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Plot Summary:
The stage emulates life and compresses it, setting free skills learned over lifetimes in brief but dazzling displays for the amusement and judgment of others. For the performers, it is the ultimate risk, and some will rise while others must fall. Nowhere is this truer than at the Seisho Music Academy, where music, dance and real weapons all come into play in the creation of the next great Star. Karen and Hikari’s destinies have been linked since a childhood promise, but their journeys here have taken very different paths. Now, after Hikari leaves, Karen must discover who she is without her opposite, while Hikari must rediscover her own course. Nor are they the only girls who must reassess and change if they want to achieve their dreams, as the dance, magic, and swordplay continue!.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, surreal, postmodern, crying
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There are some places a cop can never go, like high school. Blackmailed with the fate of her mother on death row, Saki Asamiya trades in her prison blues for a school-girl's uniform and discovers a pit of vipers festering in up-scale Takanoha High. The vicious Midzuchi sisters have the school in their grip, and they'll do anything to keep it that way. Saki, armed with a secret weapon that only looks like a toy, thinks differently.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime
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Revue Starlight (2018)
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Starlight is a song and dance revue troupe loved throughout the world. Karen and Hikari make a promise with each other when they're young that one day they'll stand on that stage together. Time passes, and now the girls are 16 years old. Karen is very enthusiastic about the lessons she takes every day, holding her promise close to her heart. Hikari has transferred schools and is now away from Karen. But the cogs of fate turn, and the two are destined to meet again. The girls and other Stage Girls will compete in a mysterious audition process to gain acceptance into the revue.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, surreal, super sentai, yuri
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Although μ's, the defending champions of the school idol tournament, plans to dissolve their group after the graduation of their senior members, they receive news that leads them to holding a concert event! The 9 girls continue to learn and grow in this new and unfamiliar world. What is the last thing that these girls can do as school idols? With the clock ticking, what kind of meaning will the μ's members find in performing the most exciting live performance?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, sweet, captivating, tsundere
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Three outsider high school students who haven’t touched an instrument in their lives decide to form a band to express their teenage angst and impress girls.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, exciting, light, inspirational, feel good, entertaining
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Recap of Season 1. After swearing off music due to an incident at the middle school regional brass band competition, euphonist Kumiko Oumae enters high school hoping for a fresh start. As fate would have it, she ends up being surrounded by people with an interest in the high school brass band. Kumiko finds the motivation she needs to make music once more with the help of her bandmates, some of whom are new like novice tubist Hazuki Katou; veteran contrabassist Sapphire Kawashima; and band vice president and fellow euphonist Asuka Tanaka. Others are old friends, like Kumiko's childhood friend and hornist-turned-trombonist Shuuichi Tsukamoto, and trumpeter and bandmate from middle school, Reina Kousaka. However, in the band itself, chaos reigns supreme. Despite their intention to qualify for the national band competition, as they currently are, just competing in the local festival will be a challenge—unless the new band advisor Noboru Taki does something about it.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anime, compilation film
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, light, humorous, tsundere
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, psychological, touching, adult animation, yuri
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While Akari is shining brightly as Starlight Queen, the duo unit "Cosmos", composed of Ichigo and Akari, just had a successful first live event! As time flows by while their activites continue, Ichigo, who is now in her third year of Starlight School's high school divison, is starting to become aware of her graduation that is coming in half a year. She knows that even after she graduates, she'd like to continue her idol activities. However, to pass the hurdle towards her graduation, there is one more fork in the road lying ahead. As idols, for Ichigo, Aoi and Ran, exactly what path would they like to move forward on from now on, this important decision is now something they must consider with care.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
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Living by the sea, protecting the sea, and journeying across the sea…They’re the BLUE MERMAIDS! Because of a shift in tectonic plates around 100 years ago, Japan lost much of its area to submergence. To preserve Japan’s territories, Coastal Cities sprung up, one after the other. Eventually, they became Marine Cities, and along with the expansion of sea-lanes to connect them, the need arose for a sizable staff to protect the seas. At the same time, maritime jobs were becoming more popular among women. Hence, the BLUE MERMAIDS had become every female student’s dream job.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious, anime
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie Over the Rainbow (2019)
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After the idol group Aqours has won the final Love Live! contest, its remaining members prepare to enroll at a new school only to run into some unexpected trouble while the former members go missing on the way to their graduation trip. Separated, the girls begin to realize the value of their friendships as they attempt to find a solution to their various crises.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime
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Graduation draws near for Yui, Ritsu, Mio and Tsumugi, the four 3rd-year students of the Light Music Club. They, together with Azusa, decide to go on a post-graduation trip. Their destination, decided by lot, is London!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 468
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anime, road movie, sincere, light, humorous, captivating, super sentai
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Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are two close friends who are part of the Kitauji High School music club. Quiet and reserved Yoroizuka plays the oboe while lively and popular Kasaki plays the flute. The group has decided to play Liz and the Blue Bird, a song inspired on a fairy tale about the relationship between a girl and a bird. The musical piece puts both Mizore and Nozomi on the spotlight due to a solo part by Yoroizuka and forces the two girls to reexamine their friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, sentimental, light, captivating, fairy tale, yuri
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 1st (2010)
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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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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: Japan
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Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 96000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 27000
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Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
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Suzu is a 17-year-old high school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious dragon-like figure appears before her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 51000
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Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min
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Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back into the game by a beautiful and deadly woman from his past. The sparks of violence dropped along Afro’s bloody path now burn out of control – and nowhere are the flames of hatred more intense than in the eyes of Sio.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min
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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)
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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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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Plot Summary:
The second of two theatrically released follow-ups to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. Comprising of two alternate episodes which were first intended to take the place of episodes 25 and 26, this finale answers many of the questions surrounding the series, while also opening up some new possibilities.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, mecha, ambiguous ending, surreal, cult classic, adult animation, existential, mindfuck, atmospheric