Retro Anime: 70s & 80s
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- DirectorHideki HiroshimaHiroshi NegishiHayato IkedaStarsJason BeckJoan BakerDave CouchIn the distant future, mankind has colonized other planets in the universe. While many planets lived in peace, the planet Jerra has been ravaged by decades of war. Geist is an M.D.S. (Most Dangerous Soldier), an enhanced human with unsurpassed combat capabilities and an insatiable lust for battle. Because of his uncontrollable nature, Geist is cryogenically frozen and locked in a satellite. Several years later, the satellite crashes and Geist wakes up from his sleep to engage in another war. This time, to help the army stop the planet's central computer from activating a doomsday device that will lead to total annihilation of all life on Jerra.
- StarsIssei FutamataBob SessionsWilliam RobertsIn a hell-torn Japan, where motorcycle gangs and violence overrun the country; one man named Violence Jack stands up to it all. He fights violence with violence.
- DirectorHiroyuki YokoyamaStarsJim ClarkSandy ClubbChuck Denson Jr.Doress, a Japanese "black projects" organization, has been gathering psionics and making biological weapons to "make Japan superior". When one of the biological experiments, BAOH, escapes with a young girl, Doress will do anything to get the boy and girl back. For BAOH is a parasite living in its host's brain, altering the host into a living death machine in order to keep it alive. When Doress sends assassins after the boy and girl, BAOH "awakens" to its "Armed Defense Phenomenons", giving the boy acid-tipped claws, bio-regeneration, and super-strength. But Doress takes the girl, and BAOH must fight an army of commandos and a psionic to get her back.
- DirectorYoshiaki KawajiriStarsYûsaku YaraToshiko FujitaIchirô NagaiWhile protecting a signatory to a peace treaty between their peoples, a male human and a female demon discover that their mutual attraction may be the key to unifying their worlds.
- DirectorKôichi MashimoKatsuyoshi YatabeStarsWendee LeeLara CodyKerrigan MahanWWWA Trouble Consultants Kei and Yuri team up with a petty thief to stop a mad scientist and his legions of mutated creatures.
- CreatorToshimichi SuzukiStarsYoshiko SakakibaraKinuko ÔmoriMichie TomizawaA female mercenary team, armed with unique power armor suits, battle the forces of the corrupt mega-corporation, Genom in futuristic Tokyo.
- CreatorRumiko TakahashiStarsFumi HiranoToshio FurukawaSaeko ShimazuAn unlucky, womanizing high schooler becomes the unwilling target of a vivacious alien girl's affections after winning an interplanetary game of tag against her.
- StarsNoriko OharaSabrina PitreErin MathewsLong after a devastating war almost destroyed the entire world, a boy with superhuman strength fights to save his friends from those who seek to conquer what is left of civilization.
- StarsYûsaku YaraRyô HorikawaKatsuji MoriVarious people, especially two rising commanders, cope with a massive continual space conflict between two interstellar nations.
- StarsKyôko TongûSaeko ShimazuJessica CalvelloKei and Yuri - The Dirty Pair aka 'The Lovely Angels' are two teen girls that fight crime throughout the universe and bring the bad guys to justice, but not before wrecking a planet.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsMayumi TanakaKeiko YokozawaKotoe HatsuiA young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
- StarsTakeshi KusaoYûko MizutaniHideyuki TanakaSho and his friend Tetsurou stumble upon an odd alien artifact while walking through the woods. Then, the alien artifact breaks free of its metallic bonds and enters Sho's body, turning him into the Guyver. With this new power, Sho must do battle with the evil Chronos corporation and their genetically enhanced Zoanoids, who seek to get the Guyver back into their labs. No one close to Sho is safe from Chronos. He must fight.
- StarsMasako NozawaMasako IkedaKaneta KimotsukiThe adventure of a young boy on board a space train, as it travels to a myriad of incredible worlds.
- DirectorMamoru OshiiStarsMako HyôdôJinpachi NezuKeiichi NodaA mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.
