Anime like The Flying Luna Clipper

Mikan-Seijin

Also known as Extraterrestrial Oranges.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Mikan Seijin is about an tangerine-like alien on earth.

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Aliens

The Chocolate Panic Picture Show

Also known as The Chocolate Panic Picture Show.

Studio: Tezuka Productions , Tauros Film , TV Asahi Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological

Follow Manbo, Chinbo and Chonbo as they are flung into a strange, psychedelic world of madness they don't understand. See them cause chaos through their zany, unpredictable antics in this comical take on cultural imperialism.

Note: Gainax's first professional production, The Chocolate Panic Picture Show is a wacky musical OVA based on a manga by Fujiwara Kamui, serialised in Monthly Super Action and partly inspired by Jamie Uys's The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980).

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Dancing , Idol , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , No Dialogue

Prism Season

Studio: Pony Canyon
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

In a gentle adaptation of Moe Nagata's book Flowers Wait for the Moon, a girl grows up, falls in love, and becomes a mother, realizing that her childhood is now forever behind her.

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Eikyuu Kazoku

Also known as Eternal Family.

Studio: Horipro , Studio 4°C
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Psychological

It started as a sociological experiment. 6 different people were brainwashed to think that they were a family and then put in arbitrary situations to see how they would react. However, when a taping of the families conducts is sold in a desperate attempt to make a little capital it instantly becomes a success. Now the family is a first rated show and their every move is broadcasted around the world without them knowing it. But when a clogged toilet sets off a chain of events that ultimately frees the family from the room they are confined in the broadcasters, not willing to lose their source of income, set out to hunt down and recapture every member of the Eternal family.



Tags: Family Life , Dystopian , Slapstick , Ensemble Cast , Amnesia , Satire

1001 Nights

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance

Presented in the form of a feverish love dream, 1001 Nights (based on Amano's book of artwork) is the first performance of the groundbreaking "Filmharmonic" series, which presents new orchestral works by film composers in tandem with short films made by A-list directors. 1001 Nights is the series's only animated work, and plans originally called for the film to be completely computer animated.

Tags: Mythology , Fairy Tale , Nudity , Foreign , Demons , Classic Literature , No Dialogue , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Historical , CGI , Dragons

Uchuu Kazoku Carlvinson

Studio: Doga Kobo
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi

When a motley band of travelling performers have a deep-space collision with another spacecraft, they find that the sole survivor of the other craft is a humanoid infant. They decide to raise the child as their own on the nearest planet as they wait for other members of the girl's race to come and find her.



Tags: Family Life , Found Family , Aliens , Adoption , Robots , Space , Parenthood

Twilight Q

Studio: Ajiado , Studio DEEN
Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi

A Knot in Time - Reflection Mayu found a camera floating in the ocean while she was on vacation. A very unusual camera. The film, mostly intact, reveals a picture of herself with a man she has never seen before. But that is not all. The unusual part is that this camera has not been made yet... and will not be made for another two years. And soon, Mayu finds herself swinging uncontrollably back and forth through time like a pendulum...

Mystery Case - File 538 A down-on-his-luck detective accepts the first case to come his way: surveillance of a man and a little girl. But who are they? And why do aeroplanes that fly over them turn into giant imperial carp? An investigator's normal methods do not apply when reality itself no longer applies...



Note: The series was meant to be a showcase for various anime directors. Unfortunately, only two parts ever got made.

Tags: Detective , Time Manipulation , Episodic , Anthology , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Denpa , Gods

California Crisis: Tsuigeki no Hibana

Also known as California Crisis: Gun Salvo.

Studio: Studio Unicorn
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy

A boy and girl have a chance encounter in California where they find something not quite of this world.

Tags: Travel , Foreign , Fugitive , Male Protagonist , Guns , Female Protagonist , Bar , Primarily Adult Cast , Cars , Primarily Male Cast , Motorcycles , Aliens , Nudity