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Plot Summary:
Eureka Seven, known in Japan as Psalms of Planets Eureka seveN, is a Japanese mecha anime TV series by Bones. Eureka Seven tells the story of Renton Thurston and the outlaw group Gekkostate, his relationship with the enigmatic mecha pilot Eureka, and the mystery of the Coralians. Bandai produced three video games based on Eureka Seven; two of them are based on events prior to the show, while the third is based on the first half of the show. Both the original concept of the anime and the video game Eureka Seven vol. 1: New Wave have been adapted into manga series as well, although with many significant changes primarily at the end. The TV series has also been adapted into a series of four novels and a movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, serious, stylized, exciting, captivating, apocalyptic
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Zoids: Genesis (2005)
Plot Summary:
Young Ruuji Familon finds a Liger-type Zoid during a salvage mission. Initially, the village is attacked by Bio-Raptor Bio-Zoids, and later a Bio-Megaraptor. After the village generator is destroyed in combat, Ruuji takes the Murasame Liger Zoid and leaves the village alongside Ra-Kan and Rei Mii to find a generator mechanic or the village will be destroyed. Through his journey Ruuji learns he must fight against Digald.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, apocalyptic, exciting, light, serious, captivating, stylized, mecha
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Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the year 1973, alien species known as BETA (Beings of Extra Terrestrial origin which is Adversary of human race) came to invade earth. During the next 30 years, they have conquered most of the Eurasian continent, effectively decreasing the world population by billions. In response to their unique behavior, a new type of mobile mechanical humanoid weapon was developed, known as Tactical Surface Fighter (TSF). In the year 2001, elite pilots from around the world start to gather at a UN base in Alaska named Yukon to participate in the Prominence Project. This project is a joint effort between Russia and America on research and development of next generation of TSF. The job of the pilots is to test the prototypes, which occasionally involves pitting them one against another.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, captivating, tense, mecha, futuristic, ecchi, super sentai
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IDOLM@STER: Xenoglossia (2007)
Plot Summary:
107 years ago, the Moon was destroyed in a massive cataclysm that shattered Earth's former satellite into 81 quintillion tons of orbital debris. However, thanks to super-science, the Earth itself was saved and today no one really thinks much about that century-past disaster. Which is why when teenage Haruka Amami auditions for something called the Idolmaster Project, she THINKS she's trying out to be a singing idol. Instead, Haruka finds herself at a secret school run by the Mondenkind Agency, living with a group of other girls who have also been selected as candidates to pilot an iDOL - an advanced robot specifically designed to intercept falling chunks of moon rock. Except, the people who run the Mondenkind Agency aren't exactly knights in shining armor. And then there's the question of whether the iDOLs are really JUST robots. Because from almost the first moment, Haruka starts to feel emotions resonating from within the iDOL called Imber.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, cult classic, stylized, semi serious
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Crest of the Stars (1999)
Plot Summary:
Jinto Lin's life changes forever when the Humankind Empire Abh takes over his home planet of Martine without firing a single shot. He is soon sent off to study the Abh language and culture and to prepare himself for his future as a nobleman - a future he never dreamed of. Or wanted. Now, Jinto is entering the next phase of his training, and he is about to meet his first Abh, the lovely Lafiel. But Jinto is about to learn that she is more than she appears to be. And together they will have to fight for their very lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, captivating, saga, stylized
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Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1996)
Plot Summary:
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team is an original video animation anime series in the Gundam franchise. Released from January 25, 1996, to April 25, 1999, the 12-episode series details the exploits of an Earth Federation ground unit during the One Year War - specifically a month after the beginning of original 1979 Gundam series and into the final weeks of the war. The 08th MS Team is the first Gundam series to show the war from the viewpoint of the average soldier.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
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Banner of the Stars (2000)
Plot Summary:
Now that three years has passed since their first adventure, Lafiel is now captain on a new ship and Jinto has just finished his training. They go out to complete a mission of defending the Laptic Gate.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Animation, Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, captivating, exciting, stylized, saga
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Casshern Sins (2008)
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Casshern Sins is a reboot of the classic anime series Casshan, produced by Tatsunoko and animated by Madhouse. It premiered in Japan on October 1, 2008, following a sneak preview of the first episode at Otakon 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland. The series completely discards the continuity presented in the original Casshan anime series, in which Casshern was a cybernetic superhero battling the evil robotic forces of Braiking Boss in a post-apocalyptic Earth.However, one could argue that this series could actually function as a prequel to the original Casshan series, as the events in Casshern Sins actually lead to events similar to that of the start of Casshan. In Casshern Sins, Casshern is presented as a cyborg subordinate of Braiking Boss who was ordered to assassinate the savior of mankind, and has thus doomed the Earth to ruin. Casshern Sins made its English broadcast premiere on Funimation Channel on December 21, 2010. A manga adaptation is published in Jive's Monthly Comic Rush Magazine.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, mecha, tense, suspense, depressing, rough, epic, serious
