Anime: 40 Highly Recommended Titles That You Should Watch
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- StarsEddie AllenMichael BertoliniAmy Howard WilsonIn the year 2199, a starship must make a dangerous voyage to the distant planet Iscandar and back to save Earth from an alien invasion.A Classic "Space Opera" series. A desperate mission to save Earth from annihilation. Alien forces trying to destroy mankind. Battles. Heroes. Villains. This series has it all.
- CreatorShin'ichirô WatanabeStarsKôichi YamaderaUnshô IshizukaMegumi HayashibaraThe futuristic misadventures and tragedies of an easygoing bounty hunter and his partners.Sci-Fi punk meets crime meets cool Jazz. And Cowboy Bebop weaves it altogether into the perfect story. Jaded characters with a colorful and dangerous past; trying to scratch out a living as bounty hunters.
- DirectorShin'ichirô WatanabeMary Elizabeth McGlynnTensai OkamuraStarsBeau BillingsleaMelissa FahnNicholas GuestA terrorist explosion releases a deadly virus on the masses, and it's up to the bounty-hunting Bebop crew to catch the cold-blooded culprit.The movie timeline takes place during the time of the TV series. Very well done too.
- CreatorYasuhiro NightowStarsMasaya OnosakaHiromi TsuruSatsuki YukinoVash the Stampede is the most infamous outlaw on the planet Gunsmoke and with a 60 billion double dollar price on his head the most sought after.If you can get past all the contorted facial expressions (the characters make) that give Trigun it's comedic flavor, this is one of the best "Space Westerns" I've ever seen.
- DirectorSatoshi NishimuraStarsMasaya OnosakaHiromi TsuruSatsuki YukinoA gunfighter with a strict no-kill policy, Vash the Stampede arrives in a town full of bounty hunters competing to collect the reward for catching a robber he saved 20 years ago.A film made set sometime during the Trigun series. Very good artwork and a really good story.
- StarsHiroki TôchiTroy BakerRussell WaitIn a futuristic world of an unsteady truce between humans and vampires a superhuman priest battles to secure a peaceful co-existence.My 2nd favorite genre in anime: Gothic sci-fi horror mix. It's the distant future where super-powers square off against each other in a tout thriller that infuses political intrigue.
- DirectorShûsuke KanekoStarsTatsuya FujiwaraKen'ichi MatsuyamaAsaka SetoA battle between the world's two greatest minds begins when Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals.This series is really, REALLY good. What if you had the power to kill anyone in the world by simply seeing their face and writing their name down in Death's notebook? (Hence, the title, "Death Note"). What would you do with that power? Change the world for the better? Become a megalomaniac? Would you be willing to risk losing a place in Heaven? This series challenges you with all of these moral dilemmas.
- DirectorMizuho NishikuboMamoru OshiiStarsAtsuko TanakaIemasa KayumiAkio ÔtsukaA cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.My favorite genre in anime: Cyberpunk. "Ghost in the Shell" is a much better movie than "Akira" and it had all the feel of "Blade Runner". I highly recommend all three movies (including the remake of the original); as well as the 2 seasons of the TV series. I'm curious as to how DreamWorks is going to treat this great title when they turn GITS into a live action film.
- DirectorNaoko KusumiMizuho NishikuboMamoru OshiiStarsAkio ÔtsukaAtsuko TanakaTamio ÔkiIn the year 2032, Batô, a cyborg detective for the anti-terrorist unit Public Security Section 9, investigates the case of a female robot--one created solely for sexual pleasure--who slaughtered her owner.Better animation than the original. The story wasn't bad either.
- CreatorShirow MasamuneStarsShirô SaitôAtsuko TanakaOsamu SakaThe futuristic adventures of a female cyborg counter intelligence agent and her support team.
- DirectorKenji KamiyamaToshiyuki KônoMasaki TachibanaStarsAtsuko TanakaOsamu SakaAkio ÔtsukaA.D. 2034. It has been two years since Motoko Kusanagi left Section 9. Togusa is now the new leader of the team, that has considerably increased its appointed personnel. The expanded new Section 9 confronts a rash of complicated incidents, and investigations reveal that an ultra-wizard hacker nicknamed the "Puppet Master" is behind the entire series of events.The animation was not like GITS 2: Innocence". It was like the animation for the 2 TV series. The story was also rooted in the TV series as well. But worth watching nonetheless.
