Subgenre Sampler
Anime: 200 Films to Buy & Rent
- Voices of a Distant Star (2001)
- Dir. Makoto Shinkai
- A short but compelling 'anime' that was also written and animated by dir. Shinkai. Set on a future Earth, where the looming threat of Tarsians…
- Boogiepop Phantom (TV Series) (Boogiepop Never Laughs: Boogiepop Phantom) (2000)
- Dir. Kouhei Kadano
- Anime series set in an unnamed Japanese city, intertwining the stories of multiple characters to uncover the mystery behind a string of serial…
- Escaflowne: The Movie (2000)
- Dir. Kazuki Akane
- Lavish, if much darker theatrical version of the popular anime TV series, reinventing its beloved heroine as a disenchanted high school girl…
- Gravitation (2000)
- Soapy J–pop anime serial charting the opposite–attract courtship of an aspiring musician and the hard–headed novelist he falls for.
- InuYasha (TV Series) (2000)
- Fifteen–year–old schoolgirl Kagome Higurashi, whose family tends a shrine, falls into an old well one day and literally tumbles into…
- Metropolis (2000)
- Dir. Rinataro
- Visually splendid ‘future–noir’ set in a teeming, multi–leveled city, inhabited by several storylines: a detective quest, the…
- Pet Shop of Horrors (2000)
- Horror–tinged anime set in a mysterious pet shop in New York's Chinatown, where the androgynous proprietor 'Count D' has a sinister pet for…
- Requiem From The Darkness (TV Series) (Kurayami no rekuiemu) (2000)
- A supernatural anime series set in the Edo period, in which an aspiring writer, Momosuke, sets out into the troubled land to collect 100 ghost…
- Spriggan (2000)
- Dir. Hirotsugu Kawasaki
- Spectacular ‘anime’ produced by Katsuhiro Otomo (AKIRA) that springs an elaborate futuristic plot, centred round the search for a…
- Big O, The (TV Series) (1999)
- Dir. Kazuyoshi Katayama
- Reasonably inviting anime series is set in the noirish future of an 'Art Deco' metropolis ("Paradigm City") where the inhabitants have, except for…