Arcadia of My Youth (1982) - Leiji Matsumoto

Synopsis:
After a stormy landing on Earth, which is now under the occupation of Illumidus, Captain Harlock is dismissed from his post and his ship, and is sentenced to more than one person in the midst of a people subjugated by a foreign race. A tiny ray of hope is heard on a radio pirate named the Voice of Free Arcadia, encouraging the inhabitants of earth to believe in a future of freedom, a better tomorrow without oppression today. Harlock acknowledges, with nostalgia, the charismatic voice of this transmission. Words which makes your heart pound and with the help of new friends, the legendary captain invoke all their courage to fight against all odds to can navigate the sea of ​​stars with his ship Arcadia.
This is an anime worshiped by many, with a huge dramatic tone that describes the past of the legendary character Leiji Matsumoto. The art of this anime is a sensitive issue to be discussed, because it shows its age considerably, and the roughness in the animation merely the result of using older techniques. Meanwhile the artwork of some scenes is simply excellent, and the beautiful symphonic music that enhances the technical aspect.
Although it is a classic of Japanese animation, there's certain aspects of My Youth in Arcadia that can irritate some people like to have certain laws of physics ignored. Besides the fact that some characters are not fully engaged in the story as if it indrodução of Captain Harlock is need of an introduction of herself.
This is an anime recommended for those who do not care about his age and is interested in the universe created by Leiji Matsumoto and his eternal inhabitants.

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Data from the Anime:
Original title: Waga Seishun No Arcadia
Alternative title: Arcadia of My Youth / My Youth In Arcadia
Genre: Action / Drama / Adventure
Director: Tomoharu Katsumata
Studio: Toei Animation / Tokyu Agency
Released: 1982
No. Episodes: 1

Cast:
Makio Inoue the Phantom F. Harlock II / Captain Harlock
Toshiro Oyama Kei Tomiyama the / Tochiro
Reiko Tajima the Queen Emeraldas
Reiko Mutoh the Maya
Yuriko Yamamoto the La Mime
Taro Ishida the Zeda
Ikeda Shuuichi the Zoll
Takeshi Aono the Murigson
Eiko Masuyama the The Witch
Shibata Hidekatsu the Black-suited Commander
Hiromi Tsuru the Mira
Hiroshi Ohtake the Tori-san
Hitoshi Takagi the Trite
Kin Takagi the Trite
Kouji Yada Illumidus the Officer

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Garous Loups (2010)

Synopsis:
Virtual reality. Murder. Werewolves. And teenage girls! In a future where nothing is as it seems, old tales can come true? In the near future, humans will communicate almost exclusively through monitors, making the actual interactions of rare occurrence and low for those living in a society almost totalitarian. In this new world of communication, children are only allowed to interact in schools. So when a serial killer begins slaughtering the children of secondary school, the lines of communication come into even greater vigilance. And regardless of all the guards placed to prevent physical interactions, the latest victim of the killer turned out to have had contact with three young girls: Tsuzuki Mio, a certified prodigy; Hatsuki Matsuno, a classmate of quiet but stubborn, and Ayumi Kono, his best friend. And while the girls are caught trying to break up the curiosity analyzing the terrorist Hatsuki learns there is much more than meet the eyes of their communications monitored.
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Data from the Anime:
Original title: Loups = Garous
Genre: Mystery / Fiction
Director: Jun'ichi Fujisaku
Studio: Production i.g / Transarts
Released: 2010
No. Episodes: 1

Cast:
Hiromi Igarashi the Ayumi Kouno
Oki Kanae Hazuki the Makino
Marina Inoue the Mio Tsuzuki
Eriko Hirata Shizue the Fuwa
Haruo Satou the Adoptive Father
Kana Uetake the Yuko Yabe
Yuji Nakamura Kiyoshi Katsunuma the
Kunihiro Kawamoto the Toji Kunugi
Manabu Sakamaki the Ryu Kawabata
Miyuki Sawashiro the Reimyao
Nishimura Tomomichi the Chief Executive Office
Yutaka Aoyama the Riichiro Ishida

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Kara no Kyoukai: Epilogue (2011)

Synopsis:
According to the official website of Kara no Kyoukai, a blu-ray box set of Kara no Kyoukai (seven chapters + Remix) was announced to be released on February 2, 2011. This OVA over Kara no Kyoukai: Epilogue and will have 30 minutes together with the box.

