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Autumn 1998 246n67

23rd September
OVA, 12 eps
Rating: 3.72 (389)
Average: 6.13 (392)
One day Nuku Nuku dropped in and began to live with the Natsume family. Having lost her memory, Nuku Nuku assumed the identity of a beautiful girl named Atsuko Higuchi. She was so beautiful and gentle, and besides, she was such a great cook that Ryunosuke, 14, was all smiles. However, after her arrival in town, a series of mysterious incidents started to happen in Maneki City: experimental machines running haywire, roaring fighter aircraft flying low, mass destruction in the city. In every case, a mysterious girl was spotted at the scene of the incident.

Source: AnimeNfo
23rd September
OVA, 2 eps
Rating: 3.86 (12)
Average: 4.41 (12)
* Loosely based on the dating sim game from Genki.

Formerly the kingdom's foundations, now the Efficus Manjuu makes the pocket money of its three princesses and they must step in on its defense...
?? October
Music Video, 1 ep
Rating: 3.32 (16)
Average: 3.87 (16)
A music video for the song by Islands that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.
1st October
TV Series, 39 eps
Rating: 2.81 (198)
Average: 5.41 (200)
It is the 25th century. The dark lord has 'infected' history with time-devices that could damage history beyond repair. Flint and his father lived in the prehistorics when they got turned into fossils. They are discovered and Flint gets turned back to his original state. With the help of his father, a boy Tony and a girl Sara he has to travel through time to bring the time-devices back to the land of time so history will be saved.

Source: ANN
?? October
OVA, 1 ep
*An educational film about the history of flood prevention at the Kuzuryuu river in Japan.

In the Meiji Era, the villages along the Kuzuryuu river keep getting plagued by floods. The villagers pray for them to stop but nothing changes. However, a young boy who lost his childhood friend in the floods grows up into a man and decides to take matters into his own hands. He starts constructing an embankment which leads to a large project involving several villages along the river.

Source: MAL
2nd October
TV Series, 26 eps
Rating: 7.44 (5262)
Average: 7.92 (5327)
Arima Souichirou, who seems about as perfect as she strives to be. But no one is quite what they seem... for whenever Yukino goes home, off comes the ojou-sama (princess) façade — and on go the headbands, reading glasses, and sweats. Miss Congeniality is in fact a conniving, petty con-artist with a streak of absolute nerdy bliss. Of course, Yukino is not the only one hiding a secret, since Arima himself is not quite what he seems to be either.

In her eagerness to become number one, she declares Arima as her arch-enemy, but then he declares his love for her...
3rd October
TV Series, 24 eps
Rating: 5.22 (1257)
Average: 6.88 (1267)
Five years ago on Talon's Peak, a grave accident happened involving the magical sword Baltoandeles and the magic Azali. Unable to control the sword's power, Azali was transformed into the shape of a great dragon who since that day became known as Bloody August. Kiridanshera, a young magician at the Peak who cared greatly for Azali found much to his disgust that the elders of the Peak were less than willing to save Azali and wanted rather to pretend the accident never happened. Angered by their stand, Kiridanshera swore that he would find a way to return Azali to her former self. Thus he forsook the name Kiridanshera and declared himself Orphen, leaving the Peak and his magical studies behind to wander the world...

Source: AnimeNfo
3rd October
TV Series, 25 eps
An elite soldier, whose nickname is God of Death, is transferred to another unit known as the PaPaRa Army. The PaPaRa Army is infamous for its elite but hilariously crazy . There is no plot to speak of other than humour, hilarious brutality, and general nonsense. This is also Matsuzawa-sensei's debut work.
4th October
TV Series, 25 eps
Rating: 4.85 (1078)
Average: 6.66 (1093)
The flames of war explode in the Middle East as two shadow forces unleash monstrous new weapons of mass destruction! But in a world in which giant robots are real, the most dangerous weapon of all lies buried within a human mind. Yuushirou, the fourth son of the mysterious and powerful Gouwa family, finds himself at the center of events that will change the future of mankind forever! Nothing can prepare the human race for what is about to be unleashed in Gasaraki!
4th October
TV Series, 25 eps
Rating: 6.10 (99)
Average: 6.66 (101)
Long long ago, in the time of the courageous, the knights and magic, there was a country by the name of Popolocrois in which the people live peacefully. King Paul is a kind-hearted man who entered into a marriage with one of the daughters of the Ryu clan, Sania, in order to overcome the barriers between the different races. The Queen soon gave birth to a child, Prince Pietro, who will play a significant role in bridging the gap between the humans and the Ryu clan.

