Mitsuru Miyamoto

Mitsuru Miyamoto

Born: September 8, 1958
in Ōmorinishi, Ōta, Tōkyō, Japan
Mitsuru Miyamoto (宮本 充, Miyamoto Mitsuru, born September 8, 1958) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Tokyo. He is attached to Theatre Company Subaru.

Movies for Mitsuru Miyamoto...

Title: Kaiju No. 8
Character: Mizoguchi (voice)
Released: April 13, 2024
Type: TV
In a world plagued by creatures known as Kaiju, Kafka Hibino aspired to enlist in The Defense Force. He makes a promise to enlist with his childhood friend, Mina Ashiro. Soon, life takes them in separate ways. While employed cleaning up after Kaiju battles, Kafka meets Reno Ichikawa. Reno's determination to join The Defense Force reawakens Kafka's promise to join Mina and protect humanity.
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Title: The Missing 8
Character: Father (voice)
Released: December 28, 2021
Type: TV
A devastated world - Androids and robots live there. "Poppy" is an android that looks like a human. "Punkun" is a android who is not interested in humans. One night, a star fell in front of them while looking up at the sky...
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Title: takt op.Destiny
Character: Bartender (voice)
Released: October 6, 2021
Type: TV
Music is the light that illuminates people's hearts-- and that "light" was suddenly taken from the world. The world changed the night the black "Kuroya Meteorite" fell. Grotesque monsters known as D2 emerged from the meteorite and began to overrun the land and people. As the D2 were drawn to melodies people played, eventually "music" itself became taboo. However, those who opposed the monsters appeared. They the "Musicart," girls who draw power from music. They possess the great operas and musical scores of humanity history and use them to defeat the D2.
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Title: The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace
Character: Takeshita (voice)
Released: July 23, 2021
Type: TV
It has been 800 years since the incredibly fast and powerful gods of battle known as the Idaten had sealed away the demons after an intense battle. Now, that battle is just considered a myth or a fairytale. While the current generation of Idaten who have never even had to fight are enjoying their peaceful lives, someone awakened the demons once again! Armed forces, ingenuity, politics, and intrigue. If you've got it, use everything you can! This three-way battle royale with no rules and no limits is about to begin!!
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Belle
Title: Belle
Character: Fox (voice)
Released: July 16, 2021
Type: Movie
Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious, dragon-like figure appears before her.
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Title: To Your Eternity
Character: Cylira (voice)
Released: April 12, 2021
Type: TV
In the beginning, an "orb" is cast unto Earth. "It" can do two things: change into the form of the thing that stimulates "it"; and come back to life after death. "It" morphs from orb to rock, then to wolf, and finally to boy, but roams about like a newborn who knows nothing. As a boy, "it" becomes Fushi. Through encounters with human kindness, Fushi not only gains survival skills, but grows as a "person". But his journey is darkened by the inexplicable and destructive enemy Nokker, as well as cruel partings with the people he loves.
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Title: Bungo Stray Dogs Wan!
Character: Ōgai Mori (voice)
Released: January 13, 2021
Type: TV
The peaceful days of the very popular work Bungou Stray Dogs are here. The characters of the Armed Detective Agency and the Mafia are in miniature form?! Due to Atsushi and co. becoming cute, this is a different experience to the original work—a pleasant gag manga!
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Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Title: Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Character: Daisy's Father (voice)
Released: September 18, 2020
Type: Movie
As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.
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Title: The Misfit of Demon King Academy
Character: Diego Kanon Ijaysica (voice)
Released: July 4, 2020
Type: TV
Anos Voldigord was a tyrannical Demon King that eradicated humans, spirits, and even the gods, but became bored of eternal warfare and reincarnated with dreams of a peaceful world. However, what awaited him in reincarnation after 2000 years were descendants who became too weak after being accustomed to peace, and all sorts of magic that deteriorated to the extreme. Anos enters Demon King Academy that gathers and educates those who are viewed as the reincarnation of the Demon King, but the academy could not see through his true powers and ends up branding him as a misfit.
