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Hunter x Hunter (2011)
Plot Summary:
Twelve-year-old Gon Freecss one day discovers that the father he had always been told was dead was alive and well. His Father, Ging, is a Hunter—a member of society's elite with a license to go anywhere or do almost anything. Gon, determined to follow in his father's footsteps, decides to take the Hunter Examination and eventually find his father to prove himself as a Hunter in his own right. But on the way, he learns that there is more to becoming a Hunter than previously thought, and the challenges that he must face are considered the toughest in the world
Duration: 24 min
IMDB Rating: 9.0/10
IMDB Votes: 126000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan, Poland
Plot tags: team, friendship, young heroes, mission, friends, murder, danger, martial arts, fight, training, life is a bitch, heroes, treasure hunt, villain, treasure, journey, imaginary, violence, youth, parents and children, superhero, eternal love, twists and turns, mature, mind game
Steins;Gate (2011)
Plot Summary:
The self-proclaimed mad scientist Rintarou Okabe rents out a room in a rickety old building in Akihabara, where he indulges himself in his hobby of inventing prospective "future gadgets" with fellow lab members: Mayuri Shiina, his air-headed childhood friend, and Hashida Itaru, a perverted hacker nicknamed "Daru." The three pass the time by tinkering with their most promising contraption yet, a machine dubbed the "Phone Microwave," which performs the strange function of morphing bananas into piles of green gel. Though miraculous in itself, the phenomenon doesn't provide anything concrete in Okabe's search for a scientific breakthrough; that is, until the lab members are spurred into action by a string of mysterious happenings before stumbling upon an unexpected success—the Phone Microwave can send emails to the past, altering the flow of history
Duration: 24 min
IMDB Rating: 8.8/10
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Plot tags: time travel, time machine, time loop, changing the past or future, experiment, student, youth, memory loss, father daughter relationship, parallel world, scientist, sent to the past, hopes, inventions and discoveries, good versus evil, young woman, research, secret organization, imaginary, characters in danger, science, peril, mature, rescue attempt, changing the future
The Amazing World of Gumball (2011)
Plot Summary:
The life of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year old cat who attends middle school in Elmore. Accompanied by his pet, adoptive brother, and best friend Darwin Watterson, he frequently finds himself involved in various shenanigans around the city, during which he interacts with various family members: Anais, Richard, and Nicole Watterson, and other various citizens
Duration: 11 min
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Ireland, USA, Germany
Plot tags: friendship, family life, social relations, friends, buddies, eccentric family, fish, youth, ghost, satire, anthropomorphic animal, plan gone awry, family relations, teacher, teenage life, suburban life, cat, middle school, sarcasm, dinosaur, mature, working class, hipster, suburbs, talking animal
Bob's Burgers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Bob and his quirky family have big ideas about burgers, but fall short on service and sophistication. Despite the greasy counters, lousy location and a dearth of customers, Bob and his family are determined to make Bob's Burgers "grand re-re-re-opening" a success
Duration: 22 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Plot tags: family relations, sibling relationship, siblings relations, family business, teenage daughter, parents and children, parenthood, workplace, social relations, mature, restaurant owner, restaurant, exodus, eccentric family, love, baseball, autism, stoner, moving, trippy, acid, working class, hipster, trauma, autistic
Fate/Zero (2011)
Plot Summary:
War of the Holy Grail - Pursuing the power of the "Holy Grail" which grants a miracle, this is a contest in which seven magi summon seven Heroic Spirits to compete for it. In that battle whose conclusion was postponed three times, now, the fourth war commenced again. Entrusting their dearest wish of victory, the magi joined the battleground called "Fuyuki", but amongst them, there was a man who was always alone, and could not find out the meaning behind his fights. His name was Kotomine Kirei. Not comprehending the guidance of fate, Kirei was lost, and had kept questioning. Why someone like his was given the Command Seals. However, the fate of his fights crossed Kirei's path with a nemesis by chance. That person is - Emiya Kiritsugu. A man who was sterner than anyone else, more merciless than anyone else, and who sought the miracle of the Holy Grail
Duration: 24 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Plot tags: master warrior, king arthur, sword fight, supernatural, escapades, rivalry, ambition, mortal combat, heroes, wizards and magicians, priest, destiny, imaginary, good versus evil, hopes, holy grail, mature, superhero, tragedy, gore, alternate history, epic battle, fight, miraculous event, artifact
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Yadomi Jinta was a child, he was a central piece in a group of close friends. In time, however, these childhood friends drifted apart, and when they became high school students, they had long ceased to think of each other as friends. One of the friends from that group, Honma Meiko, now has a wish she asks Jinta to fulfil. The problem is, she can't remember what her wish is anymore. As Meiko won't cease to bother Jinta about it, he gives in and decides to try to grant this wish he knows nothing of; for that, however, the help of his other former friends, now all very estranged from himself and from each other, may turn out to be necessary. He hasn't spoken to Anjou Naruko, Matsuyuki Atsumu, Tsurumi Chiriko, or Hisakawa Tetsudou in a long time; as he struggles to grant Meiko's wish and gathers his old friends together in the process, all the old feelings that still exist between them and have long been stashed away are bound to come up again
