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Plot Summary:
Takamachi Nanoha is a normal third-grader who feels a little useless and out-of-place with no purpose. Then one day, she saves a ferret, who turns out to be a mage from another planet who came to this planet to search for the jewel seeds. Nanoha agrees to help, but this task gets complicated when another girl arrives to steal them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, captivating, disturbing, yuri
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Plot Summary:
The story of two girls bound in friendship, as well as Black Rock Star's struggle unfolding in another world. But when the two worlds come together... what will happen?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, exciting, captivating, colorful, yuri, colourful
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Kemurikusa (2019)
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A story about three sisters struggling to survive in a desolate world surrounded by decaying buildings and red fog. The story revolves around Rin, a girl with an updo. There's also Ritsu, the big sister who has cat ears and is always calm, and Rina, the innocent, cheerful one dressed in a maid's costume. Just what is it that these sisters are after in this mysterious world?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Da Capo (2003)
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Junichi Asakura lives with his adoptive sister Nemu in the crescent-shaped island of Hatsune Jima, a place where cherry blossoms bloom throughout the year. In this island, people have mysterious powers and attributes. For example, Junichi has the power to see other people's dreams, and he was also taught by his grandmother to magically create sweets. One day, Junichi's cousin and childhood friend, Sakura Yoshino came back from America all of a sudden. To Junichi's surprise, she looks exactly the same as the girl that moved away six years ago, and hasn't aged one bit. And she came back to remind Junichi of their childhood promise... It is a bittersweet tale of magic, love, hidden desires, and unattainable dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 598 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, ecchi
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Reflection (2017)
Plot Summary:
The planet Eltria, having suffered severe desertification in the past, has all but been abandoned. Against her older sister's wishes, Kyrie Florian travels to Earth alongside her best friend, the AI Iris, in search of the key to their planet's regeneration. However, the only way to find it lies within the Tome of the Night Sky, leading them into conflict with Nanoha and her friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Animation, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, apocalyptic, yuri, mahou shoujo
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GARAKOWA - Restore the World (2015)
Plot Summary:
A floating space without gravity where an infinite number of lights shine in different colors: The "Box of Wisdom." Inside of this box, there are multiple worlds, multiple timelines, and there used to be many different people. This is where Dual and Dorothy were fighting with enemies called "Viruses." Worlds infected by viruses must be erased. That is the duty, the job of these girls. However, one day, Dual and Dorothy feel the presence of a new Virus. Arriving at the scene, they see a girl being attacked by Viruses. After saving the girl, the duo wait for her to awaken so they can ask who she is, where she came from, and where she is going. Finally, when the girl opened her eyes, she gave her name, Rimo, and whispered only one sentence... "I must return to the flower patch...".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing
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Macross Frontier: The False Songstress (2009)
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Half retelling of the original Frontier series, half new story. Conspiracies arise within the Frontier government when Sheryl Nome arrives to the colonial fleet for her concert and is soon marked as a spy for Galaxy while childhood friends, Alto Saotome and Ranka Lee both try to achieve their dreams as the battle between Frontier and the Vajra draws closer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, cyberpunk anime
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Allison & Lillia (2008)
Plot Summary:
An anime series adapted from the light novel series Allison and Lillia and Treize by Keiichi Sigsawa.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, disturbing
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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
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Fate/Grand Order: First Order (2016)
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The year 2015 CE. The last era in which magecraft still thrived. The Chaldea Security Organization was founded to focus on preserving the continuation of human history. They observe a world which magecraft couldn't observe and science couldn't measure all to prevent the certain extinction of humanity. But one day, the future that Chaldea continued to observe disappears and humanity's extinction in 2017 becomes clear. Rather, it had already happened. The cause seems to be related to Fuyuki, a provincial town in Japan, in the year 2004 CE. There, an "unobservable region" that had not existed before appears. Based on the assumption that Fuyuki is the reason for humanity's extinction, Chaldea issues an order to explore, investigate, and possibly destroy this singularity – a quest for the Holy Grail, the Grand Order.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining
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.hack//G.U. Trilogy (2007)
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Join Haseo on his quest to track down Tri-Edge, the devious PK responsible for leaving one of his closest friends in a coma. Along the way he meets Atolli, a gentle girl who takes an interest in him despite his chilly demeanor. Together, Haseo and Atolli will attempt to survive long enough to decipher the riddle of the entities known as AIDAs—and save their fellow gamers from permanent sleep.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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HeartCatch PreCure the Movie: Fashion Show in the Flower Capital... Really?! (2010)
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: captivating, anime, entertaining, mahou shoujo
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Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Short, Action, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, feel good, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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A mysterious reiatsu (spiritual particle) explosion occurs in the center of Seireitei in Soul Society, causing it to be destroyed. At the exact same time, a major change overwhelms Kuchiki Rukia, which leaves her losing something important inside. Urahara Kisuke sends Kurosaki Ichigo to Soul Society to investigate the disturbance. Upon reaching Seireitei, Ichigo is attacked by his ally shinigamis.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, captivating, manga, shounen, contemplative
