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Plot Summary:
The distant future. After reaching its peak, Earth's population fell into decline. AI was developed to help preserve the species and manage the ecosystem; a grand experiment in human diversity. Through genetic engineering, a diverse array of peoples, including beastfolk, magical beings, and more, was created to live in a diverse city separated into walled "clusters". Each cluster developed a unique culture, befitting of the people that lived there. Their lives, and the system, is continually maintained by the AI to ensure survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, futuristic
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F-Zero: GP Legend (2003)
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Rick Wheeler was a police detective who got into a fatal car accident while pursuing the criminal Zoda. He was placed into artificial coldsleep for 150 years. Wheeler is brought back to life by Jody Summer and Dr. Stewart, who work with a group of good racers who try to keep prize money out of the hands of unsavory people like the Dark Million Organization run by Black Shadow and Deathborn.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, shounen
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In the mysterious future, crystalline organisms called Gems inhabit a world that has been destroyed by six meteors. Each Gem is assigned a role in order to fight against the Lunarians, a species who attacks them in order to shatter their bodies and use them as decorations. Phosphophyllite, also known as Phos, is a young and fragile Gem who dreams of helping their friends in the war effort. Instead, they are told to compile an encyclopedia because of their delicate condition. After begrudgingly embarking on this task, Phos meets Cinnabar, an intelligent gem who has been relegated to patrolling the isolated island at night because of the corrosive poison their body creates. After seeing how unhappy Cinnabar is, Phos decides to find a role that both of the rejected Gems can enjoy. Can Phos's seemingly mundane assignment lead both Phos and Cinnabar to the fulfillment they desire?.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, captivating, unusual plot structure, futuristic, adult anime, seinen, super sentai
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In Shin-Kyoto, people battle to become the new governing lord in a battle of intense card games!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
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A story about three sisters struggling to survive in a desolate world surrounded by decaying buildings and red fog. The story revolves around Rin, a girl with an updo. There's also Ritsu, the big sister who has cat ears and is always calm, and Rina, the innocent, cheerful one dressed in a maid's costume. Just what is it that these sisters are after in this mysterious world?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Six high school boys hang out at a local convenience store where they talk about their daily lives. Haruki Mishima and Towa Honda are first year students looking forward to the high school experience. Alongside them, there’s Nasa Sanagi, the only member of the cooking research club. Natsu Asumi is a loner but has third year students, Mikado Nakajima and Masamune Sakurakoji, looking out for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Bottle Fairy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Bottle Fairy follows a quartet of cute fairies as they play, study, and learn (often incorrect) lessons about the human world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, sincere, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Zenonzard: The Animation (2019)
Plot Summary:
* Part of Bandai's Zenonzard media franchise with focus on the smartphone card game app. The year 20XX. Humans called.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, futuristic
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, cyber
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2150 A.D. The battle with the Festum, the silicon life-forms from distant outer space, had reached a new dimension. The North Polar Meir that was crushed during the First Azure Operation had dispersed its fragments all over the world. They all started activity on their own as independent Meirs. Most of the Meirs harbored hatred towards humanity and challenged a fight, however, a portion of the Festum chose coexistence with mankind. Amongst the crossfire, the Ryugujima island alone disappeared from the forefront of battle and continued its silence. The island had gained a means to converse with the Meir since their encounter with Misao Kurusu two years ago. The children of ALVISS had been searching for a way to understand the enemy as they prepared for battle. And now, once again, further evolution was about to befall the island. A girl that understands the language of the Festum, and a girl protected by a Festum. When the two meet, the doors to a new universe opens.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing
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Eden (2021)
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Thousands of years in the future, a city known as "Eden 3" is inhabited solely by robots whose former masters vanished a long time ago. On a routine assignment, two farming robots accidentally awaken a human baby girl from stasis questioning all they were taught to believe -- that humans were nothing more than a forbidden ancient myth. Together, the two robots secretly raise the child in a safe haven outside Eden.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, adult animation, dark, mecha
