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Plot Summary:
When the evil Yo-Kai Kin, Gin and Bronzlow makes the Yo-Kai Watch disappear from time so they can help Dame Dedtime prevent humans and Yo-Kai from being friends, Nate Adams finds help in the Yo-Kai Hovernyan, who takes Nate, Whisper and Jibanyan 60 years to the past, when the Yo-Kai Watch was first invented by Nate's grandfather, Nathaniel Adams, while he was a boy. Together, the 2 boys fight Dame Dedtime and her evil Wicked Yo-Kai minions to save the world from her evil plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Ryoma! The Prince of Tennis (2021)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by his tennis champion father, Ryoma is determined to take his game to the next level and train in the US. But in the middle of an intense tennis battle to save his classmate Sakuno from dangerous villains, they somehow find themselves transported back to the past, just as Ryoma’s father is about to undertake his final championship match at the US Open – when he was mysteriously forced to retire.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Animation, Action, Musical, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, shounen
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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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Rainbow Fireflies (2012)
Plot Summary:
One year ago, Yūta lost his father from a car accident. Now in the 6th grade, Yūta goes to catch a beetle at a dam on a deep mountain. Yūta often went there with his father. There, Yūta meets a strange old man. Due to heavy rain, Yūta slips and falls down a bridge. He becomes unconscious. When Yūta awakes, he sees a child, Saeko, in front of him. Saeko takes Yūta to a village that looks like something that existed 30 years ago. Yūta has the feeling that he went into the past. He also meets Kenzō, who is the same age as Yūta. They promise to go catch a bug the following day. Saeko then takes Yūta to an old house. An old woman there treats Yūta like a cousin. Yūta doesn't know what is going on. At night, the strange old man he met earlier appears and tells Yūta that he will belong to this time period for a month. A precious summer vacation for Yūta begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, thrilling
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Chronos Ruler (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on "Chronos Rulers," those who fight the time-eating demons that appear when people wish they could turn back time. The Chronos Rulers fight a time-manipulation battle against these demons.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating
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009 Re: Cyborg (2012)
Plot Summary:
009 Re:Cyborg follows a group of nine cyborgs, each of them created by a shadowy organization for use as weapons against humanity. The group turns on their creators to protect the population instead, using the powers given them to fight their creators.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, exciting, captivating, entertaining
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Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following the success in the Camelot Singularity, Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash Kyrielight are assigned to the last Singularity in the Grand Order initiative. In Ancient Babylonia, 2500 BCE, they embark on a mission to secure humanity's survival. Upon arrival, they learn that three gods have threatened Uruk, the Babylonian city ruled by King Gilgamesh. Ritsuka and Mash must work together to fend off the invasion of mysterious beasts in Uruk under Gilgamesh's orders while investigating the true nature of the three gods' actions against humanity; but unknown to Ritsuka, an ancient entity is slowly rising from its slumber.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 935
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, light, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, exciting
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Persona 3 the Movie: #4 Winter of Rebirth (2016)
Plot Summary:
"The time of destruction is coming ever closer without a doubt. It cannot be stopped." To know death, to gaze at death, to face death. Makoto and his allies have grown through the many meetings and partings they have experienced. Their fight might not be for the sake of the world, but for themselves. Even so, they have continued to fight, believing that there are peaceful days waiting at the end of the battle. However, a boy says that destruction is the fate that humanity must shoulder. The boy they believed to be their friend tells them the truth of the situation without an emotion on his face. The season changes to winter. Makoto makes a decision in order to greet the spring that is waiting beyond.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, sincere, captivating, suspense
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revisions (2019)
Plot Summary:
An isolated city. An unknown enemy. An uncertain past and a prophecy of the future. The children fight the "future" to bring back the "present". No matter what, they're going home.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 36 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing
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Million Arthur (2018)
Plot Summary:
Based on Square Enix's massively multi-player online role-playing game.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining
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Dragon Drive (2002)
Plot Summary:
Oozora Reiji isn't a lazy boy, he's just terribly unmotivated; all the clubs and activities he's joined don't interest him for long. That is, of course, until his best friend Yukino takes him to a underground arcade where an unbelievable virtual reality game is played - Dragon Drive - in which players fight each other with virtual dragons. Reiji ends up throwing all he's got into training a dragon so rare that the Dragon Drive staff are baffled. But soon Reiji learns that Dragon Drive isn't all it seems, and he might be the only one who can save an entire world from evil.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Nobunaga Concerto (2014)
Plot Summary:
Saburo is a high school student good in sports, but not very good with his studies. One day, Saburo travels back in time and arrives in the Sengoku period of 1549. There, Saburo meets Nobunaga Oda who looks and sounds just like Saburo. Nobunaga Oda is the son of a warlord and magistrate of the lower Owari Province. Nobunaga Oda, though, is physically weak, and he asks Saburo to take his place. Then, Saburo as Nobunaga Oda attempts to unify the country of Japan.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Animation, Comedy, History
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, shounen
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The Ambition of Oda Nobuna (2012)
Plot Summary:
The historical romantic comedy follows 17-year-old high schooler Sagara Yoshiharu who one day time-travels to the Sengoku period, where all the major Samurai lords are cute girls. Yoshiharu meets Oda Nobuna, the girl counterpart of Oda Nobunaga, and begins to serve her as a substitute of Kinoshita Toukichirou, who has been dead in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, History, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Time Travel Girl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Mari Hayase is on a mission to go back in time and meet eight of the most prominent scientists and inventors in history. With the help of her two friends Waka Mizuki and Jun Mizuki she’ll find herself up close and personal with famous figures like Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and so many more! What’s her purpose and mission? Hopefully not getting stuck in the past!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Mr. Osomatsu the Movie (2019)
Plot Summary:
The sextuplets attend a high school class reunion. There, they see all their former classmates who have become "proper" adults with company jobs. The sextuplets sulk about this and go home and drink until they fall asleep. But when they wake up, a certain scene awaits them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Crayon Shin-chan: Super-Dimension! The Storm Called My Bride (2010)
Plot Summary:
Shin-chan is approached by his time-traveling future bride-to-be Tamiko, who asks him to help save his adult self from the ruler of Neo Tokio.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, anime
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Doraemon: Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi (2017)
Plot Summary:
Unable to endure the midsummer heat, Doraemon transports Nobita and his friends to a huge iceberg floating in the South Pacific. While creating an amusement parks with the secret tool "Ice-working Iron" the group finds a mysterious golden ring in the ice. Upon closer examination, they determine that the ring was buried in Antarctica 100,000 years ago - before people could have lived there. Doraemon and friends head to Antarctica looking for the owner of the ring and come across the ruins of a huge city buried in the ice. Using Doraemon's Time Belt, the group travels back 100,000 years ago and meets the young girl Kara who is connected to the mysterious ring. But now the group must fight for survival as Doraemon faces the crisis of the entire Earth freezing.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, 2d animation
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Felix: The Toy Rabbit and the Time Machine (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sophie and her family are visiting the city Museum of Natural Sciences where Prof. Snork is working on a new time machine... Suddenly the whole machine starts to shake and, with a bright flash of light, a tiny mammoth named Woolly and a sea turtle by the name of Gertrude materialize next to Felix! All three of them are then catapulted into a journey through time in which they face prehistoric cavemen and even meet Queen Nefertiti in ancient Egypt. However, the return home will not be easy, as Sophie and Prof. Snork work on getting the machine back to the present. Meanwhile, Felix is hosted by the Vikings, meets a whale, comes to know the peoples of the Native Americas and goes adventuring on a Pacific island. Felix and Wolly even participate in a medieval tournament before returning to the safety of Sophie's arms.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission – Take-off (2022)
Plot Summary:
The prologue to My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021), taking place before Izuku Midoriya and his friends embark on a new mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 6 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Digimon Adventure tri. Part 5: Coexistence (2017)
Plot Summary:
Meicoomon rampages after witnessing Meiko Mochizuki being injured by the man bearing Gennai's likeness. "It would have been better if you hadn't been born..." Meicoomon disappears into the Real World, which has since become distorted. Possessing overwhelming power, she's the key to the world's destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 937
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero? (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set in Y-Academy, an elite school that only allows students with top class abilities to enter. The protagonist, Jinpei Jiba, and his unique friends take on the mysteries of the school as transforming heroes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Full Metal Panic! Movie 1: Boy Meets Girl (2017)
Plot Summary:
Shikidouji, the illustrator of Shoji Gatoh's Full Metal Panic! light novel series, revealed that production has been green-lit on a "director's cut" version of the first Full Metal Panic!! television anime series from 2002. The director's cut will consist of three films. The announcement does not state if the film trilogy will add new footage. (Source: ANN).
