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Plot Summary:
Set in a part of Tokyo that has descended into a quagmire, the story follows Unit 8 of the 5th Special Public Security Section's 3rd Mobile Assault Division — popularly called "The Eighth" — who don powered armor "Willware" exoskeletons to counter the rise in crime. Assistant inspector Asami Kazari is assigned to The Eighth with the task of assessing the unit's status and reporting it to her superiors. But her true goal is to rehabilitate this sloppy, haphazard, justice-less group.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, mecha, 3d animation, computer animated
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Night Head 2041 (2021)
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The story follows the Kirihara brothers who from a young age were incarcerated in a secure scientific facility due to their supernatural powers, having escaped after the barrier that was preventing them malfunctions. The story also follows the Kuroki brothers who are trying to chase the Kirihara brothers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
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Argevollen (2014)
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The story takes place in a world where two countries, Arandas and Ingelmia, have been warring against each other for a very long time. Tokimune, a young man belonging to Independent Unit 8 of Arandas, saves a girl named Jamie when she is attacked by enemy forces. In order to survive, he pilots the new mech Argevollen and fights. The new mech Argevollen is defined by its U-Link system wherein the Argevollen molds to its pilot's mind and cannot be piloted by anyone else. This customization allows the pilot to envision what the mech will do in his mind to use it, rather than physically move and steer it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating, super sentai
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Galilei Donna (2013)
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Hozuki, Hazaki, and Kazaki Ferrari, three descendents of Galileo, live in Tuscany. A mysterious organization is searching for the "Galilei Donna," and put out an international arrest warrant for the three sisters. The sisters must put aside their differences to join forces in fighting the organization and learning their true destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, mecha
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Voltes V (1977)
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Chōdenji Machine Voltes V (超電磁マシーン ボルテスＶ Chōdenji Mashīn Borutesu Faibu?, Super Electromagnetic Machine Voltes Five) more popularly known as Voltes V, is a Japanese anime television series that was first aired on TV Asahi starting June 4, 1977. It was created by Saburo Yatsude (a pseudonym referring to a committee within Toei Company) and directed by Tadao Nagahama. Voltes V is the second part of the Robot Romance Trilogy of the Super Robot genre which includes Chōdenji Robo Combattler V and Tōshō Daimos. Like Combattler V, the series was animated by Sunrise and produced by Toei Company. The series was animated by Sunrise on Toei's behalf. This super robot along with the other two aforementioned super robots first appeared the USA as a part of Mattel's Shogun Warriors line of import toys, released in the late 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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SSSS.Gridman (2018)
Plot Summary:
Yuta Hibiki can’t remember who he is, and now he’s seeing and hearing things that others don’t! A voice from an old computer tells him to remember his calling, and he sees a massive, unmoving creature in the distance. Nothing’s making sense—until the behemoth springs to life! Suddenly, Yuta is pulled into the digital world, reappearing in the real one as the colossal hero—Gridman!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, surreal
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Buddy Complex (2014)
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When a giant robot suddenly attacks the city, a high-school student named Aoba is saved by a classmate who's piloting her own mecha. After accepting an offer to join the alliance she's is a part of, Aoba is thrust into the middle of high-flying robot warfare in this new series from the studio that brought you Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, and Escaflowne!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Super Robot Wars: Original Generation - Divine Wars (2006)
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Robot bugs suddenly attack Tokyo and robot gamer Ryusei is given a real, mechanical robot trooper to see whether he is a qualified fighter in a war which he has just now become a part of. Amazingly the controls to the personal trooper are just as in the game.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: mecha, anime, futuristic
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86 (2021)
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Called “Juggernaut,” these are the unmanned combat drones developed by the Republic of San Magnolia in answer to the attacks by the autonomous unmanned drones of the neighboring Empire of Giad, the “Legion”. But they’re only unmanned in name. In reality, they are piloted by the Eighty-sixers—those considered to be less than human and treated as mere tools. Determined to achieve his own mysterious ends, Shin, the captain of Spearhead Squadron, which is comprised of Eighty-sixers, continues to fight a hopeless war on a battlefield where only death awaits him.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: futuristic, anime, exciting, tense, captivating
