Animes from 1998

A "patapi" is a nice mechanical creature like a cyber-pet. With some things it can feed, sleep, play and even help its owners out. When she receives a patapi from a prince in her dreams, Hibari Hanakoganei is delighted and calls it "Densuke." Hibari learns when unknown powers attempt to steal Densuke that Densuke isn't just an regular patapi. Densuke has magic powers that allow it to turn into a powerful cyber-combatant that looks like Hibari. Hibari's friends also get identical patapis, and together they form the Akihabara Cyber Team.

The Japanese radio industry is in decline in 2010. A station staffed with serial losers is making a bold bet to boost their flagging ratings: recruiting the industry's first on-air smartphone host. Maico is cute but winning over the fickle audience will take more than novelty — particularly with a crew as incompetent as this one.

Cyress is calm. Citizens are living their lives. Two lovers hug, one family throws their child's birthday party, a group of people party at a nearby restaurant. Yet then, their surroundings are filled with smoke and flame. A group of terrorists snuck through the planetary defenses and began an attack. Defenseless, there is nothing the Cyress people can do. As the military scrambles to figure out what happened, the terrorists manage to hijack seven PDP missiles which can kill a whole planet. Such terrorists, who call themselves "Solomon," now can keep hostage to whole worlds! We shouldn't leave.

Most of the planet has been buried under the sea in the not so distant future, or devastated by earthquakes. The enigmatic Orphan lies at the middle of the chaos. Orphan may be the original cause of the cataclysms, or not. The goal of Orphan is to bring to the surface a ship hidden beneath the sea, but doing so will result in the destruction of all human beings except for the small number who are loyal to Orphan.Orphan's agents pilot mysterious mecha known as Grand Cheres, and scan the planet for elusive, giant disks that occasionally appear, flying at high speeds and wrecking most of the countryside, or cities, when they reach the ground.
A Brain Powerd is born out of the disk after a dying disc nearly kills Hime. Brain Powerds are another type of Mecha, similar to the Grand Cheres but not the same.Hime is the pilot of the Brain Powerd, establishing a symbiotic relationship with the living mecha and entering an International Group committed to preventing Orphan or, if Orphan fails, at least saving humanity.

Following a mysterious eathquake levels in Tokyo, Genom becomes a strong force supplying humanity with their artificial organic life forms called Boomers to recover and function as a working class. Some of them, however, run amok sometimes and even the specially formed AD Police are at a loss to stop them. Lina Yamazaki is heading to Tokyo for research but also planning to join a vigilante group named the Knight Sabers, who piloted suits to kill these rogue Boomers.

Sakura Kinomoto is your fourth grader, ten-year-old garden type, before she stumbles on a mysterious book with a deck of cards one day. She has no time to decipher what the cards mean, sadly, as she inadvertently stirs up a magical wind rage and unwittingly scatters the cards all over the place. The Beast of the Seal, Keroberos (nicknamed Kero-chan), unexpectedly awakened from the novel, informs Sakura that she has released the magical Clow Cards created by sorcerer Clow Reed. The Cards are not commonplaythings. Each one of them possesses incredible powers and Clow sealed all the Cards inside a book because they want to function independently.
Now that the Cards are out, they present a serious danger to the world, and it is up to Sakura to prevent the Cards from causing a disaster!Appointing Sakura as the "Cardcaptor" title and awarding her the Sealed Key, Keroberos is charged with locating and retrieving all the Cards. Together with her best friend Tomoyo Daidouji and with Kero-chan's guidance, Sakura has to learn how to reconcile her new hidden duty with a young girl's everyday troubles involving love, family, and school, as she flies on her magical adventures as Sakura the Cardcaptor.

In the year 2071, mankind colonized most of the solar system's planets and moons leaving only planet Earth's almost uninhabitable land. The Inter Solar System Police is attempting to keep peace in the world, aided in part by outlaw bounty hunters, referred to as "Cowboys." Two such people are the ragtag squad onboard the Bebop starship.His boisterous, optimistic girlfriend Jet Black blends mellow and carefree Spike Spiegel, while the pair makes a living chasing bounties and earning prizes.
Thrown off course by introducing new members they encounter in their travels—Ein, a genetically modified, highly intelligent Welsh Corgi; woman fatale Faye Valentine, an elusive memory-losing trickster; and the strange tech whiz kid Edward Wong—the group embarks on exciting adventures that slowly uncover each member's dark and mysterious history.Well-balanced with high-density action and light-hearted humor, Cowboy Bebop is a classic Western space and a tribute to the smooth, spontaneous music it is named for.

