Anime starting in Summer 1992

Young Matsuwakamaru loses his father as an infant. To make matters worse, his beloved mother Kikkou passes away when he's 8 years old. While facing her death, Matsuwakamaru is puzzled at where people go when they die. If there is a cycle of heaven, hell, and rebirth, is there a way to escape this torturous circle, he wonders. With this great determination for the discovery of knowledge in mind, at only 9 years old, he joins a Buddhist monastery on Mt. Hiei, and changes his name to Shinran. This is the story of the man who would someday open the doors to the Joudo Shinshuu sect of Buddhism.

Source: ANN

* Based on the novel Tottòi by Gianni Padoan.

The beauty and pride of wild animals capture the hearts of innocent people who have not lost their passion for nature.

Sardinia is abundant in beautiful beaches and mysterious caves which are known as the habitat of a peculiar kind of seal on the verge of extinction.
After moving to this island, Tottoi, fascinated by nature, visits different beaches and caves everyday. When he finds a seal cub and its mother in an isolated cave, he is surprised by the humorous movements and innocence of the cub and the dignity of its mother. Tottoi soon becomes attached to the seals, but his secret is revealed to heartless adults. In the name of preservation, a plan is developed to capture them for an aquarium.

Now the dignity and pride of the wild seal are in danger. No matter how painful for Tottoi to be separated from his small friends, he must fight for the welfare of the wild mammals and let them go free into the sea.

The Kinshu Group are back to their old antics with two new recruits joining the gang and trying to prove their worth. Things take a turn for the worse when the boss takes a bullet and gets hospitalized. What will happen to the gang when snakes begin to creep, attempting to break the company apart as if the boss is already dead?!

Source: MAL

In the year 199X, mankind faces extinction due to frequent calamities like abnormal weather or huge insect swarms, caused by the power of the demons. However, Rosa, a woman with mysterious powers appears. Not only does she drive back all disasters, she is also revered as the savior of the world. The demons' leader, Demon Kogure, is not happy with this. For the sake of his plan to wipe out humanity, he starts the activation of the Tower of Babel, something which causes his life to be targeted by Rosa. On the other hand, Rosa has started the construction of the Tower of Cain. Now an all out battle which will decide the destiny of mankind begins...

Source: MAL

Note: the demon characters are based on the members of Seikima II - a Japanese heavy metal band.

Honda has been living with Eri for two years and debates whether or not he should ask her to marry him.

Source: MAL

Before the time of recorded history, the Atlantic Ocean harboured a magnificent continent on which civilization flourished. Unfortunately, brutal wars and natural disasters have nearly leveled the once thriving society. Tieh, Lakshi and Bois are three survivors of the wars and disasters who wander the land, hoping to find some last vestige of civilization. When they do, the city they find is populated by the dead who lord over the living, forcing the three to rely on their wits and skills to survive.

There is only one thing Katsumi Liqueur has on her mind — to leave this dreadful town as soon as possible, this place where she does not know anyone and has no friends. But she soon faces serious obstacles as the Attacked Mystification Police (AMP) insists on recruiting her for their organization.

Wandering aimlessly through the streets of Tokyo, she crosses paths with Saiko Yuki whose fate appears to be intertwined with hers. The mysterious past of both women seems to be linked to Tokyo Bay Bridge... a bridge Katsumi has seen in her dreams.

Note: This sequel continues the time line of the flashback section of the first movie (Katsumi's initial contact with the AMP), using some more ideas and characters from the manga, and being slightly less incompatible to the Silent Mobius TV series from 1998.

Source: anime.mikomi.org

* Based on Akagawa Jirou's popular book series about hapless detective Katayama Yoshitaro who lives with his sister Harumi and their cat Holmes, which has a sixth sense when it comes to solve mysteries.

In this stand alone OVA the aftershow party of Harumi's acting troupe becomes the showplace of murder and tragedy. Luckily Yoshitaro brought Holmes along.

The brave new world of the future! Earth has gone through its third energy revolution, and now all power is based on a new invention called 'the Shizuma Drive,' a complete recyclable and pollution free energy system created ten years ago by a group of five scientists. These drives power everything. There is no more danger of nuclear radiation, or waste of rare resources such as petroleum.

Even though it sounds like an ideal society, there are still problems. There are two major powers who are locked in a fierce struggle. The first is the Big Fire Organization, which is a very powerful evil organization that threatens to conquer the world with the help of their numerous robots.

The only people capable of putting a stop to their plan is the International Police Organization. They consist of a team of agents, all having their own special powers. They also have the most powerful robot in the world, Giant Robo. Giant Robo is controlled by Kusama Daisaku.

Source: Translated from the Anime Reference Guide, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1993, page 30

Kabuto is a tengu who has to save a princess from fortress which is full of monster-mecha hybrids in an alternate reality of feudal Japan.

