Bandai Visual Archives

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 30, 2002Cyberpunk Anime

Classic anime from Mamoru Oshii, a Cyberpunk work with a heroine who is a cyborg special forces officer, a work that delves deeply into the philosophical questions of what is human and what is machine

Director: Mamoru Oshii

Category: Science Fiction

30 July 200222 February 2026 by Roog

Memories (1995)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 9, 2001Anime Anthology

An anthology made up of three short films all adapted from the works of Katsihiro Otomo of Akira fame, of which Otomo also directs one of the segments

Director: Katsuhiro Otomo, Koji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura

Category: Science Fiction

9 March 20017 January 2025 by Roog

Spriggan (1998)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 14, 2001Anime/Alien Artefact/Psychic Kid Amok

Katsuhiro Otomo overseen anime about the discovery of Noah's Ark, an alien artifact that gives a child vast psychic powers in a swathe of destruction not dissimilar to Akira

Director: Hirotsugu Kawasaki

Category: Science Fiction

14 October 20011 May 2020 by Roog

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1998)

Rating: ★★½

Oct 3, 1999Anime/Werewolf Anti-Terrorist Squad

A conceptually ambitious anime that builds a complex metaphor out of Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf in a story centred around the self-doubting member of an anti-terrorist squad

Director: Hiroyuki Okiura

Category: Fantasy

3 October 199913 May 2026 by Roog

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)

Rating: ★★

Aug 14, 2003Anime/Future Bounty Hunters

The feature film spinoff of a cult anime tv series about intergalactic bounty hunters who in the plot here are on the track of a stolen nanotech virus

Director: Shinichiro Watanabe

Category: Science Fiction

14 August 200311 January 2026 by Roog

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 24, 2005Cyberpunk Anime

Mamoru Oshii's follow-up to Ghost in the Shell where he makes a work that pushes both an artistic envelope at the same time as taking his philosophical fascination with the Cyberpunk world to a stunning level

Director: Mamoru Oshii

Category: Science Fiction

24 July 200522 February 2026 by Roog

Short Peace (2013)

Rating: ★★★

May 10, 2017Anime Anthology

An anthology of short anime pieces from various directors, including creator Katsuhiro Otomo, the cult creator of Akira. The four episodes vary from historical to fantasy to futuristic warfare and, as with any anthology, vary in quality from the okay to the watchable

Director: Hajime Katoki, Hiroaki Ando, Katsuhiro Otomo, Shuhei Morita

Category: Fantasy

10 May 20175 November 2020 by Roog

Ghost in the Shell: Arise (2013-2014)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 22, 2014Cyberpunk Anime

Reboot of the Ghost in the Shell series in a quartet of prequel stories. This funnels the essence of Cyberpunk superbly, creating a dazzling world with cyborgised security services fighting terrorists hacking people's brains

Director: Kazuchika Kise, Tow Ubukata

Category: Science Fiction

22 December 201422 February 2026 by Roog