- CreatorLeiji MatsumotoCarl MacekStarsMichael McConnohieEdie MirmanDan WorenAn amalgam series of 'Queen Millennia' and 'Space Pirate Captain Harlock'.
- DirectorHiroyuki YamagaA "bunny girl" crosses paths with iconic characters from comic books, live-action films, literature and animation.
- StarsAkira KamiyaShigeru ChibaTeiyû IchiryûsaiAfter a nuclear war turns Earth into a lawless wasteland, Kenshiro, a practitioner of the deadly master art "Hokuto Shinken", fights a succession of tyrannical warriors to restore order.
- CreatorYoshiyuki TominoStarsNobuo TobitaShûichi IkedaHirotaka SuzuokiEight years after the One Year War, the Earth Federation creates an elite force called the Titans to hunt Zeon remnants. When Titans proves to be no better than Zeon, the Anti Earth Union Group (AEUG) is formed to restore peace in space.
- CreatorRumiko TakahashiStarsKappei YamaguchiMegumi HayashibaraNoriko HidakaA girl is involuntarily engaged to a boy who turns female when hit with cold water and male when hit with hot.
- CreatorMonkey PunchStarsYasuo YamadaKiyoshi KobayashiGorô NayaThe master thief Lupin III and his cronies continue their globe-trotting exploits, with the stubborn Inspector Zenigata ever at their trail.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsSumi ShimamotoMahito TsujimuraHisako KyôdaWarrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
- DirectorRintarôStarsHiroyuki SanadaMami KoyamaTarô IshidaAn orphan named Taro killed who Tein-Hei told her was the killer of his family. Taro found out, years later that Tein-Hei is the true killer and the man he killed was his father. Taro's revenge attempts start off a trail of assassinations and ninja swords fights spanning from Hokaido, Alaska to California where Tien-Hei's secrets gradually unfold. The revenge road leads to a climactic battle with Tien-Hei on the fall of Japan's Shogun-era.
- DirectorRintarôStarsMasako NozawaMasako IkedaYôko AsagamiThe adventures of a brave young boy who travels from planet to planet in a determined quest to avenge his mother's death.
- DirectorOsamu DezakiStarsShigeru MatsuzakiAkiko NakamuraToshiko FujitaAfter two years in hiding, a famed space pirate with a "psychogun" for a left arm joins a bounty huntress on a quest to save her world, only to find himself battling an old enemy.
- DirectorTomoharu KatsumataStarsMakio InoueKei TomiyamaYûjirô IshiharaSpace captain Harlock, the latest in a family of proud aerial warriors, begins his journey to free the oppressed Earth from the despotic Illumidas Command.
- DirectorMori MasakiStarsIssei MiyazakiCatherine BattistoneYoshie ShimamuraA powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
- DirectorNoboru IshiguroShôji KawamoriKatsuhito AkiyamaStarsArihiro HaseMari IijimaMika DoiEarth braces for an invasion of giant male bionoids and their enemy, giant female bionoids.
- DirectorMamoru OshiiStarsFumi HiranoToshio FurukawaAkira KamiyaThe night before the school festival, things seem to be repeating themselves. Gradually, all the world functions come to a stop, the only ones that are not affected are a select group of student friends.
- DirectorKatsuhiko NishijimaShigeru MorikawaStarsMiki ItôEmi ShinoharaMichie TomizawaA plucky, super-powered redhead finds herself saving her crybaby best friend from an amorous, bikini armor-clad classmate at their new school and aliens seeking to bring her home.
- DirectorHiroyuki YamagaStarsLeo MorimotoDavid ThomasMitsuki YayoiIn an alternative Earth, a young astronaut participates in a controversial fledgling space program.
- DirectorAtsuko FukushimaHiroyuki KitakuboHiroyuki KitazumeStarsKôji MoritsuguYayoi MakiKeiko HanagataA collection of short stories, made by different animators with "robot" as the working title.
- DirectorMamoru OshiiKôji SawaiStarsToshio FurukawaDavid JarvisDoug ErholtzThe screwball cops of Special Vehicles Section 2 Division 2 must investigate and stop a spree of rampaging construction robots.