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Plot Summary:
He is charming, cool, athletic, a good cook, but more importantly, he's a clean freak. Aoyama is idolized and respected by everyone, but they can only admire him from afar due to his mysophobia. Despite that, he plays soccer—a rather dirty sport! As the playmaker for Fujimi High School's soccer club, Aoyama avoids physical contact at all cost and cleanly dribbles toward victory. However, the path to Nationals will not be easy for Fujimi's underdog team. But alongside striker Kaoru Zaizen, Aoyama will show everyone that even as a clean freak, there are things he's willing to get dirty for.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious, seinen
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Animation, Sport
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
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The Knight in the Area is a Japanese manga series written by Hiroaki Igano and illustrated by Kaya Tsukiyama. The series was adapted into an anime by Shin-Ei Animation and broadcast on TV Asahi beginning January 7, 2012.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Kyosuke Kano has lived under the shadow of his successful brother Seisuke all his life who is a professional soccer player. Tired of being compared and downgraded at, he abandoned playing soccer until a boy from his new highschool discovered him and asked him to join their team. Kyosuke joins it and befriends two other first year players named Rodrigo and Sakai with the dream of becoming professional soccer players themselves.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, shounen, entertaining
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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The story revolves around high school girls who discover the appeal of motorcycles. Sakura Hane is a high school student who looks a little bit like an airhead. On the way to her all-female high school one day, she is worn-out climbing a hilly road with a bicycle, but she sees a girl named Onsa Amano who is riding a motorcycle. Sakura immediately becomes interested in motorcycles, and she and Onsa join the motorcycle club at the school. Then, Sakura sets out to get her license.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min
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Captain Tsubasa (1983)
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, retro, exciting, captivating, serious
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 99
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Giant Killing follows a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo who are struggling in Japan's top football league. Nearing the bottom, they have lost 5 matches in a row which hasn't done much to team morale. Even with the fan's turning their backs on the team, it seems as if the end is near. East Tokyo United can only blame their coach right now. However, their Coach is going to do something drastic to prove to his team and fans, that against the biggest club in the nation, he can make this team win.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Endou Mamoru is a cheerful goalkeeper in Raimon Jr High, with six other players in the team. But there was a day when the team was almost lead to disbandment by Natsumi unless they are to win the match against the Teikoku Gakuen, currently the best team of Japan. He tried to save the club by gathering four more players to the team.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 175
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 398
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 63
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Animation, Comedy
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Duration: 24 min
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Nobody knows what it's like to be the bad man… except the bad man's right-hand man, who has to take the boss' deranged ideas and turn them into functioning plans. So, when the sadistic president of the Teiai Group decides he's bored with the routine leg breaking and widow/orphan evicting, he assigns the task of coming up with something "special" to his ruthless Number Two, Yukio Tonegawa. But how do you amuse someone who destroys a dozen lives before breakfast? There's a huge pool of potential victims in the form of TFO's swollen roster of defaulting borrowers, but if Tonegawa and his team of nearly identical men in black look-alikes can't create a "game of death" that tickles the boss' demented funny bones, they may end up playing the game themselves!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, seinen, super sentai
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Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time (2014)
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In the middle of class at a certain school, Rumi Yokoi, a diligent student, has her in-class life turned upside down when her desk mate Toshinari Seki begins to play by himself at his desk in class. Although Rumi is irked by Toshinari's distracting yet intricate playtime, she finds herself being drawn into his interesting hobby. Never being able to focus, Rumi observes Seki's stunning ways of slacking off in class.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 71
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 61
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 84
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 400
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 38
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 84
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 72
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 50
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Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 150
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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