Duration: 23 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Plot tags: ghost, unrequited love, friendship, supernatural, death of friend, haunted by the past, tragedy, friends, teenage life, imaginary, hopes, slice of life, teenager, teenage boy, supernatural power, relationships, mature, love triangle, grownups, coming of age, angst, magic realism, youth, redemption, estrangement
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011)
Plot Summary:
She has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time... Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader of Mitakihara middle school, is one of those who lives such a life. One day, she had a very magical encounter. She doesn't know if it happened by chance or by fate yet. This is a fateful encounter that can change her destiny. This is a beginning of the new story of the magical witch girls
Duration: 24 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Plot tags: magical girl, time travel, teenage girl, magic, young heroes, school, surrealism, imaginary, foreshadowing, youth, friends, good versus evil, friendship, witch, depression, deception, wizards and magicians, apocalypse, suicide, desire, tragic past, time loop, mature, schoolgirl, apprentice
The Looney Tunes Show (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Looney Tunes Show is an American animated sitcom which premiered May 3, 2011 on Cartoon Network. The show features characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons updated for the 21st century. It is produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The show is rated TV-PG; TV-PG-V in 2 episodes
Duration: 23 min
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Plot tags: suburbs, looney tunes, bugs bunny, friendship, goofy hero, coyote, dimwit, disorder, imaginary, unrequited love, neighbor, cartoon duck, furry, friends, talking animal, love triangle, anthropomorphic animal, escapades, resourceful, best friend, silly humor, roommate, buddies, dog, witch
The Future Diary (2011)
Plot Summary:
Yukiteru Amano (Yuki) is a loner who never really interact with people and prefers writing a diary on his cell phone with his only companion being an imaginary friend named Deus Ex Machina, the God of Time and Space. However, Yuki soon learns that Deus is not a figment of his imagination but real when Deus makes him a participant in a battle royale with eleven others. Within this "Diary Game", the contestants are given special diaries that can predict the future with each diary having unique features that gives them both advantages and disadvantages
Duration: 25 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Plot tags: danger, survival, teenage life, contests and competitions, battles, social misfits, foreknowledge, supernatural, loner, diary, misfit, predicting the future, imaginary, time travel, fight, love, friendship, obsession, power struggle, tragedy, gore, teenager, mental illness, murder mystery, mature
Blue Exorcist (2011)
Plot Summary:
Humans live in the world of Assiah, demons in Gehenna. The two dimensions are not meant to interfere with each other, but demons still possess creatures in Assiah in spite of this. The humans who can fight these demons are known as exorcists. Rin Okumura is a boy who bears the curse of being Satan's illegitimate son. His foster father sacrificed himself to save him from demons. To avenge his foster father's death as well as to prove himself, Rin decides to follow the path of an exorcist
Duration: 30 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Plot tags: supernatural, friendship, exorcist, demon, danger, anger, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, heroes, teamwork, school, exorcism, imaginary, magic, god or devil, mind control, priest, sword, ghost, heaven and hell, beast, psychic, mature, clairvoyant, haunting
Deadman Wonderland (2011)
Plot Summary:
Death is the main attraction in Deadman Wonderland, from the studio that brought you Samurai Champloo and Ergo Proxy. Ganta is the only survivor after a mysterious man in red slaughters a classroom full of teenagers. He’s framed for the carnage, sentenced to die, and locked away in the most twisted prison ever built: Deadman Wonderland. And then it gets worse. At Deadman Wonderland, convicts are forced into brutal deathmatches for the amusement of the masses, the cheers of the crowd drowning out the screams of the dismembered. Even when Ganta befriends Shiro, an unusual female inmate, his dark fate crushes all hope – until he discovers the strange ability to wield his spilled blood as a weapon. Ganta learns his new skill might be related to the murderous man in red and uncovers disturbing secrets that could expose those who stole his freedom. He’s determined to see justice served – but first he’ll have to fight for his life in a prison that holds a million ways to die
Duration: 24 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Plot tags: prison, contests and competitions, young heroes, uncover truth, life turned upside down, false accusation, frame up, confined, society, dystopian future, survival, good versus evil, darkness, mental illness, gore, twists and turns, mature, revenge, conspiracy, drastic change of life, superpower, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, gory, life is a bitch