Subgenre Sampler
Anime: 200 Films to Buy & Rent
- From up on Poppy Hill (2011)
- Dir. Goro Miyazaki
Feat. Masami Nagasawa, Jun'ichi Okada
- Studio Ghibli's latest offering is an affecting, nostalgia–laden drama of teenage idealism and high school romance, set during the lead up to…
- King of Pigs, The (2011)
- Dir. Sang-ho Yeon
- A tough, hard–glancing Korean anime about two adults who recall their violent school days as both purveyors and victims of systemic bullying.…
- Legend of the Millennium Dragon (2011)
- Dir. Hirotsugu Kawasaki
- An impressively animated young–adult fantasy, centred on a 15–year–old school kid who is transported back to medieval Japan, and…
- Letter to Momo, A (2011)
- Dir. Hiroyuki Okiura
- Bittersweet tale young girl recovering from her father's death moves to a small island where strange events start to occur.
- Arrietty (The Secret World of Arrietty) (2010)
- Dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Feat. Mirai Shida, Ryunosuke Kamiki
- Studio Ghibli's latest animated triumph respectfully borrows from the classic English children's tale of 'The Borrowers', about a family of tiny…
- Halo Legends (2010)
- Spun–off from the popular X–Box video game franchise, this eight episode series explores the mythology and back–story of the HALO…
- Loups=Garous (2010)
- Dir. Junichi Fujisaku
- Confined to her home by a deadly virus, a shy 14–year–old girl ventures into the outside world when one of her online friends goes…
- Afro Samurai Resurrection (2009)
- Dir. Fuminori Kizaki
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Lucy Liu, Mark Hamill
- Stylish sequel reprises the Samuel L. Jackson–voiced Afro Samurai, here coming out of retirement to fend off a sadistic villainess. Garnished…
- Eden of the East (TV Series) (2009)
- Dir. Kenji Kamiyama
- A sprawling, suspenseful anime series in the wake of popular narrative arc serials (i.e. LOST, FLASH FORWARD), this centres on an amnesiac man who…
- Fullmetal Alchemist (TV Series) (2009)
- Two brothers scour a war–torn land for the Philosopher's Stone, a fabled relic which grants the ability to perform Alchemy in impossible ways.