Panda Kopanda

If you've ever seen an anime and thought, "Wow, this anime has really good background art", and "Wow, this episode preview at the end looks amazing!" chances are it was made by Shichiro Kobayashi. An icon of Japanese animation, Kobayashi has had a fruitful career spanning over thirty years as the art director for several iconic shows. While known generally for his vibrant and highly detailed palettes, Kobayashi brought the animation technique known as "postcard memories" or "harmonies" to life alongside director and innovator Osamu Dezaki and character designer Akio Sugino, which are cels of animation superimposed with gouache to give off a lasting image.

Kobayashi's influence defined anime background art, and his output has been replicated by other art directors since—his own studio, Kobayashi Production, consists of students and proteges alike that have equally contributed to formative works in anime.

The following list is a selection of shows that contains Kobayashi's most notable and prettiest backgrounds, and I highly encourage you to check them out.

Documentary on Kobayashi: https://youtu.be/V1tiKOsCz2M
Kobayashi Production's credits: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=1460

A list of generally safe series that can be watched with family.

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.

Animes starring anthropomorphic animals.

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/3719
Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/3720

List of anime with pretty colors, cute characters or pets/mascots.

Zima Entertainment is a Mexican distributor dedicated to distributing movies and series in theaters and home format, mainly only in their original language with subtitles. In this list you will find all the animes that they have distributed, both in home format and movie theaters.

Anime about pandas. 🐼

There are other anime with pandas in them. But this stack has pandas as the anime's main character or focus.

Tags: Aniimal, Bear, Panda

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Panda: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/10606
Panda [part 2]: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/50321
(mostly donghua)

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

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

GKIDS is an American film distributor based in New York with, according to the Los Angeles Times, a focus on "sophisticated, indie" animation. GKIDS releases critically acclaimed mostly hand-drawn, international films—such as the works of the independent Japanese anime studio Studio Ghibli—to North American audiences. GKIDS also distributes computer animated and stop-motion films in addition to hand-drawn ones, as well as American films by independent filmmakers. The name is said to be an acronym for "Guerrilla Kids International Distribution Syndicate".

In this list are those anime that have been distributed by the distributor GKIDS.

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15592

Pre-1990 films with talking animals, excluding Ghibli.

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

Collection of series featuring a female main character and a companion creature.

Boy and Creature: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/37389
Girl and Creature: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/28373

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

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:

#2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/51425

This list includes those anime films distributed on VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray in Mexico. Currently, due to the death of the home format in Mexico, they are all discontinued editions, but they are collectible pieces for every Mexican anime fan.

- Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/46625
- Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/46624
- Part 4: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/46628

Shout! Factory, LLC, trading as Shout! Studios (formerly known as Shout! Factory) is an American home video and music distributor founded in 2002 as Retropolis Entertainment. Its video releases, issued in DVD or Blu-ray format, include previously released feature films, classic and contemporary television series, animation, live music, and comedy specials. Considered a boutique Blu-ray label, Shout! Studios, in addition to its mainline home video releases, also releases films under the sublabels Scream Factory (for horror film releases), Shout! Select, and Shout! Kids.

In its anime catalog, it has interesting titles that could be seen and enjoyed by anyone, although most of them are films distributed by GKIDS.

- Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47284

The sister stack to the Animaze TV/OVA stack featuring the movies they had dubbed.