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Plot Summary:
Seven years after the defeat of the spiral king, Simon and the Dai-Gurren brigade must set out to the vastness of space to defeat a new threat and save the universe.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, ecchi, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 4 - From the Memories of Hatred (2015)
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While W-0 is away, Leila and the remaining crew at base find themselves surrounded by Britannian Knightmares. Piloting the Vercingetorix, Shin Hyuuga leads the enemy charge, having usurped the position of Grand Master in the Knights of St. Michael. With her core members unavailable, it's up to Leila to protect her comrades, but this may be much tougher than she realizes: a spy lurking among them is finally ready to reveal himself. Left with no choice but to surrender, Leila arranges a meeting with Shin in order to ensure the safety of her squad. But as negotiations begin to fall apart, Akito and an unexpected ally return in the nick of time to turn things around.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing
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Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor - Heaven and Earth (2010)
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The year is 2148. Two years have passed since the world was defended from the mysterious Festum, leaving the world in peace. Soushi promised Kazuki that he would one day return to Tatsumiya Island but instead he still keeps himself hidden, living his life in the peace that he created. But one day a mysterious ship arrives at Tatsumiya Island... a ship with nobody but a single sleeping girl on board. The peace isn't going to last as long as everyone might hope.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anime, light, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, mecha
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Tenkai Knights (2013)
Plot Summary:
Tenkai Knights is a 2013 Japanese-Canadian-American anime series, produced by Shogakukan Productions and Spin Master. Initial reports, according to Anime News Network, indicated the series was being animated by Bones, according to an entry on Studio Wanpack's Blog back in May 2013, although has been since removed. While the series was broadcast on Cartoon Network in the United States in August 2013, there is no word as to when the series will air in Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, stylized, captivating
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Mobile Suit Gundam I (1981)
Plot Summary:
In the year Universal Century 0079, humans have colonized the area of space lying in between the Earth and the moon. However the ambitious Zabi family, rulers of the Duchy of Zeon (the grouping of colonies furthest from the earth) has sparked a war.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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Gravion (2002)
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The year is now 2041 AD. A new enemy called Zeravire suddenly appears in the solar system, destroying all military installations it comes across. However, a wealthy man named Klein Sandman is already aware of this planned invasion and had been secretly preparing his army for battle. His trump card is Gravion, a giant robot that utilizes gravity as its source of energy. Meanwhile a young man named Eiji secretly enters Sandman's base in search for his missing sister. It is there that he meets another young man by the name of Toga... These two must now fight together with four other individuals aboard the super robot, Gravion to fend off the Zeravire threat.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful, fast, mecha
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Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team - Miller's Report (1998)
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In a future war, a young battle robot pilot suspected of being a spy must face court martial. Meanwhile, the home village of a friend of his is threatened by enemy forces.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation II: Lovers (2005)
Plot Summary:
Universal Century 0087, as the civil war between the AEUG and the Titans continues, Kamille meets a mysterious girl named Four. But his encounter with Four, one of the Titans' "cyber-Newtypes," fills his heart with anguish. The grief-stricken Kamille fights his way back to space to find the new mobile suit Z Gundam waiting for him. Meanwhile Paptimus Scirocco, the man from Jupiter, has added his strength to that of the Titans. And a third power is finally making its move, in the form of the Zeon remnants of Axis... With enhanced animation and a theme song by GACKT, the tragic romance of Kamille and Four unfolds in this second part of the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam feature trilogy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, mecha, rough, serious
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Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space (1982)
Plot Summary:
