Top Anime of 2007 · mirumiru

Top Anime of 2007 · mirumiru

Gurren Lagann

Gurren Lagann

天元突破グレンラガン

Simon, a timid digger in an underground village, unearths a small mecha he names Lagann and uses it to break through to the surface alongside his fearless 'big brother' Kamina and the rifle-wielding Yoko Littner. Above ground, they discover humanity has been driven underground by the Spiral King Lordgenome and his army of Beastmen piloting giant Gunmen. Kamina captures an enemy Gunmen and combines it with Lagann to form Gurren Lagann, rallying a growing band of surface fighters against Lordgenome's forces.

TV|3|Spring 2007

Afro Samurai

Afro Samurai

Afro Samurai

Afro, a lone swordsman in a futuristic feudal Japan, wears the Number Two headband, the only ticket to challenge the Number One, said to grant godlike power. As a child, Afro watched a gunslinger named Justice behead his father to claim the Number One headband, and he has spent his life cutting through anyone in his path to reach Justice on Mount Shumi. His only companion is Ninja Ninja, a wisecracking figure who shadows him through every blood-soaked encounter along the way.

Naruto Shippuden

Naruto Shippuden

NARUTO -ナルト- 疾風伝

Naruto Uzumaki returns to Konohagakure after two and a half years training under Jiraiya, stronger but still fixated on bringing his former teammate Sasuke Uchiha back from Orochimaru's grasp. His homecoming coincides with the Akatsuki, a group of S-rank criminals, intensifying their hunt for the tailed beasts sealed inside hosts like Naruto. Reunited with Sakura Haruno under Kakashi Hatake's command, he confronts enemies that outclass anything he faced as a genin. This sequel picks up directly after the original Naruto series.

Mononoke

Mononoke

モノノ怪

A wandering figure known only as the Medicine Seller moves through Edo-period Japan, confronting mononoke, malevolent spirits that feed on human anguish. Before he can draw his exorcism sword, he must uncover each spirit's Shape, Truth, and Reasoning, forcing those around him to face the buried emotions that summoned the mononoke in the first place. A spinoff of the Bakeneko arc from Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, it unfolds as self-contained multi-episode arcs.

Darker than Black

Darker than Black

DARKER THAN BLACK -黒の契約者-

After spatial anomalies known as Hell's Gate and Heaven's Gate appear, people called Contractors emerge, individuals with supernatural abilities who must perform a compulsive remuneration each time they use their power. In Tokyo, the masked assassin Hei operates for a shadowy organization called the Syndicate, posing as a Chinese exchange student named Li Shenshun by day while hunting rival Contractors and unraveling the mysteries behind Hell's Gate at night.

Lucky☆Star

らき☆すた

Konata Izumi is an athletic, quick-witted high schooler whose grades suffer because her free time goes to anime, manga, and games. Around her sit the diligent tsundere Kagami Hiiragi, Kagami's easygoing twin Tsukasa, and the unfailingly polite Miyuki Takara, and the four of them turn lunch breaks into long debates over the correct way to eat a chocolate cornet. Exam cramming, summer homework left until the last day, and lengthy detours into anime trivia fill out the rest. Each episode closes with Lucky Channel, a mock variety corner hosted by the steadily unravelling idol Akira Kogami.

Sword of the Stranger

Sword of the Stranger

ストレンヂア -無皇刃譚-

A nameless ronin known only as Nanashi takes work as bodyguard to Kotaro, a boy fleeing across Sengoku-era Japan with his dog Tobimaru. Warriors of the Ming Dynasty are hunting the child, and their pursuit turns every stretch of road into an ambush. Nanashi has bound his katana to its sheath and sworn never to draw it, but keeping Kotaro alive may cost him that vow.

Bakugan Battle Brawlers

Bakugan Battle Brawlers

爆丸バトルブローラーズ

When mysterious cards rain from the sky, Dan Kuso and his friend Shun Kazami turn them into a game built around Bakugan, marble-like creatures that spring open into monsters in battle. Dan, partnered with the Pyrus Dragonoid called Drago, forms the Bakugan Battle Brawlers with Runo, Marucho, Julie, Shun, and Alice. Their games soon prove to be more than play, as the friends are pulled into the conflict over Vestroia, the Bakugan's home dimension.

Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor

Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor

逆境無頼カイジ Ultimate Survivor

Kaiji Ito, an unemployed drifter who spends his days drinking and vandalizing luxury cars, is cornered by the loan shark Endo over a co-worker's debt that has ballooned to nearly four million yen. Endo offers one way out: board the gambling ship Espoir for a single night of restricted rock-paper-scissors, where winners erase their debts and losers face forced labor. Kaiji accepts, stepping into a rigged underworld of psychological games run by the Teiai Corporation.

Clannad

Clannad

CLANNAD

Tomoya Okazaki, a disaffected high school delinquent, meets Nagisa Furukawa on the path to school one morning as she mutters the names of foods she likes to motivate herself. He learns she has been held back a year due to illness and dreams of reviving the school's disbanded drama club. With nothing better to occupy his time, Tomoya helps Nagisa rebuild the club, and along the way discovers that the people around him carry burdens he never bothered to notice.

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone

ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版：序

Shinji Ikari arrives in Tokyo-3 at his estranged father Gendou's summons and is thrust into the cockpit of Evangelion Unit-01, a giant bio-mechanical weapon, to fight monstrous beings called Angels threatening what remains of humanity after the Second Impact. Alongside fellow pilot Rei Ayanami, Shinji battles a series of Angel attacks while struggling to connect with a father who sees him only as a tool. This first Rebuild of Evangelion film retells the opening arc of the original series.

Bokurano

Bokurano

ぼくらの

At a seaside summer camp, fifteen children explore a grotto and meet a man calling himself Kokopelli, who invites them to test a game: piloting a giant robot to defend Earth from fifteen attacks. Fourteen sign the contract before waking on the shore, sure it was a dream. That night two colossal robots appear, and the children are pulled inside one they name Zearth to fight the first enemy. The creature Koyemshi then explains the rule that turns the game into a trap.

Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World - The Country of Sickness: For You

Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World - The Country of Sickness: For You

キノの旅 the Beautiful World 病気の国 -For You-

Kino and Hermes arrive in the Country of Sickness, an antiseptic underground nation built to keep its people perfectly healthy, its surface farmland abandoned above. Something unsettles Kino from the start: a strange smell in the air, no birds anywhere overhead. Then a dying girl asks the travelers to deliver a small trinket to someone left behind in that wasteland, and the favor pulls back the curtain on what the country's obsession with health is actually built on. Adapted from volume five of the source light novels, this stand-alone film sits outside the TV series' episode order.

The Garden of Sinners Chapter 1: Overlooking View

The Garden of Sinners Chapter 1: Overlooking View

空の境界俯瞰風景

In September 1998, Shiki Ryougi, a young woman who can perceive the death-lines in any object, investigates a wave of suicides at the abandoned Fujou Building, where several high-school girls have leapt from the roof with no apparent motive. Between visits from her friend Mikiya Kokutou, Shiki works under magus Touko Aozaki at the Garan no Dou detective agency. When she spots ghostly figures drifting above the rooftop, she climbs the building to uncover what binds the dead to the tower.

Tokyo Majin: Second Act

Tokyo Majin: Second Act

東京魔人學園剣風帖　龖（トウ）第弐幕

Tatsuma Hiyuu and the rest of the Magami Five have barely settled the threats from the first season when a new underground group, the Twelve Heavenly Generals of the Martial Fist, starts hunting them down one by one. Powers awakened by the mystical Ryumyaku draw in new enemies and cast doubt on old allies, with Kyouichi Houraiji and Aoi Misato standing alongside Tatsuma as the group tries to work out who they can still trust. This second season picks up directly where the first left off.

