Over the years, my life has been enriched by partaking of quite a few films and TV shows created by Japanese talent. The legendary Eiji Tsuburaya is arguably responsible for my favorite series, Ultraman, and Godillza and his daikaiju brethren.
While Gundam Wing was the first of the Gundam series I watched (and remains my favorite), quite a few have been made.
| Year | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 - 1996 | Mobile Suit Gundam Wing | My favorite of the Gundam series. |
| 1997 | Gundam Wing Endless Waltz | The OVA that concludes the Gundam Wing saga. |
| 1979 - 1980 | Mobile Suit Gundam | While the classic that started it all....not my favorite. |
| 1989 | Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket | |
| 1991 - 1992 | Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory | 1996- 1999 | Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team |
| 2004 | Superior Defender Gundam Force |
Other
| Year | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Outlaw Star | Great fun. One cannot help but believe the reveal of Melfina was later used in Firefly. |
| 1999 | Angel Links | |
| 2007 | Lucky Star | Beloved by the otaku set for the numerous in-jokes. |
| 2006, 2009 | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya | One of my favorite. Two seasons of this have been done so far, though the Endless Eight debacle makes it hard to claim there was a really a full second season. |
| 2010 | The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya | The feature length movie that covered a single Haruhi story. I saw this one in Kyoto in April 2010. |
| 2009 - 2010 | K-On! | A surprisingly popular series about high school girls forming as band as their afterschool club. |
| Burst Angel | ||
| Evangelion | A classic mecha series, but the protaganist is such a complainer that it's hard to feel sympathy for him. | |
| The Third The Girl with the Blue Eye | ||
| Samurai Seven | ||
| The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | ||
| Claymore | ||
The Five Star Stories |
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| Robotech The Shadow Chronicles | ||
| Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion | ||
| Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 | ||
Most of these are TV series. There are, however, instances where a film released to the movie theaters spawned a TV series (e.g., Amalfi Rewards of the Goddess lead to the Gaikoukan Kuroda Kousaku) or a well-regarded TV series was completed via a film shown in the theater (e.g., Keizoku, Liar Game, Security Police).
| Year | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Ultraman | I saw some of these episodes of this series when originally broadcast in the US. Episode 2 was both so frightening and compelling that I had to turn the TV off, turned it back on, then off... Because I missed the start of the episode as well as its conclusion, it formed the basis of my most terrifying memories for decades. Finally made available on DVD, I was delighted that this show held up on viewing. |
| BOSS | ||
| BOSS Series 2 | ||
| Perfect Report | ||
| Liar Game | ||
| Liar Game Series 2 | ||
| 1999 | Chushingura | A classic story.....but this telling is presented in as slow a manner as possible. The triggering event doesn't occur until episode 19! Talented actors, but most of the characters are quite repellent. |
| 2003 | Musashi | Spectacular. Gets underway quickly and doesn't let up through its 48 episodes. |
| 2010 | Ryoma Den | |
| Akihabara@DEEP | ||
| Keizoku | My impression: started out strong with a small amount of weirdness....and increased the weirdness as the series went on so far as to be off the scale. Others believe it started out predictably and got awesome. Miki Nakatani was great. | |
| Keizoku SP Phantom | TV special after the Keizoku series. | |
| Keizoku Beautiful Dreamer | Movie concluding the Keizoku storyline. | |
| Keizoku 2 SPEC | A decade-later restart of the series with Erika Toda as the lead; some of the original Keizoku actors return for continuity. | |
| SPEC Shou | First movie sequel to the Keizoku 2 SPEC series. | |
| Attention Please | Aya Ueto stars in this tale of a high school graduate who attempts to become a JAL flight attendant and is forced to grow up in the process. Some of her inappropriateness doesn't translate into English...but the acting is sufficient to make the needed points. | |
| Good Luck!! | ||
| Security Police | The series is pretty much tolerable only for one viewing. It moves quickly enough that one can almost miss the mind-boggling gaps in logic, but it completely goes off the rails at the end. Many viewers will be completely disgusted by the final episode of the series; the complete lack of reality is enough to make normally calm people just turn it off in anger and disbelief. | |
| 2010 | Security Police Yabo Hen | |
| 2011 | Security Police Kamei Hen | |
| Top Caster | ||
| Amalfi Rewards of the Goddess | ||
| Gaikoukan Kuroda Kousaku | ||
| 2011 | Andalucia Revenge of the Goddess | |
| Dr Koto's Clinic | ||
| Dr Koto's Clinic 2006 | ||
| Galileo | ||
| Suspect X | ||
| 2011 | HUNTER | |
| Jiu | ||
| JIN series 1 & 2 | ||
| 2012 | Kagi no Kakatta Heya | This Locked Room mystery series was quite good. The music by Ken Arai was excellent, but the music editing was very novel. I've never been so aware of the background music of any series than I was in this one. |
| 2012 | Legal High | Excellent legal drama/comedy, though the mystery revealed in the final episode was really off-the-wall. |
| 2012 | ATARU | |
| Kaeru no Oujo-sama | Yuki Amami plays a failed Broadway dancer who returns home. | |
| Hagane no Onna 2 | ||
| Mou Ichido Kimi ni, Propose | After his wife loses her memory, our hero attempts to have her fall in love with him a second time. | |
| Mirai Nikkei | ||
| Odo Nobunaga | ||
| Shinzanmono | ||
| Shinzanmono SP | ||
| Strawberry Night SP | ||
| Strawberry Night series 1 | ||
| Zettai Reido series 1 | ||
| Zettai Reido series 2 | ||
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