Source: ANN
5th October
TV Series
In the Heian era, around 1000 years ago, a young boy of noble family named Ojarumaru is bored with his life of privilege. Meanwhile, three demons steal the power-stick of Enma, king of demons, and then lose it. Ojarumaru finds it, and uses it to transport himself to the present time. Here, he is befriended by a young boy named Kazuma, and becomes a member of his family. As time goes on, Ojarumaru makes many new friends, while dodging the comedic efforts of the three demons, Akane, Kisuke, and Aobee, as they try to recover the stick.

Source: ANN
6th October
TV Series, 24 eps
Rating: 8.26 (952)
Average: 7.89 (955)
* Based on the manga by Hiraga-Keaton Taichi is a half-British half-Japanese dreamer whose dream is to dig up an ancient civilization on the Danube River. But after his marriage failed, he also lost confidence in his dream. He ed the SAS army but he couldn't give up his archaeological desire. So he became an op (operative) in order to finance his future private excavation of the secret civilization and now goes around the world as an insurance investigator for Lloyd's of London.

Note: When Master Keaton TV was released on VHS/DVD, a special episode was included on each media. The episodes were numbered from 25 to 39.
6th October
TV Series, 25 eps
Rating: 5.24 (696)
Average: 6.89 (700)
After saving Terra II from destruction, and the imminent return of the human female, the advancement of civilization has become a priority and times are changing: large shopping malls replace small shops in Japoness, and at the next International Conference there will be talks to discontinue the production of marionettes, to become less dependant on marionette labour. All these changes make Bloodberry.

The Sabre Dolls, Tiger, Luchs and Panther have learned about human behaviour, developing their Maiden Circuits that give them human emotions. Now they have been called to re their master Faust again.

Lorelei, the only human female on Terra II presently, is sick of here life in a golden cage, ing Otaru and his marionettes for a visit to Mount Japoness... but she is kidnapped by Gettel, one of Faust's former lackeys. Gettel demands Lime, Cherry and Bloodberry in exchange for the safe return of Lorelei. And when Faust returns with another megalomaniac plan, the Sabre Dolls are torn between their new-found respect for Otaru and their undying loyalty to Faust...

— written by foo2
6th October
TV Series, 52 eps
Rating: 3.35 (81)
Average: 5.49 (83)
Licca is in grave danger once she finds out that she is the princess of the Doll Kingdom. Now, the evil Dr. Scarecrow is after her and her throne. So Licca's grandmother gives her a set of dolls. When needed, the dolls will transform into larger versions known as the Doll Knights. Together, they will protect Licca.

Source: AnimeNfo
7th October
TV Series, 12 eps
Rating: 4.91 (725)
Average: 6.82 (732)
Sent from the future to save mankind from a nightmarish holocaust, three young men must blend into present-day society and uncover the dangerous machinations of a group of sinister scientists.

Unfortunately for Gawl, their apparent youth leaves them with no option but to pretend to be foreign exchange students at the local high school. Their cover almost immediately begins to wear thin when the daughter of the boarding house where they are staying begins to suspect Gawl of being up to no good. In truth, Gawl is the ultimate weapon against evil, a bio-enhanced generator capable of transforming into an awesome inhuman form of unbelievable power. However, even Gawl's incredible abilities may not be enough, for the scientists have their own army of monstrous generators!
7th October
TV Series, 26 eps
Rating: 3.80 (110)
Average: 5.62 (110)
Steam Detectives stars a youthful detective, Narutaki, and his quest to uphold justice in steam-punk-like metropolis of Steam City. Along with his partners, nurse Linlin and mecha-knight Goriki, Narutaki faces a bizarre quandary of villains, and unravels a never-ending string of mysteries.

Source: AnimeNfo
7th October
TV Series, 16 eps
Rating: 4.40 (414)
Average: 6.08 (416)
A cast of colourful characters, be it students at school or adults in working life, face all sorts of strange and eccentric challenges on a daily basis:

The accident-prone Hamster of a family of four has to bear many misunderstandings in communication, starting off with having to respond to a different name from each family member...

