On Amazon Prime Video we can see some of the best anime series of all time, from classics to current hits. Through the Amazon platform we can see Naruto, Attack on Titan, Detective Conan, Pokémon… But there are also anime movies on Amazon Prime Video that we can see if we have a subscription to the streaming platform and that will allow us to discover more about animation Japanese.
Although it is on Netflix where we can watch the greatest anime hits of all time, such as Your Name or all the Studio Ghibli movies, there are also anime movies that we can watch on Amazon Prime Video if we want a session of Japanese cartoon cinema. Sagas of Detective Conan movies, Evangelion… Or romantic high school dramas with which we can have a good time.
Detective Conan
Detective Conan is one of the most mythical manga and anime, a publication that premiered in the nineties and is still one of the most followed. In addition to volumes of manga and anime series, Detective Conan also has different movies that we can see on Amazon Prime Video if we look for anime movies. They are not all (there are more than twenty in total) but there are some of the main feature films of the little detective.
Danger in the skyscraper
Released in the late 1990s, Skyscraper Peril is one of the first Detective Conan movies in which the detective attends a party hosted by a great architect. Shinichi has been invited to the party of the popular architect Teiji Moriya but at that party someone has placed several bombs and we will have to do everything possible to find out where and who. Where are the bombs in the building and how to defuse them before there is irreparable damage. A thriller for the whole family with the usual police air of the saga.
PlatformAmazon Prime Video
Year: 1997
Duration: One hour and 33 minutes
Theme: Thriller, detectives, police
Age: For over thirteen years
Watch Skyscraper Danger on Amazon Prime Video
Captured in her eyes
Another of the anime movies on Amazon Prime Video is from the Detective Conan saga and was released in 2000. Several policemen have died and Ran has seen how Detective Sato is shot but the situation has made her go into shock and forget what happened . Conan will do his best to try to help her remember what happened in order to protect her from the assassin who wants to kill her so that she doesn’t reveal her identity.
PlatformAmazon Prime Video
Year: 2000
Duration: One hour and 39 minutes
Theme: Police, anime, criminal
Age: For over thirteen years
Watch Detective Conan Captured in her eyes on Amazon Prime Video
The fourteenth victim
The third of the Detective Conan anime movies that we can see on Amazon Prime Video is The Fourteenth Victim, a 1998 feature film that tells us how Kogoro Mouri (Ran’s father) shot his wife ten years ago, trying to capture a murderer. The killer is back now, ten years later. He has regained his freedom and Ran has nightmares about what happened but will do her best to stop him.
PlatformAmazon Prime Video
Year: 1998
Duration: One hour and 39 minutes
Theme: Anime Thriller, Criminal, Detective
Age: For over thirteen years
Watch The Fourteenth Victim on Amazon Prime Video
Evangelion
Evangelion is one of the best known anime and manga in history, one of the mythical science fiction sagas and the movies are available from 2021 on Amazon Prime Video. Four deliveries that work as a recreation of the “Neon Genesis Evangelion” series and that fans have waited for years until the fourth movie to see it in full. It can be viewed in 200 countries through Amazon. Among them, Spain.
The last of the saga to arrive and released late due to the coronavirus was Evangelion 3.01 + 1.01 and is available on Amazon Prime Video. A final touch to a saga that is, for many critics, a work of art. An intelligent film that catches us until the end and is considered one of the best anime feature films of all time.
We can see all the installments of one of the most important remakes of Japanese animation. Four movies available on Amazon Prime Video for an Evangelion marathon that we can continue with the series, available on Netflix.
Watch Evangelion: 1.11 You are (not) alone on Amazon Prime Video
Watch Evangelion: 2.22 You can (not) advance on Amazon Prime Video
Watch Evangelion: 3.33 You can (not) redo on Amazon Prime Video
Watch Evangelion 3.01 + 1.01 Thrice Upon a Time on Amazon Prime Video
My Hero Academia
My Hero Academia is a manga series launched in 2014 in a world where almost the entire population has a gift and has been divided between heroes and villains. Not all. 20% of the population is still normal. Among them, Izuku Midoriya who wants to become a hero and to whom one of them has offered to inherit his powers despite not having them since birth. He will have to learn to dominate them in order to face villains in a series that is also the story of some of the anime movies that we can see on Amazon Prime Video.
