Historical
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Beyond the Heavens
Souten Kouro's story is based loosely on the events taking place in Three Kingdoms period of China during the life of the last Chancellor of the Eastern…
Action · Adventure
Manual of Ninja Martial Arts
Also known as Manual of Ninja Martial Arts, the only animation from Japanese New Wave maestro Nagisa Oshima is as provocative as one would expect from such…
Action · Drama · Supernatural
Spice and Wolf II
Kraft Lawrence, an experienced traveling merchant, and his sharp tongued wolf goddess companion, Holo, continue on their journey to return to Holo's home in the north called…
Adventure · Fantasy · Romance
Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings
Sengoku Basara drops you directly into the burning battlefields of feudal Japan, where rival warlords hack and slash their way to total domination. Each conqueror wields a…
Action · Drama · Fantasy
Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai
A chronicle of the life of legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi, a name familiar to many, a legendary swordsman who has become one of Japan's greatest mythical…
Action
La Rose de Versailles
Toei Animation announced the new movie based on the classic Anime and Manga. Toei Animation previewed pilot footage of the film at the Tokyo International Anime Fair…
Drama · Romance · Slice of Life
Kurozuka
Adaptation of Takashi Noguchi’s manga, which itself adapts Baku Yumemakura’s supernatural romance novel. The original novel is about a 12th-century man named Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Kurou). Kurou…
Action · Drama · Horror
Hetalia Axis Powers
Based on a popular web-released manga series by Hidekazu Himaruya, this has been described as a "cynical gag" story set in Europe in the years between WW1…
Comedy
Mai-Mai Miracle
The story is set in 1955 in Kokuga, Hofu City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. One thousand years ago it was the site of the ancient capital, Suo no Kuni,…
Adventure · Drama · Slice of Life
Ninja the Wonder Boy
Sasuke is the story of a ninja child that starts right after the battle of Sekigahara where Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes shogun of Japan. Sarutobi Sasuke (Jump Like…
Adventure · Comedy · Supernatural