La Corda d'Oro: Primo Passo - Hitonatsu no Encore

La Corda d'Oro: Primo Passo - Hitonatsu no Encore

金色のコルダ ~primo passo~ ひと夏のアンコール

Hino Kahoko and the other concours finalists travel to a training camp for a summer of violin practice ahead of the competition's next round. Tsukimori Len, Hihara Kazuki, and Shimizu Keiichi share the retreat with her as old rivalries continue away from Seisou Academy's halls. This single-episode special follows directly on from Kiniro no Corda: Primo Passo's television run.

The Piano Forest

The Piano Forest

ピアノの森

Kai Ichinose grows up in a red-light district but slips into the nearby forest at night to play an abandoned piano only he can coax sound from. When transfer student Shuhei Amamiya, son of a celebrated pianist and raised on rigorous lessons, is dared to play that same forest piano, the two boys meet over the instrument. Their music teacher Sosuke Ajino, a retired master pianist, recognizes Kai's untrained gift and pushes him toward formal training. This is the 2007 feature film adaptation.

Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei

Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei

さよなら絶望先生

Nozomu Itoshiki, a high school teacher whose name reads as 'despair' in kanji, finds catastrophe in every corner of daily life and sinks into theatrical gloom over social norms, government policies, and misspelled signs alike. His polar opposite, the relentlessly optimistic student Kafuka Fuura, reinterprets every crisis as something positive. Classmates like hikikomori Kiri Komori and obsessive perfectionist Chiri Kitsu pile on their own fixations, turning each episode's topic, from censorship to conformity to modern manners, into satirical chaos.

My Bride is a Mermaid

My Bride is a Mermaid

瀬戸の花嫁

Nagasumi Michishio nearly drowns during a summer trip to the Seto Inland Sea, only to be rescued by Sun Seto, a mermaid and daughter of a yakuza-style mermaid clan. Under mer-society law, a human who learns a mermaid's identity must die, unless the two marry. Forced into an engagement, Nagasumi returns home to find Sun transferring to his school, with her overprotective father Gozaburo infiltrating the faculty to keep watch over the couple.

Nodame Cantabile: Nodame and Chiaki's Ocean Tale

Nodame Cantabile: Nodame and Chiaki's Ocean Tale

のだめカンタービレ「のだめと千秋の海物語」

Conservatory students Shinichi Chiaki and Megumi ‘Nodame’ Noda take a detour to a beach in Niigata with classmates Ryuutarou Mine and Masumi Okuyama on their way to a music festival. While Nodame and Masumi swim and Mine works on his tan, the group tries to coax the water-fearing Chiaki onto an inflatable boat to reach a nearby island. This bonus special slots between episodes eight and nine of the Nodame Cantabile TV series.

Devil May Cry

Devil May Cry

デビルメイクライ

Dante runs Devil May Cry, a one-man demon-hunting shop permanently buried in debt, taking the odd jobs his broker Morrison brings in between slices of pizza and games of pool. A routine case puts him in charge of a young orphan named Patty Lowell, who promptly moves into his life and starts redecorating the office over his objections. Trish and Lady pass through with hunts and debts of their own, and every payday disappears before Dante can touch it.

Naruto Shippuden the Movie

Naruto Shippuden the Movie

劇場版 NARUTO -ナルト- 疾風伝

Naruto, Sakura, Rock Lee, and Neji are assigned to escort the priestess Shion to a shrine where the body of the demon Moryo is sealed. A man named Yomi has already freed Moryo's spirit and offered his own body as a vessel, intent on building a "Thousand Year Kingdom" by reuniting the demon with its original form. Shion can reseal Moryo, but her power comes with a price: her visions have foretold Naruto's death on the mission.

ef: A Tale of Memories.

ef: A Tale of Memories.

ef - a tale of memories.

Aspiring manga artist Hiro Hirono meets the energetic Miyako Miyamura on Christmas Eve in the seaside town of Otowa, just as his childhood friend Kei Shindou is realizing her own feelings for him. In a parallel thread, Renji Asou keeps running into the shy Chihiro Shindou, Kei's twin, at an abandoned train station, and learns that her memory resets every thirteen hours after a long-past accident. minori's visual novel is the source, and the two romances run side by side as Renji and Chihiro start writing a story her notebook can hold on to for her.

Bleach the Movie: The DiamondDust Rebellion

Bleach the Movie: The DiamondDust Rebellion

劇場版 BLEACH The DiamondDust Rebellion もう一つの氷輪丸

Tenth Division captain Toshiro Hitsugaya is escorting the King's Seal through Soul Society when the convoy is ambushed by a Soul Reaper named Sojiro Kusaka, backed by two assassins called Yin and Yang. The Seal is taken, Hitsugaya vanishes from his post in pursuit, and Soul Society brands him a traitor and orders his capture. In the human world, Ichigo Kurosaki finds the wounded captain and is drawn into the hunt as Kusaka turns out to wield Hyorinmaru, the very zanpakuto Hitsugaya himself carries. This second Bleach feature film is set during the TV series timeline.

Hayate the Combat Butler

Hayate the Combat Butler

ハヤテのごとく！

Saddled with a 156-million-yen debt his runaway parents left behind, unlucky teenager Hayate Ayasaki tries to escape loan sharks and ends up rescuing Nagi Sanzenin, the young heiress of an enormous fortune. Mistaking his desperation for a love confession, Nagi takes him on as her personal butler. Hayate works off the debt at the Sanzenin mansion alongside the head maid Maria, fielding the eccentric demands of the otaku-obsessed Nagi and the dangers that follow a girl with that much money.

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

機動戦士ガンダム00

In 2307, with fossil fuels long spent, the world runs on solar arrays fed through three orbital elevators, one held by each of the ruling blocs: the Union, the Human Reform League and the AEU. The nations shut out of that energy keep the planet at war, and the private group Celestial Being answers by unveiling four advanced mobile suits called Gundams and a stated goal of ending all conflict through direct armed intervention. Setsuna F. Seiei, a former child soldier from Krugis, pilots the Gundam Exia as one of four Gundam Meisters who strike at any nation engaged in combat. Their campaign pushes the rival blocs toward uniting against them.

Shugo Chara!

Shugo Chara!

しゅごキャラ！

Amu Hinamori is a grade-schooler her classmates call 'cool and spicy,' a front that hides how shy she is. One morning she wakes to three colorful eggs that hatch into Guardian Characters named Ran, Miki, and Su, each drawing out a self she wishes she could be. The school's Guardians recruit her as the Joker, charged with tracking down X Eggs, the corrupted dreams of other students. Behind that hunt stands the Easter company, searching for a wish-granting egg called the Embryo.

Death Note: Relight

Death Note: Relight

DEATH NOTE リライト

In the shinigami realm, the death god Ryuk recounts a human story to a bored fellow shinigami. High schooler Light Yagami found a Death Note that kills anyone whose name is written in it, and used it to wage a secret campaign against criminals as the figure the public dubbed Kira. The killings drew out L, a detective who works through intermediaries and closes in on Kira's identity. Released as two television specials, this is a condensed recap of the Death Note anime, not new story content.

ef: A Tale of Memories. - Prologue

ef: A Tale of Memories. - Prologue

ef - a tale of memories. - prologue

Released two months ahead of the TV series, this four-minute prologue previews the interwoven relationships at the center of ef: A Tale of Memories, among them Yuuko Amamiya, Chihiro Shindou, Hiro Hirono, and Kei Shindou, through brief glimpses rather than a complete story. It introduces the tone and the cast of the full season without resolving anything on its own.

Myself; Yourself

Myself; Yourself

マイセルフ；ユアセルフ

Five years after moving away, sixteen-year-old Sana Hidaka returns to the town of Sakuranomori expecting to slip back into his old life. He reunites with childhood friends Nanaka Yatsushiro and Aoi Oribe and his old best friend Shusuke Wakatsuki, but finds them changed. Nanaka, once warm and gentle, now meets him with cold distance, and Sana slowly learns that the years apart left marks he never saw coming.

Romeo × Juliet

Romeo × Juliet

ロミオ×ジュリエット

On the floating island of Neo Verona, Leontes Montague seizes power in a bloody coup and slaughters the ruling House Capulet, sparing only the infant Juliet. Fourteen years later, Juliet has grown up hidden from the tyrant and fights his oppression as the masked vigilante known as the Red Whirlwind. When she crosses paths with Romeo, Montague's gentle son, neither knows the other's name or bloodline, and the two are drawn together across the feud that destroyed her family. This anime reworks Shakespeare's play as a fantasy of winged steeds and rebellion.

Clannad The Motion Picture

Clannad The Motion Picture

劇場版 CLANNAD

Delinquent high schooler Tomoya Okazaki drifts through his days with little direction until he meets Nagisa Furukawa, a shy student a year older who is repeating her final year after a long illness. He agrees to help her revive their school's defunct drama club, pulling other students into the effort. This standalone feature film retells the Key visual novel as a single self-contained story, condensing and reworking the arc rather than following the TV series continuity.

Ghost Hound

Ghost Hound

神霊狩／GHOST HOUND

In the small Kyushu town of Suiten, fourteen-year-old Tarou Komori still suffers nightmares and out-of-body episodes years after he and his sister were abducted and only he came back. He falls in with two other boys carrying their own childhood traumas, Makoto and Masayuki, and together they find they can cross into a parallel "Unseen World" that ordinary people cannot reach. As the boundary between that realm and Suiten weakens, the three begin investigating the strange phenomena spreading through the town. Ghost Hound grew out of an original concept by Masamune Shirow.

Den-noh Coil

Den-noh Coil

電脳コイル

In the town of Daikoku, augmented-reality glasses called Den-noh Megane overlay a digital layer onto everyday streets, and the children who wear them treat that cyberspace as a playground. Yuuko "Yasako" Okonogi moves there with her family, bringing along Densuke, a virtual pet her late grandfather left her. Through the playful Fumie Hashimoto she falls in with kids who run illegal tools out of her grandmother's shop, chasing glitches and obsolete spaces where the town's digital layer bleeds into the real one.

Shigurui: Death Frenzy

Shigurui: Death Frenzy

シグルイ

In early Edo-period Japan, Lord Tokugawa Tadanaga orders a tournament fought with live steel rather than wooden swords. The opening bout pits the one-armed Fujiki Gennosuke against the blind Irako Seigen, two former disciples of the dreaded sword master Iwamoto Kogan. From there the story turns back seven years to the Kogan dojo, where both men trained, vied to be named the school's heir, and were set on the collision course that left each of them maimed.

Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai

Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai

劇場版ポケットモンスターダイヤモンド&パールディアルガVSパルキアVSダークライ

Ash Ketchum, Dawn, and Brock arrive in Alamos Town for a Pokémon Contest at its Space-Time Towers, just as the legendary Pokémon Dialga and Palkia tear into a clash that ripples through the town's reality. The townsfolk blame the nightmare-spreading Darkrai, but the lone Pokémon is trying to shield Alamos from the destruction the two deities leave in their wake. The tenth Pokémon feature film.

Neuro: Supernatural Detective

Neuro: Supernatural Detective

魔人探偵脳噛ネウロ

Neuro Nougami is a demon who feeds on mysteries, and having exhausted every puzzle in his own world he crosses into the human one to hunt for richer ones. He latches onto high schooler Yako Katsuragi, whose father was found dead in a case ruled a suicide, and uses her as the public face of a detective agency. While Yako fronts the investigations and Neuro pulls the strings from behind, the pair take on murder cases across Tokyo, each crime a fresh meal for a creature chasing the one mystery that might finally satisfy him.

Heroic Age

Heroic Age

ヒロイック・エイジ

Humanity, the youngest race called the Iron Tribe, is hunted to the brink of extinction by the dominant Silver Tribe. Aboard a ship searching for a savior, the clairvoyant princess Dhianeila finds Age, a young man raised by the vanished Golden Tribe who carries within him one of the last Nodos: Bellcross, a colossal warrior form he can unleash. As Age fights for the Iron Tribe against the Silver and Bronze Tribes, Dhianeila guides him toward the prophecy meant to decide humanity's survival.

Sola

Sola

sola

Yorito Morimiya is a high schooler obsessed with the sky, papering his ceiling with photos of it and slipping out before dawn to shoot the sunrise. One night he meets Matsuri Shihou, a girl who turns out to be a Yaka, an ageless being who cannot bear sunlight and has never seen a blue sky in daylight. Their meeting draws Yorito into Matsuri's flight from Takeshi Tsujidou, the man hunting her, and into the question of what the daytime sky could mean to someone who can never stand under it.

Good Luck! Ninomiya-kun

Good Luck! Ninomiya-kun

ご愁傷さま二ノ宮くん

High schooler Shungo Ninomiya, a capable martial artist, shares a large house with his older sister Ryouko, who works as a mercenary. Ryouko moves the Tsukimura siblings in with him: Mayu, a young succubus whose terror of men is as strong as the pull her own nature has on them, and her incubus brother Mikihiro. Curing Mayu's phobia lands on Shungo, starting with the two of them sharing a room.

Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE: Tokyo Revelations

Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE: Tokyo Revelations

ツバサ TOKYO REVELATIONS

Syaoran and his companions arrive in a ruined, acid-rain-soaked Tokyo while searching across worlds for the scattered feathers that hold Princess Sakura's memories, only to run into Kamui and his group amid the wreckage. This three-episode OVA adapts the manga's Tokyo arc, which the Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle television series never reached, and picks up straight from where that series left off.

Toward the Terra

Toward the Terra

地球へ…

Jomy Marcus Shin expects to pass the adulthood exam every fourteen-year-old faces in a far future where humanity has handed its survival to supercomputers that breed children artificially and erase those who fail. Instead the test awakens the Mu factor in him, marking him as one of the psychic mutants the system hunts. Taken in by the dying Mu leader Soldier Blue, Jomy is named his successor and must lead the exiled Mu toward Terra, the ruined Earth they have never seen but still call home.

Big Windup!

Big Windup!

おおきく振りかぶって

Ren Mihashi arrives at Nishiura High School convinced he is a terrible pitcher after years of being blamed for his middle school team's losses. Coach Momoe pulls him onto the new baseball club, where catcher Takaya Abe takes charge of his pitches and slowly rebuilds his confidence. As the freshly assembled Nishiura squad trains toward its first real games, Mihashi learns to trust the teammates calling the plays behind him.

Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny

Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny

一騎当千 Dragon Destiny

In a modern Japan where rival high schools wage war through fighters bound to the spirits of Romance of the Three Kingdoms warlords, cheerful brawler Hakufu Sonsaku carries the magatama of Sun Ce and the destiny that comes with it. As Nanyo Academy clashes with Sousou Moutoku's Kyosho Academy and Ryuubi Gentoku's Seito High, Hakufu still cannot control the raging 'dragon' inside her. This second TV season continues directly from the first Ikki Tousen series.

Hidamari Sketch

Hidamari Sketch

ひだまりスケッチ

Yuno earns a spot at Yamabuki Art High School and moves into the Hidamari Apartments across the street to be near it. There she befriends her neighbors: classmate Miyako and second-years Hiro and Sae. Episodes drift through the four girls' everyday routines around the apartment building and the art department, from cooking and school assignments to quiet evenings, told mostly through Yuno's eyes.

Princess Resurrection

Princess Resurrection

怪物王女

High-schooler Hiro Hiyorimi dies pushing a young woman clear of falling construction beams, only to be revived as a servant in her honor guard. The woman is Hime, a daughter of the Monster King, and his new half-living life binds him to her household alongside the android maid Flandre. Hiro is pulled into Hime's fight against the siblings who keep sending vampires, werewolves, and other monsters after her in a contest over the royal succession.

