The 20 best TV ANIME of 1997

A special organization using giant robots and aided by an alien boy battles the threat of a menace that inflicts havoc by turning humans into destructive mecha menaces.

Covering the continuing adventures of series protagonist Ash Ketchum and Pikachu, and his best friend Brock, the two meet a new coordinator named Dawn, who travels with them through Sinnoh and enters Pokémon Contests.

Akari Kanzaki has joined a girls academy to try to achieve her dream of going to the University Satellite and her dream is to win the Cosmo Beauty an she will need to work hard to do her best to win this.

A tomboyish schoolgirl finds herself forced into repeated duels for another girl who has a role in a world revolution.

In modern Japan where the way of ninja is still practiced secretly, Recca discovers that he has a power to manipulate fire. Eventually he meets people who also has strange power, and he soon has to overcome his past and face his destiny.

Every man needs a good woman. Tenchi Masaki has six.

Kindaichi Hajime, a lazy, perverted student with an IQ of 180, and the grandson of famous detective Kindaichi Kosuke, is often put into situations where he must discover the killer and their trick.

The adventures of a teenage sorceress and her companions as they quest for gold and glory (especially gold).

Guts, a wandering mercenary, joins the Band of the Hawk after being defeated in a duel by Griffith, the group's leader and founder. Together, they dominate every battle, but something menacing lurks in the shadows.

It is the year 22 H. C. (Holy Century), Shinjuku is populated by monsters and goblins. Humans are endangered and the town is rife with crime.

Honey Kisaragi is your everyday beautiful high school student but her father is kidnapped by the evil organization Panther Claw. Her scientist father left her a device that lets her transform into Cutie Honey to battle the forces of evil.

Hibino Hareluya is a delinquent teenager who is tough and loves to pack a punch. His father is none other than the almighty God who does not approve very well of his son's rebellious acts . Disappointed in hareluya's lack of responsibility, his father sends him to Earth as a normal High school student, stripped of his powers. Posing as a local priest, God keeps and eye on his son's adventures as haleluya rights and wrongs around the school with two-fisted justice.

Professor Senbe Norimaki, aka Doctor Slump, is a bumbling inventor living with his wife and his out-of-control robot daughter, Arale.

The reformed marionettes Tiger, Luchs, and Panther are sent to stay with Otaru to learn more about being human. A new mysterious marionette named Marine also appears.

Two Holy Virgins, Parfait and Cacao, are in search for the mysterious warrior. Coming along with them is an advisor named PQ, who is a small red tomato-like creature. At a space station, the two Holy Virgins meet and rescue Lemon, who joins them in escaping from her captor, Ramunes the Fourth, the supposed warrior.

Maze: The Mega-Burst Space is the story about a young, shy, and soft-spoken girl with hidden powers, who travels mysteriously through time and space into a mysterious world. There she meets fugitive Princess Mill of the Batonian Empire who is on the run from the Jaina Holy Group. Maze's new role is to protect Mill, who eventually falls in love with Maze. Along the way, Maze and Mill run into a couple of friends - Rapier, Solude, Aster, Woll, and Randi. At night, however, Maze turns into a seductive male who has an uncontrollable desire to sleep with girls.

CLAMP School has all the size and resources of a small city. Over 10,000 people - students and their families - live, work, and study within its self-sufficient campus. Any student with talent, regardless of wealth, is gladly accepted into this amazing facility. Covering kindergarten through graduate school, it is without equal anywhere in the world. Nokoru Imonoyama, Student Council President of the Elementary School Division, as well as the Treasurer, Akira, and Secretary, Suoh, are three of the most well-liked and idolized students in school. Nokoru decides that he and his two friends are going to start a detective service, solving any mystery or crime, great or small. But, as Nokoru is a bit theatrical and a shameless romantic, he declares that these detectives will focus on aiding mostly girls and women. With all the resources the school has to offer at their disposal, the CLAMP School Detectives are on a mission to help damsels in distress.

Bolt Crank is a man who has the specials ability to turn almost anything he eats into a weapon of choice.

They're back! Rio, Nanval, Lilica, Maya and Yuji are back on the force and ready to go beyond the call of duty in their greatest adventure yet in this continuation of the Burn Up Warrior series. Project Warrior is the bottom line of defense against crime in the futuristic metropolis of Neo-Tokyo: led by Maki, a calm and cool under pressure police officer, Project Warrior is ready to go where normal law enforcement cannot and will not venture in order to stop criminals dead in their tracks before they get out of hand. But this time, Project Warrior finds itself in a situation that's about to spiral completely beyond even their control when ordinary run-of-the-mill criminals get their hands on high-tech weaponry and devices and begin to go on looting sprees in the quiet urban section of Police-town. While doing some investigating, they discover a conspiracy involving corrupt politicians, illegal international arms sales and a crime syndicate that's being run by a 'presumed dead' cop. No sooner does Maki's team of specialists put out one fire, they soon find themselves contending with another one and just when Warrior thinks they've won, they really haven't. Someone is working behind the scenes to set Warrior up for a really big fall and before the clock runs out, they'll have their hands full trying to solve an eight-year old mystery involving black diamonds and to stop a new breed of unstoppable mecha assassins from hitting the streets of Police-town. For Project Warrior, police work is definitely no day at the beach!