Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
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…
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…
Metropolis (2000)- Dir. Rinataro
- Visually splendid ‘future–noir’ set in a teeming, multi–leveled city, inhabited by several storylines: a detective quest, the…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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