Yuri Amano
Also Known As: 吉川 智子, Tomoko Yoshikawa, 天野 由梨
Biography: Yuri Amano (天野 由梨) is a Japanese voice actress. She has also been credited under her birth name of Tomoko Yoshikawa (吉川 智子).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Birthday: January 05, 1966
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Ocean Waves
Overview: At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly before leaving. As the aeroplane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life...
Genres: Animation Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-07
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Tenchi the Movie 2: The Daughter of Darkness
Overview: Mayuka is a girl who appears one day and claims to be Tenchi's daughter. As the initial shock wears off, everyone in the Masaki household gets used to Mayuka's presence. However, things only become more interesting as Washu tries to discover Mayuka's background. What Washu found involves demon, the Prince of Jurai, and unrequited emotions.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-08-02
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Tenchi Muyo! In Love
Overview: The demonic space criminal Kain has escaped from prison and destroyed the Galaxy Police headquarters. To ensure that the Jurai will not stop him, Kain travels back to 1970 to eliminate Tenchi's mother before he is even born. Now, Tenchi and the gang must travel to the past to stop him before he ceases to exist.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-04-20
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Tenchi Forever!
Overview: One day, Tenchi disappears in the forest near his house. Six months later, Ayeka and Ryoko locate Tenchi living in a city, but with a mysterious woman. What's more, Tenchi appears to have aged several years. Whenever Ayeka and Ryoko catch up to him, he disappears into thin air, apparently existing in a fabricated alternate dimension where he has no knowledge of his past.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-24
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Street Fighter Alpha: Generations
Overview: When Ryu returns to pay homage to his deceased mentor, Gouken, he is tormented by disturbing memories of his master's killer (Gouki). In a quest to become a true martial arts master, he sets out to hone his street fighting skills and deliver himself from the haunting legacy of the dark hadou.
Genres: Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-25
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Judge
Overview: What comes around goes around...even from beyond the grave. Most criminals are only concerned with earthly justice - the laws of man. All too often, the guilty go free, their deeds unpunished. But there is another law. Deep within the spirit world, the wrongful dead seek retribution for the crimes against them by the living. These restless spirits have their own code of justice, and they've chosen the Judge of Darkness and his Demons of Hell to enforce them. An appeal for justice leads to an investigation of a successful, high-ranking corporate executive. Who would believe he'd be involved with embezzlement and murder? But the Judge of Darkness soon discovers that the roots of corruption run deep as he slowly works his way up the corporate pyramid.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Horror Action Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-06-15
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Detective Conan: Episode One - The Great Detective Turned Small
Overview: Two-hour remake of the original 1st episode, in celebration of the anime celebrating 20 years in broadcast. The special retells what happened on the day Shinichi was transformed into the body of a child. The special includes new scenes that weren't in the original manga or the first anime episode.
Genres: Animation Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-20
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Sailor Victory
Overview: In the future, five female high school students form Sailor Victory to command three giant ninja robots: Gion, Momoyama and Sagano, so that they can fight against evil in the virtual-future of Mikado City. In these two episodes, a disgraced and disgruntled city employee aims to humiliate the Sailor Victory crew by joining up with the evil Margarita. Little does he know that she is bent on destroying the city...
Genres: Action Animation Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-25
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Black Lion
Overview: The year is 1580 and Nobunaga Oda is working to consolidate his power over Japan. In his army are weapons of great destructive power: rapid fire machine guns, lasers, missiles and, most frightening of all, the reputedly immortal ninja Ginnai Doma. Like a sentence of divine wrath he hunts down and destroys dissident monks, ninjas and others, wherever they may be. With the clans on the brink of destruction, a single ninja accepts the impossible task: kill the immortal Ginnai.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-21
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City Hunter Special: The Secret Service
Overview: City Hunter, the globally adored hero, becomes embroiled in an adventure that takes him deep into the political intrigue of a Third World country and into the pain and anguish of one man's tortured past. James McGuire's life is so dangerous he has to hire bodyguards for his Secret Service agents. It doesn't help that his chief agent is actually his long-lost daughter. Luckily for him, City Hunter and Kaori are behind on the rent and need the work. But a dark secret from McGuire's past threatens to destroy him and his lonely daughter Anna. Will he live to rescue his country? Will his resentful daughter learn to love him again? Will City Hunter finally get some action?
