest of its three dorms. Determined to become the top duelist, he climbs the ranks alongside friends like Syrus Truesdale and Bastion Misawa while discovering he can see and hear Duel Spirits. Set in the world of the original Yu-Gi-Oh!, it follows a new cast years after Yugi's era.
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
雲のむこう、約束の場所
In an alternate postwar Japan split in two, with the northern island of Ezo occupied by a foreign Union that has raised a vast tower across the strait, three Aomori teenagers fixate on reaching it. Hiroki Fujisawa and Takuya Shirakawa rebuild a small plane to fly to the tower, promising their classmate Sayuri Sawatari they will take her there one day. When Sayuri vanishes, the unfinished promise and the tower's strange effect on the world draw the two boys back together. This is Makoto Shinkai's first feature film.
Rozen Maiden
ローゼンメイデン
Jun Sakurada is a withdrawn middle-schooler who has stopped attending class and spends his days indoors. His life shifts when an ornate case arrives holding a living clockwork doll named Shinku, who declares him her servant. Shinku is one of the Rozen Maidens, sentient dolls bound to compete in the Alice Game, gathering one another's Rosa Mystica to become the perfect doll Alice. Drawn into their world, Jun finds purpose tending to Shinku and the other Maidens who follow.
Desert Punk
砂ぼうず
After a catastrophe turns Japan into the scorching Great Kanto Desert, a seventeen-year-old mercenary named Kanta Mizuno makes his living taking handyman jobs across the sands. His skill and nerve have earned him the nickname Sunabouzu, the Desert Punk, but his lechery is an open weakness, and the scheming Junko Asagiri exploits it to bend his jobs to her own ends. Episodes follow Kanta from one mercenary contract to the next as rival handymen, bounties, and Junko's manipulations pile up around him.
My-Hime
舞-HiME
Mai Tokiha transfers to the elite Fuuka Academy with her younger brother Takumi and learns she carries the HiME mark, one of twelve girls able to summon a Child — a half-spiritual, half-mechanical guardian. Her own Child is the fiery beast Kagutsuchi, which she calls on to fight the monstrous Orphans threatening the school. Reluctant to be pulled in while caring for Takumi, Mai finds the other HiME emerging around her, each with her own reasons for wielding the power.
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
機動戦士ガンダムSEED DESTINY
Two years after the first war between the genetically enhanced Coordinators of ZAFT and the unmodified Naturals, young ZAFT soldier Shinn Asuka takes up arms as tensions flare into open conflict once more. Driven by the loss of his family in the previous fighting, Shinn pilots new mobile suits for ZAFT while returning figures like Kira Yamato and Athrun Zala are pulled back toward the battlefield. This direct sequel to Mobile Suit Gundam SEED continues the Cosmic Era saga.
Major
メジャー
Goro Honda grows up idolizing his father Shigeharu, a struggling professional pitcher for the Yokohama Blue Oceans, and dreams of standing on the mound himself. When tragedy strikes the family early on, the boy clings tighter to baseball and to the goal of reaching the top of the sport. This first television season opens the Major saga in Goro's childhood, before his rise through youth and school baseball.
Gakuen Alice
学園アリス
When her best friend Hotaru Imai is whisked away to a mysterious boarding school, ten-year-old Mikan Sakura follows her to Tokyo and stumbles into Alice Academy, a school for children born with special powers called Alices. Mikan turns out to have the Nullification Alice, which cancels other students' abilities nearby, and teacher Narumi enrolls her. She settles in among classmates while sensing the academy hides more than it shows.
Yakitate!! Japan
焼きたて!! ジャぱん
Kazuma Azuma sets out to invent Ja-pan, an original national bread for Japan to stand beside France's and Germany's famous loaves. Born with unusually warm "Hands of the Sun" that speed up fermentation, he heads to Tokyo to earn a spot at the elite Pantasia bakery chain. There he trains, competes, and bakes against gifted rivals, where wildly imaginative recipes are judged with over-the-top reactions. The series leans into baking as all-out competition.
Diebuster
トップをねらえ2！
Nono is a clumsy country girl who leaves home to become a space pilot and ends up waiting tables at a run-down diner instead. When the elite Topless pilot Lal'C Melk Mark fends off a space monster nearby, Nono idolizes her and attaches herself to the Topless corps that defends humanity in giant Buster Machines. Set generations after the original Gunbuster, this Gainax sequel OVA follows Nono's push to fight at Lal'C's side as the monsters return in force.
Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase
月詠 -MOON PHASE-
Freelance photographer Kouhei Morioka travels to a castle in southwestern Germany to shoot paranormal phenomena and meets Hazuki, a girl from a royal vampire bloodline held captive there. Hazuki bites him and tries to claim him as her servant, but the blood pact has no hold on him — he is an Ama Lamia, immune to vampire control. After Kouhei helps free her, Hazuki follows him back to Tokyo and moves into his grandfather's house, even as her family's vampire servants keep coming to drag her home.
Burst Angel
爆裂天使
In a near-future Tokyo where rising crime has legalized civilian firearms, culinary student Kyohei Tachibana takes a job cooking for a group of young women who turn out to be armed mercenaries working for the organization Bailan. Among them are the gunslinger Jo, the brash Meg, the calm operator Sei, and the tech-savvy child Amy. As Kyohei tags along hoping to fund a trip to France, the team is drawn into investigating mutated, brain-glowing monsters terrorizing the city.
Appleseed
アップルシード
Deunan Knute, one of the last survivors of a devastating Global War, is brought into Olympus, a managed utopia where humans live alongside engineered bioroids. Her former lover Briareos, now a cyborg, fights at her side as she is drawn into a clash between factions over the bioroids' future and the long-lost Appleseed data that could decide it. This 3DCG film adapts Masamune Shirow's manga.
Le Portrait de Petit Cossette
コゼットの肖像
Eiri Kurahashi, an art student who works at his family's antique shop, becomes transfixed by a Venetian glass that lets him see Cossette d'Auvergne, a girl whose spirit has been bound inside it since her death centuries earlier. As he falls for the figure in the glass, Cossette draws him into a pact of blood, seeking vengeance against the painter who once killed her, a man Eiri may be tied to far more closely than he realizes. This three-part OVA leans heavily on its dreamlike imagery.
Sgt. Frog
ケロロ軍曹
Sergeant Keroro, a frog-like alien from Planet Keron, leads a five-member platoon sent to conquer Earth — which his species calls Pekopon. His advance scouting falls apart the moment middle-schooler Fuyuki Hinata and his sharp-tongued sister Natsumi find him in their house and strip him of his Kero Ball. Stranded by his own army, Keroro ends up doing chores for the Hinata family, his grand invasion stalled by household life and Natsumi's short patience.
Samurai Champloo
サムライチャンプルー
Mugen, a wild fighter from the Ryukyu Islands whose sword style borrows from breakdancing, and Jin, a disciplined ronin trained in orthodox kenjutsu, nearly kill each other in a teahouse brawl in Edo-period Japan. Fuu, the teenage waitress who watched her workplace burn down around them, rescues both from execution on one condition: they help her find a samurai who smells of sunflowers. The three set off on an episodic road trip that mixes Edo swordplay with hip-hop anachronism.
Monster
Monster
Kenzō Tenma, a Japanese neurosurgeon at a Düsseldorf hospital, defies his superiors to save a young boy named Johan Liebert over the city's mayor — a choice that costs Tenma his career. Nine years later, Johan resurfaces at the center of a string of serial murders, and Tenma — now the prime suspect — sets out to track down the patient he once saved and stop the killings.
Gantz
GANTZ
Kei Kurono and his childhood friend Masaru Kato die after being struck by a train while rescuing a man from the tracks—then wake up in a sealed Tokyo apartment alongside other recently deceased strangers. A featureless black sphere called Gantz assigns them targets: aliens disguised among the city's population, to be hunted with skintight suits and high-tech weaponry. Survivors earn points toward freedom, but each mission pushes the body count higher, and Gantz offers no explanations.
Initial D Fourth Stage
頭文字D Fourth Stage
Takumi Fujiwara joins Project D, the touring street-racing team Ryosuke Takahashi assembles to take its drivers beyond their home prefecture. As Project D's downhill ace in his Toyota AE86, Takumi challenges mountain racers across Japan while Keisuke Takahashi handles the uphill runs. This fourth TV stage follows on from Third Stage, pitting the team against rival crews like the Todo School as Takumi sharpens his driving against tougher opponents.
Tenjho Tenge
天上天下
Souichiro Nagi and his friend Bob Makihara arrive at Toudou Academy intending to brawl their way to the top, only to learn the school trains its students in martial arts. Their first fight ends with a beating from Maya Natsume and Masataka Takayanagi of the Juken Club. Drawn into the club, the pair land in the middle of its long feud with the Executive Council, the student body that rules the campus by force.
Midori Days
美鳥の日々
Seiji Sawamura is a high schooler feared as a brawler — nicknamed Mad Dog for the powerful right hand he uses in fights — and badly wishing for a girlfriend. He wakes one morning to find his right hand has become Midori Kasugano, a shy classmate who has quietly crushed on him for years and whose real body now lies in a coma at home. Stuck sharing his arm with her, Seiji has to hide the situation, get through school one-handed, and figure out what to do about the girl literally attached to him.
From Today, I Am the Demon King!
今日からマ王！
Yuri Shibuya, an ordinary Japanese high schooler, is dragged into a toilet portal and wakes in another world where he is told he is the new Maou, king of a nation of Mazoku demons who look human but live long and wield magic. Reluctant and pacifist by nature, Yuri must learn to rule among skeptical nobles like the brothers Gwendal, Conrad, and the hot-tempered Wolfram, the last of whom he accidentally betroths himself to by slapping the wrong cheek.
Aishiteruze Baby
愛してるぜベイベ★★
Kippei Katakura is a seventeen-year-old high schooler with a reputation as a playboy until his aunt vanishes and leaves behind her five-year-old daughter, Yuzuyu. Kippei's family hands him the job of caring for the abandoned girl, and he drops his old habits to look after her day to day. As he learns what raising a child demands, he also grows closer to his classmate Kokoro Tokunaga, who first dismisses him as a flirt.
Koi Kaze
恋風
Koshiro Saeki, a 27-year-old man working at a marriage-arrangement agency, spends an unplanned afternoon at an amusement park with a high-school girl he has just met, only to learn at home that she is Nanoka, his far-younger sister moving in to be closer to her new school. As they begin sharing the house with their father, Koshiro cannot shake the attraction he felt before he knew who she was.