Fudo Jun is a stunning supermodel whom many have idolatry for. She also has a deep secret that at first she doesn't even know about, for the genes that carry the next phase in mankind's evolution run through her veins. The same blood as the superhumans who terrorize the area. Nevertheless, unlike the rest of them, Jun has managed to keep a tiny grip on her conscience, and she is recruited by the enigmatic Asuka Ran, leader of a secret government agency to monitor, if not kill, those berserk destroyers of civilization.Jun, as Devilman Lady, must now exterminate her own kind, but how much longer will she sustain her healing in a condition she never first chose?

Haruka Nishikikoji is a doctor who is overweight and never seems to attract any woman. Fate finds a way by finding a job as a doctor in an elementary school, where he can find his office on top of the schools 'roof and the real clinic looks like a medieval castle. Only as everything seems to go downhill, one day a surprise came, her first love, Koizumi Miyuki, proposes as soon as she becomes nurse.

Shu is from Datania, a country where young kids are forced to work. He and his friends attempted to escape before encountering the Returners. The Returners to Datania are some kind of rebels. Shu goes with the Returners to fight against Zero, Nines, and his people after DT, a special material inside humans.

Bolt Crank, the World's Greatest Mercenary's continuing adventures, who has the ability to eat any object, mostly metal and weapons. Bolt will then replicate certain arms and objects into his right hand when the time comes.

Dee Laytner and Randy "Ryo" Maclane are two New York officers enjoying a much needed England break. Dee has very strong feelings for Ryo and wants to take this opportunity to advance her relationship (and maybe seduce Ryo if he is lucky). Ryo doesn't grasp Dee's own thoughts, and doesn't know whether he needs to (or ought) accept them. Their vacations and relationships are unexpectedly disrupted as murders and missing person cases start to circulate around their hotel. The only common connection the cases have is that all the victims were descendents of Japanese or Japanese. Dee and Ryo must solve the matter before Ryo, half Japanese, is the next victim.

Miho Shinohara is a carefree third grader and an aspiring artist in the manga. One day, she meets Mogu and Pigu-two lost fairies dressed up as stuffed animals. The fairies give Miho a special sketch pad and pencil that helps her to magically construct actual objects from what she sketches, in return for living at her home until they find a way back to their own world. Miho can also transform with the pen into Lala, a pretty teenage girl created from her manga art. She is discovered by a talent agency as Lala, and so begins her adventures from an ordinary school girl to an idol singer model.

Across the Middle East the fires of war erupt as two shadow forces unleash terrifying new weapons of mass destruction! But the most dangerous weapon of all lies hidden inside a human mind, in a world where giant robots are real. The fourth son of the enigmatic and influential Gouwa family, Yuushirou, finds himself at the center of events that will forever change the future of humanity! Nothing can prepare the human race for what will unleash at Gasaraki!

Ryo, Gawl and Koji are three young boys who are traveling back into the past with just one goal: alter history. We discover in their time that their nation, Kubere, is using genetically enhanced persons called generators as a military weapon. These generators are the cause of the Third War which kills the majority of people. Now there's Koji, Ryo and Gawl to alter all of the events.

Taba and the Girls of Kagura Total Security Inc. specialize in jobs where "Phantom Cats" are their enemy. We have a few run-ins with the different branches of government as well as a gang of Phantom Cats; blowing up a lot of things along the way. When they abduct one of their own, they've got to get her back.

Master assassin Golgo 13 is hired to kill "Queen Bee," the glamorous and lethal leader of a South American guerrilla group, by presidential candidate advisor Robert Hardy. However, Golgo considers this job too easy and digs more details to find out the true link between Hardy and Queen Bee.

Yukino Miyazawa is the female representative at her high school for her class, and the most popular girl among the freshmen. Efficient at both academics and sports as well as being beautiful and sociable, she has been an object of admiration throughout her entire life. In fact, however, she is an extremely vain person who works tirelessly to maintain her good grades, athleticism and beautiful appearance. She only wants to be the focus of attention and recognition, so she can't stand Soichiro Arima, the male representative of her class, and the only person more perfect than her.
She's tried to snatch the spotlight from her latest competitor since the first day of high school but to no avail.Yukino eventually gets the highest score on the mid-term tests, and defeats Soichiro. Yet, to her surprise, he praises her on her achievement, causing her to doubt her lifestyle. When Soichiro confesses to Yukino his love she turns him down and gloats at home with just a touch of remorse about it. But Soichiro visits Yukino's house the very next day to bring her a CD and sees her uninhibited self in action; now armed with the facts, he blackmails her to complete her duties as a student councilor.
Coerced to spend time with Soichiro, Yukino discovers she isn't the only one who keeps secrets.

This is the XXV century. The dark lord has 'infected' history with time tools that may be beyond repair destroying history. Flint and his father were living in ancient times when they became fossils. They're discovered and Flint ges turned back to his state of origin. He has to travel through time with the aid of his aunt, a boy Tony and a girl Sara to get the time devices back to the land of time in order to save history.

Twins are raised in a small village: a boy, Tatara, and one girl, Sarasa. The prophet Nagi declares that Tatara is the chosen one who will free the King and his four sons from the tyrannical rule of Japan. But when the cruel Red King kills Tatara, Sarasa has to take on the name and duties of her uncle, and embark on a mission to conquer Japan and bring revenge to the Red King.

The scene is Steam City, a city in London that reflects a whole society powered by the coal and steam power. The city is often shrouded in a mist because of steam. Villains use the steamy mist to conceal and execute their evil plans. Just a few dare to venture into what is beyond the vaporous mist. They are known as the Steam Detectives: Narutaki (and his all-purpose convertible pistol), Lingling his nurse-assistant, and Gohliki his Megamaton robot.

The animated title maintains the same fast pace of four-frame comic roots by following the usual cast of colorful characters through different but interwoven plot lines in each chapter. From Ms. Shitara's persistent yet still unsuccessful sexual pursuit of young Takagi to the heroically dumb yet adorable Sushi Cat's adventures, you'll be mystified by the tragedy of it all but laugh for the same purpose!

Millie Nocturne has one great intention in life: to be the best in the world-at all! But when she tries her hand to be the "best investigator," she ends up becoming an reluctant collaborator with two people who will forever change her life: Kane Blueriver, the Swordbreaker starship's psi-blade-wielding master, and Canal, the ship's computer's smart-mouthed holographic image.

Join this unlikely trio on their adventures as they hurtle toward intergalactic crime lords, rogue starships, and chickens-dressed hijackers across space ... And that's just the asteroid edge!

Miura Kyoji, a devoted student of the kendo, learns that his shisho (master) Tate Masanari is a reincarnated Incan warrior named Yawaru who wants to purify the earth. Kyoji himself is the warrior Bilka, who in their former lives foiled Yawaru's plans. Yawaru gathers other awakened spirits to unleash nature's energies. Now Kyoji must deal with his own destiny and determine whether he is merely a vessel for the reincarnated soul or if he is really Miura Kyoji and who will save the earth and the future better as he knows it.

Six years ago a serious incident occurred at the magic school known as the Tower of Fang involving the magic sword Baltanders and the magic user Azali. Unable to regulate the strength of the sword, Azali was transformed into the shape of a great dragon who became known as Bloody August since that day. Krilancelo, a young magician at the Tower who took great care of Azali, noticed much to his dismay that the Tower of Fang's leaders were less than eager to rescue Azali and instead preferred to believe that the incident never happened. Angered by their stand, Krilanceloa vowed he'd find a way to get Azali back into her former self.
Thus he forsook Krilancelo's name and named himself Orphen, leaving behind the Tower and its magical studies to wander around the world ...

