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Plot Summary:
Dick Spanner, P.I. is a 1986 British stop-motion animated comedy series which parodied Chandleresque detective shows. The title character and main protagonist was Dick Spanner, voiced by Shane Rimmer, a robotic private detective who works cases in a futuristic urban setting. The show made frequent use of puns and visual gags. The series consisted of 22 six-minute episodes, covering two story arcs of equal length: "The Case Of The Human Cannonball" and "The Case Of The Maltese Parrot". The programme was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom as a segment of the Sunday morning show Network 7 on Channel 4, and was later repeated on the same channel in a late night spot. Produced by Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson, the series was created and written by Terry Adlam, who had previously worked on effects for Anderson's Terrahawks. It was also the basis for the Anderson-created Tennants Pilsner advertising campaign using the Lou Tennant character.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 6 min
Plot tags: parody
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Space Nova (2020)
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It's 2162 and life is a blast for space adventurer siblings, Jet and Adelaide Nova. After all, what tween wouldn't want to divide their days between living on an international space station and accompanying their parents on awesome interstellar missions. Of course it's not all asteroid chases and exploding star systems. Jet and Adelaide also have to attend school, do homework (though their chores aren't always so typical, like recharging the family robot and scrubbing their star ships hull!). Still, on weekends this Aussie astronaut family have their own unique way of unwinding, with Jet and Adelaide heading off with parents Hugo and Josie on mind blowing adventures to navigate unexplored planets, surf solar flares, hop between rogue stars and occasionally even discover previously unknown life forms.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Animation
Country: Australia, Malaysia
Duration:
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Hetalia: World Stars (2021)
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After six years of waiting, Hetalia is back! The countries of the world change into/become beautiful boys and take you through the most important events in history. Follow Italy, Germany and Japan in their crazy adventures!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: parody, educational
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RObotzi (2011)
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RObotzi este un serial românesc de desene animate creat de CreativeMonkeyz care apare săptămânal și are ca personaje principale 2 roboți: MO și F.O.C.A., creați drept „primii roboți de talie mică produși în România, a căror perioadă de glorie s-a încheiat odată cu apariția primilor roboți de talie mare”. Aceștia ar fi rămas într-un depozit al Institutului Național de Robotică de a cărui bună funcționare trebuie să se asigure. Serialul a debutat la data de 20 ianuarie 2011. Durata aproximativă a fiecărui episod este de 2-3 minute, pe parcursul cărora se folosesc adesea cuvinte și expresii vulgare. Primul sezon cuprinde 26 de episoade, iar al doilea 14.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Romania
Duration: 4 min
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HEYBOT! (2016)
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The anime takes place on the screw-shaped island country of Nejigajima and follows the two "Bokyabots" Hebot and the Yurui Prince Nejiru as they collect different "Bokya Neji" screws. When the Bokyabots wear the Bokya Neji screws on their heads, they're able to compete in "Bokya Battles," battles for who can think up and tell the best jokes.
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Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: parody, mecha
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Little Astro Boy (2014)
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Astro Boy is a 5 year old robot boy, learning about the world around him from his robot parents, his mentor Dr. O'Shay, & his older human friends. He is an upbeat & positive child, but his abilities are envied by the mansion-dwelling criminal Hamegg. Hamegg enlists the help of his friends, the scientist Dr. Flau & the purple gorilla Gora, in schemes to outsmart, outdo, or even impress Astro & friends. In the end, Astro either succeeds against Hamegg or winds up working together with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Nigeria, Japan
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: anime
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Fireball (2008)
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Fireball is a series of CGI anime shorts created by Jinni's Animation Studios in conjunction with Disney. The designer is Hitoshi Fukuchi. It is animated entirely in 3D with no cel-shading of any sort, as would be typical for the medium. The show takes place in the distant future of the 49th millennium, and revolves around the happenings inside a giant manor inhabited by two robots; the gynoid duchess Drossel von Flügel and her massive cyclopian arachnoid servant, Gedächtnis. The episodes are usually nonsensical in nature, normally showing the two characters making idle conversation in the midst of a war with humanity. A third character, a monkey-robot named "Schadenfreude", joins them later.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 1 min
Plot tags: anime
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Robby the Rascal (1982)
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Cybot Robotchi, known in the United States as Robby the Rascal, is a 39-episode anime television series created by Ken Ishikawa and produced by Go Nagai's Dynamic Productions and the Knack animation studio. The series aired on TV Tokyo in Japan from October 1982 to June 1983. The series featured contributions from Tetsuro Amino as a storyboard artist and Masayuki Kojima as an episode director. A feature-length English-dubbed version comprising several episodes edited together into a movie, titled Robby the Rascal, was produced by Jim Terry's Kidpix Productions and released on home video in the United States in 1985. However, the English version deleted much of the risque humor that, while not uncommon in children's animation in Japan, would be considered unacceptable by American standards, with the policewoman Sachiko being the usual target of the fan service-oriented humor. The TV series also aired in its entirety in Italy under the title Robottino, and some episodes are also available in Spanish as Robotete.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Animation, Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Bots Master (1993)
