Anthology Titles

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Anthology: (Style) A collection of one-shot stories or animated shorts compiled together into a TV series, OVA or movie which run on a common theme and have little to no narrative connection with one another. In most cases, works within an anthology are developed by different animation teams and are usually based on different sources of literary material and media such as short stories, movies and one-shot manga.

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Mobile Suit Gundam Evolve
Watch A series of short films packaged with certain model kits and aired at conventions, the Gundam Evolve series chronicles a number of side-stories, alternative scenes, and even bonus omake from all around the Gundam canon. Featuring a mix of animation media—from traditional cels to 3-D CG rendering to even cel-shaded 2-D animation—these often 5–8 minute shorts cover such events as Domon Kasshu's training (and a bit of a romantic tift with Rain Mikamura) from G Gundam, Amuro Ray battling Quess Paraya from Char's Counterattack, Kamille Bidan training in the Gundam Mk.II from Zeta Gundam, and Canard Pars dueling Prayer Reverie from the Gundam SEED X Astray manga.
Modest Heroes Rent See Chiisana Eiyuu: Kani to Tamago to Toumei Ningen
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Neo-Tokyo Rent See Manie Manie Meikyu Monogatari
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Ponoc Short Films Theatre Rent See Chiisana Eiyuu: Kani to Tamago to Toumei Ningen
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Robot Carnival
Rent 9 of Japan's leading animators were asked to create a short segment that followed the theme of "Robots," for their inclusion in this film. Essentially, this "movie" is 9 short films, all independant of one another. The common element is human interaction with robots, namely the consequences of creating life with one's own hands, played in nine very different ways.

Rumic Theater
Buy A collection of short stories by Rumiko Takahashi, often with a supernatural or mystery element to them.
Rumiko Takahashi Anthology Buy See Rumic Theater
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Shikioriori
Watch "Clothing, food, housing, and transport" - this theme ties the three stories in this anthology film together. "A Breakfast of Sunflowers" tells the story about a youth working in Beijing, who misses the food he used to eat in his hometown. "A Little Fashion Show" is about sisters living in Guangzhou, struggling to connect after the elder sister pushes herself too hard in her modeling career. "Shanghai Love" is an homage to 5 Centimeters Per Second set in 1990s Shanghai. Two childhood friends parted ways years ago, and now they remember their past together through the old cassette tapes they left behind.

Short Peace
Rent A compilation of four short movies animated by Sunrise consisting of the following: Possessions, Combustible, Gambo and A Farewell to Weapons.
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Takahashi Rumiko Gekijō (Japanese) Buy See Rumic Theater

The Animatrix
Rent The Animatrix represents more than three years of collaboration between the Wachowski Brothers and animation artists at studios in Japan, Korea, and the U.S. So, what is The Animatrix? It is a series of nine feature-film-quality short animated films. All of The Animatrix is deeply rooted in the world of the Matrix films. Viewers of The Animatrix will learn the origins of characters familiar from the Matrix films, learn of the genesis of the Matrix itself, as well as meet new characters in original stories inter-woven with the fabric of The Matrix feature films

The Cockpit: Kamikaze Stories
Rent The Cockpit is a series of 3 OVAs focusing on three separate stories of the tragedy of war. The first, Slipstream, follows a Luftwaffe pilot who must choose between his duty to his country: to guard a bomber loaded with Germany's final hope of victory, the world's first atomic bomb, or his duty to the world: to let it fall in flames to enemy Spitfires and be a footnote in history. Of course, things are complicated by the plane's other cargo, the woman he loves. The second story, Sonic Boom Squadron follows the pilot of an Ohka bomb, the purest kamikaze desperation weapon of the Pacific war. He once dreamt of flying a rocket into space, but instead he is to fly a rocket into an American ship for the glory of Japan. If only they would have let him live another 30 years. The third story, Knight of the Iron Dragon, is set on the Philippine island of Leyte, where a rusted old motorcycle tells the story of two Japanese soldiers who returned to a captured airfield to fulfill a promise, a promise that neither could ever keep.
ちいさな英雄-カニとタマゴと透明人間- Rent See Chiisana Eiyuu: Kani to Tamago to Toumei Ningen
アニマトリックス (Japanese) Rent See The Animatrix
アヤカシ Buy See Ayakashi - Japanese Classic Horror
Genre
Action(6) Adventure(4) Comedy(6) Drama(10)
Horror(3) Mystery(1) Romance(1) Suspense(1)
Tragedy(1)
Setting
Fantasy(8) Historical(3) Modern(4) Sci-Fi(8)
Steampunk(1)
Demographic
Style
Acquired Taste(2) Artistic(2) Creepy(1) Dark(2)
Surreal(2) Weird(2)
Characters and Their Abilities
Deities(1) Samurai(1)
Story Elements and Location
Coming of Age(1) Competition(1) Depression(1) Magic(1)
Mecha(1) Music(1) Slice of Life(1) War(1)
Keywords
noitaminA(1)
Potentially Objectionable
Violent(2)
Type
Movie(7) OVA(6) TV(3)
Release Year
2018(2) 2013(1) 2010(1) 2009(1) 2007(2) 2006(3) 2005(1) 2004(1)
2003(3) 2002(2) 2001(1) 1995(1) 1994(1) 1993(1) 1987(2)
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