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Plot Summary:
A mysterious illness. An underground realm at its origin. Gifted with immunity, one young man enters to find a cure.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Humanity has found a way to achieve infinite energy by using coils to draw it from the fourth plane: dimension "W". With the production of coils having been monopolized by the New Tesla energy company, freelance collectors are hired to find and remove any illegal, unofficial coils. This is the story of collector Kyōma, who also happens to have a huge hatred towards coils. During one of his missions he stumbles upon a female android that perceives herself as being human, leading the two to enter an unlikely partnership.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 959
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, serious, seinen, detective
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Overman King Gainer (2002)
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Overman King Gainer is an anime TV series, created by Sunrise. Directed by longtime animator Yoshiyuki Tomino, the creator of the Gundam series, written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, and featuring character designs by Yoshihiro Nakamura, Kinu Nishimura and Ken'ichi Yoshida, the series ran from September 7, 2002 to March 22, 2003 on Japan's WOWOW network, spanning a total of 26 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, apocalyptic
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Sol Bianca: The Legacy (1999)
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic
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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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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, disturbing
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Vividred Operation (2013)
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On an artificial island, Akane Isshiki, an innocent 14-year-old girl, lives a simple but happy life with her level-headed little sister Momo and their genius inventor grandfather. On clear days just over the water, everyone on the island can see the revolutionary invention that solved all the world's energy problems, the Manifestation Engine. Thanks to the Manifestation Engine, the peaceful days that everyone had dreamed of had arrived. But suddenly, a mysterious enemy called the "Alone" appear out of nowhere aiming to attack the Manifestation Engine, jeopardizing their quiet way of life. Equipped with incredibly powerful Palette Suits designed by her grandfather, Akane and her friends must rise up together in this desperate situation. Their friendship is the only hope to save the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO (2004)
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The year is Universal Century 0079. Oliver May is a technical officer in the Zeon 603rd Technical Evaluation Unit , in charge of testing new military technology. Stationed in the Jotunheim, a civilian transport ship that was converted into military use, Oliver must head into battle and experience the One Year War, only this time from the perspective of a weapon tester who struggles to make an impact on an evolving war during changing times.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing
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Rumble Garanndoll (2021)
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Japan, 2019, just before the dawn of a new era. Suddenly, a rift to another dimension appears in the sky, revealing an alternative world "Shinkoku Nippon," with the sky and the earth upside down. This parallel world keeps the former militarism, with its era being Eternal Showa. The military invades the real Japan with giant humanoid robots called "GARANN" and their gas weapons "GENMU", rendering our modern weapons ineffective. "Shinkoku Nippon" instantly seizes the government and achieves de facto conquest of Japan. The new era, "Reiwa," has not arrived for Japan.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining
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Buddy Complex (2014)
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When a giant robot suddenly attacks the city, a high-school student named Aoba is saved by a classmate who's piloting her own mecha. After accepting an offer to join the alliance she's is a part of, Aoba is thrust into the middle of high-flying robot warfare in this new series from the studio that brought you Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, and Escaflowne!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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revisions (2019)
Plot Summary:
An isolated city. An unknown enemy. An uncertain past and a prophecy of the future. The children fight the "future" to bring back the "present". No matter what, they're going home.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 36 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing
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Mega Man Star Force (2006)
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In the year 220X, a mourning 5th grader named Geo Stelar (Subaru Hoshikawa) is given an invention made by his late father called a visualizer, which allows him to see radio-wave-based aliens, which are trying to destroy the world. Together, with an alien named Omega-Xis (War-Rock), he fights to save the earth as Mega Man (Rockman).
