Summer 1986

* Based on a children's picture book. Ganbare, a black fish born into a shoal of red fish, tries to fit in amid adventures as he is chased by tuna and must evade the Great Octopus. Source: The Anime Encyclopedia

* Based on the manga Mamonogatari Itoshi no Betty (魔物語 愛しのベティ, same-name only backwards) created by Koike Kazuo and Kanou Seisaku. A devil-girl with the face of an angel and a heart of gold, blond Betty falls in love with an earthbound gangster, Danpei Kimogawa, when they meet in a rainstorm. They end up living together in a Tokyo highrise apartment, though Danpei has trouble…

In Japan, the country that inspired the slogan "Born to be Mild," the blood of young men still runs hot. In the old days they'd go off into the country and hack each other up with swords, but these days, what with school, that isn't very practical. So some of them do something very un-Japanese. They strap on a big bike, roar around annoying people, and pound anyone they…

Magami Eiko (A-ko) is a red-haired teenage girl who just happens to be stronger and faster than anyone else alive. However, A-ko considers herself to be perfectly normal, and worries mostly about getting to school on time. Her best friend is Kotobuki Shiiko (C-ko), a bubbly, carefree, optimistic blonde. The two girls transfer to Graviton High School and catch the attention of…

A music video for the song "Futari wa 80-sai" by Atomu Shimojou and Fusako Amachi. Aired as part of NHK's Minna no Uta program.

Two advanced civilizations, the Paranoids — a race of alien humanoids and the Solenoids — an all-female race, are still waging a war that has gone on for centuries. When the Solenoid fleet leaves a battle to defend an experimentally terraformed world by the Paranoids, one damaged Solenoid ship, the Star Leaf, is separated from the fleet. Only seven women remain alive on that…

* Based on a 1984 serial on the Animevision video magazine. The original material was compiled into this one-shot video. Hayami Mitsuko thrusts though space on her spacecraft Pink Shock, hoping to be reunited with her long lost lover.

This high-flying adventure begins when Pazu, an engineer's apprentice, spies a young girl, Sheeta, floating down from the sky, held aloft by a glowing pendant. Both Sheeta and Pazu are searching for the legendary floating castle, Laputa, and they vow to travel there together to unravel the mystery of the luminous crystal. But their quest won't be easy, as soon they are being…

On July 20, 1986, there was a 60-minute Mario anime movie released in theatres titled "Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen", or "Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach." The plot was simple: Mario and Luigi get sucked into their Famicom game, and save Princess Peach from Bowser. The animation studio, Grouper Productions has also made…