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Plot Summary:
People everywhere were enjoying a new game called Ordinal Scale, an ARMMORPG developed exclusively for the Augma, a new wearable console designed for AR (augmented reality) gaming. But, the players had no idea that a nightmare from the virtual world was starting to spread into reality! As his fellow players find themselves in danger, the hero is called upon once again.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, romantic, futuristic, manga, 2d animation
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Sword Art Online the Movie: Progressive - Scherzo of Deep Night (2022)
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Over a month has passed since 10,000 users were trapped inside the "Sword Art Online" world. Asuna, who cleared the first floor of the floating iron castle of Aincrad, joined up with Kirito and continued her journey to reach the top floor. With the support of female Information Broker Argo, clearing the floors seemed to be progressing smoothly, but conflict erupts between two major guilds who should be working together – the top player groups ALS (the Aincrad Liberation Squad) and DKB (the Dragon Knights Brigade). And meanwhile, behind the scenes exists a mysterious figure pulling the strings….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime
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.Hack//The Movie (2012)
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In 2024, the computer network prevails throughout the daily life. Arishiro Sora is a 14 year old girl. One day, she is invited to an online game "The World". After an accident in the game, the real world begins to deform.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, uplifting, feel good, sweet
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Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord (2019)
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The series focuses on the adventures of Arata Kasuga, a high school student, who is targeted by Lilith, a teacher at a mystical school. Given three choices in an effort to help save the breakdown phenomenon of the world by evil forces and while attempting to solve the mystery of his beloved cousin and childhood friend, Hijiri, who disappeared to a difference space.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: ecchi, anime, exciting, captivating, shounen, 2d animation
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Sword Art Online: Progressive Aria of a Starless Night (2021)
Plot Summary:
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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Sword Art Online: Extra Edition (2013)
Plot Summary:
Yui wants to see a whale so Kirito suggests a quest where she can meet them. However, it turns out that Leafa cannot swim so Asuna and the other female characters decide to train Suguha in a real-world pool in preparation for the aforementioned quest. Meanwhile, Kirito is called for an emergency counseling meeting at his new school. There he meets an elite member of the Virtual Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Kirito then tells him details about what really happened in Aincrad and in Alfheim.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, ecchi, seinen, touching, suspenseful, stylized, manga
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Expelled from Paradise (2014)
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A.D. 2400, DEVA's central council detects an incident of unauthorized access into their mainframe. Someone on Earth was trying to hack into the system. The only information DEVA was able to retrieve was that hacker referred to themselves as "Frontier Setter." To investigate the mysterious hacker's motives, the high officials of DEVA dispatch system Security Third Officer Angela Balzac to the Earth's surface. Equipped with a prosthetic "material body," Angela attempts to make contact with a local agent Dingo, but what awaited her instead was a swarm of Sandworms now infesting the Earth's surface. Angela intercepts the gruesome pests with her exoskeleton powered suit Arhan.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, adult animation
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Astra Lost in Space (2019)
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The year is 2061, when space travel is now possible and commercially viable, and the students of Caird High School embark on their Planet Camp. But soon after Group B5 arrived at their planetary camp site, a mysterious and unforeseen sentient light sphere warps its 9 members into outer space, stranding them 5012 light years away from their home planet. With the discovery of an old, unmanned spaceship nearby, the students must stay strong, manage their limited resources and remain united in the darkness of space, so that all of them can survive their long and likely perilous trek back home aboard the Astra.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, psychological, captivating, disturbing, futuristic, tense, adult anime, shounen
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Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2011)
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After a mysterious prisoner with only a few weeks left on his sentence breaks out of prison in Central City, the Elric brothers attempt to track him down. The search leads them to Table City in the southwestern country of Creta, where Alphonse rescues a young alchemist named Julia from the very man they are trying to capture. In the thick of the fight, they literally tumble into Julia's home turf, the slums of Milos Valley, and are embroiled in the grassroots rebellion of her people.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, enigmatic, captivating, manga, cute, adult animation, political
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Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato (2019)
Plot Summary:
Half a year after the events of the series "Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress", the team attempt to take back Unato castle.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission (2013)
Plot Summary:
