Hideaki Anno

Hideaki Anno (born May 22, 1960 in Ube, Yamaguchi) is a Japanese animation and film director. Anno is best known for his work on the popular anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. His style has come to be defined by the touches of superflatism and postmodernism that he injects into his work, as well as the thorough portrayal of characters' thoughts and emotions, often through unconventional sequences incorporating psychoanalysis and emotional deconstruction of these characters. He married comics artist Moyoco Anno in 27 April 2002. Anime directed by Anno that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award have been Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water in 1990, Neon Genesis Evangelion in 1995 and 1996, and The End of Evangelion in 1997. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hideaki Anno, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

9.0

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-

High-school student Amate Yuzuriha lives peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space. But when she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal mobile suit dueling sport known as Clan Battle. Theatrical compilation of the first few episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX.

Release Date: 2025-01-17

Department: Art

Job: Storyboard Artist

Vote Count: 1

Evangelion Beyond

An original work showing an alternative version of the story of Evangelion with brand new characters. This work depicts the Earth in a devastated state. There are the survivors, and the boys and girls who board the Evangelion to annihilate the enemy called the Apostle. The show combines puppetry, music, contemporary dance and projection arts to create a unique theatrical experience.

Release Date: 2023-11-10

Department: Writing

Job: Original Series Creator

7.7

Documentary "Shin Kamen Rider" ~Behind the Scenes of the Hero Action Challenge~

"Shin Kamen Rider" is the first live-action film directed by Hideaki Anno since "Shin Godzilla" seven years ago. In the 52-year history of the "Masked Rider" series, this is the first time that cameras have been on the production site for an extended period of time. Please take a look at the two years of the creators taking on the challenge of creating an unprecedented heroic action film.

Release Date: 2023-03-31

Character: Self

Vote Count: 3

6.0

Special Broadcast Movie "Shin Kamen Rider" Premise/Act 1: Kumo-Aug

A TV special which contained the first 23 minutes of "Shin Kamen Rider" footage and was broadcasted on MBS in order to promote the movie.

Release Date: 2023-03-28

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

6.9

Shin Kamen Rider

A man forced to bear power and stripped of humanity. A woman skeptical of happiness. Takeshi Hongo, an Augmentation made by SHOCKER, and Ruriko Midorikawa, a rebel of the organization, escape while fighting off assassins. What’s justice? What’s evil? Will this violence end? Despite his power, Hongo tries to remain human. Along with freedom, Ruriko has regained a heart. What paths will they choose?

Release Date: 2023-03-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 278

6.7

EVANGELION:3.0(-120min.)

120 minutes before "EVANGELION:3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO."

Release Date: 2023-03-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

6.7

EVANGELION:3.0(-46h)

46 hours before the events of "EVANGELION:3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO." Midori remembers her life post Near Third Impact and how she is saved by WILLE.

Release Date: 2023-03-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 7

6.8

Ichikei's Crow The Movie

Release Date: 2023-01-13

Character: Judge

Vote Count: 6

The・Ultraman: Jackal vs. Ultraman

In the spring of 1975, peace returned to the universe once more. But then members of the Ultra Brothers started being assasinated by someone, one by one. The perpetrator was Jackal the Demonic Space Overlord. Jackal was an alien defeated by Ultraman King and banished to spend an eternity in a black hole. Having returned, Jackal sent his armies to Earth to uncover any Ultra Warriors that may be hiding in humanoid form there. Jackal's minions resorted to threatening to kill human beings held as hostages in order to force Ultra Warriors to reveal themselves. Just when it seemed all hope was lost, a mysterious warrior wearing a suit of armor that obscured his identity appeared from the heavens...

Release Date: 2022-05-30

Department: Production

Job: Producer

7.2

Shin Ultraman

The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly meets a giant silver humanoid who starts appearing every time a space monster attacks!

Release Date: 2022-05-13

Department: Editing

Job: Editor

Character: Ultraman (Motion Capture)

Vote Count: 176

8.2

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time

In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined planet Earth. There, each lives a life far different from their days as an Evangelion pilot. However, the danger to the world is far from over. A new impact is looming on the horizon—one that will prove to be the true end of Evangelion.

Release Date: 2021-03-08

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 825

8.0

Evangelion: [√] It Can (Not) Be True

A 3DCG-animated "Evangelion" tribute short. Also used to mark the release of the limited-edition OPPO Ace2 EVA smartphone.

Release Date: 2020-06-27

Department: Writing

Job: Original Story

Vote Count: 2

2.0

The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers

A sequel to the 1980 movie The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. As well as being a rock musical comedy, it also borrows elements from other genres such as road movies, westerns, and meta fiction.

Release Date: 2018-01-20

Vote Count: 1

7.1

Mary and The Witch's Flower

Mary Smith, a young girl who lives with her great-aunt in the countryside, follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest where she finds a strange flower and an old broom, none of which is as ordinary as it seems.

Release Date: 2017-07-08

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 799

10.0

Shin Godzilla vs. Evangelion Symphony

Collaborative concert of Hideaki Anno's Shin Godzilla and Neon genesis Evangelion in which you can listen to the soundtrack composed by Shirō Sagisu for both works.

Release Date: 2017-03-22

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 6

5.5

A Good Child's History Anime: The Giant Turnip (Inc.)

Short animation made to celebrate Studio Khara’s 10th anniversary.

Release Date: 2016-11-23

Department: Editing

Job: Editor

Vote Count: 5

7.0

Mobile Police Patlabor Reboot

“Mobile Police Patlabor Reboot” is a part of the “Patlabor” franchise that showcases multiple anime, live-action, manga, light novel, and video game adaptations.

Release Date: 2016-10-15

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 7

7.2

Shin Godzilla

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

Release Date: 2016-07-29

Department: Writing

Job: Storyboard

Character: Bus Driver

Vote Count: 1337

6.8

Robot on the Road

A perverted robot hitchhikes cross-country with an attractive woman in hopes of photographing her naked.

Release Date: 2015-10-02

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 35

6.9

Neon Genesis IMPACTS.

The date: 2015 AD. The Angels’ assaults on Tokyo-3 have increased in its ferocity. In this city, three young girls upload their latest song onto Nico Nico Douga.

Release Date: 2015-09-18

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 7

7.0

Bubu & Bubulina

A mean older sister “Bubulina” and a serious younger sister “Bubu.” A unique movement special to animation depicts a cute but noisy trouble. “A thrilling noisy action animation” by director Takashi Nakamura with all his might.

Release Date: 2015-07-25

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 2

4.5

Three Fallen Witnesses

Various witnesses are called in, but their reliability is doubted.

Release Date: 2015-04-13

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 2

6.7

Evangelion: Another Impact (Confidential)

Another time, another place. An activation test of a decisive weapon was underway. With its development and operational trials shrouded in complete secrecy, the Another Number - Unit Null, suddenly breaks free of human control and goes berserk. For what purpose was Another Number - Unit Null created? The story of an Evangelion's activation, rampage and howling in another world.

Release Date: 2015-02-06

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 31

5.5

until You come to me.

Shinji, Rei, and Asuka in their states at the end of “Evangelion: 3.0.” A post-Impact world.

Release Date: 2014-12-19

Department: Directing

Job: Layout

Vote Count: 8

6.5

20min Walk from Nishi-Ogikubo Station, 2 Bedrooms, Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, 2mos Deposit, No Pets Allowed

The strange adventure of a woman that shrinks to the size of a cockroach.

Release Date: 2014-12-12

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 11

7.5

Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark

2199 AD. Yamato tried to leave behind the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, after receiving a "Cosmo Reverse System" at its destination, Iscandar. However, suddenly, it encounters a mysterious group at the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The crew finds out that the group is called the "Gatlantis," and that its leader is the Gutaba expeditionary force commander who calls himself "Goran Dagaamu of Thunder." The commander demands that Yamato be handed over to him. Yamato, wanting to hurry to Earth, escapes the fray. However, Yamato is attacked by a devastating beam weapon called the "Flame Direct Attack Cannon" that can transcend space.

Release Date: 2014-12-06

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 13

5.0

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko & Ichiro Itano: Collection of KeyAnimation Films

“Mobile Suit Gundam” series are still favored by various generations, passed its 35th anniversary. The animators who played the core roles in the memorable first series “Mobile Suit Gundam” are Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Ichiro Itano: “We would like to leave the key animations as the film production to posterity to praise their achievements, which influenced not only on the audience but also on the current anime industry.”

Release Date: 2014-12-05

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 3

6.2

Carnage

Only the dead body remained. A one-armed woman who has a ghastly past. She dyes the wasteland in blood in order to achieve revenge on the one-eyed man.

Release Date: 2014-12-05

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 5

6.7

Hill Climb Girl

A girl on a bike races a boy up a hill.

Release Date: 2014-11-14

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 7

5.8

The Dragon Dentist

A girl comes there to become a dentist of dragon. She is with other new freshman applicants, but there is no announcement from a senior as a guidance. They are confused and taken along with the senior. The only way is just to walk through freshman's path, which is dark and strange. They do not know where they are. Not knowing what to do, she is approaching to the secret of dragon, but she does not realize yet. The adventure has already begun.

Release Date: 2014-11-07

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 14

Peaceful Times (F02) Petit Film

The short features previously unseen Evangelion storyboard art. Evangelion director Hideaki Anno supervised the "petit film," and Mahiro Maeda directed and storyboarded it. Shiro Sagisu provided the music, and voice actress Megumi Hayashibara narrates the Japanese version of the English lyrics. Sagisu made a few comments about the video on his website and posted the Japanese version of the lyrics. According to Sagisu, when they were finishing work on Q, Anno told him this would be the last time they used the F2 (Next Episode) theme, which made Sagisu want to make a extended version of it. He says the video actually contains four versions of the song: An unreleased version by the London Studio Orchestra (at the start), the Takahashi version from Xpressions, the version from Piano Forte #1, and Hayashibara's narrated version.

Release Date: 2013-11-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

7.5

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

Follows the behind-the-scenes work of Studio Ghibli, focusing on the notable figures Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki.

Release Date: 2013-11-16

Character: Self

Vote Count: 176

7.8

The Wind Rises

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

Release Date: 2013-07-20

Character: Jiro Horikoshi (voice)

Vote Count: 3059

7.2

Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo

Fourteen years after Third Impact, Shinji Ikari awakens to a world he does not remember. He hasn't aged. Much of Earth is laid in ruins, NERV has been dismantled, and people who he once protected have turned against him. Befriending the enigmatic Kaworu Nagisa, Shinji continues the fight against the angels and realizes the fighting is far from over, even when it could be against his former allies. The characters' struggles continue amidst the battles against the angels and each other, spiraling down to what could inevitably be the end of the world.

Release Date: 2012-11-17

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 830

6.6

Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo

The short focuses on the God Warrior from Nausicaa of The Valley of The Wind (1984). Super-powered bio-weapons in ceramic armor begin attacking Tokyo, annihilating human civilization.

Release Date: 2012-07-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 46

8.0

Director Disqualified

In 1997, Hirano Katsuyuki, a married, middle-aged AV director, and his 26-year-old actress and lover, Hayashi Yumika, set out to cycle from Tokyo to Hokkaido. Two video versions of their trip already exist, the intimate documentary Yumika and its gonzo porno alter ego 41-Day Adultery Bicycle Tour. Hirano’s Kantoku Shikkaku reframes this ambiguous relationship in light of Yumika’s death in 2005.

Release Date: 2011-09-03

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1

4.7

Death Kappa

When military experiments go haywire and trigger an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic proportions. A monster arrives in the midst of the nuclear fallout, and Japan's defenses are helpless against it. Mankind's only savior is an irradiated water goblin from Japanese folklore called the "Death Kappa." The two rival monsters must go head-to-head in the ultimate battle between good and evil!

Release Date: 2010-06-25

Character: National Guard Corps Captain

Vote Count: 17

7.8

Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance

Under constant attack by monstrous creatures called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind, U.N. Special Agency NERV introduces two new EVA pilots to help defend the city of Tokyo-3: the mysterious Makinami Mari Illustrous and the intense Asuka Langley Shikinami. Meanwhile, Gendo Ikari and SEELE proceed with a secret project that involves both Rei and Shinji.

Release Date: 2009-06-26

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 881

6.7

Welcome to the Quiet Room

28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide. Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki, who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.

Release Date: 2007-10-20

Character: Doctor Matsubara

Vote Count: 24

7.6

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone

After the Second Impact, Tokyo-3 is being attacked by giant monsters called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind. The child Shinji’s objective is to fight the Angels by piloting one of the mysterious Evangelion mecha units. A remake of the first six episodes of GAINAX’s famous 1996 anime series. The film was retitled “Evangelion: 1.01” for its DVD release and “Evangelion: 1.11” for a release with additional scenes.

Release Date: 2007-09-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 969

6.5

Sakuran

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics while trying to cling to the man she loves.

Release Date: 2006-12-07

Character: Oretachi

Vote Count: 59

The Catch Man

Takashi, an unemployed young man, is entrusted with a "catch ball shop" by a stranger he meets in the park. While accepting people's feelings through catch ball, Takashi himself remembers the important things that he had forgotten.

Release Date: 2006-10-21

8.1

Gunbuster: The Movie

Noriko Takaya's dream is to become a space pilot like her father, who died when she was young after an attack by alien forces in deep space. After entering Okinawa Girls Space Pilot High School, she must persuade everyone, especially herself, that she can fulfill her goal and become an accomplished pilot despite being just an ordinary girl.

Release Date: 2006-10-01

Department: Art

Job: Storyboard Artist

Vote Count: 13

7.2

Gunbuster vs Diebuster: Aim for the Top! The GATTAI!! Movie

This double feature comprises of "Gunbuster" and "Diebuster" (aka "Gunbuster 2") condensed into a single theatrical release told in two parts with a musical intermission in between. The 95-minute "Aim for the Top! Gunbuster" movie is a compilation of the original 6-episode Gunbuster OVA, where man first meets the insect aliens and builds fighting robots and huge battleships to combat them. Takaya Noriko and Amano Kazumi lead the fight, doing massive damage to the insect's world. The 100-minute "Aim for the Top 2! Diebuster" movie completes the series, with country girl Nono leading the "Topless" fighters to protect Earth from the invading insects.

Release Date: 2006-10-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 6

6.1

Submarine 707 Revolution

A high-tech terrorist plagues the ocean... To counter the subversive activities of the USR, a shadowy terrorist group menacing the seas, the leading nations of the world join forces to form the Peace Keeping Navy (PKN). Its inauguration ceremony, however, quickly turns into disaster as Admiral Red, charismatic leader of the USR, launches a surprise attack on the PKN. With fi erce fi repower, Red lets his intentions be known that he will destroy anything that gets in the way of his twisted vision of an ideal future... Dive into this exciting deep-sea military action-adventure thriller, as Captain Hayami and the crew of the 707 try to outwit Admiral Red's gargantuan nuclear submarine!

Release Date: 2006-08-24

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Opening/Ending Animation

Vote Count: 5

5.5

Japan Sinks

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with other countries to take refugees, while scientists struggle to save Japan itself.

Release Date: 2006-07-15

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Mechanical Designer

Character: Yamashiro's Son in Law

Vote Count: 31

7.0

True Love

Natsumi which has been moved to a deceased mother's family in Izu, to change schools to the same high school as the cousin, driven into lacrosse. But one day, you know the father and his secret.

Release Date: 2006-01-09

Character: Nishimura Keisuke

Vote Count: 2

6.3

Funky Forest: The First Contact

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.

Release Date: 2005-10-25

Character: Hasuda

Vote Count: 56

Top wo Nerae 2! Diebuster

Generations have passed since the war with the Space Monsters started, and none remain who know how it began, with even records of those times being scarce. It is a lost cause, but humanity still fights against them, relying on the "Topless": a group of elite space pilots with special powers that allow them to use the Buster Machines—the last hope against the Space Monsters.

Release Date: 2004-10-03

Department: Writing

Job: Storyboard

10.0

Diebuster

Nono, a girl from a remote Martian town, has heard tales all her life of the legendary pilot "Nono-Riri," and wants nothing more than to leave her humble life behind and follow in the footsteps of her idol. Though she has no idea of the dangers that lie ahead, nothing will stop her from achieving her dream. While Nono is down on her luck, she chances upon the lonesome Topless pilot Lal'C Melk Mark, and decides to stake her entire future on following Lal'C, no matter the cost.

Release Date: 2004-10-03

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1

7.5

The Taste of Tea

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.

Release Date: 2004-07-17

Character: Kasugabe

Vote Count: 145

6.3

Cutie Honey

When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.

Release Date: 2004-05-29

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Character: Office Worker

Vote Count: 79

The Railway and the Girl

The short film shot within the movie "Ritual" (2000)

Release Date: 2003-07-24

Department: Camera

Job: Camera Operator

6.0

Once upon a time returning to my hometown

Extra, behind scenes from Hideaki Anno's film Ritual (also known as Shiki-Jitsu).

Release Date: 2003-07-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character:

Vote Count: 1

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Theatrical Edition #26 Live Action Part (Special Rush Edit Version)

A live-action short film following Asuka and Misato from "Evangelion" as ordinary people outside of the universe of Evangelion.

Release Date: 2003-06-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Shinji (voice)

Frog River

Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel.

Release Date: 2002-12-04

7.0

The Invention of Imaginary Machines of Destruction

Kusoh no kikai-tachi no naka no hakai no hatsumei is an animated short wirtten and directed by Hideaki Anno and produced by Studio Ghibli. It's a Ghibli Museum exclusive.

Release Date: 2002-10-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

4.2

Animation Store Manager

This is the Animation Store Manager!! Anime Tenchou is a CM character for Animate, one of Japan's biggest retailer of anime, games, and manga. The character series was created by Shimamoto Kazuhiko for publicity purposes. Later adapted into a manga, a weekly radio drama and this OVA animated by GAINAX and directed by Anno Hideaki. Anizawa Meito is the blazing store manager. He is a fireball who loves animation merchandise at heart. He takes over the dying wish of the former store manager, though still alive, who was attacked by the rival store and becomes a “store manager” of newly opened animation goods specialty store, Animate. The scarlet, “store manager visor” is his trademark.

Release Date: 2002-08-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

7.9

Ryusei-Kacho

Ryusei-Kacho is renowned for his unmatchable skills in securing a seat on the infamous Japanese commuter trains. Never once has he failed until he meets the beautiful and talented Automatic Maria.

Release Date: 2002-05-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 7

The Invention of Imaginary Machines of Destruction - First Storyboards, in Motion Short Director

Storyboard showcase of Anno's ghibli museum short.

Release Date: 2002-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Koishii Hito/Takako Matsu PV

Advertisement anno made for Takako Matsu

Release Date: 2001-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Cutie Honey Presentation Pilot Film

Presentation film that would lead to the live action 2001 Cutie Honey film

Release Date: 2001-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

7.6

Ritual

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.