Genres: Action Animation Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-05
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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Rikka Version
Overview: Summary of the first season of the show, as seen from Rikka's perspective with new elements.
Genres: Comedy Animation Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-14
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Moldiver
Overview: A naïve young girl accidentally modifies her brother's secret superhero uniform and becomes the unwilling superheroine Moldiver.
Genres: Action Animation Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-01
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Go! Anpanman: Baikinman's Counterattack
Overview: Anpanman and Baikinman fight. Can Anpanman and friends regain the magic pot from Baikinman and rescue Princess Yada's land...?
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-14
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Shin Shounan Bakusouzoku Arakure Knight
Overview: Haruma Yuuki is an all brawn and no brain kind of high school student. For the past few years his only dream has been to join the Winds of Cemetery – Linda, the top motorcycle gang in the area and idolizes the leader, Zemba Knight. Zemba is the third generation leader of Linda and hasn’t lost a fight or a motorcycle race to anyone in town. Haruma is introduced to the radical and dangerous life style that the Linda live while still learning important life lessons.
Genres: Animation Action Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-12
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Yu Yu Hakusho - Two Shots / All or Nothing
Overview: Two Shots adapts the extra chapter of the same name, while All or Nothing adapts Chapter 174 of the same name and a scene of the final chapter of the manga, which also matches with the conclusion of the final episode of the anime series. Two Shots tells the story of how Kurama and Hiei met, while All or Nothing covers a story of the main characters coming back together to solve a hostage crisis in the spirit world.
Genres: Animation Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-26
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Ushio and Tora: Comically Deformed Theater
Overview: Ushio encounters a strange purple monster that seems to be helpful, Tora deals with a kitten, and finally there is a mass chase, reprising all of the monsters from the OVA series.
Genres: Animation Comedy Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Rayearth Special Version -Wings of Hope-
Overview: Hikaru, Umi and Fuu, three junior high schoolers, are magically transported to the mystical land of Cephiro, where they become Magic Knights in the service of Princess Emeraude in this fantasy-filled anime feature. Under the spell of an evil high priest, Cephiro is materializing in the same dimension as Tokyo, and now only this specially selected trio can save Cephiro, Tokyo and the world from complete destruction. This is the movie version of the previously-released 3-episode OVA, with additional footage.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-02
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Dark Warrior
Overview: A Silicon Valley whiz kid, billionaire creator of the most intelligent computer on Earth, has got bigger problems than being on the cover of Time magazine. The thing is, the corporation he works for is planning to use his ideas to take over the world. As if that weren't enough, they're planning to wipe the slate of humanity clean and install their own race of preprogrammed superbeings in their place. The unwitting prototype?...