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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Hunter X Hunter: Phantom Rouge (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kurapika became a Hunter to take vengeance on the Class-A crime group Phantom Troupe who massacred his clan for their unique eyes. The eyes of the Kurta clan turn scarlet in times of anger or emotional agitation and are considered the most beautiful treasures in the world. Kurapika continues to pursue the Phantom Troupe but an unknown party has stolen his "scarlet eyes". With the help of Gon, Killua and Leorio, Kurapika' s life was saved. However, the Phantom Troupe shows up before them and blocks their way. The true identity of the one with the No.4 spider tattoo is about to be unveiled.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, light, manga, adult animation, shounen
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Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online (2018)
Plot Summary:
Karen Kohiruimaki always felt out of place in the real world. Due to her extreme height, she found it hard to make friends with other girls her age. Everything changes when she's introduced to VR and Gun Gale Online. In GGO, Karen is free to play the cute, chibi avatar of her dreams! Can Karen find friendship in this bullet-ridden MMO...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, touching, bleak, disturbing, mecha, manga
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Accel World (2012)
Plot Summary:
A short, overweight student uses the Neuro Link, an evolution of the Nerve Gear, to escape himself from the reality. But his skills in the virtual world brings him to the attention of Kuroyukihime, a popular student who introduces him to the Brain Burst.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, psychological, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, mecha, mind twisting, seinen
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No Game, No Life (2014)
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Genius gamer siblings (plus being NEET & hikikomori) Sora and Shiro are known as the undefeatable “__” (blank). Their talents and skills are so good they are considered as urban legend. One day, a young boy named Tet appears before them, claiming to be the “God” of another dimension where Sora and Shiro are summoned to, in which no violence is allowed and everything is decided by a game. Of the 16 different races residing in this world, “Humanity” is the weakest. After having the vast majority of their lands captured by the other races and being driven to the brink of extinction, Sora and Shiro challenge these one-of-a-kind battles of the intellectual powers in order to save Humanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, captivating, disturbing, ecchi, semi serious, manga, experimental, mind twisting
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My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
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A mysterious group called Humarize strongly believes in the Quirk Singularity Doomsday theory which states that when quirks get mixed further in with future generations, that power will bring forth the end of humanity. In order to save everyone, the Pro-Heroes around the world ask UA Academy heroes-in-training to assist them and form a world-classic selected hero team. It is up to the heroes to save the world and the future of heroes in what is the most dangerous crisis to take place yet in My Hero Academia.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, manga, shounen
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Road to Ninja - Naruto the Movie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sixteen years ago, a mysterious masked ninja unleashes a powerful creature known as the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox on the Hidden Leaf Village Konoha, killing many people. In response, the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze and his wife Kushina Uzumaki, the Demon Fox's living prison or Jinchūriki, manage to seal the creature inside their newborn son Naruto Uzumaki. With the Tailed Beast sealed, things continued as normal. However, in the present day, peace ended when a group of ninja called the Akatsuki attack Konoha under the guidance of Tobi, the mysterious masked man behind Fox's rampage years ago who intends on executing his plan to rule the world by shrouding it in illusions.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, manga, exciting, light, humorous, suspenseful
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The Asterisk War (2015)
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Invertia was a meteor storm that caused an unprecedented disaster during the 20th century. Because of this disaster, numerous cities around the world were destroyed. However, within the meteor, an unknown element called mana was discovered. It allowed human technology to make rapid strides giving rise to a new species of super-powered humans, the Star Pulse Generation (Genestella). The Festas (Star Warrior Festivals) host battles between Genestella at a city of six academies called “Rikka,” also commonly known as “Asterisk.” Scholarship student Ayato Amagiri transferred into Seidoukan Academy in order to fulfill his own wish, swearing he too will fight in this city.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, ecchi, exciting, captivating, bleak, tense, thought provoking
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DanMachi: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side - Sword Oratoria (2017)
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After having descended upon this world, the gods have created guilds where adventurers can test their mettle. These guilds, known as "familia," grant adventurers the chance to explore, gather, hunt, or simply enjoy themselves. The Sword Princess, Ais Wallenstein, and the novice mage, Lefiya Viridis, are members of the Loki Familia, who are experts at monster hunting. With the rest of their group, they journey to the tower of Babel in hopes of exploring the dungeon underneath. Home to powerful monsters, the dungeon will fulfill Ais's desire to master her sword skills, while bringing Lefiya closer to her dream of succeeding Riveria Ljos Alf, vice-captain of the Loki Familia, as the most powerful mage in the land.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, humorous, super sentai, absurd, light
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Psychic Squad (2008)
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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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Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tanjirō Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, board the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyōjurō Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it!.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: manga, anime, exciting, captivating, futuristic, suspenseful, computer animated, perverse, adult animation, shounen