One Piece: Episode of Alabasta - The Desert Princess and the Pirates

One Piece: Episode of Alabasta - The Desert Princess and the Pirates

ワンピースエピソードオブアラバスタ砂漠の王女と海賊たち

Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates escort Princess Nefertari Vivi back to her homeland of Alabasta, a desert kingdom worn down by a three-year drought and on the brink of civil war. Behind the chaos stands Crocodile, who runs the criminal syndicate Baroque Works and means to topple Vivi's father, King Cobra, and seize the throne. This compilation film retells the Alabasta arc with new animation rather than presenting a new story.

Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture

Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture

もやしもん

Tadayasu Sawaki starts at a Tokyo agricultural university with a strange gift: he can see and talk to microbes, which appear to him as palm-sized cartoon creatures. The son of a mold-starter maker, he enrolls alongside his friend Kei Yuki, heir to a sake brewery, and soon draws the attention of eccentric professor Keizo Itsuki, who wants to study his ability. Between fermentation experiments and campus mishaps, Tadayasu's talent keeps pulling him into the messy science of brewing and bacteria.

Afro Samurai: The Movie

Afro Samurai: The Movie

AFRO SAMURAI 劇場版

As a boy, Afro watched the gunman Justice behead his father, holder of the Number One headband that marks the world's greatest warrior, and claim the band for himself. Years later Afro wears the Number Two headband, the only one allowed to challenge Number One, and cuts a bloody path toward Justice while every fighter below him hunts the band on his own head. This feature condenses the five-episode TV series into a single film, joined by Afro's wisecracking companion Ninja Ninja.

Higurashi When They Cry - Cat Killing Chapter

Higurashi When They Cry - Cat Killing Chapter

ひぐらしのなく頃に外伝猫殺し編

This standalone special, released as a bonus for buyers of the first Higurashi anime's DVD boxes, drops Keiichi, Mion, Rena, Satoko and Rika into a lighter detour through Hinamizawa. After losing a bet, the group parades around town in costume, then wanders out to Yagouchi, an abandoned village nearby, where the legend of a haunted quarry gives Keiichi and Rena something to argue over. It is a side story, not an entry point to the series.

Kyo Kara Maoh! R

Kyo Kara Maoh! R

今日からマ王!R

Demon King Yuuri Shibuya travels to check on the kingdom of Shin Makoku after the main story's events, and finds himself drawn into the affairs of Small Shimaron's young ruler, Saralegui. Sara's warm welcome hides a deeper agenda, and Yuuri's fiancé Wolfram von Bielefeld and Wolfram's brother Conrad Weller grow wary of the young king. This five-episode OVA bridges the original TV series and Kyo Kara Maoh!'s third season.

Strike Witches OVA

Strike Witches OVA

ストライクウィッチーズOVA

Yoshika Miyafuji joins the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, the Strike Witches, after young women called witches prove to be humanity's only defense against the alien Neuroi invading Europe in 1939. Squadron leader Mio Sakamoto puts the new recruit through her paces alongside Perrine Clostermann, Lynette Bishop, and Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke as the Witches fly Striker Unit devices that channel their magic into aerial combat. This eight-minute OVA was the earliest animated version of the story, made as a promotional prototype ahead of the TV series.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness

ポケモン不思議のダンジョン時の探検隊・闇の探検隊

A Piplup wakes up confused, with fragmented memories of once being human and no idea how he ended up a Pokémon instead. A Chimchar finds him and, hoping to make a name for himself, convinces Piplup to team up and form an official exploration team under Wigglytuff's Guild. Their first assignment sends them into Labyrinth Cave to retrieve a stolen Gabite Scale, a small job that pulls the newly formed Team Poképals into the guild's stranger business.

Saiunkoku Monogatari: Saiunkoku Emaki

Saiunkoku Monogatari: Saiunkoku Emaki

彩雲国物語彩雲国絵巻

Shurei Hong is a noblewoman with an empty purse and an ambition the law blocks: a post in the civil service of Saiunkoku, which does not appoint women. A salary offered to tutor Ryuki Shi, a young emperor who will not govern, is what gets her through the palace gates, with her adoptive brother Seiran standing at the emperor's shoulder as bodyguard. These nine recap episodes condense the first television season and aired in the gap before the second, so they summarize The Story of Saiunkoku rather than continue it.

IDOLM@STER Xenoglossia

IDOLM@STER Xenoglossia

アイドルマスター XENOGLOSSIA

Haruka Amami shows up for what she believes is an idol audition and instead finds herself recruited into the Mondenkind Agency, a secret school that trains teenage girls to pilot war machines called iDOLs. A century after a cataclysm destroyed the Moon, these mecha exist to intercept falling lunar debris threatening Earth, and Haruka is assigned to pilot Imber, quickly forming an unexpected bond with the machine. This TV series reimagines the iDOLM@STER cast as mecha pilots rather than performers.

D.C.II: Da Capo II

D.C.II: Da Capo II

D.C.II ～ダ・カーポII～

On Hatsunejima the cherry trees bloom all year round, and Yoshiyuki Sakurai lives next door to Otome and Yume Asakura, granddaughters of Junichi and Nemu from the original Da Capo. Fifty-three years have passed since that story, so the island's wish-granting sakura and the legends attached to them now belong to an entirely new set of students. This thirteen-episode season adapts the visual novel sequel, and none of the earlier anime's cast carries over.

.hack//G.U. Returner

.hack//G.U. Returner

.hack//G.U. Returner

Haseo and the other players from .hack//Roots and the .hack//G.U. games receive an email from Ovan calling them to a Hidden Forbidden Festival, a summer matsuri staged inside the online game The World. There they meet an AIDA called Chim Chim, which asks to live alongside players rather than attack them and then reshapes itself into the word Returner, which the group reads as a sign that Ovan will come back. This one-episode OVA is a short side piece, not part of the main .hack//G.U. arc.

Bakuretsu Tenshi: Infinity Special

Bakuretsu Tenshi: Infinity Special

爆裂天使 -Infinity-

Jo, the silent gunfighter of Bakuretsu Tenshi, headlines the Infinity OVA, and these home video shorts recap it before closing on a music video cut from its own footage. Infinity narrows the franchise down to Jo and her partner Meg, away from the rest of Sei's Tokyo outfit and its mecha-scale contracts. Nothing new is dramatized here: the pieces are a summary reel plus an AMV, made for viewers who already own the OVA.

Moving Picture Book: Miyoko's Story

Moving Picture Book: Miyoko's Story

うごくえほん〜美夜子さんの物語〜

Miyoko Mangetsu is the daughter of the magic scholar who shelters Nobita and Doraemon from a demon in the world of real, hard-learned magic that one of Doraemon's gadgets wishes into being. This animated picture book turns to her side of that story. It was made for the special-edition home release of Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure into the Underworld, not for cinemas, and runs as a single illustrated short rather than an episode.

Black Jack: Karte NG Extras

Black Jack: Karte NG Extras

ブラックジャック Karte NG集

Black Jack, the unlicensed genius surgeon, and his assistant Pinoko play their roles as if the 2004 TV series were a live-action drama shoot, and this eight-minute extra collects the takes that went wrong. Starting from Karte 11, the broadcast episodes carried a Karte: NG corner presenting the flubbed lines and on-set mishaps staged as happening during filming, and this special gathers blooper takes that never aired. It was released on DVD alongside the final volume of the series rather than broadcast, as a comic supplement to the main episodes.

Saiyuki Reload: Burial

Saiyuki Reload: Burial

最遊記RELOAD -burial-

Long before Genjo Sanzo set out west, each of his future companions had a past of his own, and this three-episode OVA adapts the manga's Burial arc to tell them. The first episode returns to the young Sanzo's days under his master, Koumyou Sanzo. The second follows Sanzo up Mount Gogyo, where he finds a child sealed away for 500 years, the boy who becomes Son Goku. The third turns to Sha Gojyo and Cho Hakkai, two outsiders who end up sharing a house after Hakkai's trial for his crimes. Together they show how the Sanzo party came to exist.

Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users

Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users

映画ドラえもんのび太の新魔界大冒険〜7人の魔法使い〜

Frustrated with school and home, Nobita Nobi wishes magic were real, and one of Doraemon's gadgets grants it, replacing science with sorcery across the world. Struggling as always with spellcasting, Nobita meets Professor Mangetsu and his daughter Miyoko, who warn that a black hole once thought destroyed is bearing down on Earth. The group has to face the Underworld's tyrant king to stop it, and when the fix unravels, they're pulled into a parallel version of events to save Miyoko a second time. This film remakes the 1984 Doraemon movie of the same story.

Toward the Terra Specials

Toward the Terra Specials

地球へ…

Jomy Marcus Shin grows up on Ataraxia under Superior Domination, the computer-run order that arranges every birth and erases a child's memories at fourteen, and finds out he carries the Mu mutation that same system exterminates. Soldier Blue hands him the Mu and the road to Terra, with the system's model officer Keith Anyan set against him. These three pieces sit beside the 2007 television series: a pilot film numbered Episode 00, a short called TYPE BLUE -the ORIGIN-, and an epilogue, all made for the disc release rather than for broadcast.

Blame! Prologue

Blame! Prologue

BLAME! Prologue

Killy wanders alone through an endless, ever-expanding megastructure known as the City, where the levels stack so high that sky and ground have become impossible to tell apart. Machines and living things have long since blurred together here, leaving Killy to move through the ruins mostly in silence, searching for something that might let him find a way out. This two-part prologue distills Tsutomu Nihei's dense, near-wordless manga into its barest visual essentials before the story proper begins.

Burst Angel: Infinity

Burst Angel: Infinity

爆裂天使 INFINITY

Jo and Meg return to Westland, New York, to celebrate the birthday of Shirley, a girl they once looked after, and find her attacked and badly hurt by a serial killer working the city's streets. Hunting the culprit alongside their old ally Sam pulls the two mercenaries into a conspiracy bigger than one murderer. This OVA sits between episode 14 of the TV series and the story's ending, filling in one of Bakuretsu Tenshi's unresolved threads; the manga prequel Angel's Adolescence covers Jo and Meg's earlier history.

Baccano!

Baccano!

バッカーノ!

Firo Prochainezo is about to become the youngest member of the Martillo Camorra family in 1930 New York when an immortality elixir, lost since a 1711 alchemists' summoning aboard a ship, resurfaces and tangles his fate with a dozen others. Eccentric thieves Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent hop the transcontinental train Flying Pussyfoot, where a Lemures cult hijacking collides with a bloodbath. Events across 1711, 1930, and 1931 interlock as the elixir passes through every hand.

Claymore

Claymore

Claymore

Clare, ranked No. 47 among the half-human, half-Yoma warriors known as Claymores, hunts shape-shifting demons across a medieval island on behalf of a shadowy group called the Organization. Quieter and weaker than her peers, she carries a private motive: vengeance against an Awakened Being named Priscilla, the creature that killed her mentor, the legendary No. 1 warrior Teresa. Accompanied by Raki, a boy orphaned by a Yoma attack, Clare cuts her way through increasingly dangerous assignments while the Organization's true intentions stay hidden.

The Familiar of Zero: Knight of the Twin Moons

The Familiar of Zero: Knight of the Twin Moons

ゼロの使い魔～双月の騎士～

Louise and her familiar Saito return as heroes in Tristain after defeating Albion's forces, but an uneasy truce with the conquered kingdom opens room for new threats. Queen Henrietta must navigate court politics while a hidden adversary plots against the crown. Louise's newly awakened Void magic gives her enough power to level a village, though controlling it is another matter. This second season continues directly from the first.

Higurashi When They Cry Kai

Higurashi When They Cry Kai

ひぐらしのなく頃に解

Rika Furude, the shrine maiden of Hinamizawa, has been living through the same few weeks over and over, each time watching her friends descend into paranoia and violence, each time dying before she can stop it. In this second season Rika's awareness of the time loops moves to the foreground. With her companion Hanyu, she searches for the root cause of the village's recurring tragedies through the answer arcs that resolve the mysteries the first season posed.

Genesis of Aquarion (OVA)

Genesis of Aquarion (OVA)

創星のアクエリオン OVA

Apollo seems like an ordinary human until his memories start surfacing as those of Apollonius, a fallen angel who once loved a human woman and turned against his own kind. Alongside his comrades, he fights the Shadow Angels, ancient beings who have returned after twelve thousand years to harvest humanity for its life energy, in a story rooted in that old betrayal and its fallout. Told across two feature-length episodes, this OVA reworks the events of the Genesis of Aquarion TV series rather than repeating them.

Yes! Pretty Cure 5

Yes! Pretty Cure 5

Yes!プリキュア5

Nozomi Yumehara, an ordinary middle schooler unsure what she wants from life, finds a talking book that leads her to Coco, a visitor from the Palmier Kingdom whose homeland has been destroyed by the villainous organization Nightmare. She recruits four classmates to become Pretty Cures alongside her: Urara Kasugano, Rin Natsuki, Komachi Akimoto, and Karen Minazuki. Together they search for the 55 scattered Pinkies that can grant a wish and restore the kingdom, and Coco's determination pushes Nozomi toward a goal of her own: becoming a teacher.

Kaze no Stigma

Kaze no Stigma

風のスティグマ

Kazuma Yagami, once banished from the fire-wielding Kannagi clan for lacking their elemental talent, returns to Japan four years later as a Contractor, a master of wind magic and the most powerful Fujutsu user alive. His cousin Ayano Kannagi, the clan's hotheaded heir and wielder of the sacred sword Enraiha, is forced to work alongside him when a string of attacks targets the Kannagi household. Together with Kazuma's younger brother Ren, they track threats that blur the line between family grudge and outside conspiracy.

Nodame Cantabile

Nodame Cantabile

のだめカンタービレ

Shin'ichi Chiaki, a perfectionist pianist and violinist at Momogaoka College of Music, dreams of conducting but cannot study in Europe because he cannot bring himself to fly. His ordered world collides with Megumi Noda, nicknamed Nodame, the free-spirited and spectacularly messy pianist next door who plays entirely by ear. Nodame latches onto Chiaki as her self-declared boyfriend, and her untrained talent forces him to reconsider what musicianship can look like.

Shakugan no Shana: Season II

Shakugan no Shana: Season II

灼眼のシャナII

Yuji Sakai, the Mystes carrying the Treasure Tool Midnight Lost Child, and the Flame Haze Shana keep fighting Crimson Denizens in Misaki City. A new transfer student named Fumina Konoe arrives bearing an uncanny resemblance to Hecate of Bal Masqué and quickly attaches herself to Yuji, sharpening the rivalry between Shana and Kazumi Yoshida for his attention. Meanwhile, Bal Masqué sets a new plan in motion that targets Yuji directly. This second season continues from the events of the first.

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

精霊の守り人

Balsa, a wandering spear-wielder who hires out as a bodyguard, saves the young Prince Chagum from drowning and is asked by the Second Queen to protect him. The Mikado, Chagum's own father, has ordered the boy killed, convinced he is possessed by a water spirit. Balsa takes the job as the eighth and final life she has vowed to save, and the two flee across the New Yogo Empire with assassins on their trail.

Minami-ke

Minami-ke

みなみけ

The three Minami sisters share a household and an ordinary routine of school, friends, and home. Haruka, the eldest, keeps the place running; middle sister Kana is loud and gullible enough to fall for any scheme; and the youngest, Chiaki, is a sharp-tongued grade-schooler who treats Kana's antics with open contempt. Each episode follows their daily back-and-forth and the friends who drift through the apartment, with no overarching plot beyond the comedy of how the three of them deal with one another.

Zombie-Loan

Zombie-Loan

ゾンビローン

Michiru Kita has the Shinigami Eyes, which let her see a ring around the neck of anyone close to death, darkening as the end nears. She notices that two classmates, Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana, wear pitch-black rings yet are still alive: the pair survived a fatal accident by borrowing time from Zombie-Loan, and now hunt zombies to repay the debt. Once they learn what Michiru can see, they recruit her to help track down the dead who refuse to stay dead.

Nagasarete Airantou

Nagasarete Airantou

ながされて藍蘭島

After a fight with his father, fourteen-year-old Ikuto Touhouin storms off to sea and is swept overboard by a sudden storm, washing up on the uncharted island of Airantou. He is found and revived by Suzu, a kind but scatterbrained island girl who takes him in. Ikuto soon learns Airantou lost nearly all its men years ago, leaving its young women starved for a husband, and his arrival sets off a frantic competition for him that Suzu keeps having to fend off.

Tokyo Majin

Tokyo Majin

東京魔人學園剣風帖龖

Quiet transfer student Tatsuma Hiyuu arrives at Magami Academy in Shinjuku, where his martial skill quickly earns the friendship of the delinquent Kyoichi Horaiji. A sudden disturbance in the Ryumyaku, the city's underlying flow of arcane energy, awakens latent powers in Hiyuu, Horaiji, and three classmates. Together they face Kozunu Tendo, who has stirred a long-buried evil that now threatens Tokyo.

KimiKiss: Pure Rouge

KimiKiss: Pure Rouge

キミキス pure rouge

Kouichi Sanada's quiet high-school routine shifts when his childhood friend Mao Mizusawa returns from years in France and moves into his home while her parents stay abroad. Alongside his friend Kazuki Aihara, Kouichi navigates first crushes and the awkward distances between classmates as several overlapping romances take shape across their school year. The cast trades confessions, missed signals, and slow-building feelings in a grounded campus setting.

Bamboo Blade

Bamboo Blade

バンブーブレード

Toraji Ishida is a broke kendo instructor whose nearly empty high-school club offers little hope, until a former senpai bets him a year of free sushi that his own girls' team can win a match. Scrambling for talent, Toraji meets Tamaki Kawazoe, a small but ferociously skilled kendoka raised at her father's dojo. As he coaxes Tamaki and a handful of other recruits into the club, the mismatched team slowly takes shape around practice, rivalries, and Toraji's stomach.

Genshiken 2

Genshiken 2

げんしけん2

The university otaku club Genshiken returns for a second season with Sasahara stepping up as the new club president and the prickly artist Ogiue still struggling to settle in among the members. With a slot of their own secured at the upcoming ComiFes, the club shifts from wandering the convention as buyers to producing and selling its first doujinshi, pooling everyone's talents under deadline. This season directly continues the original Genshiken anime.

Dragonaut: The Resonance

Dragonaut: The Resonance

ドラゴノーツ -ザ・レゾナンス-

Jin Kamishina, the only survivor of a shuttle accident that killed his family, is pulled into a hidden war after he witnesses a creature attack and is saved by a girl named Toa, who turns out to be a dragon. The asteroid Thanatos looms over Earth, and the ISDA trains pilots to bond with dragons against the threat it carries. Jin joins their ranks as he learns what Toa is and what hunts the planet from orbit.

Major Season 3

Major Season 3

メジャー第3シリーズ

Goro Shigeno enrolls at Seishu High School, a former girls' school with no baseball program, and sets out to build a team from nothing and aim it at the powerhouse Kaido High. With almost no players willing to join and support from a girl named Shimizu, Goro pushes the ragtag club toward the summer tournament. This third Major season continues Goro's lifelong drive to become the world's best pitcher.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood

ジョジョの奇妙な冒険ファントムブラッド

Jonathan Joestar, heir to a wealthy English estate in the late 19th century, sees his quiet life upended when his father adopts an ambitious orphan named Dio Brando. Dio sets out to take everything Jonathan has, and his scheming leads him to a mysterious Stone Mask that turns its wearer into a vampire. This theatrical film condenses the original Phantom Blood arc and never received a home-video or streaming release.

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion - Picture Drama

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion - Picture Drama

コードギアス反逆のルルーシュピクチャードラマ

Bundled as bonus specials with the Code Geass DVDs, these comedic shorts pull Lelouch Lamperouge and Suzaku Kururugi out of the war for a while to revisit how the two first met as children. Other vignettes follow the Ashford Academy students in unguarded, silly situations, including a gender-reversed school festival and a trip to the pool. None of it touches the main story's plot; this is downtime with the cast between battles.

Petit Eva: Evangelion@School

Petit Eva: Evangelion@School

ぷちえゔぁ〜EVANGELION@SCHOOL〜

Neon Genesis Evangelion's cast gets the super-deformed treatment at Nerv School, where Principal Gendo Ikari runs the halls and teacher Misato Katsuragi keeps order over students including three different Rei clones. The battle robot EVA-01 turns up reimagined as Evancho, the school bully, while the Jet Alone unit becomes JA-ko, a shy android classmate. Silent, gag-driven three-minute episodes in 3D CG play the cast for slapstick instead of psychological drama.

Gurren Lagann: My Gurren Is Shiny!!

Gurren Lagann: My Gurren Is Shiny!!

天元突破グレンラガン俺のグレンはピッカピカ!!

Bundled with a Nintendo DS game based on the series, this Gurren Lagann side story has Kamina envious of how spotless Simon keeps his mech Lagann. He asks the mysterious Chitori to give his own mech, Gurren, the same treatment, without realizing what she is actually after. The short plays as pure slapstick and stands apart from the TV series' main plot.

Rurouni Kenshin: DVD-BOX Special Ending

Rurouni Kenshin: DVD-BOX Special Ending

るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚- DVD-BOX スペシャルエンディング

In this brief closing short bundled with a 2007 Rurouni Kenshin DVD box set, Kenshin Himura and Kaoru Kamiya are shown living together with their family in the years after the story's end. Told mostly through narration and still images rather than new animation, it follows the manga's ending more closely than the original TV series did, giving Yahiko and the rest of the household a quiet, settled coda. It runs under three minutes and adds no new plot, only closure.

Higurashi When They Cry Kai Specials

Higurashi When They Cry Kai Specials

ひぐらしのなく頃に解特別編

Squeezed onto DVD releases of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai, these two dozen shorts run barely a minute apiece and exist purely to poke fun at the main series. Rika Furude, Rena Ryuuguu, Mion Sonozaki, Keiichi Maebara, and Satoko Houjou get dropped into remixed versions of familiar scenes, played for laughs instead of dread. There is no ongoing plot; each clip is its own quick gag, built on jokes that only land for viewers who already know the games club and its routines.

Detective Conan: A Challenge from Agasa! Agasa vs. Conan and the Detective Boys

Detective Conan: A Challenge from Agasa! Agasa vs. Conan and the Detective Boys

名探偵コナン阿笠からの挑戦状! 阿笠vsコナン&少年探偵団

Professor Agasa sets the Detective Boys a challenge: a staged kidnapping, complete with a note and a trail of riddles hidden around his gadget-filled house and the city beyond. Conan Edogawa, Ai Haibara, Ayumi Yoshida, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, and Genta Kojima split up to work through the clues, treating the whole thing as the professor's game. Then the game stops being a game, and the puzzles Agasa left behind become the only way to find him before he gets hurt.

Air Gear: Special Trick

Air Gear: Special Trick

エア・ギア

Fresh off accepting Simca's offer to lead the underground team Genesis, Ikki Minami finds himself marked as the next target of Team Potemkine's eight-member squad, who challenge Kogarasumaru to a race across a course of hurdles balanced on drifting boats. Ikki and teammate Kazuma Mikura take up the dare, betting Genesis's reputation on a track built to capsize anyone who hesitates. Slotting in as a bridge between episodes 21 and 22 of the TV series, this special exists purely for one more Air Trek showdown.

Macross F: Close Encounter - Deculture Edition

Macross F: Close Encounter - Deculture Edition

マクロスＦ　第1話「クロース・エンカウンター」Deculture edition

Alto Saotome, a flight-school student aboard the colony fleet Macross Frontier, is rehearsing an aerial performance for galactic idol Sheryl Nome's concert when a clumsy high schooler named Ranka Lee stumbles into his path. The concert becomes the moment an unidentified alien force attacks the fleet, and both teenagers are caught in the fighting. This expanded cut of the first episode runs longer than the TV broadcast version and reworks some of its footage, so it is supplementary viewing rather than a standalone entry point into the series.