An ancient god named Ranga wakes up on an remote island in the South Pacific where humanity has forgotten it slumbering. Three sisters living in Tokyo — Minami, Ushio, and Yuuhi Shimabara — discover that they inherited this Kingdom of the Islands along with the Great Father. When Ranga appears in Tokyo, for the three sisters who govern Ranga, the people who want to kill it, and those who want to use it, it soon becomes a source of wonder and conflict.

Tasuke Shichiri is his friends 'envy since he can do as he pleases because his parents are still travelling. It's his father's surprise gift that stops him from being solitary: an strange ring known as the shitenrin. A moon goddess named Shaorin emerges from it, committed to protecting her "master" — no matter how much of a mess she makes!

Idol party J-pop CHAM! Has been entertaining its fans for the last two years. Unfortunately all good things have to come to an end and CHAM! One of its members, Mima Kirigoe, will leave the party to pursue her career as an actress. While Mima's option is met with a mixed response, she hopes that her fans will continue to back her up.Nevertheless, after her departure from the party, Mima's life begins to change dramatically. She takes on a role in a crime drama show, trying to shed her pop-idol face, and her career as an actress slowly becomes more demanding and exhausting for both Mima and her manager, Rumi Hidaka.
To add to Mima's increasing frustration, an obsessive fan who is unable to admit that Mima is no longer an innocent idol starts to harass her; a new secret website starts to impersonate her life in detail; and CHAM! Despite her it also appears to be doing well.Each disturbing development, one by one, drives Mima to become increasingly unhinged and unable to differentiate between reality and fantasy.

In the vast sea of stars, Gene Starwind has always dreamed of piloting his own plane. Unfortunately not all dreams come true as he spends his days doing odd jobs on the small planet Sentinel III with his friend, James Hawking, instead. It all takes a turn, though, when the pair takes on a job from Rachel Sweet who, unknown to them, is in fact a treasure-hunting outlaw. With the mission of protecting a mysterious girl known as Melfina, the encounter irrevocably changes the lives of the pair when they are sent out on board the technologically advanced ship, Outlaw Star, into the great unknown.
Seihou Bukyou Outlaw Star follows Gene and his ragtag crew braving the final frontier, wandering the stars in search of answers to the mysteries surrounding Melfina. Meeting dangerous bounty hunters, space pirates, Taoist wizards, and even catgirls, an thrilling adventure would surely be around every corner.

Taichi Keaton is a half-British semi-Japanese archeologist and Falklands War veteran of the SAS. He solves puzzles and investigates Lloyd's insurance fraud around the world.

The plot revolves around a race trying to conquer the cosmos. A lone enigmatic female warrior, known to many as Emeraldas sails the infinite planets of the universe — in her Seas of Star ship — combating the ruthless race's tyranny. The thought of her lost love torments her.

Sawa is a teacher, an orphan, and an assassin. She is being controlled by a corrupt cop who gives her targets to kill, detailing the crimes committed by these men to justify their death. Some of his influence over Sawa is linked to her deceased parents and the vow of vengeance. The two teenage killers develop a bond of sorts when another orphan, a teenage boy named Oburi, is brought in to support Sawa. We begin to dream of a future that will not be lived under the darkness of murder while we heal each other's emotional wounds.

This newest chapter in the Saber Marionette line follows the continuing exploits of Otaru and his clan of selfless, obsessed marionette children, taking place only months after the Saber Marionette J OVA series. The evil Faust is back this time, and again toying with Marionette technology which was never supposed to be explored. The Saber Dolls are back and torn between their renewed love of Otaru and their undying allegiance to Faust; will Otaru, Lime, Cherry and Bloodberry be able to deter Faust again, or are they all going to the heap of scrap?

Kaihei is a regular high school student, but soon learns that his deceased grandfather left him with his all-girls high school chairman's place, St. Luminous Mission High School. In addition to being the only male student on campus, he is now also the young chairman in charge of the rules, happenings and punishments on campus. But, as Kaihei arrives, a student seems to have gone missing. Kaihei and his closest friends are now eager, before graduation, to solve this mystery (without involving the local police).