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Seven Days War
Title: Seven Days War
Character: Yamazaki - Kaori's Father (voice)
Released: December 13, 2019
Type: Movie
In the town of Saima, when summer is about to begin, a group of six high school students intend to live a secret adventure by spending seven carefree days in a ruined mining facility.
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Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger en film
Title: Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger en film
Character: Dogranio Yaabun (voice)
Released: August 4, 2018
Type: Movie
Phantom Thief Change! Police Change! This summer, the VS Sentai that defies all that you know, will be appearing at the cinemas!
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Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple
Title: Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple
Character: Ougai Mori (voice)
Released: March 3, 2018
Type: Movie
A large scale catastrophe is occurring across the planet. Ability users are discovered after the appearance of a mysterious fog, apparently having committed suicide, so the Armed Detective Agency sets out to investigate these mysterious deaths. The case seems to involve an unknown ability user referred to as "Collector," a man who could be the mastermind behind the incident. Trust and courage are put to the test in order to save the city of Yokohama and ability users across the world from the grip of Collector where the Armed Detective Agency forms an unlikely partnership with the dangerous Port Mafia.
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Title: Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger
Character: Dogranio Yabun (voice)
Released: February 11, 2018
Type: TV
The Ganglar have stolen the Lupin Collection, treasures left behind by the famous phantom thief, Arsène Lupin. Phantom thieves are fighting to take back what was lost. Police are fighting to protect the peace.
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Title: After the Rain
Character: Chihiro Kujou (voice)
Released: January 12, 2018
Type: TV
Akira Tachibana is a soft-spoken high school student who used to be a part of the track and field club but, due to an injury, she is no longer able to run as fast as she once could. Working part-time at a family restaurant as a recourse, she finds herself inexplicably falling love with her manager, a divorced 45-year-old man with a young son. Despite the age gap, Akira wholeheartedly embraces his mannerisms and kind nature, which is seen as spinelessness by the other employees, and little by little, the two begin to understand each other. Although unable to explain why exactly she is attracted to him, Akira believes that a concrete reason is not needed to truly love someone. On a rainy day, she decides to finally tell her manager about how she feels... but just how will he react?
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Fireworks
Title: Fireworks
Character: Yūsuke's Father (voice)
Released: August 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys, arguing over whether they are round or flat when viewed from different angles, set out to find it out.
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Title: Classroom of the Elite
Character: Chairman Sakayanagi (voice)
Released: July 12, 2017
Type: TV
Kiyotaka Ayanokoji has just enrolled at Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Senior High School, where it's said that 100% of students go on to college or find employment. But he ends up in Class 1-D, which is full of all the school's problem children. What's more, every month, the school awards students points with a cash value of 100,000 yen, and the classes employ a laissez-faire policy in which talking, sleeping, and even sabotage are permitted during class. One month later, Ayanokoji, Horikita, and the students of Class D learn the truth of the system in place within their school...
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Title: In Another World with My Smartphone
Character: King Shraff (voice)
Released: July 11, 2017
Type: TV
Touya Mochizuki was accidentally killed, and as an apology, God allows him to be reborn in a fantasy world and will grant him any one wish he desires. And so, Touya chooses to keep his smartphone in the next world. In his second chance at life, he befriends many important figures and comes across the world's secret. He inherits the legacy of an ancient civilization and travels around nonchalantly while possessing powers that rival this world's kings.
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Title: Fate/Apocrypha
Character: Caster of Black : Avicebron (voice)
Released: July 2, 2017
Type: TV
The theft of the Greater Grail from Fuyuki City leads to a splintered timeline in which the Great Holy Grail War is waged on an unprecedented scale.
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こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所 THE FINAL 両津勘吉 最後の日
Title: こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所 THE FINAL 両津勘吉 最後の日
Released: September 18, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Bungo Stray Dogs
Character: Rintarou Mori
Released: April 7, 2016
Type: TV
Atsushi Nakajima was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Osamu Dazai, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. They're tracking down a tiger that has appeared in the area recently, around the time Atsushi came to the area. The tiger seems to have a connection to Atsushi, and by the time the case is solved, it is clear that Atsushi's future will involve much more of Dazai and the rest of the detectives!