— written by foo2
8th October
TV Series, 24 eps
AIC
Rating: 5.30 (1612)
Average: 7.00 (1622)
The year is 2040, the place Mega-Tokyo. Armed with highly advanced suits of powered armour, a group of young female vigilantes fights a shadow war against the largest mega-corporation in Japan, GENOM, and their army of mad Boomers — androids built to replace humans in menial labour jobs, but apparently have an annoying tendency to run rampant. Or so one is led to believe.
8th October
TV Series, 12 eps
Rating: 4.49 (395)
Average: 6.52 (403)
When Bolt Crank, codenamed Eat-Man, literally eats every single piece of a weapon, he can transform the flesh of his arm into that weapon on cue. One of a team of mercenaries with bizarre superpowers, Bolt's unique ability and cool charisma attract only the very cutest sweet young things.
10th October
TV Series, 43 eps
Each and every human being is blessed with a seed of talent from heaven. This seed develops as a child grows up, and will be in full blossom one day. By some quirk of fate, however, there is one boy without any seed of talent. When God hears about the dull boy, Hideyuki, he orders Ten Ten Kun to find out what sort of talent Hideyuki should have inherited and to put the seed of talent inside him. With some amazing magic tools in his bag, Ten Ten Kun, the most friendly and humorous angel in the world, comes down to Earth to see Hideyuki. However, there is an infinite number of seeds, so it will take Ten Ten Kun a very long time to discover Hideyuki's true talent.

Source: AnimeNfo
11th October
TV Series, 26 eps
Rating: 5.46 (661)
Average: 6.73 (668)
Devilman Lady, must now exterminate her own kind, but how much longer can she keep her sanity in a situation she never chose in the first place?
17th October
TV Series, 22 eps
Rating: 4.59 (541)
Average: 6.80 (547)
Keikounitten Ruaan, who can breathe life into objects. Her goal is to make Tasuke happy. Both goddesses are not very skilful though and cause a lot of trouble instead. Tasuke's peaceful and carefree days definitely seem to be over...

Source: AnimeNfo
19th October
OVA, 1 ep
A Japanese boy named Sakamoto Shunpei moves to the USA along with his father and elder brother, and settles in a town called Hope Town. At first, Shunpei experiences some trouble adapting to a new place, but soon he makes friends with the local kids. Together, they build a raft and go down the Mississippi River.

— written by Singan
21st October
TV Series, 26 eps
Rating: 5.29 (26)
Average: 5.67 (26)
Haruka Nishikikoji is an overweight doctor that never seems to attract any girls. Fate finds a way as he lands a job as a doctor in an elementary school, wherein his workplace can be found on top of the school's roof and the actual clinic looks like a medieval castle. Just when everything seems to go downhill, a surprise came one day, his first love Koizumi Miyuki, applies as his soon to be nurse.

Source: ANN
21st October
OVA, 1 ep
25th October
OVA, 4 eps
Rating: 5.20 (2572)
Average: 6.84 (2590)
In the near future the oceans have risen, causing all land at sea level to be flooded. With the expansion of the oceans, humanity has found a new enemy in Hayami Tetsu to re the Blue Fleet. However, he refuses and angers her, so she leaves. Later, however, the two meet again under more dire circumstances and start to work together.
25th October
OVA, 3 eps
Rating: 5.82 (1733)
Average: 7.09 (1738)
The LabyrinthLina Inverse meet for the first time. Forced to travel together to help a village, Lina and Naga battle zombies, ghosts, a vampire, and Naga's idiocy.

A Frightening Future — Lina escorts a bratty and spoiled merchant's daughter to her summer villa all the while fending off bandits, peeping toms, and the urge to beat the crap out of the merchant's daughter.

Lina-chan's Lovely Makeover Operation — Lina gets involved in a fashion dispute gone bad, and finds herself allied with a conservative fashion designer, while Naga takes the side of a more risqué designer. The two designers want to prove each other wrong and will not hesitate to blow up shops or use mobile fortress fashion stores to do it.
26th October
TV Series, 47 eps
A children's series about the daily lives of funny insects.
2nd November
OVA, 1 ep
Rating: 4.27 (171)
Average: 5.67 (171)
After a meteor hits Earth, traitor forces have taken over, and the people are suffering. In the chaos, a boy named Tetsuro Daiba, who had lost his parents in the meteor hit, is paid a visit by Mello, a mysterious woman appearing in a bright light. When Daiba comes to, he finds itself in a spaceship infirmary under observation. Stealing a fighter that he did not know how to pilot, he breaks out, flying like a pro.

