Atama Yama

A Comprehensive and Chronological List of Japanese Animated works that have been nominated for an Academy Award.

Do you want to watch anime so artsy that will either relate to the deepest part of your soul or completely confuse you?
Well here you go, and since they are so short you don't have to feel like you wasted your time.

This list includes arthouse anime that are around 15 minutes or less, so movie length (Angel's Egg) or OVA/episode length (Cat Soup) are not in here.

Some of this may be a bit challenging to find, some are up on youtube and for some you'll have to get creative, buying or streaming them is probably out of the question.

Includes regular anime series, movies, experimental shorts, and even music videos. Anything that can be considered unique in either its art style or method of animation. Probably not every entry in this list will be suited to one's taste, but as we all know, art is subjective.

Also, I've tried to limit the entries to one per style.

Works that aren't here on MAL:
- Our House, by Murata Caori

In 2006, the Japan Media Arts Festival held a special 10th anniversary awards festival for manga, anime, art and entertainment. For manga and anime, the rankings were split into a popularity poll (general public vote), and a 'professionals' ranking (critics, directors, etc.). The only 3 series in the 'professionals' ranking for both manga and anime were 'Astro Boy', 'Doraemon', and 'AKIRA'.

These are the anime voted by the 'professionals'. First place in the popularity poll was 'Neon Genesis Evangelion'.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070320171620/http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/hundred/choice.html

These are the best works anime can offer.

Includes:
• Oscar nominated works/Award Winning Films
• Well perceived works by critics
• Works with well-crafted, compelling story and character interactions
• Well perceived avant-garde/daring works
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Disclaimer: These works won't always be magnum opus.

Probally not the best, nor my favorite

But they need to be remembered.

Only anime that seems to be forgotten.

(I'll update this if something new shows up)

good anime with a score of 6 or less.

As the title says, I created a stack called "Avant Garde and the Weirdest Box", and some weird Anime was not listed in it, so they will be listed here. Of course, there will also be Avant Garde anime that are not popular or not known by many people.
Well it seems like the real weirdness never ends...

This is a compilation of Avante-Garde shorts that are unique, mind-blowing and addicting. These will give you a different POV on the world of animation.
Includes short films, short series, commercials, station IDs, and specials.

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/23559
Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/23560
Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/23563
Part 4: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/23564
Part 5: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/23566
Part 6: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/23567
Part 7: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/23568
Part 8: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/23569
Part 9: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/23571
Part 10: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/23573
Part 11: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/23575

List of Anime Movies with Short Duration (Less than 1 Hour)

Long Anime Movies : https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39014

The following list is more assumption than actual knowledge, since I don't have access to the books, etc.
If I am wrong with one of them, please DM me so I can fix it.

Anime series that covers all of the original source they're based on, with some notes.

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/16812
Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/19939
Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/20122
Part 4: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/20258
Part 5: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/20709
Part 6: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/20940
Part 7: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/21451
Part 8: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/21523
Part 9: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/29835
Part 10: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/35847
Part 12: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/41719
Part 13: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/42460
Part 14: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/46685

There is no duration limit.
❗Some are sequels.

One Main Character TV: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/42870

Ongoing stack, pending completion

hailing around the era of the ussr, alot of animaters started started pumping out extremely esoteric, avante gaarde animation. this stack serves as an accessable guide to japanese productions that, in music and visuals seek to mimic that era. examples that i can include for short comparison: fantastic planet(its french but has clear czechoslovakian influence), Steamed Hams but it was banned in the USSR(no seriously), and any andrey khrzhanovsky film.

what it isn't, is anything that you could watch that is clearly an anime like first-squad. yes its a co-poroduction with russia, but it does not count towards this specific movement.

please feel free to leave a comment on my profile if you find anything similar.

Feeling adventurous? Want something quick to watch? This is a list of all the MOSTLY one-off animations I've seen. These range from the very strange, to the extremely pleasant and satisfying.
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This is simply a stack of interesting anime covers (I use default and alternates).