Astro Boy (1963)
Animated Action, Dubbed in English
Dr. Boynton, the Minister of Science and Technology, is distraught when he looses his son Toby in a car accident. In his likeness, the Doctor creates Astro, a boy robot programmed with special powers to be forever good and protect mankind. Endowed with super-strength, rocket-powered flight, a selfless heart and a kind demeanor, Astro Boy fights a never-ending crusade against the forces of evil.
Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis (2001)
Animated Action, Japanese with English Subtitles
Evil Duke Red plans to rule the world from Ziggurat, his newly completed art deco tower. A new robot is being developed by his henchman Dr. Laughton to control all the machines in the world from Ziggurat. Japanese detective Shunsaku Ban and his nephew Kenichi arrive in Metropolis in pursuit of Laughton and are plunged into Red's plot. When the duke's maniacal adopted son Rock attacks Laughton's hidden lab, Kenichi and the waiflike android Tima flee into the city's subterranean slums and fall in love.
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Animated Action, Japanese with English Subtitles
Originally a computer program created by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Puppet Master escapes into the electronic universe. It is up to a shell team from Section 9, led by Major Motoko Kusanagi, to try to stop the cyber-hacker from reaching its goal of total sentience.
The "Ghost in the Shell" VHS will be raffled off.
Avalon (2001)
Live Action, Polish with English Subtitles
Ash is one of the top players in a virtual-reality combat game, a refuge from the drab and colorless existance of real life. She is recruited by a mysterious player to advance to the next level. But, everyone who has made the attempt has never returned. Directed by Mamoru Oshii ("Ghost in the Shell")
Iria: Zeiram the Animation (1988)
Animated Action, Japanese with English Subtitles
The "Iria" OVA series VHS will be raffled off.
Speed Racer (1967)
Animated Action, Dubbed in English
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Animated Adventure, Japanese with English Subtitles
In the far future, man has destroyed the Earth in the "Seven Days of Fire". Now, there are small pockets of humanity that survive. One pocket is the Valley of Wind where a princess named Nausicaa tries to understand, rather than destroy the Toxic Jungle.
Castle in the Sky (1986)
Animated Adventure, SUB/DUB
This film is set in a Victorian era that might have been, influenced by the visions of writers such as Jules Verne. As Pazu, the apprentice of the engineer who maintains a mine's elevator machinery, carries his boss's dinner back to the mine, an unconscious pigtailed girl floats down from the sky into his arms. This girl, Sheeta, and her magical levitation-stone pendant hold the key to a mysterious, mythical sky-castle known as Laputa. Sheeta and Pazu must flee from both air-pirates, who seek the sky kingdom for its legendary treasure, and the army, led by a government agent with his own mysterious agenda for Laputa.
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Animated Adventure, SUB/DUB
Kiki, a young witch-in-training, has reached the age of 13. According to tradition, all witches of that age must leave home for one year, so that they can learn how to live on their own. Kiki, along with her talking cat Jiji, fly away to live in the seaside town of Korico. After starting her own delivery service (using her broom as the delivery vehicle), Kiki must learn how to deal with her new life, especially after she loses the power to fly.
Princess Mononoke (1999)
Animated Adventure, SUB/DUB
A prince is infected with an incurable disease by a possessed boar/god. He is to die unless he can find a cure to rid the curse from his body. It seems that his only hope is to travel to the far east. When he arrives to get help from the deer god, he finds himself in the middle of a battle between the animal inhabitants of the forest and an iron mining town that is exploiting and killing the forest. Leading the forest animals in the battle is a human raised by wolves, Princess Mononoke.
The "Princess Mononoke" VHS will be raffled off.
Record of Lodoss Wars (1990)
Animated Fantasy Adventure, SUB/DUB
The "Lodoss Wars" OVA VHS will be raffled off.
The Slayers (1995)
Animated Action/Comedy, Japanese with English Subtitles
Red-haired Lina Inverse has a typical anime heroine's hot temper and insatiable appetite for food but also a rare talent for swordplay and casting powerful spells. As she roams from town to town, she acquires a cadre of able but quarrelsome companions.
Animated Action, Dubbed in English
In the year 2071, the Solar System is linked by a network of hyperspace gateways. Police lose their grasp on crime and a bounty hunting system has been implemented. On an old fishing starship called the "Bebop," a cool as Zen man of mystery, a macho former hard-boiled cop, a brash and fickle woman with a large debt, a whimsical whiz kid hacker and an unsuspecting Welsh Corgi band together to hunt bounty heads for a meager living. Unfortunately, they are some of the unluckiest people in the star system. These are the stories of the adventurous (and misadventurous) lives of four struggling people and a dog.
The "Cowboy Beebop" Movie on DVD will be raffled off.
Spirited Away (2001)
Animated Fantasy, SUB/DUB
Chihiro and her family are on their way to their new house in the suburbs when her father decides to take a shortcut along a lonely- looking dirt road. After getting out of the car and walking along a path for a while, they discover an open-air restaurant filled with food but with no workers or customers present. Mom and Dad don't hesitate to sit down and dig in, but Chihiro senses danger and refuses. As night falls, she is terrified to see the area fill with faceless spirits, but when she runs to find her parents, she discovers that they have been turned into pigs. She is found by a mysterious boy named Haku, who promises to help her. He gets her a job working in a nearby building, which turns out to be a spa hotel for the thousands of Japan's gods and spirits. Though the work is hard and the people strange, she does as well as she can. Her parents, however, are still waiting in the hotel's stockyard, and Chihiro must find a way to break the spell on them before they end up as the main course of some guest's dinner.
The "Spirited Away" DVD will be raffled off.
The Animatrix (2003)
Animated Action, SUB/DUB
Visions of the Wachowski Brother's "The Matrix" as realized by the top anime directors in Japan.
Ranma 1/2 (1988)
Animated Romantic Comedy, Japanese with English Subtitles
Ranma Saotome is a teen-aged martial artist who turns into a girl when splashed with cold water. His father Genma has engaged him to a girl named Akane Tendo. If you add to this an uninhibited amazon girl after Ranma, an okonomiyaki cook girl after Ranma, a boy after Ranma's female form, a boy out to kill Ranma, a girl who'd sell freezers to eskimo's and several other psychopaths living in Nerima, you've got Ranma 1/2
Saturday Night Anime Marathon!
Vote for the Anime series of your choice and, if there is enought interest, I'll stay up all night to show it.
Shinesman (1996)
Animated Action/Comedy, Dubbed in English
Hiroya Matsumoto, hoping to become a great employee like his late father, has just been hired at Right Corporation, a top trading company. Little does he know that he's been recruited for a very mysterious department within the company - the Special Duty Combat Unit: SHINESMAN...which must face a terrible alien menace unbeknownst to Earth. Like most corporate employees, Hiroya still has meetings to attend and deadlines to meet, but when the SHINESMAN team rage war against the alien race from Planet Voice, Hiroya and his co-workers don their office-colored combat unit suits: red, sepia, gray, moss green, and salmon pink.
Gunsmith Cats: Bulletproof! (1995)
Animated Action, Dubbed in English
Rally Vincent and "Minnie" May Hopkins are Chicago bounty hunters on the trail of a dangerous Russian assassin.
The VHS OVA of "Gunsmith Cats" will be raffled off.
Super Atragon (1996)
Animated Action, Japanese with English Subtitles
Ruin Explorers (1995)
Animated Adventure/Comedy, Dubbed in English
Fam and Ihrie must team up with a rag-tag team of "Ruin Explorers" to find the Ultimate Power and save the world from destruction.
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (1992)
Animated Action/Comedy, Japanese with English Subtitles
The heartwarming story of a boy and his cat. . . and a major Military Equipment Manufacturer. While trying to escape from Mishima Heavy Industries with his most advanced creation in biotechnology, Kyusaku Natsume makes a stop with his son, Ryunosuke. Ryu-buddy picks up a cat but she gets injured when two Mishima office ladies, flying an advanced military aircraft, fire on the fleeing vehicle. Kyusaku decides to give his son the best Christmas present he can. . . by transplanting the cat's brain into his android!
The entire 3 VHS OVA of "Nuku Nuku" will be raffled off.