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LBX Girls (2021)
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In an unplanned field trip, Riko is transported to an alternate Japan where metal-based life forms known as Mimesis ravage the world. Only girls equipped with LBX armored weaponry can stand up to this scourge. Joined by four other displaced young women, Riko will have to adapt to save humanity. The hope of a planet now rests on these heavy metal soldiers who desire one wish—to return home again!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic
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Pacific Rim: The Black (2021)
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Two siblings - an idealistic teenage boy and his naïve younger sister - are forced to pilot an abandoned Jaeger across a hostile landscape in a desperate attempt to find their missing parents.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, anime, mecha, 3d animation, computer animated
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Getter Robo Arc (2021)
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Taking place several years after Getter Robo Go, Earth is now a post-apocalyptic world. Hayato, now an aging scientist, has completed Professor Saotome's masterpiece, Getter Robo Arc. Piloting it are Ryoma's son Takuma, the human-dinosaur Kamui, and the younger brother of Tayel, Baku. Alongside the reformed Dinosaur Empire, they fight the insectoid Andromeda Flow Country attacking from across time and space.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, shounen
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Super Dragon Ball Heroes (2018)
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Trunks returns from the future to train with Goku and Vegeta. However, it disappears without warning. Then the mysterious Fu bursts in, telling them that Trunks has been imprisoned in the Prison Planet, a mysterious complex in an unknown place in the universes. The group seeks the dragon balls to free Trunks, but an endless battle awaits them! Will Goku and the others rescue Trunks and escape the Prison Planet?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, exciting, light, futuristic, intense
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Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact! (2009)
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Shin Mazinger Shogeki! Z Hen, alternatively romanized Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z Hen and romanized/translated in the Soul of Chogokin toys line as Shin Mazinger Impact Z!, is a new Mazinger anime series, directed by Yasuhiro Imagawa which premiered in Japan on April 4, 2009. According to the production staff, it has no relation to the 1970s show and should not be described as a Mazinger Z remake. The series is a "retelling" of the basic story of Mazinger Z, featuring most of the same characters, mechanical beasts, and some general plots of the original series, plus some additional material. It keeps the original plot line of Mazinger Z, but makes references to other Go Nagai works, such as Z Mazinger, Violence Jack, Mao Dante and others. Elements from other related Mazinger works appear in the series, such as the story of Kedora and the appearance of Energer Z, the original concept before Mazinger Z. Along with the TV series, a new manga, Shin Mazinger Zero started on April 18, 2009 in the magazine Champion Red. The pair responsible for the shōnen manga Akumetsu, Yoshiaki Tabata and Yuki Yogo, write and illustrate the Shin Mazinger Zero manga. In 2010 a game based on the series was released for the PC.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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UFO Robot Goldorak (1975)
Plot Summary:
Golodorak The Movie.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, grindhouse, exciting, serious, futuristic, stylized
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Knights of Sidonia (2014)
Plot Summary:
An alien race called Gauna has destroyed Earth. leaving humanity struggling to survive aboard the spaceship Sidonia. Even though it’s been a century since the last encounter with the Gauna, military service is mandatory. For Nagate Tanikaze, whose grandfather secretly hid him in the forgotten bowels of Sidonia, it’s a strange new world as he’s forced to come to the surface. Yet his recruitment comes just in time, for the Gauna have suddenly reappeared.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, tense, captivating, manga, psychological, suspense, super sentai
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Zoids: New Century (2001)
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Zoids: Chaotic Century, simply titled Zoids in Japan, is the first of four anime series based on the Zoids range of mecha model kits produced by TOMY. It is loosely adapted from the manga series Kiiju Shinseiki Zoido, which was created by Michiro Ueyama and published in CoroCoro Comics. The series was animated by XEBEC, and aired from 1999-09-04 to 2000-12-23 on TBS Network. Although the first series to be produced for the franchise in Japan, Chaotic Century was the second series to be dubbed and aired in Western nations, following Zoids: New Century.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, serious, exciting, light, captivating, mecha, shounen, saga, epic fantasy
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Real Drive (2008)
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The story takes place in 2061, 50 years after humanity developed the "Net society" that depended on information networks despite their security issues. To improve security, a new network called Meta Real Network — or "Metal" for short — was developed. People's personal memories are reduced to information and placed within "protected virtual stand-alone organic cyber enclaves" called bubble shells online. The result was a virtual "explosion" of creative freedom as people felt safe enough to explore instincts and desires on Metal that they would not otherwise explore in real life. This "friction" between the Metal's alluring lack of restrictions and rules-bound reality led to trouble and incidents that investigators known as "cyber divers" must handle. Masamichi Haru is one such cyber diver.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, cyber
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Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2045, after global capitalism has defaulted, Japan's elite Section 9 begins conducting covert cyber operations.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, futuristic, psychological, mecha, 3d animation, computer animated, cyberpunk anime
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Heat Guy J (2002)
Plot Summary:
Heat Guy J is a 26 episode science fiction anime series created by Escaflowne director Kazuki Akane and Satelight. Heat Guy J was licensed and distributed in the U.S. in 2003 by Pioneer. It was re-released by Funimation Entertainment in the fall of 2009. The first 13 episodes of the show also was broadcast on the cable channel MTV2. A one volume manga was created based on the series, and was licensed and distributed by TOKYOPOP. The show was picked up for a UK DVD release by Manga Entertainment starting in March 2006. It was packaged in double DVD sets to make up for the long delayed release of the series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, neo noir, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, cyber, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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Kuromukuro (2016)
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During the construction of the Kurobe Dam, an ancient artifact was discovered, and so the United Nations Kurobe Research Institute was established. Intellectuals from all over the world gathered to study the object, and the children of those researchers attend Mt. Tate International Senior High School, including the institute head's daughter, Yukina Shirahane. In the summer of 2016, a lone samurai once again awakens.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, futuristic, manga
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The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye (2006)
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The future Earth; with over 80% having been annihilated in a great war, the rest live under the dominion of a race known as The Third. These beings possess a third Space Eye on their foreheads, and watch over the Earth and it's remaining populace, granting it a limited amount of technology; those who infringe on the so-called Technos Taboo are harshly dealt with. Meanwhile, Honoka, a desert wanderer, along with her sand tank's sentient AI, Bogie, makes her living as a jack-of-all-trades, performing whatever tasks folks may require. This ranges from simple deliveries and escorts to giant insect exterminations. The only task she refuses to do is take human life. Nonetheless, her skill and grace with the katana has earned her the name "Sword Dancer". However, upon rescuing a quiet wanderer named Iks, who also holds the attention of the Third, she finds herself starting to think more deeply about her own inner thoughts and emotions.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, mecha, futuristic, captivating, tense, entertaining, serious
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Spidey and His Amazing Friends (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follow Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy and Miles Morales and their adventures as the young heroes team up with Hulk, Ms. Marvel and Black Panther to defeat foes like Rhino, Doc Ock and Green Goblin and learn that teamwork is the best way to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: 3d animation, computer animated
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Samurai Flamenco (2013)
Plot Summary:
Male model Masayoshi Hazama decides to become a superhero, despite having no superpowers or the technology to create a high-powered suit. He becomes the hero, Samurai Flamenco and begins to fight crime in the name of justice. Police officer Hidenori Goto finds out about Samurai Flamenco and his real identity by a twist of fate, which leads to him getting involved in lots of trouble. These two young men will come face to face with hardships of being crime-fighters while discovering what it truly means to be a hero of justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, parody
