Anime

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Once upon a time, there was a little princess who was very sad because her parents had died. She was comforted by a prince on a white horse, who gave her a rose seal ring, promising that it would lead her to him someday. The little princess was so impressed, she swore to become a prince herself. Years later, Tenjou Utena is famed at Ohtori Academy for her chivalrous ways. However, when she challenges the student council to defend her best friend, she finds herself sucked into a complex conspiracy that could be the key to her past…

Re: Cutey Honey

The fair city of Tokyo has been plagued by the machinations of the evil Panther Claw organization. Totally hell bent on causing random and utter chaos, they seem almost unstoppable. That is, until one fearless fighter dares to go toe-to-toe with their army of anarchy. Who is this person? It’s the warrior of love herself, Cutey Honey!

Great Teacher Onizuka

Enter Onizuka Eikichi: a twenty-two year old third-rate college graduate, karate team captain, notorious former motorcycle gang member, and a man on a quest to become Japan’s greatest teacher! Even though Onizuka first sees teaching as just another opportunity to pick up young girls, he later comes to exhibit the makings of a great mentor. Now, in order to put his money where his mouth is, Onizuka is given authority over the toughest class of delinquents in the prestigious, yet troubled, Seirin Academy. Can GTO rise to the occasion and reform his troublesome class?

Ranma 1/2 OVA

Ranma is your average martial artist, except for the fact that he once fell into a cursed spring, and turns into a girl everytime he is splashed with cold water! Now with these OVAs, comprised of ten separate stories, the Ranma crew is back and ready for more trouble!

Raimuiro Senkitan

The year is 1904, and the Russo-Japanese War is raging. A former Russian diplomat, Umakai Shintaro, boards the flying warship Amanotaro to teach at a supposed girls’ academy. There, he finds his students are a bit…unusual. They are five nubile, ditzy teenage girls with psychic powers. They also happen to hold the outcome of the war in their hands…

Planetes

By the latter half of the 21st century, humanity had established colonies both in Earth orbit and on the surface of the Moon itself. However, the same issues that plagued civilization on Earth were also brought into space, ranging from political disputes and corporate greed to the accumulation of orbital waste, termed “space debris.” Space debris would come to the fore in 2068 in the wake of the Alnair 8 disaster, where a stray screw struck a passenger spacecraft causing lethal decompression. Many corporations created a “debris section” – a unit specifically designed to pick up space debris. However, derided and ridiculed as nothing more than garbage collectors in space, debris sections are given low priority for both funding and personnel. It is because of this that Tanabe Ai, an idealistic young woman just out of school, walked through the doors of the Debris Section of Technora Corporation, and into a world far from what she had envisioned.

Fullmetal Alchemist

The Law of Equivalent Trade dominates the actions of Edward Elric, age 15, and Alphonse Elric, age 14. In order to gain something, one must present something of equal value, so says the Law. Ignoring these laws after their mother passed away from an illness, Ed and Alphonse researched their runaway father’s studies on the forbidden techniques of human transmutation to

The Place Promised in Our Early Days

In the future of an alternate universe, defeat in war and subsequent occupation has led to a Japan divided in two: the US backed government in Honshu, and a breakaway state known as the “Union” in Ezo (formerly Hokkaido). However, to two friends in the border city of Aomori, the politics and tension between the Union and Japan are irrelevant. For Fujisawa Hiroki and Shirakawa Takuya, there are only two important things in life: their classmate Sawatari Sayuri, and the mysterious tower that the Union has constructed. Together, they promise to bring Sayuri to the tower with Velaciela, their homemade plane. However, circumstances soon reveal that they had made a promise that they couldn’t keep…

Grave of the Fireflies

Near the end of World War II, American air-raids on Japan threatened many lives. After losing their mother, 14 year old Seita and his baby sister Setsuko are forced to live on their own. The harsh war times make it difficult to find food, or get help from neighbours and family. Finding it hard to get nutrition, toiletries, and other needed services, death and starvation seems to be the only way out.

Perfect Blue

Mima is a member of Cham!, a Japanese pop trio with a small fan base. However, Mima wants to show everyone that she isn’t just a pretty girl with a nice voice, so she decides to become a film and television star. Unfortunately for her, some of her fans don’t want her to leave Cham!, with one obsessed fan and stalker feeling betrayed by her. She soon discovers Internet sites posting intimate details about her life, and sees that disappointing even some of her fans can be a terrifying experience.