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Umi ga Kikoeru

Also known as Ocean Waves.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Studio Ghibli , GKIDS
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Ocean Waves is high school love story set in Kochi, Japan. Morisaki Taku and Matsuno Yutaka are best friends when a girl from Tokyo named Muto Rikako transfers to their school. Excluding herself from group activities, she’s eventually labeled a snob. Matsuno has a crush on Rikako, so it’s no surprise that he gets a little jealous when Morisaki and Rikako start spending more time together. The rumors around school get worse, but Morisaki still insists there is nothing between him and Rikako.


Tags: School , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , Coastal , Travel , Historical , Time Skip , Female Protagonist , School Club

Just Because!

Also known as Just Because!.

Studio: PINE JAM
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

The original anime Just Because! focuses on subtly portraying the feelings of a group of high school students nearing graduation. Near the end of second semester at third year, when students have very little time in high school left, and are just waiting for graduation, the appearance of a new transfer student begins to change what remains of their high school lives just as they were about to graduate.



Tags: Coming of Age , Heterosexual , School , Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Photography , Female Protagonist , Trains , Baseball , College , Musical Theater

Urusei Yatsura 4: Lum the Forever

Also known as Urusei Yatsura Movie 4: Lum The Forever.

Studio: Studio DEEN , Kitty Film , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi

Strange things begin happening in Tomobiki Town...

When a great cherry tree, "Tarozakura" is cut down while Lum & Co. are making a movie, Lum loses her horns-and her powers! Thus begins the strangest and most lyrical of the Urusei Yatsura movies...



Tags: Aliens , Denpa , Male Protagonist , Cyberpunk , Shounen , Love Triangle , War

Kimi no Na wa.

Also known as Your Name..

Studio: CoMix Wave , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , Funimation , NYAV Post , Toho , Madman Entertainment , Selecta Visión
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl, yearns to live the life of a boy in the bustling city of Tokyo—a dream that stands in stark contrast to her present life in the countryside. Meanwhile in the city, Taki Tachibana lives a busy life as a high school student while juggling his part-time job and hopes for a future in architecture.

One day, Mitsuha awakens in a room that is not her own and suddenly finds herself living the dream life in Tokyo—but in Taki's body! Elsewhere, Taki finds himself living Mitsuha's life in the humble countryside. In pursuit of an answer to this strange phenomenon, they begin to search for one another.

Kimi no Na wa. revolves around Mitsuha and Taki's actions, which begin to have a dramatic impact on each other's lives, weaving them into a fabric held together by fate and circumstance.



Tags: Body Swapping , Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Coming of Age , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Urban , Tragedy , Rural , Gender Bending , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Skip , Mythology , Environmental , Alternate Universe , Trains , Shrine Maiden , School , Yuri

Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu

Also known as The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Kadokawa Shoten , Bandai Entertainment , Animation Do
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

It is mid-December, and SOS Brigade chief Haruhi Suzumiya announces that the Brigade is going to hold a Christmas party in their clubroom, with Japanese hotpot for dinner. The brigade members Kyon, Yuki Nagato, Mikuru Asahina and Itsuki Koizumi start preparing everything for the party, such as costumes and decorations. But a couple of days later, Kyon arrives at school only to find that Haruhi is missing. Not only that, but Mikuru claims she has never known Kyon before, Koizumi is also missing, and Yuki has become the sole member of the literature club. The SOS Brigade seems to have never existed, nor has Haruhi Suzumiya. No one in the school has ever heard about her... except for Kyon.



Tags: Alternate Universe , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Manipulation , Memory Manipulation , Philosophy , Kuudere , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Snowscape , Urban Fantasy , School , Aliens , School Club , Unrequited Love , Gods , Tragedy , Tsundere , Gore

JIN-ROH

Also known as Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade.

Studio: Production I.G , Bandai Entertainment , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Romance , Thriller

In a very different Tokyo from the one we know today, the totalitarian government rules with an iron fist. But a group called "the Sect" is staging demonstrations and challenging the government's martial law. Constable Fuse of the Capital Police's Special Unit is on a mission to stop a Sect demonstration when he encounters a girl in the sewers under Tokyo.

When he fails to shoot as ordered, he is put on trial, questioned, and "re-conditioned" as a soldier. But the dead girl haunts him, both in his dreams and in the face of her sister, whom Fuse has befriended. But Fuse has made himself a target for some very powerful men... And as the world comes crashing down around him, Fuse is continually challenged to decide what is real and what is right.



Note: The film received an early premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival on August 6, 1999.

Tags: Conspiracy , Tragedy , Philosophy , Police , Terrorism , Espionage , Military , Dystopian , Noir , Politics , Seinen , Fairy Tale , Fugitive , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Gore , Nudity , Body Horror