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Plot Summary:
Ritsuka Tachibana is a female second-year high school student who attends Shiko Academy in Shiko Town. She enjoyed her school life while living with her mother Maria, but one day, that balance fell into ruin when she discovers several of her attractive, male classmate are demons.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: shoujo, anime, tense, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman (2015)
Plot Summary:
The scenery takes place in a private high school involving the concept of "saviors." They are known as people who possess awakened memories of their past lives. The story tells of a young boy named Moroha Haimura who comes to this private school. At the school, there are two types of people: Saviors, who fight enemies with weapons and techniques gleaned from the Puraana powers from their own bodies, and Kuroma, who wipe out enemies with magic to manipulate the Maana powers that surpass physics. Moroha Haimura is the first person with past lives of both Shirogane and Kuroma.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: ecchi, anime, shoujo, tense, enigmatic, captivating, manga
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Mischief of the Gods (2014)
Plot Summary:
Yui Kusanagi is ordered by Zeus, a god and the headmaster of a school he created, to teach the meaning of love to young and handsome gods. The reason he has for doing this is to cancel the negative effects of the weakening bond between the world of the divine and the world of the humans.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: shoujo, anime, touching, humorous, sentimental, super sentai
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How to Keep a Mummy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kashiwagi Sora is living a normal high school student life, when his "adventurer" father sends him a mummy from his travels in Egypt! Sora balks at the letter from his crazy dad ("I found a cool mummy, so I decided to leave it with you, son!") at first, but the mummy that emerges from inside the huge coffin is a mere 12 centimeters tall--small enough to fit in the palm of his hand... Not only that, it's shy, a crybaby, and most of all, heckin' cute. And so, Sora and ends up keeping the mummy, naming his new little buddy "Mii-kun." But living with a mummy might be easier said than done...!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, iyashikei
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Diabolik Lovers (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on a visual novel of the same name by Rejet and Otomate, for the female market. Komori Yui is a positive-thinking girl who nevertheless is troubled by seeing spirits and experiencing poltergeist phenomena. In her second year in high school, she transfers to a new school — a night school for entertainers and celebrities — due to her father's work. There are rumours that vampires exist among the student body, and Yui ends up living with the six sadistic Sakamaki vampire brothers.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, sexy, enigmatic, gothic, captivating, tense, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
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Persona 5 the Animation: The Day Breakers (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story focuses on the 16-year-old Protagonist after he is transferred to Shujin High School in Tokyo. Staying with friends of his parents, he meets up with two fellow students, problem child Ryuuji Sakamoto and withdrawn Anne Takamaki, and a talking, shape-shifting cat-like creature known as Morgana. During his time there, feeling suppressed by their environment, the four form a group known as the "Phantom Thieves," working together to carry out heists and encountering mysterious phenomena along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, captivating, contemplative, anime
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Otherside Picnic (2021)
Plot Summary:
Friendless college girl Sorawo finds a door to another world one day — a strangely post-apocalyptic-feeling Otherside with serene emptiness, which becomes her new “special place.” There, she meets one other human, the beautiful and independent Toriko, and they explore the abandoned Otherside together.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, tense, sincere, entertaining, contemplative, colorful, yuri, suspense, unusual plot structure
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Gugure! Kokkuri-san (2014)
Plot Summary:
A little girl named Kohina ends up summoning a Kokkuri-san, a lower-ranking ghost in Japanese folklore. The Kokkuri-san she calls ends up being a white-haired handsome, young man. Although he had intended to merely haunt her at first, he becomes worried about her terrible eating habit of cup ramen for every meal, so he decides to haunt her in order to protect her.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, shounen, super sentai, unusual plot structure
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Dies Irae (2017)
Plot Summary:
On May 1, 1945 in Berlin, as the Red Army raises the Soviet flag over the Reichskanzlei, a group of Nazi officers conduct a ritual. For them, the slaughter in the city is nothing but the perfect ritual sacrifice in order to bring back the Order of the 13 Lances, a group of supermen whose coming would bring the world's destruction. Years later, no one knows if this group of officers succeeded, or whether they lived or died. Few know of their existence, and even those who knew began to pass away as the decades passed. Now in December in the present day in Suwahara City, Ren Fujii spends his days at the hospital. Every night he sees the same dream: A guillotine. Murderers who hunt people, and the black clothed knights who pursue the murderers. He is desperate to return to his normal, everyday life, but even now he hears his friend Shirō's words: "Everyone who remains in this city eventually loses their minds.".
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! (2021)
Plot Summary:
The peaceful days of the very popular work Bungou Stray Dogs are here. The characters of the Armed Detective Agency and the Mafia are in miniature form?! Due to Atsushi and co. becoming cute, this is a different experience to the original work—a pleasant gag manga!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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The Strange Chores (2019)
Plot Summary:
The show centers around two teenage warrior-heroes and a spirited ghost girl who master the skills they need to replace an ageing monster-slayer by doing his supernatural chores.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Animation
Country: Australia
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, contemplative, spooky
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Mr Love: Queen's Choice (2020)
Plot Summary:
A girl inherits a company that is almost bankrupt from her late father. Lacking the funds, she must now become the producer herself in order to save the company from collapse. During her work, she meets four boys—financial expert Zen, the idol Kira, police officer Haku, and leading neuroscientist Simon—and is suddenly involved with the conspiracies and mysteries over the existence of special powers known as "Evol.".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, psychological, exciting, tense, touching, captivating, suspense
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Magica Wars (2014)
Plot Summary:
"Mahou Shoujo Taisen" is a project created from a variety show for the Otaku "2.5 Chigen TV" (2.5 Dimension TV). The characters are the mahou shoujo that represent each local town in Japan. The characters that won from the second illustration competitions that were held on pixiv will appear in the anime.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense
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The Urara of Labyrinth Town (2017)
Plot Summary:
This is Meiro-machi (Labyrinth Town), the town of fortune-telling. In town, there is a fortune-telling shop called Urara, where girls aspiring to be fortune-tellers come from all over the country. Chiya, who was raised in the mountains, comes to the town with a purpose, but what is it exactly? There, she meets Kon who is always serious, Koume who loves all things western, and the shy Nono. Their fun days of living together as apprentice fortune-tellers are about to begin.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, psychological, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, yaoi, yuri, super sentai
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Kowabon (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kowabon, a horror story, will be animated using a technique called rotoscoping. Animators will trace live-action footage frame-by-frame to recreate it as animation.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Animation, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 3 min
Plot tags: anime, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga (2017)
Plot Summary:
After discovering that he's the son of Satan, a young man must join the True Cross Academy in order to master his abilities and defeat Satan himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, manga, shounen
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Laughing Under the Clouds (2014)
Plot Summary:
When swords were outlawed in the eleventh year of the Meiji era, the mighty samurai population began to dwindle. Those who rejected the ban on blades rebelled, causing violent unrest to erupt throughout the countryside. To combat the rise in criminal activity, an inescapable lake prison was constructed. Three young men, born of the Kumo line, were given the duty of delivering criminals to their place of confinement – but could there be more to their mission than meets the eye?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, shoujo, absurd, josei
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Fog Hill of Five Elements (2020)
Plot Summary:
A legend tells that a long time ago, monsters could give the ability to certain elected officials to master the five elements. But for that, you have to go through the dangerous foggy mountains... We follow the adventures of one of these elected officials.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: China
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: anime, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, 2d animation
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Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation (2018)
Plot Summary:
Are you a victim of unwanted spirit possession? Is there a ghost you need sent up and away...or down to burn for all eternity? If the answer is yes, then you need Muhyo and Roji, experts in magic law. Serving justice to evil spirits is their specialty.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, humorous, captivating, contemplative, shounen, unusual plot structure
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Dr. Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist (2021)
Plot Summary:
So long as people have hearts, there will be those with worries and concerns. Those hearts are then invaded by something strange, causing them to show strange physical symptoms. These ailments, called "mysterious diseases," exist unseen to most people. Modern medicine offers no cure, but there is one doctor who fights these diseases along with his pupils. His name is Ramune. He looks nothing like a doctor, is foul-mouthed, and does whatever he pleases, but he has the ability to pinpoint the cause of the troubles hidden deep within his patients' hearts and cure their mysterious diseases.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, shounen, satirical, 2d animation