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Title: Joker Game
Character: Aaron Price (voice)
Released: April 5, 2016
Type: TV
Taking place in the year 1937 on the eve of World War II, the story involves a mysterious spy training organization known as the "D Agency." The organization is established by Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki from the Imperial Japanese Army. His ideals lead him to recruit people beyond military academy graduates and personnel, while training them to become skilled agents in arts of manipulation. These agents would become a specialized team to conduct operations. One such antihero agent, under the name Jirou Gamou, goes on a harrowing mission to uncover secret documents titled "Black Notes," while battling forces from within and without his own ranks.
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Title: ERASED
Character: Gaku Yashiro (voice)
Released: January 8, 2016
Type: TV
Satoru Fujinuma is a struggling manga artist who has the ability to turn back time and prevent deaths. When his mother is killed he turns back time to solve the mystery, but ends up back in elementary school, just before the disappearance of his classmate Kayo.
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Title: Blood Blockade Battlefront
Character: Steven A. Starphase
Released: April 5, 2015
Type: TV
One day, New York City as we know it vanished overnight into a mysterious fog. Now known as Hellsalem's Lot, it has become a place where another world beyond imagining is connected to our reality. The balance within this new world is protected by a secret society known as Libra. Leo, a journalist and photographer who arrives in the city, is unexpectedly recruited to join their ranks.
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Title: 新网球王子OVAvsGenius10
Character: Shi Saitō (voice)
Released: October 29, 2014
Type: TV
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Title: The Seven Deadly Sins
Character: Dale (voice)
Released: October 5, 2014
Type: TV
The “Seven Deadly Sins”—a group of evil knights who conspired to overthrow the kingdom of Britannia—were said to have been eradicated by the Holy Knights, although some claim that they still live. Ten years later, the Holy Knights have staged a Coup d'état and assassinated the king, becoming the new, tyrannical rulers of the kingdom. Elizabeth, the king's only daughter, sets out on a journey to find the “Seven Deadly Sins,” and to enlist their help in taking back the kingdom.
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Title: The Seven Deadly Sins
Character: Armor Giant (voice)
Released: October 5, 2014
Type: TV
The “Seven Deadly Sins”—a group of evil knights who conspired to overthrow the kingdom of Britannia—were said to have been eradicated by the Holy Knights, although some claim that they still live. Ten years later, the Holy Knights have staged a Coup d'état and assassinated the king, becoming the new, tyrannical rulers of the kingdom. Elizabeth, the king's only daughter, sets out on a journey to find the “Seven Deadly Sins,” and to enlist their help in taking back the kingdom.
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Title: Barakamon
Character: Nenbutsu Folk Dance Leader (voice)
Released: July 5, 2014
Type: TV
After punching a famous curator in the face for criticizing his work as "textbook and lifeless," Handa Seishuu is sent to Gotō Island to calm his nerves and find new inspiration for his calligraphy. Growing up in the city all his life, though, Handa must adapt to country life while meeting an assortment of quirky people during his tenure.
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Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary
Title: Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary
Character: Mu (Voice)
Released: June 21, 2014
Type: Movie
Warriors called "Saints" are the champions of hope who have always appeared since the Age of Myth whenever evil threatens the world. In this present day story, many years since the long fought "Holy War" we find Saori Kido, a girl troubled by her mysterious powers. She is saved by a boy, Seiya "Bronze Saint" from a sudden attack by an assassin, through the accident Saori realizes her destiny and mission and decides to go to "Sanctuary" with Seiya and his company of Bronze Saints. In Sanctuary they confront "Pope" and wage a desperate battle against the greatest Saints, the "Gold Saints".
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Wake Up, Girls! - Seven Idols
Title: Wake Up, Girls! - Seven Idols
Character: Tooru Shiraki (voice)
Released: January 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Green Leaves Entertainment is a tiny production company on the verge of going out of business in Sendai, Japan. The agency once managed the careers of magicians, photo idols, fortune-tellers, and other entertainers, but its last remaining client finally quit. Faced with having absolutely no one to represent, agency president Tange thinks up a plan to produce an idol group, forming the seven-girl group known as the "Wake Up, Girls".
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Zorori the Naughty Hero: Super Adventure!
Title: Zorori the Naughty Hero: Super Adventure!
Released: December 22, 2012
Type: Movie
Zorori, Ishishi, and Noshishi, while out searching for treasure, come upon a town with a widespread illness. In order to make the secret medicine for it, they must set out on an adventure.
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Title: The New Prince of Tennis
Character: Shi Saitō (voice)
Released: January 4, 2012
Type: TV
The Seigaku tennis club has been invited to train at the U-17 (Under 17) camp. Seigaku is one of the 50 middle schools invited and must compete with high school players to prove they are just as good.
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Title: Hellsing: The Dawn
Character: Murasaki
Released: November 27, 2011
Type: TV
Hellsing agents Alucard and young Walter, the resourceful Hellsing family butler, are sent to Nazi-occupied Europe in 1944 to stop the Nazis' attempt to create a vampire army.
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Title: Fractale
Character: Barrot (voice)
Released: January 14, 2011
Type: TV
Clain lives quietly amongst doppels—holograms that replace his parents and friends. Alone on a typical day, he saves a shrine maiden from pursuers and treats her wounds. He’s mystified by her worldly charms, but she disappears—leaving only a pendant behind. When a curious girl emerges from the amulet, Clain’s life takes a chaotic turn as he seeks to unlock the secrets his new friend holds.
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Welcome to the Space Show
Title: Welcome to the Space Show
Character: Robby (voice)
Released: February 18, 2010
Type: Movie
Five children save the life of a dog-like alien while at a self-run summer camp. He attempts to reward them by taking them to an alien colony on the Moon. Events take a turn for the worse when his report on that attack that injured him causes passage from the Moon to the Earth to be banned, and children are stranded in space. The children need to find a way back home before camp ends and their parents discover that they are missing. They also have to avoid the poachers that injured their alien friend, and now seem to be stalking them all.
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Title: Katanagatari
Character: Ginkaku Uneri (voice)
Released: January 25, 2010
Type: TV
The legendary swordsmith Kiki Shikizaki created 1,000 swords in his career. The more of the swords a country owns, the higher its chances are at winning a war. When the shogun emerged victorious, he collected 988 swords, but these were merely the “practice pieces”. The last twelve swords were the crowning achievements of Kiki’s career. Each one of them is so powerful that a single man could defeat an army with it. Togame, the shogun’s strategist, gets the order to collect these swords. At first she hired a ninja, but each of the swords’ value is so high that the entire ninja clan went rogue once they got hold of one. She then put her trust in another warrior, but he kept the sword for himself. Her final hope now is Shichika, the seventh and last student of the Kyotoryuu School.
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Title: Corpse Princess
Character: Akasha Shishidou
Released: October 2, 2008
Type: TV
Armed with dual machine guns, an undead school girl, Makina Hoshimura, must hunt down 108 other undeads with the help of specially trained Buddhist monks in order to gain entry into Heaven. Based on manga written by Yoshiichi Akahito.
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Crayon Shin-chan: Invoke a Super Storm!  The Hero of Kinpoko
Title: Crayon Shin-chan: Invoke a Super Storm! The Hero of Kinpoko
Character: Makku Ra Kuranosuke
Released: April 19, 2008
Type: Movie
A sinister force is invading the neighborhood, and Shinnosuke is the only one who notices -- until a kid named Mata appears to help him save the day.
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Title: Our Home's Fox Deity
Character: Haruki Takagami
Released: April 4, 2008
Type: TV
Our Home's Fox Deity. is a Japanese light novel series by Jin Shibamura, with illustrations by Eizō Hōden. The first novel was released in February 2004, and as of October 2007, seven volumes have been published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation by Suiren Shōfū started serialization in MediaWorks' Dengeki Comic Gao! magazine in February 2007; the manga transferred to ASCII Media Works Dengeki Daioh in April 2008 after the former was discontinued in February 2008. A 24-episode anime adaptation, produced by Zexcs, aired in Japan between April and September 2008. NIS America licensed the anime series under the title Our Home's Fox Deity. released it in North America.
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Title: Graveyard Kitaro
Character: Murata (voice)
Released: January 10, 2008
Type: TV
Kitarō is a yōkai boy born in a cemetery, and aside from his mostly-decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost tribe. He is missing his left eye, but his hair usually covers the empty socket. He fights for peace between humans and yōkai, which generally involves protecting the former from the wiles of the latter.
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Title: Baccano!
Character: Maiza Avaro (voice)
Released: July 27, 2007
Type: TV
During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling aide Ennis are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixir. In addition, a war between the mafia groups is getting worse. On board the Advena Avis, in 1711, alchemists are about to learn the price of immortality. Takes place in the same universe as Durarara (2010).
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Title: Saiyuki Reload: Burial
Character: Kōumyō Sanzō (voice)
Released: April 27, 2007
Type: TV
Taking place before Gensomaden Saiyuki, this story offers a view of the Genjō Sanzō, Son Goku, Sha Gojyo, and Cho Hakkai before they met up.
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Title: Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
Released: April 9, 2005
Type: TV
Syaoran fights to gather the scattered soul of his beloved princess Sakura, whose memories were sent adrift across space and time.
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Blade of the Phantom Master
Title: Blade of the Phantom Master
Character: Yuite
Released: November 26, 2004
Type: Movie
Long ago, the legends say, there was a secret army. Unseen until needed, these warriors struck from the shadows, protecting justice and defending the Jushin Empire from both tyrants and thieves. They were called the Amen Osa, the Phantom Masters. But now Jushin has fallen, its kingdoms destroyed and its citizens left to the mercy of zombies, beasts and sadists. Yet from the ashes of destruction, a hero has appeared to defend the people. His name is unknown, and no man knows who he serves... but there are clues: the strange symbol he wears around his neck and the female living weapon he commands. Is he the last of the Amen Osa? The answer will be revealed when the Blade of the Phantom Master is unleashed!
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Title: The Melody of Oblivion
Character: Kurofune Ballad
Released: April 6, 2004
Type: TV
After a war occurred in the 20th century between humans and demons. Since that time, the monsters rule the world in fear but keep relatively hidden from public view. A boy named Bokka ponders the past and wonders what became of the Meros Warriors who defended the world so bravely against the demons.
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Title: Monster
Character: Heinz (voice)
Released: April 6, 2004
Type: TV
Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.
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Title: The Cosmopolitan Prayers
Character: Black Knight (voice)
Released: January 13, 2004
Type: TV
Koto unknowingly seals away the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, and now she is in a different world and can't return. Meeting priestesses who combat the evil in this strange place she learns that Black Towers throughout the land keep Amatersu sealed away and are guarded by evil monsters. Koto must now find a way to help defeat these monsters and return the world to the way it was.
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Title: The Cosmopolitan Prayers
Character: Dark Knight (voice)
Released: January 13, 2004
Type: TV
Koto unknowingly seals away the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, and now she is in a different world and can't return. Meeting priestesses who combat the evil in this strange place she learns that Black Towers throughout the land keep Amatersu sealed away and are guarded by evil monsters. Koto must now find a way to help defeat these monsters and return the world to the way it was.
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KochiKame the Movie 2: UFO Attack! The Great Tornado Strategy!!
Title: KochiKame the Movie 2: UFO Attack! The Great Tornado Strategy!!
Character: Keiichi Nakagawa (voice)
Released: December 20, 2003
Type: Movie
The movie starts off with Ryotsu (with Honda as his patsy) hatching another crackpot scam with a fake UFO sighting (via fake crop circles and a wire-hanging UFO). But the plan fails per usual, with the Kameari Park Police Box which results in Ohara punishes Ryotsu by subtracting him from the station's group vacation to Hawaii the following day.
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Title: Gunslinger Girl
Character: Jean (voice)
Released: October 8, 2003
Type: TV
The Social Welfare Agency saves the lives of terminal patients using cybernetic implants. Then it teaches them to kill. After surviving the slaughter of her family, young Henrietta awakens to her new life at the Agency with a rebuilt body and no memory. Teamed with Jose, who is responsible for turning her into the perfect assassin, Henrietta’s been given a second chance—but at what cost?
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RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio
Title: RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio
Character: Itsuki Kisaragi (voice)
Released: April 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Ayato and Haruka are middle-school sweethearts whose lives take a dire turn when the mysterious Mu invade Tokyo in the year 2012. Protecting humanity from the Mu may be Ayato's destiny, but what he really wants is to regain the relationship he once had with Haruka... a love that will have to transcend space, time, and reality itself.
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One Piece: Dead End Adventure
Title: One Piece: Dead End Adventure
Character: Shuraiya Bascùd (voice)
Released: March 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Desperate for cash, the Straw Hat Pirates enter a secret race between pirate crews known as the Dead End Competition. There, they must battle against powerful people, including the bounty hunter who wants to kill Gasparde and a climatic battle with Marine-turned-pirate Captain Gasparde.
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Title: Wolf's Rain
Character: Hubb Lebowski (voice)
Released: January 7, 2003
Type: TV
Paradise—a legend, a myth, and a hopeless dream in a world that has become a wasteland. It is not meant for everyone, only the wolves thought to be extinct yet still roam the lands. When the Flower Maiden awakens, the path to the end will open. Kiba, a lone white wolf, wanders into a poverty stricken city on a quest. The scent of Lunar Flowers and the will to find Paradise is all he has. Along the way, he runs into other outcast wolves—Tsume, Hige, and Toboe, each with their own story and troubles. Fate bringing them together, they seek out the Flower Maiden, Cheza, and their way to Paradise. But, doing so is no simple matter. Up against a world that fears them and a man with mysterious abilities, their journey is overrun with challenges and worse—sacrifices. With limited time, they must fight to protect Cheza against everyone who seeks her and discover the hidden path to their destiny.
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Title: Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart
Character: Mr. Shirikawa (voice)
Released: November 11, 2002
Type: TV
Miu Nomura is a 14-year-old 8th-grader who has been playing piano since early childhood. She grows up gradually while her friendship, kinship, and love affairs evolve around her, but those relationships inevitably affect her piano performance.
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Title: RahXephon
Character: Itsuki Kisaragi (voice)
Released: January 21, 2002
Type: TV
In a world where time passes at a crawl and the blood of your neighbor runs blue, 17 year old high school student Ayato Kamina goes about his daily life within Tokyo Jupiter oblivious to the world around him, having been educated with the fact that the all civilization but Tokyo has been destroyed. But all that changes when the mysterious civilization "MU" invades his home, raining destruction down from the sky in the form of strange monsters called Dolems. The events that occur next will lead Ayato to the mysterious woman named Reika Mishima, to the truth of their existence, the discovery of what and who he is, and to the powerful angelic robot RahXephon.
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Title: Mirage of Blaze
Character: Kotaro Fuuma
Released: January 7, 2002
Type: TV
Mirage of Blaze is a shōnen-ai light novel series by Mizuna Kuwabara, which are published under Shueisha's Cobalt label. It was adapted into an anime TV series directed by Susumu Kudo in 2002 and an OVA in 2004. Difficult to classify, Mirage of Blaze is equal parts melodrama, historical romance, and supernatural fantasy. Japanese history predominates a heavily structured plot, which mainly involves the continued aggression between magic using guardians, or "possessors," and the denizens of a "feudal underworld," or the restless souls of long-dead samurai attempting to re-ignite ancient war on the modern plane. The anime TV series and the OVAs have since been released in North America by Media Blasters, and both have aired on Encore Action and Encore WAM.
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Title: Kaze no Yojimbo
Character: Rin Shirogane
Released: October 1, 2001
Type: TV
George Kodama is investigating an incident that occurred in the small town of Kimujuku over 15 years ago. George is soon caught up in the middle of a bloody gang fight for control of the town.
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Title: Fruits Basket
Character: Ayame Sohma (voice)
Released: July 5, 2001
Type: TV
Tohru Honda is 16 year old orphaned girl who gets invited to live in the house of her classmate, the handsome boy Sohma Yuki, and his cousins, 16 year old Kyo and 27 year old Shigure. However, these young men and parts of the rest of their family (both close and distant) hold a curse; if they are hugged by the opposite gender, they transform into animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Everyday is an adventure for sweet Tohru, as she gets to know everyone in the large family better (especially Yuki and Kyo), in both common and bizarre situations. But, the Sohma Family curse is certainly no laughing matter... it also holds horrible cruelty and heartbreak.