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The Bots Master is a 1993 cartoon series, produced by Jean Chalopin through his company "Creativite et Developpement" in France. In total 40 episodes were made, each one having a special 3D segment and titles. The series was co-produced by Avi Arad and Associates. The show also had a toyline based on it.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Action, Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Canada
Duration: 23 min
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Me & Roboco (2022)
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In a world where most families own a cute maid robot, average elementary kid Bondo hopes for one of his own. But the robot who shows up is anything but average! Meet Roboco—the wackiest, most powerful maid imaginable!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, shounen
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Dallas & Robo (2018)
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Sassy space-trucker Dallas and self-proclaimed warrior-poet Robo navigate their way around cannibal bikers, rival space truckers, and vending machine burritos as they try to make a buck in the seedy world of interplanetary big-rigging.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: adult animation, exciting, thought provoking, captivating
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Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? (2002)
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Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? is an American animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network from 2002 to 2003. The show centers on Robot Jones, a robotic teenager attending a suburban middle school. The show is the 12th series to fall under the Cartoon Cartoons label.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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Mulligan (2023)
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In this satirical comedy, when most of Earth is destroyed by aliens, can a few survivors rebuild what’s left of America and form a more perfect union?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: adult animation, 2d animation
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Parallel Dual! Trouble Adventure (1999)
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Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure is a fourteen episode series created in 1999 by Masaki Kajishima and produced by AIC, both well known for the Tenchi Muyo! franchise. It is licensed in the US by Pioneer LDC, later known as Geneon. In addition to the original run, an OVA special was added to conclude the series as a de facto "14th episode".
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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Mecha Builders (2022)
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Robot heroes in training Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Abby Cadabby use their STEM superpowers to solve wacky larger-than-life problems.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: educational, mecha, 3d animation, computer animated
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Little Robots (2003)
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Tiny and his Little Robot friends create their own world from the scrapheap on which they find themselves abandoned.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Animation, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 10 min
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Atom: The Beginning (2017)
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Japan in the near future suffers an unexplained major disaster. Five years later, reconstruction is well underway. Two young researchers at a university are pinning all their hopes on robot development. Now their new interpretation of the eternal hero Astro Boy up until his birth is just about to start!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, disturbing, experimental, super sentai
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Sacks & Guns!! (2021)
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One day in the distant future. Humans live shoulder to shoulder in “colonies” separated by rock. Outside the colonies, a dangerous undeveloped area called “the Labyrinth” is expanding. Those who risk their lives to develop “the Labyrinth”, who mark out the undeveloped areas, are known as “Markers”. A young girl, Memempu, who wants to be a Marker one day, and a man, Gagumber, who used to be one. This mismatched father and daughter now take on the Labyrinth! “If there’s no path, dig one!”.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, mecha
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Super Giant Robot Brothers (2022)
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Two squabbling robot brothers battle bloodthirsty kaijus, supernatural disasters and mundane personal issues as they adapt to the trials of growing up.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: 3d animation, buddy comedy, computer animated
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Robot Girls Z (2014)
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The story revolves around a new team of "Toei robot girls" named "Team Z" that is made up of three girls based on Toei's Mazinger Z franchise: Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, and UFO Robot Grendizer. Usually they perform in activities around Nerima ward in Tokyo to raise the awareness of the promising future energy source "Photon Power" (koushiryoku). However, there are times when "Mechanical Beast" team of girls emerge from the "Subterranean Empire" and attempt to steal the energy. Thus "Team Z" has to battle them to prevent this, though sometimes they just go and beat up the "bad girls" to relieve stress.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: mecha, anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, parody
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Dynomutt Dog Wonder (1976)
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Dynomutt, Dog Wonder is an American animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The show centers around a Batman-esque super hero, the Blue Falcon, and his assistant, bumbling yet generally effective robot dog Dynomutt, who can produce a seemingly infinite number of mechanical devices from his body. As with many other animated super-heroes of the era, no origins for the characters are ever provided. Dynomutt was originally broadcast as a half-hour segment of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour and its later expanded forms Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics and Scooby's All-Stars; it would later be rerun and syndicated on its own from 1978 on. The cast of The Scooby-Doo Show appeared as a recurring characters on Dynomutt, assisting the Daring Duo in cracking their crimes. Originally distributed by Hanna-Barbera's then-parent company Taft Broadcasting, Warner Bros. Television currently holds the television distribution to the series. Between January 2 and March 9, 2008, repeats of Dynomutt, Dog Wonder were shown on Boomerang. On June 4, 2009, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder returned to Boomerang and airs Thursdays through Sundays at 10am Eastern.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, parody, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Secret Show (2006)
