Subgenre Sampler
Anime: 200 Films to Buy & Rent
- Dragonball Z (TV Series) (1999)
- A violent Japanese children’s animation that features standoffs between various good and evil characters. Rather repetitive after a while, though…
- Gravitation: Lyrics of Love (1999)
- Dir. Shinichiro Watanabe
- Prequel to the cult anime series GRAVITATION that sees the lead singer of 'Bad Luck' at a crossroads in his professional and personal life with album…
- Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)
- Dir. Hiroyuki Okikura
Feat. Michael Dobson, Mike Kopsa
- Visually rich and tasteful ‘anime’ set in a slightly futurised post–WW2 Tokyo, where an anti–terrorist commando, suspended from duty,…
- My Neighbours the Yamadas (Houhokekyo tonari no Yamada-kun) (1999)
- Dir. Isao Takahata
- With an original eye and ear for the burdensome triviality and difficulties of everyday life, this Japanese animation concerns a set of suburbanite…
- Now and Then, Here and There (Ima, soko ni iru boku) (1999)
- Regarded for its unflinching depiction of ‘atrocities’ in a grim totalitarian society, this is an exceptionally bleak, if sufficiently grounded…
- Cowboy Bebop (TV Series) (1998)
- Dir. Shinichiro Watanabe
Feat. Steven Blum, Beau Billingslea, Wendee Lee…
- The futuristic adventures of animated bounty–hunter Spike Spiegel and pals on the frontiers of the solar–system, newly colonised to…
- Kite (Kite Liberator) (1998-2007)
- Dir. Yasuomi Umetsu
- A gory revenge tale boasting visuals on par with BLOOD – THE LAST VAMPIRE, this controversial anime details the exploits of a young woman,…
- Serial Experiments Lain (TV Series) (1998)
- Dir. Various
- A uniquely thoughtful Manga TV–Series concerning an introspective teenage girl who starts receiving emails from a deceased classmate and is…
- Trigun (TV Series) (1998)
- The $60,000,000,000 Man – Vash the Stampede is a wanted man with a habit of turning entire towns into rubble. The price on his head is a…
- Perfect Blue (1997)
- Dir. Satoshi Kon
- Coherent and mature product of Japanese 'anime' is an unsettling psycho–drama about a burnt–out teen pop idol, simultaneously plagued by…