Mami Watanabe (Writing)

Embracing Love: Cherished Spring

Kyousuke Iwaki and Youji Katou who are both in the film industry, having starred in various adult video films and are trying to climb the ladder of success and become greater actors. Iwaki is accepted to star in a popular movie, having beaten Katou in the auditions. During their time together, Katou believes he is in love with Iwaki-san, who on the contrary refuses to believe that he is in love. It is later on that another gay actor comes back to Japan and co-stars with Katou that problems starting arising. And it is from then on that the two realize where their hearts are set.

Release Date: 2005-03-31

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart

Miu Nomura is a 14-year-old 8th-grader who has been playing piano since early childhood. She grows up gradually while her friendship, kinship, and love affairs evolve around her, but those relationships inevitably affect her piano performance.

Release Date: 2002-11-11

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 1

X: The Movie

It's the year of destiny, and 15 year old Kamui Shiro, a powerful psychic, has returned to Toyko after a 6 year absence, having left when he was very young. He wants to be with his childhood friends, Fuma (his best friend) and Kotori, Fuma's little sister (and Kamui's possible girlfriend). He wants to protect them from all dangers, but destiny and fate are haunting Kamui and pulling in himself and his beloved childhood friends. It is his destiny and his sole decision to decide the fate of the world, no matter if he wants the role or not. Now it is a matter of if he will join the side of the Seven Seals and become the Dragon of Heaven to save mankind or join the Seven Angels and become the Dragon of Earth to destroy all civilization so the earth can heal itself from man's destruction.

Release Date: 1996-08-02

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 55

Shamanic Princess

To retrieve the talisman stolen by her beloved, Tiara hunts the night, battling monsters with her awesome shamanic powers. Disguised as an ordinary schoolgirl by day, she arrives at his lair only to find her arch rival on the scene... protecting the thief. Dark secrets unravel as Tiara faces these powerful opponents, and her one hope for survival may be to betray her mission.

Release Date: 1996-06-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 7

Graduation

Regardless of how students handle the many academic challenges facing them, they all know that there will come a day when they will leave all the hurdles of scholastic achievement behind and tackle the triumphs and sorrows of true adulthood. One thing that many young people don`t realize is that this often means leaving behind the friends that have been with them through their youth.

Release Date: 1995-01-21

Department: Crew

Job: Script

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 1

Phantom Quest Corp.

Ayaka Kisaragi is a beautiful woman descended from a long line of Japanese exorcists. However, bored with their traditions, she started her own business, Phantom Quest Corp. Although she is very competent with her skills, Ayaka's own bad habits often cut into the company's meager earnings and interfere with paying the various experts whose help she usually depends upon.

Release Date: 1994-08-25

Department: Writing

Job: Series Composition

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 8

Sleepless Oedo

We are now in the early 18th century, the Kyouhou era, when the merchant culture was flourishing. In Yoshiwara, the red light district of Edo, there is a popular courtesan with good looks and character, called Usugumo. She in fact is a daughter of a Christianized prostitute and Tokugawa Yoshimune (who was a real historical character and the 8th Shogun of Japan), but the power struggle in these times doesn't allow her to be with her father. Her fate is about to change when she meets the blond haired thief, Kikunosuke. With Kikunosuke, a doctor named Aoto Touichirou, who uses the yet unfamiliar Western medicine, and her pet cat, Kotetsu, Usugumo forms a thief group, the Kikugumi. In the meanwhile, a member of a mysterious group appears, aiming for Usugumo...

Release Date: 1993-07-23

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Fashion Boy is Cool

When the bubbly 14-year-old Kotobuki falls in love with 26-year-old Hodaka, the owner and clothing designer of a popular boutique, she lies about her age in attempt to get closer to him. He is slow to warm up to her until a strange young man named Kazuomi asks Hodaka for part-time employment and stirs things up between them.

Release Date: 1993-04-23

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

The Irresponsible Captain Tylor

Justy Ueki Tylor had his life all planned out: join the military, get a cushy desk job, and then retire with a big fat pension check. The perfect plan... until he wandered into a hostage situation and somehow managed to save an admiral! Now Tylor - a man who wouldn't know what discipline was if it bit him on the backside - has been made Captain of the space cruiser Soyokaze. The crew of this run-down ship is the craziest rag-tag team of misfits you're ever likely to see, and they're not too fond of their complacent new leader. But they'd better learn to work together, because they're about to go head to head with the mighty Raalgon Empire. For better or for worse, the Earth's fate has been placed in the hands of a man who's either a total idiot - or an absolute genius!

Release Date: 1993-01-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 10

Miracle Girls

Miracle Girls is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Nami Akimoto. It was adapted into an anime series by Nippon Animation in 1993. Tokyopop has licensed the manga for English release in North America.

Release Date: 1993-01-08

Department: Writing

Job: Series Composition

Episode Count: 51

Vote Count: 4

Keroppi in the Christmas Eve Gift

A star who tries to act like an adult falls from the sky. Keroppi helps nurse it back to health and regain its confidence to shine once again.

Release Date: 1992-11-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

OZ

Release Date: 1992-08-28

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

There Goes Tomoe!

The title character of Tomoe ga Yuku! (Tomoe Will Go!) is gutsy enough to roller skate down freeways for thrills. After losing a friend in a roller skating accident, Tomoe joins a stunt group called Green Ship. Although still mourning her friend's death, Tomoe has no reservations about embracing a relationship with the group's leader, Kazusa. Soon she discovers Green Ship is a front for an assassin training camp. She must flee her new life and love and rekindle her fiery spirit in order to fight against the organization which wants her dead.

Release Date: 1991-10-21

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

Chōjin Sentai Jetman

The Sky Force sends five highly trained operatives to participate in an experiment which will expose them to Birdonic Waves, resulting in superhuman abilities. But when the Earth Ship is attacked by Vyram, the majority of the Birdonic Waves are sent to Earth and find four unsuspecting civilians. Now, it's up to these four accidental super humans – Raita, Kaori, Ako, and Gai – alongside Ryu, the only original operative to receive Birdonic Waves, to defend their dimension against Vyram.

Release Date: 1991-02-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 7

Marina the Manga Artist Goes to Camelot

Marina meets beautiful boys in an SF Fantasy based in Medieval England.

Release Date: 1990-08-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Robin Hood's Big Adventure

Robin Hood's Big Adventure is an anime adaptation of the classic Robin Hood story consisting of 52 episodes. In this version, Robin and his allies are mostly pre-teens.

Release Date: 1990-07-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 52

Vote Count: 11

Record of Lodoss War

Born in battle, baptized in fire, it's kingdoms have been ravaged by war for thousands of years. Now, an evil stirs, an ancient goddess of destruction awakened by an evil wizard. A party of six is forged to defeat this threat, or die in the attempt. Join Parn, the young fighter, as he leads his warriors into the heart of a land where dragons rule and evil holds sway over the earth. Six swords are now drawn against this darkness. The war for Lodoss has begun!

Release Date: 1990-06-30

Department: Writing

Job: Series Composition

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 59

Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman

Twenty years after their planet was attacked by the brutal Zone Empire, the five Hoshikawa children, who escaped and were raised on Earth, must prepare for a brand-new war. This time, though, they're ready ... having developed the powerful Fiveman technology that will help them defend Earth from the same empire that conquered their home world.

Release Date: 1990-03-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 5

Yajikita Gakuen Douchuuki

Shinokita Reiko and Yajima Junko are second-year high school students who travel from school to school fighting bad guys, ninjas, yakuza and corruption. At this high school they encounter a secret ninja order and a corrupt administrator, as well as a tragic death in the distant past. With the help of Kotetsu, a skilled ninja, they set the school to rights, but not before leaving several broken hearts behind.

Release Date: 1989-09-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Kousoku Sentai Turboranger

Five high school students transform into Turborangers to defend the Earth from the Boma Hundred Tribes, who awoke from a 20,000 year-long sleep. They engage in battle using weapons developed by Doctor Dazai.

Release Date: 1989-02-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 4

Baribari Densetsu (Movie)

Gun Kyoma is an extremely fast 17-year-old bike racer. He must pair up with his rival and new high school classmate, Hijiri Hideyoshi, to compete in an endurance race at Suzuka International Racing Course.

Release Date: 1987-08-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Magical Girl Club Quartet: Alien X from A Zone

Yuu, Persia, Mai and Yumi are together in a science fiction-like adventure. An awful monster assault young and beautiful girls, leaving them transformed into ugly hags: only our four magical girls with their powers can fly to the space and fight for Earth 's sake, so Yuu transforms into Creamy Mami, Mai into Magical Emi, Persia into Fairy and little Yumi draws space suits for all of them.

Release Date: 1987-07-28

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Baribari Densetsu

Miyuki Ichinose sees something remarkable - a kid on a 50cc moped beat a 750cc bike - and being the daughter of a motorcycle team chief, she does something about it and invites Gun onto the team. Gun finds it hard to fit in at first, and the rivalry between him and successful rider Hideyoshi makes things even harder.

Release Date: 1986-05-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

The Legend of Stars

Schoolgirl Hikari has two loves: rhythmic gymnastics and Ohishi, a schoolmate who is one of the best gymnasts in his league. Natsukawa, Hikari's childhood friend, plays in a band called Mr.D. Over the years, he has come to love Hikari very deeply. Will Hikari gain Ohishi's love? Or will Natsukawa win her over?

Release Date: 1986-05-03

Department: Crew

Job: Script

Episode Count: 19

Vote Count: 4

Magical Emi, the Magic Star

Kazuki Mai, an elementary schoolgirl, wanted to be a magician but her skills weren't good enough for her to join her grandparents' Magiccarat troupe. One day she sees a light enter a strange heart-shaped mirror. The light is actually a mirror fairy named Topo, who takes over her favourite stuffed toy, a flying squirrel and gives her a bracelet with the 4 card suits. The bracelet can turn into a bubble wand which transforms Mai into the 18 year old magician Magical Emi, who uses her magic to help people and participate in her grandparents' shows.

Release Date: 1985-06-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 38

Vote Count: 7

Hey! Bumboo

Bumboo is a talking car, innocent in many ways, Bumboo searches for her mother throughout many adventures and dangers, battling villains and stopping thieves while discovering that she may not be the only talking car of her kind in the world.

Release Date: 1985-04-08

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Episode Count: 130

Vote Count: 3

Persia, the Magic Fairy

11-year old Persia is an energetic, loyal and happy young girl who has grown up alongside the animals on the Serengeti plains of Africa. Twins Riki and Gaku Muroi and their grandfather, Gōken, bring Persia to Japan with them in Minato-machi, where she lives with a couple who own a grocery store. During an incident during the return flight to Japan, Persia finds herself in the "Lovely Dream", the land where dreams are born and grow. The Fairy Queen appears before Persia in the form of a butterfly, and explains that the Lovely Dream is in danger, requesting Persia's help. She gives Persia a magical golden headband with a star which reacts to the word "Papurikko". With it, Persia can conjure a magic baton which bridges her world and Lovely Dream, as well as transform into an older self by saying "Perukko Raburin Kurukuru Rinkuru". She is sent with three kappa back into the regular world with the mission of collecting love energy to thaw the frozen Lovely Dream.

Release Date: 1984-07-06

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 2

Animated Aesop's Fables

Release Date: 1983-03-06

Department: Crew

Job: Script

Episode Count: 52

Vote Count: 1