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Tenkai Knights (2013)
Plot Summary:
Tenkai Knights is a 2013 Japanese-Canadian-American anime series, produced by Shogakukan Productions and Spin Master. Initial reports, according to Anime News Network, indicated the series was being animated by Bones, according to an entry on Studio Wanpack's Blog back in May 2013, although has been since removed. While the series was broadcast on Cartoon Network in the United States in August 2013, there is no word as to when the series will air in Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, stylized, captivating
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Aquarion Evol (2012)
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The protagonists live on a planet called Vega, while most of the antagonists originate from its "sister planet", Altair. The main character, Amata Sora, a young man that has kept his ability to fly a secret since youth, meets a girl named Mikono Suzushiro, and they become fast friends. However, invaders from Altair begin large-scale attacks against Vega, forcing Amata and Mikono into a long battle for the planet as members of an organization called Neo-DEAVA. There they, along with other young men and women called Elements who also possess special powers, are recruited to pilot giant robots called Aquaria in the defense of Vega.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Animation, Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, touching, emotional, mecha, exciting, tense, serious
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UFO Robot Goldorak (1975)
Plot Summary:
Golodorak The Movie.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, grindhouse, exciting, serious, futuristic, stylized
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Linebarrels of Iron (2008)
Plot Summary:
Linebarrels of Iron is a Japanese manga series created by Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi. The series was first serialized in Akita Shoten's monthly shōnen manga magazine, Champion Red, in 2005. It has since been compiled into eleven tankōbon, as of November 20, 2008. The story centers around Kouichi Hayase, a fourteen-year-old boy living a mediocre life, until an accident turns him into the pilot of a gigantic robot called "Linebarrel" and leads him to encounter a mysterious girl. An anime adaptation of the manga series was announced in the February issue of Animage magazine. The anime is directed by Masamitsu Hidaka and animated by Gonzo. Though the world premiere of the first episode took place at Southern California's 2008 Anime Expo, the series premiered in Japan on the television network TBS on October 3, 2008. The anime broadcast a total of twenty-four episodes, the last of which aired on March 20, 2009. To commemorate the series' anime adaptation, Shimizu and Shimoguchi decided to create a one shot manga, recreating the entire first episode of the anime, in which the plot differs in many aspects compared to the beginning of the manga.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, mecha, stylized, semi serious
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Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (2018)
Plot Summary:
U.C. 0097, one year after the opening of "Laplace's Box". Despite the revelation of the Universal Century Charter that acknowledges the existence and rights of Newtypes, the framework of the world has not been greatly altered. The conflict later dubbed the "Laplace Incident" is thought to have ended with the downfall of the Neo Zeon remnants known as the Sleeves. In its final battle, two full psycho-frame mobile suits displayed power beyond human understanding. The white unicorn and the black lion were sealed away to remove this danger from people's consciousness, and they should now be completely forgotten. However, the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam 03, which disappeared two years earlier, is now about to show itself in the Earth Sphere once more. A golden phoenix… named Phenex.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Noein (2005)
Plot Summary:
Noein: To Your Other Self, also known simply as Noein, is a science fiction anime television series directed by Kazuki Akane and Kenji Yasuda and produced by Satelight. The series has 24 episodes which comprise a complete storyline. The English version was produced by Manga Entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, stylized, captivating, apocalyptic
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Akira Kurosawa's: Samurai 7 (2004)
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Samurai 7 is a 2004 anime TV series, produced by Gonzo and based on Akira Kurosawa's highly regarded 1954 movie Seven Samurai. The series was directed by Toshifumi Takizawa and its music was composed by Kaoru Wada and Eitetsu Hayashi. There are 26 episodes, each costing around ¥32,500,000 to produce. The series premiered across Japan on the anime satellite television network, Animax, as an exclusive high definition CS-PPV broadcast, and was also later aired by the network across its other respective networks worldwide, including Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America and other regions. Funimation Entertainment acquired the dubbing rights for the North American release. It previously aired in America through the Independent Film Channel in April 2006 and in high definition on Dish Networks Animania HD channel. It has also been broadcast across Canada by specialty channel Razer and across Hong Kong by TVB Jade. The Funimation Channel aired the series on September 6, 2010. It began airing on Adult Swim's revived Toonami block on August 19, 2012. and ended its run on February 10, 2013.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, futuristic, epic, stylized, manga, adult animation, shounen
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Dragonaut: The Resonance (2007)
Plot Summary:
An asteroid is headed for Earth and in order to avoid Earth's impending destruction, the ISDA create the "Dragonaut" after finding a dragon egg under the ocean. This weapon's primary purpose is to destroy the asteroid when the time comes. However, they soon find out that the asteroid is not their only threat, as powerful dragon-like creatures, which are bent on destruction, appear. After witnessing a murder by one of the creatures, Jin Kamishina, a lonely 18-year-old boy who lost his family in a shuttle accident, gets involved in the mysteries of the dragons and becomes the chosen pilot of the Dragonaut. Helping him on his journey is Toa, a mysterious girl who saves him from falling to his death after the creature attacks him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, mecha, shounen, 2d animation