He was able to how to pilot from his DNA memory... and to find out more, his doctor friend takes him to his secret underground lab, in which he acts as a professor to find out ways to stop the traitor regime. When the forces invade to take him back, a girl named Rei Yuuki mysteriously shoots down their entire carrier with only a fighter jet! Apparently, both have mysterious powers that the enemies want, which may or may not be connected to their being the only two known survivors of the meteor impact.

While looking for a third survivor (which turned out to be a cat), the two are taken by force to Queen Photon (ruler of the traitor regime), who claims that she is out to save the Earth from those who sent the meteor. The two do not know whether to believe her or Mello until the (telepathic) cat breaks them out of the Queen's sealed chamber, and Mello comes to straighten things out. That is when the three of them make a choice... Stay on a planet that cannot their advanced race, or strike out into the unknown of space?

Source: ANN review (animenewsnetwork.com/reviews/display.php?id=101)

Note: First screened at the Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival 1998, celebrating the 45 years of Matsumoto's career. The VHS/LD release was on December 18, 1998.
7th November
TV Special, 1 ep
Rating: 2.08 (12)
Average: 2.75 (12)
By the year 2099, humanity has spread throughout the Solar System. However, one day a mysterious giant object appears flying towards Earth. The defense activities by Starfleet fail, and the Earth's fate is now in the hands of Hiiragi Mika and Mochizuki Lira - two employees of a company hired to investigate the object.

Note: Japan's first full 3D CG feature film, according to Wikipedia.
7th November
TV Series, 20 eps
Rating: 5.21 (320)
Average: 6.38 (322)
Esumi Fuuka stands tall at 163cm with a slender figure, suggesting she must be a university undergraduate. However, in reality, she is only an elementary school student. With a figure of an adult and the mentality of a small child, she creates many misunderstandings around her.
14th November
Movie, 1 ep
Rating: 5.79 (617)
Average: 6.54 (620)
Time has come to a standstill. A whale appears from a glassy ocean and spends half a day soaring gracefully across the skies. What makes this works extraordinary is the artist's decision to use the transparency and visual bulk of 3D computer graphics only for the un-moving ocean and glaciers. The people, whale, and ships are all hand-drawn, and with this contrast, he invites the viewer into a different world. This is a poem written in animation, the creation of a true fantasy. This project was a considerable under taking, and the results are marvelous.
25th November
OVA, 2 eps
Rating: 1.66 (315)
Average: 3.64 (317)
* Based on a popular video game.

In a time when demons rule the world and mankind seeks freedom, human rebels gain control of the demon-slaying sword Tenmaken and attempt to assassinate the Demon King Janus.

To preserve the sovereignty of her homeland, the half-human, half-demon Princess Hiro must overcome her deep hatred of the humans or face a war that will ravage the entire world!
27th November
OVA, 5 eps
Rating: 2.61 (39)
Average: 4.68 (40)
Note: There were five promotional CGI-only Original video animation episodes released, the first four were sold with the initial Dinozone toys in Japan. Dino Tyranno came with an episode entitled "Revive, Dinosoldier", while Gigano Dragon came with a video called "Gigano Dragon Strikes Back!!". A third featuring the Cerazaur Brothers was sold with Dinostyras. A fourth OVA was released with Nightwing. A final fifth OVA was given only to subscribers of TV Magazine (テレビマガジン) and Comic BonBon (コミックボンボン).

Sunrise studio also created the TV series (26 episodes) for Western market only that began broadcasting in mid-2000 with title DinoZaurs: The Series. See episodes list http://www.tv.com/shows/dinozaurs/


Source: Wiki
27th November
Music Video, 1 ep
Rating: 2.71 (45)
Average: 4.05 (46)
Music video for the song "Instant Music", from the album "Runners High" by the pillows.
27th November
OVA, 2 eps
KSS
Rating: 4.08 (17)
Average: 4.73 (17)
In the near future, a space station is under attack by terrorists, during which Megumi loses her parents and almost dies herself were it not for a boy who manages to save her. Fast forward a few years and Megumi has now enlisted into her grandfather's military academy. There she meets a young man who looks very familiar. Could it be the boy who had saved her life?
30th November
TV Series, 22 eps
Rating: 4.99 (62)
Average: 6.15 (63)
Shunichi Domoto is a talented sportive 5th grade boy who is used to help sport teams in his school. He enters a Yoyo duel against a bully boy called Benkei to help his friend Beso to get back his Yoyo, which was stolen by the bully. He beated him up, but after that he meets the expectionally gifted yoyoer Seito Ho who beated him up because he ridiculed Yoyo game. So, Shunichi enters the Japan's Yoyo championship to get his revenge from Seito. Throughout this Championship he earns new yoyoing skills and meets powerful rivals.

Source: ANN

Note: Originally aired in 4-5 minute segments during weekdays.
1st December
TV Series, 16 eps
Rating: 4.82 (600)
Average: 6.64 (603)
Virgin 24 year-old Shiozaki Nagisa, a 22 year-old kindergarten teacher. He is popular among the women, but he truly only has eyes for Nagisa. However, he is a clumsy, thickheaded and gentle man and gets into trouble a lot. He ends up in situations where it is easy for poor Nagisa to misinterpret what really happened.

Source: ANN
7th December
TV Series, 4 eps
Stop-motion animation using a hamster puppet. The anime usually has Sam singing, sometimes strumming his guitar, or dancing.

Note: It is unrelated to Hamster S.A.M. the US children's book series.

Source: MAL
11th December
TV Special, 1 ep
Rating: 6.23 (444)
Average: 6.99 (446)
This fourth movie takes place a couple of years after the series.

Minami and Tatsuya are both in college now. Different colleges, I might add. Tatsuya has quit playing baseball. Nitta is still pursuing Minami. And Tatsuya has a mysterious girl named Kaori at his college that seems to like him. So, how will all this affect the relationship between Minami and Tatsuya?
16th December
OVA, 3 eps
Rating: 7.38 (103)
Average: 7.00 (105)
* Remake of the first few chapters of the manga for the first tv series that aired in 1984.
18th December
Music Video, 1 ep
Rating: 4.25 (389)
Average: 5.72 (392)
4 Day Weekend is a clip produced by Koji Morimoto of Studio 4°C for the song of the same name by the English group The Bluetones. An animation which once again mixes 2d animation and computer graphics. The originality of this song of Bluetones is that it was only distributed via the Internet, and was never played on radio.
The clip was produced by the English company Nexus Films (specialized in advertising animation), and it gained "Best Music Video" in Holland Animation Festival 98.
18th December
OVA, 4 eps
Rating: 4.52 (17)
Average: 4.88 (17)
Pastel ate the cookies Madoka made, and it shrunk her, but because of her condition she couldn't take part in the "Miss Donburi Contest". To return her to normal, she needed the power-up bell from the clouds. However, a mysterious island floating in the air was absorbing clouds above Donburi Island. When they tried to get power bells back, enemies attacked them suddenly. Would they get back for the contest in time?

Source: AnimeNfo
19th December
Movie, 1 ep
Rating: 3.89 (64)
Average: 5.65 (66)
The movie begins with a space battle between the space pirate Seacons and the Cybertron tron brothers. Both combine, forming God Neptune and Tripledacus respectively, and being fighting it out. They become heavily engaged in combat, until a mysterious spaceship knocks them both deeper into space. Back at the Cybertron base, one of the Cybertron warriors, Apache, informs the Cybertrons that an object is approaching Planet Gaea. The Destrons have also noticed the spaceship. Galvatron and his brother Gigastorm discuss it and Galvatron decides that the ship is a positive sign, and it will bring good luck.

Source: BakaBT
19th December
OVA, 2 eps
Rating: 3.35 (266)
Average: 5.68 (268)
* Based on a popular manga by Hana to Yume Comics.

The story takes place on Kamakura period (1192-1333) in Japan. Kagetsu is a member of a feline tribe. Member of feline tribe is capable to become a male or a female depending on its mate. However, Kagetsu often refers itself as a he because he used boku to refer to himself.

On one day in autumn, Kagetsu approaches Arimasa Tsuchimikado, a Yin Yang fortune-teller for the emperor, and tell him that he would like to bear his kids.

Meanwhile, a shadow assasin (a man in black robe with his panther) attacked the shogunate. Arimasa is accused of conspiracy to kill the shogun, therefore both Arimasa and Kagetsu have to escape and run into the mountains.

Note: The animation was made into a 59 minutes OVA published on a single DVD (or two VHS on December '98 and January '99) by SPE Visual Works. This 2-part OVA is one of the story arcs of the manga, namely Autumn Threat (Aki Kyogen).
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