Genres: Science Fiction Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-22
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Rayearth
Overview: When the kingdom of Cephiro invades Earth, three girls (Hikaru, Umi and Fuu) are chosen to awake mythical spirits to protect the planet. Compilation of the 3 OVA mini-series launched between 25/07/1997 and 24/11/1997.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-07-25
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Otaku no Video 1982
Overview: Part 1 of a mockumentary featuring an animated tale of an average person who slowly becomes an otaku (obsessive fanatic) and eventually becomes the “Otaking”! Between story segments, live action interviews with fictional die-hard otakus take place.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-01
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More Otaku no Video 1985
Overview: Part 2 of a hilarious mockumentary featuring an animated tale of an average person who slowly becomes an otaku (obsessive fanatic) and eventually becomes the "Otaking"! Between story segments, live action interviews with fictional die-hard otakus take place.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-20
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Magical Circle Guru Guru
Overview: The hero Nike and magic user Kukuri learn of the "Pickle of Happiness", an item that will grant a wish to the one who eats it. With the help of old friends, they must beat the monsters to the Pickle and convince its guardian dragon to give it to them.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-04-20
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Astro Boy: Volume of the Blue Knight
Overview: The film begins with the Phoenix retelling the tales and hopes of Astro Boy. Many of the visual being directly taken from the 1980s TV series as it recaps some of his adventures. Following this recap, Astro Boy confronts Blue Bon and tries to convince him to change his mind about the humans. But Blue Bon misunderstands, assuming that if Astro Boy does not agree then he is an enemy. Blue Bon hates humans because they broke apart his family (Maria and Tonto). A battle begins between the two after Astro Boy fails to convince Blue Bon that they aren't each others' enemy.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-20
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Go! Anpanman: Everyone Get Together! Anpanman World
Overview: A compilation of omnibus works with 3 stories: (1) Kumusubiman and festival robot. (2) Melonpanna and Akachanman. (3) Recommended! Anpanman.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-07-16
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Yu Yu Hakusho: Eizou Hakusho
Overview: Two recap specials that focus on Team Urameshi's matches in the Dark Tournament and four separate volumes focusing around one of the main characters; Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei, or Kuwabara.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Legacy of Al Caral
Overview: In the 26th century, humans discover a humanoid race living on the distant world GO/7498/2, a dark-skinned, golden-eyed people who seem to eke out a primitive, carefree existence. However, a scout team from Earth discovers that there is more to them than meets the eye--they live in symbiosis with vicious reptilian parasites, and the Terran scientists have upset the delicate natural balance.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-02-23
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Otaku no Video
Overview: A hilarious mockumentary featuring an animated tale of an average person who slowly becomes an otaku (obsessive fanatic) and eventually becomes the "Otaking"! Between story segments, live action interviews with fictional die-hard otakus take place.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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Singles
Overview: Graduating senior Sakisaka Saki is secretly in love with her older sister Noriko's boyfriend, Kazame Kaname, unaware that Noriko and Kaname have broken up. Saki hopes to escape her dilemma when she goes to college, but she ends up attending the same college as Kaname. During orientation, she is recruited to Kaname's video club. He wants to film her, but so does another boy, Tachibana Daichi, who is secretly in love with her. Can the knots be untangled and true love find its true course?
Genres: Animation Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-05-28
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Oruorane the Cat Player
Overview: A passionless cellist, stumbling drunk through back alleys in the days before Christmas, meets a wizened hobo who has honed a technique that allows him to create impossible music from the mewing of stray cats. Enthralled, the once-jaded young musician hopes to reignite his creative spark under the mentorship of the old man and his feline friends.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-26
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Blue Butterfly Fish
Overview: Ushio is a freediver with strange powers. He and his friends are at a tropical land in search of a rare fish, the Blue Butterfly. This pursuit leads them to Ayuuru, a local girl who might know where to find the legendary fish.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-02-25
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Fukuyama Theater: Summer Secret
Overview: Several short animated mini-stories based on the short stories and four-panel manga of Keiko Fukuyama, including My Father the Mouse, The Rabbit Brothers, Summer Secret, The Mysterious Fairy, How Very Strange, and Kuro.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Music Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-09-27
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Chibi Maruko-chan
Overview: Chibi Maruko chan is the nickname of a sweetly obnoxious 9-year-old girl. She tricks her grandfather, ponders for hours over how to spend her allowance, and hates sitting next to ugly boys. She talks, feels and lives just as real kids do. As the second term commences, Maruko and her classmates return to their small groups. Maruko’s group includes two naughty boys and Maruko is forced to be one of their subordinates. She seems to face a lot of pressure at school.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-15
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Sequence
Overview: Suffering from a crippling memory loss ever since an accident at the age of six, Toshiaki finds new hope, and a new mystery, when he is visited by a girl from his own future.
Genres: Animation Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-18
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Desert Rose
Overview: Mariko, codenamed "Rose Marie", is a leader of an anti-terrorism group, CAT (Counter Attack Terrorism). She lost her husband and son in a terrorist bomb attack at an airport. Also suffering injuries in the blast, she was left with a scar that looked like a rose flower on her chest. A secret summit conference is due to be held in Switzerland, with Marie's team deployed as security. However, it becomes clear terrorists have already made a move to sabotage the meeting...
