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Plot Summary:
A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, manga, perverse, jidai geki, adult anime
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The Seven Deadly Sins (2014)
Plot Summary:
The “Seven Deadly Sins”—a group of evil knights who conspired to overthrow the kingdom of Britannia—were said to have been eradicated by the Holy Knights, although some claim that they still live. Ten years later, the Holy Knights have staged a Coup d'état and assassinated the king, becoming the new, tyrannical rulers of the kingdom. Elizabeth, the king's only daughter, sets out on a journey to find the “Seven Deadly Sins,” and to enlist their help in taking back the kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, entertaining, touching, humorous, manga, semi serious, shounen, ecchi
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Magmel of the Sea Blue (2019)
Plot Summary:
One day in the middle of the pacific ocean a miracle occurred, a new continent appeared out of nowhere! The new continent was the home for new and mysterious plants, creatures and minerals! Humanity is excited as the age of exploration has returned.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 786
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan, China
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, shounen, 2d animation
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Sword of the Stranger (2007)
Plot Summary:
Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious stranger who gets pulled into the chase. The unlikely companions form a bond over saving the dog from a poison attack, but chaos erupts when the assassins find Kotaro, and No Name must face his past before a horrible fate is met again.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, manga, captivating, serious, suspenseful, touching, sincere, epic, surreal
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Ninja Scroll: The Series (2003)
Plot Summary:
Fourteen years after defeating the immortal warrior Himuro Genma and thwarting the Shogun of the Dark's evil plans, Kibagami Jubei continues to roam all over Japan as a masterless swordsman. During his journey, he meets Shigure, a priestess who has never seen the world outside her village. But when a group of demons destroys the village and kills everyone, Jubei becomes a prime target after acquiring the Dragon Jewel — a stone with an unknown origin. Meanwhile, Shigure — along with the monk Dakuan and a young thief named Tsubute — travels to the village of Yagyu. And with two demon clans now hunting down Shigure, Dakuan must once again acquire the services of Jubei to protect the Priestess of Light.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, manga, perverse, fantasy anime, dark fantasy, dark comedy, weird
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The God of High School (2020)
Plot Summary:
When an island half-disappears from the face of the earth, a mysterious organization sends out invitations for a tournament to every skilled fighter in the world. "If you win you can have ANYTHING you want," they claim. They’re recruiting only the best to fight the best and claim the title of The God of High School. Jin Mori, a Taekwondo specialist and a high school student, soon learns that there is something much greater beneath the stage of the tournament.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sport
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspense, manga, disturbing, exciting, whimsical
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Natsume's Book of Friends (2008)
Plot Summary:
Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept secret. However, once he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, serious, suspenseful, adult animation, deep, crying, iyashikei, shoujo
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Dance in the Vampire Bund (2010)
Plot Summary:
Mina Tepeş, the Princess of the ancient covenant and ruler of all vampires, wants her race to stop hiding from the humans. Using her vast wealth, she has paid off Japan's entire national debt and by doing so, gained the right to create a district off Japan's coast that is to become the future haven to vampires worldwide. But when she finally attempts to make public the existence of vampires to the world some politicians, terrorists and rival factions are plotting to assassinate Mina before she has a chance to get Japan's and international recognition for the Vampire Bund. Now she must rely on her strength, cruelty and those closest to her, while trying to make a normal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, bleak, serious, humorous, suspenseful, adult anime, seinen, dark fantasy, ecchi
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Noragami (2014)
Plot Summary:
The world consists of two parts: the near shore and far shore. The near shore is the place where people reside, while the far shore is the place for deities and ayakashi, which are emotional fragments that can posses humans and cause trouble. So it is a deity's responsibility to remove those ayakashi from the near shore with the help of weapons called Shinki, made from the spirits of dead people. Yato is a minor deity of war without shrine. Together with his Shinki, Tomone, he runs a Delivery Wish Granting Service, granting wishes for only 5 yen. After his Shinki leaves him on less than agreeable terms, he decides to run simple errands that do not involve ayakashi-related matters. While on a mission to find a lost kitten, he is nearly hit by a bus, but saved by a girl named Iki Hiyori. Hiyori dies for a moment, but then comes back to life. This, however, causes Hiyori's soul to become unstable, leaving her body frequently. So by offering 5 yen, she asks Yato to fix her body... but Yato cannot help without a Shinki, so Hiyori accompanies him on his journey to find one, in the hopes of becoming normal again. But behind Yato's kind-hearted face lies a twisted past.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspense, captivating, humorous, offbeat, tense, semi serious, manga, shoujo
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Soul Eater (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set at the "Death Weapon Meister Academy", the series revolves around three teams, each consisting of a weapon meister and weapon that can transform into a humanoid. Trying to make the latter a "death scythe" and thus fit for use by the academy's headmaster Shinigami, the personification of death, they must collect the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch, in that order; otherwise, they will have to start all over again.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, semi serious, humorous, stylized, manga, intense, shounen, mad
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Beelzebub (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ishiyama High is a school populated entirely by delinquents, where nonstop violence and lawlessness are the norm. However, there is one universally acknowledged rule—don't cross first year student Tatsumi Oga, Ishiyama's most vicious fighter. One day, Oga is by a riverbed when he encounters a man floating down the river. After being retrieved by Oga, the man splits down the middle to reveal a baby, which crawls onto Oga's back and immediately forms an attachment to him. Though he doesn't know it yet, this baby is named Kaiser de Emperana Beelzebub IV, or "Baby Beel" for short—the son of the Demon Lord! As if finding the future Lord of the Underworld isn't enough, Oga is also confronted by Hildegard, Beel's demon maid. Together they attempt to raise Baby Beel—although surrounded by juvenile delinquents and demonic powers, the two of them may be in for more of a challenge than they can imagine.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, shounen, psychotronic
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07-Ghost (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in a gothic fantasy world, this is the story of Teito Klein, an orphaned slave who became the top military academy student. However, an unexpected turn of events left him pursued by the forces of the Barsburg Empire. Now an escaping convict, Teito's sheltered by the church and its law of sanctuary. Here, he discovered many mysteries surrounding himself, the church, and the Empire itself. The fact that he might be connected to a dethroned king and the mystical stone of god, "The Eye of Mikhael", made him the target of the empire more than ever. Fortunately the church is under the mythical 7 Ghost protection. But who are the Ghosts really. Will Teito be free from the military's clutch, and what of his said mission to uncover the history. And who is the military's Chief-of-Staff Ayanami exactly. Teito's future seems to have spiraled into an unexpectedly perilous path.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, josei
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The Promised Neverland (2019)
Plot Summary:
The one adored as the mother is not the real parent. The people living here together are not actual siblings. The Gracefield House is where orphaned children live. An irreplaceable home where 38 siblings and Mom live happy lives, even with no blood relations. However, their everyday life suddenly came to an abrupt end one day.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, touching, captivating, suspenseful, dark fantasy, philosophical, emotional, adult animation, twisted
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Rakshasa Street (2016)
Plot Summary:
Requiem Street, where evil spirits are attracted to in order to destroy them. A place where spirits and humans co-exist, not all humans can enter Requiem Street. Only those rare-soul users with guardian spirits can enter. Xia Ling was just a normal university intern, but a meeting by chance changes her ordinary life... In this world full of evil spirits, can you cooperate with your guardian spirit in order to survive?.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 13 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, 2d animation, urban fantasy
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Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tanjirō Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, board the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyōjurō Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it!.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: manga, anime, exciting, captivating, futuristic, suspenseful, computer animated, perverse, adult animation, shounen
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Afro Samurai (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Black samurai goes on a mission to avenge the wrongful death of his father in a futuristic feudal Japan.In the Afro Samurai world there are many headbands and they signify the best fighters in the world. If a person should hold number 1, they are referred to as a god among combatants, killers, and assassins. Afro Samurai's father was number one. That was until a cowboy mutant gunslinger named Justice shot him in the head. Now as number two, Afro seeks sweet, pure, and bloody revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: anime, suspenseful, manga, adult animation, perverse, adult cartoon, fast, futuristic, dark fantasy, adult anime
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Blade of the Immortal (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young girl named Rin seeks to avenge her parents, who were ruthlessly killed by a group of master swordsmen, with the help of cursed samurai Manji, who is seemingly immortal.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, bloody, brutal, philosophical, melancholic, seinen, dark fantasy, epic fantasy, breathtaking
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Watership Down (2018)
Plot Summary:
Fleeing their doomed warren, a group of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 204 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, suspenseful, sentimental, captivating, adult animation, 3d animation, computer animated
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (2018)
Plot Summary:
"Rimuru Tempest" is the new name of a slime in a fantasy world taken by a former 37-year-old human Satou Mikami after he is killed by a passing robber. Broken free from ordinary, stale past life, his fresh adventure in a fantasy world as a slime monster with unique abilities begins.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, humorous, sincere, manga, shounen, 2d animation
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Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest (2019)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! They're treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving the human race from utter extinction. But what should have been any otaku's wet dream quickly turns into Hajime's nightmare. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime's job, Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for being weak, he soon finds himself in despair. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith's level of strength?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, light, suspenseful, psychological, semi serious, manga
