Anime is awesome! It's especially awesome when it has excellent use of CGI incorporated in the animation. I'm pretty sure, there are a lot of you who have seen these CGI animated films listed below. If there are some you haven't seen, I highly recommend you check them out. This selection was based off of complete CGI production in the animation or in the style of perfect usage to the point of not recognizing the difference. To make things clear, if the creation has more than fifty percent of its animation done with CGI, you bet it's included here! Of course, these are based off of the writers selection and in no way reflect the views of HoneyFeed or Honey's Anime. I hope you enjoy this selection of “Top 15 CGI Anime Films”and that it continues your search in finding great content to enjoy!

1.) Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

This anime film is based on the manga chapter “Robot Rondo”, which starts off with a series of death occurring due to a malfunction with doll-like sex robots called Gynoids. Section 9 is called in to investigate, with the assumption the Gynoids contain illegal ghosts in their cyber-brains. Believing the Yakuza is behind the acts, they find out the truth lies deep within the LOCUS SOLUS Gynoid company. Batou investigates further and is suddenly the victim of an E-brain hack that causes him to hurts other in confusion. As Section 9 nears the root of the problem, they discover the secrets of the LOCUS SOLUS and head towards a tanker ship where they operate from. It's here where Section 9 finds out the true actions of the Yakuza and LOCUS SOLUS.

2.) AppleSeed

This anime film has some good CGI in it.The effects may seem pretty obvious, but it still remains great film to watch. Taking place after World War 3, an organization known as the General Management Control Office has constructed an experimental city called Olympus, which is inhabited by humans, cyborgs, and biodroids. Bioroids are genetically engineered and were created to only serve mankind by running all administrations in Olympus. Meant to be the utopia society, Olympus is seen as less of a utopia and more like a cage. This is when an Olympus officer sees the truth and conspires with a terrorist group to try and destroy the super computer Gaia, that runs the city!

3.) Vexille

This anime film takes place in the 21st century where a robotics industry undergoes an advanced and rapid development. In 2050, Japan has established itself as the leader in robotics technology and manufacturing. Such advancements in technology include enhancements in the human body that trigger a shift in the opinion of the world. Feeling sketchy about the enhancements, the U.N. investigates the project. Leading Japan to close its borders to the outside world and pursue a policy of high tech national isolation. Several years later, bizarre events occur involving Japan that enforce the technology police agency, SWORD, to investigate. Little did they know, SWORD would uncover a horrifying truth from the years of isolation.

4.) Final Fantasy: Advent Children

This has to be one of the most memorable anime films, ever Taking place after the events of Final Fantasy VII, the world begins to recover from devastation by working hard towards a new future. Although, a new threat emerges as three individuals strive to resurrect Sephiroth by using the remains of the extraterrestrial villain, Jenova. One man, with the help of others, seeks to end the destruction and chaos that will be brought upon everyone by the three individuals. With all of their efforts, they fail to stop them and now have to face the evil that is Sephiroth.

5.) Paprika

This has to be one of my favorite anime films. Taking place in the future where a new and revolutionary psychotherapy treatment has been conceived called PT. With the help of a device called DC Mini, the therapy can act as a dream machine/detective in order to enter into the minds of others and explore their unconscious thoughts. Before a bill can be passed to allow such a technique to be used on the public, a prototype was stolen which sent the research facility into a frenzy. If in the wrong hands, the device can be devastating to others with the ability to completely erase a dreamers personality while asleep. Scary!

6.) The Animatrix

While this is not completely a film or based on Japanese animation, most of all of the animation is in fact done by Japanese animators. The Animatrix is based off of 9 animated short films from the Matrix trilogy. While some are based completely on CGI, others have excellent use of CGI in the animation. In these short films, the backstory to the Matrix universe is shown in spectacular detail. Beginning with the origin of the Matrix and leading up to the present dilemma in the last sequel. In case anyone was wondering, the actual chronological order of the shorts to the trilogy begins with “The Second Renaissance”, “A Detective Story”, “Kid's Story”, and finally “Final Flight of the Osiris”.

7.) Summer Wars

A great anime film to watch with equally great CGI animation. The story follows Kenji Koiso, a eleventh-grade math genius, who was invited by his crush to accompany her to her families estate for a summer job. Little did he know, the family was gathering to celebrate her grandmother's 90th birthday, and the girl had brought him along to prove she had a normal life with a boyfriend. During his time with the family he receives a math equation on his cell phone, and being a genius at math, he begins to solve it. Once solved, he realizes it unleashes a virus into Oz, a program that controls every aspect of life. Kenji is now joined by the family, who just happen to be geniuses themselves, to try and stop the hacker before it's too late!

8.) Planzet

This is a great Mecha anime film with very good CGI. Taking place in 2047 where an unknown alien life-form appears on Earth, they begin to destroy all major cities in a single swoop. Mankind unites to build a defense against the aliens called a Diffusor, which will aid them in achieving peace. Temporarily. Planzet: the final plan known as Plan Zed, prepare to take back Earth as a desperate counter against the aliens. A soldier in the Planetary Defense Forces Alliance, seeks nothing more than revenge for his father's death six years ago. Unfortunately, the Diffusor's need to be removed from battle, which leaves the entire planet terribly defenseless, yet again. This turns into the calm, before the storm.

9.) Expelled from Paradise

This was a great original anime that released in theaters a few weeks ago. The story starts with Earth left in ruins because of Nano Hazards, leaving all of humanity to abandon the planet along with their bodies. In doing so, they rebuild their digitalized minds in a society within a cyber universe called DEVA. In 2400 A.D., the DEVA central council detects an incident of a unauthorized access point in their mainframe. With the origin coming from Earth, they find out it is a hacker named Frontier Setter. In order to investigate the mysterious hacker, the council sends System Security Third Officer, Angel Balzac, to Earth to begin her investigation. Her cyber mind is downloaded into a prosthetic material body to adapt to Earth's conditions. Her mission is to make contact with the hacker and uncover the motives behind his crime.

10.) Wonderful Days

Also known as Sky Blue, this anime is set in 2142 A.D., one century after humanity has carelessly collapsed from Earth's biosphere. The only known survivors left are a technological race enclosed in a refuge city called Ecoban. Just outside the city, a small group of refugees in the wastelands still strive. The leader supporting the refugees ask them to labor the raw materials needed to keep their society alive. Throughout time, the leaders make slaves of the citizens and form an elite class of selected individuals to rule over them. Giving them the bare minimum to survive on their own, the low class society begins to stand up for themselves as the higher class citizens try to keep them defenseless.

11.) Space Captain Harlock

This anime takes place in the future where mankind had discovered a way to travel faster than light, thus colonizing thousands of planets. When life begins to fade away, and the resources of the universe begin to deteriorate, what's left of mankind begin to make their journey back to Earth. Because Earth is the last chance for survival, factions of alien life come into play to battle for the control of Earth. Captain Harlock denies defeat and leads an outlaw crew on his ship to undertake dangerous raids against such oppressors. With the most powerful oppressor being the Mazone, a plant like alien race who once inhabited Earth in the past, seek to take back what was once theirs.

12.) Redline

This anime film is pretty awesome and caught my attention instantly with its amazing art. It may look like CGI but in fact it’s not but I believe Redline can entertain readers who search for something CGI. Redline is about the universes biggest and most deadliest racing tournament held every five years. Many participate in the race to claim their fame as the winner. The story follows JP, a man who is a reckless driver and has no regards for speed limits while driving his super badass customized car. Organized crime and militaristic governments seek to manipulate the race for their own purpose while others rival each other in the tournament. That's when JP meets and falls for a beautiful girl who throws him off his game challenging his abilities as a driver.

13.) Short Peace

This is another great anime film with amazing use of CGI and storytelling. The film consists of four stories from four different directors from Japan. Licensed by Sentai Filmworks, the films are: Possessions - A story about a lone traveler is confronted by some unusual spirits in an abandoned shrine. Combustible - An amazing tale of love, honor and firefighting taking place in ancient Japan. Gambo - a story about a mysterious white bear who defends the royal family from the ill behavior of a red demon. A Farewell to Weapons - is about a tour-de-force saga of men battling against robotic tanks in an apocalyptic Tokyo, which is based off of a manga with the same name. All four of these shorts are really good. I recommend them.

14.) Gintama: The Movie: The Last Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya

Gintoki is suddenly warped to the past 5 year later where the land of Edo has changed into an apocalyptic wasteland. Mankind is close to extinction due to the white curse and has Gintoki traveling back to the past to find a way to destroy the virus before it incubates. Gintoki encounters a Time Thief who was sent back through time to end his past life before he can kill off the virus and thus begins the never ending loop of time travel to bring peace to the land.

15.) Sky Crawlers

In a world where a war becomes a show of business and might. Killdre, are pilots free from aging and remain adolescent, fight and die in battles up in the sky. The story follows an ace, Killdre, pilot who was assigned to an air base close to the front lines of battle. Here he meets a female officer, who is a Killdre herself, as they both start to have a relationship in their routine life of death and killings. As their love carries on, it begins to change in an enigmatic way they can't avoid.

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There you have it folks. This concludes the “Top 15 CGI Anime Films” for this segment. There are other films out there that have great CGI animation, but I feel these were the best among them. The reason there was a total of fifteen selection, was because I found it very hard to not include one without the other. I hope you all enjoyed this, and I hope this continues your search for great content to watch. Anime for life! Which selection was your favorite? Is there an CGI animation film we missed? Let us know in the comments below! [author author_id="035" author=""] [ad_bottom class="mt40"]