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The Ainsworth family's goal is to save the world from evil, but their success depends on the great sacrifice Magical Girl Miyu makes for them. Her brother Shirou, however, is not willing to let the family have his sister without a fight. That’s why he doggedly searches for a way to save not only the world but also Miyu.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, disturbing
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Shirou Emiya finds himself an unwilling participant in a deadly competition where seven Mages summon heroic spirits as servants to duel each other to the death. They compete for the chance to make a wish from the Holy Grail, which has the power to grant any wish. Shiro is unskilled as a mage and knows nothing of the Holy Grail War, but he and his servant, Saber, enter into a temporary partnership with another Mage, Rin Tohsaka. However, problems arise between Shirou and Rin's servant, Archer, who seems to seriously despise him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, humorous, manga, shounen, serious, stylized
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The season turns to autumn. The fight of the protagonist and his group S.E.E.S. with the strange monsters called ‘Shadows’ is getting closer to the end. Makoto and his allies engage in life-or-death battles with Shadows in order to end the Dark Hour. Through the battles, some must face the deaths of friends and family, some must notice what precious things must be protected, and some must find meaning in the battles that have occurred. In front of Makoto, the mysterious transfer student Ryouji Mochizuki appears. When the group greets a new morning, the gears of fate begin to turn. A fight revolving around each of the heroes' bonds begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 493
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, dark fantasy
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Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka (2019)
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Due to the invasion of Disas—enigmatic creatures of soil from the land of the dead—mankind, who was on the verge of crisis, was saved by the efforts of magical girls who had obtained a mysterious magical power... Three years later, new incidents suddenly occur, tearing apart the normalcy of the girls who had each returned to their normal lives. The saviours of humanity, those magical girls called "The Magical Five" now live each day fighting for their lives, even as they are trifled with by fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 181
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Country: Japan
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Two years after the events of the Fourth Great Ninja War, the moon that Hagoromo Otsutsuki created long ago to seal away the Gedo Statue begins to descend towards the world, threatening to become a meteor that would destroy everything on impact. Amidst this crisis, a direct descendant of Kaguya Otsutsuki named Toneri Otsutsuki attempts to kidnap Hinata Hyuga but ends up abducting her younger sister Hanabi. Naruto and his allies now mount a rescue mission before finding themselves embroiled in a final battle to decide the fate of everything.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 477
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Part two of Fate/Grand Order: Shinsei Entaku Ryouiki Camelot - Wandering; Agateram; an adaptation of the the Sixth Holy Grail War, The Sacred Round Table Realm Camelot Singularity of Fate/Grand Order.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 267
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 316
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 23
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In the spring, male student Makoto Yuki transfers to Gekkoukan High School. However, as he heads to his new dormitory, listening to the music on his headphones, he is stopped. More precisely, time has stopped, and the people who were around him turn into coffins. Makoto learns that this period of time hidden between the minute of midnight is called the Dark Hour, a time when monsters called Shadows appear. Suddenly made the leader of his fellow classmates Yukari and Junpei by his upperclassmen Mitsuru and Akihiko, Makoto must learn empathy, his connection to his comrades, and the meaning of death. With the power of his Evoker aimed at his head, Makoto fights against the Shadows threatening to attack his world from the mysterious tower of Tartarus.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 814
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Detonation (2018)
Plot Summary:
As the conflict that began in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Reflection continues to escalate, Nanoha and her allies soon find out the troubled history between Iris and Yuri, which is related to the tragedy of Eltoria's "Planet Reclamation Committee".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Animation, Action
Country: Japan
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Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, yuri, mahou shoujo
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Looking for Magical Doremi (2020)
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The story follows 27-year-old Tokyo office worker Mire Yoshizuki who just returned to Japan, 22-year-old fourth-year college student Sora Nagase who aspires to be a teacher, and 20-year-old boyish, part-time Hiroshima okonomiyaki shop worker and freelancer Reika Kawatani. What draws together these three women from completely different walks of life is a magic gem. A "New Magical Story" begins when they are mysteriously brought together by chance and embark on a journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 236
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Country: Japan
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Continuing their journey from Record Country (the place that held the book of memories), Syaoran and company land into Tokyo Country, a blood-filled country under war from opposing factions for natural resources and survival. While reluctantly involved in the race to live, the group faces their own problems as certain revelations are made, changing their journey forever. A shocking betrayal and a battle that risks all of their lives. After this revelation, they will never be the same again.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 281
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 2nd A's (2012)
Plot Summary:
Six months after the events of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st, Fate has returned to Uminari City with Lindy as her legal guardian and is living the life of a normal elementary schoolgirl along with Nanoha and her friends. The reunion between the two new-found friends is cut short, however, when they are assaulted by four ancient magic users who identify themselves as the Wolkenritter. As the motives behind the actions of the Wolkenritter become clear, Nanoha and Fate find themselves in a race against time to stop the reactivation of a highly dangerous artifact known as the Book of Darkness.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, suspense, contemplative, seinen
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (2004)
Plot Summary:
Nanoha Takamachi decides to help a young mage named Yūno recover a set of twenty-one artifacts named the "Jewel Seeds".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 325 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, yuri