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Plot Summary:
Inspector Kei Mikhail Ignatov finds himself involved with an organization named Bifrost with the possibility of freeing his wife if he betrays Unit One. Koichi Azusawa coordinates an assault on the Public Safety Bureau tower using his hacker Obata, locking down the building and kidnapping Inspector Arata Shindo. Azusawa demands that governor Karina Komiya resign from her position.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, atmospheric, rough, futuristic, suspenseful, detective, manga
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Macross Frontier: The Wings of Goodbye (2011)
Plot Summary:
Picking up from where the previous movie left off, Ranka's star career flourishes while Sheryl's health rapidly deteriorates after collapsing during a live performance. At the same time, separate factions are maneuvering behind the scenes seeking to control the Vajra horde by utilizing the singing abilities of the two songstresses. As the entire Macross Frontier fleet begins to wage its final war on the Vajra, Alto finally makes a choice between Ranka and Sheryl.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, futuristic, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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Psycho-Pass: Providence (2023)
Plot Summary:
While attending a meeting as a Chief Inspector of the Public Security Bureau, Akane Tsunemori received a report that an incident had occurred on a foreign vessel , and this was the beginning of a big and unexpected case.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: detective, anime
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Psycho-Pass: The Movie (2015)
Plot Summary:
Year 2116—The Japanese government begins to export the Sibyl System unmanned drone robots to troubled countries, and the system spreads throughout the world. A state in the midst of a civil war, SEAUn (the South East Asia Union), brings in the Sibyl System as an experiment. Under the new system, the coastal town of Shambala Float achieves temporary peace and safety. But then SEAUn sends terrorists to Japan. They slip through the Sibyl System and then attack from within. The shadow of a certain man falls on this incident. In charge of the police, Tsunemori travels to Shambala Float to investigate. The truth of justice on this new ground will become clear.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, adult anime, suspense, adult animation, ecchi, cyberpunk anime
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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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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg, wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, sexy, enigmatic, atmospheric, melancholic, talky, stylized, tense, deep, cyber
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Harmony (2015)
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In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It doesn't work, but one of the girls—Tuan Kirie—grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet...from itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 995
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, futuristic
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Cop Craft (2019)
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15 years ago, an unknown hyperspace gate opened over the Pacific. Beyond this gate lies Reto Semaani, a strange alternate world where fairies and monsters live. San Teresa City—a city where over two million immigrants live from both worlds. As a result, there are the haves and the have-nots. Here is the world's newest "city of dreams." But in the shadow of the chaos, crime is rampant: drugs, prostitution, and weapon trafficking. The detectives who stand up to these heinous crimes are in the San Teresa City Police. When the detective Kei Matoba and the alternate-world knight Tirana—two individuals who differ in gender, personality, and even world of origin—meet, an incident erupts. Two worlds. Two justices. From this, the curtain rises on a buddy police action story!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized
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World Trigger (2014)
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A gate to another dimension has burst open, and from it emerge gigantic invincible creatures that threaten all of humanity. Earth's only defense is a mysterious group of warriors who have co-opted the alien technology in order to fight back!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, rough, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, shounen
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Pyrophoric Cult (2015)
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Motoko and her squad are finally getting closer to Fire-Starter's broker, but things get tense when they're instructed to take a backseat role on a sting op. Part five of the OVA series, containing the materials developed for Alternative Architecture's final two episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, futuristic, deep, inspirational, complex, cyberpunk anime
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Iron Man: Rise of Technovore (2013)
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Iron Man enlists the help of ruthless vigilante the Punisher to track down War Machine's murderer. All the while, he's being pursued by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Black Widow and Hawkeye, who suspect his involvement in a recent terrorist plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious, scenic, mecha, 2d animation
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Psychic Squad (2008)
Plot Summary:
They're cute, adorable and three of the most powerful Espers the world has ever seen: Kaoru, the brash psychokinetic who can move objects with her mind; Shiho, the sarcastic and dark natured psychometric able to pick thoughts from people's minds and read the pasts of inanimate objects like a book; and Aoi, the most collected and rational of the three, who has the ability to teleport herself and the others at will. So what to do with these potential psychic monsters in the making? Enter B.A.B.E.L., the Base of Backing ESP Laboratory, where hopefully "The Children" and others like them can become part of the answer to an increasing wave of psychic evolution. It's a win-win solution... Unless you're Koichi Minamoto, the overworked young man stuck with the unenviable task of field commanding a team of three pre-teen girls!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, futuristic, suspenseful, semi serious, rough, stylized, action comedy, shounen
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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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WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (2001)
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Set in the year 2000 (between the events of Patlabor and Patlabor 2), when the level of Labor accidents begin to escalate around Tokyo Bay, police detectives Kusumi and Hata are assigned to investigate. What they discover leads to a series of government cover-ups, conspiracy concerning a new biological weapon entitled WXIII-Wasted Thirteen and a tragic, personal connection to Hata. The only hope to stop this threat is to cooperate with the military and lead WXIII into a showdown with the Labors of Special Vehicle Division 2.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, suspenseful, stylized, manga, mecha, neo noir, psychotronic, detective, super sentai
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Darker Than Black (2007)
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Anime television series created, directed and written by Tensai Okamura and animated by Bones.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, stylized, mecha, deep, adult anime, seinen
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Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian (2019)
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2112; the summer before Akane Tsunemori was assigned to Division One of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Department. Teppei Sugo, an accomplished pilot of the Defense Army's 15th Integrated Task Force, joins the military operation in Okinawa. Three months later, an unmanned combat drone opens fire on the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo. Enforcer Tomomi Masaoka of CID Division One is dispatched to Sugo's military base to investigate the truth behind this case.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, detective, psychological, cyberpunk anime
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Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment (2019)
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In the winter of 2117, a runaway vehicle crashes into the Public Safety Bureau Building. The driver is identified as Izumi Yasaka, a psychological counselor at the Sanctuary, a Latent Criminal Isolation Facility in Aomori Prefecture. But right before her interrogation, Inspector Mika Shimotsuki and Enforcer Nobuchika Ginoza are tasked with promptly escorting Yasaka back to Aomori. What awaits them there is a False Paradise.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 926
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, detective, cyberpunk anime
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Ghost In The Shell: The New Movie (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in a futuristic Japan after the end of a brutal world war, science has advanced by leaps and bounds giving humanity the choice to prolong life and reduce suffering with the use of sophisticated cybernetics. With all of humanity linked into one system of minds and personalities known as ghosts, the biggest threat to civilization is the cyber terrorists capable of hijacking people's bodies and memories. When a ghost-infecting virus known as Fire-Starter begins spreading through the system resulting in the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, Major Motoko Kusanagi and her elite team of special operatives are called in to track down its source. As they delve deeper and deeper into their investigation, they uncover traces of government corruption and a shadowy broker that bears an all-too-familiar face. The film is a continuation to the plot of the Pyrophoric Cult episode of Arise, and ties up loose ends from that arc.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, futuristic, melancholic, computer animated, deep, adult anime, inspirational, complex, cyberpunk anime
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Human Lost (2019)
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In the year 2036 man kind has revolutionized the medical field. Scientist have conquered death via the use of internal nanomachines and the “Shell System,” however, only the richest can afford to partake. Yozo Oba has been troubled by strange dreams and one day joins his friend’s biker gang. They embark to the “The Inside,” where society’s elite live, however, this begins a terrifying journey of discovery that will change Yozo’s life forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, bleak, unusual plot structure, futuristic, surreal, adult animation
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears (2014)
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Posing as lovers on vacation, Motoko and Batou work to try to stop a terrorist organization whose symbol is the Scrasath. Meanwhile, Togusa investigates a murder of a man who possessed a prosthetic leg manufactured by the Mermaid's Leg corporation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, deep, adult anime, inspirational, futuristic
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Heat Guy J (2002)