Rumbling Hearts OVA

Rumbling Hearts OVA

君が望む永遠 OVA

Haruka Suzumiya wakes from a three-year coma and moves back in with her parents, picking up her relationship with Takayuki Narumi as if no time had passed. But she can't shake the need to see her old friend Mitsuki Hayase, the woman Takayuki dated while Haruka lay unconscious. This OVA continues the love triangle from Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, following Haruka as she builds an independent life around picture-book writing and university while she and Takayuki test whether their reunion can hold.

Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Yuria

Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Yuria

北斗の拳ユリア伝

Yuria takes the lead here in place of Kenshiro, with her side of the story running from her childhood alongside her brother Ryuga through the day she and Kenshiro first met. Her dog Tobi, her meeting with Rei, and her appointment as General of Nanto fill in years the main series only glimpsed, and the story carries up to the confrontation between Kenshiro and Thouzer. At roughly an hour, this OVA is the second of the five installments in the Shin Kyuuseishu Densetsu series.

Fist of the North Star: Raoh Side Story Fierce Fighting Arc

Fist of the North Star: Raoh Side Story Fierce Fighting Arc

北斗の拳ラオウ外伝激闘編

Gekitou-hen brings the Raoh Gaiden pentalogy to its climax with a retelling of Kenshiro's final battle against his brother Raoh, restaging the clash from the original manga, both men fighting with the same Hokuto Shinken techniques they were raised on, with new scenes and a handful of trimmed details. Coming after Junai-hen and Yuria-den, this is the third of five films tracing Raoh's rise and fall, and it settles the ideological split the earlier entries spent their running time building between the two brothers.

Aria the OVA: Arietta

Aria the OVA: Arietta

ARIA The OVA ~ARIETTA~

Akari Mizunashi has begun to doubt whether she can run the Aria Company on her own once she becomes a full Prima Undine, so she seeks out her mentor Alicia Florence for advice. Alicia shares her own early struggles training as an Undine in Neo-Venezia, the Venice-styled city on the water-world Aqua, helping Akari find the confidence she is missing. This OVA sits between the Aria the Natural and Aria the Origination TV seasons.

Strawberry Marshmallow OVA

Strawberry Marshmallow OVA

苺ましまろ OVA

Miu Matsuoka, Matsuri Sakuragi, and Ana Coppola keep hanging around the Itou household, where college-age Nobue looks after her much younger sister Chika between odd jobs and bad habits like sneaking cigarettes. These three episodes pick up right after the original Strawberry Marshmallow TV series, following the same small cast through more everyday hangouts: beach trips, festivals, and homework, with no push toward any larger plot.

Hidamari Sketch Specials

Hidamari Sketch Specials

ひだまりスケッチ特別編

Yuno, Miyako, Hiro, and Sae are back at the Hidamari Apartments for two extra episodes that aired right after Hidamari Sketch's first season. In the first, a summer pool outing turns into a day of splashing around and casual mishaps; in the second, Hiro finds an anonymous love letter tucked in her school locker and the other residents turn amateur detective to figure out who sent it. This manga-based special keeps the same cast and slice-of-life rhythm as the TV series between full seasons.

Candy Boy Episode 0

Candy Boy Episode 0

Candy☆Boy: Side Story For Archive

Twin sisters Yukino and Kanade Sakurai share a dorm room and an unusually close relationship at their boarding school, holding hands and going on dates like a couple. When Kanade notices Yukino spending time with an underclassman, Sakuya Kamiyama, she assumes the two are dating and starts pulling away, without knowing that Sakuya has been asking Yukino for advice on how to get closer to Kanade herself. This ten-minute ONA is the original entry in the Candy☆Boy series.

Appleseed: Ex Machina

Appleseed: Ex Machina

アップルシードエクスマキナ

Elite operatives Deunan Knute and her cyborg partner Briareos Hecatonchires are settled into their work defending the utopian city of Olympus when an experimental bioroid named Tereus, built from Briareos's own genetic template, joins their unit. Tereus's uncanny resemblance to Briareos's human self unsettles Deunan, and at the same time a wave of terrorist attacks carried out entirely by cyborgs points to something manipulating the attackers from the shadows. This film is a direct sequel to the original Appleseed movie.

.hack//G.U. Trilogy

.hack//G.U. Trilogy

.hack//G.U. Trilogy

Haseo, a fierce hunter of player killers in the online game The World R:2, is tracking Tri-Edge, a mysterious player whose attacks leave real people comatose, including his friend Shino. A crushing defeat unlocks the AI-born power of Skeith inside him, giving Haseo the ability to Data Drain his enemies, while the quiet Atoli stays close through the search. This CG film compresses the three .hack//G.U. video games into a single feature.

Inukami! The Movie

Inukami! The Movie

いぬかみっ！ THE MOVIE 特命霊的捜査官・仮名史郎っ！

Detective Karina Shirou turns up dead the morning after being publicly branded a pervert at a party in Keita Kawahira's apartment, and a demonic artifact goes missing from the scene the same night. A shadowy organization calling itself Project K begins rounding up anyone it deems a pervert under a new city ordinance, and Keita and Youko are pulled into the case that ties the three threads together. This 26-minute film is a standalone side story set within the Inukami! TV series' continuity rather than a continuation of its main plot.

Sumomomo Momomo: The World's Strongest Bride Specials

Sumomomo Momomo: The World's Strongest Bride Specials

すもももももも～地上最強のヨメ～

Koushi Inuzuka, a high schooler set on becoming a prosecutor, is bound to Momoko Kuzuryuu by an infant betrothal pact between their martial-arts clans. These two DVD specials continue the TV series past its finale, sending Momoko's self-declared title of 'the World's Strongest Bride' up against a fresh wave of challengers from rival fighting families, while Koushi's old fear of combat keeps complicating her attempts to protect him.

Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy Specials

Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy Specials

ああっ女神さまっそれぞれの翼

A diary left behind by his grandfather sends Keiichi Morisato and his goddess housemates on a treasure hunt to the Honda Inn, where the group crosses paths with Chieko Honda, a woman who shares an unexplained connection to Keiichi. Between clues to the map and mounting confusion among Belldandy, Urd, Skuld, and Peorth, the search keeps circling back to what Keiichi has never managed to say to Belldandy. These two specials extend the story of Ah! My Goddess season 2.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS

魔法少女リリカルなのはStrikerS

A decade after the Book of Darkness incident, mages Nanoha Takamachi, Fate Testarossa, and Hayate Yagami now serve the Time-Space Administration Bureau as full agents on the planet Midchilda. Hayate forms a new unit, Riot Force 6, bringing in cadets Subaru Nakajima, Teana Lanster, Caro Ru Lushe, and Erio Mondial to help track down dangerous relics called Lost Logia. This third TV season follows the recruits' training alongside the returning trio as the unit takes on its first real threats.

Otoboku: Maidens are Falling for Me! Special

Otoboku: Maidens are Falling for Me! Special

乙女はボクに恋してるスペシャル

Takako plays a tsundere spin on Cinderella, dubbed 'Tsunderella,' in this DVD special that drops the Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru cast into chibi-style parodies of Cinderella and Snow White. Familiar faces from the TV series take on fairy-tale roles across two short comic skits built entirely around the original show's character dynamics and running jokes. It is a spin-off bonus rather than a continuation of the story.

Emma: A Victorian Romance - Intermission

Emma: A Victorian Romance - Intermission

英國戀物語エマインターミッション

Hakim talks over William Jones and Emma's romance with the people around him, drawing comparisons to Romeo and Juliet as he goes. That framing device recaps the first season's story and sets up the second, subtitled Molders-hen. Bundled with the special edition of volume 8 of the Emma manga in Japan instead of being broadcast, it works as a bridge between the two halves of the story.