Source: ANN

The plot concerns womanising rock idol Koji Nanjo (tall, long blonde hair), who has just been re-united with the person he fell madly in love with six years ago on sight, Takuto Izumi (shorter, brown hair). Unfortunately, Koji had been informed that Izumi was a girl, when the truth is that he's a boy, and a hostile, emotionally scarred boy at that. Naturally Koji is rather confused and it takes him a long time to come to terms with his feelings for Izumi. It takes Izumi longer still, partly because he is unsure of what he wants and partly because he doesn't want to fall in love with anyone, let alone Koji, who he initially dislikes intensely. Even when they finally do reach some kind of understanding, there are other problems to deal with, such as Koji's older brothers Hirose and Akihito, who are determined to split them up. Even those who do support them, including the insufferably cheerful Katsumi Shibuya, Koji's best friend and Koji's permanently anxious manager Toshiyuki Takasaka, cannot always be trusted to stay out of their affairs...

Source: AnimeNfo

* Based on a manga by Kitagawa Miyuki, serialised in Flower Comics.

The story is about Aida Nonoka who is rescued from a drunken attacker by a judoist. She then resolves to become as good as her saviour, hoping that one day to recognize him by the scar on his back. She then transferred into a new high school where she meets two older boys who could possibly the person to whom she owes her life and to give her heart.

Yawara helps a group of timid grade school kids overcome their fears and compete in a judo competition. One of the kids is Hanazono's cousin, which is how she meets them. Another is a girl who seems a whole lot like Yawara.

Source: ANN

Short video diary of the original TV series.

Note: Shown as triple feature along with Hana no Mahou Tsukai Mary Bell: Phoenix no Kagi and Muumindani no Suisei.

Chameleon is an exaggerated and often bizarre look at gang life in Japanese schools, focusing on a shrimpy little goon named Yazawa with dreams of being a badass gangsta'. Of course, since this is Japan, being a badass gangsta' involves tricking out your scooter and beating up on other gangs with golf clubs. I guess these kids just want to impress the Yakuza, who use many similar tactics (at least, according to anime. And anime's always right, isn't it?).

Of course, since Yazawa is small, weak, and generally completely lacking in any social grace whatsoever, the gangs won't have him as one of their own. He's picked on and harrassed as much as everyone else-- at first, anyway. The thing that Yazawa's enemies never seem to realize about him is that he's a man with absolutely nothing to lose. This makes him incredibly dangerous, in spite of his diminutive stature-- if he's angry or humiliated enough, then by hook or by crook, he'll make his antagonizers eat turd.

Source: Animejump

Does being the only guy in an all-girls school sound like paradise? It might be, if the girls knew you were a guy, but to stay in school teenage pervert Banji cannot let anyone find out his chromosomes do not match! Banji's status conscious parents want him to go to a good school, but not enough so to spend the money on a good coed school. Now, in addition to studying math and science, Banji has to learn how to put on a bra and make-up. His life has become a living hell. Not only is he at the bottom of the social pecking order, he must also conceal his inner-masculinity from the pretty classmate girl, who has stolen his heart while avoiding the female bullies, who threaten to expose his less-than-feminine charms in the locker room!

Source: US VHS backcover

The characters in BASTARD!! have forsaken technology and have traded it in for magic and the occult arts. The story revolves around a group of five magicians who set out to rebuild their world after a rampaging God destroys it and tips it into chaos. Driven by their leader Dark Schneider, Gara, Arshes Nei, Abigail and Kall Su set out to conquer kingdoms in the hope of rebuilding them into utopias, with each of the magicians having their own personal agenda in doing so. However, Dark Schneider's often reckless manner and short temper leads him to wreak havoc where ever he goes. He is trapped by a group of clerics in a baby boy, leaving the four without a leader.

Fifteen years later, the four still continue their quest but their motives have changed to despotic world domination, and it is up to Dark Schneider to show them the "error of their ways", when he is freed by the clerics who once imprisoned him, so that he may defend them against his former comrades. It has now become Dark Schneider's responsibility to track down each one of his companions and set them on the right path again, but what seems to be the once reckless and amoral Dark Schneider has changed over his fifteen year imprisonment within the boy, Lucien Renlen.

* Loosely based on L. F. Baum's novel, The Wizard of Oz. Original manga done by Itsuki Natsumi.

A nuclear war has killed most of humanity and split the USA into six warring states. By 2021, a legend has grown up about the fabled city of OZ where everything still works. Scientist Felicia sets out in search of it with the mercenary Muto and android 1019. At the end of the quest they only discover a military base and a madman.

A mercenary was hired by a girl to bring her to the mythical Oz (a paradise) where her missing brother supposedly lived. Accompanying them was a cyborg sent by her brother. But Oz was not the paradise it seemed and her brother was not as sane as he was smart.

On the trail of a missing husband, private investigator Goro crosses paths with a deranged killer.

Source: ANN

* Based on the Compiler manga series by Asamiya Kia.