Most Influential Japanese Anime Cartoons

Code Geass was a Japanese anime series that was directed by Goro Taniguchi and written by Ichiro Okouchi. Set in an alternate future, the story revolved around a former prince named Lelouch Lamperouge who obtained the Geass power and used it to destroy the Holy Britannian Empire.

Robotech is an anime television series that was released in 1982, Super Dimension Fortress Macross featured a love triangle among its major characters, plastered against the backdrop of battles that existed between aliens and humans. When shown in the US, it was re-titled Robotech. It rose to fame because of Linn Minmay, the pop star idol in the show, along with transforming air fighter units called Valkyries.

Yu Yu Hakusho is a Japanese manga series that was adapted into an animated series in 1990; Yu Yu Hakusho revolved around the story of a teenage delinquent named Yusuke Urameshi who got struck and killed by a car as he sought to save the life of a child. After he was revived, he was appointed as an Underworld Detective to investigate the cases of demons and apparitions on Earth.

Berserk aired in 1997 and centered on the life of an orphaned mercenary warrior named Guts, who called himself the Black Swordsman, as he served the Band of the Hawk. This is an intense anime filled with great action and some colorful scenes which may not be appropriate for children.

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing is an animated series based on the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime and created by Hajime Yatate and Yoshiyuki Tomino, it’s about a war between planet Earth and its colonies in space. The pilots in this series were more closely allied in compared to those in Gundam. This had a total of 49 episodes and borrowed its storyline from another series entitled War and Peace.