Magical Girl Pretty Sammy is a Japanese original video animation (OVA) series produced by AIC and Pioneer LDC,and released from 1995 to 1997 as three videos. It features character Sasami from the Tenchi Muyo! series as a magical girl,and is noted for recasting the Tenchi Muyo! characters in new roles. It has been dubbed into English by Pioneer USA. It also spawned two television series - Magical Project S,and Sasami:Magical Girls Club.
Project A-ko is a 1986 Japanese action comedy science fiction anime film that had several sequels and a spin-off. This film focuses on 16-year-old Japanese teenage schoolgirl A-ko Magami,who defends her best friend C-ko Kotobuki,as they face off against their fellow classmate and rival B-ko Daitokuji while the Earth faces the threat of an alien invasion. This series references a number of other works of anime from the 1970s and 1980s,such as Gundam,Macross,and Fist of the North Star.
Galaxy Express 999 is a Japanese manga series. It is written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto,later adapted into a number of anime films and television series. It is set in a spacefaring,high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds and emotions with perfect fidelity into mechanical bodies,thus achieving practical immortality.
Sonic the Hedgehog or Sonic the Hedgehog the Movie,is a two-part 1996 Japanese original video animation (OVA) based on the video game franchise by Sega. Produced by Pierrot and directed by Kazutaka Ikegami,the OVA was originally released in Japan on January 26,1996 and March 22,1996. The series was later licensed and dubbed in English by ADV Films,which released it as a single direct-to-video film on September 7,1999,to coincide with the international release of Sonic Adventure. The anime features Sonic,Tails,Knuckles,Dr. Eggman,Metal Sonic and a few supporting characters created exclusively for the OVA. Taking the English dub into consideration,it is also the first Sonic animated media to not feature Jaleel White voicing the titular character.
Gunbuster,known in Japan as Top o Nerae!,is a Japanese OVA anime series produced by Bandai Visual,Victor,and Gainax and released from 1988 to 1989. It was the directorial debut of Hideaki Anno,best known as the creator and director of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The title is a combination of the titles of classic tennis manga and anime Aim for the Ace! and hit action drama film Top Gun,whose plot inspired Gunbuster's. To celebrate Gainax's 20th anniversary in 2004,a sequel to Gunbuster,Diebuster,was released as an OVA. The sequel features new characters and mecha,but retains the format and many of the concepts of the original series.
Dirty Pair is a series of Japanese light novels written by Haruka Takachiho and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko that was later adapted into anime and manga versions. The first stories that make up the first volume were first published on the S-F Magazine. The franchise has been published in multiple formats,and adapted into various other media,resulting in eight novels and several shorter stories,a television series,two OVA series,two OVA features,a feature film,a number of graphic novels,and two short Japanese radio series. The 1985 television series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize for that year.
Hyper Combat Unit Dangaioh is a Japanese anime OVA series produced and animated by AIC and Artmic and released in Japan in 1987. Dangaioh featured character designs by creator Toshiki Hirano,mechanical designs by Shoji Kawamori,and animation direction by Masami Ōbari.
The Galaxy Railways is a Japanese anime television series produced by Leiji Matsumoto,creator of Galaxy Express 999,and is about flying trains set in the far reaches of outer space. It began airing on October 4,2003. Funimation has licensed the anime for release in the United States. It debuted on American TV in a syndicated Funimation Channel programming block airing on CoLours TV on Monday,June 19,2006. The series has also aired on the linear Funimation Channel. Two sequels have been produced,both currently unlicensed in English regions.
Pani Poni,also known by the title of its anime adaptation,Pani Poni Dash!,is a Japanese manga series by Hekiru Hikawa that uses parody,frequently referencing Japanese and American pop-culture in many ways. It mainly follows child prodigy Rebecca Miyamoto,an MIT graduate newly hired as a homeroom teacher at Peach Moon Academy,where she deals with the antics of the Class 1-C students during everyday school life. The manga was serialized in Square Enix's G Fantasy between the November 2000 and October 2011 issues,and the chapters are collected in 17 tankōbon volumes.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is a Japanese anime television series directed by Akiyuki Shinbo,with screenplay written by Masaki Tsuzuki and produced by Seven Arcs. It forms part of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series. The Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations broadcast 13 episodes between October and December 2004. The series is a spin-off of the Triangle Heart series and its story follows a girl named Nanoha Takamachi who decides to help a young mage named Yūno to recover a set of 21 artifacts named the "Jewel Seeds".
Toku is an American pay television network and streaming service owned by Olympusat and dedicated to broadcasting anime and East Asian programming.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's Play Comic from January 1977 to June 1979,with the chapters collected into five tankōbon volumes. The series follows the titular Captain,an outcast who has turned into a space pirate to rebel against Earth's government and humanity's general apathy.
Project A-ko 2:The Plot of the Daitokuji Financial Group is a 1987 Japanese anime OVA release directed by Yuji Moriyama. It is the sequel to the 1986 theatrical release Project A-ko.
Project A-ko 3:Cinderella Rhapsody is a 1988 Japanese anime OVA release directed by Yuji Moriyama. It is the third installment of the Project A-ko series.
Project A-ko 4:Final is a 1989 Japanese anime OVA release directed by Yuji Moriyama. It is the fourth installment of the Project A-ko series.
Black Rock Shooter is a Japanese media franchise based on characters created by illustrator Ryohei Fuke,also known as Huke. It revolves around its eponymous character,a mysterious black haired girl with a blazing blue eye. The original illustration inspired a song of the same name by Supercell featuring the Vocaloid Hatsune Miku,which gained popularity on the Nico Nico Douga website.
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE is a 2011 Japanese science fiction anime television series and the twelfth installment in Sunrise's long-running Gundam franchise. The series was first announced in the July issue of Shogakukan's CoroCoro Comic,and has gaming company Level-5's President Akihiro Hino in charge of the story.
Voltron is a 1984 American-Japanese animated television series produced by World Events Productions for a total of 124 episodes. The series is an adaptation of the Japanese super robot anime series Beast King Go-Lion,which was dubbed into English and edited to create Voltron episodes. Later episodes also use footage from the mecha anime Armored Fleet Dairugger XV.