Release Date: 2000-12-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 79

7.0

GAMERA 1999

Hideaki Anno's documentary about the making of Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris. From concept to film, the documentary is a video diary of the film's production. Not included in the Arrow Video collection.

Release Date: 1999-02-20

Department: Camera

Job: Director of Photography

Character:

Vote Count: 3

8.3

Abunai Deka Forever The Movie

Release Date: 1998-09-12

Character: Man

Vote Count: 3

6.7

Evangelion: Death (True)²

A highly experimental film presenting a story out of chronological order taking place 15 years after a near-apocalyptic catastrophe, about four traumatized 14 year olds who are tasked with piloting massive humanoid decisive weapons called Evangelion, the psychologically maladjusted adults who handle and command them, and the events and forces that affect them or which they take part in as they engage massive hostile invaders known as "Angels."

Release Date: 1998-03-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 99

7.7

Revival of Evangelion

"Revival of Evangelion" combines the movies, "Evangelion: Death (True)²" (a re-edit of "Death" segment from "Death and Rebirth") and "The End of Evangelion," into one long production. It is a "complete" ending.

Release Date: 1998-03-07

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 50

7.7

Love & Pop

Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.

Release Date: 1998-01-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 70

8.0

Evangelion Symphony

Evangelion Symphony (エヴァンゲリオン交響楽 Evangerion Kōkyōgaku) is an orchestral live album featuring music from the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. In 1997 it was recorded at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall. It was released on December 22, 1997 with the catalogue number KICA-390/1 on King Records' label Starchild Records. Shirō Sagisu created and produced the music. It also managed to peak rank 34 in the Oricon charts, managing to make a total of 6 frequent appearances.

Release Date: 1997-12-22

Department: Crew

Job: Supervisor of Production Resources

Vote Count: 1

8.3

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity. An alternate ending to the television series "Neon Genesis Evangelion", which aired from 1995 to 1996 and whose final two episodes were controversial for their atypically abstract direction.

Release Date: 1997-07-19

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Animation Director

Vote Count: 1645

Ano Subarashii Ai Wo Mou Ichido

"Ano Subarashii Ai Wo Mou Ichido" was used as the theme song for Hideaki Anno's 1998 live-action debut film "Love & Pop". The version in the film was performed by its lead actress Asumi Miwa. Anno traveled far away from the hectic Tokyo metropolis with his cast to shoot almost idol-like sunny beach footage for the music video and film advertisements.

Release Date: 1997-06-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

7.4

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth

Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that re-worked ending, but after production overruns Rebirth became only the first half of the first part of The End of Evangelion, with some minor differences.

Release Date: 1997-03-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 447

7.1

Macross Plus: The Movie

Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden. Military test pilots and former childhood friends, loose cannon Isamu Alva Dyson and the Zentradi mixed race Guld Goa Bowman, are selected to each pilot a new aircraft (Shinsei Industries' YF-19 & General Galaxy's YF-21) for Project Super Nova, to choose the newest successor to the VF-11 Thunderbolt variable fighter which is currently still in use by the U.N. Spacy military forces. Their own personal grudges end up disrupting the tests, and begin to wreak havoc on the program.

Release Date: 1995-10-06

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 66

7.9

Sailor Moon R: The Movie - The Promise of the Rose

While enjoying the flower gardens, Sailor Moon and friends encounter an old childhood friend of Mamoru's: an alien! He's come back to give Mamoru a special flower but doesn't like Usagi and the rest of the planet's inhabitants. Sailor Moon must defend the earth from the evil Kisenian Flower he's brought back... before the evil vines and blossoms overrun the planet!

Release Date: 1993-12-05

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 161

3.5

Crimson Wolf

An archaeological expedition finds the mummified bodies of Genghis Khan and his army somewhere in Mongolia. Unaware that the location is cursed, the explorers wake up the former ruler of the Mongolian empire. He warns the intruders that a large calamity will befall the world in one thousand days. The only ones who can prevent this from happening are three persons who bear wolf-shaped arrow scars. They must join forces and kill the "three emperors" so that the Khan's soul can once again sleep for a thousand years.

Release Date: 1993-07-07

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 2

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story I

The first specially edited memorial episode featuring Jean’s narration. This is a breath-taking sea adventure action animation. The story centers on a series of critical battles by the indestructible submarine, Nautilus and the conflict between Captain Nemo and the Gargoyle. It’s a shorter, more streamlined version of Nadia called "The Nautilus Story", which all but eliminates the filler arc and concentrates on the struggle between Nemo and Gargoyle. Some scenes in the more pivotal episodes are cut as well. The compilation series was made by Hideaki Anno, who was said to have been dissatisfied with the final result of the TV show. The Nautilus Story was only released in Japan on VHS and laserdisc.

Release Date: 1991-06-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story III

The third and final specially edited memorial episode featuring Jean’s narration. This is a breath-taking sea adventure action animation. The story centers on a series of critical battles by the indestructible submarine, Nautilus and the conflict between Captain Nemo and the Gargoyle. It’s a shorter, more streamlined version of Nadia called "The Nautilus Story", which all but eliminates the filler arc and concentrates on the struggle between Nemo and Gargoyle. Some scenes in the more pivotal episodes are cut as well. The compilation series was made by Hideaki Anno, who was said to have been dissatisfied with the final result of the TV show. The Nautilus Story was only released in Japan on VHS and laserdisc.

Release Date: 1991-06-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story II

The second specially edited memorial episode featuring Jean’s narration. This is a breath-taking sea adventure action animation. The story centers on a series of critical battles by the indestructible submarine, Nautilus and the conflict between Captain Nemo and the Gargoyle. It’s a shorter, more streamlined version of Nadia called "The Nautilus Story", which all but eliminates the filler arc and concentrates on the struggle between Nemo and Gargoyle. Some scenes in the more pivotal episodes are cut as well. The compilation series was made by Hideaki Anno, who was said to have been dissatisfied with the final result of the TV show. The Nautilus Story was only released in Japan on VHS and laserdisc.

Release Date: 1991-06-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

6.0

Battle Mode

Advertisement directed by Anno.