Amuro Ray and the rest of the White Base crew, now denominated the 13th Autonomous Corps, return to outer space to support the rest of the Earth Federation forces for the decisive battle against the Duchy of Zeon's forces.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988)
Plot Summary:
In UC 0093 the Federation has recovered from its defeat and has created a new anti-colonial special forces unit to deal with rebel forces: Londo Bell. Elsewhere in space Char Aznable re-appears out of self imposed hiding with a declaration that he now commands his own Neo-Zeon movementand intends to force the emigration of Earth's inhabitants to space by bringing about an apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, futuristic, epic, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: The Last Blitz of Zeon (1992)
Plot Summary:
U.C. 0083 - Three years after the end of the catastrophic One Year War, peace on Earth and the colonies is shattered by the presence of the Delaz Fleet, a rogue Zeon military group loyal to the ideals of the late dictator Gihren Zabi. Delaz Fleet's ace pilot Anavel Gato, once hailed as "The Nightmare of Solomon", infiltrates the Federation's Torrington base in Australia and steals the nuclear-armed Gundam GP02A "Physalis" prototype. Rookie pilot Kou Uraki - with the aid of Anaheim Electronics engineer Nina Purpleton and the crew of the carrier Albion - pilots the Gundam GP01 "Zephyranthes" prototype in an attempt to recover the stolen Gundam unit and prevent another war from breaking out.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
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Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991)
Plot Summary:
U.C. 0123. After a generation of peace, the Earth Federation has begun to build new space colonies to house humanity's growing population. But a new force, the aristocratic Crossbone Vanguard, plans to seize the colonies of the newly constructed Frontier Side for itself. As their home becomes a battlefield, a handful of young civilians struggle to escape the conflict. To save his friends and family, the reluctant warrior Seabook Arno becomes the pilot of a new Gundam which bears the code name F91.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 971
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
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Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (2018)
Plot Summary:
U.C. 0097, one year after the opening of "Laplace's Box". Despite the revelation of the Universal Century Charter that acknowledges the existence and rights of Newtypes, the framework of the world has not been greatly altered. The conflict later dubbed the "Laplace Incident" is thought to have ended with the downfall of the Neo Zeon remnants known as the Sleeves. In its final battle, two full psycho-frame mobile suits displayed power beyond human understanding. The white unicorn and the black lion were sealed away to remove this danger from people's consciousness, and they should now be completely forgotten. However, the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam 03, which disappeared two years earlier, is now about to show itself in the Earth Sphere once more. A golden phoenix… named Phenex.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow (1981)
Plot Summary:
After managing to survive attacks by Zeon's Char Aznable and Garma Zabi, the crew of Federation warship White Base and its mobile suits must battle Zeon forces through Asia, Europe, and the Atlantic Ocean if they are to reach Earth Federation's headquarters alive. During that process many of its crewmembers must overcome their fears, losses, immaturities, and insecurities in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation I: Heir to the Stars (2004)
Plot Summary:
Universal Century 0087. The Titans, a bellicose faction among the Earth Federation Forces, grows powerful and tyrannical, even using poison gas to suppress a civil unrest. Dissident soldiers from the same military stand against them, forming a resistance group called the AEUG. Kamille Bidan, a civilian student, gets entangled in this conflict when he impulsively steals the Gundam Mark II and joins the AEUG, running away from his home space colony. Then he begins to fight along with Char Aznable, a former Zeon ace pilot who has infiltrated the Earth Sphere for reasons of his own. This is the first part of the feature trilogy derived from the anime series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, and features enhanced animation and theme songs by GACKT.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, rough, futuristic, suspenseful, mecha, serious, stylized
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation III: Love is the Pulse of the Stars (2006)
Plot Summary:
Universal Century 0087, Char Aznable has now become the leader of the AEUG. Scirocco, the man from Jupiter, schemes to seize control of the Titans. Haman, the Axis leader, is attempting to restore the Zabi family. Through politics and strategy, these three powers struggle for dominion over the Earth Sphere. The war builds to a deadly endgame around the space colony Gryps 2, which has been converted into a giant laser cannon. What destiny awaits Kamille at the end of the conflict? This is the final part of the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam feature trilogy, which features enhanced animation and theme songs by GACKT.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, mecha, bleak
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Venus Wars (1989)
Plot Summary:
The new frontier of Venus has degenerated into a dystopia ravaged by the civil war between Ishtar and Aphrodia. Bubbly reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capitol of Aphrodia just before it's captured by Ishtar. She falls in with a bunch of teen-agers who live for a sort of motorcycle version of Roller Derby. Daredevil rider Hiro and his friends reluctantly join the struggle to free Aphrodia from the invaders. Not surprisingly, Hiro proves an ace at piloting the mono-cycles that are the Aphrodians' secret weapon in the key battle.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, mecha, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, vintage, cult film, adaptation directed by original author
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Vexille (2007)
Plot Summary:
2067: Isolation: Japan seals herself off from the eyes of the world in the face of unilateral international policy setting strict limits on the use of robotic technology. The island nation exists only behind a veil of seclusion. No soul shall enter. No soul shall leave. 2077: Revelation: The veil is breached. Japan is infiltrated by agents of the organization S.W.O.R.D., a fighting force operating outside of the protection of the United States and her allies. Their mission: Determine if the Japanese are developing banned robotic bio-technology, forbidden due to its threat to humankind. In the battle between machine and man, humanity stands to suffer most.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, manga, sincere, mind bending, mecha, adult animation
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Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor (2004)
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Tatsumiyajima is the central island in the middle of a small cluster of islands, in a sleepy backwater of the Japanese isles. Not much happens there, and the island's young people go to school knowing that their lives are likely to remain peaceful and undisturbed. Or so they have been taught...but the truth is different. The fate of mankind is on the line, and Tatsumiyajima is the last line of defense against a hostile and incomprehensible enemy. At the center of it all, fighting for Humanity's continued existence, is the giant robot Fafner, the dragon that guards this final treasure of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, serious, suspenseful, captivating, mecha
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Eureka Seven (2005)
Plot Summary:
Eureka Seven, known in Japan as Psalms of Planets Eureka seveN, is a Japanese mecha anime TV series by Bones. Eureka Seven tells the story of Renton Thurston and the outlaw group Gekkostate, his relationship with the enigmatic mecha pilot Eureka, and the mystery of the Coralians. Bandai produced three video games based on Eureka Seven; two of them are based on events prior to the show, while the third is based on the first half of the show. Both the original concept of the anime and the video game Eureka Seven vol. 1: New Wave have been adapted into manga series as well, although with many significant changes primarily at the end. The TV series has also been adapted into a series of four novels and a movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, serious, stylized, exciting, captivating, apocalyptic
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Gurren Lagann (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future, people build their homes and raise domestic animals in subterranean caverns. As a result, they live in fear of the occasional earthquake and cave-in, and have been for hundreds of years. Jeeha is one such village. One day, a boy named Simon happens to find a small, shiny drill whilst digging to expand the village. At the same time, Kamina, a guy who believes that there is another land above the village, persuades a gangster to break through the ceiling in order to leave the cavern. Suddenly, an earthquake occurs and the ceiling collapses, followed by a big robot breaking through the ceiling. Kamina is now sure that there is a world above them. Recklessly, he begins to fight against the robot. At that moment, another person appears from the land above. It is a girl by the name of Yoko. With a rifle in hand, she had been tracking the robot. However, all she could do was distract it. Then, Simon shows what he had found to Kamina and Yoko. It`s a mysterious robot whose head is also its body.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful, manga, apocalyptic, deep, fast
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Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)
Plot Summary:
After the Second Impact, Tokyo-3 is being attacked by giant creatures called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind. The child Shinji's objective is to fight the Angels by piloting one of the mysterious Evangelion mecha units. A remake of the first six episodes of GAINAX's famous 1996 anime series. The film was retitled "Evangelion: 1.01" for its DVD release and "Evangelion: 1.11" for release on Blu-Ray (with additional scenes).
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, atmospheric, stylized, exciting, serious, manga, emotional, bloody, mysterious
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Space Battleship Yamato (1977)
Plot Summary:
When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from Earth's atmosphere.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, sentimental, serious, emotional, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, adult animation, 2d animation
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Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven (2006)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2030. Six months passed since the Laughing Man Incident was solved. About 3 million refugees are living in Japan, invited to fill the labor shortage. However, the emergent presence of the invited-refugees intensified their confrontation with the "Individualists", who called for national isolation, which then led to the increased incidences of terrorist attacks. Under these circumstances, a terrorist group called the Individual Eleven carries out a suicide attack. But there was a greater scheme behind their action. When Section 9 learns this, they attempt to nail down the mastermind of the incident. Meanwhile, Kuze, a surviving member of the Individual Eleven, becomes a charismatic leader of the invited-refugees and intensifies the confrontation against the government. And Motoko starts feeling a strange sense of fate connecting her with Kuze.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cyber, tense, captivating, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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Mass Effect: Paragon Lost (2012)
Plot Summary:
An untold chapter in the Mass Effect saga, following the early career of Alliance Marine, James Vega, as he leads a squad of elite special forces into battle against a mysterious alien threat known as The Collectors. Stationed at a colony in a remote star system, Vega and his troops must protect the inhabitants from an invasion of the deadly insectoid warriors determined to collect the population for unknown purposes. Soon after the attack, Vega's commanding officer falls in battle, forcing the young officer to embrace the responsibility of leadership for the colony's survival. Having idolized Earth's greatest hero and warrior, Commander Shepard (the central character in the Mass Effect video games), the young and idealistic Vega must now make life and the death decisions that will effect not only the lives of his squad, but the lives of every person in the colony - all of whom he has sworn to protect.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, Canada, South Korea
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, anime, saga, futuristic
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A Tree of Palme (2002)
Plot Summary:
A Tree of Palme is an interpretation of the Pinocchio tale. It concerns a small puppet, Palme, who was tasked by his creator to look over his ailing wife, Xian. After her passing, Palme is visited by a mysterious woman who he mistakenly believes to be Xian. Shaken out of his sadness, Palme accepts her request to deliver something special to a far-off place known as Tama. This sets Palme off on a journey to discover his own emotions, and what it truly means to be human.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, surreal, captivating, suspenseful, weird
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Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End (2008)
Plot Summary:
Simon and Kamina live in an underground city monitored by the village chief. When Simon stumbles upon an artifact and beastmen invade from the surface, Simon and Kamina rebel against them.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, semi serious, captivating, mecha, manga, apocalyptic, fast, compilation film
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Appleseed Alpha (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the comic book by the creator of Ghost in the Shell, a young female soldier Deunan and her cyborg partner Briareos survive through the post World War 3 apocalyptic New York in search of human's future hope, the legendary city of Olympus.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mecha, computer animated, exciting, anime, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, tense, apocalyptic, claymation
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Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012)
Plot Summary:
14 years after third impact, Ikari Shinji awakens to a world he does not remember. He hasn't aged. Much of Earth is laid in ruins, Nerv has been dismantled, and people who he once protected have turned against him. Befriending the enigmatic Nagisa Kaworu, Shinji continues the fight against the angels and realizes the fighting is far from over, even when it could be against his former allies. The characters' struggles continue amidst the battles against the angels and each other, spiraling down to what could inevitably be the end of the world. The film was retitled "Evangelion: 3.33" for its DVD/Blu-Ray release.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, futuristic, psychological, atmospheric, bleak, surreal, stylized, exciting, serious
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Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)
Plot Summary:
Under constant attack by monstrous creatures called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind, U.N. Special Agency NERV introduces two new EVA pilots to help defend the city of Tokyo-3: the mysterious Makinami Mari Illustrous and the intense Asuka Langley Shikinami. Meanwhile, Gendo Ikari and SEELE proceed with a secret project that involves both Rei and Shinji. The film was retitled "Evangelion: 2.22" for its DVD/Blu-Ray release.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, atmospheric, enigmatic, intense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, bloody, stylized
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Ark (2005)
Plot Summary:
The population of the planet Alcyone is split in two; the cultures of the Ceveans and the Storrions are locked in eternal war, destroying their home. Led by their priestess Amiel, the Ceveans constructed the Ark in an attempt to flee their world, but the Ark was ceased by the Storrions, enslaving some of the Ceveans and banishing the rest to the wastelands.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, anime, bleak, serious, mecha, computer animated