• Production: Manglobe Inc.
• Director: Shinichiro Watanabe
• Music: Fat Jon
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Shinichiro Watanabe returns to direction on a tv series, after having picked up success with Cowboy Bebop and the international notoriety with Animatrix, such a production picks up the best of the artists that the Japan has given birth in the last 5 years and that it takes back and widens the direction developed in the precedents jobs already.Samurai Champloo is surely in the élite of the productions of 2004 and will enter the history of the Anime of this decade. The names that have... [Continue...]

• Production: Studio Ghibli
• Director: Hayao Miyazaki
• Music: Joe Hisaishi
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"When you meet a person during your life you will never forget her, you can try not to remember but you will never forget!" This poetic phrase is taken from this masterpiece and can show you the quality of the film. "Sen To Chihiro no kamikakushi" is a wonderful animation film which makes us wonder why Miyazaki's works have been being recognised internationally only now. I personally think Spirited Away was very beautiful but can't stand the comparison with some works like "Tenku no Shiro... [Continue...]

• Production: Bandai Visual
• Director: Hajime Kamegaki
• Music: Yusuke Honma
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• Distributor: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.
• Genre: Shoujo, Fantasy

Tamahome.. Nakago? Nakago... Tamahome?These will be the first words that a great fan of Fushigi Yuugi will be shouting after starting watching the first episode of this dvd. In fact this OVA is intended for Fushigi yuugi fans, to whom it offers a beautiful story in addition to the TV episodes and nostalgic moments (all flashbacks are made with the scenes of the tv episodes). Plot:I don't want to reveal too much of the story, because I want to let the viewer enjoy all the passages and... [Continue...]

• Production: © 2001 J.C.Staff / Riui production commitee
• Director: Yoshitaka Koyama
• Music: Kenji Kawai
• Edition: 24 episodes in 7 dvds
• Distributor: ADV Films
• Genre: Fantasy, Comic

Fantasy Anime can be parted in two great categories: the ones extremely serious and epic, or the ones totally brainless and comic. This series, transmitted in Japan by WOWW in 2001, is without doubt of the second type, thus making me happier more than how expected... Riui has always desired to be an adventurer and... even if he isn't a bright boy, he loves and manages well in fight. Unluckily Riui is the son of a great magician, who lead the local guild.Therefore, the guy is forced to take... [Continue...]

• Production: © 1988 R. Takahashi/Shogakukan - Kitty film
• Director: Tomomi Mochizuki
• Music: Hideharu Mori
• Edition: na
• Distributor: na
• Genre: Comedy, drama, romance, slice of life

Maison Ikkoku -Final Chapter- is set in the middle of the last episode of the anime, in 1987, precisely between Kyoko's adieu to Soichiro and her marriage to Yusaku Godai. It was a silent raining day when the postman delivered a letter at the Ikkoku kan. It was only two days before the marriage. Godai was wearing a shirt that read "victory", and his co-tenants were up to drinking and laughing at him as usual. But Ibuki Yagami suddenly came to visit him without knowing he was going to marry and... [Continue...]