The epilogue titled "Kara no Kyoukai" is about a conversation between Mikiya and "Ryougi Shiki."
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Data from the Anime:
Original Title: Kara no Kyoukai: Epilogue
Genre: Mystery
Director: Shinsuke Takizawa
Studio: Ufotable
Released: 2011
No. Episodes: 1

Cast:
Kenichi Suzumura the Mikiya Kokuto
Maaya Sakamoto Ryoga the Shiki

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Genius Party Beyond (2008)

Synopsis:
As explained in the review of "Genius Party", the 14 animations would go into the original design by Studio 4 º C, seven ended up outside. Two of them have not come to fruition ("Le Manchot Mélomane," the Frenchman Nicolas de Crecy, and an untitled project from Hiro Yamagata), but the other five, who had already been finalized at the time of the release of "Genius Party" in 2007, was eventually released a year later, a second collection called "Genius Party Beyond."
GALA: In a place that resembles the paradise islands of the South Pacific, and inhabited by picturesque living in harmony with each other, something akin to a giant meteor collides with the ground, causing tremendous destruction. Curious, the locals try to open that object at all costs, but Ko-Oni, a kid with a horn on his head and Aporabou, a girl with wings and a harp playing always come into line with the supposed meteor and find that it is a living entity. An old freak shows young people that an ancient prophecy is coming true, and that that body will manifest itself spontaneously if soothed with music.
MOONDRIVE: In a city located on the moon, four young delinquents bored and mad money hear about the existence of a hidden treasure, and engage in numerous grips along his journey to find him.
WANWA THE DOGGY: A boy plays with a mask of ogre, trying to cheer his sick mother in a hospital room. Suddenly he finds himself in a crazy world, with sweet shops and giant popsicles. Accompanied by his dog, the boy explores this bizarre world while being pursued by a giant ogre who wants to eat everything you see on the front, including the boy himself.
TOUJIN KIT: In industrialized city, cold and impersonal, a girl spends her days bored, eating and watching TV in a place abandoned and depressing. Your room has a bookshelf full of stuffed animals and, in one corner, a strange machine that seems to try to resurrect a plush frog, by which the girl seems to nurture a special affection. Told by neighbors of the girl, a government agent and their robot sentries come to see that illegal, since toys are considered harmful objects and aliens. After all, a sad and empty world, where people are just cogs in a machine, anything that stimulates the joy, innocence and love of life must be banned.
DIMENSION BOMB: great animation genius Koji Morimoto, the director of "Magnetic Rose" (Memories) and "Beyond" (Animatrix), so different and traveler who is even difficult to do a little blurb, since there is not much consensus out there about the this is really the story. A very common explanation found on the internet says that a boy breaks a dimensional barrier, and meets a girl on the other hand, through the more hallucinatory situations possible.

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Data from the Anime:
Original title: Genius Party Beyond
Genre: Comedy / Fiction / Adult
Director: Mahir Maeda / Kazuto Nakazawa / Shinya Ohira / Tatsuyuki Tanaka / Koji Morimoto
Studio: Studio 4 ° C
Released: 2008
No. Episodes: 5

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Language: Japanese
Size: 1 GB
Length: 15 min each
Resolution: 852 x 480

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Roujin Z (1991) - Katsuhiro Otomo

Synopsis:
The population of Japan is aging considerably, and care for the elderly has become costly. The government proposes a solution: a bed machine that can provide the patient with all the essentials (and non-essential) that a real nurse might offer. Haruko is one of these nurses, as well as Mr. Takazawa's your patient, who was chosen as a guinea pig for such a machine bed. Feeling that his protege is suffering from lack of love from which one can not offer mechanical bed, she tries to save him from what thinks is a martyrdom for him.
Katsuhiro Otomo, who brought us Akira / Memories / Steamboy / Neo-Tokyo / Metropolis, here is another with a pessimistic view of our future. But make no mistake, this anime is far from a typical story. It has an exceptionally original plot, a steady pace, plus a good mix of science fiction, action and comedy.
Apart from Katsuhiro Otomo, the group that did Roujin Z also includes art directors famous as Fumio Iida (Wings of Honneamise / Gunbuster OVA / Evangelion 2.0 / Macross - Do You Remember Love?) and the late Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue / Millennium Actress / Paprika / Tokyo Godfathers / Paranoia Agent / memories).

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Original title: Roujin Z
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Fiction
Director: Hiroyuki Kitakubo
Studio: A.P.P.P.
Released: 1991
No. Episodes: 1

Cast:
Chisa Yokoyama Haruko the
Matsumura Hikojiro the Kijuro Takazawa
Ogawa Shinji Ogawa the Suguru
Chie Satou the Nobuko Ohe
Mitsuru Maeda Kouji Tsujitani the
Masa Saito to Haru Takazawa
The Satoh Tomoe Matsumoto Rica
Yoshihiko Hasegawa Shinsuke Chikaishi the
Takeshi Aono the Old Man
Tamio Ohki the Professor Tachibana

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Video Type: MKV (DvD-Rip)
Language: Japanese
Size: 1.55 GB
Length: 80 min
Resolution: 720 x 480

