Taiyou no Ouji: Horus no Daibouken

Collection of films and OVAs (and one TV series) that "feel" like Ghibli films, but aren't related to the studio and aren't connected to its canon lineup. Factors considered include story beats and character designs that are often seen in Ghibli works as well as works by Ghibli staff completed for other studios.

Anime either based on, heavily influenced by or drawing key aspects from folklore. Folklore encompasses the traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, people or culture passed down through the generations by word of mouth and later often recorded in written form.

While the majority of works listed in this club have their origins in East Asian folklore (for obvious reasons) also included are examples of folklore ranging from portrayals of the mythology of Ancient Greece, stories featuring local spirits, legendary folk heroes, adaptions of Brothers Grimm fairy tales and narratives featuring the Gods of the Norse pantheon as characters. Modernised interpretations and retellings have been largely excluded.

As MAL currently sadly only allows a max of 50 entries on interests stacks this list prioritises the stand out and most high quality examples of folkloric anime. For a more comprehensive list which also includes manga, I direct you to my accompanying folklore club of the same name.

This is a part of a series of stacks that are about artistic tendencies in anime (and that border the fine line between sophisticated and pretentious).

This stack is a work in progress.

Bibliography:
Bridges, Will. “The Past Tense and the Future Perfect: The Postmodern Play of Watanabe Shin’ichiro and the Possibility of the Coming Community.” The Journal of Popular Culture. 51:3 (2018): 779-789.
Dorman, Andrew. “Cultural Specificity and and Globalization.” Paradoxical Japaneseness: Cultural Representaion in 21st Century Japanese CinemaI. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 40-43.
Napier, Susan J. “Anime and Local/Global Identity.” Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 22-27.
Suan, Stevie. “Anime’s Local-Global Tensions.” Anime’s Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan. University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 75-79.

Featuring little to no dialogue and/or characters and the experience is carried by the music and/or visual atmosphere.

Part 1 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/311
Part 2 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/5128
Part 3 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/8036
Part 4 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/8173
Part 5 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9135
Part 6 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9240
Part 7 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9448
Part 8 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9461
Part 9 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/20874

Welcome to my Obscurity series, which I hope will help you delve deeper into the depths of anime, particularly the classics.

The criteria here is simple: Anime released in 2001 or earlier, with under 35,000 MAL Members, and which I've rated a 7 or higher.

I'm also not including anything that I've already included on my Good Stuff list: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9517

It is perhaps worth noting that I rate things entirely on gut feeling. It's just, "I like that, that was good, it gets a 7.", that's the whole process. I can also find enjoyment in just about anything and there's very little that bothers me.

Ascend: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9834
Descend: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9615

Tags: Old, Obscure, Oldtaku, Retro, Underrated, Hidden Gems

Anime that comes packaged with socio-political commentary. Sometimes as subtext or metaphor, sometimes screamed out loud with abandon.

Recommendations for fans of The Legend of Zelda

Anime series and movies that Fujimoto Tatsuki (Chainsaw Man author) mentioned in the Magazine Switch. Could be taken as recommendations.

Source:
https://twitter.com/D_Kumii/status/1552097448935526400?s=20&t=zDmBjefCzVwO2F1rd42IzA

*edit 27/12/2022
- Kagami no Kojo: https://twitter.com/nagayama_koharu/status/1607275017502625792

Anime that has plot unfolded in Norway.

Movies & Series Works related to Hayao Miyazaki's Carreer.

List based on this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SANfYqmNz6U

Pre-1990 films with talking animals, excluding Ghibli.

Anime that has been mentioned/recommended by Tatsuki Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man, Fire Punch).
Part 2 Here: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/25288
Non-Anime List Here - https://boxd.it/otwIu

Some things aren't on this list, such as:
- Adventure Time
- Anpanman Movies
- Game of Thrones
- Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
- Kowasugi! Too Scary!
- Miffy the Rabbit
- Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure
- South Park
- The Amazing Digital Circus
- The Star in The Garden of Women (Book/Movie)
- Vanilla Story

- (Ghibli?) Works by Takahata Isao
- (Ghibli?) Works by Suzuki Toshio

Anime Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki had a major role working on prior to Studio Ghibli's foundation in 1985. Collected in chronological order.

from here:
https://w.atwiki.jp/sakuga/pages/100.html

This part covers 1943-1983
Part 2 coming soon, whenever I finish it.

I'm not knowledgable about all of these, as the list wasn't originally made by me, so some entries are missing detailed descriptions. Sorry about that.

This stack only includes feature-length animated films directed by Isao Takahata. Rest in peace.

In this list we have all the anime movies released in Mexican theaters around the history of the country. I will try to be as accurate as possible with brand new titles. Take this as an agenda to rescue those titles distributed in Mexico in a movie theater! Enjoy! 💖💖💖

- List of Films Shown Before 2013 -

Complete list of works where Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata had some form of involvement prior to founding Studio Ghibli.

This is a companion to the Studio Ghibli list which can be found here:

Every cinema or direct to video anime film that came out between 1960 and 1969.

1940s & 1950s: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34960
1970-1978: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/35053

Missing on MyAnimeList:
- "Shōnen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru: Maboroshi Majutsuban" 少年忍者風のフジ丸・まぼろし魔術団, Japan, 1965.
- "Shōnen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru: Daisaru Taiji" 少年忍者風のフジ丸・大猿退治, Japan, 1965.
- Park Young-il 박영일, "Bomulseom" 보물섬 (Treasure Island), South Korea, 1969.

Disclaimer: There are a few hentai movies, that could be counted as well:
- Leo Nishimura, "(Hi) Gekiga Ukiyoe Senya Ichiya" (秘)劇画 浮世絵千一夜, Japan, 1969.

Co-Produced Western films by Japanese animation studios:
- Larry Roemer (1917-1995), "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", Canada, Japan, USA, 1964.
- Arthur Rankin Jr. (1924-2014) & Nagashima Kizo, "Willy McBean and His Magic Machine", Canada, Japan, USA, 1965.
- Jules Brass (1935-2022), "The Daydreamer", Japan, USA, 1966.
- Larry Roemer & Nagashima Kizo, "The Ballad of Smokey the Bear", Japan, USA, 1966.
- Arthur Rankin Jr. & Jules Brass, "Cricket on the Hearth", Japan, USA, 1967.
- Jules Brass, "Mad Monster Party?", Japan, USA, 1967.
- Jules Brass & Nagashima Kizo, "The Wacky World of Mother Goose", Japan, USA, 1967.
- Arthur Rankin Jr. & Jules Brass, "The Mouse on the Mayflower", Japan, USA, 1968.

Anime that are entirely or partially set in the Nordic countries, or a fictional place heavily inspired by the Nordics.


Tags: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Svalbard, Sweden, Åland, Scandinavia, Viking