- DirectorKenji KamiyamaStarsAlison MatthewsRussell RobertsDavid KayeA new terrorist organization known as the Individual Eleven is bent on mass destruction. Will the cyborg detective heroine and her elite anti-crime unit be able to stop them?
- DirectorShinji AramakiStarsAi KobayashiJûrôta KosugiYuki MatsuokaIn a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?In the same vain as Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed has a really good cyberpunk story to tell.
- DirectorShinji AramakiStarsAi KobayashiKôichi YamaderaYûji KishiWith Brialeos convalescing after a mission, Deunan is assigned a new and remarkably familiar partner as a strange wave of terrorist attacks plague Olympus.
- DirectorFumihiko SoriStarsMeisa KurokiShôsuke TaniharaYasuko MatsuyukiJapan, 2077: A female agent named Vexille is dispatched to Tokyo to investigate whether Japanese are developing robotic technology, which has been banned by the U.N. due to its potential threat to humankind.The same people who made "Appleseed" also made this movie; and it's very good.
- DirectorMasahiro AndôStarsTomoya NagaseYuri ChinenKôichi YamaderaA swordsman from a strange land is caught in a struggle between morality, righteousness, and devotion as he reluctantly agrees to take a raggedy boy and his dog to a remote, Buddhist temple.
- DirectorYoshiaki KawajiriStarsKôichi YamaderaEmi ShinoharaTakeshi AonoA vagabond swordsman is aided by a kunoichi and a spy in battling a demonic clan of killers - led by a ghost from his past - who are bent on overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate.And this is my 3rd favorite anime genre: Medieval Feudal Japan. And this is the best anime movie in that genre.
- DirectorYoshiaki KawajiriTakuji EndoStarsAlistair AbellDebi Mae WestNolan NorthHighlander Colin MacLeod must choose between confronting the immortal who killed his lover centuries ago, or saving the survivors of a ravaged New York City.I was a big fan of The Highlander TV series. And when "Highlander: The Search for Vengeance" came out, I knew I had to see it. I'm glad I did. Good story and the same artists who made "Batman: Gotham Knight: Deadshot" made this movie as well.
- DirectorYasuhiro AokiFutoshi HigashideToshiyuki KubookaStarsKevin ConroyJason MarsdenScott MenvilleA collection of key events mark Bruce Wayne's life as he journeys from beginner to Dark Knight.My favorite DC Comics character given really good anime treatment.
- DirectorPeter ChungStarsVin DieselRhiana GriffithKeith DavidActing as a bridgepoint between "Pitch Black (2000)" and "The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)", this short film explains why Riddick decides to go into hiding and deliver Jack and Imam Abu al-Walid to New Mecca.A companion video to the Pitch Black movie sequel, "The Chronicles of Riddick". Wonderfully animated and a good sci-fi story.
- DirectorToyoo AshidaStarsKaneto ShiozawaMichie TomizawaSeizô KatôWhen Doris Lang is chosen as the next bride for the vampire Count Magnus Lee, she will hire a mysterious vampire hunter known only as D in an attempt to escape her ill-gotten fate.Classic Sc-Fi Goth Horror story.
- DirectorYoshiaki KawajiriStarsAndrew PhilpotJohn Rafter LeePamela AdlonA legendary dhampir competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to return a young woman, who has been seemingly abducted by a vampire, to her family.The sequel to "Vampire Hunter D" and is a MUCH better story and more richly animated. Done by the same people who made "Highlander: The Search for Vengeance".
- CreatorYasuomi UmetsuStarsKonami YoshidaKinryû ArimotoKôsuke OkanoA young girl, orphaned at an early age, carries out assassinations at the behest of her mentor.
- DirectorSatoshi KonStarsJunko IwaoRica MatsumotoShinpachi TsujiA pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.If Alfred Hitchcock were alive today, and he wanted to make an anime film, this would be it.
- DirectorRintarôStarsToshio FurukawaScott WeingerYuka ImotoKenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban must find the mystery behind robot girl Tima.This is a wonderful telling of the classic sci-fi movie.