My Favorite Anime Shows Movies and OVAs All Time
by rscarvalhoeng | created - 13 Nov 2016 | updated - 14 Aug 2017 | PublicA list of my Favorite Anime Shows Movies and OVAs All Time!
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1. Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files (1992–1995)
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
After a teenage delinquent is killed while saving a child's life from an approaching car, the rulers of the underworld send him back to become an "Underworld Detective" investigating demons apparitions in the human world.
Stars: Nozomu Sasaki, Justin Cook, Christopher Sabat, Cynthia Cranz
Votes: 16,079
2. Dragon Ball (1986–1989)
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Son Gokû, a fighter with a monkey tail, goes on a quest with an assortment of odd characters in search of the Dragon Balls, a set of crystals that can give its bearer anything they desire.
Stars: Masako Nozawa, Jôji Yanami, Brice Armstrong, Stephanie Nadolny
Votes: 66,224
3. Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac (1986–1989)
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A group a young warriors known as 'Saints', each in possession of a 'cloth' guarded by a different constellation, must protect the reincarnation of the goddess Athena as she attempts to keep the Earth from being destroyed by evil forces.
Stars: Hideyuki Tanaka, Tôru Furuya, Ryô Horikawa, Kôichi Hashimoto
Votes: 11,188
4. Tenkû senki Shurato (1989–1990)
30 min | Animation
During a tournament, friends Gai Kuroki and Shurato Hidaka are transported to an alternative world, Tenkukai, by a goddess. When they wake up, Shurato learns he is now the king of lions and that his former friend Gai turned into his enemy.
Stars: Toshihiko Seki, Yûko Mizutani, Megumi Hayashibara, Kôichi Yamadera
Votes: 273
5. Death Note (2006–2007)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Crime, Drama
An intelligent high school student goes on a secret crusade to eliminate criminals from the world after discovering a notebook capable of killing anyone whose name is written into it.
Stars: Mamoru Miyano, Brad Swaile, Vincent Tong, Ryô Naitô
Votes: 379,078
6. Princess Mononoke (1997)
PG-13 | 134 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka, Billy Crudup
Votes: 434,163 | Gross: $2.38M
7. Spirited Away (2001)
PG | 125 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino, Rumi Hiiragi
Votes: 850,395 | Gross: $10.06M
8. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
PG | 117 min | Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Warrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura, Hisako Kyôda, Gorô Naya
Votes: 182,691 | Gross: $0.50M
9. Akira (1988)
R | 124 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics.
Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo | Stars: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda
Votes: 205,458 | Gross: $0.55M
10. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
TV-MA | 83 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
Directors: Mizuho Nishikubo, Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka, Kôichi Yamadera
Votes: 157,045 | Gross: $0.52M
11. Mobile Suit Gundam (1979–1980)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In the war between the Earth Federation and Zeon, a young and inexperienced crew find themselves on a new spaceship. Their best hope of making it through the conflict is the Gundam, a giant humanoid robot, and its gifted teenage pilot.
Stars: Hirotaka Suzuoki, Tôru Furuya, Toshio Furukawa, Kiyonobu Suzuki
Votes: 2,779
12. Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (1989)
Not Rated | 180 min | Animation, Action, Drama
In a space colony, a young boy discovers a cadre of terrorists and innocently decides to help them.
Stars: Daisuke Namikawa, Kôji Tsujitani, Megumi Hayashibara, David Hayter
Votes: 1,505
13. Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991–1992)
Not Rated | 390 min | Animation, Action, Drama
After the One Year War, Peace was signed between Zeon and the Earth Federation. Three years later, however, some remaining forces of Zeon who never gave up steal the new Federation mobile ... See full summary »
Stars: Ryô Horikawa, Akio Ôtsuka, Rei Sakuma, Dorothy Elias-Fahn
Votes: 1,215
14. Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988)
124 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Amuro Ray and Char Aznable settle their rivalry once and for all during the Second Neo Zeon War.
Director: Yoshiyuki Tomino | Stars: Tôru Furuya, Shûichi Ikeda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Maria Kawamura
Votes: 2,046
15. Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010–2014)
TV-PG | 436 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A conspiracy around Laplace's Box is potentially going to start another war between the Earth Federation and Neo Zeon. Chosen by fate, Banagher Links gets the key to the box, and must follow his heart to decide what to do with it.
Stars: Troy Baker, Yuri Lowenthal, Keith Silverstein, Brandon Potter
Votes: 1,588
16. Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1996–2013)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Drama
During a one-year war, a young lieutenant leads a mobile suit team against a secret Zeon weapon, meeting its pilot who questions the morality of the war.
Stars: Steve Staley, Steve Kramer, Debra Rogers, David Ellenstein
Votes: 1,881
17. Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991)
PG-13 | 120 min | Animation, Action, Drama
After a generation of peace, the Earth Federation's new space colonies becomes a battlefield. To save his friends and family, the reluctant warrior Seabook Arno becomes the pilot of a new Gundam which bears the code name F91.
Director: Yoshiyuki Tomino | Stars: Kôji Tsujitani, Yumi Tôma, Masaaki Maeda, Kiyoyuki Yanada
Votes: 998
18. Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985–1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Eight 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.
Stars: Nobuo Tobita, Shûichi Ikeda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Miyuki Matsuoka
Votes: 1,553
19. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995–1996)
TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A squadron of giant robot pilots of a beleaguered Earth colony bring the war to their oppressive home planet.
Stars: Hikaru Midorikawa, Toshihiko Seki, Ryûzô Ishino, Akio Ôtsuka
Votes: 4,890
20. Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (2002–2003)
50 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The discovery of an advanced model of combat mecha on their space colony throws a young man and his friends into involvement in an interplanetary war as the crew of a powerful fighting ship.
Stars: Sôichirô Hoshi, Scott McNeil, John Novak, Fred Henderson
Votes: 2,648
21. Dragon Ball Z (1996–2003)
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
With the help of the powerful Dragonballs, a team of fighters led by the saiyan warrior Goku defend the planet earth from extraterrestrial enemies.
Stars: Doc Harris, Christopher Sabat, Scott McNeil, Sean Schemmel
Votes: 147,973
22. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
TV-14 | 115 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A terrorist explosion releases a deadly virus on the masses, and it's up to the bounty-hunting Bebop crew to catch the cold-blooded culprit.
Directors: Shin'ichirô Watanabe, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Tensai Okamura, Hiroyuki Okiura, Yoshiyuki Takei | Stars: Beau Billingslea, Melissa Fahn, Nicholas Guest, Kôichi Yamadera
Votes: 53,204 | Gross: $1.00M
23. Macross Plus Movie Edition (1995)
115 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Two rival test pilots strive to be the best there is at what they do and also to win the heart of the woman behind the AI pop sensation Sharon Apple. Movie compilation of the acclaimed four-chapter OVA with additional scenes.
Directors: Shôji Kawamori, Yûji Moriyama, Shin'ichirô Watanabe | Stars: Steve Blum, Rica Fukami, Banjô Ginga, Show Hayami
Votes: 690
24. Wings of Honneamise (1987)
Unrated | 121 min | Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
In an alternative Earth, a young astronaut participates in a controversial fledgling space program.
Director: Hiroyuki Yamaga | Stars: Leo Morimoto, David Thomas, Mitsuki Yayoi, Heidi Lenhart
Votes: 5,762 | Gross: $0.06M
25. Perfect Blue (1997)
R | 81 min | Animation, Crime, Drama
A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.
Director: Satoshi Kon | Stars: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masaaki Ôkura
Votes: 95,759 | Gross: $0.78M
26. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Not Rated | 89 min | Animation, Drama, War
A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
Director: Isao Takahata | Stars: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi, Yoshiko Shinohara
Votes: 310,835
27. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)
R | 102 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A traumatized member of an elite para-military police force falls for the sister of a female terrorist courier who died in front of him on duty.
Directors: Kenji Kamiyama, Hiroyuki Okiura | Stars: Michael Dobson, Yoshikazu Fujiki, Sumi Mutoh, Moneca Stori
Votes: 18,777 | Gross: $0.09M
28. Appleseed (1988 Video)
TV-14 | 71 min | Animation, Action, Crime
In a vast futuristic city, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.
Director: Kazuyoshi Katayama | Stars: Masako Katsuki, Yoshisada Sakaguchi, Toshiko Sawada, Toshio Furukawa
Votes: 3,048
29. Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982–2002)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An alien spaceship crash lands on Earth and her secrets lead to a desperate war against an alien enemy sent to retrieve the ship.
Stars: Arihiro Hase, Mari Iijima, Vic Mignogna, Monica Rial
Votes: 2,306
30. Vampire Hunter D (1985)
Not Rated | 80 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy
When Doris Lang is chosen as the next bride for the vampire Count Magnus Lee, she will hire a mysterious vampire hunter known only as D in an attempt to escape her ill-gotten fate.
Director: Toyoo Ashida | Stars: Kaneto Shiozawa, Michie Tomizawa, Seizô Katô, Satoko Kifuji
Votes: 17,536
31. Record of the Lodoss War (1990–1991)
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A group of medieval adventurers must participate in a war against dark forces in the land of Lodoss.
Stars: Takeshi Kusao, Yumi Tôma, Kappei Yamaguchi, Hideyuki Tanaka
Votes: 2,866
32. Armored Trooper VOTOMS (1983–1984)
TV-MA | Animation, Action, Drama
The end of the 100 year war between the planets Bavalant and Melkia does not allow Melkian soldier Chirico Cuvie a moment of peace. His accidental involvement in a clandestine mission ... See full summary »
Stars: Hozumi Gôda, Shigeru Chiba, Banjô Ginga, Kazuko Yanaga
Votes: 228
33. Galaxy Express 999 (1979)
PG | 129 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The adventures of a brave young boy who travels from planet to planet in a determined quest to avenge his mother's death.
Director: Rintarô | Stars: Masako Nozawa, Masako Ikeda, Yôko Asagami, Miyoko Asô
Votes: 2,372
34. Venus Wars (1989)
Not Rated | 103 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Two thriving colonies, Ishtar and Aphrodia, exist on the planet Venus in the year 2089. War breaks out, and Ishtar invades Aphrodia, sweeping its residents, including motorcycle rider Hiro and his teammates, into the chaos of the conflict.
Director: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | Stars: Katsuhide Uekusa, Yûko Mizutani, Eriko Hara, Yûko Sasaki
Votes: 1,992
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