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Boogiepop and Others (2019)
Plot Summary:
There is an urban legend that tells of a shinigami that can release people from the pain they are suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name—Boogiepop. And the legends are true. Boogiepop is real. When a rash of disappearances involving female students breaks out at Shinyo Academy, the police and faculty assume they just have a bunch of runaways on their hands. Yet some students know better. Something mysterious and foul is afoot. Is it Boogiepop or something even more sinister...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, psychological, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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The Girl in Twilight (2018)
Plot Summary:
Girls who live in a provincial city perform a certain ritual. The girls are in the "Crystal Radio Club." It is an interest circle that Asuka Tsuchimiya, a girl known for her cheerfulness, started with friends in her high school. That ritual was considered just an urban legend. However, with several conditions coincidentally falling into place, it stops being fun and games.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Animation, Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, super sentai
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 Motion Comic (2010)
Plot Summary:
Posing as a viscount's daughter, Faith infiltrates Lady Genevieve's gala and is attacked by Roden's gargoyle security team. Elsewhere, Willow offers to Dawn with her plus-sized problem and is called upon to upgrade the castle's defense system.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 275 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Scar on the Praeter (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of a rebellion in the Akatsuki Special Ward of Tokyo, agents known as the Scard rise up to become the protectors of peace. With Divine Tattoos that each possess unique powers, they’ll have to fight to preserve their own definitions of justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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Magical Sisters Yoyo & Nene (2013)
Plot Summary:
It is a story about a pair of sisters who work as "noroiya" (cursers) using magic in a fantasy world. One day a big tree suddenly appears in a forest, and tall buildings that look like they are from our world can be seen entangled in it. The two sisters go there to investigate and get ported to our world. They then encounter two children who are startled by the sisters' sudden appearance and rush back home but at home they see their parents turned into monsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Tokyo Ghoul: Root A (2015)
Plot Summary:
Tokyo Ghoul: Root A.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, scary, exciting, bloody, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, visually appealing, humorous
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Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom (2014)
Plot Summary:
The second part of the retelling of the first and second seasons of the anime.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, super sentai, exciting, unusual plot structure
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Overlord: The Dark Hero (2017)
Plot Summary:
The second recap film of season 1 of the anime TV series Overlord, covering episodes 8 to 13.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, anime, unusual plot structure
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Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Chizuru Yukimura comes to Edo-period Kyoto searching for her missing father, she witnesses a bloody murder by crazed members of the Shinsengumi - the shogunate's secret police and supposed peacekeepers. Taken into custody after seeing something she wasn't supposed to see, Chizuru finds herself caught up in the group's battles and secrets. Based on the video game by Otomate.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, super sentai, exciting, unusual plot structure
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Hot Streets (2016)
Plot Summary:
An FBI agent, his partner, his niece and her cowardly dog investigate supernatural phenomena.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags: adult animation, exciting, feel good, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Concrete Revolutio (2015)
Plot Summary:
The stage is set in "another Japan" as a banquet of diverse superhumans unfolds... In an imaginary "age of gods" about 20 years after the war, Japan has grown and developed by leaps and bounds. What if all the superhumans ever written about in fictional stories existed at the same time? Superhumans who came into existence through different circumstances, and who are special in different ways—Titans from outer space, lifeforms from a mystical world, phantoms and goblins from ancient times, cyborgs created by scientists, relics that rose out of the ruins of ancient civilizations, and the list goes on. One segment of these superhumans makes no secret of their existence and has gained popularity in society. Others cloak their identities and fight in secrecy. There are enemies of superhumans as well, organizations that operate in the shadows. The Japanese government has taken many measures to secure peace and order. One is the establishment of an organization under the Ministry of Health and Welfare—the Overpopulation Research Laboratory, a.k.a. the Superhuman Bureau. Their mission is to identify and approach superhumans, then oversee and safeguard them. One member of the Superhuman Bureau, Jirou Hitoyoshi, is protagonist of this series.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, feel good, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, mecha, super sentai, unusual plot structure