Most Influential Japanese Anime Cartoons

Fullmetal Alchemist: Styled after the European Industrial Revolution, this story was set in a fictional universe where alchemy is the most advanced scientific techniques known. The protagonists of the story, Edward and Alphonse Elric, we're searching for the Philosopher’s Stone, which was needed to restore their bodies following a failed attempt to revive their mother through alchemy.

Naruto is one of the most-watched anime in the USA, Naruto is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly dreams of becoming the next Hokage (the leader in the ninja village).

Space Battleship Yamato is a science fiction anime series that featured an eponymous spacecraft, Space Battleship Yamato is an English-dubbed series that was broadcast on North American and Australian televisions as Star Blazers. It tells the story of a multinational teenage crew that journeyed through space to look for the planet Iscandar. The antagonists were aliens called Rajendora, who prevented the crew from catching a glimpse of the planet that they were searching for.

Serial Experiments Lain, directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, Serial Experiments Lain aired in Tokyo, Japan, in 1998 and derived from a PlayStation game with the same title. It tackled philosophical concepts such as identity, communication, and reality. It focused on a teenage girl named Lain Iwakura, who was introduced to the Internet and bound to a path that took her into the network of her own thoughts following her discovery of “The God in the Wired.”

Future Boy Conan first aired in Japan and China in 1978 with the official title Conan, The Boy in the Future. The story was set in 2008, the time when humankind was already in the face of extinction. Its story revolved around a devastating war fought by two nations armed with ultra-magnetic weapons. This war resulted in a series of earthquakes and other massive movements that eventually devastated the Earth until everyone else died except for three survivors, including Conan.