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, cyberpunk anime
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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great King Enma and the Five Tales, Meow! (2015)
Plot Summary:
Nate, Whisper, Jibanyan, Hailey, USApyon, and all of their Yo-kai friends embark on five unique adventures that all end up tied together in the end.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Digimon Adventure tri. Part 2: Determination (2016)
Plot Summary:
The DigiDestined go to a nearby hot springs theme park and everyone has a good time, but Joe doesn't show up because he wants to study for his exams. Another infected Digimon, Ogremon, attacks Odaiba. Gomamon runs away from home while Mimi faces problems with the other DigiDestined and her classmates because of her selfish ideas.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Axel: The Biggest Little Hero (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young boy becomes an unlikely hero when he sets out on an adventure-filled quest to find the legendary Bonta oasis.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, entertaining, anime
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Monica's Gang in an Adventure in Time (2007)
Plot Summary:
Our heroes need to take a trip in time, in a Time Machine, in order to recoup the essence of the four elements before the Earth gets frozen. The Gang will face the dangers of the Ancient History with Piteco, will help Papa-Capim to save the Forest, will fight with the Astronaut against the pirates and will even meet themselves as babies in the past!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, anime
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Pokémon 4Ever (2001)
Plot Summary:
All your favorite Pokémon characters are back, and are joined for the first time by the legendary Pokémon Celebi and Suicune, in this latest exciting Pokémon adventure! In order to escape a greedy Pokémon hunter, Celebi must use the last of its energy to travel through time to the present day. Celebi brings along Sammy, a boy who had been trying to protect it. Along with Ash, Pikachu, and the rest of the gang, Sammy and Celebi encounter an enemy far more advanced than the hunter left behind in the past. This new enemy possesses a Pokéball called a “Dark Ball,” which transforms the Pokémon it captures into evil and far stronger creatures. When Celebi is captured, the fate of the entire forest is threatened. Let POKÉMON 4EVER transport you to a world of adventure as Ash, Suicune and the rest take action to save the day!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light (2021)
Plot Summary:
With the help of the "Dragon Sin of Wrath" Meliodas and the worst rebels in history, the Seven Deadly Sins, the "Holy War", in which four races, including Humans, Goddesses, Fairies and Giants fought against the Demons, is finally over. At the cost of the "Lion Sin of Pride" Escanor's life, the Demon King was defeated and the world regained peace. After that, each of the Sins take their own path.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, entertaining, perverse
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South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID (2021)
Plot Summary:
If Stan, Kyle and Cartman could just work together, they could go back in time to make sure Covid never happened. But traveling back to the past seems to be the easy answer until they meet Victor Chaos.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: adult animation, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, cult classic, 2d animation
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Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey (2004)
Plot Summary:
An elderly dog goes to a time machine, which he plans to use to drive to the future so he can meet with "someone" who gives him a kendama. However, the machine goes haywire and the dog is regressed back to his infant state, eventually found by a researcher cat.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, semi serious, 2d animation
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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow! (2016)
Plot Summary:
A giant whale appears and flies above Sakura New Town. With the whale’s sound of crying, some changes occur to Kenta Amano and Yokai.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious