The events of 1987 in anime.
| Released | Title | Type | Director | Studio | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Women | TV series | ||||
| New Maple Town Stories: Palm Town Chapter | TV series | ||||
| Magical Princess Minky Momo Hitomi no Seiza Minky Momo SONG Special | OVA | ||||
| Urotsukidōji | OVA series | Hideki Takayama | West Cape, Team Mu | ||
| Campus Special Investigator Hikaruon | OVA film | Kazuhiro Ochi | |||
| Metal Armor Dragonar | TV series | Takeyuki Kanda | |||
| Bubblegum Crisis | OVA series | ||||
| Twilight Q | OVA series | ||||
| Hokuto no Ken 2 | TV series | ||||
| Film | Tsutomu Shibayama | ||||
| Bats & Terry | Film | Nobuo Mizuta | |||
| New Maple Town Stories: Home Town Collection | Film | Hiroshi Shidara | |||
| Film | |||||
| New Cream Lemon | OVA series | ||||
| Laughing Target | OVA film | ||||
| Hiatari Ryōkō! | TV series | ||||
| Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei | OVA film | Mizuho Nishikubo | |||
| Minna Agechau | Short film | Osamu Uemura | |||
| Hoero! Bun Bun | Film | [1] [2] | |||
| City Hunter | TV series | ||||
| Kimagure Orange Road | TV series | ||||
| Esper Mami | TV series | ||||
| Ox Tales | TV series | Studio Cosmos, Telecable Benelux B.V. | |||
| Touch 3: Kimi ga Tōri Sugita Ato ni | Film | Akinori Takaoka | |||
| Zillion | TV series | Akira Watanabe | |||
| God Bless Dancouga | OVA | ||||
| Wicked City | Film | ||||
| OVA | |||||
| Yōtōden | OVA series | Osamu Yamazaki | |||
| TV series | |||||
| Shin Kabukicho Story Hana no Asuka-gumi! | OVA | ||||
| Space Fantasia 2001 Nights | OVA film | Yoshio Takeuchi | [3] | ||
| OVA | |||||
| Black Magic M-66 | OVA film | ||||
| TV series | Katsutoshi Sasaki, Shoji Tajima | ||||
| Maps: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijintachi | Film | Keiji Hayakawa | |||
| Film | |||||
| Inaba the Dreammaker | OVA film | ||||
| Film | Kōzō Morishita | ||||
| Robot Carnival | Film | Atsuko Fukushima et al. | |||
| Crystal Triangle | OVA film | Seiji Okuda | |||
| Yamato / Space | OVA series | ||||
| Legend of Lemnear | OVA film | Kinji Yoshimoto | |||
| Lily C.A.T. | OVA film | ||||
| Neo Tokyo | Film | ||||
| Persia, the Magic Fairy: Merry-go-Round | OVA | ||||
| Dangaioh | OVA series | ||||
| To-y | OVA film | Mamoru Hamatsu | |||
| Oraa Guzura Dado | TV series | ||||
| Mister Ajikko | TV series | ||||
| The Three Musketeers Anime | TV series | ||||
| Tsuide ni Tonchinkan | TV series | Shin Misawa, Tomomasa Yamazaki | |||
| Bikkuriman | TV series | Mitsuru Aoyama | |||
| Oraa Guzura Dado | TV series | ||||
| Film | Mitsuo Kusakabe | ||||
| Akakage | TV series | Susumu Ishizaki | |||
| Grimm Masterpiece Theater | TV series | Hiroshi Saito | |||
| Lady Lady!! | TV series | Hiroshi Shidara | |||
| Devilman Tanjo Hen | OVA film | Tsutomu Iida | |||
| The Song of Wind and Trees: Sanctus | OVA film | ||||
| Destruction | Film | ||||
| Twilight of the Cockroaches | Film | Hiroaki Yoshida | |||
| Battle Royal High School | OVA film | Ichirō Itano | |||
| OVA film | |||||
| Original Dirty Pair | OVA series | Masayoshi Tanidabe | |||
| The Plot of the Fuma Clan | OVA film | Masayuki Ōzeki | |||