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Title: Z.O.E Dolores, i
Character: Leon Links
Released: April 7, 2001
Type: TV
James Lynx was a pilot in the United Nations global army, one day he received notification that his wife, a Martian scientist, was killed during a lab experiment. His children blamed him and in despair, James quit the military and took up a job as a transporter between Earth and Mars, he had some slight hope of his wife still being alive. After a few years, he seemed to have given up all hope and turned to drinking, until one day he receives an orbital frame by the name of "Dolores," sent by his dead wife.
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Title: Baki the Grappler
Character: Kureha Shinogi (voice)
Released: January 8, 2001
Type: TV
Baki Hanma is a young fighter who yearns to follow in the footsteps of his father, Yujiro, and become the strongest fighter in the world. Through that he trains tirelessly and fights constantly to hone his skills and develop his body to achieve these goals. Many intense battles lay ahead of Baki as he goes about his quest to be the best and ultimately take the title of "King" from his father.
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Title: The Tree In Sunlight
Character: Ibutani Manjiro
Released: April 4, 2000
Type: TV
A story set in the mid-1800's about a young doctor who has been trained in Western-style medicine and a young samurai who is trying to live up to the old traditions of his class and culture. The story is actually based upon real people - the doctor, Ryo-an, was Tezuka's great grandfather. The manga series was adapted to anime by Madhouse Studios and premiered in Japan on NTV on April 4, 2000.
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Title: The Big O
Character: Roger Smith (voice)
Released: October 13, 1999
Type: TV
Forty years ago, the minds of Paradigm City's inhabitants were wiped clean of all recollections of the past. Now, ruled by a powerful corporation and cut off from the rest of the world by desolate wastelands, Paradigm has become a virtual police state where Negotiators like Roger Smith keep the wheels of progress, commerce, and society turning.
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Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of the Century
Title: Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of the Century
Character: Makoto Nishino (voice)
Released: April 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Kaitou Kid dares to challenge the police once more, setting his sights on the Russian Imperial Easter Egg. With the date, time, and place, the Osaka police force scrambles to stop him. But this time, Kid may have bitten off more than he can chew—Conan Edogawa, Heiji Hattori, and numerous others are also trying to get their hands on the jeweled egg.
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Title: Super Doll★Licca-chan
Character: Rui Makiyama
Released: October 6, 1998
Type: TV
Super Doll★Licca-chan (スーパードール★リカちゃん Sūpā Dōru Rika-chan?) is TV anime series which ran on TV Tokyo from 1998–1999. Kodansha also serialized a manga based on the anime series in its monthly manga magazine Nakayoshi. The story follows an ordinary elementary school girl named Licca Kayama and the strange circumstances surrounding her origins, as well as the origins of her protector, Doll Licca. The series is an original story spin-off inspired by the long-selling and popular Takara doll lineup "Licca-chan", created by Miyako Maki, designed to expand the regular dress-up doll series into a line of action figures. However, the new figures were only a mild success, and did not remain in production for long.
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Title: Shadow Skill
Character: Dias Lag (voice)
Released: July 2, 1998
Type: TV
Sevalle, an elite breed whose mastery of martial arts has made them legendary. But for the 59th Sevalle, Elle Ragu, a.k.a. Shadow Skill, being a legend is shaping up to be something of a drag. After all, adventure alone doesn't pay the rent, and living check to check takes its toll on even the fiercest warrior. Strong as an ox and stubborn as a mule she may be, but it's drinking like a fish that usually gets Elle in trouble. And as she travels alongside her brother Gau, leaving property damage and unpaid bar-tabs in their wake, a new threat looms on the horizon: spies from the kingdom of Solfan have entered the picture, and Kuruda seems to be headed for war...
