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Plot Summary:
The story of the anime revolves around Ichigo, who was just a normal middle school student until she suddenly got involved in the world of idols. The film will center on Aikatsu!'s greatest "Super Live" concert yet, the Dai Star Miya Ichigo Matsuri. Ichigo prepares for the concert with press conferences, last-minute lessons, and more.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, shoujo
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Yowamushi Pedal Re:ROAD (2015)
Plot Summary:
A compilation film, recapping the second season, Yowamushi Pedal: Grande Road.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, anime
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Wake Up, Girls! - Seven Idols (2014)
Plot Summary:
Green Leaves Entertainment is a tiny production company on the verge of going out of business in Sendai, Japan. The agency once managed the careers of magicians, photo idols, fortune-tellers, and other entertainers, but its last remaining client finally quit. Faced with having absolutely no one to represent, agency president Tange thinks up a plan to produce an idol group, forming the seven-girl group known as the "Wake Up, Girls".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, super sentai
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Idoly Pride (2021)
Plot Summary:
After a successful audition, high school student Kotono Nagase and her best friend move into a dorm with eight other aspiring idols. They quickly realize it takes more than cute choreography and cute outfits to reach the top—it will take blood, sweat, and tears to advance in the idol-ranking VENUS program, where the top spot is held by superstar Mana Nagase... who happens to be Kotono’s older sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating
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22/7 nanabun no nijyuuni (2020)
Plot Summary:
One day, Miu Takigawa suddenly receives a letter notifying her that she has been chosen as a member of a brand-new project. Half in disbelief, she heads over to the location stated on the letter. There, she finds seven other girls summoned there in the same fashion. The girls behold a giant, top-secret facility. They stand in bewilderment as they are told: "You are going to debut for a major record label as an idol group." A new kind of idol, never-before-seen, is about to be born here.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, 2d animation
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Ensemble Stars! (2019)
Plot Summary:
Yumenosaki Private Academy, a school located on a hill facing the ocean. Specializing in boys' idol training, the school has a long history of producing generations of idols for the entertainment world out of the young men overbrimming with talents, like the shining stars in the sky. Due to "special circumstances," you are a transfer student at the school, as well as the only female student there. In fact, you are chosen to be the very first student of the "producer course," and your task is to produce these idols… We hope you will enjoy your journey with the idols you meet at the academy, as well as the vigorous ensemble that together you will make.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, shoujo, anime
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White Album (2009)
Plot Summary:
Touya Fujii is a twenty-year-old college student dating a rising singer named Yuki Morikawa. Along the way, they are faced with numerous challenges throughout the course of events at Fuji’s college. Be prepared for an exciting journey!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing
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Tsukiuta. The Animation (2016)
Plot Summary:
Six Gravity and Procellarum are two rival male idol groups who happen to live in the same dorm. Six Gravity is made up of young men who represent the months of December to May, while Procellarum’s members represent June to November. Follow the daily lives of these twelve young men as they deal with the stresses of idol-hood, school, and living together.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Heroines Run the Show (2022)
Plot Summary:
What would you do to pursue your passion? For Hiyori Suzumi, it’s leaving her simple rural hometown for the bustling city of Tokyo to join Sakuragaoka High School’s track team. Between being a manager-in-training for two cutthroat schoolboy idols, track, and friends, Hiyori shows no signs of slowing down.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Kiratto Pri☆chan (2018)
Plot Summary:
PriChan is a channel where anyone can become an idol! Every girl dreams about producing her own sparkling, exciting channel and becoming a popular PriChan Idol! First-years at Kirarigaoka Middle School, Momoyama Mirai and Moegi Emo, end up making their own PriChan debut out of a feeling of rivalry towards their classmate, the PriChan Idol Akagi Anna. Bringing the knowledgeable straight-A student Aoba Rinka into their group, they begin to craft their new channel while dreaming about becoming PriChan Idols!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Sing a Bit of Harmony (2021)
Plot Summary:
Satomi is fine being alone until an AI named Shion joins her class with a song and a promise to make her happy. While Shion’s musical numbers and princess gowns don’t quite pass as human, her antics bring Satomi closer to four other classmates. Together, they make memories worth saving, but even our most precious data can be erased.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Love Live! Superstar!! (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yuigaoka Girls High School is a newly established school that lies between the Omotesando, Harajuku, and Aoyama neighborhoods of Tokyo. The story centers on its first batch of students. With no history, no upperclassmen or alumni, and no reputation, it is a school full of unknowns. Five girls, among them Kanon Shibuya, have a fateful encounter with school idols. Kanon decides, "I love singing. I want to make something come true with song!" Many feelings converge upon a star that has only started to grow. The future is blank and full of possibility for these girls, and their story that everyone will make possible has only just begun. Soar with your wings, our Love Live!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Shine Post (2022)
Plot Summary:
Although the idol group TiNgS is chasing after big dreams, so far their accomplishments have only been small — and now, suddenly, they're facing a potential break up! Hope seems lost, but when a new manager with a special skillset takes them under his wing, the members of TiNgS find themselves shooting for the stars all over again.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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BanG Dream! (2017)
Plot Summary:
Since she was very young, Kasumi Toyama has always been searching for the "Star Beat", a sparkling and exciting sound she heard while looking up at the night sky. Just after getting into high school, Kasumi comes across a "star-shaped guitar" in the storage area of an old pawn shop. Feeling a rush and excitement she has never felt before, Kasumi teams up with four other girls and embarks on a journey to seek out the shiny place. We promise to perform a live here!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, tsundere, super sentai, 3d animation
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B-PROJECT (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tsubasa is a new hire in the A&R department of the major recording company Gandala Music. Tsubasa is immediately assigned to oversee the idol unit "B-PROJECT," which is made up of three idol groups: Kitakore, Thrive, and MooNs. This is Tsubasa's first job, and she gets involved in various incidents and accidents as she deals with this group of young men who each have their own differing personalities.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing, shoujo
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Ya Boy Kongming! (2022)
Plot Summary:
General of the Three Kingdoms, Kongming had struggled his whole life, facing countless battles that made him into the accomplished strategist he was. So on his deathbed, he wished only to be reborn into a peaceful world... and was sent straight to modern-day party-central, Tokyo! Can even a brilliant strategist like Kongming adapt to the wild beats and even wilder party people?!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, seinen
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THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls (2014)
Plot Summary:
There are many idols with long-established talent agency 346 Production. And now the company is starting a new program, the Cinderella Project! Girls leading normal lives are chosen to be aspiring idols and see another world for the first time in this Cinderella story. Can they all climb the stairs that lead to the palace? The magic begins now.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, 2d animation
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Show by Rock!! Mashumairesh!! (2020)
Plot Summary:
New Show by Rock!! TV Series featuring the new band Mashumairesh!!.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Selection Project (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of nine determined girls enter the 7th Annual “Selection Project,” a television show where they’ll audition to become idols…and pursue their dreams!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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TsukiPro the Animation (2017)
Plot Summary:
SOARA, Growth, SolidS, and QUELL are four groups belonging to Tsukino Entertainment Production (AKA TSUKIPRO). The slice of life music anime "PRO ANI" depicting their music overflowing with uniqueness and the drama surrounding their lives begins now! Will you open this glittering treasure box of music?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Starmyu (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ayanagi Academy: home of musical dreams and insane competition. New student Yuta Hoshitani dreams of being in show business, but to get there he'll have to gain acceptance from the Kao Council (Cherry Blossom Flower Council), Ayanagi Academy's five highest ranking students. For Yuta and his friends to do well in the music department, they'll have to get onto a Star Team, lead by the Kao Council members. Though the newcomers are struggling, they catch the interest of one of the Kao Council members, which just might send them on the starlit journey they've been dreaming of! From director Shunsuke Tada (Kuroko's Basketball and Prince of Tennis) comes a new show that will have you dreaming of stardom.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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D4DJ (2020)
Plot Summary:
