Top Natural Disaster Anime Recommendations

Gake no Ue no Ponyo

Also known as Ponyo.

Studio: Studio Ghibli
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

A young boy named Sosuke rescues a goldfish named Ponyo, and they embark on a fantastic journey of friendship and discovery before Ponyo's father, a powerful sorcerer, forces her to return to her home in the sea. But Ponyo's desire to be human upsets the delicate balance of nature and triggers a gigantic storm. Only Ponyo's mother, a beautiful sea goddess, can restore nature's balance and make Ponyo's dreams come true.



Tags: Environmental , Primarily Child Cast , Rural , Magic , Coastal , Anthropomorphism , Natural Disaster , Urban Fantasy , Ships , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Kids , Male Protagonist , Gods , Swimming , Mermaid , Chibi

Kaze Tachinu

Also known as The Wind Rises.

Studio: Studio Ghibli
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Although Jirou Horikoshi's nearsightedness prevents him from ever becoming a pilot, he leaves his hometown to study aeronautical engineering at Tokyo Imperial University for one simple purpose: to design and build planes just like his hero, Italian aircraft pioneer Giovanni Battista Caproni. His arrival in the capital coincides with the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, during which he saves a maid serving the family of a young girl named Naoko Satomi; this disastrous event marks the beginning of over two decades of social unrest and malaise leading up to Japan's eventual surrender in World War II.

Tags: Aviation , Historical , Work , Biographical , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Time Skip , War , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Foreign , Drawing , Natural Disaster , Marriage , Trains , 4-koma

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

Also known as Tokyo Magnitude 8.0.

Studio: bones , Kinema Citrus
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

The premise of the project is the 70% possibility that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake will occur in Tokyo in the next 30 years. The anime depicts what would happen if an 8.0 earthquake took place.

The story centers on Mirai, a middle school freshman girl who goes to Tokyo’s artificial Odaiba Island for a robot exhibition with her brother Yuuki at the start of summer vacation. A powerful tremor emanates from an ocean trench, the famed Tokyo Tower and Rainbow Bridge crumble and fall, and the landscape of Tokyo changes in an instant. With the help of a motorcycle delivery woman named Mari who they meet on Odaiba, Mirai and Yuuki strive to head back to their Setagaya home in western Tokyo.

Tags: Primarily Child Cast , Survival , Tragedy , Urban , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Coming of Age , Post-Apocalyptic , Natural Disaster , Ghost , CGI , Military , Robots , School , Motorcycles , Eco-Horror

Zombie Land Saga: Revenge

Also known as ZOMBIE LAND SAGA REVENGE.

Studio: MAPPA
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Supernatural

The second season of Zombie Land Saga.

From throughout the ages, a group of legendary girls have become zombie idols to save Saga Prefecture. It's the return of the cutting-edge zombie idol anime! One day, Minamoto Sakura lost her life in an unfortunate accident. Then, ten years later… After Sakura wakes up in a strange mansion, mysterious idol producer Tatsumi Kotaro tells her that she will be joining a group of legendary girls to form an idol unit. The seven girls are charged with a quest to save the fading Saga Prefecture and adopt the group name Franchouchou. After overcoming the difficulties stemming from their different ages and different periods of history, their undead zombie bodies allow them to defy expectations of what idols can be. During the final winter of the Heisei era they performed their first featured concert at Karatsu's Furusato Exhibition Hall, Arpino, taking another step towards becoming a legend. Now, in the modern Reiwa Era… The curtain rises on a new chapter in the story of Franchouchou, as they march towards a bright future full of hope.



Tags: Idol , Female Protagonist , Zombie , Primarily Female Cast , Surreal Comedy , Dancing , Historical , Parody , Work , Natural Disaster , Revenge , Monster Girl , Satire , CGI , Oiran , Ensemble Cast , Time Skip , Rural , Episodic , Bar , LGBTQ+ Themes , Rakugo , Achronological Order , Transgender , Tragedy , Swordplay , Urban Fantasy

Nihon Chinbotsu: 2020

Also known as Japan Sinks: 2020.