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Sword Art Online (2012)
Plot Summary:
The players of a virtual reality MMORPG, Sword Art Online, are trapped and fighting for their very lives. After it is announced that the only way to leave the game is by beating it, Kirito—a very powerful swordsman—and his friends take on a quest to free all the minds trapped in Aincrad.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, touching, stylized, manga, mind bending, suspenseful, brutal, mecha
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Karas: The Prophecy (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a Japanese city haunted by nature spirits and demons, a secret war is raging between the renegade demon Eko and a spectral warrior known as the Karas. Eko has mechanized himself and his followers to defend against the unearthly fury of the Karas; in addition to an armored humanoid form, the Karas can transform into any of various heavily armed and armored vehicles. Eko and his followers prefer to live in the material realm in human form, but to continue doing so they must feed on the fluids of human bodies. Their periodic feasts result in massacres that leave only a single traumatized survivor; these "inexplicable" tragedies are the obsession of a marginalized police inspector whose daughter was the survivor of one such massacre. Opposing Eko are the renegade demon Nue, who also lives in the material world in human form but refuses to drink blood or take a mechanized form, and Otoha, a former human who is summoned by the mysterious Yurine to become the new Karas.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, manga
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Log Horizon (2013)
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The story begins when 30,000 Japanese gamers are trapped in the fantasy online game world Elder Tale. What was once a sword-and-sorcery world is now the real world. The main lead Shiroe attempts to survive with his old friend Naotsugu and the beautiful assassin Akatsuki.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, semi serious, mecha, manga, shounen, super sentai, stylized, clever, talky
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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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Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon (1965)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, semi serious, fast, psychotronic
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city of prosperity, has been reduced to ruins, its people slowly but steadily walk the road to reconstruction. However, a mysterious illness called Geostigma torments them. With no cure in sight, it brings death to the afflicted, one after another, robbing the people of their fledgling hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: computer animated, anime, visually appealing, exciting, stylized, tense, suspense, adult animation, manga, dark
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My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Plot Summary:
Class 1-A visits Nabu Island where they finally get to do some real hero work. The place is so peaceful that it's more like a vacation … until they're attacked by a villain with an unfathomable Quirk! His power is eerily familiar, and it looks like Shigaraki had a hand in the plan. But with All Might retired and citizens' lives on the line, there's no time for questions. Deku and his friends are the next generation of heroes, and they're the island's only hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, manga, exciting, light, humorous, captivating, adult animation, shounen
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The Rising of The Shield Hero (2019)
Plot Summary:
Iwatani Naofumi was summoned into a parallel world along with 3 other people to become the world's Heroes. Each of the heroes respectively equipped with their own legendary equipment when summoned, Naofumi received the Legendary Shield as his weapon. Due to Naofumi's lack of charisma and experience he's labeled as the weakest, only to end up betrayed, falsely accused, and robbed by on the third day of adventure. Shunned by everyone from the king to peasants, Naofumi's thoughts were filled with nothing but vengeance and hatred. Thus, his destiny in a parallel World begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, feel good, suspense, manga, seinen, dark fantasy, psychological
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Overlord (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2138, virtual reality gaming is booming. Yggdrasil, a popular online game is quietly shut down one day. However, one player named Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image of a skeleton as "the most powerful wizard." The world continues to change, with non-player characters (NPCs) beginning to feel emotion. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary young man Momonga then strives to take over the new world the game has become.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, manga, stylized, humorous, scenic, not serious, exciting
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Seraph of the End (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 2012, the world allegedly comes to an end at the hands of a human-made virus, ravaging the global populace and leaving only children untouched. It is at this time that vampires emerge from the recesses of the earth, likely followed by age-old horrors of the dark thought only to be myth. The vampires sweep the earth and claim it in a single violent stroke, subjugating the remnants of humanity and leading them beneath the surface to safety. This "protection" comes at the price of donating blood to their captors. At the age of twelve, Yūichirō and his friend and fellow orphan Mikaela plotted to escape along with the children in Hyakuya Orphanage. However, this resulted in their deaths and Mikaela sacrifices himself in order for Yūichirō to escape and be saved by members of the Moon Demon Company, an extermination unit of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army. Four years later, Yūichirō dedicates his life to destroy vampires and seek revenge against them for murdering his "family".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, exciting, dark fantasy, disturbing, apocalyptic, bleak, shounen, manga