Captain Herlock

Films that were nominated for the Best Animation of the Year prize given by the Japan Academy Film Prize Association, first awarded in 2007. All five nominees are awarded the Excellent Animation of the Year (優秀アニメーション作品) by the association.

This list only contains entries which were nominated, but did not win the Best Animation of the Year prize.

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/993

Everyone knows Studio Ghibli's amazing work, but what about the other studios?

Most of the Top Movies are related to an anime series, so it is not too easy to find something which can be watched without any previous knowledge.

I will list those standalone movies which I enjoyed besides the Ghibli shows.

There are no tags for 3D and CGI which is why this list exists. Clicking the "list view" button will provide the names of sequels if the anime has any.

The criteria here is simple: Anime released in any year, with under 160,000 MAL Members, and which I've rated a 7 or higher.

I'm also not including anything that I've already included on my Good Stuff list: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9517

Pardon my presumptuous and awkwardly worded title meant to shoehorn this into my Obscurities series. In short, if you've seen a lot of the most popular stuff and just need some new recommendations that aren't the most obvious things possible but also not too obscure, here you go.

If you'd prefer to dive deeper, go here: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9611

Anime in the "Leijiverse", mostly adapted from Leiji Matsumoto's mangas. Ranked from newest to oldest

All the Leiji Matsumoto's anime released on the french TV (from newest to oldest).

Notable Sci-Fi anime with 3D/CGI animation.
Ex-Arm is one of those, it's so bad it's funny.

Uchuu Kaizoku Captain Herlock aka Space Pirate Captain Harlock is one of the fruits that sprang from the mind of creator Leiji Matsumoto (1938-2023).
https://myanimelist.net/people/2597/Leiji_Matsumoto

MercuryFalcon (27.1K subs) offers a fascinating analysis in the YouTube video, "Captain Harlock - The Anti-Sports Anime".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0dTxdac6Yo&t=604s

If you watch the video, you might (or might not) be surprised to find a forum post about Spokon here on MAL:
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1728771

Captain Harlock lives in the same universe as Ginga Tetsudou 999 aka Galaxy Express 999. You can find a complete watch list here:
https://chiaki.site/?/tools/watch_order/id/1000

And if you just can't get enough of Harlock, this is a YouTube playlist with a variety of videos, including, somehow, actual dubbed episodes (don't waste your time with "Space Pirate Captain Herlock: The Endless Odyssey Eng Dub Ep 1-13"):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3Xo_t2efjVLp_cMtDthOteAaNSyeQ__R

This list contains all those anime that have been dubbed into Latin Spanish from each available decade.

2010: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/40854
2011: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/40856
2012: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/40858
2014: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/40860
2015: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/40862
2016: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/40864
2017: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/40865
2018 (1/2): https://myanimelist.net/stacks/40867
2018 (2/2): https://myanimelist.net/stacks/40868
2019 (1/2): https://myanimelist.net/stacks/40869
2019 (2/2): https://myanimelist.net/stacks/40870

Reboots of Showa-era series.