Best Anthology Animation
Fantasia is a 1940 film series by Walt Disney presenting eight distinct musical compositions alongside innovative animated sequences. Notable for its ambitious integration of orchestral music and animation, it showcased groundbreaking techniques using the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold...
Mushi-Shi: The Next Passage is the second television season of the anime adaptation of Yuki Urushibara's manga Mushishi, first broadcast in 2014. Its largely self-contained episodes follow Ginko, a traveling specialist who studies mushi, primordial life forms whose behavior can affect humans and the...
Treehouse of Horror is the recurring Halloween anthology installment of the animated television series The Simpsons, first broadcast in 1990. A typical episode contains three self-contained stories that parody horror, science fiction, fantasy, and supernatural fiction, often drawing on recognizable...
Memories is a 1995 Japanese animated science-fiction anthology based on manga stories by Katsuhiro Otomo. It consists of three distinct segments: Magnetic Rose, directed by Koji Morimoto; Stink Bomb, directed by Tensai Okamura; and Cannon Fodder, directed by Otomo. The episodes range from psychologi...
Neo Tokyo is a 1987 Japanese animated anthology film composed of three independent short films directed by Rintaro, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Katsuhiro Otomo. The segments are titled "Labyrinth Labyrinthos," "The Running Man," and "Construction Cancellation Order." Rather than presenting one continuous...
Robot Carnival is a 1987 Japanese animated anthology film produced by APPP and organized around the broad subject of robots. It consists of nine largely self-contained segments created by different directors and animation teams, with styles ranging from comedy and fantasy to war drama and visual spe...
Robot Chicken's Star Wars and DC Comics specials are stop-motion animated television productions derived from the Adult Swim sketch-comedy series created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich. Using action figures and custom models, they present short, loosely connected sketches that parody familiar ch...
Canadian-American animated anthology film (1981) adapting stories from Heavy Metal magazine, featuring adult sci-fi and fantasy segments accompanied by a hard rock soundtrack.
2013 Japanese animated anthology film produced by Katsuhiro Otomo, comprising four short films by different directors celebrating traditional Japanese settings and imagery.
Canadian animated film (2000) serving as a loose sequel to Heavy Metal (1981), departing from the anthology format for a single narrative with voice work by Julie Strain.