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Gatchaman Crowds (2013)
Plot Summary:
Tachikawa, Japan, is a "second metropolis" of Tokyo, protected by the Gatchaman, warriors who fight in special reinforced suits powered by the manifestation of their spiritual powers called NOTE. When the energetic and cheerful Hajime Ichinose becomes their newest member, the Gatchaman must deal with Berg Katze, an enigmatic alien creature bent on destroying Earth just like it did with several other planets in the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, light, adult anime, serious, suspenseful, stylized, super sentai
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Tiger & Bunny (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tiger & Bunny is a 2011 Japanese anime television series produced by Sunrise under the direction of Keiichi Satou. The screenplay was written by Masafumi Nishida, with original character design by Masakazu Katsura. The series began its broadcast run in Japan on April 3, 2011 on Tokyo MX, followed by rebroadcasts on BS11 and MBS, and ended on September 17, 2011. Viz Media are also simulcasting the series, streaming on Hulu and Anime News Network. It is set in a futuristic city where heroes fight crime whilst promoting real life sponsors, focusing on two superheroes, the old-fashioned "Wild Tiger" and the rookie hero Barnaby Brooks Jr., as they are forced by their employers to work together. A one-shot manga drawn by Masakazu Katsura was published in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine on August 4, 2011 and the production of two films based on the series were announced during a special event on November, 2011. The first film, entitled Gekijō-ban Tiger & Bunny -The Beginning was released on September 22, 2012. The second film, Gekijō-ban Tiger & Bunny -The Rising-, will be released in February 2014.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, captivating, tense, entertaining, mecha, manga, shounen, futuristic
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Ultraman (2019)
Plot Summary:
Decades ago, a hero from the stars left this world in peace. Now, the son of Ultraman must rise to protect the Earth from a new alien threat.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, 3d animation, exciting, light, captivating, suspense, entertaining, scenic, adult animation, computer animated
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Shikizakura (2021)
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Shikizakura: where cherry blossoms are in full bloom while trees are colored with autumn leaves. In this special place, where the transient world meets the spirit world, a ritual to save humanity is about to begin… High school student Kakeru Miwa, by a strange turn of events, winds up being an irregular member of a power suit team tasked with battling Oni. These Oni possess humans and try to cling to the transient world. Only the power suit, Yoroi, which combines ancient secrets with the latest technology, can protect people from Oni. Kakeru decides to become a hero who will battle Oni and protect Ouka Myoujin, the shrine maiden fated with saving the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, exciting, humorous, entertaining, futuristic, 3d animation, computer animated, atmospheric, stylized
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Gatchaman (1972)
Plot Summary:
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman is a five-member superhero team that is composed of the main characters in several anime created by Tatsuo Yoshida and originally produced in Japan by Tatsunoko Productions and later adapted into several English-language versions. It is also known by the abbreviated name Gatchaman. The original series, produced in 1972, was eponymously named Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman and is most well known to the English-speaking world as the adaptation titled Battle of the Planets. The series received additional English adaptations with G-Force: Guardians of Space and ADV Films' uncut 2005 release. Tatsunoko also uses the official translation Science Commando Gatchaman, as shown in numerous related products and media. Because the English-language versions are notoriously inconsistent not only with one another but also with the original Japanese series, viewers most familiar with the English versions often experience some confusion upon re-examining the series after a long hiatus. The original 1972 Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman series was followed by an animated film, two sequel series, Gatchaman II, and Gatchaman Fighter. In the 90's, episodes from both series were dubbed into English by Saban as Eagle Riders. In 1994, the original series was remade as a condensed OVA series.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, super sentai, cyber, exciting, serious, stylized, mecha
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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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Super Crooks (2021)
Plot Summary:
In this anime adaptation, small-time crook Johnny Bolt recruits the ultimate crew for one last heist -- for real! From comic book legend, Mark Millar.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime