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Plot Summary:
In the distant future, the earth is almost entirely covered by the ocean, with only small islands and floating cities on the surface. 15-year-old Maia Mizuki is turned down by the prestigious Ocean Agency, despite her exceptional skills and superior grades. After finally being evicted from her home, she joins the Nereids squad, a group of bounty hunters who seek fugitives from justice and other dangerous missions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, exciting, tense, suspense, contemplative, ecchi, black comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Mouse (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sorata is an art instructor at Yamanoue School. At the young age of 20 he is already a full-fledged teacher with a meek and nerd-like disposition. Yet Sorata has a secret: he's Mouse, the internationally infamous thief.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, ecchi, seinen, campy
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Michiko & Hatchin (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in a fictional country with cultural traces from South American countries, mostly from Brazil. The title's Michiko is a free-willed "sexy diva" who escapes from a supposedly inescapable prison fortress, while Hatchin is a girl fleeing her abusive foster family. The two join forces on an improbable escape to freedom.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, touching, entertaining, serious, realistic, stylized
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Dominion Tank Police (1988)
Plot Summary:
Leona Ozaki joins Newport City's infamous Tank Police division. With aid of Al and her newly built mini-tank, Bonaparte, she wages war on Buaku and his cohorts, the Puma Sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, manga, adult anime, cyberpunk anime, cult film
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High-Rise Invasion (2021)
Plot Summary:
High-school girl Yuri suddenly finds herself on the rooftop of a high-rise building. She's trapped in a bizarre world surrounded by skyscrapers, where a masked man cracked open a man's head with an axe before her eyes. Finding a way to survive this bizarre world, find her beloved brother, and escape becomes her top priority, but she is beset by danger not just from the mysterious Masks, which possess both inhuman strength and cruelty, but other survivors turned cruel or desparate by the insanity of the high-rise world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, mysterious, ecchi, captivating, suspense, disturbing, shounen, psychological thriller, tense, futuristic
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Aldnoah.Zero (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission discovered a hypergate to Mars on the surface of the moon. Soon a war breaks out between Earth and Mars, and Martian soldiers begin to descend from the sky, riding steel giants, intent on exterminating humanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, mecha, tense, exciting, semi serious, futuristic
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Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kenichi is always getting picked on and needs motivation if he hopes to graduate, Miu’s the perfect motivation.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, inspirational, captivating, entertaining, sincere, feel good, brutal, shounen, ecchi
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Astra Lost in Space (2019)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2061, when space travel is now possible and commercially viable, and the students of Caird High School embark on their Planet Camp. But soon after Group B5 arrived at their planetary camp site, a mysterious and unforeseen sentient light sphere warps its 9 members into outer space, stranding them 5012 light years away from their home planet. With the discovery of an old, unmanned spaceship nearby, the students must stay strong, manage their limited resources and remain united in the darkness of space, so that all of them can survive their long and likely perilous trek back home aboard the Astra.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, psychological, captivating, disturbing, futuristic, tense, adult anime, shounen
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Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (2012)
Plot Summary:
She's a thief. A killer. A saint and a scandal. She's whatever you need her to be to get the job done. She's Fujiko Mine, the slinky, sultry thread that holds Lupin III's crew together -- and this is the heist that started it all.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, contemplative, detective, ecchi
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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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Lupin the Third (1971)
Plot Summary:
Arsene Lupin III is the grandson of the master thief Arsene Lupin. With his cohorts Daisuke Jigen and Goemon Ishikawa XIII and his love interest Fujiko Mine, he pulls off the greatest heists of all time while always escaping the grasp of Inspector Koichi Zenigata.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, manga, exciting, humorous, witty, stylized, semi serious, detective, vintage
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Persona 4 The Golden Animation (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the spring when the cherry blossom petals fall, Yū Narukami moves to Yaso Inaba to live with his uncle and cousin due to his family's circumstances. He transfers to Yasogami High School, where his event-filled school life begins. However, when serial murders begin occurring in the peaceful town, Yū is awakened to the power of his heart turned to physical form: A Persona. Within these new mysteries is Marie, a resident of the alternate world, the Velvet Room, who has no memories of her past. Together with his friends, Yū must solve all the riddles set in front of him and save Yaso Inaba from further violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tsundere
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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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Burn-Up Excess (1997)
Plot Summary:
Burn-Up Excess is an animated Japanese television series, directed by Shinichiro Kimura, animated by Magic Bus and produced by AIC. It aired from 1997 to 1998, ran for 13 episodes, and 4 volumes of videos were released on VHS and DVD in North America by ADV Films. The series is a tongue-in-cheek look at a special operations unit in the Tokyo police force called "Team Warrior", with large amounts of fan service thrown in for good measure, exemplified by the inclusion of ADV's trademarked "Jiggle Counter" on the DVD's along with Plastic Little.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, ecchi, adult animation
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C³ Cube x Cursed x Curious (2011)
Plot Summary:
A high school student named Yachi Haruaki receives a mysterious, super-heavy black cube from his father overseas. That night, Haruaki wakes up to a suspicious noise in the kitchen, and he discovers a fully naked female thief of rice crackers. The girl, Fear, is the first of several surprises that Haruaki receives.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, ecchi
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Space Cobra (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cobra, a famous charismatic space pirate with "psychogun" for a hand, decides to renounce his ways, and become an ordinary person with a new identity. His memories do come back and he becomes a space adventurer fighting villains.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, tense, suspense, futuristic, super sentai, mecha
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Marriage of God & Soul Godannar!! (2003)
Plot Summary:
Godannar is an anime series created and directed by Yasuchika Nagaoka. The first season aired in Japan from October 1 to December 24, 2003 on AT-X. A second season later aired from April 5 to June 29, 2004. Both seasons were licensed by ADV Films for North America. However as of 2013, it is now licensed by Sentai Filmworks.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, ecchi, emotional, stylized, mecha, super sentai, futuristic
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Magic Kaito: Kid the Phantom Thief (2010)
Plot Summary:
Kaito Kuroba, a normal teenage high school student, stumbles across the secret of his father's death: his father was not only a magician, but the famous phantom thief Kaitou Kid, and was killed by an organization for reasons unknown. Taking up his father's mantle in an attempt to bait the killers, Kaito performs a number of thefts and eventually learns that his father died for interfering in the organization's quest to find the Pandora Gem. Pandora is said to glow in the light of the moon, and beneath the moon and a certain comet, will shed a tear granting immortality to whomever drinks it. Kaito then decides to search for Pandora as Kaitou Kid and destroy it, in order to prevent the organization from obtaining their goals.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Birdy the Mighty: Decode (2008)
Plot Summary:
While pursuing fugitives the Space Federation police officer Birdy Cephon Altera finds herself on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
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Bungo Stray Dogs (2016)
Plot Summary:
Nakajima Atsushi was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Dazai Osamu, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. They're tracking down a tiger that has appeared in the area recently, around the time Atsushi came to the area. The tiger seems to have a connection to Atsushi, and by the time the case is solved, it is clear that Atsushi's future will involve much more of Dazai and the rest of the detectives!.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, emotional, tense, captivating, humorous, mysterious, seinen, detective, crying
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Queen's Blade: Rebellion (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story is set four years after the first story-line and revolves around Annelotte, the rebelling knight princess who stands up to the tyranny of the new queen.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, tense, exciting, humorous, captivating, ecchi, erotic, black comedy, dark comedy
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Real Drive (2008)
Plot Summary:
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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Godzilla Singular Point (2021)
Plot Summary:
Brought together by a mysterious song, a grad student and an engineer lead the fight against an unimaginable force that may spell doom for the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, anime, mecha, adult animation, dark, 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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Lupin III, Part III (1984)
Plot Summary:
This animated series follows the adventures of the legendary thief, Lupin III, grandson of the famed literary character, Arsenne Lupin. Lupin travels the world with his partners Daisuke and Goemon, seeking out greater challenges to overcome and greater prizes to steal. Along the way, they are pursued by the relentless but somewhat bumbling Inspector Zenigata, who always finds himself just a little too late to catch the thieves.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, detective
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Active Raid (2016)
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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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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s-CRY-ed (2001)
Plot Summary:
The aftermath of a mysterious environmental catastrophe has left the land in complete desolation! While mankind has been able to rebuild the city, the catastrophe has caused some humans to undergo genetic mutations granting them special powers and abilities. These genetically enhanced humans are known as Alters. Kazuma has spent his entire life in the wastelands relying on his special powers to survive, but when a secret organization called ‘Holy’ threatens to take away his freedom, he will be left with a choice to join or die. His fight to seek the truth behind the ‘Holy’ will rage and consume humanity and Alter alike!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 629 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, manga
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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
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Akame ga Kill! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Young Tatsumi travels to the capital of the Empire in order to earn money for his starving people and encounters a world of unimaginable depravity, dominated by the ruthless Prime Minister who controls the child Emperor. Tatsumi is recruited by Night Raid, a group of assassins dedicated to eliminating corruption by mercilessly killing officials and privileged nobles.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, serious, tense, captivating, exciting, manga, humorous, seinen, shounen
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Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, Slade Wilson-aka the super-assassin called Deathstroke-made a tragic mistake and his wife and son paid a terrible price. Now, a decade later, Wilson's family is threatened once again by the murderous Jackal and the terrorists of H.IV.E. Can Deathstroke atone for the sins of the past-or will his family pay the ultimate price?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, adult animation, anime