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Heat Guy J is a 26 episode science fiction anime series created by Escaflowne director Kazuki Akane and Satelight. Heat Guy J was licensed and distributed in the U.S. in 2003 by Pioneer. It was re-released by Funimation Entertainment in the fall of 2009. The first 13 episodes of the show also was broadcast on the cable channel MTV2. A one volume manga was created based on the series, and was licensed and distributed by TOKYOPOP. The show was picked up for a UK DVD release by Manga Entertainment starting in March 2006. It was packaged in double DVD sets to make up for the long delayed release of the series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, neo noir, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, cyber, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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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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Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (2010)
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Rune Ballot is a down-and-out teen prostitute in Mardock City. One day, she's picked up by an ambitious casino manager named Shell who gives her everything she could want. Renewed by a false innocence, a false past, and now the false life Shell has given her, Ballot feels grateful. However, she can't help but be curious about why he's done so much for her, so she does some research about his past on a computer. This turns out to be a mistake which will change her life greatly. When Shell finds out what she's done, he attempts to burn her to death by blowing up her car.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, rough, suspenseful, bleak, futuristic, captivating, tense, psychological, cyber
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Patlabor: The Movie (1989)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, manga, futuristic, stylized, adult animation, contemplative, exciting, serious, neo noir
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone (2014)
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The upcoming installment's story takes place amidst signs of postwar reconstruction in the winter of 2028. Tensions are rising in New Port City as demonstrations are held concerning the interests of foreign cartels. This leads to a shooting incident involving riot police. It all started with a cyberbrain infection released by the terrorist "Fire Starter." An independent offensive unit led by Makoto Kusanagi entrusts the suppression of the situation to their ghosts and aims for their own justice. Below the surface of the incident, lies the "tin girl" Emma and the "scarecrow man" Burinda Junior. As Kusanagi deals with the incident, she draws near to what those two ghosts were seeking.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, philosophical, atmospheric, humorous, suspenseful, deep, exciting, rough, serious
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (2005)
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The year is 2030 and six years have passed since a criminal known only as "The Laughing Man" swept through top medical nanotechnology firms committing acts of cyber-terrorism, kidnapping, and espionage leaving no known suspects. New information is revealed, as Section 9 enters the hunt for a suspect capable of unfathomable actions in this compilation of Stand Alone Complex content.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, rough, stylized, deep, cyber, inspirational
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Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 2 - Ghost Whisper (2013)
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Freed of her responsibilities with the 501 Organization, Motoko Kusanagi must now learn how to take orders from Aramaki. Someone hacks the Logicomas, and Batou enlists the help of former army intelligence officer Ishikawa and former air artillery expert Borma. Kusanagi also seeks to enlist ace sniper Saito and undercover cop Paz into the new Public Security Section 9.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, exciting, serious, stylized, rough, suspenseful, deep, cyber, inspirational
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Armitage III: Polymatrix (1996)
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Ross Sylibus is assigned to a police unit on a Martian colony, to find that women are being murdered by a psychotic named D'anclaude. He is assigned a very unorthodox partner named Naomi Armitage, who seems to have links to the victims. To stir things up more, every victim is found to be an illegally made third-generation android.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, cyber, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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Psycho-Pass (2012)
Plot Summary:
Psycho-Pass is a Japanese anime television series that takes place in the future where it is possible to instantaneously measure a person's mental state, personality, and the probability that a person will commit crimes with a device installed on each citizen's body called the Psycho-Pass. It follows members of Unit One of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Division and the crimes they investigate.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, atmospheric, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, manga, cyber, adult anime
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Black Magic M-66 (1987)
Plot Summary:
A freelance reporter stumbles on a desperate military operation. An army chopper has crashed and its cargo has been activated. Now there are two killer androids running loose in the wilderness and have the daughter of their inventor as their target. Can the army stop them or can the reporter reach the little girl before the droids do?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, manga, stylized, psychotronic
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in the year 2034, two years after the events in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. Female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi has left Public Security Section 9, an elite counter-terrorist and anti-crime unit specializing in cyber-warfare, which has expanded to a team of 20 field operatives with Togusa acting as the field lead.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anime, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, futuristic, stylized, cyber, deep, inspirational, complex