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The Secret Show is a British animated show commissioned by BBC Worldwide in partnership with BBC Children's. Production of the show began in 2004 and first debuted in 2006. It currently airs on CBBC, ABC1, BBC One, BBC Kids, Teletoon+, MBC3, 2x2, Disney Channel Latin America, TVB Pearl, and TSR 2. It debuted on the American Nicktoons on January 20, 2007, and was later cancelled in 2011. It also used to air on Jetix Latin America.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: parody, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, exciting, feel good, offbeat, not serious, 2d animation
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Astroboy (1980)
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In 2030 AD, after being abandoned by his creator, a young boy robot is rescued by an Android Advocate, Dr Elefun, who adopts him as his own and guides him in the use of his special powers to aid and protect mankind and robot-kind.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime
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Rusty Rivets (2016)
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A boy and his best friend, a robotic dinosaur, use machine parts to create gadgets.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Petit Eva: Evangelion@School (2007)
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The series is a parody of Neon Genesis Evangelion, in which the entire cast of the original series are now everyday students going to junior high school together at Tokyo-3. The series features three Rei sisters: one is a child younger than the rest based on Rei 1, the second is based on Rei 2 (the Rei seen for most of the normal series), and the third Rei is actually based on the hyperactive and klutzy Alternate Rei (seen in the alternate-reality dream sequence from the final episode of the original series). Further, Evangelion Unit 01 itself is one of their classmates, but this time as a human-sized robot who acts as something of a class bully. Even the Jet Alone robot is re-imagined as a character on the series.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, parody, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Titan Maximum (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sci-fi stop-motion parody centering on a group of teen heroes that pilot a giant robot in order to protect the galaxy from evil.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: adult animation, parody, exciting, humorous, not serious, mecha, offbeat
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Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures (2016)
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Set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, The Freemaker Adventures centers on a family of three young siblings—young boy Rowan, his sister Kordi, and their brother Zander—known as the Freemakers, who salvage parts from destroyed or damaged ships which they use to build new ones, which they sell in order to make their living. They are accompanied by their salvaged battle droid Roger.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: captivating, parody, feel good, humorous, ironic, computer animated
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Spaceballs: The Animated Series (2008)
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Spaceballs: The Animated Series, also known as Spaceballs: The Series, is an animated television series that premiered in 2008 on G4 and Canada's Super Channel, and is loosely based on the parody science fiction film Spaceballs. Similarly to how the original film parodied the original Star Wars films and the Star Trek universe, each episode of the series parodies a different film or other aspect of popular culture, such as the Star Wars prequel trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, or the Grand Theft Auto video games.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: parody, feel good, talky, not serious, humorous, witty, adult animation, adult cartoon, spoof, anime
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The Brak Show (2000)
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The Brak Show is an animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The Brak Show is a spin-off of the animated television series, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and featured recurring characters from Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Cartoon Planet. Both programs used stock footage from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Space Ghost. The protagonist is Brak, voiced by Andy Merrill, who developed a quirky persona for the character. An earlier version of the pilot episode, "Mr. Bawk Ba Gawk", originally aired prior to the official launch of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network on December 21, 2000, as part of a preview of upcoming Adult Swim shows. The series made its official debut during the night Adult Swim officially launched on September 2, 2001, and ended on December 31, 2003, with a total of 28 episodes. On May 24, 2007 a webisode for the series was released on Adult Swim Video, ending the series.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, parody, humorous, not serious, feel good, adult cartoon, offbeat, futuristic, campy
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Robot Chicken (2001)
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Robot Chicken is an American stop-motion claymation comedy television series created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. The writers, especially Green, also provide many of the voices. Senreich, Goldstein and Root were formerly writers for the popular action figure hobbyist magazine ToyFare, which has won an Annie Award and three Emmy Awards.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: adult animation, parody, sketch comedy, adult cartoon, humorous, sitcom, dark comedy, feel good, funny, entertaining
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Space Dandy (2014)
Plot Summary:
Space Dandy is a dandy in space! This dreamy adventurer with a to-die-for pompadour travels across the galaxy in search of aliens no one has ever laid eyes on. Each new species he discovers earns him a hefty reward, but this dandy has to be quick on his feet because it’s first come – first served! Accompanied by his sidekicks, a rundown robot named QT and Meow the cat-looking space alien, Dandy bravely explores unknown worlds inhabited by a variety aliens. Join the best dressed alien hunter in all of space and time as he embarks on an adventure that ends at the edge of the universe!.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, not serious, humorous, adult animation, captivating, entertaining, psychedelic, adult anime, parody, seinen