Anime like Urusei Yatsura 4: Lum the Forever

Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer

Also known as Urusei Yatsura Movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Kitty Film , Studio Kyuuma , Discotek , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi

In Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer, Tomobiki High is in a frenzy to get ready for the school festival. Props need to be made, costumes designed, and maybe somewhere sleep to be had! Ataru, Lum, Shutaro, Shinobu, and the rest of Class 2-4 are determined to not be outdone this year, and they're rushing to make the final preparations for tomorrow's grand opening.

Once they wake up the next morning, they continue their mad rush to get ready for tomorrow's grand opening. And then the next day... hey, isn't something strange going on? Silence lingers over the city, the buildings filled with nothing but dust and mold. Is this a dream? Or have the kids (and a few related adults) of Class 2-4 finally woken up? If they can spend each day having fun with each other, does it matter?



Tags: Time Manipulation , Memory Manipulation , Aliens , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Tanks , Space , Amnesia , Tomboy , Shrine Maiden , Ensemble Cast , Demons

Sennen Joyuu

Also known as Millennium Actress.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Genco , WOWOW , KLOCKWORX , Kadokawa Shoten , Bandai Visual , Techno Sound , Chaos Union
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Millennium Actress blurs the lines between the past and the present, and truth and fiction, when a documentary filmmaker fulfills his quest to find the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, and learn why she mysteriously vanished at the height of her brilliant career. When Chiyoko grants the filmmaker’s request, he, in turn, presents her with a token – a key she had lost and thought was gone forever. The filmmaker could not have imagined that the key would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life, but also his own.



Note: The film received an early premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival on July 28, 2001.

Tags: Acting , Biographical , Meta , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Work , Unrequited Love , Time Skip , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , War , Snowscape , Filmmaking , Class Struggle , Anachronism , Denpa , Fugitive , Swordplay , Age Gap

Kimagure Orange☆Road: Ano Hi ni Kaeritai

Also known as Kimagure Orange Road: I Want to Return to That Day.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Discotek , AnimEigo , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

After the TV-series of Kimagure Orange Road, Kyosuke and Madoka have finally arrived at the point where they are close to graduation and have to decide where they want to go to college. Naturally, they want to go together, so beside all the studying they also have to look for a proper college where they can enter both.

Hikaru, still a year from graduating, wants to support Kyosuke as well and does that in her own way. But while she does that, Madoka feels jealous and tells her feelings to Kyosuke.
And then Kyosuke has to take action to finally decide on the girl he loves... thus concluding the story of the Kimagure Orange Road.



Tags: Coming of Age , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Urban , School , Acting , Photography

Urusei Yatsura: Itsudatte My Darling

Also known as Urusei Yatsura Movie 6: Always My Darling.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Kitty Film , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi

Lupica, another one of the legion of space princesses that all seem to have found out about Earth in some tour book, appears and abducts Ataru!

But Lupica isn't after Ataru for his great looks or charming personality (because he doesn't have either). Lupica's goal is the greatest love potion in the galaxy, which she intends to use to induce her sweetheart to tie the knot. To get it, she needs the possessor of the greatest lust in the universe...



Tags: Aliens , Shounen , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Parody , Super Power

Steins;Gate

Also known as Steins;Gate.

Studio: Frontier Works , Funimation , Media Factory , Movic , AT-X , WHITE FOX , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , Nitroplus
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

Self-proclaimed mad scientist Okabe Rintarou lives in a small room in Akihabara, where he invents "future gadgets" with fellow lab members Shiina Mayuri, his air-headed childhood friend, and Hashida Itaru, an otaku hacker. The three pass the time by tinkering with their latest creation, a "Phone Microwave" that can be controlled through text messages.

The lab members soon face a string of mysterious incidents that lead to a game-changing discovery: the Phone Microwave can send emails to the past and thus alter history. Adapted from the critically acclaimed visual novel by 5pb. and Nitroplus, Steins;Gate takes Okabe to the depths of scientific theory and human despair as he faces the dire consequences of changing the past.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Alternate Universe , Time Loop , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Dystopian , Urban , Primarily Adult Cast , Denpa , Philosophy , Dissociative Identities , Chuunibyou , Tsundere , Otaku Culture , Heterosexual , Kuudere , Suicide , Ensemble Cast , Amnesia , War , Post-Apocalyptic , Gender Bending , Maids , Trains , Shrine Maiden , Seinen

Mahou no Stage Fancy Lala

Also known as Fancy Lala.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Kyoto Animation , Bandai Visual , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , TV Osaka , Bandai Entertainment , Yomiuri Advertising , TV Tokyo Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mahou Shoujo , Music , Romance

What would you do if you could be anything you wanted? Miho Shinohara gets her chance when some little friends drop off a magical crayon that changes her life forever! 10-year-old Miho is about to see what life is like as 15-year-old Lala - pop star, model, and actress extraordinaire! With the ability to transform to Lala, Miho's life suddenly transforms into a magical fairytale… but life as a normal girl and a pop star can be pretty crazy!



Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Idol , Henshin , Fashion , Family Life , Shapeshifting , Magic , Dinosaurs , School , Work , Time Manipulation , Acting , Episodic , Drawing , Baseball , Tragedy