Questions tagged [anime]
For questions about the animated media, Anime (アニメ), which generally stems from Japanese animations. Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the anime and its form in other media.
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Animated film or maybe anime? from 1980 (probably)
I've glimpsed a part of it in my childhood, and it still bugs be that I cannot find what it was. Here's what I remember, only some pictures, no plot:
Some planet, most likely Earth. There are large ...
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A manga or anime from the 90s where the protagonists have gems on their forehead and their hands can burn faces. Might be vampires?
A manga or anime from the 90s where the protagonists have gems on their forehead and their hands can burn faces. Might be vampires?
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In manhwa's and isekai manga/anime, what is usually the reason why they got transported or reincarnated in another world? [closed]
I just haven't been catching up to all the manhwas, isekai manga and anime recently and tend to not finish reading/watching them cause I got bored halfway through and got interested in other stuff. ...
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Trying to identify an anime film with a throne room and a giant robot facing it
I have this very faint memory from my early childhood which intrigued me for a long time.
I remember a scene from an anime film. The animation style of animation is Ghibli-like. There was a scene with ...
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A (possibly) Japanese anime in which a little robot boy is fighting giant monsters with the help of a pilot in a giant robot
My first guess was Astroboy, but when I tried looking up all the series, I was not able to find any "giant robot pilot" among his allies. The robot boy was mostly naked, except for an ...
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Space anime movie from '90s with a spaceship that looks like a large sled with wings [duplicate]
I remember an anime from the 90s. It was on VHS back then.
The spaceship looks like a large sled with wings.
The commanding bridge was on top of it.
The spaceship started on the water, maybe in the ...
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Manga/anime about a mage who makes himself younger but in the process falls asleep for 100 years
It's this one anime I watched not long ago.
There is this old mage who drinks a certain potion to make himself younger. Once he drinks the potion he gets put to sleep and sleeps for like 100 years ...
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Recent Anime where male main character is being chased by an organization that holds underground fights between monsters
I know the organization was criminal in nature. I remember there was betting on the fights. I can't remember if the monsters were summoned there or if the underground place was a lab where they ...
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Old anime with a cat girl that eventually devolves
It is an old anime I watched on TV (Hong Kong free TV channel TVB) over 20 years ago.
The protagonist is a male teenager or boy.
He found a pink cat or
tiger girl, which was scientifically evolved ...
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SciFi Film / Anime in which somebody kills their romantic partner after mortal injuries
I have this memory of a scene I have seen somewhere, and over the years have been completely unable to figure out where this is from.
There is a woman and man, who are romantically involved, and fight ...
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Anime set in present day Japan with people gaining powers and a powerful main bad guy who can make things float
Takes place in present day Japan (not feudal age). Basic premise is that some dude secretly released these…ability particles or orbs or something, into the air and random people got powers.
It starts ...
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Help needed identifying an animated series, space opera, mid to late 80s, broadcast in United Kingdom
I’m at the end of my tether trying to identify an animated series, aimed at children (but containing mature themes/scenes), broadcast in the UK in the mid to late 80s.
I have vivid memories of large ...
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Old anime about two brothers fighting in a Gotham-like city; one of them has a sword with a red ribbon on it
I watched this anime a long time ago. It has a pretty dark theme, set in a Gotham-like city, and the relationship between the two brothers is like that of Itachi and Sasuke from Naruto.
The older ...
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'80s (or earlier) anime involving a brother and sister who're sent to another world to restore humankind after an apocalypse
I don't remember much. The world (don't remember if it was Earth or another one) suffers a kind of apocalypse, probably caused by a war. In the end, a brother and a sister are sent in a spaceship to ...
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Anime/cartoon about battles taking place on a floating arena and the fighters would take control of characters from cards or something
I've been trying to find a very specific show I watched as a child. It would have been on TV at some point between 1995-2002 or so. I'm not sure if it was a rerun of the show or if it was the first ...
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'90s anime movie about a girl who was created by the villain using the DNA of the hero
I rented this dubbed (VHS) movie in the late '90s. It was a movie and not a series, although it had the feel that it was the big movie ending to a series.
There was a girl who was created by the ...
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Anime with a scene involving summoning a eldritch creature
I am trying to find the title of an anime from a scene featured in an old Youtube (Dailymotion?) video (which, alas, has probably been removed...).
A group of adventurers (a boy, a girl and I think a ...
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An ugly anime girl becomes a beauty
Through a fortuitous event, I have found a video clip that I haven't been able to find for 15 years. Even with the name "Beauty shower pt1" it will not appear in YouTube or Google search.
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Battle academy type anime from the '90s/'00s where two girls fight in orbit
I am looking for an anime that spanned at least one 26 episode series and OVAs.
The main characters were all part of some academy/military that was protecting the city from monsters who would show up ...
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Anime style video with pink alien girl who gets abducted. Two other aliens rap
I was standing in line at Six Flags and they had a show playing that took place in space. It was animated in a sort of anime-style.
There were two aliens wearing helmets and they were rapping(?). ...
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Anime where the MC is a boy who can grow green crystals/gems on his body
I've seen a short clip of an anime with a little green-haired boy who apparently can form crystals on his body, somewhere like on his palm.
He gets used by an adult (who cut those crystals off, ...
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Anime where the main character enters a game he plays and uses his knowledge of the game to his advantage
The basic plot was the main character was transferred to a game that he plays. He isn't overpowered but he does have knowledge of the game.
One thing I remember distinctly is that people in that game ...
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Anime with two school girls running down a hallway from a bunch of guys or zombies
Anime with two school girls saying they're best friends while running down a hallway from a bunch of guys (or zombies). One girl falls and the other just pushes her friend to the group of guys. I ...
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Trying to find a fantasy anime where three teenage girls had gem powers
I think one of the girls had a red gem but when they all did one super attack it was a giant super gem. There were two villains, one boy and one girl.
I watched it in like 2018. They had hair color ...
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Old ('80s?) cartoon/anime with some kids who find a spaceship and go on a space journey with a princess
Old (possibly '80s?) cartoon/anime with male kids/youngsters. I think I remember one main boy character that loves the princess, one with glasses, and a chubby one. They find a landed spaceship with ...
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Sci Fi/Adventure Anime of the late 70s or 80s
I am looking for an old anime movie from 30-40 years ago, which was released on VHS in Germany.
It was definitely Japanese style anime, definitely hand drawn. I think it was a sci-fi setting, because ...
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Old anime movie involving a boy raised by a robot and a ship called 'Siegfried'
A boy was raised by a robot guy and I remember there was a ship called 'Siegfried,' I think, and it was powered by the bad sister. I also remember that the robot died protecting the boy, now a teen.
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Anime that takes place on a floating island powered by a sleeping girl
So this anime takes place on a floating island powered by a sleeping girl. The main character went there, I think, and his grandma/mom is sick. There the kids get special powers and they learn how to ...
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Anime from 1987 about a boy leaving Earth
I remember watching an anime TV show around 1987.
A boy and a woman (a android?) were on a ship leaving Earth and she said
"Look at it one last time, because it will be the last time you look at ...
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Anime movie with mind control headsets
I'm almost 100% positive it aired on Toonami in the 2000s, somewhere between 2001 and 2011. The movie's antagonist used headsets on people to basically control them (I think). I vividly remember a ...
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Anime about teens with powers on a flying ship
Anime about teens with powers on a flying ship. The main character is a girl with secret fire powers. They try to stop someone from resetting the world.
The ship goes around getting people with these ...
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Anime where characters fight each other for book pages that contain memories
Characters have to fight each other in order to collect pages of a book. But whenever that pages of the book from their memories are taken so are the memories that they have with their beloved ones.
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Classic steampunk anime where a woman fights multiple guards or henchmen on a moving vehicle
Okay so, I definitely never saw the whole anime show or film but there is one scene that has stuck with me that I saw in a clip and I’m so desperately trying to re-find it.
What I can remember: a ...
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Anime about a guy in a school who has an item that gives him an ability
So this anime is about a guy who meets a girl (the usual) and he has some sort of ability thanks to an item he has in possession. The girl decides to keep him around because of his possession of the ...
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Manga with characters that fight for pearls and must collect 5 to make any wish from the Goddess
I am looking for a manga where characters are summoned throughout the world (isekai) and have to fight each other in order to gain the pearl held by their opponents. If anyone in the world achieves to ...
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Anime featuring a black spaceship in pursuit of a crystalline spaceship across a water planet
When I was about 15 (about 22 years ago) I saw an anime movie dubbed in Spanish, and I've been trying to figure out what it was ever since:
The key things I remember were that a big black spaceship (...
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Is there an industry-specific reason that many characters in martial arts anime announce the name of their attacks?
In Naruto all characters announce the names of their jutsu. In Dragonball (and its descendants), characters do the same thing, at least for their special attacks. I'm sure can come up with other ...
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Anime where the mc collects stones
I was little when i saw this anime where the protagonist collects stones which the starting letter goes to a letter in his country's name.
For example O for Opal
D for Diamond
And he is searching for ...
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Anime that features an app that predicts how and when you die. The protagonist can summon a white lion on a phone application
Looking for the name of the anime that features an app that predicts how and when you die. The protagonist died in the train incident (not sure), and after waking up, he can summon a white lion on a ...
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Anime or manga where the main character moves to a city and sells talismans
The main character was transferred to or reincarnated to another world. When he gets there he sells his small house to go to the city.
He starts selling talismans but nobody buys them, but when 2 ...
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Anime where kids use cards to summon monsters
There was an old anime perhaps around 1990-2000, where the main character, a kid, with his friends transported into an unknown realm to fight monsters. I don't know the plot but they battling the ...
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Name of old cartoon with a mecha suit. Villain is revealed to be the protagonist's father and siblings
I was born in 1994 and I live in Italy. As a child I used to watch a cartoon/anime based on a guy Who could summon a mecha armor with the help of a crystal. The crystal then gets broken and he needs ...
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What is name of the anime that takes a group of kids going on a weird train that will accidentally take them into another dimension?
So I saw this anime as a kid, a group of kids go into a really weird train that can talk. It takes them to a different dimension. Turns out they some weird thing that can make them transform. But it ...
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Which anime of a man who falls in love with a snake that represents Medusa?
A long time ago I remembered watching an old anime where a man went into a magical store and about an exotic snake. When he took the snake home it became a beautiful lady that was blindfolded that ...
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Old cartoon or anime about three superheroes living in a space ship and doing jobs for a Greek god [duplicate]
I vaguely remember this cartoon or anime about three superheroes living in a space ship and doing jobs for a Greek god.
It must have been early 80s or late 70s. I think the god appeared on a screen ...
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Old cartoon or anime about 3 alien hunters: a guy, a girl, and a thawed caveman
I remember this cartoon or anime about 3 alien hunters: 1 guy, 1 girl, and there was a caveman who was in ice and survived. They worked in an alien bureau where one little alien worked there too. I ...
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Anime about a group that was searching for a powerful artifact
A group was searching for a powerful artifact that granted power(?). Some people are born with animal features. They stumbled upon a pub and decided to grab something to eat and they noticed that ...
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Old Anime About Girl Who Is A Puppet And Has Green Hair
The first episode starts off with the main protagonist who finds a girl with long green hair in his bathtub. She makes him pancakes and then he basically goes to school to try and figure out how this ...
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Anime movie where at the end a guy turns into a giant frog deity [duplicate]
I don't remember much of the actual movie, but I do remember the main character being a girl, and the ending scene of the movie taking place amidst clouds.
A guy she trusted turned out to actually be ...
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Book, Manga or Anime which begins on a ship and afterwards they pass a big gate into a city?
I don't remember if this was a book, manga or anime, but I recall that the story started with people on a ship (submarine?). There was a fight on the ship and later they arrived and went through a big ...
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