Emma: A Victorian Romance Season 2

Emma: A Victorian Romance Season 2

英國戀物語エマ～メルダース編～

Emma leaves London to work as a maid for the wealthy Molders family in the village of Haworth, determined to put her past with William Jones behind her among a household of servants who carry their own hidden histories. Back in London, William struggles to meet his father's expectations as heir to the Jones fortune while he still can't forget Emma, and Eleanor Campbell quietly steps in whenever his composure slips. This second season picks up directly from where the first left off.

The Prince of Tennis: The National Tournament Semifinals

The Prince of Tennis: The National Tournament Semifinals

テニスの王子様全国大会篇 Semifinal

Ryoma Echizen and the rest of Seishun Academy advance to the semifinals of the Junior High National Tournament, where they run into Shitenhouji Middle School, last year's finalist out of the Kansai region. Shitenhouji fields a roster of standout players, including Kintarou Tooyama, a rookie whose raw talent rivals Ryoma's own. This OVA is the second installment of the National Tournament series, continuing directly from the previous Prince of Tennis OVA.

Ah! My Goddess: Fighting Wings

Ah! My Goddess: Fighting Wings

ああっ女神さまっ闘う翼

Belldandy falls into a sudden, unexplained shock, and Keiichi Morisato learns the cause is a rogue Angel Eater loose in Heaven, a threat that strikes goddesses through the spiritual bond they share with their angels. The Valkyrie Lind is sent to guard Belldandy on Earth, but her arrival turns out to be part of a larger trap, one set against Lind herself. This two-episode special continues the Ah! My Goddess story with the arc that brings Lind into Keiichi's household.

A Child's Time

A Child's Time

こどものじかん

Twenty-three-year-old Daisuke Aoki begins his first job teaching Class 3-1 at Futatsubashi Elementary School, where nine-year-old Rin Kokonoe declares herself his girlfriend and pursues him with provocative persistence. Aoki brushes off her advances as a child's game until they grow bold enough to unsettle him, and he starts to suspect that Rin's behavior traces back to a troubled home life with her late mother and her guardian cousin Reiji. His classroom becomes a daily test of how to handle a student he cannot reach in any ordinary way.

Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny Specials

Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny Specials

一騎当千 Dragon Destiny

Six three-minute shorts bundled with the Dragon Destiny season's DVD releases give fighters like Kan'u Unchou, Ryomou Shimei, and Hakufu Sonsaku bonus screen time outside the main story's tournament plot. They were produced as lighter, fan-service-driven bonus content rather than a continuation of the season's central conflict between the rival Nanyo Academy and Kyosho Academy schools.

Kodomo no Jikan OVA

Kodomo no Jikan OVA

こどものじかん OVA

Packaged alongside limited-edition volumes of the original Kodomo no Jikan manga, this three-episode OVA follows Rin Kokonoe, Kuro Kagami, and Mimi Usa through standalone stories: shopping for a gift for their teacher Daisuke Aoki, Kuro's attempt to befriend the teacher Reiko Shirai, and a summer trip to the countryside. Each episode adapts a different chapter from the original manga.

Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan 2

Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan 2

撲殺天使ドクロちゃん2

This second OVA set returns to middle-schooler Sakura Kusakabe, still living with Dokuro, the angel sent back from the future to stop him from inventing a technology that freezes women's aging and leaves them immortal. Whenever his behavior worries her, Dokuro caves his skull in with her spiked club Excalibolg, then revives him good as new. The new episodes move more angels into the household, including Dokuro's younger sister Zakuro, keeping the routine of casual gore, slapstick, and reset firmly in place.

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Tachikomatic Days

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Tachikomatic Days

攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX タチコマな日々

Attached to the end of each Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode, these comedic shorts follow the Tachikoma, the chatty, childlike think-tank robots of Public Security Section 9, as they riff on whatever case just wrapped up in the main story. The shorts are framed as an in-universe variety segment, with the Tachikoma bantering about strategy, philosophy, and their own AI quirks alongside occasional guest characters from the main cast. This is a bonus companion piece, not a standalone story.

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society: Uchikomatic Days

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society: Uchikomatic Days

攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX Solid State Society - ウチコマな日々

A short bonus feature packaged with the Solid State Society release, this special tells the origin of the Uchikoma, the newer, "ugly duckling" think-tank units built as replacements for the original Tachikoma. The plot follows the Uchikoma group AI Tough Guy as they prepare a music performance for a New Year's Eve party at an academic research facility, using footage and character cameos pulled from Solid State Society. At around five minutes, it's a comedic companion piece rather than a continuation of the main story.

The Garden of Sinners Chapter 2: A Study in Murder - Part 1

The Garden of Sinners Chapter 2: A Study in Murder - Part 1

劇場版空の境界第二章『殺人考察（前）』

In the autumn of 1995, high schooler Mikiya Kokuto notices a kimono-clad classmate named Shiki Ryogi standing alone in the rain and gradually befriends her, even as a serial killer begins leaving mutilated bodies around Mifune City. Shiki carries a second personality, a male alter named SHIKI, and her own moods grow stranger as the murders multiply. This chronologically first chapter of the Kara no Kyokai film series is the prequel-set opening of the seven-part theatrical run.

sola

sola

sola

These two DVD-exclusive specials fill gaps around the main sola TV series: one is a bonus episode set between episodes four and five, and the other is a prologue covering the day before Yorito Morimiya first meets Matsuri Shihou, the sunlight-intolerant Yaka living in isolation across the street. Together they round out the daily routines of Yorito, his older sister Aono, and Matsuri without moving the story past where the TV series already leaves it.

The Story of Saiunkoku: Second Series

The Story of Saiunkoku: Second Series

彩雲国物語第2シリーズ

Newly appointed co-governor of the Sa Province, Shuurei Kou shares the post with Eigetsu To, a scholarly prodigy from a humble background, under orders to turn the region into a center for academic research. As Saiunkoku's first female official, Shuurei already has to fight for authority in the role, and an outbreak of disease across the province makes that fight urgent. Emperor Ryuuki Shi, Seiran Shi, and Kouyuu Li stay close as this second season follows her rise through the court.

Detective Conan: Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure

Detective Conan: Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure

名探偵コナン紺碧の棺（ジョリー・ロジャー）

On vacation at Koumi Island, Conan Edogawa and Ran Mouri get swept into the local legend of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, two female pirates said to have buried treasure beneath the island's coral reefs centuries ago. A diver's death soon turns out to be murder, and rival treasure hunters converge on the island while Kogoro Mouri works the case with the police. The Detective Boys search for clues on land as Conan dives into the wreck-strewn waters below, looking for the real prize the killer is after.

5 Centimeters per Second

5 Centimeters per Second

秒速5センチメートル

Takaki Tono and Akari Shinohara become close friends after she transfers to his Tokyo elementary school, but her family's move to Tochigi pulls them apart. Three episodes span childhood to adulthood: a winter train journey Takaki makes to reach her, his isolated high school years on Tanegashima, and his adult life back in Tokyo, where the memory of Akari still lingers.

School Days

School Days

School Days

Makoto Itou, a student at Sakakino Academy, rides the same train as Kotonoha Katsura every morning and secretly sets her photo as his phone wallpaper, following an urban legend that the charm will bring his crush closer. His classmate Sekai Saionji spots the photo and volunteers to play matchmaker, but her own feelings for Makoto surface after she steals a kiss at the train station. The love triangle between the three classmates escalates sharply from there.

Lovely★Complex

Lovely★Complex

ラブ★コン

Risa Koizumi towers over her classmates at 172 cm while Atsushi Otani barely reaches 156, and their constant bickering has earned them the label of the class comedy duo. After their respective crushes, the tall Ryoji Suzuki and the petite Chiharu Tanaka, end up dating each other, Risa and Otani grow closer through shared heartbreak and a mutual love of the rapper Umibozu. What starts as friendship turns complicated when Risa realizes her feelings for Otani run deeper than she expected.