Studio: Science SARU
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sci-Fi

The setting for this adaptation is moved from 1970s Japan to 2020, just after the Tokyo Olympics. The story centers on the Mutou family, and the siblings Ayumu and Gou. The four members of the Mutou family are caught in an earthquake that hits Tokyo, and attempt to escape the city, while disaster claws at their heels.



Tags: Survival , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Disability , Natural Disaster , Post-Apocalyptic , Language Barrier , Outdoor , Family Life , Female Protagonist , Coastal , Surreal Comedy , Eco-Horror , Cult , Athletics , Gore , Ensemble Cast , Cosmic Horror , Male Protagonist , Lost Civilization , Transgender , Ships , Drugs , E-Sports , Time Skip , Religion , Agriculture

Overtake!

Also known as OVERTAKE!.

Studio: TROYCA
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Haruka Asahina is a 16 year old high school boy racing F4 cars while staying at Komaki Motors, an auto-body shop in Shizuoka prefecture. Komaki Motors is a family-run shop that regularly competes in F4 with the team comprised of: owner Futoshi Komaki who is also a mechanic, his son Kotarou Komaki, and now Haruka Asahina. Because this is a family-run business, they receive no support usually from any major manufacturers. Haruka Asahina boldly confronts the top teams head-on to get the attention of these revered companies in hopes of making it to the podium himself.



Tags: Cars , Male Protagonist , Photography , Tragedy , Rehabilitation , Primarily Male Cast , Coming of Age , Natural Disaster , Found Family , CGI , Achronological Order , Adoption , Kuudere

Saishuu Heiki Kanojo

Also known as She, The Ultimate Weapon.

Studio: GONZO
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi

Shuuji and Chise are third year students at a high school in Hokkaido. The shy Chise is finally confessing to Shuuji, and finally the two of them are starting to exchange diary awkwardly. One day, Shuuji tries to escape from a sudden enemy air raid on Sapporo. While desperately escaping from the air raid, Shuuji sees a scene that he could not forget for his life. He sees Chise, with a huge weapon looking as if it was part of her hand, shooting the enemy fighters down one by one. Apparently, Chise is the ultimate weapon with destructive power which is important for the war.



Tags: Military , Anti-Hero , Coming of Age , War , Tragedy , Heterosexual , School , Cyborg , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Guns , Female Protagonist , Tomboy , Primarily Adult Cast , Psychosexual , Urban , Robots , Age Gap , Motorcycles , Natural Disaster , Work , Unrequited Love , Nudity

Witchblade

Also known as Witchblade.

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

Masane Amaha and her daughter Rihoko are on the run from a government child welfare agency that wants to take Rihoko away from her mother. They are caught and Rihoko is taken away. Meanwhile, Masane is attacked by an advanced weapon that can disguise itself as a human being. When faced with the danger, a strange light emits from her wrist and she transforms into a powerful being. She destroys the weapon and consequently becomes involved in a power struggle between powerful organizations, with her at the center of their attention. Because she holds the greatest power of them all, the legendary Witchblade.



Tags: Super Power , MILF , Parenthood , Amnesia , Nudity , Family Life , Ojou-sama , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Henshin , Natural Disaster , Tragedy

Taifuu no Noruda

Also known as Typhoon Noruda.

Studio: Studio Colorido
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

The film takes place on a certain isolated island, at a certain middle school, on the eve of the culture festival. A boy quits baseball after playing his whole life, and has a fight with his best friend. Then they suddenly meet a mysterious, red-eyed girl named Noruda, and a huge typhoon hits the middle school.



Tags: School , Aliens , Male Protagonist , Natural Disaster , Rural , Baseball , Primarily Child Cast , CGI , Heterosexual , Nudity

Megumi no Daigo: Kyuukoku no Orange

Also known as Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange.

Studio: Brain's Base
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Thriller

Toake Daigo burns with remarkable talent and unparalleled determination. Onoda Shun struggles against the walls blocking his own path. Nakamura Yuki hopes to become one of the few female members of the special rescue corps known as "Orange." When these three young firefighters who share the goal of becoming members of Orange come together, the story of how Japan will one day be saved begins... and what looms before them is a crisis that endangers the entire country!



Tags: Work , Firefighters , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen , Episodic , Bullying , Coming of Age , Natural Disaster

SHY: Tokyo Dakkan-hen

Also known as SHY Season 2.

Studio: 8-bit
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Shy has grown up a little after fighting against the 'Amalareik,' led by the mysterious boy Stigma. When she returns to Japan, she meets a girl named Ai Tennouji who has run away from her ninja village. Ai tells Shy that she left the village to chase a member of the 'Amalareik.' Meanwhile, an incident occurs in which Tokyo is suddenly enveloped in a black ball and disappears. The heroes are dispatched to rescue Tokyo.



Tags: Superhero , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Ninja , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tragedy , Twins , Femboy , Shounen , Natural Disaster , Ghost

Violence Jack: Harem Bomber

Also known as Violence Jack: Slumking.

Studio: Soei Shinsha , Ashi Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror

Kanto Hell Earthquake has demolished the metropolitan completely. After the earthquake, Slum King is kidnapping girls and sell them as sex slaves. Mari is wandering on the devastated field looking for her lover, Ken. But she is also kidnapped by them. While she is tortured and trained as a sex slave, Ken saves her. Ken has become the member of Slum King. The king offers condition to him; in return for releasing her, he has to kill Violence Jack.



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Motorcycles , Gore , Nudity , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Gangs , Slavery , Bar , Natural Disaster , Guns , Shounen

T・P Bon

Also known as T・P BON.

Studio: bones
Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi

Ordinary junior high school student Bon Namihira encounters Time Patrol member Ream Stream, a girl from the future, along with a strange creature called Buyoyon. The Time Patrol agents save those who died unfortunate deaths that don't significantly alter the course of history. During these missions, anyone who sees Ream and the other agents has their memories erased. However, Bon's memory remains mysteriously intact, so he is brought in as a Time Patrol agent-in-training. Teaming up with Ream to carry out missions, Bon is excited about using tools of the future, including the "time boat" that can sail through time and space. Bon gets carried away at times, but through the missions, he touches the lives of people who lived wisely in each era. Go on an epic journey throughout Earth and the history of humanity along with T・P BON!



Tags: Time Manipulation , Historical , Shounen , Male Protagonist , War , Episodic , Foreign , Travel , CGI , Slavery , Natural Disaster , School , Gore , Dinosaurs , Suicide , Nudity , Witch , Torture , Religion

Violence Jack: Jigokugai

Also known as Violence Jack: Evil Town.

Studio: Studio 88
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror

The World as we know it has been torn apart shattered by a series of natural disasters that have turned civilization into a brutish nightmare of survival and has left whole cities buried beneath the Earth. It's now a lethal and chaotic place, a place where only the strongest and most savage remain alive. The strongest of them all is a giant warrior known as Violence Jack…

Violence Jack tries to avert a civil war brewing among the wretched inhabitants of a subterranean metropolis called Evil Town. Based on a character created by manga horror specialist, Go Nagai.

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Gore , Motorcycles , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Cannibalism , Transgender , Demons , Natural Disaster , Guns

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 Soushuuhen

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Special recap of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, aired in commemoration of the Excellence Prize that was awarded to the series on the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival.

Note: Two versions of this recap exists. The first being a 65-minute TV airing broadcast on Fuji TV on December 12, 2009. And the second a 95-minute movie released in 3 theaters on January 17, 2010, in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the Great Hanshin earthquake.

Tags: Primarily Child Cast , Survival , Urban , Natural Disaster

Taiyou no Mokushiroku: A Spirit of the Sun

Also known as A Spirit of the Sun.

Studio: MADHOUSE
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sci-Fi

On August 10 2002, the eruption of Mount Fuji, as well as a series of large-scale earthquakes tsunamis inflict tremendous damage to Japan, sending the country into a state of emergency. Furthermore, another massive earthquake hit Japan on August 15, splitting the country into two. While Japanese refugees were taken in by various countries, the Japanese government accepted aid from China and the United States, which eventually caused China to govern the North, and the USA to govern the South. 15 years later, the Japanese refugees residing in Taiwan and the Taiwanese citizens find themselves clashing with one another, due to job competition and the unimproving conditions of the Japanese refugees. Genichiro Ryu is a survivor of the catastrophic events that took place in Japan, but was raised in Taiwan by a couple who adopted him. He gets himself involved in the situation between the Taiwanese and the Japanese, hoping that the two parties will be able to coexist with one another.



Tags: Terrorism , Male Protagonist , Time Skip , Gangs , Natural Disaster

Pac-World

Also known as Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures.

Studio: Sprite Animation Studios , OLM
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

We follow the daily events of Pac as he saves Pac-World. Together with his friends Cyli and Spiral, Pac and his buds face the issues of being teenagers while also protecting Pac-World from a ghostly army led by the evil Betrayus. Pac-Worlders do not want Betrayus and his ghostly minions returning from the Netherworld and wreaking havoc. So, President Spheros teaches Pac and his pals the legend prophesizing a round yellow Pac-Worlder rescuing the planet. Pac, the only round yellow citizen, is the man for the job. Each adventure follows Pac and his friends as they try to return the ghosts to Netherworld, saving Pac-World.



Tags: Full CGI , Kids , Ghost , Revenge , School , Super Power , War , CGI , Unrequited Love , Orphan , Bullying , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Slapstick , Politics , Male Protagonist , Urban , Tragedy , Video Games , Ensemble Cast , Dragons , Robots , Natural Disaster , Episodic , Butler , Aliens , Space , Vampire , Pirates , Witch

DT Eightron

Also known as DT Eightron.

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi

Shu is from Datania, a country that makes young children work. He and his friends were trying to escape when they met the Returners. The Returners are some kind of rebels to Datania. Shu goes with the Returners to fight Zero, Nines, and his men who are after DT, a special substance inside humans.



Tags: Dystopian , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Slavery , Environmental , Augmented Reality , Memory Manipulation , Primarily Teen Cast , Post-Apocalyptic , Artificial Intelligence , CGI , Natural Disaster

Tongari Atama no Gonta: Futatsu no Namae wo Ikita Fukushima Hisai Inu no Monogatari

Studio: WAO World
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

The story centers on a dog that is abandoned after the Great Japan Earthquake of 2011.

Tags: Natural Disaster , Disability

Chikyuu ga Ugoita Hi

Also known as The Day the Earth Moved.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

January 16, 1995. Tsuyoshi Takahashi, a young student at Shiokaze elementary, is driven solely to get excellent grades. Because of this he often ignores those around him in his pursuit of perfection. Miho, a young girl in his class that wishes he would appreciate the people around him. Kazu a sickly and bed ridden classmate that lives near him. January 17, the 1995 Kobe / Hyogoken-Nanbu Earthquake strikes killing more than 6000 people and leaving 300 000 more homeless. Measuring 6.9 on the Richter Scale, it was the largest Earthquake to hit Japan since the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. In the aftermath of the quake, Tsuyoshi's finds his priorities changing. Dealing with the death of one friend while helping another to cope with a very personal loss, Tsuyoshi is forced to mature into someone who can no longer ignore the suffering around him.

(Souce: AniDB)

Tags: Tragedy , Natural Disaster