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Plot Summary:
The demonic space criminal Kain has escaped from prison and destroyed the Galaxy Police headquarters. To ensure that the Jurai will not stop him, Kain travels back to 1970 to eliminate Tenchi's mother before he is even born. Now, Tenchi and the gang must travel to the past to stop him before he ceases to exist.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, exciting, humorous, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, black comedy
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When Prince Kirin of the 7 Lucky Gods shows up at the Tendo dojo looking for his bride-to-be, guess who's accidentally holding the scroll that signifies his future mate? Why, Akane, of course, and the rest of the Ranma crew is forced to take a boat to China in order to save her from the horrors of marriage and a diet of pickled vegetables.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick, shounen, teen comedy
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Tenchi Masaki is a normal high school student in Japan, who spends the summers doing chores around his grandfather's family shrine. One day, Tenchi manages to steal the key to a mysterious cave where an oni (Japanese demon) is said to have been sealed away by his ancester Yoshou, whose sword still stands guard over it. When he enters this cave, he finds that, much to his surprise, the legend is indeed true when the oni's dessicated skeletal form ("mira"--Japanese mummy) comes to life and attacks him. Tenchi flees the cave in a panic, and later returns to high school, taking the hilt--seemingly all that remains of the ancestral sword--with him. At school, Tenchi is again attacked by the oni, whose name is Ryouko, who has now completely revived herself. Tenchi manages to defeat her with the sword's help, but this is only the beginning of a hilarious Japanese romantic comedy OAV (Original Animation Video, the Japanese equivalent of American made-for-video movies) series which has spawned.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, exciting, humorous, semi serious, detective, black comedy, slapstick comedy, dark comedy
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A group of students from the Cosmo Academy are about to take their final exam: surviving for over fifty days in a derelict ship. But when they arrive, they discover that instead of ten students, there are eleven. One of them doesn't belong there.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, shoujo
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Makoto is a high school student who one day found himself sent to a strange, magical world called El Hazard. He is then forced to impersonate a missing princess(an idea for which he does not care for). Other earthlings sent to this world include Makoto's teacher (Fujisawa), his girlfriend (Nanami), and his girlfriend's brother (Jinnai). Jinnai, by the way has teamed up with an evil army of giant insect creatures so that he can take over El Hazard and kill Makoto. Luckly, Makoto has a guide and a bodygaurd to help him get by. Well actually, the guide is a girl who falls in love with every woman she meets and the bodyguard is just a cat... oh well.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 235 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (2005)
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In this sequel to Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu?!, Mithril becomes aware of a secret organization that has technology able to counter the ECS (Electronic Cloaking System) mode. This organization, known as Amalgam, also has "Black Technology", obtained from "Whispered" like Kaname Chidori, and like the other intelligency agencies, they intend to obtain more. However, when Sousuke's mission to protect Chidori is terminated by Mithril, all seems to be in place for Amalgam's plans.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, anime, semi serious, shounen, suspenseful, mecha
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A wind has swept the Earth taking all the memories from everyone. No one knows who they are, how to speak, or how to use the tools of modern civilization. Two years later a young man who has been re-educated travels across America on a mysterious journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anime, apocalyptic, adult animation, manga, meditative, esoteric, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
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Lupin attempts and fails to steal a valuable set of Japanese photographic plates. The rightful owner of the plates, Michael Suzuki, is a multimillionaire who is preparing to open a huge water park in Tokyo. Lupin attempts to enlist the help of his steadfast comrades Jigen and Goemon but find them less than reliable; Jigen is suffering from a toothache that throws off his legendary aim, and Goemon has shamefully had his sword, Zantetsuken, stolen by a woman and given to Suzuki to display in his art collection. The group works on a plan with Fujiko to get both the plates and Zantetsuken.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, detective
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While enjoying the flower gardens, Sailor Moon (Usagi) and friends encounter an old childhood friend of Mamoru's: an alien! He's come back to give Mamoru a special flower, but doesn't like Usagi and the rest of the planet's inhabitants. Sailor Moon must defend the earth from the evil Kisenian Flower he's brought back... before the evil vines and blossoms overrun the planet!.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: anime, mahou shoujo, exciting, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, epic
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, stylized, captivating, entertaining, manga
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The Daughter of Darkness (1997)
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Mayuka is a girl who appears one day and claims to be Tenchi's daughter. As the initial shock wears off, everyone in the Masaki household gets used to Mayuka's presence. However, things only become more interesting as Washu tries to discover Mayuka's background. What Washu found involves demon, the Prince of Jurai, and unrequited emotions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, futuristic, stylized, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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After a drawn-out, viciously-fought war, the earth has been conquered by the alien Illumidus Empire. Harlock, a captain in earth's fleet, crashes his ship to prevent the Illumidus from using it, and flat-out refuses to join them. With the help of his allies, Tochiro and the space pirate Emereldas, and his lover Miya, he wages a private and bitter war against the Illumidus.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, futuristic, stylized, semi serious, adult animation, 2d animation
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspenseful, humorous, stylized, captivating
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anime, atmospheric, stylized, intense, serious, breathtaking, mecha, adult animation, light, sexy
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation II: Lovers (2005)
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Universal Century 0087, as the civil war between the AEUG and the Titans continues, Kamille meets a mysterious girl named Four. But his encounter with Four, one of the Titans' "cyber-Newtypes," fills his heart with anguish. The grief-stricken Kamille fights his way back to space to find the new mobile suit Z Gundam waiting for him. Meanwhile Paptimus Scirocco, the man from Jupiter, has added his strength to that of the Titans. And a third power is finally making its move, in the form of the Zeon remnants of Axis... With enhanced animation and a theme song by GACKT, the tragic romance of Kamille and Four unfolds in this second part of the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam feature trilogy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, mecha, rough, serious
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Amuro Ray and the rest of the White Base crew, now denominated the 13th Autonomous Corps, return to outer space to support the rest of the Earth Federation forces for the decisive battle against the Duchy of Zeon's forces.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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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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Universal Century 0087. The Titans, a bellicose faction among the Earth Federation Forces, grows powerful and tyrannical, even using poison gas to suppress a civil unrest. Dissident soldiers from the same military stand against them, forming a resistance group called the AEUG. Kamille Bidan, a civilian student, gets entangled in this conflict when he impulsively steals the Gundam Mark II and joins the AEUG, running away from his home space colony. Then he begins to fight along with Char Aznable, a former Zeon ace pilot who has infiltrated the Earth Sphere for reasons of his own. This is the first part of the feature trilogy derived from the anime series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, and features enhanced animation and theme songs by GACKT.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, rough, futuristic, suspenseful, mecha, serious, stylized
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 280
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Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, mecha, bleak
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Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that re-worked ending, but after production overruns Rebirth became only the first half of the first part of The End of Evangelion, with some minor differences.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
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Seina is unlucky, so unlucky that when he stumbles upon a recruiter looking for his senpai Tenchi he gets taken instead. Forced into the Galaxy police, his luck begins to change. A natural to randomly jumping near pirates, he is assigned his own decoy to draw out pirates. His luck brings him into the lives of four women who have a habit of cancelling out his bad luck, turning it into good. Armed with this luck, they pilot the most powerful ships in the Tenchi Universe to defeat the Barta pirates. Now the only uncertainty is whether the sexy Kaunaq, a former model turned GXP officer, sturdy Kiriko, who has known Seina for years, the mysterious Ryoko, a former pirate named after the legendary one, or the childish Neiju, a powerful witch, will win Seina.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, ecchi, offbeat, slapstick
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Vandread is a Japanese anime series directed by Takeshi Mori and created by Gonzo and Media Factory animation studios. The series is composed of two seasons, each composed of thirteen episodes of twenty-five minutes. The first series is summarized in the Vandread Taidouhen OVA in 2001, and the second in the Vandread Gekitouhen OVA, released in 2002. There is a Vandread Extra Stage Novel, that explains the events after Vandread: The Second Stage. Along with acquiring the two original series from Geneon, Funimation also licensed the two OVAs.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 904
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Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, serious, adult anime, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, demonic
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A Tree of Palme is an interpretation of the Pinocchio tale. It concerns a small puppet, Palme, who was tasked by his creator to look over his ailing wife, Xian. After her passing, Palme is visited by a mysterious woman who he mistakenly believes to be Xian. Shaken out of his sadness, Palme accepts her request to deliver something special to a far-off place known as Tama. This sets Palme off on a journey to discover his own emotions, and what it truly means to be human.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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It has been thirteen years since the Androids began their killing rampage and Son Gohan is the only person fighting back. He takes Bulma's son Trunks as a student and even gives his own life to save Trunks's. Now Trunks must figure out a way to change this apocalyptic future.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012)
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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