Sailor Moon - Season Two
Genres: Action, Adventure, Anime
Year: 1996
Country: Japan
Director: Junichi Sato
Starring: Susan Roman, Jill Frappier, Katie Griffin
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The story of the various metaseries revolves around the reborn defenders of a kingdom that once spanned the solar system, and around the evil forces that they battle. The major charactersthe Sailor Senshi (literally "Sailor Soldiers"; frequently called "Sailor Scouts" in many Western versions), teenage girlscan transform into heroines named for the moon and planets (Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, etc.). The use of "Sailor" comes from a style of girls' school uniform popular in Japan, the s?r? fuku ("sailor outfit"), on which Takeuchi modeled the Sailor Senshi's uniforms. The elements of fantasy in the series are heavily symboli...
Sailor Moon - Season Three
Genres: Action, Adventure, Anime
Year: 1997
Country: Japan
Director: Junichi Sato
Starring: Susan Roman, Jill Frappier, Katie Griffin
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Before the Sailor Moon manga appeared, Takeuchi had written Codename: Sailor V, which centered around just one Sailor Senshi. She devised the idea when she wanted to create a cute series about girls in outer space, and her editor asked her to put them in sailor fuku. When Sailor V was proposed for adaptation into an anime, the concept was modified by Takeuchi so that Sailor V herself became only one member of a team. The resulting manga series merged elements of the popular magical girl genre and the Super Sentai Series which Takeuchi admired, making Sailor Moon one of the first series ever to combine the two.
Sailor Moon - Season Four
Genres: Action, Adventure, Anime
Year: 1998
Country: Japan
Director: Junichi Sato
Starring: Susan Roman, Jill Frappier, Katie Griffin
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The manga resulted in spinoffs into other types of media, including a highly popular anime, as well as musical theatre productions, video games, and a tokusatsu series. Although most concepts in the many versions overlap, often notable differences occur, and thus continuity between the different formats remains limited.
Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Season One
Genres: Anime
Year: 2005
Country: Japan
Director: Kenji Kamiyama
Starring: David Kaye, Russell Roberts, Alison Matthews
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG is the sequel to the anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, based on Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell manga series. It premiered on January 1, 2004 in Japan on the anime communications satellite television network, Animax, on a pay-per-view basis. The series was later aired on the terrestrial Nippon TV from April 12, 2005. Animax also later aired the series across its other networks worldwide, including its English language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and its other networks in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Latin America and several other regions. It was also later aired in the United S...
Lupin III - Season One
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Anime
Year: 1995
Country: Japan
Director: Osamu Dezaki
Starring: Kanichi Kurita, Eiko Masuyama, Goro Naya
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Lupin III , also known as Lupin the 3rd, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Kato under the pen name of Monkey Punch. The story follows the adventures of a gang of thieves led by Arsène Lupin III, the grandson of Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief of Maurice Leblanc's series of novels. Lupin and his gang travel throughout the world to steal treasures and escape from the law.
Lupin III - Season Two
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Anime
Year: 1996
Country: Japan
Director: Osamu Dezaki
Starring: Kanichi Kurita, Eiko Masuyama, Goro Naya
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The first Lupin III manga, which first appeared in Weekly Manga Action beginning on August 10, 1967, spawned a media franchise that includes numerous manga, various animated television series, feature films, direct-to-video releases, yearly television specials, music CDs, video games, and a musical. Several different companies own the English-language distribution rights to various Lupin III properties. Geneon licensed the second television series, which was broadcast in 26 episodes on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim during 2003, and Tokyopop acquired the license to publish the original manga. WhiteLight Entertainment, purchased the live-action ...
Mahou Sensei Negima! - Season One
Genres: Anime
Year: 2006
Country: Japan
Director: Shin Onuma
Starring: Greg Ayres, Laura Bailey, Kate Bristol
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Negima! Magister Negi Magi, known in Japan as Magical Teacher Negima! is a manga and anime series by Ken Akamatsu (known for his best selling title Love Hina). The manga is currently being published by Kodansha and serialized in Sh?nen Magazine in Japan. Del Rey Manga published the English translated version in the United States and Canada prior to Kodansha establishing a U.S. division. The series is licensed for English-language distribution in the United Kingdom by Tanoshimi.
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Season One
Year: 1996
Country: Japan
Director: Hideaki Anno
Starring: Megumi Hayashibara, Megumi Ogata, Kotono Mitsuishi
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise is an umbrella of Japanese media properties generally owned by the anime studio Gainax. It has grossed over 150 billion yen since 1995. The central (and original) works of the franchise feature an apocalyptic mecha action story which revolves around the efforts by the paramilitary organization Nerv to fight hostile beings called Angels. Nerv's primary weapon against the Angels are giant mecha called Evangelions which are piloted by select teenagers, one of whom, Shinji Ikari, is the primary protagonist. Other works deviate from this theme to varying degrees, focusing more on romantic interactions between ...
Fullmetal Alchemist - Season One
Year: 2003
Country: Japan
Director: Mike McFarland, Joel Bergen
Starring: Vic Mignogna, Romi Pak, Aaron Dismuke
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, literally "Alchemist of Steel"), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The world of Fullmetal Alchemist is styled after the European Industrial Revolution. Set in a fictional universe in which alchemy is one of the most advanced scientific techniques known to man, the story follows the brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric, who want to restore their bodies after a disastrous failed attempt to bring their mother back to life through alchemy.
Ghost in The Shell : Stand Alone Complex - Season One
Year: 2002
Country: Japan
Director: Dino Andrade, Kevin Brief, Loy Edge
Starring: Dai Sato, Yoshiki Sakurai
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Ghost in the Shell (literally "Mobile Armored Riot Police") is a Japanese multimedia franchise composed of manga, animated films, anime series, video games and novels. It focuses on the activities of the counter-terrorist organization Public Security Section 9 in a futuristic, cyberpunk Japan.
Ghost in The Shell : Stand Alone Complex - Season Two
Year: 2003
Country: Japan
Director: Dino Andrade, Kevin Brief, Loy Edge
Starring: Dai Sato, Yoshiki Sakurai
Available Quality: DivX
The first entry in the franchise was Shirow Masamune's Ghost in the Shell manga, first published in 1989 in Young Magazine. A sequel Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, was released in 2002; and a serialized manga, Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor, was released in 2003, which contained material that was planned but not included in the sequel.
Rosario to Vampire - Season Two
Year: 2009
Country: Japan
Director: Takayuki Inagaki
Starring: Daisuke Kishio, Nana Mizuki, Kikuko Inoue
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A 13-episode anime adaptation of Rosario + Vampire aired in Japan between January and March 2008. A second season also aired in Japan between October and December 2008. At Anime Central 2010, North American anime distributor Funimation Entertainment announced they have acquired both anime seasons of Rosario + Vampire for release in May 17, 2011.
Rosario to Vampire - Season One
Year: 2008
Country: Japan
Director: Takayuki Inagaki
Starring: Daisuke Kishio, Nana Mizuki, Kikuko Inoue
Available Quality: Hi Def
Rosario + Vampire, officially abbreviated as RosaVam , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akihisa Ikeda. The story revolves around Tsukune Aono, a boy who accidentally gets enrolled in a school inhabited by monsters and demons. He quickly befriends Moka Akashiya, a vampire who soon develops an obsession with his blood, and later meets other girls who soon take a romantic liking to him. The manga began serialization in the August 2004 issue of Monthly Shonen Jump and ran until June 2007 (one extra chapter was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump in September 2007). Rosario + Vampire: Season II , a continuation of the series, is ...
Ergo Proxy - Season One
Genres: Crime, Adventure, Animation
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: Shuko Murase
Starring: Taliesin Jaffe, Liam O'Brien, Rachel Hirschfeld
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
In a post-apocalyptic future humans live in peace with androids in a domed city. However, a strange series of murders has intruded into bored inspector Re-l Mayer's life.
One Piece - Volume Eleven
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 2005
Country: Japan
Director: Kônosuke Uda
Starring: Mayumi Tanaka, Kappei Yamaguchi, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Hiroaki Hirata
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
One Piece follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a 17-year-old boy, who gained supernatural abilities by eating a magical fruit, and his ragtag crew of heroic pirates, named the Straw Hat Pirates. Luffy's greatest ambition is to obtain the world's ultimate treasure, One Piece, and thereby become the next King of the Pirates.
One Piece - Volume Twelve
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 2005
Country: Japan
Director: Kônosuke Uda
Starring: Mayumi Tanaka, Kappei Yamaguchi, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Hiroaki Hirata
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
The series premiered in the United States in September 2004 on the Fox network as part of the Fox Box block, and later premiered on the Cartoon Network as part of the Toonami block in April 2005. In December 2006, 4Kids cancelled production due to financial reasons. In April 2007, Funimation Entertainment acquired the license of One Piece from 4Kids and would use their in-house voice cast in preparation for the series' DVD releases. The new dub of the series aired from September 2007 until it was canceled in March 2008. In Australia, Cartoon Network resumed airing new One Piece episodes in November 2008, starting with episode 170, lasting unt...
One Piece - Volume Eight
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 2002
Country: Japan
Director: Kônosuke Uda
Starring: Mayumi Tanaka, Kappei Yamaguchi, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Hiroaki Hirata
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The series uses thirty different pieces of theme music: thirteen opening themes and eighteen closing themes. Several CDs that contain the theme music and other tracks have been released by Toei Animation. After experimenting with an English dubbed version of "We Are!", 4Kids decided to create its own theme music with "Pirate Rap" voiced by Russell Velasquez. 4Kids created four vocal versions of the rap as opening themes, one of them unused, and two instrumental versions as ending themes before they lost the rights.
One Piece - Volume Nine
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 2003
Country: Japan
Director: Kônosuke Uda
Starring: Mayumi Tanaka, Kappei Yamaguchi, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Hiroaki Hirata
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The manga series was licensed for an English language release in North America by Viz Media, in the United Kingdom by Gollancz Manga, and in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment. The anime series was licensed by Funimation Entertainment for an English language release worldwide, although the series has been dubbed previously by 4Kids Entertainment. Since its release, One Piece has become one of the most popular manga series of its time in both Japan and North America. It enjoys a high readership, with over 190 million volumes of the series sold by 2010. Reviewers have praised the art, characterization, and humor of the story.
One Piece - Volume Ten
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 2004
Country: Japan
Director: Kônosuke Uda
Starring: Mayumi Tanaka, Kappei Yamaguchi, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Hiroaki Hirata
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The series begins with a boy named Monkey D. Luffy, inspired by his childhood hero "Red-Haired" Shanks, going on a journey to find the One Piece. Along the way, he organizes and leads a crew named the Straw Hat Pirates. The crew consists of a swordsman named Roronoa Zoro; navigator Nami; the sharpshooter Usopp; the chef Sanji; the doctor Tony Tony Chopper; the archaeologist Nico Robin; the shipwright Franky; and a musician named Brook.During the course of the story, the crew faces other pirate crews and diverse villians such as Baroque Works, Eneru, the Seven Warlords of the Sea and the Marines. The marines are the subordinates of the World G...
Negima! - Season One
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Year: 2005
Country: USA, Japan
Director: Nishikiori Hiroshi
Starring: Laura Bailey, Brina Palencia, Rina Satou, Troy Baker, Jenny Phagan
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Negi Springfield is only 10 years old, but he is trying to become a wizard(Magister Magi) but he was sent to Japan for training, despite the protests from his sister. The principal, who was a friend of his grandfather, assigned him to be the homeroom teacher and English instructor of middle school which is an all girls school...