Haruka finds herself the last living human on Earth in the wake of a massive and terrible battle. While civilization may have been wiped out, it is not alone entirely. Advanced robots have survived the apocalypse, and Haruka lives with five who care about her: Spike, a boyish android quite attached to her; Trigger, hot-tempered with a weapons penchant; Cleric, the articulate problem solver; Reeves, whose thoughtfulness overshadows his intimidating appearance; and Angela, a recluse wielding a sword with an aversion to humans. Haruka lives a fairly quiet life with her mechanical children, living in a high-rise building in the city centre.And her life is far from being safe.
Not only is a lack of resources a problem, but vicious, residual war roam-free robots ready to kill whomever they encounter. Kurogane Communication follows Haruka as she tries to survive in an apocalyptic world while facing many dangers which challenge her everyday life.

Keiko Himuro, Chairman of the Kisuragi School, is putting together an all-girl baseball team headed by Ryo Hayakawa, the daughter of a legendary pitcher, aiming to show that both girls and boys can play as well. Their objective: Koshien Stadium, where only the best teams get the chance to compete.

He was born out of the fires of space ... Magically brought to life Kongo, a monkey made of iron.Obsessed with a need to learn and a need to be great, Kongo leaves his "family" in search of ancient knowledge and mystical wisdom on Flower Fruit Mountain. Not satisfied with only practicing and mastering the magical arts, Kongo masters the mysterious Jet Cloud, the first of his great weapons.Kongo achieves control of the air with the help of the Jet Stream, and returns to his adopted home just in time. The humans lay claim to the ancestral habitat of the monkeys.
With his Jet Cloud and his newly acquired mystical intelligence, Kongo defeats humans and proclames himself King of Flower Fruit Mountain.Yet the gods are restless inside the Heavenly Heavens. A monkey who defeats humans and declares himself king? This is inappropriate! They decide that the monkeys need to be taught a lesson, and so they launch an assault on Kongo and all the Flower Fruit Mountain monkeys.

Mr. Takeyuki Kanda died suddenly at age 52 on 27 July 1996. He was born on 11 August 1943 and was known as the director of various animations including VIFAM. So a new VIFAM television series in memory of him was transmitted in 1998. Televised 1998/3/21-1998/10/3 (in Kansai area), it contains 26 episodes and like Twelve people disappeared it's a sidestory, but some new features are added: new characters, new RV, etc.The story could be inserted between VIFAM's # 22 and # 26 (# 24 and # 25 are digests), and is divided into three parts: Act I (# 1-14), Interlude (# 15-18), Act II (# 19-26), if we name them (actually, Act I and Act II have little relation).
It might also be the New Testament, but now it's considered an apocrypha (or worse, a pseudo-VIFAM). There are many reasons to say so but the best way to understand them is to watch the film.

In the pre-WWII era, the special girls 'school at Nakano Naval Academy is codenamed "Virgin Fleet." These girls are given special power forms known as "Virgin Energy." With fear of another imminent war between Russia and Japan, rookie pilot Shiokaze Umino must hone her powers to save Japan from devastation.

Kazuya Mishima is joining the King of Iron Fist Tournament after being thrown off a cliff as a child to gain revenge from his father, multi-billionaire Heihachi Mishima. While, WWWC agent Jun Kazama and detective Lei Wulong from Hong Kong also join the tournament to investigate cloning and genetic manipulation illegal activities in Heihachi. A handful of other professional fighters are also in it purely to win the $1 billion grand prize, unaware of the tournament's true intent and fate that awaits them.

YAT, the space traveling service, is thrown into the outer space's unknown realms. The party also meets ghost, Maron, and scientist Note at the same time. The two of these are then targeted by the evil ruler, Ganon. Note was captured and taken from one of Ganon's followers, Baras, after suffering an assault. The group had to use the instantaneous portable machine that Note invented to travel to Ganon's planet in order to rescue Note. No-one knows where the world is, though ...

Aya, Yoji, Ken, and Omi are the four young men comprising Weiss Kruez (WK), a squad of assassins that removes all threats to society. Each member has its own combat-style trademark. Aya is an expert at fighting a katana, Yoji has perfected the art of strangulation by loops, Ken is deadly with his metal claws, while Omi is skilled in a wide variety of projectiles. The WK is sent under the order of a mysterious man known only as "Persia," to care for drug gangs, militant groups, and the like. But as things go on, they find that most, if not all, of the negative elements they've dealt with are related to the Takatori family in some way.
The Takatori family is wealthy, strong, and influential. It seems the WK will have to put an end to one of the most prominent clans in Japan if the issue is to be nipped in the bud.

