The events of 1987 in anime.
Releases Released Title Type Director Studio Ref Little Women TV series Fumio Kurokawa Nippon Animation New Maple Town Stories: Palm Town Chapter TV series Hiroshi Shidara, Junichi Sato Toei Animation Magical Princess Minky Momo Hitomi no Seiza Minky Momo SONG Special OVA Ashi Productions Urotsukidōji OVA series Hideki Takayama West Cape, Team Mu Campus Special Investigator Hikaruon OVA film Kazuhiro Ochi AIC Metal Armor Dragonar TV series Takeyuki Kanda Sunrise Bubblegum Crisis OVA series Katsuhito Akiyama, Masami Ōbari, Hiroaki Gōda AIC, Artmic Twilight Q OVA series Tomomi Mochizuki, Mamoru Oshii Ajia-do Animation Works, Studio Deen Hokuto no Ken 2 TV series Toyoo Ashida Toei Animation Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs Film Tsutomu Shibayama Shin-Ei Animation Bats & Terry Film Nobuo Mizuta Sunrise New Maple Town Stories: Home Town Collection Film Hiroshi Shidara Toei Animation Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise Film Hiroyuki Yamaga Gainax New Cream Lemon OVA series Laughing Target OVA film Motosuke Takahashi Studio Pierrot Hiatari Ryōkō! TV series Gisaburō Sugii Group TAC Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei OVA film Mizuho Nishikubo Minna Agechau Short film Osamu Uemura Animate, J.C.Staff Hoero! Bun Bun Film Toshio Hirata Madhouse City Hunter TV series Kenji Kodama Sunrise Kimagure Orange Road TV series Osamu Kobayashi Studio Pierrot Esper Mami TV series Keiichi Hara Shin-Ei Animation Ox Tales TV series Hiroshi Sasagawa Studio Cosmos, Telecable Benelux B.V. Touch 3: Kimi ga Tōri Sugita Ato ni Film Akinori Takaoka Group TAC Zillion TV series Akira Watanabe Tatsunoko, Production I.G God Bless Dancouga OVA Ashi Productions Wicked City Film Yoshiaki Kawajiri Madhouse Project A-ko 2: Plot of the Daitokuji Financial Group OVA Yuji Moriyama Studio A.P.P.P. Yōtōden OVA series Osamu Yamazaki J.C.Staff Machine Robo: Battle Hackers TV series Ashi Productions Shin Kabukicho Story Hana no Asuka-gumi! OVA Space Fantasia 2001 Nights OVA film Yoshio Takeuchi TMS Entertainment The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 OVA Shoji Kawamori Studio Nue, Artland, Tatsunoko Production Black Magic M-66 OVA film Hiroyuki Kitakubo, Masamune Shirow AIC Transformers: The Headmasters TV series Katsutoshi Sasaki, Shoji Tajima Toei Animation Maps: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijintachi Film Keiji Hayakawa Studio Gallop Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle Film Daisuke Nishio Toei Animation Inaba the Dreammaker OVA film Studio Deen Saint Seiya: The Movie Film Kōzō Morishita Toei Animation Robot Carnival Film Atsuko Fukushima et al. Studio APPP Crystal Triangle OVA film Seiji Okuda Studio APPP Yamato / Space OVA series Toshio Hirata, Yoshiaki Kawajiri Madhouse, Tezuka Productions Legend of Lemnear OVA film Kinji Yoshimoto AIC Lily C.A.T. OVA film Hisayuki Toriumi Studio Pierrot Neo Tokyo Film Rintarō, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Katsuhiro Ōtomo Madhouse Persia, the Magic Fairy: Merry-go-Round OVA Studio Pierrot Dangaioh OVA series Toshiki Hirano AIC, Artmic To-y OVA film Mamoru Hamatsu Studio Gallop Oraa Guzura Dado TV series Hiroshi Sasagawa Tatsunoko Productions Mister Ajikko TV series Yasuhiro Imagawa Sunrise The Three Musketeers Anime TV series Kunihiko Yuyama Studio Gallop Tsuide ni Tonchinkan TV series Shin Misawa, Tomomasa Yamazaki Studio Comet Bikkuriman TV series Mitsuru Aoyama Toei Animation Oraa Guzura Dado TV series Hiroshi Sasagawa Tatsunoko Productions Ultraman: The Adventure Begins Film Mitsuo Kusakabe Madhouse Akakage TV series Susumu Ishizaki Toei Animation Grimm Masterpiece Theater TV series Hiroshi Saito Nippon Animation Lady Lady!! TV series Hiroshi Shidara Toei Animation Devilman Tanjo Hen OVA film Tsutomu Iida Oh! Production The Song of Wind and Trees: Sanctus OVA film Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Destruction Film Katsuhito Akiyama AIC, Artmic Twilight of the Cockroaches Film Hiroaki Yoshida Madhouse Battle Royal High School OVA film Ichirō Itano DAST, Tokuma Shoten Daimajū Gekitō: Hagane no Oni OVA film Toshihiro Hirano AIC Original Dirty Pair OVA series Masayoshi Tanidabe Sunrise The Plot of the Fuma Clan OVA film Masayuki Ōzeki TMS Entertainment
See also 1987 in animation
References
External links Japanese animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb