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Plot Summary:
Second compilation movie of the TV series which covers episodes 9-13. Riko and Reg descend to the third and fourth layer where Riko has her first experience of the Curse.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, captivating, disturbing, compilation film, dark fantasy
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Tengoku Daimakyo (2023)
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In the year 2024, the world has collapsed. Grotesque monsters lurk amongst the ruins of Japan, while remaining people scrape together what they can to survive. Kiruko, an odd-job girl in Nakano, accepts a mysterious woman's dying wish to take a boy named Maru to a place called Heaven. Maru is convinced that there will be a boy there who looks exactly like him.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen
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Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn (2019)
Plot Summary:
First compilation movie of the TV series which covers episodes 1-8 with new scenes added for the introduction. It covers the period from when Riko descends into the Abyss with her robot companion Reg, reaching the second layer where they meet the White Whistle Ozen who reveals information about Riko's mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, sweet, entertaining, manga, seinen, compilation film, dark fantasy
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Sword Art Online: Progressive Aria of a Starless Night (2021)
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One month after Kayaba Akihiko's game of death began, the death toll continues to rise, two thousand players having already lost their lives to the ultra-difficult VRMMO world of Sword Art Online. On the day of the strategy meeting to plan out the first-floor boss battle, Kirito, a solo player who vows to fight alone to get stronger, runs into a rare, high-level female player. She gracefully dispatches powerful monsters with a single rapier that flashes like a shooting star in the night.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Eternal Quon 1: The Ephemeral Petal (2011)
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This story follows a boy named Quon and his friends, who are "Attractors". Attractors are human beings who have awakened and have supernatural powers. Quon is determined to save them all. But a secret organization is hunting them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspense, entertaining, futuristic, suspenseful, exciting
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Alice & Zouroku (2017)
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The story centers on a little girl called Sana, who is one of the children that holds the power of "Alice's Dream," an ability that enables her to materialize anything she imagines. After escaping a lab where she was a test subject, Sana ends up in a normal world where she encounters an old man named Zouroku, but will he help her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, disturbing
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To Your Eternity (2021)
Plot Summary:
An immortal being was sent to the surface of the earth and met a boy living alone in the middle of tundra. The being can take the shape of dying things, but only if the "impetus" is stronger than the previous one. What sort of experiences and meetings will the being encounter while living forever?.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing, unusual plot structure, psychological, manga, shounen
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Code Geass: Akito the Exiled - The Wyvern Arrives (2012)
Plot Summary:
The side story takes place in 2017 a.t.b., between the rise of the “Black Knights” organization and the return of the supposedly "dead" Zero. The setting is in Europe, where the European Union (E.U.) allied nations are being invaded by the overwhelming forces of the Holy Britannian Empire. On the verge of defeat, the E.U. army forms a special unit known as “W-0″, of which a young pilot named Akito Hyuga is a member. Leila Malkal , a former Britannian Aristocrat comes to the E.U.'s aid, commanding the “Wyvern” Knightmare corps comprised of Japanese teenagers. They recklessly plunge into a battlefield, where the survival rate is extremely low, at about 5% only. They fight for their freedom and for a "home" to which they can return.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, manga, seinen
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Tower of God (2020)
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There is a tower that summons chosen people called "Regulars" with the promise of granting their deepest desires. Whether it be wealth, fame, authority, or something that surpasses them all—everything awaits those who reach the top. Twenty-Fifth Bam is a boy who had only known a dark cave, a dirty cloth, and an unreachable light his entire life. So when a girl named Rachel came to him through the light, his entire world changed. Becoming close friends with Rachel, he learned various things about the outside world from her. But when Rachel says she must leave him to climb the Tower, his world shatters around him. Vowing to follow after her no matter what it takes, he sets his sight on the tower, and a miracle occurs. Thus begins the journey of Bam, a young boy who was not chosen by the Tower but opened its gates by himself. They call his kind "Irregulars"—beings that have shaken the very foundation of the Tower each time they set foot inside it.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, romantic, manga, dark fantasy
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Tokyo 24th Ward (2022)
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The Far Eastern Special Administrative Region, also known as the 24th Ward, is a man-made island. Shuta, Ran, and Koki were born and raised on the island. Their family backgrounds, preferences, and personalities are completely different, but they always stuck together. However, one incident changed their relationship forever. A year afterward, the three friends are reunited by chance at a memorial service held for the incident. All three of their phones suddenly ring simultaneously. Their friend, who is supposed to be dead, is calling and demands that they make a decision about the future.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Napping Princess (2017)
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Hirune Hime is set in the Kojima region of Okayama Prefecture in the year 2020, two days after the scheduled Tokyo Olympics. Kokone lives together with her father, who is always working on modifying cars. As she begins to investigate a strange dream has been seeing over and over, Kokone learns a secret about her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, unusual plot structure, mecha
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The world is ruled by spirits, goblins, and all manner of strange creatures. Human beings are persecuted, to the very point of extinction. One day, a golem and a lone human girl meet. This is a record of the pair, one a member of a ruined race, the other a watchman of the forest. It tells of their travels together and of the bond between father and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fantasy
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A year after losing her mother, a young girl learns that she must journey across Japan to the annual gathering of gods in the sacred land of Izumo.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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One Piece: Episode of Skypiea (2018)
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One day, a giant ship falls onto the Straw Hats from the sky. After a narrow escape, and while they are still in shock, a map to the “Sky Island” is carried to them by the wind. While researching for the way there, they meet another pirate and learn that he is a descendant of an infamous Sky Island explorer who was even depicted in a picture book “Noland The Liar” four centuries ago. However, Noland was possibly not a liar after all and might actually have gone to the Sky Island.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, shounen
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Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora's special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys' power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, disturbing, entertaining, seinen
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The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (2022)
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Tono Kaoru heard a rumor: The laws of space and time mean nothing to the Urashima Tunnel. If you find it, walk through and you'll find your heart's desire on the other side...in exchange for years of your own life. On the night Kaoru just so happens to find himself standing in front of a tunnel that looks suspiciously like the one the rumor describes, he finds himself thinking of Karen, the sister he lost in an accident five years ago. To Kaoru's surprise, he's been followed by the new transfer student Anzu Hanaki, who promises to help him experiment with the mysterious tunnel--but what does she want from Kaoru in exchange? And what will he have left to give, after the tunnel's done with him?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen
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Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul (2020)
Plot Summary:
A continuation of the epic adventure of plucky Riko and Reg who are joined by their new friend Nanachi. Together they descend into the Abyss' treacherous fifth layer, the Sea of Corpses, and encounter the mysterious Bondrewd, a legendary White Whistle whose shadow looms over Nanachi's troubled past. Bondrewd is ingratiatingly hospitable, but the brave adventurers know things are not always as they seem in the enigmatic Abyss.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: anime, dark fantasy, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, seinen, manga
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Saint Seiya Heaven Chapter: Overture (2004)
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After the bloody battle against Hades, the goddess Athena and her saints are still recovering when they find themselves face to face with their newest and most formidable foe: the dreadful moon goddess Artemis. Artemis replaces Athena as the earth guardian deity and takes over the Sanctuary, turning Athena's Saints into her servants. Upon invading the Sanctuary, the Bronze Saints learn that Athena was banished by Artemis and decide to fight the moon goddess in order to rescue their true goddess and free the Earth from Artemis's ominous control.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Once upon a time, in a far, faraway place, there were two lands. The world was divided into an inner land and an outer land. People feared the outer land, inhabited by eerie beings, the carriers of curse. One day, on the border to the inner land inhabited by humans, one such being finds a girl on heaps of abandoned dead bodies. The girl says her name is Shiva and shows affection to the "being" who found her, calling him "Teacher." This is a story of two people—one human, one inhuman—who linger in the hazy twilight that separates night from day.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: anime, dark fantasy, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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In a dystopian world, a young man vows to eliminate the giant humanoid creatures that threatens the remnants of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, serious, stylized, seinen, compilation film, dark fantasy, manga
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Attack on Titan: Chronicle (2020)
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In the fourth recap movie, episodes 1-59 of the anime are retold, compiling the first three seasons of the anime into one two hour event.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: anime, bleak, bloody, suspenseful, cynical, shounen, compilation film, dark fantasy
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The strongest Hunters that once existed in the Hunters Association were split into "light" and "dark", and each walked down their respective paths. The "dark" side begins moving in order to massacre all Hunters! What actions will Gon take when the many crimes of Netero and the Hunters Association are unveiled...?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, semi serious, manga, shounen
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When Haruhito awakens, he's in the dark. He doesn't know where he is, why is he here, and where he came from. Around him there are several men and women who have the same circumstances. Haruhito and his companions find themselves in a "game-like world" called Grimgar and must form a party, cooperate, and learn new skills to survive the harsh environment together.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Plot tags: anime, stylized, exciting, suspense, disturbing, manga, seinen, suspenseful, dark fantasy
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The story follows a boy named Quon and others who suddenly wake up with supernatural powers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Uninhabited Planet Survive, also known as Planet Survive is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Action/Adventure anime series that aired in Japan on NHK from October 2003 to October 28, 2004. It is a 52 episode series produced by Telecom Animation Film and Madhouse Production.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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MADE IN ABYSS (2017)
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The “Abyss” is the last unexplored region, an enormous and treacherous cave system filled with ancient relics and strange creatures. Only the bravest of adventurers can traverse its depths, earning them the nickname, “Cave Raiders.” Within the depths of the Abyss, a girl named Riko stumbles upon a robot who looks like a young boy. Tantalized by the Abyss, Riko and her new friend descend into uncharted territory to unlock its mysteries, but what lies in wait for them in the darkness?.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 325 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspenseful, touching, enigmatic, captivating, mecha, manga, spooky, seinen
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The story concerns a homeless boy named Ricky, or Ted in the Japanese version. After seeing a movie about Gulliver he meets Professor Gulliver himself in a forest. Gulliver is now an elderly, space-traveling scientist. With Dr. Gulliver's assistant Sylvester the crow (named Crow in the Japanese edition), and Ricky's companions, a talking dog and a toy soldier, they travel the Milky Way to the Planet of Blue Hope, which has been taken over by the Queen of Purple Planet and her evil group of robots. Armed with water-pistols and water balloons, which melt the villains, Ricky and Gulliver restore Blue Hope to its doll-like owners.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
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A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
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Patema Inverted (2013)
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In an underground world where tunnels extend everywhere, even though they live in dark and confined spaces, people wear protective clothes and lead quiet and enjoyable lives. Patema, a princess in her underground village, loves to explore the tunnels. Her favorite place is a "danger zone" that her village prohibits people from entering. Even though she's scolded, Patema's curiosity can't be held back. No one ever explained what the supposed danger was. On her usual trip to the "danger zone," Patema faces unexpected events. When hidden secrets come to light, the story begins to unfold.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, semi serious, manga, colorful, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, mind twisting, stylized