Rinku Aimoto, who has a habit of saying "Happy Around!", has returned to Japan from abroad and enrolls at Yoba Academy where DJing is popular. She is deeply moved by a DJ concert she sees there and decides to form a unit of her own with DJ Maho Akashi, VJ Muni Ohnaruto and keyboardist Rei Togetsu. While interacting with other DJ units like Peaky P-key and Photon Maiden, Rinku and her friends aim for the high stage!.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, 3d animation
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King of Prism by Pretty Rhythm (2016)
Plot Summary:
The unit Over The Rainbow succeeds in its debut. Aiming to become like the boy band, more students enroll in Edel Rose. Hiro and the others begin practice for the Prism King Cup, an event that is held once every four years. However, a rival called "Schwarz Rose" appears... Who will become the Prism King, the one who can make girls' hearts throb the most!?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious
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Phantom of the Idol (2022)
Plot Summary:
Yuya is part of the idol duo ZINGS, but his laziness and disdain for fans puts him in danger of getting blacklisted. That is, until he meets Asahi, the ghost of a former idol who’s eager to stage her own comeback by possessing Yuya's willing body!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good, josei
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Aikatsu! (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ichigo Hoshimiya is a regular, ordinary middle school girl. But when her best friend Aoi invites her to join the idol training academy, Starlight Academy, her whole world is turned upside down. As she encounters all kinds of rivals and learns what it takes to be an idol, she uses her Aikatsu Cards to challenge countless auditions.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Sound! Euphonium the Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day (2019)
Plot Summary:
Kumiko is now a second year and one of the senior players of the euphonium section. With new underclassmen joining the concert band, Kumiko will have to learn new things in order to deal with awkward and difficult underclassmen. She and third-year trumpeter Tomoe Kabe have been chosen to lead the new underclassmen members. Among the new members to Kumiko's bass section are euphonist Kanade Hisaishi, whose appearances are deceiving; tuba player Mirei Suzuki, who cannot adapt to her new environment; tuba player Satsuki Suzuki, who wants to get along with Mirei; and double bassist Motomu Tsukinaga, who cannot talk about himself. Between the Sunrise Festival, chair placement auditions, and the competition, a number of problems quickly begin to arise.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing, yaoi, yuri
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Wake Up, Girls! (2014)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas 2013, the band Wake Up, Girls plays their debut song to a small audience without much fanfare. After the concert, the group’s manager takes off with the money, leaving Green Leaves Entertainment on the verge of closure and the band without a future. Despite this tumultuous beginning, the girls get a second chance, thanks to a mysterious benefactor and a shady business proposal. From here it’s a rocky climb to the top, but it’s a climb the girls are ready to make. Wake Up, Girls! follows the internal and external struggles of being a small-time idol girl band, from finding and accepting gigs to competing in popularity against other pop bands. Through the band, the girls come to accept their pasts and become more certain about their futures. Faced with increasing stakes and popularity, each of the band’s seven members must find the strength and courage inside herself to give her all to the band.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, super sentai
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Marginal#4 Kiss Kara Tsukuru Big Bang (2017)
Plot Summary:
On February 13, as snow flurries dance in the air, a new idol unit is born at Pythagoras Production. They are the idols who will deliver their kiss to the ends of the galaxy: "Marginal #4." Its members, Atom Kirihara, Rui Aiba, L Nomura, and R Nomura, put all their effort into their entertainment career for the sake of the fan supporting them! They continue to mature as idols along with the senior unit pulling the entertainment industry forward, Lagrange Point, and the younger unit preparing to make their debut, Unicorn Jr. But when they step off the stage, they're ordinary high school boys with some chaotic student lives! This is the tale of Margninal #4, a school slice-of-life about idols that shine brighter than the stars.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining, anime
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Healer Girl (2022)
Plot Summary:
The world can be healed through music, and these three girls want to make it happen. Meet Kana Fujii, Reimi Itsushiro, and Hibiki Morishima—three healers-in-training at the Karasuma Phoniatric Clinic learning the art of healing patients’ illnesses and injuries by singing. Join them on this musical adventure of kindhearted, powerful miracles sung to heal the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great King Enma and the Five Tales, Meow! (2015)
Plot Summary:
Nate, Whisper, Jibanyan, Hailey, USApyon, and all of their Yo-kai friends embark on five unique adventures that all end up tied together in the end.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow! (2016)
Plot Summary:
A giant whale appears and flies above Sakura New Town. With the whale’s sound of crying, some changes occur to Kenta Amano and Yokai.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious