One of the best things the PSP can do besides play games is play video, and what better to watch on the go than anime? Perhaps I'm alone in thinking this, but I find anime and the PSP to be a perfect fit. This guide lists every anime on UMD there is, with links to reviews, shopping and official sites. If you don't see a review yet for the UMD you're interested in, check back -- I'll be adding more and more reviews as I get my hands on the discs.
Ah! My Goddess: The Movie
- Format: movie
- Publisher: Geneon
- Date: 2000 (movie), 2005 (UMD)
- Rating: PG / 13
Synopsis: While trying to order take-out food, college freshman Keiichi accidentally dials a helper goddess service and summons the goddess Belldandy.
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Akira
- Format: movie
- Publisher: Geneon
- Date: 1988 (movie), 2005 (UMD)
- Rating: R
Synopsis: Set in Tokyo after a devastating world war,
Akira is the story of biker Kaneda and his friend Tetsuo who gets mixed up in a government plot to make use of mutant children with special powers.
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Appleseed
- Format: movie
- Publisher: Geneon
- Date: 2004 (movie), 2005 (UMD)
- Rating: R
Synopsis: The last city on Earth appears to enjoy an idyllic peace, but really terrorists seek to claim power and only Duenan Knute, a member of the govenrment's ES.W.A.T. forces knows the secret that can end the conflict.
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Blood the Last Vampire
- Format: movie
- Publisher: Manga Entertainment
- Date: 2000 (movie), 2005 (UMD)
- Rating: R / unrated
Synopsis: An enigmatic young woman called Saya fights vampires on the Yokota Air Force base in Japan -- she is apparently the last "original."
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Cowboy Bebop
- Format: tv series
- Publisher: Bandai
- Date: 1998 (series), 2005 (UMD)
- Rating: TV-14
- Volume 1: episodes 1-4
Synopsis: Spike Spiegel is a bounty hunter in the future who, along with his crew, gets into adventures and scrapes around the galaxy as he just tries to make a living.
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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
- Format: movie
- Publisher: Sony
- Date: 2001 (movie), 2005 (UMD)
- Rating:R
Synopsis: A deadly viral infection is released on an unsuspecting population and the
Bebop crew goes after the reward money offered for the capture of the perpetrator -- who seems to be an old enemy they all though was dead.
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Dead Leaves
- Format: movie
- Publisher: Manga Entertainment
- Date: 2004 (movie), 2005 (UMD)
- Rating: 17+ / unrated
Synopsis: When Pandy and Retro awaken with no memories of their pasts, they go on a crime spree and end up in the lunar prison Dead Leaves, which turns out to also be a cloning facility that conducts bizarre genetic experiments.
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Escaflowne
- Format: movie
- Publisher: Bandai
- Date: 2000 (movie), 2005 (UMD)
- Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: In a conflict she doesn't really understand, Hitomi helps Prince Van in the battle for the legendary armor Escaflowne.
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- Format: movie
- Publisher: Sony
- Date: 2001 (movie), 2005 (UMD)
- Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: In the near future, Earth is infested with alien spirits that may bring about the extiction of humanity, and scientist Aki Ross attempts to collect eight spirits that can combine to destroy the threat.
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
- Format: movie
- Publisher: Sony
- Date: 2005 (movie), 2006 (UMD)
- Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: Cloud, hero of the video game
Final Fantasy VII, returns in this movie sequel to the game to find out what the mysterious illness is that is spreading so quickly, and to fight old enemies thought long gone.
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Galerians
- Format: oav
- Publisher: Image Etertainment
- Date: 2003 (oav), 2005 (UMD)
- Rating: unrated
Synopsis: Rion is the only one who can save humanity from the Galerians, artificial beings created by the murderous, despotic supercomputer that rules Earth.
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Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
- Format: tv series
- Publisher: Geneon
- Date: 2004 (series), 2005 (UMD)
- Rating: 16+
- Volume 1: episodes 1-2
Synopsis: This retelling of Alexandre Dumas' famous novel
The Count of Monte Cristo sets the story in a science-fiction universe.
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