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic
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Infini-T Force (2017)
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Emi is a seventeen-year-old girl living in Shibuya. Her father is always away with work and she's grown listless. Suddenly, a twist of fate involving a certain magical item changes everything. A mysterious pencil, of all things, is linked to the appearance of heroes from another world! Could this be the start to the excitement she's so desperately craving, or is there something more?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Tokyo ESP (2014)
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Rinka Urushiba is a normal high school girl, until she encounters a penguin and shoals of glowing fish swimming through the sky. She looses consciousness only to awaken with the power to move through inanimate objects. At first she thought it was a hallucination if it were not for Kyotaro Azuma who witnessed the event and who, incidentally, has the ability to teleport. They decide to use their powers to combat people who might use their powers for evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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2167 AD is shown to be devastated by a powerful electromagnetic shockwave. This is caused by a nearby star, Hydrus Beta, 20 light-years away, going supernova. The series itself is set 189 years later, in the year 2356 AD. Civilization has been rebuilt with humanity having united together to face the coming of the second shockwave of the supernova. The second shockwave, unlike the first, is to contain a great deal of matter composed of the remnants of the star itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 144
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Duration:
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Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode Oracle (2019)
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In the abyss of space, the Oracle fleet continues to explore new planets and confront the dangers of the horrific Falspawn. Recently graduated ARKS Cadet, Ash, is unprepared for the war that he's now part of, nor the revelations that will come from it.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Gundam Reconguista in G (2014)
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The Universal Century, a history marked by space colonization and space warfare, has passed. Humanity's prosperity, which ushered in a new era known as Regild Century (R.C.), was believed to endure alongside the global peace. Beruri Zenamu a pilot in training of the of the Capitol Guard is somehow chosen by the G-Serufu - a highly maneuverable Mobile Suit of unknown origin - to lead to uncover hidden truths that will shake the peace of the Regild Century era.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 650 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, mecha
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Ex-Arm (2021)
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2014: Akira Natsume seems to almost have a phobia of electrical devices while also being very good at diagnosing them. He resolves to change himself for the better and get a girlfriend like his older brother did. …But then Akira suddenly dies in an accident. 16 years later a special policewoman and her android partner retrieve and activate a highly advanced AI and superweapon called EX-ARM and put it into full control of their ship as a last resort. Turns out the AI is actually just Akira’s brain!.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, ecchi, seinen
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Plot Summary:
IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix refers to two anime series co-produced simultaneously by Cartoon Network and Production I.G. The first is a "microseries" consisting of five 5-minute episodes, and the second is a 26-episode animated series loosely related to the first. Koichi Mashimo co-wrote and directed the microseries, while Bee Train Animation and Production I.G animated it, and Bandai Entertainment acted as the North American distributor. The full-length anime series was handled by director and writer Mitsuru Hongo and was animated by Production I.G, with Bee Train returning for in-between animation. Production I.G president Mitsuhisa Ishikawa joined on as producer for the series. It was the first time he had worked on a joint U.S. Japanese production, due to the Pokémon companion franchise. The series' production was managed by Williams Street in Atlanta, Georgia. Bang Zoom! Entertainment in Burbank, California produced the English dub for the series, as well as adapted the scripts alongside Williams Street. IGPX was commended for being the first original series on Toonami. An IGPX video game was released on September 12, 2006, for the PlayStation 2.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, futuristic, captivating, entertaining, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye (2006)
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The future Earth; with over 80% having been annihilated in a great war, the rest live under the dominion of a race known as The Third. These beings possess a third Space Eye on their foreheads, and watch over the Earth and it's remaining populace, granting it a limited amount of technology; those who infringe on the so-called Technos Taboo are harshly dealt with. Meanwhile, Honoka, a desert wanderer, along with her sand tank's sentient AI, Bogie, makes her living as a jack-of-all-trades, performing whatever tasks folks may require. This ranges from simple deliveries and escorts to giant insect exterminations. The only task she refuses to do is take human life. Nonetheless, her skill and grace with the katana has earned her the name "Sword Dancer". However, upon rescuing a quiet wanderer named Iks, who also holds the attention of the Third, she finds herself starting to think more deeply about her own inner thoughts and emotions.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, mecha, futuristic, captivating, tense, entertaining, serious