Welcome to this Summer 2014 Movie and OVA Guide! Most of these movies and OVAs are not available legally because the movies are still in Japan while the OVAs are bundled with the DVDs and Blu-Rays. This summer, we have a English theatrical release of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods. Consider this as a preview. For this season, I didn't make the OVA trailers due to running out of time. Plus, making OVAs as wiki pages is a bit tricky with our Wiki Policy. It can be part of the anime series or done separately as a single, stand alone title which mandates a movie wiki page.
Movies and OVAs are important because they serve as extra helpings for the fans who want more after finishing up an anime series. Hope you guys and gals enjoy the guide. Let us know what movies and specials you're looking for.
Credits: I used a few sources, Neregate, Anime News Network, and MyAnimelist, to compile the list. I thank BigHeart711 for creating an awesome banner.
Movies
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods
Plot: Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods is the fourteenth Dragon Ball Z anime film, and the first theatrical release in the Dragon Ball franchise since Dragon Ball: The Path to Power in 1996. It takes place between chapters 517 and 518 of the manga and is an official part of the Dragon Ball storyline. | |
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border:3 Ghost Tears
Plot: Posing as lovers on vacation, Motoko and Batou work to try to stop a terrorist organization whose symbol is the Scrasath. Meanwhile, Togusa investigates a murder of a man who possessed a prosthetic leg manufactured by the Mermaid's Leg corporation. | |
K Movie
Plot: Set in a world where history has taken a slightly different course from the one we’re familiar with, K follows the story of a young boy whose life is caught in a psychic war between seven kings. Yashiro Isana, also known as Shiro, is wanted for a crime he has no recollection of committing. He finds himself being hunted by the groups HOMRA, led by Mikoto Suoh, “The Red King,” and SCEPTER 4, led by Reisi Munakata, “The Blue King.” While on the run, a young man named Kuroh Yatogami helps him. This fated encounter will change Shiro’s life forever. | |
Lupin the IIIrd: Daisuke Jigen's Gravestone
Plot: In the film, Lupin and Jigen infiltrate East Doroa to capture the secret treasure Little Comet. Queen Malta, a singer from East Doroa, was just assassinated in neighboring West Doroa, resulting in a tense situation at the border. The duo successfully steal the Little Comet, but a sniper tries to take out Jigen during their getaway. Jigen faces a powerful foe named Yael Okuzaki, an assassin who prepares graves for his targets before executing his kills. It is said that no one has survived after Yael Okuzaki makes a grave for that target. | |
New Initial D the Movie
Plot: The film trilogy will retell the beginning of the story from Shuuichi Shigeno's original car-racing manga. High school student Takumi Fujiwara works as a gas station attendant during the day and a delivery boy for his father's tofu shop during late nights. Little does he know that his precise driving skills and his father's modified Toyota Sprinter AE86 Trueno make him the best amateur road racer on Mt. Akina's highway. Because of this, racing groups from all over the Gunma prefecture issue challenges to Takumi to see if he really has what it takes to be a road legend. | |
Persona 3 the Movie #2: Midsummer Knight's Dream
After realizing the value of life and the importance of his own allies, Makoto finally got his smile back. As spring turns into summer, he finds himself learning more about those comrades and getting closer to them, especially to Yukari. He even meets new friends, including Aegis, an anti-Shadow android, Ken, a grade-schooler who seeks to get revenge for his late mother, and Koromaru, a dog who can use a Persona. Makoto wishes that everything will continue just as they are. However, little by little, the pieces and people in Makoto's new, happy life | |
Pokémon XY: The Cocoon of Destruction
Plot: In the underground Diamond Domain, home to many Carbink, the Mythical Pokémon Diancie serves as ruler. The Heart Diamond that sustains the land is beginning to fall apart, and Diancie is not yet strong enough to create a new one. While seeking help from the Legendary Pokémon Xerneas, Diancie encounters a group of thieves who want to take control of its diamond-producing power—and who awaken the Legendary Pokémon Yveltal from its cocoon in the process. Ash and his friends now must help Diancie discover its true power, stop Yveltal's rampage, and save the Diamond Domain. | |
Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary
Plot: The film follows Saori Kido (Ayaka Sasaki), a young girl troubled by her mysterious powers. She is saved by Pegasus Seiya (Kaito Ishikawa) from an assassin sent to kill her. Saori then learns she is the reincarnation of the Goddess Athena with Seiya being one of her 88 Saints. Upon learning of her destiny, she heads to the Sanctuary and wage war against its Pope. Seiya, alongside fellow Bronze Saints Cygnus Hyōga (Kenshō Ono), Dragon Shiryū (Kenji Akabane), Andromeda Shun (Nobuhiko Okamoto), and Phoenix Ikki (Kenji Nojima) must pass through the twelve Zodiac Temples in Athena's Sanctuary in twelve hours, in order to save their goddess Athena from imminent death. They must confront each of the twelve Gold Saints that guard each of the temples in order to reach the cure that will save Athena. | |
Space Brothers #0
Plot: The manga's story follows two brothers, Mutta and Hibito, who made a vow as kids to travel to space. The younger brother Hibito did become an astronaut, but not Mutta. However, Mutta's life changes one fateful day. | |
Stand by Me Doraemon
Plot: The first 3DCG film for the franchise is co-directed by Takashi Yamazaki (Always, Space Battleship Yamato) and Ryuichi Yagi (Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki) with a script by Yamazaki. The story is based on the manga's 1st episode "Mirai no Kuni Kara Harubaru to" (All the way from the country of the future), with two of the most popular episodes, "Sayonara, Doraemon" (Good bye, Doraemon), and "Nobita no Kekkonzenya" (Nobita's night before wedding). Judging from the trailer, it focuses on a love story between Nobita and Shizuka-chan. | |
Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow
Plot: Three 30-minute shorts will explore the activities of the military mahou shoujo between operations starting with Episode 1: The Thunder of Saint Trond, premiering at Cinema Shinjuku and Ikebukuro Sunshine Cinema September 19th, then expanding to other venues on the 20th. | |
When Marnie Was There
Plot: Anna hasn't a friend in the world - until she meets Marnie among the sand dunes. But Marnie isn't all she seems...An atmospheric ghost story with truths to tell about friendship, families and loneliness. Anna lives with foster parents, a misfit with no friends, always on the outside of things. Then she is sent to Norfolk to stay with old Mr and Mrs Pegg, where she runs wild on the sand dunes and around the water. There is a house, the Marsh House, which she feels she recognises - and she soon meets a strange little girl called Marnie, who becomes Anna's first ever friend. Then one day, Marnie vanishes. A new family, the Lindsays, move into the Marsh House. Having learnt so much from Marnie about friendship, Anna makes firm friends with the Lindsays - and learns some strange truths about Marnie, who was not all she seemed... |
OVA
Amazing Twins
Plot: Performance team "Nought" is holding a "supernatural" magic show before a sparse audience, who boos the show. One of the Nought's idols, Amane, happens to have ISH, the power to turn what is imagined into reality. Suddenly, a girl named Aya, the popular genius magician in the group "I.A.M.," appears before Amane. Like Amane, Aya also has ISH. | |
Attack on Titan
Bundled with Limited Edition manga Vol. 14. Plot: 1st OVA: Ilse's Notebook is an adaptation of a manga side story about Ilse who was lost in Titan territory and kept recording her discovery of an aberrant Titan until her death. (12/09/2013 bundled with Vol. 12) 2nd OVA: The anime will detail Eren and his friends' greatest trial yet: A "memorable episode before the 104th Training Corps became unifited." | |
Blade & Soul
Anime Short bundled with BD/DVD vol. 1 and vol. 2. Plot: Alka is an assassin for the Clan of the Sword. She's on a journey to find the woman Jin Valel, who killed her master Hon. Jin is demon-like woman who controls the Energy of Chaos and kills without feeling - not unlike how Alka has learned to kill in her work as an assassin. On her journey, Alka encounters three strange women, each great warriors in their own right, and grapples with her slain master's wish that she leave the life of an assassin behind. | |
Daimidaler: Prince vs. Penguin Empire
Plot: Mini OVA bundled with BD/DVD vol. 1 There is a high school boy named Madanbashi Kouichi who has Hi-ERo particles, the power source to operate the robotic weapon Daimidaler. With the help of Sonan Kyouko from the mysterious Prince Beauty Parlor organization, he stands up against the Penguin Empire that troubles humanity. | |
Girls und Panzer
Plot: In this world, Sensha-do (戦車道), the art of tank-combat, is a traditional Japanese martial art for girls. Miho, a girl who just transfered into the Ōrai Girls' Academy in Ibaraki Prefecture, has been ordered by the academy's student council chairperson to join the school team and compete in the national Sensha-do championships. | |
Hanamonogatari
Plot: The "second season" arc of the Monogatari series. The heroine of the story is Suruga Kanbaru, and the story is set after Koyomi graduates from high school. All five episodes will premiere in a marathon on Saturday, August 16. | |
Hayate the Combat Butler
Bundled with Limited Edition Manga vol. 41. Limited Editions of the 41st, 42nd, and 43rd manga volumes will bundle one OVA each. The new OVAs will adapt various stories from the original manga that have not yet been adapted into anime. A talented and athletically proficient young man finds himself saddled with his parents' huge debt, and then rescued by a young girl of vast wealth. To pay it off, he becomes her butler. | |
Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha
Bundled with Limited Edition Manga Vol. 8 Plot: The protagonist girl Inari Fushimi (CV: Naomi Ohzora) is a shy second year middle school student who lives in Fushimi-ward, Kyoto. She is having unrequited love for her classmate Koji Tanbabashi (Hiroshi Okamoto). After saving a child fox spirit named Kon, she is given a power to transform into anything she wants by a local god Ukano Mitama no Kami (Houko Kuwashima). | |
Kiss×Sis (OVA)
Plot: Bundled with Limited Edition Vol. 13 The story follows the "forbidden" love between a boy and his two stepsisters. The episode will feature the return of the Kiryuu sisters. | |
Kuroko's Basketball
Plot: Bundled with BD/DVD vol. 6. It will adapt the 124th manga chapter, which depicts when Kuroko and Aomine first met. An up-and-coming power player, Taiga Kagami, is just back from America. When he comes to Seirin High School, he meets the super-ordinary boy, Tetsuya Kuroko. Kagami is shocked to find that Kuroko isn't good at basketball, in fact, he's bad! And he's so plain that he's impossible to see. But Kuroko's plainness lets him pass the ball around without the other team noticing him, and he's none other than the sixth member of the Miracle Generation. | |
Little Busters!: EX
Plot: Bundled with BD/DVD vol. 6. Naoe Riki was a boy living on the brink of despair. The one to reach out to him was Natsume Kyousuke, a just boy who called himself the leader of the "Little Busters." Every day from then on was like an endless carnival, and the pain in Riki's heart slowly ebbed away. A few years later, the five of them are living in the same school dorm, still living every day like a carnival. But when Kyousuke starts to look for a job, Riki worries that the five friends will drift apart. "Let's start a baseball team. We'll call it... the Little Busters!" | |
Magi: Adventure of Sinbad
The 3rd volume of the manga series, Adventure of Sinbad, will be bundled with the OVA as a limited edition in Japan. (May 19) Plot: The world of the spin-off series is set 30 years before Magi and tells the story of the younger days of Sinbad, the king of Sindria. | |
Medamayaki no Kimi Itsu Tsubusu?
Plot: Based on the same name gourmet manga that focuses on the dining of cuisine. The protagonist Jirou Tamiyamaru is more obssessed with how to eat than most people, and the anime comically depicts how he agonizes over the differences with how others eat. | |
Mushibugyou
Plot: Bundled with Limited Edition manga vol. 15 The protagonist, Tsukishima Jinbei, strives to be a warrior who wins every battle until the day he dies. Jinbei has left his homeland in the Tsugara Domain to join the Mushibugyo in the great city of Edo. His job in the Mushibugyo is to exterminate giant bugs that run rampant in the city. Jinbei fights with the Mushibugyo, an office of brave men who risk their lives to protect the peace in Edo and the smiles of the people! Honesty does pay off! | |
Nameko-ke no Ichizoku
Plot: It's about the daily life of a big family of mushrooms living together. | |
Non Non Biyori
Plot: Asahioka Branch School, a combined elementary and middle school in an isolated village, has only five students total, four girls and one boy. The girls are best friends, and pass the season with traditional activities like harvesting mountain herbs and fishing. | |
Nozo x Kimi
Plot: Bundled with limited edition of volume 4. A spinoff of Nozoki Ana. Nozo x Kimi follows high school students Nozomi and Kimio, two other inhabitants of the same apartment complex as the characters in Nozoki Ana. | |
Paradise of Innocence
Plot: Bundled with Limited Edition manga vol. 6. In the "nostalgic & innocent story," Shouta is sent back in time to his elementary school days via a mysterious school pool. He see Konomi-chan, a girl who would eventually become a nationally popular actress, and other cute girls when they were innocent and defenseless. | |
Pokémon the Series: XY: Fragments of the Heaven
Plot: The story follow Ash Kethum and his friends when they visit the Pokémon Aerospace eXploration Agency. As they hear about the dangers posted by space debris, sirens suddenly ring out. Team Rocket have plotted to seize control of PAXA and have infiltrated the facility. | |
Noragami
Plot: Bundled with Limited Edition manga vol. 11. The anime will adapt "that popular flower viewing arc. Yato may be a minor god, but he's got a plan to make it big. Unfortunately, things just don't seem to be going his way. He doesn't have a single shrine dedicated to him, his partner has just quit, and now he's got to find a new divine weapon. | |
Recently, My Sister is Unusual
Plot: Unaired episode bundled with Limited Edition manga vol. 7. Yuya and Mitsuki have recently become brother and sister because of their parents remarrying. Mitsuki is having a hard time opening up to her new family, but their parents leave for a foreign country right after getting married before that can get any better. As Mitsuki is troubled by her new life living alone with Yuya, a amnesiac ghost girl, Hiyori, appears before her, and she is forced to help her pass on to the next world... | |
Tamayura - More Aggressive
Plot: A 30-minute "episode 8.5," bundled with BD/DVD box. The story takes place in Seto Inland Sea and is about a girl who likes taking pictures. | |
The Comic Artist and His Assistants
Plot: Mini-OVA bundled with BD/DVD vol. 1, vol. 2 A life description about the mangaka Aito Yuuki and his assistant Ashisu Sahoto. Aito doesn't understand the feelings of the characters in his stories so he asks Ashisu to help him. Ashisu would do anything for the work—she will even let him touch her breast so he will know how it feels like. | |
Waiting in the Summer
Plot: Bundled with the TV series' Blu-Ray Disc box. A group of friends have the idea of shooting a film during summer about an alien coming to Earth. Ichika, an female humanoid alien visits Japan, searching for a place. She falls in love with a boy, Kaito. | |
Yondemasu Yo, Azazel-san (OVA)
Plot: Bundled with Limited Edition manga vol. 11. This is the first anime adaptation of the manga;s Isoginchaku (Anemone) arc. This arc was not animated in either season of the television series. In addition, the bespectacled student and brilliant magic user Osamu Osanai will make his animated debut. |
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