Tegami Watari no Sakana - Recommendations

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2015

As all of Edo flocks to see the work of the revered painter Hokusai, his daughter O-Ei toils diligently inside his studio. Her masterful portraits, dragons and erotic sketches – sold under the name of her father – are coveted by upper crust Lords and journeyman print makers alike. Shy and reserved in public, in the studio O-Ei is as brash and uninhibited as her father, smoking a pipe while sketching drawings that would make contemporary Japanese ladies blush. But despite this fiercely independent spirit, O-Ei struggles under the domineering influence of her father and is ridiculed for lacking the life experience that she is attempting to portray in her art.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2018

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2010 - 2011

It’s been ten years since Yuuko disappeared from this world, and true to his word, Watanuki still remains at the shop waiting for her return. One day Doumeki – who is now a professor of ethnology at a university – pays a visit to Watanuki; he informs the man of a house he was sent to appraise. While there Doumeki found various old artifacts such as books and charms, plus a mysterious girl acting strangely since her grandmother died a month ago. When the young granddaughter proceeds to ask for Watanuki by name, can the bespectacled boy get to the root of the problem and help her return to who she once was?

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1991

• TV Special (2 eps)
• 2003

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1982

After the war, concerned brother Hide promises his critically ill sister Miyoko that he will arrange for her to see a real elephant. But when he goes to the zoo to find one, an old man tells him of the tragic day when the zoo animals were slaughtered.

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 1982

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1998

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1996

• TV (13 eps)
• 1979

Eleven-year-old Julie Braun lives in the lush green mountain pastures of Austria's Southern Tyrol. Her parents are killed by Italian soldiers, and she is sent to Vienna to live with her relatives, the Clementes. She befriends cousins Johan and Tanya but has trouble adjusting to life with Uncle Karl and Aunt Klara. As Austria is plunged into World War I, Karl is fired from his job at a glass factory, and Julie's new family is forced into a life of hardship.