Release Date: 1990-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Dragon Quest Fantasia Video

Dragon Quest Fantasia Video is a direct-to-video live action production of the Dragon Quest series that was released by Enix in 1988. A silent reinterpretation of different elements of the Erdrick trilogy games set to various music from the games composed by Koichi Sugiyama and performed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. The video was planned and produced by Toshio Okada, who was then the head of anime studio Gainax, who worked on the movie's special effects, and Tohokushinsha Film.

Release Date: 1988-12-21

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Animation

Character:

8.4

Grave of the Fireflies

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

Release Date: 1988-04-16

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 5727

7.1

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

In UC 0093, the Federation has recovered from its defeat and has created a new anti-colonial special forces unit to deal with rebel forces: Londo Bell. Elsewhere in space, Char Aznable reappears out of self-imposed hiding with a declaration that he now commands his own Neo-Zeon movement, and intends to force the emigration of Earth's inhabitants to space by bringing about an apocalypse.

Release Date: 1988-03-12

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Mechanical & Creature Designer

Vote Count: 57

5.4

Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01

Ace female test pilot Kusomoto Elle humiliates macho tank driver Lt. Kilgore in the first demonstration of the advanced personal battle tank, the MADOX. Kilgore vows revenge, and gets his chance when the army rather carelessly loses the prototype in Tokyo. The MADOX is found by engineering student Sujimoto Kouji, who doesn't take the time to completely read the manual and ends up zooming around Tokyo trapped in a machine he doesn't quite know how to operate. Guess who gets the job of stopping the now mobile missing MADOX? Poor Kouji. If he's late for his date, it's over between him and his girlfriend. His current attire redefines the term "over-dressed." And to top it all off, Kilgore wants to make him late- as in "the late Kouji!"

Release Date: 1987-12-16

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 22

5.1

Battle Royale High School

When the school Karate club's star fighter quits and decides to go pro, he unwittingly fulfills an ancient interdimensional prophecy and becomes demon king of his dimension. Soon his high school becomes a battleground for demon slaying samurai, interplanetary law enforcement, and even his own traitorous demon minions. Well animated fight scenes ensue.

Release Date: 1987-12-10

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Animation Director

Vote Count: 16

7.2

Ultraman: The Adventure Begins

The lives of three stunt pilots (Scott, Chuck, and Beth) are changed when they gain the ability to transform into three new Ultra-beings, and form the Ultra Force, to battle four giant Sorkin Monsters.

Release Date: 1987-10-12

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 6

5.7

Crystal Triangle: The Forbidden Revelation

In times of olde, God gave mankind the ten commandments, and a message that has been lost to the centuries. In the present, Koichiro Kamishiro is a modern day Indiana Jones who scours (and often destroys) ruins for hints of the past, until one day he runs across a box filled with two crystal triangles. Having inadvertently run across the key to God's lost message, Kamishiro suddenly has a lot to deal with including assassination attempts by the KGB and the CIA, aliens hell-bent on destroying the Earth and the love of several women!

Release Date: 1987-07-22

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 7

6.9

Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise

On a future Earth, war between the Kingdom of Honneamise and its rival, The Republic, is inevitable. As evolving technology creates new ways to wage war, a small group seeks to propel mankind into space in their world’s first spaceflight program. For astronaut candidate Shirotsugh Lhadatt, it’s a personal odyssey as he grows from an aimless young man into a leader willing to put everything on the line in order to move the human race forward and away from the brink of Armageddon.

Release Date: 1987-03-14

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Animation Director

Vote Count: 129

Valis: The Fantasm Soldier

Yuko Asou is a Japanese student from the late 1980s who must protect three different kingdoms - our own land, the land of the Spirits, and Vecanti, the world of dreams - by using a mystical sword called Valis.

Release Date: 1987-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

7.2

Robotech: The Movie

In 1999 an alien spaceship crashed onto the earth. Hidden on board were the secrets of a unique science known as Robot technology. Databanks found in the ship were transferred to the Earth Robotech Computer Complex. In 2009, an alien search party arrived from hyper-space to reclaim their lost databank. The united Earth Government was forced into an Inter Galactic war. Earth forces were able to win the first battle... but at a great cost. The planet was virtually destroyed. New population centres grew out of the ashes... It is now 2027, a second armada sent by the aliens is nearing earth, they have come to recapture the secrets of their lost technology and then destroy the Earth.

Release Date: 1986-07-25

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 12

The Complete Thunderbirds

Hideaki Anno's first major professional work in which he served as lead editor on a highlights compilation that combined several Thunderbirds episodes into one movie.

Release Date: 1985-08-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

6.0

Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise Pilot

Short pilot film from year 1985 for the Royal Space Force movie that came out two years later.

Release Date: 1985-04-01

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Animation Director

Vote Count: 1

7.1

Megazone 23

A young biker stumbles onto a prototype motorcycle with a hidden function that has a link to the true nature of his world.

Release Date: 1985-03-09

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 26

5.6

Urusei Yatsura: Remember My Love

The third film finds Ataru transformed into a pink hippopotamus, which sends Lum chasing after the wicked magician responsible, with catastrophic results. With Lum gone, her friends decide that there is no reason to remain, and so Tomobiki slowly returns to normal. The highlight of the film is a high speed chase scene with an angry Lum flying after the mysterious Ruu through the city at night and into a hall of mirrors (and illusion ). Ataru's true feelings for Lum are probably more obvious in this film than any of the others.

Release Date: 1985-01-26

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 17

6.1

Birth: A War of Two Worlds

Aqualoid was a prosperous planet, but an attack from a mysterious life force, the Inorganics, transforms it into a post-apocalyptic shell of its former self. When Nam finds a mysterious sword, he is suddenly the object of a planet-wide chase. With the Inorganics closing in, will Nam and his friends discover the secret of the sword and save their world? Or will they destroy Aqualoid in favor of a new Birth?

Release Date: 1984-09-05

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Animation

Vote Count: 12

7.3

Macross: Do You Remember Love?

It is A.D. 2009 and the human race is caught in a war between giant humanoids, male Zentrans and female Meltrans. Returning from the edge of our solar system after making a space fold, the SDF-1 Macross makes the long journey back to Earth with survivors of South Ataria Island.

Release Date: 1984-07-21

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 89

8.0

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.

Release Date: 1984-03-11

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Vote Count: 3652

7.7

DAICON IV Opening Animation

A girl is visited by two men from a space ship. They give her water she needs for her daicon (radish). On her journey to deliver the water, she crosses paths with iconic characters from comic books, live-action films, literature and animation.

Release Date: 1983-08-20

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Animation Director

Vote Count: 29

6.6

Daicon Film's Return of Ultraman

The final fan-made Ultraman short film directed by Hideaki Anno. Based on The Return of Ultraman series.

Release Date: 1983-08-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Ultraman

Vote Count: 13

Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon

Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon fight the evil plan of the Red Bear Empire, led by Death Kremlin, to brainwash the children of Japan by replacing the pages of their textbooks with red paper.

Release Date: 1982-08-01

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Mechanical Designer

Character: Narrator

7.2

DAICON III Opening Animation

A short anime film that was produced for the 1981 Daicon III Nihon SF Taikai convention.

Release Date: 1981-08-22

Department: Camera

Job: Director of Photography

Vote Count: 14

Tea Time

Short animation made by anno in his uni days

Release Date: 1981-01-01

Department: Editing

Job: Editor

Powered Suit! Reinforced Armor

Short animation made by Anno in his uni days

Release Date: 1981-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

2.5

At the Bus Stop

Paper animation, directed and animated by Anno while he was at university to show at a college screening.

Release Date: 1980-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

Hideaki Anno's Ultraman

Ultraman fan film made by Anno a few years prior to the daicon film.

Release Date: 1980-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Ultraman

Aerial Replacement

Short animation made by anno in his uni days

Release Date: 1980-01-01

Department: Crew

Job: Cinematography

A Tank Jumped Out from the Fridge!!

Short animation made by Anno during his uni days.

Release Date: 1980-01-01

Department: Editing

Job: Editor

Water

Short animation made by anno during his uni days

Release Date: 1980-01-01

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Animation

5.0

Tough Tire! SHADO Tire

Amateur animation by 20-year-old Hikeaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion) while he was studying at Osaka University of Arts. The short features a speeding car with physics-defying tires.

Release Date: 1980-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

6.0

Proverb Dictionary: He Who Shoots Often, Hits at Last!

Amateur animation by 20-year-old Hikeaki Anno while he was studying at Osaka University of Arts. The short is an animated form of the idiom "even a poor marksman will hit the target with enough shots".

Release Date: 1979-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Yamato

Animation Anno made during his high school years.

Release Date: 1978-01-01

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Animation

Ubekosei

Short animation made by anno in his high school days

Release Date: 1978-01-01

Department: Crew

Job: Cinematography

NAKAMURIDER

Anno directed and also appeared in this short, live-action film when he was in the third year at high school. Starring Akimasa Nakamura, the student council president, it was made as the Art Club’s exhibit for the school festival. The film condenses his favorite elements, makes full use of effects such as stop motion and film scratching, and the images that are spontaneously and freely constructed solely by his senses represents the starting point of Anno’s special effects live action films. The adapted version which was re-edited by Anno in 2005 is screened.

Release Date: 1978-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character:

Space Battleship Yamato 50th Anniversary Project

50th Anniversary Project for the legendary space opera.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Extra Curricular Lesson with Hideaki Anno

Sometime in 1999, after Neon Genesis Evangelion finished and during the pre-production of Kare Kano, Evangelion's director Hideaki Anno appeared on a TV show on NHK called "Welcome Back for an Extracurricular Lesson, Senpai!", which features Japanese celebrities revisiting their old stomping grounds and teaches a class ...

Character: Himself

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX

High-school student Amate Yuzuriha lives peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space. But when she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal mobile suit dueling sport known as Clan Battle.

Release Date: 2025-04-09

Department: Art

Job: Storyboard Artist

Episode Count: 1

Shin Kamen Rider: Episode Format Version

Shin Kamen Rider: Episode Format Version

The 2023 film Shin Kamen Rider now released in the format of 5 episodes with exclusive new footage.

Release Date: 2024-11-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 5

Hideaki ANNO and Hitoshi MATSUMOTO fireside chat
6.7

Hideaki ANNO and Hitoshi MATSUMOTO fireside chat

Two of Japan’s top creators come together for a special fireside chat. Hideaki ANNO, creator and director of the Evangelion series, and Hitoshi MATSUMOTO, producer of Documental and FREEZE, sit down to discuss their respective creative philosophy and approaches, the spread of their work abroad, their future creative endeavors, and more.

Release Date: 2021-08-20

Character: Self

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 3

8.6

Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion

EVANGELION is coming to an end. NHK spent 4 years with exclusive access to director Hideaki Anno, documenting the creative process behind the final EVANGELION: 3.0+1.0 THRICE UPON A TIME. For the first time, the camera is allowed inside Anno's studio. The documentary attempts to capture why master filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (STUDIO GHIBLI) describes him as one who sheds blood for his films.

Release Date: 2021-03-22

Character: Self

Vote Count: 8

6.9

Last Letter

It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the task of informing the deceased's friends of the death while the daughter cannot bring herself to symbolically accept the demise of her mother. In the midst of all this an old flame messages the sister to say he is still in love with her, but is he messaging the living sister or the dead one?

Release Date: 2020-01-17

Character: Yuri's Husband

Vote Count: 22

10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki
7.9

10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki

A chronicle of the creative process of the legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, a passionate artisan, a steadfast trailblazer, and a father butting heads with his son…

Release Date: 2019-02-24

Character: Self

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 15

The Dragon Dentist
6.0

The Dragon Dentist

The story takes place in Dragon Country. Nonoko is a newly appointed dentist and her mission is to protect the dragon, the guardian of the country, from tooth-cavity bacteria. One day, amid increasingly fierce battles with the neighboring country, Nonoko finds on the dragon's tooth an unconscious boy soldier from the enemy country. His name is Bell, and he has been resurrected from inside the tooth by the dragon—a supernatural phenomenon that legend says occurs before a major disaster. As Nonoko and Bell go through a series of fierce battles, they eventually learn to accept their fate.

Release Date: 2017-02-18

Department: Sound

Job: Sound Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 17

6.0

Anno-san and Our Reckless Challenge: Japan Animator Expo

A documentary about Hideaki Anno's project, Japan Animator Expo.

Release Date: 2015-11-08

Vote Count: 1

Japan Animator Expo
7.1

Japan Animator Expo

The short film series "Japan Anima(tor)'s Exhibition" presented by Studio Khara and Dwango Original projects, spin-off projects, promotional films, Music PV, and VJ Films etc... Various omnibus animations produced with love and energy, regardless of any genres. The digital distribution anime series bring opportunities for project development, R&D, human resources development, and free production under limited period and budget, to explore the possibilities of future film production.

Release Date: 2014-11-07

Department: Writing

Job: Original Story

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 7

Ando Lloyd ~A.I. knows LOVE ?~
7.7

Ando Lloyd ~A.I. knows LOVE ?~

Reiji Matsushimais a genius physicist. He realizes that he and his fiancé Asahi Ando will be killed a theory that he advanced. One day, in the year 2013, Reiji dies in a airplane explosion & crash. He was a handsome and world-famous professor who studied wormhole theories. It is a mystery whether his research on wormhole theory caused his death or not.

Release Date: 2013-10-13

Department: Writing

Job: Original Story

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 9

The Revolutionary Animator Kanada Yoshinori

MAG・ネット is a television program aired on NHK which delves into the realm of otaku culture on a weekly basis. They cover a wide range of things, from seiyuu, games, animators, manga artists, etc and do a very good job creating a professional and illuminating weekly documentary. This is a special on the work and life of japanese master animator Yoshinori "Iko" Kanada.

Release Date: 2010-08-15

Monster Magnitude: 9

Monster Magnitude: 9

Monster attacks are a common occurrence in Japan. A special division of the Japan Meteorological Agency has been established to predict such attacks, as well as support the Japan Self-Defense Forces and minimize the damage from the attacks.

Release Date: 2010-07-07

Character: Passenger

Episode Count: 1

Petit Eva: Evangelion@School
5.3

Petit Eva: Evangelion@School

The series is a parody of Neon Genesis Evangelion, in which the entire cast of the original series are now everyday students going to junior high school together at Tokyo-3. The series features three Rei sisters: one is a child younger than the rest based on Rei 1, the second is based on Rei 2 (the Rei seen for most of the normal series), and the third Rei is actually based on the hyperactive and klutzy Alternate Rei (seen in the alternate-reality dream sequence from the final episode of the original series). Further, Evangelion Unit 01 itself is one of their classmates, but this time as a human-sized robot who acts as something of a class bully. Even the Jet Alone robot is re-imagined as a character on the series.

Release Date: 2007-03-20

Department: Writing

Job: Characters

Episode Count: 24

Vote Count: 9

Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi
8.0

Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi

It is said that "the style of work reflects a person's way of life." This documentary program closely follows top-notch professionals and thoroughly delves into their work. Since its premiere in January 2006, it has observed individuals at the forefront of their respective fields, such as Ichiro (Major League Baseball player), Sayuri Yoshinaga (film actor), Haruko Niitsu (janitor), Ken Takakura (film actor), Kasumi Ishikawa (table tennis player), Hikaru Utada (singer-songwriter), Kumamon (local government employee), and Yoshiharu Habu (professional shogi player).

Release Date: 2006-01-10

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

5.5

Otakus in Love

Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.

Release Date: 2004-10-20

Vote Count: 8

Re: Cutie Honey
7.1

Re: Cutie Honey

A mysterious organization known as Panther Claw make their presence known by terrorizing Tokyo and giving the cops a run for their money. Police are further baffled by the appearance of a lone cosplaying vigilante who thwarts all of Panther Claw's evil schemes before disappearing. That cosplayer is Honey Kisaragi, the result of the late Professor Kisaragi's prize experiment. A master of disguise, Honey can instantly alter her physical appearance and outfits. But with a push of the heart-shaped button on her choker, she transforms herself into Cutie Honey, the scantily clad, sword-wielding warrior of love and justice.

Release Date: 2004-07-24

Department: Directing

Job: Series Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 17

Making of Cutie Honey

Behind the scenes of the 2004 film "Cutie Honey". Extra on Blu-ray Box.

Release Date: 2004-05-26

Submarine 707R
1.2

Submarine 707R

To combat the terrorist organization known as "USR", eleven countries combine their naval forces to form the Peace-Keeping Navy. However, all hell breaks loose when Admiral Red and his USR submarine UX crash the PKN's inaugural ceremony and destroy majority of the fleet. At the last minute, when the UX lands the final blow on the aircraft carrier Apollo-Norm, the obsolete Japanese submarine 707 appears from out of nowhere and sacrifices itself to save the PKN flagship. Six months later, Captain Youhei Hayami is called back to duty to lead a new group of recruits and captain an all-new 707 in the war against terrorism underwater.

Release Date: 2003-09-26

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Opening/Ending Animation

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 2

新世紀エヴァンゲリオン (2003)

新世紀エヴァンゲリオン (2003)

Release Date: 2003-03-26

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
6.8

Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi

Two kids whose families own businesses in a shopping arcade that's scheduled to shut down are thrown into a series of dimensions, each one a parody of some form of anime or video game, and try to find their way home.

Release Date: 2002-04-04

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 45

Mahoromatic
6.6

Mahoromatic

Mahoromatic is a sci-fi romantic comedy manga and anime series which contains elements of the literary genre of tragic dramas. It is about a female android former soldier, Mahoro. Driven by guilt from her actions during her combat days, she decides to dedicate the rest of her life to serving the son of her late commander as a maid.

Release Date: 2001-10-05

Department: Art

Job: Storyboard Artist

Episode Count: 12

Vote Count: 12

FLCL
8.0

FLCL

Naota is a normal boy who kills some time with a normal girl by a stream that flows underneath a bridge. Nothing unusual happens in this town. The fact that Haruhara Haruko crashes into the main character with her Vespa a short while later and subsequently hits him over the head with her Rickenbacker 4003 bass guitar doesn’t really make any difference to any other day here. The at first glance unconnected, bizarre events that don’t seem to follow any pattern whatsoever don’t change anything about Naota’s boring life, either – because nothing incredible ever happens in this town.

Release Date: 2000-04-26

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Animation Director

Character: Miyu Miyu (voice)

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 370

Oruchuban Ebichu
7.1

Oruchuban Ebichu

Ebichu the hamster seems like the perfect house pet: she cleans, shops, cooks, does laundry, and anything to please her master, known only as "Office Lady" (OL). Unfortunately, OL and her unfaithful boyfriend, combined with Ebichu's uncontrollable exuberance and love for ice cream, often earn her severe and bloody punishment. However, Ebichu doesn't seem to mind the abuse if she achieves her goal of making her beloved master a little bit happier.

Release Date: 1999-08-01

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 24

Vote Count: 15

7.0

Document Love & Pop

Two shorts about the making of Hideaki Anno's movie "Love & Pop", one from the perspective of a bumbling assistant, and one from the perspective of a AV director filming a documentary about Anno but narrated by a worker from a bread factory

Release Date: 1998-11-27

Vote Count: 1

His and Her Circumstances
8.0

His and Her Circumstances

In His and Her Circumstances, like a drug, Yukino Miyazawa was addicted to admiration and praise from those around her. She worked hard to become the perfect student, the perfect girl. But that was before… him. Souichirou Arima. The instant she met him, she hated him. Without even trying, he snatched the very glory from her hands by easily acing the high school entrance exam that should have made her the class representative. To take back what is rightfully hers, Yukino is putting all her efforts into plotting her revenge – but was love part of the plan?

Release Date: 1998-10-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 146

Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai

Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai

Release Date: 1998-04-02

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

6.0

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genesis 0:0’ - The Light from the Darkness

A promotional video for the film “Death and Rebirth.” Released on January 25, 1997, it contains an overview of the series’ plot, cast interviews, a music video for “Soul’s Refrain,” and several trailers for the film.

Release Date: 1997-01-25

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

Neon Genesis Evangelion
8.6

Neon Genesis Evangelion

At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen years later, that day has come... but this time, humanity is ready to fight back with terrifying bio-mechanical weapons known as the Evangelions. Watch as Shinji, Rei, Asuka and the rest of the mysterious shadow agency Nerv battle to save earth from total annihilation.

Release Date: 1995-10-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 26

Vote Count: 1772

Macross Plus
7.1

Macross Plus

The year is 2040 and the galaxy is flourishing with several colonies and advanced technology. AI is near perfection and the current top idol is the near-completed Virturoid Idol Sharon Apple. All that is missing are her actual feelings, which instead are supplied by Myung Fang Lone. Sharon's debut concert is on planet Eden, where at the same time, fighter pilots Isamu Dyson and Guld Bowman battle over air superiority for the Supernova Project. Isamu, Guld and Myung were once childhood friends, but after an accident seven years ago, they went their own separate ways. With Myung back in the picture, the old disputes are once again awakened. And when an unstable and illegal AI technique is installed in Sharon, the situation is worsened.

Release Date: 1994-08-25

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 42

Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still
9.8

Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still

Dr. Shizuma invented a revolutionary new form of renewable energy drive but had to pay a heavy price for his success in a catastrophic accident that the world wants to forget. 10 years later the secret organization Big Fire have obtained two of three mysterious Shizuma drives as part of their world domination plans. The third drive has however been taken by Dr. Shizuma who during his escape is saved by Giant Robo. A desperate struggle begins between the Giant Robo and Big Fire for the control of the last drive as Big Fire unleashes their ultimate weapon, the Eye of Volger.

Release Date: 1992-07-23

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 4

Blazing Transfer Student
7.5

Blazing Transfer Student

One bright fall day, young Takizawa Noboru transfered to Honjakuniku High, arriving an hour after the start of classes as the principal instructed him. Everything seemd to be going fine, until the mildly overzealous hall monitor Jounouchi Kouichi decides to charge him with tardiness, and administer punishment... see in THIS high school, any argument can be won through sports or combat, leaving Takizawa in a bit of a pinch until the lovely Yukari steps in and saves him from making himself even later than he is. But that's just the start of Takizawa's troubles... the school tough, Ibuki Saburou, has set his sights on both mashing the new meat to a pulp, and winning the hand of Yukari away from any potential suitors... in the boxing ring! Will Takizawa be able to defeat Ibuki, win the love of Yukari, and still make it to Calculus on time? Of course, it's all in a day's work for a Blazing Transfer Student!

Release Date: 1991-05-21

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 2

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
7.4

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

In mankind's grasp for the future, a sinister foe known only as Gargoyle begins his plans to take over the world. Nadia, with the help of a young inventor, Jean Ratlique, and Captain Nemo of the submarine Nautilus, must fight to save the world from Gargoyle and Neo-Atlantis.

Release Date: 1990-04-13

Department: Directing

Job: Series Director

Episode Count: 39

Vote Count: 77

Gunbuster
7.7

Gunbuster

In the near future, humanity has taken its first steps towards journeying into the far reaches of the galaxy. Upon doing so they discover a huge race of insectoid aliens known as "Space Monsters." These aliens seem dedicated to the eradication of mankind as they near closer and closer to discovering Earth. In response, humanity develops giant fighting robots piloted by hand-picked youth from around the world. Shortly after the discovery of the aliens, Noriko Takaya, the daughter of a famous deceased space captain, enters a training school despite her questionable talents as a pilot. There, she meets her polar opposite, the beautiful and talented Kazumi Amano, and is unexpectedly made to work together with her as they attempt to overcome the trauma of war as well as their own emotions.

Release Date: 1988-10-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 81

Lemon Angel
5.2

Lemon Angel

An idol trio are thrown into various bizarre situations.

Release Date: 1987-10-02

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

Orochi Strikes Again

The mythical eight-headed serpent Orochi was created by aliens, which invaded Earth in ancient times. 2000 years later, they dispatch the Orochi again to destroy Japan and the rest of the world. Only a team of the Japan Self-Defense Forces and a scientist can destroy it.

Release Date: 1985-09-03

Character: TV Reporter

Cream Lemon
8.5

Cream Lemon

A collection of short stories, ranging from soap opera (the Ami series) to fantasy (Rall series) to horror (Cream Lemon Dark) to parody (Pop Chaser). It does deal with a lot of heavy perversions ranging from S&M, male rape (by a bunch of females, that is), bondage, torture, yuri (lesbian love) and incest.

Release Date: 1984-08-11

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Super Dimension Fortress Macross
8.0

Super Dimension Fortress Macross

After a mysterious spaceship crashes on Earth a fleet of spaceships belonging to a race of aliens known as the Zentradi descend upon Earth sparking an intergalactic war.

Release Date: 1982-10-03

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 46

Urusei Yatsura
7.6

Urusei Yatsura

The invasion of an alien race known as the Oni begins a new life for Ataru Moroboshi, a lecherous trouble-making tenth grader in the small town of Tomobiki. After unwittingly proposing to the Oni princess Lum Invader instead of his sweetheart Shinobu, Ataru becomes a conduit for aliens arriving on Earth, causing all sorts of havoc for him and his companions, not to mention his own reputation!

Release Date: 1981-10-14

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Key Animation

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 36

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