Fall 1978 Anime

In a future where immortality has been achieved through mechanical bodies, the high cost keeps them out of reach for most. Tetsurou Hoshino, living in poverty, dreams of boarding the legendary Galaxy Express 999, a cosmic train said to grant passengers a free mechanical body upon arrival. When Tetsurou's mother is killed by the malevolent machine-human hybrid known as Count Mecha, he falls into despair. However, Maetel, a mysterious blonde woman who resembles his mother, saves him and gives him a ticket for the Galaxy Express, under the condition that she travels with him. Tetsurou sets out on an interstellar journey filled with diverse worlds and exciting adventures, driven by his desire for a mechanical body.

"Mother, I want to go to sea!" Jim Hawkins, an ordinary thirteen-year-old boy, lives in the vicinity of the tiny town of Black Hill Cove, where he spends his days helping his mother, Karen, run the Admiral Benbow Inn. That quiet existence is disrupted one stormy night when the rough-mannered Billy Bones shows up asking for a room. His arrival propels Jim onto the ocean for a dangerous and thrilling quest to find "Treasure Island" and the legendary heaps of gold it is said to hide.

One year after the Star Force's successful return to save Earth, a new menace emerges from deep space. A massive White Comet speeds toward the galaxy, annihilating everything in its path. This comet is no ordinary celestial object—it is the sinister Comet Empire, a merciless conqueror of planets, and Earth is its next target. Despite being ordered not to, the Star Force launches an investigation. However, even if they defeat the powerful flagship Andromeda, they remain unsure of their new enemy's true motives.

Curtis Newton, known as Captain Future, lost his parents as an infant when they were killed aboard an artificial satellite. He was then raised by his father's colleagues, including Dr. Simon Wright, an old friend and fellow scientist. Before dying, Wright managed to transfer his consciousness into a mechanical body. Alongside Wright, Curtis's father had also created a super robot and an android. Now, Captain Future dedicates himself to fighting evil, supported by his three companions: the brain, the android, and the robot.

Hiromi Oka, the protagonist, has just enrolled in a high school well-known for its tennis club. Inspired by her admiration for Madam Butterfly, she began playing tennis. She looked forward to enjoying the sport with her best friend Maki, but everything changes when the new coach, Mr. Munakata, unexpectedly selects Hiromi as one of the players for the upcoming tournament and subjects her to rigorous training. She perseveres through every challenge. The more intense the coach's lessons become, the more she seems to improve. Eventually, she earns the position of representative in the junior match tournament.

Two years following Galactor's defeat and the presumed death of Condor Joe, Leader X launches a deadly assault on a cruise ship, slaughtering almost everyone aboard. One survivor, a young girl, is abducted by X and forcibly aged into Gel Sadra, a villainess with an adult appearance but a bizarrely masculine voice. Despite her mature looks, Gel Sadra frequently exhibits childish tantrums and immature behavior. As Galactor resurfaces, the Science Ninja Team returns to duty with Hawk Getz, a suspicious figure meant to replace Joe. Getz is soon exposed as a Galactor agent in disguise who murdered the real Getz before joining; he is subsequently slain by a mysterious feather shuriken. Following clues in the first three episodes, Joe returns in the fourth, having survived his fatal injuries from the previous series thanks to an ex-Galactor scientist who saved him near death and subjected him to various cybernetic augmentations. Later, Dr. Pandora, a female scientist who lost her husband and daughter in the cruise ship tragedy, joins the cast. Unaware of the truth, she does not know that her daughter Sammie survived the disaster and is now Gel Sadra.

A magical combination of the ancient and the modern, featuring vivid animation and an energetic disco/rock soundtrack, Winds of Change presents five retellings of classical Greek myths. These entertaining moral tales, adapted from the ancient poet Ovid, include a new character, Wondermaker, who serves as the audience's guide to each story's lesson and himself transforms into each story's protagonist. First, he becomes Perseus decapitating Medusa; then, Actaeon transformed into a stag for watching the goddess Diana bathe; the god Mercury in a story about envy; Orpheus journeying to the underworld for his beloved Eurydice; and lastly, Phaeton causing chaos with the sun god's chariot.

In King Fang, the contrasting destinies of humans and animals are depicted with realism. Its central figure, Fang, was born from a hunting dog and a European wolf that had run away from a circus. Although he was nurtured by a human family, Fang retains his innate wildness, meant to wander the wilderness. The narrative reaches its climax as Fang returns from the circus to encounter his archrival, a gigantic brown bear that caused the demise of his loved ones.

Sequel of Captain Future.

Based on the real life-story of Pink Lady, a female pop duo that rose to superstardom in the mid-1970's.

This holiday special from Rankin/Bass is a remake of the 1956 musical television special "The Stingiest Man in Town," itself based on Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.

A collection of children's stories and tales from traditional Japanese folklore.