1987 anime
The guide lists 31 anime from 1987 (-1 on 1986). Most common genres that year: mecha (18%), adventure (15%), comedy (15%) and science fiction (12%). Busiest studios: Toei Animation (3), Sunrise (3) and Tatsunoko Production (2).
Winter 1987 season
- Tales of Little Women
- Bubblegum Crisis
- Robot Carnival Studio 4°C
- Metal Armor Dragonar Sunrise
- Hell Target Nakamura Production
- Hiatari Ryōkō! Group TAC
- Elf 17 Toei Video
Spring 1987 season
- Ox Tales
- The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 Tatsunoko Production
- Zillion
- Black Magic M-66 Anime International Company
- Kimagure Orange Road Studio Pierrot
- Ultra B Shin-Ei Animation
- Mami the Psychic Shin-Ei Animation
- Space Fantasia 2001 Nights TMS Entertainment
Summer 1987 season
- Transformers: The Headmasters Toei Animation
- Dead Heat
Fall 1987 season
- Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics
- The Three Musketeers Gallop
- Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 Anime International Company
- Norakuro-kun Studio Pierrot
- Relic Armor Legaciam
- Mister Ajikko Sunrise
- Kamen no Ninja Akakage Toei Animation
- Lady Lady!! Toei Animation
- Tsuide ni Tonchinkan Studio Comet
- Guzura Tatsunoko Production
- Junk Boy Madhouse
- Kentauros no Densetsu
All 1987 anime
- Transformers: The Headmasters adventure and mecha
- Ox Tales comedy
- The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 drama and mecha
- Tales of Little Women romance and historical
- Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics fantasy and adventure
- Bubblegum Crisis action and mecha
- The Three Musketeers romance and adventure
- City Hunter
- Robot Carnival mecha
- Zillion science fiction and adventure
- Metal Armor Dragonar mecha and science fiction
- Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 mecha
- Black Magic M-66 cyberpunk
- Hell Target horror and science fiction
- Norakuro-kun
- Kimagure Orange Road
- Dead Heat mecha
- Relic Armor Legaciam
- Mister Ajikko
- Hiatari Ryōkō!
- Kamen no Ninja Akakage
- Ultra B
- Lady Lady!! drama
- Tsuide ni Tonchinkan comedy
- Mami the Psychic comedy and fantasy
- Guzura comedy
- Space Fantasia 2001 Nights science fiction
- Junk Boy comedy
- Elf 17 adventure and gag
- Kentauros no Densetsu
- TO-Y