Kanno Youko

Kanzaki Hitomi is a typical high school girl, with the usual problems, but when a vision of a young man battling a dragon becomes a reality, her life changes dramatically. Drawn into a strange vortex with the swordsman, Van, Hitomi is thrust into the mysterious world of Gaea. Van must learn to master the suit of armour, Escaflowne, before he and Hitomi are crushed by the…

The year is 2071 AD. With the systematic collapse of the old nation-states, a mixed jumble of races and peoples were driven out of their terrestrial Eden and spread to the stars, taking with them the now confused concepts of justice, freedom, violence, and love. New rules were established, and a new generation of bounty hunters came into being. People referred to these bounty…

Mars is under siege! Just before Halloween 2071, a terrorist bomb destroys a tanker truck on Highway One, close to the densely-populated crater city. There are casualties up to half a mile from the blast — 500 killed or injured by what appears to be a biochemical weapon. The reward for the bomber's capture is a massive 300,000,000 woolongs... and there are four humans and a…

When Ariyoshi Juna has a bad accident, her spirit turns to light and rises up out of her body into the night sky where she gets a glimpse of Earth a few months in the future. What she sees is the Earth on the brink of total destruction, ruled by the merciless demon forces called the Raajas. Then Chris Hawken hands Juna a power stone and tells her to use it to save the Earth.…

* Based on the story by Kawamori Shouji. Kanzaki Hitomi is tired of life. Depressed and despondent, she wishes that she could just fade away, to make the pain of living stop hurting. Her pain resonates with that of another being on the world of Gaea, and when her wish is granted, she finds herself in a strange land. She is greeted as the Wing Goddess, who possess the power to…

The story continues to follow the adventures of Section 9's top members, Motoko Kusanagi, Batou, and Togusa. For this second season, Innocence-famed director Mamoru Oshii contributed with his ideas to the concept of the entire series right from the initial planning stages. The series maintains an episodic format and portrays Section 9 dealing with political issues such as…

In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to stop the paranoia spreading across the population. While the world searches for a criminal mastermind to blame for this tragedy…

In the not so distant future much of the earth has been submerged under the sea or destroyed by earthquakes. At the center of the turmoil is the mysterious Orphan. Orphan may or may not be the original cause of the cataclysms. Orphan's goal is to raise a ship hidden deep beneath the sea to the surface, but doing so would result in the destruction of all humans except for the…

Ten years ago, a bizarre phenomenon appeared in Tokyo. Three days later, two types of humans with supernatural abilities appeared: emotionless dolls that only do what they're programmed to and wield the ability of surveillance, and powerful contractors, feared and hated by the humans that know of their existence. Rationally self-preserving and without the feeling of guilt, it'…

* A new series developed by Kawamori Shouji and his Satelight studio. Mankind living on the planet Vega is threatened by a new enemy from the planet Altair whose female population was wiped out by a mysterious disease called the Curse of Eve. The Alteans using their Abductors, just like the Shadow Angels, invade the cities on Vega to kidnap its female inhabitants, looking for…