Lain Iwakura, an shy and introverted 14-year-old, is one of her school's many girls to receive a troubling email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda—the very same Chisa who committed suicide only recently. Lain has neither the ability nor the knowledge to manage even basic technology; but when the technophobe opens the document, it leads her straight into the Wired, a virtual realm of communication networks close to what we know as the internet.Lain's world is turned upside down as she starts to discover mysterious mysteries one after the other.
Mysterious people called the Men in Black start appearing everywhere she goes, posing their questions and somehow knowing more about her than even she does. With the increasingly blurring lines between reality and cyberspace, Lain is plunged into more strange and disturbing occurrences where identity, consccousness, etc.Published by Chiaki J.Konaka, whose other works include Texhnolyze, Serial Experiments Lain is a collection of psychological avant-garde mysteries that follows Lain as she makes critical decisions that will impact both the real world and the Wired. In closing one world and opening another, only Lain can know the sense of their existence.

The recently relocated Okometsubu Fujiyama to a new school, Wakame High School. His target is to make 100 friends, before he encounters the incredibly odd Masaru Hananakajima. Masaru is a martial artist whose speciality is martial art in the form of "Sexy Commando." Masaru is creating a group based on this art inside the group, including Fujiyama, whom he nicknames Fuumin. The club is getting full of weird but wacky people. Aliens, moustaches and adorable fluffy animals are encountered as the club moves along and is becoming increasingly common.

Warriors with supernatural abilities and extraordinary combat skills compete for the ultimate reward in the land of Kuruda: the title of Sevaar, the country's strongest warrior. Elle Ragu, nicknamed Shadow Abilities, is the newest to emerge from Sevaar, but this does not make her life any easier. It's hard enough to teach her "little brother," Gau, how to be a knight, how to fight off assassins from other kingdoms and foil enemy invasions, but her greatest obstacle will be paying off her drinking debts.

The year is 2023 and Alien Beings known as "Lucifer Hawks" have begun to attack earth from a different dimension. The Attacked Mystification Police Force is all that stands between them and the enslavement of the human race-a special branch of Tokyo Police staffed by people with extraordinary paranormal abilities.

Deep inside Turkey's Ararat Mountains, a clandestine group known as ARCAM has discovered what Noah's Ark is thought to be. But the U.S. Machine Corps, a Pentagon terrorist group, aims to take over the Ark as a means of global dominance. Only a special working ARCAM known as a Spriggan stands in their way. Japanese Spriggan Yu Ominae and French Spriggan Jean-Jacques Mondo are teaming up to challenge US leaders. Computer Body. A genetically-enhanced kid with lethal psionic abilities led by Col. MacDougall— They must act quickly, however, and stop MacDougall before he uses the Ark to his own purposes.

Based on the Yama Miyuki manga.

The guy with a $60,000,000,000 reward on his head is Vash the Stampede. The reason: he's a ruthless villain who kills all those who oppose him and flatters entire towns for fun, earning him the nickname of "The Humanoid Typhoon." He leaves a trail of death and destruction everywhere he goes, and everyone can count themselves dead if they make eye contact, or so say the rumours. In actuality, Vash is a huge softie who claims to have never taken a life and avoids violence at all costs.
Vash traverses the wasteland of the planet Gunsmoke with his mad doughnut fixation and buffoonish attitude in tow, all the while being pursued by two insurance brokers, Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson, who seek to mitigate his effect on the general public. Yet then, when a group of legendary assassins are called to bring the trio pain, their misadventures develop into life-or-death situations. The agonizing history of Vash will be unraveled and his morals and values will be forced to the point of cracking.

Pastel ate Madoka's cookies, and it shrunk her, but she couldn't take part in the Miss Donburi Contest because of her illness. She wanted the power up bell from the clouds to get her back to life. Nonetheless, over Donburi Island, a strange island floating in the air was collecting clouds. When they were trying to get back the bells of strength, enemies unexpectedly attacked them. Will they be getting back on time for the contest?