Genres: Animation Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-04-25
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Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report
Overview: When the Spirit World is flooded due to an unusual rainfall which overflows the River Sanzu (aka the River Styx), Lord Koenma senses an extremely powerful enemy. He entrusts Death God Botan, to deliver to Spirit Detective Yusuke, a mysterious item which must be protected from the invading enemy. However, by the time Botan finds Yusuke, she's too weak to explain the situation. Yusuke and his friends are left in the dark about the new enemy, but not for long. Soon it is a battle for Earth between mere Spirit Detectives and the almighty king of the Netherworld.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-04-09
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Inferious Interplanetary War Chronicle - Condition Green
Overview: Keith, George, Edward, Yang and Shaw are Platoon #801, the five-man team formed to protect their homeworld in the Inferious galaxy from alien invasion. Gazaria's evil emperor Vince conquers the neighbor worlds of Kal and Granad, and suddenly only Platoon #801, also known as Condition Green, stands between him and the conquest of Emerald Earth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-29
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Akuemon
Overview: A fortuneteller tells Hidari Taisho that he must hunt down 1000 foxes in order to conquer the country. So Akuemon, who is disliked by everybody, is hired to do the foxhunting. In response, the foxes send a female fox to Akuemon's house disguised as his wife. A story unfolds between Akuemon, who has never loved anyone, and the female fox, who slowly discovers true love in him even while tormented by sorrow over her comrades' death. This is the 6th work in "The Lion Books" series. It is also the first attempt by visualist Tezuka Makoto, Tezuka's older son, to render an original of his father's into an animated version.
Genres: Romance Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-07-16
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Lightning Trap: Leina & Laika
Overview: In present day Tokyo, traveling has never been more comfortable than aboard the Lightning L808, Japan's new luxury passenger plane. One day, on what seemed to be a routine flight, Haruka Leina and the plane's passengers were unaware of the mysterious and top secret cargo brought aboard, which attracted the attention of international terrorists set on obtaining it. Now, with a dangerous hostage situation at hand, only special agent Laika Strange and brave Leina may be able to save the passengers, and keep the deadly cargo from falling into the wrong hands...
Genres: Animation Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-23
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Tenchi Muyou!: Galaxy Police Mihoshi Space Adventure
Overview: "Mihoshi's Special," narrated by the title character, is a side story about Mihoshi's life as a Galaxy Police Officer. Mihoshi introduces her partner, Kiyone-an up-and-coming officer who believes that having Mihoshi as her partner could be the end of her career-and explains how they solved the case of the Missing Super Energy. Other characters from the Tenchi Muyo series return and have alternate roles in the special. While the storyline parodies various anime works, Mihoshi's Special explores Mihoshi's past and provides a glimpse at her probable future.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-05-02
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Lupin the Third: The Hemingway Papers
Overview: A bloody civil war is the setting for Lupin's latest caper; the leader for one of the factions holds documents written by Earnest Hemingway and contain the location of a remarkable treasure. With Goemon and Jigen fighting on opposite sides of the war, Lupin must tackle this challenge alone. As the war rages on, can Lupin secure the treasure and keep Goemon and Jigen from killing each other?!
Genres: Action Animation Comedy TV Movie Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-01
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Capricorn
Overview: In the blink of an eye, high school student Taku Shimamura finds himself transported to the bizarre world of Slaffleaze, where intelligent creatures govern and the ruling class, led by the villainous Zolba, is plotting the invasion of the world they know as Capricorn, the Earth. Joining together with the oppressed Slaffleaze peasants, Taku must find a way to stop Zolba's dark forces before the way to the unsuspecting Earth is opened. In order to do so, he must first gain the love and trust of the last of the Yappie, the ancestral guardians of Slaffeaze. This is a task that will take more than a little courage and daring, for the last Yappie is not just a cute young female, she`s also a dragon.
Genres: Fantasy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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Okama Report
Overview: Straight college student Shinya Okama gets a job at an okama bar – a cross-dressing gay bar. He falls in love with a college girl he meets there, and attempts to get closer to her while concealing the truth of his identity.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-12
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