Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama

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 stack contains anime which we Indians watched on kid's TV channels, when we were young.

The stack contains only one entry (mostly the first season out of all seasons, movies, OVAs) from each franchise to look more organised.

The stack is incomplete, but I will try to add more entries. Suggestions are welcome.

Also, if you know about the Indian voice actors of characters from these anime, please feel free to add them into the MAL People section (as many of them are not there).

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_distributed_in_India

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Movies that taught both good and life lessons.

Movies from before 2000 that are not tied to other series

Anime that were made in collaboration with studios from countries outside Japan. Outsourcing doesn't count. Aeni and donghua international co-productions may also be included.

Movies from 1990-1999
Other Movies: Spring and Chaos

Actually this is my favorite anime movie list. MAL rules don't allow personal lists

Standalone Animes Movies & OVAs from the 80s & 90s that I want to watch.
Only a few notable ones are apart of a series.
Two of the movies are from the 1970s.

More: Twilight Of The Dark Master

not enough people know about these !!

Part 2:
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/33081

Every cinema or direct to video anime film that came out in 1993.

1992: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34702
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34703
1994: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34759

Disclaimer: There are a few hentai movies, that could be counted as well:
- Dochinpira (1993)

The Anime that are listed in this interest stack have a mode score of 10 (meaning that 10/10 is the most common rating that users have rated the anime).
Feel free to message me for any series I have missed.

Shows or movies that have had their scores INCREASE over time, despite the opposite being the norm.

use the way back machine if you want to confirm it.

This is obviously a hard thing to know without checking, so my knowledge on what anime would be here is very limited. so if you know of more stuff, please do tell.

Oh and note that I will only be adding shows that are rated by at least 5k users. Why? Because MAL's score system is weird and lessens the score value of less popular shows.

Which goes for every show, but for super unpopular ones the effect is HUGE. so most of the time, their score rise is purely because more people watched the anime, and not because it aged well. Which is why It wouldn't make sense to put them in this stack.

List of Anime Movies with Long Duration (2 Hour and More)

Short Anime Movies : https://myanimelist.net/stacks/32778

For most series the score is falling over time, however some special series it is rising over time.

This is the list of these series that used to be scored lower on MAL but have been rising in score over the years, excludes currently airing series and series where the score rise happened when the series was airing or within 5 years of its airing.

Source: Wayback Machine


Updated: 29th March 2024
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Updated: 16th May 2024
Last Updated: 24th May 2024

Probably wont be updated anymore there was a change today (24th May 2024) in how the scores are calculated (?) and because of that everything in this list went back to lower scores again, so I'll probably leave this as it is currently to preserve the history before they edited the system (?)

Anime with a listed source as other on MyAnimeList.

This list might be particularly useful to people doing the yearly anime watching challenge.

For franchises, only one entry is included - assume that any sequels/spin-offs have the same source.