Magical Girls
Fighting evil by moonlight, and winning love by daylight, this franchise follows a team of sailor-suited girls.
What is Sailor Moon?
This anime follows the adventures of Rin and Nadeshiko, as well as the Outdoor Activities Club members, as they all come together due to their collective interest in camping and everything surrounding it.
What is Laid-Back Camp?
In this series, players enter a virtual reality world for a new video game. However, on the day of the game's launch, they realize that they are trapped in the world, unable to log out.
What is Sword Art Online?
A young ninja dreams of becoming the Hokage in this series.
What is Naruto?
This movie features Chihiro, who must rescue her family from the spirit world.
What is Spirited Away?
This prolific horror mangaka has brought readers titles like Tomie and Uzumaki. He also draws a manga diary about his wife and their cats.
Who is Junji Ito?
This manga series by CLAMP follows a roller-skating elementary girl who accidentally released the seal on a set of magical cards.
What is Cardcaptor Sakura?
In this series, the school's vicious 'Palm-Top Tiger' becomes the frenemy of her kind-hearted, but mean-looking classmate after he accidentally finds out she's in love with his best friend.
What is Toradora!?
When a pair of step siblings beat the god of games at chess, they are summoned to a world where all matters of life and death are decided by games.
What is No Game No Life?
Born without a quirk in a world where superpowers are commonplace, the star of this series still dreams of becoming a hero one day.
What is My Hero Academia/ Boku no Hero Academia?
In this movie, a young witch must find her way when she loses her ability to fly.
What is Kiki's Delivery Service?
This all-female mangaka group is composed of 4 members: their leader/writer and 3 artists. This group has written many works over the years including Chobits, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles, Cardcaptor Sakura, xxxHolic, and Magic Knight Rayearth.
What is CLAMP?
In this series, a team of girls whose DNA have been fused with endangered animals must save Tokyo and the world from aliens.
What is Tokyo Mew Mew?
This series features an androgynous lead who breaks a very expensive vase at her new school and is now indebted to an unconventional club.
What is Ouran High School Host Club?
In this series, a time-travelling girl teams up with a half-demon to restore a cursed jewel and defeat a powerful shape-shifter.
What is Inuyasha?
This series features a pair of brothers searching for the philosopher's stone to restore their bodies after a failed attempt to bring their mother back from the dead.
What is Fullmetal Alchemist?
This film features Sophie, who, after being cursed, winds up as the housekeeper of a dashing, but cowardly wizard.
What is Howl's Moving Castle?
She is the award-winning author of epic series like Inuyasha, Ranma 1/2, and Urusei Yatsura. In 2020, she was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon from the Japanese government for her achievements in the arts.
Who is Rumiko Takahashi?
In this series, Amu wakes up to find 3 eggs in her bed. The eggs hatch into charas, her would-be-selves.
What is Shugo Chara?
In this series, an awkward girl who looks like a Sadako from The Ring learns to make friends with the help of the school's golden boy.
What is Kimi ni Todoke?
This series sees Satan transported, powerless, into the human world. In order to survive, he starts working in fast-food.
What is Devil Is a Part-Timer?
Most every protagonist in this stylized series by Hirohiko Araki has the same nickname.
What is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?
In this movie, the princess of a long-forgotten civilization is chased by pirates and the government for a necklace that has been passed down through her family.
What is Castle in the Sky?
This man is the author of One Piece, which, at almost 500 volumes, is the best-selling manga and comic series of all time!
Who is Eiichiro Oda?
In this revolutionary 90s anime, many magical tropes were turned on their head. Our pink-haired heroine was so inspired by a childhood prince that she vowed to become a prince herself.
What is Revolutionary Girl Utena?
This anime and manga series features a tall girl and a short boy who are always paired up in school. They form an uneasy alliance with the goal of confessing their love to the other one's friend.
What is Lovely Complex?
When an otaku is transported to the world of Melromarc, he is looked down on and betrayed. If he ever wants to see his home again, he has to defeat the Waves of Catastrophe.
What is The Rising of the Shield Hero?
This series, which began as a webcomic, features a bored, yellow-clad superhero and his cyborg mentee.
What is One-Punch Man?
This last film directed by Hayao Miyazaki was released in 2023.
What is The Boy and the Heron?
Referred to as the "Father of Manga," this man's prolific work revolutionized manga as a format in the late 1940s. during his 40 years in the industry, he produced over 700 volumes of work including famous series like Astro Boy, Princess Knight, and Kimba the White Lion.
Who was Osamu Tezuka?