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Title: Neo Ranga
Character: Kazuo Fujiwara (voice)
Released: April 6, 1998
Type: TV
Across the ocean on the tiny island kingdom of Barou the ancient god Neo Ranga awakens from his slumber. He is mysteriously drawn to Tokyo, and the three beautiful sisters - Minami, Ushio, and Yuuhi - who are unwittingly linked to the monster. But instead of rolling out the red carpet, the military rolls out the weaponry, and things start to get nasty. The plot thickens: Why is Neo Ranga driven to Tokyo? Is he a messenger with a warning for humankind, or just a big boy out for a good time? And what's behind Ranga's mysterious eyes?
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Title: Fancy Lala
Character: Katsunoshin Asaka
Released: April 5, 1998
Type: TV
Fancy Lala, known in Japan as Fancy Lala, the Magic Stage is a magical girl anime series produced by Studio Pierrot in 1998. A two-volume manga adaptation by Rurika Kasuga ran in Ribon. The original designs were created by Akemi Takada, who worked on many of the 80's Studio Pierrot series. The anime series has been licensed for English release by Bandai Entertainment.
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Title: Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight
Character: Slayn (voice)
Released: April 1, 1998
Type: TV
Five years after the death of the Emperor of Marmo in the War of Heroes, Parn is now the Free Knight of Lodoss, he and his old allies now famous through the land. However, the Emperor's right-hand-man, Ashram, seeks the Scepter of Domination to re-unify Lodoss under his former leader's banner. Meanwhile, beyond his attempts at conquest lies a more sinister force beginning to set the stage for the resurrection of the goddess of death and destruction...
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Romantic Lake Mashuko Murders
Title: Romantic Lake Mashuko Murders
Released: February 7, 1998
Type: Movie
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Title: In the Beginning: The Bible Stories
Character: Abel
Released: April 1, 1997
Type: TV
In the Beginning: The Bible Stories is an anime television series based on The Bible's Hebrew Scriptures created by Osamu Tezuka. The series was a coproduction between Nippon TV, Tezuka's Tezuka Productions, and Italy's government-owned broadcaster, Radiotelevisione Italiana. Although the series was in production during a period of several years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was not aired in Japan until 1997, on the satellite channel WOWOW. The series has also been aired on TV in the United States, Italy, Spain and Germany. In the Beginning marked the fourth time Bible stories formed the basis of a Japanese-animated television series, following the two Superbook series and The Flying House, which were made for Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network by Tatsunoko Production in the early 1980s. In the Beginning features episodes devoted to most of the major Bible stories of the Old Testament, including the stories of the Creation, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, Abraham and Isaac, Joseph, Moses, David, and Solomon, with the final episode featuring the birth of Jesus Christ. As with the second Superbook series, some stories were stretched out over several episodes. Unlike Superbook and The Flying House, however, no contemporary characters from modern times were inserted into the stories, save for the series mascot and viewpoint character, Roco the fox .
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Title: Kiko-chan's Smile
Character: 二ノ宮太郎
Released: October 5, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: KochiKame
Character: Keiichi Nakagawa
Released: June 16, 1996
Type: TV
Ryoutsu, being an underpayed policeman, is always coming up with ways to make some quick money. But in the end, his plans which are ridiculous from the beginning always go wrong and land him in big trouble.
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Ghost in the Shell
Title: Ghost in the Shell
Character: Mizuho Daita (voice)
Released: November 18, 1995
Type: Movie
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.
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Title: H2
Character: Hideo Tachibana (voice)
Released: June 1, 1995
Type: TV
Kunimi Hiro is a high school student, who is forced to give up his ambitions as a professional baseball player due to a serious injury. Now at a new high school, Hiro gets involved with Haruko and her goals of reviving that school's baseball team. At first they must overcome the refusal of school principle, who still remembers a dishonorable defeat that the school's baseball suffered some ten years earlier. Even with permission to form a school baseball team, there are still the players to recruit and train, and the challenges of building a reputation of the team within the high school baseball circuit. This is a story of group of high school students and their love of the game of baseball. Hiro is national class pitcher and batter, with his best friend who is a catcher and with Haruko as the team manager, together they struggle to build a baseball team worthy of the national championship.