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Naruto (2002)
Plot Summary:
Many years ago, in the hidden village of Konoha, lived a great demon fox. When it swung one of it's nine tails, a tsunami occurred. The fourth hokage sealed this demon fox inside a boy in exchange for his own life. Naruto was that boy, and he grew up with no family, and the villagers hated him thinking that he himself was the demon fox. Naruto's dream is to become Hokage, and have the villagers acknowledge him.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 122000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, exciting, semi serious, humorous, shounen, light, captivating, serious, suspenseful
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Drifters (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shimazu Toyohisa is a real-life samurai who fought in the pivotal Battle of Sekigahara. In his dying moments, Shimazu is transported to a world of magic with other famous warriors throughout history. These warriors are forced to fight each other in an endless battle.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, humorous
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Berserk (2016)
Plot Summary:
Spurred by the flame raging in his heart, the Black Swordsman Guts continues his seemingly endless quest for revenge. Standing in his path are heinous outlaws, delusional evil spirits, and a devout child of god. Even as it chips away at his life, Guts continues to fight his enemies, who wield repulsive and inhumane power, with nary but his body and sword—his strength as a human.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, manga, adult animation, humorous, seinen, saga, biting, suspenseful, rough
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Seraph of the End (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 2012, the world allegedly comes to an end at the hands of a human-made virus, ravaging the global populace and leaving only children untouched. It is at this time that vampires emerge from the recesses of the earth, likely followed by age-old horrors of the dark thought only to be myth. The vampires sweep the earth and claim it in a single violent stroke, subjugating the remnants of humanity and leading them beneath the surface to safety. This "protection" comes at the price of donating blood to their captors. At the age of twelve, Yūichirō and his friend and fellow orphan Mikaela plotted to escape along with the children in Hyakuya Orphanage. However, this resulted in their deaths and Mikaela sacrifices himself in order for Yūichirō to escape and be saved by members of the Moon Demon Company, an extermination unit of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army. Four years later, Yūichirō dedicates his life to destroy vampires and seek revenge against them for murdering his "family".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, exciting, dark fantasy, disturbing, apocalyptic, bleak, shounen, manga
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Devil May Cry (2007)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of the demon hunter Dante who himself is half demon and half human.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 288 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, stylized, atmospheric, suspenseful, gothic, manga, adult anime, perverse, shounen
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Goblin Slayer (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young priestess has formed her first adventuring party, but almost immediately they find themselves in distress. It's the Goblin Slayer who comes to their rescue—a man who's dedicated his life to the extermination of all goblins, by any means necessary. And when rumors of his feats begin to circulate, there's no telling who might come calling next.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, rough, suspenseful, brutal, bloody, erotic, manga, seinen, ironic
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Berserk (1997)
Plot Summary:
Guts, a man who calls himself "The Black Swordsman" looks upon his days serving as a member of a group of mercenaries, the Band of the Hawk, nicknamed "the Grim Reaper of the Battlefield." Led by an ambitious, ruthless, and intelligent man named Griffith, together they battle their way into the royal court, and are forced into a fate that may change their entire lives.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, dark fantasy, epic, slasher, dark, serious, manga, seinen, brutal
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (2019)
Plot Summary:
It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself. Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 138000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, manga, humorous, dark fantasy, adult anime, shounen, perverse, twisted
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Devilman: Crybaby (2018)
Plot Summary:
Akira Fudo learns from his best friend Ryo Asuka that demons will revive and reclaim the world from humans. With humans hopeless against this threat, Ryo suggests combining with a demon. With this, Akira becomes Devilman, a being with the power of demon but with a human heart.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, apocalyptic, explicit, intense, bleak, manga, adult animation, adult anime
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Jujutsu Kaisen (2020)
Plot Summary:
With his days numbered, high schooler Yuji decides to hunt down and consume the remaining 19 fingers of a deadly curse so it can die with him.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark fantasy, shounen, adult animation, stylized, manga, supernatural thriller
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Castlevania (2017)
Plot Summary:
A dark medieval fantasy following the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan, trying to save Eastern Europe from extinction at the hand of Vlad Dracula Tepe himself. Inspired by the classic video game series.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, adult animation, anime, atmospheric, bloody, tense, disturbing, suspense, manga, gothic