My Hero Academia: Heroes Awaken
Izuku is the protagonist of this movie. He and other classmates from the UA School will be sent to work as heroes on an island in the south of Japan. Almost a vacation that will have a downside: a new villain, Nine, is going to attack Nabuto’s island. A fun movie for fans of cartoons, action and cinema.
PlatformAmazon Prime Video
Year: 2020
Duration: One hour and 44 minutes
Theme: Sci-fi, anime, action
Age: For ages 13+
Watch My Hero Academia: Heroes Awaken on Amazon Prime Video
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
The first of the My Hero Academia movies to be released is Two Heroes. Two Heroes follows the students of the UA School preparing for a summer camp. Izuku along with All Might will go to visit 1-Island, a mobile city that floats on the sea. We will get to know All Might in depth and we will follow the boys during an intense summer in a parallel story to the saga that we can see to expand the story.
PlatformAmazon Prime Video
Year: 2018
Duration: One hour and 35 minutes
Theme: Science fiction, fantasy
Age: For ages 13+
Watch My Hero Academia: Two Heroes on Amazon Prime Video
Other anime movies on Amazon
They are not great sagas like the previous ones, but there are many other anime movies that we can see on Amazon Prime Video. Japanese cartoons that we can see on the streaming platform if we simply look for a movie and not many of them linked to the same saga or series. Even so, we see all kinds of versions and spin-offs of mythical characters like One Piece or Digimon. But also independent films.
One Piece: Stampede
The legendary One Piece series has its own movie on Amazon Prime Video: Stampede. Luffy and the rest of the crew have been invited to the world’s biggest pirate fair. At the Pirate Festival you will discover all kinds of pavilions and “partners” but not all of them are as good as you would like. A pitched battle between pirates and marines in a chaotic but fun and intense animated film to enjoy with adults and children.
PlatformAmazon Prime Video
Year: 2019
Duration: One hour and 41 minutes
Theme: Pirates, animation, action
Age: For people over 16 years old
Watch One Piece: Stampede on Amazon Prime Video
No Game, No Life: Zero
Based on the novels with the same name, by Yu Kamiya, we can see this 2017 Japanese anime series on Amazon Prime Video that tells us what happened during the events of the Ancient War. Riku will be in charge of leading humans who are on the verge of extinction in a fantasy, war and science fiction movie.
PlatformAmazon Prime Video
Year: 2021
Duration: One hour and 46 minutes
Theme: Period, Science Fiction
Age: For ages 13+
Josee, the tiger and the fishes
An anime drama that follows Josee, a girl who has been in a wheelchair for years and enjoys painting, reading, and “her imagination world.” But one day she falls with her wheelchair and Tsuneo saves her from the accident. Tsuneo is a young man who studies marine biology and who will appear in Josee’s life in this Amazon Prime Video romantic drama that moves away from the fantasy and science fiction of other movies on this list. A charming feature film without falling into the corny and the clichés, but an emotional story of these two young protagonists that we can see in one hour and 38 minutes on Amazon Prime Video.
PlatformAmazon Prime Video
Year: 2021
Duration: One hour and 38 minutes
Theme: Anime, love
Age: For all audiences
Watch Josee, the tiger and the fishes on Amazon Prime Video
hello world
Hello World is another romantic feature film that we can see on the streaming platform, an anime movie on Amazon Prime Video that takes us to the year 2027 where Naomi Katagaki will meet her “self” from ten years in the future. Together they will have to save Ruri Ichigyo in the future, with whom Naomi will start dating.
PlatformAmazon Prime Video
Year: 2021
Duration: One hour and 37 minutes
Theme: anime, drama, sci-fi
Age: For ages 13+
Watch Hello World on Amazon Prime Video
Digimon Adventure. Last Evolution: Kizuna
Digimon is one of the mythical anime series of the last twenty years and also has a spin-off in feature film format. The film takes us ten years after the events of Digimon and the children are no longer teenagers, approaching adult life and preparing for college. They have all followed different paths but they must meet again to fight Eosmon all together, just like when they were children. An hour and a half reunion for the whole family that we can see if we look for Japanese animated films.
PlatformAmazon Prime Video
Year: 2020
Duration: One hour and 34 minutes
Theme: Based on the anime series Digimon / Spin-off
Age: For ages seven and up
See Digimon Adventure. Last Evolution: Kizuna on Amazon Prime Video