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1. Neon Genesis Evangelion

In the year 2015, the world stands on the brink of destruction. Humanity's last hope lies in the hands of Nerv, a special agency under the United Nations, and their Evangelions, giant machines capable of defeating the Angels who herald Earth's ruin. Gendou Ikari, head of the organization, seeks compatible pilots who can synchronize with the Evangelions and realize their true potential. Aiding in this defensive endeavor are talented personnel Misato Katsuragi, Head of Tactical Operations, and Ritsuko Akagi, Chief Scientist.

Face to face with his father for the first time in years, 14-year-old Shinji Ikari's average life is irreversibly changed when he is whisked away into the depths of Nerv, and into a harrowing new destiny—he must become the pilot of Evangelion Unit-01 with the fate of mankind on his shoulders.

Written by Hideaki Anno, Neon Genesis Evangelion is a heroic tale of a young boy who will become a legend. But as this psychological drama unfolds, ancient secrets beneath the big picture begin to bubble to the surface...

Neon Genesis Evangelion is finished and has 26 Episodes. It is also Known as: Shinseiki Evangelion, 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Neon Genesis Evangelion

2. Serial Experiments Lain

Lain Iwakura, an awkward and introverted fourteen-year-old, is one of the many girls from her school to receive a disturbing email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda—the very same Chisa who recently committed suicide. Lain has neither the desire nor the experience to handle even basic technology; yet, when the technophobe opens the email, it leads her straight into the Wired, a virtual world of communication networks similar to what we know as the internet. Lain's life is turned upside down as she begins to encounter cryptic mysteries one after another. Strange men called the Men in Black begin to appear wherever she goes, asking her questions and somehow knowing more about her than even she herself knows. With the boundaries between reality and cyberspace rapidly blurring, Lain is plunged into more surreal and bizarre events where identity, consciousness, and perception are concepts that take on new meanings.

Written by Chiaki J. Konaka, whose other works include Texhnolyze, Serial Experiments Lain is a psychological avant-garde mystery series that follows Lain as she makes crucial choices that will affect both the real world and the Wired. In closing one world and opening another, only Lain will realize the significance of their presence.

Serial Experiments Lain is finished and has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン, Serial Experiments Lain

3. Perfect Blue

Perfect Blue revolves around the main protagonist, Mima Kirigoe, a member of a pop idol group named “CHAM!”. After evaluating her situation, she decides to give up her idol status to pursue a career as an actress, what she believes to be the next step in making a name for herself in the industry. However, one of her most hardcore fans, Me-Mania, is less than happy about the path she has decided to take.

Now reborn as an actress, Mima accepts an interesting role, ignoring her manager, Rumi Hidaka's reservations about it. While on set, strange things begin to happen to people who are involved with the film. As time goes on, Mima begins to break down mentally, struggling to distinguish fantasy from reality.

Will Mima be able to escape the grip of her stalker and turn in a break out performance, or will she descend into madness?

Perfect Blue is a Movie. It is also Known as: パーフェクト・ブルー, Perfect Blue

4. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

With the final Angel vanquished, Nerv has one last enemy left to face—the humans under Seele's command.

Left in a deep depression nearing the end of the original series, an indecisive Shinji struggles with the ultimatum presented to him: to completely accept mankind's existence, or renounce humanity's individuality. Meanwhile, at the core of a compromised Nerv, Gendou Ikari and Rei Ayanami approach Lilith in an attempt to realize their own ideals concerning the future of the world.

The End of Evangelion serves as an alternate ending to the polarizing final episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion. With the fate of the universe hanging in the balance, the climactic final battle draws near.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion is a Movie. It is also Known as: Shinseiki Evangelion Gekijouban: The End of Evangelion, 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン劇場版 THE END OF EVANGELION, Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

5. FLCL

Nothing interesting happens in Naota's life since his brother left for America, leaving him with his grandfather and father in their boring little town. On his way home with Mamimi—his brother's ex-girlfriend—a pink-haired, crazy woman riding a Vespa, named Haruko, suddenly slams into him, kisses him, and then bashes him in the head with her guitar before riding off. The next thing he knows, the crazy girl is working as his housekeeper, two robots sprout from his forehead to do battle, and the surviving one starts living with him as well. I think it's fair to say that Naota has parted ways with his old mundane life.FLCL is a kooky coming-of-age story with surprisingly deep undertones as the twelve-year-old Naota develops through the wild antics of Haruko and matures along the way into adulthood.

