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Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch

Studio: SynergySP , Actas
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Music , Romance

As the mermaid princess of the North Pacific (one of the seven mermaid kingdoms), Lucia entrusts a magical pearl to a boy who falls overboard a ship one night. Lucia must travel to the human world to reclaim her pearl and protect the mermaid kingdoms. Using the power of music Lucia is able to protect herself and the mermaid kingdoms from a growing evil force.

Tags: Musical Theater , Mermaid , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Magic , Primarily Teen Cast , Animals , Swimming , Idol , Primarily Female Cast , Surfing , Primarily Child Cast , Revenge , Kuudere , Coastal

SPACE ADVENTURE Cobra

Also known as Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , Discotek , Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

Cobra, a notorious space pirate, is enlisted by bounty hunter Jane to rescue her sister from the strange being known as Crystal Boy, but then finds himself drawn into a complex struggle over the fate of a mysterious wandering planet.



Tags: Space , Pirates , Guns , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity

Genmu Senki Leda

Also known as Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko.

Studio: Kaname Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Asagiri Yohko is an ordinary high school student, and she is in love with a boy who does not know it. To help things along, she has written a song to explain how she feels but that song has quite a bit more than a couple of good bridges.

Yohko learns that while she is listening to her song, she is transported to Earth's other-dimensional sister world "Ashanti." This song has the potential to open a gateway between Earth and Ashanti wide enough for a conquering force to invade and take over. And it is exactly why it was forbidden eons ago by the legendary warrior Leda who saw this coming.

This Leda warrior's duty now falls to Yohko and some newfound friends to stop the onslaught and return the 2 worlds in balance.

Maybe Yohko is not so ordinary after all.



Tags: Isekai , Female Protagonist , Magic , Real Robot , Lost Civilization , Primarily Female Cast , Memory Manipulation , Animals , Henshin , Anthropomorphism , Swordplay , Super Robot

Assemble Insert

Also known as Assemble Insert.

Studio: Touhouku Shinsha , Tohokushinsha Film Corporation , The Right Stuf International
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mecha , Music , Sci-Fi

The local law enforcement has a problem: the Demon Seed — a small but surprisingly capable gang with a charismatic leader. Their mecha body suits allow them to undertake spectacular crimes that regularly rampage the city and totally humiliate the police.

Desperate, the police have created a special branch just to deal with them. However, these unlucky few are not having any better results than the regular police and the public is turning against them. If they could just foil the Demon Seed once it would make their careers so much easier.

They just need a plan... luckily chief Hattori has come up with something the Demon Seed gang will definitely never expect. Hatched from chief's alcohol-induced mind, the plan is so bizarre that it just might work: Find the perfect crime fighter who is so powerful and captivating that even if they do not beat the Demon Seed gang, the public just will not care! And who could this person be? An idol singer of course!

The cute and innocent 14-year-old Namikaze Maron cannot sing or even dance, but she has the only talent the job really requires: superhuman strength! Now Hattori and his crew must mold her into the perfect idol singer and turn Maron into their ultimate weapon... but at what cost? Can she really survive the Demon Seed's onslaught?



Tags: Meta , Super Power , Idol , Crime , Police , Primarily Male Cast , Female Protagonist , Real Robot , Superhero , Dancing

Elf 17

Studio: Agent 21 , Toei Video
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Muscat Tyler is the 108th prince of the Galaxy Empire and is known as an eccentric person. He travels around the universe accompanying a Walking Arsenal, K.K, and Lu of the Light Wing Race, the strongest creature in the universe. Wherever they go, there is trouble.



Tags: Elf , Space , Martial Arts , Male Protagonist

Cosmos Pink Shock

Studio: AIC , Victor Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Romance , Sci-Fi

Based on a 1984 serial on the "Animevision" video magazine. The original material was compiled into this one-shot video.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Space , Parody

EXPLORER-WOMAN RAY

Studio: AIC , Toshiba EMI
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

She's an archeologist AND a black belt and Ray Kazuki will need her brains and her brawn as she plunges into a thrill-filled adventure. Ray's examining an exciting new archeological discovery: a legendary temple located in an isolated area of the world.

As always, she has with her a strange mirror that belonged to her father; a mirror that may provide access to a vanished civilization. On the excavation, Ray meets Mai and Mami Tachibana, freewheeling pubescent girls who heedlessly court danger. And danger they find, in the form of Rig Veda.

Veda's after a big prize: Ray's mirror. But she will have to stop him at all costs, because if Veda gets his hands on the powerful object, he will possess secrets that could lead to disaster.

Tags: Female Protagonist

Venus Senki

Also known as Venus Wars.

Studio: Shouchiku , Gakken , Triangle Staff , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

When an ice comet slammed into the planet Venus, terraforming its toxic atmosphere into one capable of sustaining human life, mankind’s dream of colonizing other worlds became a reality. Unfortunately for the colonists, Venus isn’t the paradise they’d dreamed of. As crops fail and competition for resources intensifies, hostilities grow until the two inhabited continents stand on the brink of war.

Reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capital of Aphrodia just as Ishtar attacks and only the intervention of Hiro Seno and his Battle Bike team saves her from certain death… but now Aphrodia is under Ishtar’s control and Sue, Hiro, and his teammates find themselves on the run! However, their unique skill at Battle Bike, which combines motorcycle racing with roller derby, may just prove to be the secret weapon Aphrodia needs to win the Venus Wars.



Tags: Space , War , Motorcycles , Tanks , Military , Fugitive , Politics , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist

TWD EXPRESS Rolling Takeoff

Studio: Studio Gallop , Shouchiku
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Sci-Fi

Based on a manga by Hijiri Yuki, serialised in Comic Nora.

Note: Shown in theaters as a double bill with the anime feature MAPS: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijin-tachi.

Tags: Super Power , Space , Male Protagonist , Cyberpunk , Aliens

Exper Zenon

Studio: Studio Fantasia
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

Tadashi is a high school student and computer-game addict. After a long day spent playing the game Zenon, he is visited in a dream by the heroine, Sartova. In an anime replay of The Last Starfighter, she takes him to the world of Zenon, where the game is played with human lives at stake.

The show starts with our hero Hiroshi easily defeating an arcade machine, impressing all of his nerdy friends. When he gets home, he finds a bizarre new game waiting for him on his computer. The game promises him a chance at winning the heart of a beautiful girl, so Hiroshi presses "Yes" to begin...only to have the screen turn to static right in front of him.

Skip to the next day. Hiroshi starts telling his friends about this game, and they aren't sure what to believe. But right then, in the middle of the class, a huge electrical storm hits, leaving in its wake a lone white egg. When Hiroshi touches it, the egg opens, revealing a beautiful (and stark naked) green-haired girl.

This girl, Hiroko, gives Hiroshi the name Zenon and gives him all sorts of powers, including ESP. That's all well and good, but right afterwards all the way to the very end, Hiroshi/Zenon winds up battling all sorts of evil bad guys and huge meanies non-stop to protect his new sweetheart.



Tags: Battle Royale , Kaiju , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Super Power , Death Game , Nudity , Amnesia , Alternate Universe , Time Manipulation , Slapstick , Bullying , Foreign