Spring 1998 Anime

Spring 1998 (April - June) brought a stacked slate of anime. We've ranked them all by community score so you can find the best TV series, movies, OVAs, and hidden gems from this season.

31 titles31 TV seriesAvg. score: 6.9
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Cowboy Bebop

Cowboy Bebop

8.75TV26 epsSunrise

Crime is timeless. By the year 2071, humanity has expanded across the galaxy, filling the surface of other planets with settlements like those on Earth. These new societies are plagued by murder, drug use, and theft, and intergalactic outlaws are hunted by a growing number of...

ActionAward WinningSci-FiAdult Cast
2
Initial D First Stage

Initial D First Stage

8.36TV26 epsGallop

Unlike his friends, Takumi Fujiwara is not particularly interested in cars, with little to no knowledge about the world of car enthusiasts and street racers. The son of a tofu shop owner, he is tasked to deliver tofu every morning without fail, driving along the mountain of...

ActionDramaRacingSeinen
3
Trigun

Trigun

8.22TV26 epsMadhouse

Vash the Stampede is the man with a $$60,000,000,000 bounty on his head. The reason: he's a merciless villain who lays waste to all those that oppose him and flattens entire cities for fun, garnering him the title "The Humanoid Typhoon." He leaves a trail of death and...

ActionAdventureSci-FiAdult Cast
4
Cardcaptor Sakura

Cardcaptor Sakura

8.18TV70 epsMadhouse

Ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto is an ordinary fourth-grade student living in Tomoeda until, one day, she stumbles upon a mysterious book of cards titled "The Clow." Pondering over her discovery, she unintentionally causes a magical gust of wind to scatter the cards all over town. ...

AdventureComedyDramaRomance
5
Legend of Basara

Legend of Basara

7.29TV13 epsKSS

In a small village, twins are born: a boy, Tatara, and a girl, Sarasa. The prophet Nagi declares that Tatara is the chosen one who will free Japan from the tyrannical rule of the King and his four sons. But when the ruthless Red King slays Tatara, Sarasa must take on her...

AdventureAward WinningDramaRomance
6
Yu☆Gi☆Oh!

Yu☆Gi☆Oh!

7.25TV27 epsToei Animation

Bullies often target someone frail and weak—someone exactly like Yuugi Mutou. His beautiful childhood friend, Anzu Mazaki, is always there to stand up for him, but he can't depend on her forever. Katsuya Jonouchi, who is almost always accompanied by his verbal sparring partner...

ActionComedyFantasyStrategy Game
7
Princess Nine

Princess Nine

7.22TV26 epsPhoenix Entertainment

Keiko Himuro, Chairman of the Kisuragi School, puts together an all-girl baseball team led by Ryo Hayakawa, daughter of a legendary pitcher, in hopes of proving that girls can compete just as well as boys. Their goal: Koshien Stadium, where only the best teams get the...

DramaRomanceSportsTeam Sports
8
Magical Stage Fancy Lala

Magical Stage Fancy Lala

7.19TV26 epsStudio Pierrot

Miho Shinohara is a care-free third-grader and an aspiring manga artist. One day, she encounters Mogu and Pigu - two lost fairies disguised as stuffed animals. In exchange for staying at her home until they find a way to return to their own world, the fairies give Miho a special...

ComedyDramaRomanceIdols (Female)
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Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight

Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight

7.14TV27 epsAIC

Five years after the death of the Emperor of Marmo in the War of Heroes, Parn is now the Free Knight of Lodoss, he and his old allies now famous through the land. However, the Emperor's right-hand man, Ashram, seeks the scepter of domination to re-unify Lodoss under his former...

ActionAdventureDramaFantasy
10
Grander Musashi RV

Grander Musashi RV

7.12TV39 epsNippon Animation

Sequel to Grander Musashi. A young but experienced fisherman named Musashi Kazama and his two friends travel around the world in search of seven mysterious objects of fantastic power called "Legenders", each one in the form of a fish. Legenders are said to grant anyone who...

AdventureSports
11
YAT Anshin! Uchuu Ryokou 2

YAT Anshin! Uchuu Ryokou 2

7.07TV25 epsGroup TAC

The space traveling company, YAT, is thrown into the unknown realms of the outer space. At the same time, the group encounters the psychic, Maron, and scientist, Note. Subsequently, the two of them are attacked by the evil monarch, Ganon. Note was captured and taken away after...

AdventureComedySci-Fi
12
Lost Universe

Lost Universe

7.02TV26 epsE&G Films

Millie Nocturne has one great goal in life: to be the best in the universe - at absolutely everything! But when she tries her hand at being the "best detective," she ends up an unwilling partner with two people who will change her life forever: Kane Blueriver, the...

AdventureComedyDramaSci-Fi
13
Oh! My Goddess: The Adventures of Mini-Goddess

Oh! My Goddess: The Adventures of Mini-Goddess

6.88TV48 epsOLM

A large collection consisting of the adventures of the Goddesses featured in the anime and manga series Ah My Goddess. Parodies of other works, and a large number of jokes pervade this series of shorts in which the Goddesses torture and hang out with their friend Gan the rat.

ComedySupernatural
14
Silent Möbius

Silent Möbius

6.82TV26 epsRadix

The year is 2023 and Alien Beings known as "Lucifer Hawks" have begun invading earth from another dimension. All that stands between them and the enslavement of the human race is the Attacked Mystification Police Department - a special division of the Tokyo Police staffed by...

ActionComedyDramaFantasy
15
Himitsu no Akko-chan 3

Himitsu no Akko-chan 3

6.77TV44 epsToei Animation

In the Kagami household, the old Western palm-sized mirror has been passed from from generations to generations. Akko-chan has been taught about the importance of the mirror and when she finally receives it from her mother, she cherishes it with all her might. One day, in the...

ComedyMahou ShoujoSchoolShoujo
16
Knight Hunters

Knight Hunters

6.69TV25 epsPlum

Aya, Youji, Ken, and Omi are the four young men who comprise Weiss Kreuz (WK), an assassin group that eliminates certain menaces to society. Each member has his own trademark fighting style. Aya is adept at fighting with a katana, Youji has mastered the art of strangulation via...

ActionDrama
17
Neo Ranga

Neo Ranga

6.62TV48 epsStudio Pierrot

An ancient God called Ranga awakens on an isolated island in the South Pacific where it has been slumbering forgotten by mankind. Three sisters living in Tokyo—Minami, Ushio, and Yuuhi Shimabara—discover they have inherited this Island Kingdom, along with the huge God. When...

AdventureHorrorMecha
18
Cyber Team in Akihabara

Cyber Team in Akihabara

6.55TV26 epsAshi Productions

A "patapi" is a cute mechanical creature which is like a cyber pet. It can eat, sleep, play, and even help out its owners with some stuff. When Hibari Hanakoganei receives a patapi from a prince in her dreams, she is thrilled and names it "Densuke". When mysterious forces try to...

AdventureSci-FiMecha
19
Android Announcer Maico 2010

Android Announcer Maico 2010

6.55TV24 epsGroup TAC

In the year 2010, the Japanese radio industry is in decline. To reverse their flagging ratings, a station staffed with perennial losers makes a daring gamble: to hire the industry's first android on-air host. Maico is cute, but it will take more than novelty to win over the...

ComedyDramaSci-FiAdult Cast
20
Alice SOS

Alice SOS

6.54TV28 epsJ.C.Staff

Takashi loves reading books and especially loves "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". One day, he buys some used books, and he finds one book thrown in. When Takashi opens the book, "the God of Math" M-1 appeared. Takashi is told that Alice is kidnapped, and he's asked to rescue...

Adventure
21
Sentimental Journey

Sentimental Journey

6.52TV12 epsSunrise

Sentimental Journey is a collection of twelve short stories about twelve different girls. Though unrelated, there is one common theme that binds the episodes together: each girl's bittersweet experience of first love. (Source: ANN)

DramaRomance
22
DT Eightron

DT Eightron

6.46TV26 epsSunrise

Shu is from Datania, a country that makes young children work. He and his friends were trying to escape when they met the Returners. The Returners are some kind of rebels to Datania. Shu goes with the Returners to fight Zero, Nines, and his men who are after DT, a special...

ActionSci-Fi
23
Beast Wars Second Chou Seimeitai Transformers

Beast Wars Second Chou Seimeitai Transformers

6.41TV43 epsAshi Productions

Beast Wars Second features a new cast of characters set many years in the future, who travel to a post apocalyptic Earth now known as the planet Gaia. The Cybertrons, led by Lio Convoy, are sent to the planet to investigate an unusual change in the planet’s behavior and thus...

Sci-FiMecha
24
Ginga Hyouryuu Vifam 13

Ginga Hyouryuu Vifam 13

6.29TV26 epsSunrise

On July 27 1996, Mr. Takeyuki Kanda died suddenly at the age of 52. Born August 11 1943, he was known as the director of several animations including VIFAM. Thus in 1998 a new TV series of VIFAM was broadcasted in memory of him. Televised 1998/3/21-1998/10/3 (in Kansai area), it...

AdventureSci-FiMecha
25
Brain Powerd

Brain Powerd

6.22TV26 epsSunrise

In the not so distant future much of the earth has been submerged under the sea or destroyed by earthquakes. At the center of the turmoil is the mysterious Orphan. Orphan may or may not be the original cause of the cataclysms. Orphan's goal is to raise a ship hidden deep beneath...

AdventureSci-FiMecha
26
Wings of Dragon

Wings of Dragon

6.16TV26 eps

Lightning Khan and a group of elementary school students compete against another team in a game of rollerblades and RC car racing as they plan to attend the National convention.

SportsSchoolStrategy Game
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Takoyaki Capeman

Takoyaki Capeman

6.10TV77 epsStudio Pierrot

In order to protect the earth from the aliens, the god of Takoyaki created the five warriors of justice, Takoyaki Mantle Man. They risk their lives for justice. Takoyaki Mantle Man has round face, and wear a white cape and octopus belt as their symbol. Red is a leader whose...

ComedySci-Fi
28
Gandalla: The King of Burning Desert

Gandalla: The King of Burning Desert

5.65TV26 epsAshi Productions

A dispute between young band members and an unfortunate choice of melody inadverdently draws them all into the demonic horror known as the desert-god Gandalla.

AdventureDramaFantasyHorror
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Dimension Movement of Nazca

Dimension Movement of Nazca

5.52TV12 epsRadix

Miura Kyoji, a dedicated kendo student, discovers that his shisho (master) Tate Masanari is a reincarnated Incan warrior named Yawaru who wishes to destroy the world to purify it. Kyoji himself is the warrior Bilka, who foiled Yawaru's plans in their previous lives. Yawaru...

ActionAdventureDramaFantasy

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best anime from Spring 1998?

Based on community ratings, Cowboy Bebop is the highest-rated anime from Spring 1998 with a score of 8.75. Other top picks include Initial D First Stage and Trigun.

How many anime aired in Spring 1998?

There are 31 anime from the Spring 1998 season tracked on MyAnimePulse, including 31 TV series, 0 movies, and 0 OVA/ONAs.

What months are in the spring anime season?

The spring anime season covers April - June. Most new anime in this season begin airing in April.

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