FLCL is finished and has 6 Episodes. It is also Known as: フリクリ, Fooly Cooly, Furi Kuri

6. Uzumaki

Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...

Uzumaki is finished and has 4 Episodes. It is also Known as: うずまき, The Spiral, Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror

7. Angel's Egg

In a desolate and dark world full of shadows, lives one little girl who seems to do nothing but collect water in jars and protect a large egg she carries everywhere. A mysterious man enters her life... and they discuss the world around them.

Angel's Egg is finished and has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: Tenshi no Tamago, 天使のたまご, Angel's Egg

8. PUPARIA

Independent Short by Shingo Tamagawa

PUPARIA is finished and has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: PUPARIA

9. Yami Shibai 8

Eighth season of Yami Shibai.

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 8 is finished and has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: 闇芝居 8期, Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories Eighth Season, Theater of Darkness 8th Season

10. Yami Shibai

The mysterious, yellow-masked Storyteller is a man whose true name and origin are both unknown. He appears at dusk where children gather and recites sinister tales based on Japanese urban legends, to which his young audience eerily intakes. However, the Storyteller is no ordinary teller of tales. He incorporates a kamishibai, a traditional paper-scrolling device, to add visuals to his already demented narration.

A series of short horror stories, Yami Shibai begins with a bachelor who, after moving into a new apartment, immediately starts sensing a malevolent glare being pressed into him. A single talisman rests on his ceiling, but he has no way of knowing it is one of the few safeguards that separate him from a bottomless pit of suffering. Each story is more terrifying, more appalling, and more sickening than the last as the Storyteller's audience find themselves being sucked into the vicious world of his words.

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories is finished and has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: 闇芝居, Theater of Darkness

11. Yami Shibai 9

The ninth season of Yami Shibai.

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 9 is finished and has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: 闇芝居 9期, Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories Ninth Season, Theater of Darkness 9th Season

12. Yami Shibai 7

The 7th Season of Yami Shibai. A series of short horror stories, full of mystery and darkness. Supernatural phenomena and Japanese folktales told by a mysterious old man in the middle of the forest.

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 7 is finished and has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: 闇芝居 7期, Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories Seventh Season, Theater of Darkness 7th Season

13. Yami Shibai 6

Sixth season of the Yami Shibai anime series.

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 6 is finished and has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: 闇芝居 6期, Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories Sixth Season, Theater of Darkness 6th Season

14. Yami Shibai 4

Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off rumors and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 4 is finished and has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: 闇芝居 4期, Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories Fourth Season, Theater of Darkness 4th Season

15. Yami Shibai 3

Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off rumors and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 3 is finished and has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: 闇芝居 3期, Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories Third Season, Theater of Darkness 3rd Season

16. Mind Game

Nishi has always loved Myon since they were little. And now as adults, he wants to pursue his dream of becoming a manga artist and marrying his childhood sweetheart. There's one problem, though. She's already been proposed to and she thinks Nishi is too much of a wimp. But upon meeting the fiancé while at her family's diner and accepting him as a good guy, they encounter a couple Yakuza , only to have Nishi grasp a certain revelation. And, with his newly aquired look on life, adventures abound as he, Myon, and her sister Yan escape the Yakuza into a most unlikely location where they meet an old man...

Mind Game is a Movie. It is also Known as: マインド・ゲーム, Mindgame

17. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu

Sequel to Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou.

Higurashi: When They Cry – SOTSU is finished and has 15 Episodes. It is also Known as: ひぐらしのなく頃に卒, The Moment the Cicadas Cry, When the Cicadas Cry

18. Rhythm

A comfortable rhythm composed of light and shadow. Director Ogino-style absolute movie which freely manipulates geometric figures.

Rhythm is a Movie. It is also Known as: RHYTHM(リズム), Rhythm

19. MATIERICA

A single line drawn in pencil grows and changes its shape as it grows like a living creature. This is a film that explores unexplored territory in the art of animation. One might think that beautiful pictures, a compelling story, and brilliant movement are the three essential elements of a good animated film.

However, the word "anima" from which animation is derived, as we all know, means "to breathe life into". I thought that "life" means "limited time" and that there could be an approach that does not include any of the aforementioned "three elements". The result of several years of exploring new methods was an "animated film" that eschews the so-called "animated" structure. This film aims to visualize "shifting consciousness" through a method of filming in which approximately 5,000 pencil drawings are constantly overlapped"

Matierica is a Movie. It is also Known as: マチェーリカ, MATIERICA