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SOS! Tokyo Metro Explorers: The Next (2006) - Katsuhiro Otomo

Synopsis: SOS! Tokyo Metro Explorers: The Next is a movie only 41 minutes adapted from the manga "SOS! Tokyo Metro Explorers" created by Katsuhiro Otomo, best known for his famous creation, "Akira." The direction was handled by Shinji Takagi, and the studio that produced the movie was the Sunrise (Cowboy Bebop).
As the name of the movie reveals the story takes place in Tokyo, and mostly underground. Shouhei Ozaki is a young student who lives with his father and his brother Satoshi Ozaki, better known as Sasuke. The great adventure begins when the siblings find a mysterious map Shouhei brac in his father's. So Shouhei and Sasuke decide to follow the route map until the supposed hidden treasure.
Sasuke has a very personal idea of ​​the term treasure: for him, a monster called the reward would Kazilla ideal, since giant footprints were found in the basement of Tokyo some time before, so the myth Kazilla born.
The brothers Okaz called two friends to help us in finding the treasure, they are: Shun and Yoshio Ohkido Sakuragi. With everything planned, they are on time and depart for the adventure, and so they put their feet into the murky underworld, see how that world can be scary and dangerous, despite having a magnificent secrets.
SOS! has an interesting plot, the idea of ​​opening up the subsoil in search of treasure is quite unique, because the stories usually styled "In Search of Treasure" almost always lead to islands or remote locations. So this was the biggest catch of Katsuhiro Otomo, why not look for a treasure in a city like Tokyo?

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Original Title: Shin SOS Dai Tokyo Tankentai
Genre: Adventure
Director: Shinji Takagi
Studio: Sunrise
Released: 2006
No. Episodes: 1

Cast:
Satoshi Ozaki Akiko Yajima the (Sasuke)
Bin Shimada Kusajiro the Yamashita
Issei Futamata the Shouhei Ozaki
Yoshio Umeda Kikumi the Ohkido
Kozo Shioya the Yuukichi
Sanae Kobayashi the Ryohei Ozaki
Sayaka Aida the Toshi Sakurako
Unshou Ishizuka the George
Yuu Asakawa Momoyo the Takikawa

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Video Type: AVI
Language: Japanese
Size: 1.08 GB
Length: 41 min
Resolution: 1280 x 840

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Appleseed Ex Machina (2007)

Synopsis:  (Production of the "master of action," John Woo + concepts created by the genius Masamune Shirow) + (3D animation of the highest quality + fantastic action scenes - story centered on the protagonist). Result? Appleseed Ex Machina! In the year 2133 AD, the world was led to an era of devastation and chaos. More than half of Earth's population was decimated by a non-nuclear world war. It would be only a matter of time before the planet became totally uninhabitable and all life ceases to exist ... Humans sought their last seeds of hope. And, unable to find any, decided to create one: Olympus. In this newly created utopia, those wounded in war were reconditioned as cyborgs. And international disputes were assuaged by a "new breed" of humans genetically produced, Bioroids. To further ensure this peace, was created to ESWAT, an elite police force with worldwide jurisdiction. Although with all this security, this paradise is still prone to snakes, they want their destruction ... The first sequence of the film is a typical sequence, anything from John Woo: a white dove flying into a church. At church, we are introduced (or reintroduced) to Deunan Knute and Briareos Hecatonchires. No, they're not getting married! In fact, a group of cyborgs is holding hostages in this church, and fell to ESWAT make the operation of "cleaning the perimeter." And that's just the beginning of a conspiracy to drop peace once again. Amid all the problems, Deunan will have to adapt to a new partner, Briareos and have to figure out what is really happening ... The future of humanity, once again, is in the hands of Deunan. And what she will do if by a trick of fate, Briareos is your enemy?

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NOTE: See also: Appleseed OVA (1988) NOTE: See also: Appleseed Movie (2004)
Data from the Anime: Original Title: Appleseed Saga Ex Machina Genre: Cyberpunk / Action / Sci-Fi Director: Shinji Aramaki Studio: Micott & Bass / Digital Frontier Released: 2007 No. Episodes: 1
 

Cast:
Ai Kobayashi the Deunan Gara Takashima the Athena Kouichi Yamadera the Briareos Kong Kuwata the Aeacus Miyuki Sawashiro the Hitomi Naoko Kouda as Dr. Xander Rei Igarashi the Nike Rica Fukami the Yoshino Tsuji Shinpachi the Commander Lance Takaya Hashi as Dr. Kestner Takaya Kuroda the Arges Kase Yasuyuki the Yoshitsune Yuuji Kishi the Tereus
 

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Fansubber: Anime no Sekai Video Type: MKV (Blu-Ray) Language: Japanese
Size: 1.09 GB Length: 104 min Resolution: 1280 x 720

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