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Plot Summary:
It is the near future, and the city of Freeport teeters on the verge of total collapse. The twin tides of rampant crime and ruinous graft face only one barrier: the elite strike force HARDCORPS. Led by Colonel John Blade, HARDCORPS is the last force for justice in the darkening city.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, rough, serious, stylized, suspenseful, futuristic
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Blue Gender: The Warrior (2002)
Plot Summary:
It is a time of chaos. Earth is no longer what it used to be. It has been infested with a bug like species called the Blue. Yuji Kaido, who has a mysterious disease, is put into suspended animation until a cure is found. When he wakes up Yuji learns that its been more than 20 years since he was put into suspended animation, and the world is now controled by these creatures. He joins a group of soldiers equipped with powerful mechas to fight against the Blue for hope of a better future.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, stylized, anime, serious, mecha, seinen, shounen
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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 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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WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (2001)
Plot Summary:
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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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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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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Appleseed (1988)
Plot Summary:
In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, mecha, manga, cyber, adult anime, adult animation, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Vexille (2007)
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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)
Plot Summary:
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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RahXephon (2002)
Plot Summary:
In a world where time passes at a crawl and the blood of your neighbor runs blue, 17 year old high school student Ayato Kamina goes about his daily life within Tokyo Jupiter oblivious to the world around him, having been educated with the fact that the all civilization but Tokyo has been destroyed. But all that changes when the mysterious civilization "MU" invades his home, raining destruction down from the sky in the form of strange monsters called Dolems. The events that occur next will lead Ayato to the mysterious woman named Reika Mishima, to the truth of their existence, the discovery of what and who he is, and to the powerful angelic robot RahXephon.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, atmospheric, serious, stylized, mecha, psychological
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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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Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993)
Plot Summary:
A Japanese police unit who use giant anthropomorphic robots (called Labors) is caught up in a political struggle between the civilian authorities and the military when a terrorist act is blamed on an Air Force jet. With the aid of a government agent, the team gets close to a terrorist leader to stop things from going out of control when after the military is impelled to impose martial law.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, contemplative, manga, exciting, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (2005)
Plot Summary:
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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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)
Plot Summary:
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between rival police divisions, as he finds himself increasingly involved with the sister of the girl he saw die.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: anime, bleak, heartbreaking, rough, serious, psychological, philosophical, disturbing, manga, adult anime
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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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Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 2 - Ghost Whisper (2013)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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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Armitage III: Dual Matrix (2001)
Plot Summary:
Naomi Armitage and Ross Sylibus have changed their names and live with their daughter Yoko as a happy and normal family on Mars — until an android riot breaks out at an anti-matter plant on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, serious, suspenseful, cyber, adult anime, surprise ending, computer animated, futuristic, ecchi
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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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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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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
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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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Parasite Dolls (2003)
Plot Summary:
Beauty is only skin deep, but when you can’t see beneath the skin, how can you know what you’re really dealing with? In a world where perfect androids called Boomers have infiltrated every aspect of society, it’s the job of Branch to maintain peace between the people and the plastic. Unfortunately, not all boomers are created perfect, and when boomers go bad, people die. The thin blue line that separates man from machine is about to meet its most horrifying test in Parasite Dolls.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, cyber, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, detective, mecha
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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Plot Summary:
Groundbreaking director Mamoru Oshii continues to push the boundaries of art and anime with this universally acclaimed cyber thriller following cyborg detective Batou as he tries to unravel the reasons for a murderous robot revolt in the year 2032. A quest for a killer that becomes a mind bending search for the meaning of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: futuristic, anime, philosophical, cyber, atmospheric, enigmatic, surreal, psychological, bleak, serious
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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
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Appleseed Ex Machina (2007)
Plot Summary:
As members of ESWAT, the elite forces serving Olympus, Deunan and Briaereos they are deployed everywhere trouble strikes. Olympus finds itself under a stealth attack - cyborg terrorism, deadly nanotech zealots, and rioting citizens are just some of the threats that Deunan must contend with as she fights to save Olympus!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: computer animated, mecha, anime, stylized, suspenseful, adult animation, futuristic, manga, sincere, mind bending
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Appleseed XIII (2011)
Plot Summary:
Appleseed XIII is a 2011 Japanese CGI anime adaptation of Masamune Shirow's science fiction manga series Appleseed. Composed of 13 episodes, the series retold the exploits of ES.W.A.T. member Deunan and her cyborg partner Briareos. The series was produced by Jinni's Animation Studios in association with Production I.G and under the direction of Takayuki Hamana with Junichi Fujisaku as script supervisor. All 13 episodes were compiled into two feature-length films. The first feature film titled Appleseed XIII: Tartaros was announced by Shochiku and released on June 13, 2011. The second film, Appleseed XIII: Ouranos was released on October 24, 2011. A North American release of the TV series will be out in June 2013.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, cyber, serious, stylized, computer animated
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Appleseed (2004)
Plot Summary:
In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, computer animated, mecha, stylized, futuristic, adult animation, cyber, apocalyptic, manga, sincere
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Memories (1995)
Plot Summary:
In this anime trilogy, a salvage ship crew happens upon a haunted vessel in Magnetic Rose; a cold tablet turns a lab worker into a biological weapon in Stink Bomb; and an urban populace carries on an endless war with an unseen foe in Cannon Fodder. Three years in the making, the thought-provoking anthology features eye-popping action and directorial work by a trio of genre geniuses: Kôji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura and Katsuhiro Ôtomo. "Memories" is made up of three separate science-fiction stories. In the first, "Magnetic Rose," four space travelers are drawn into an abandoned spaceship that contains a world created by one woman's memories. In "Stink Bomb," a young lab assistant accidentally transforms himself into a human biological weapon set on a direct course for Tôkyô. The final episode, "Cannon Fodder," depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unseen enemy.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surreal, anime, anthology, futuristic, exciting, enigmatic, cult classic, mind twisting, atmospheric, stylized
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9 (2009)
Plot Summary:
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 146000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Luxembourg
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: adult animation, surreal, suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, futuristic, atmospheric, computer animated, stylized, 3d animation