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Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED is an anime series developed by Sunrise and directed by Mitsuo Fukuda. As with other series from the Gundam franchise, Gundam SEED takes place in a parallel timeline, in this case the Cosmic Era, the first to do so. In this era, mankind has developed into two subspecies: Naturals, who reside on Earth and Coordinators, genetically-enhanced humans capable of withstanding the rigors of space who inhabit orbital colonies. The story revolves around a young Coordinator Kira Yamato who becomes involved in the war between the two races after a neutral space colony is invaded by the Coordinators. The television series was broadcast in Japan between 2002 and 2003, on the Tokyo Broadcasting System and Mainichi Broadcasting System networks. The series spawned three compilations films and was adapted into a manga as well as various light novels. A sequel series, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny followed in 2004. Various types of merchandising have also been released, including models, CD soundtracks and video games. Gundam SEED was licensed by Bandai Entertainment for broadcast in North America, and began airing in the United States and Canada in 2004 and 2005 respectively. The films and the sequel were also licensed by Bandai. The manga and light novels as well as the spin off series, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray, were also licensed. A number of video games were also released in North America.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, serious, suspenseful, stylized, apocalyptic, fable
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Geneshaft (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the 21st century mankind was on the brink of destruction. Through genetic engineering however they eradicated such feelings as love and the desire for power. Since women are naturally less aggressive than men, women to man ratio was set to 9:1. Now people are engineered to have skills that others view as being necessary. There is a giant ring that now orbits the earth, that sits there and relays information back to an alien race that sent it. Now a team of five women will try to eradicate the alien threat.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, anime, exciting, mecha
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Xenosaga: The Animation (2005)
Plot Summary:
4000 years have passed since humanity abandoned Earth. Forced to fight an alien form of life, Gnosis, mankind developed KOS-MOS - a battle android with amazing capabilities. When a ship carrying android is being attacked, KOS-MOS gets activated and save its creator, Shion Uzuki. But KOS-MOS doesn't want to listed her orders and executes some unknown plan. After their ship destroyed Shion and her companions find themselves thrust into the middle of a battle with Gnosis, U-TIC Organization and their own superiors. Battle with no clear sides.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, suspenseful, bleak
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Aquarion (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set in the future, a giant fighting machine called the Aquarion is humanity's only effective weapon in the fight against the technologically advanced species called the Shadow Angels.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, mecha, entertaining, light, stylized
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Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor (2004)
Plot Summary:
Tatsumiyajima is the central island in the middle of a small cluster of islands, in a sleepy backwater of the Japanese isles. Not much happens there, and the island's young people go to school knowing that their lives are likely to remain peaceful and undisturbed. Or so they have been taught...but the truth is different. The fate of mankind is on the line, and Tatsumiyajima is the last line of defense against a hostile and incomprehensible enemy. At the center of it all, fighting for Humanity's continued existence, is the giant robot Fafner, the dragon that guards this final treasure of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, serious, suspenseful, captivating, mecha
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Genesis Climber Mospeada (1983)
Plot Summary:
Genesis Climber MOSPEADA is an anime science fiction series created by Shinji Aramaki and Hideki Kakinuma. The 25-episode television series ran from late 1983 to early 1984 in Japan. MOSPEADA stands for Military Operation Soldier Protection Emergency Aviation Dive Armor, one of the transformable motorcycle-armors the series features. The other primary mecha featured in the show is the three-form transformable fighter called the Armo-Fighter AFC-01 Legioss, which is somewhat similar in design to the VF-1 Valkyrie variable fighter from The Super Dimension Fortress Macross.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 625 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, apocalyptic, cult classic, exciting, serious, stylized, vintage, cyberpunk anime
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Gurren Lagann (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future, people build their homes and raise domestic animals in subterranean caverns. As a result, they live in fear of the occasional earthquake and cave-in, and have been for hundreds of years. Jeeha is one such village. One day, a boy named Simon happens to find a small, shiny drill whilst digging to expand the village. At the same time, Kamina, a guy who believes that there is another land above the village, persuades a gangster to break through the ceiling in order to leave the cavern. Suddenly, an earthquake occurs and the ceiling collapses, followed by a big robot breaking through the ceiling. Kamina is now sure that there is a world above them. Recklessly, he begins to fight against the robot. At that moment, another person appears from the land above. It is a girl by the name of Yoko. With a rifle in hand, she had been tracking the robot. However, all she could do was distract it. Then, Simon shows what he had found to Kamina and Yoko. It`s a mysterious robot whose head is also its body.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful, manga, apocalyptic, deep, fast
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RahXephon (2002)
Plot Summary:
In a world where time passes at a crawl and the blood of your neighbor runs blue, 17 year old high school student Ayato Kamina goes about his daily life within Tokyo Jupiter oblivious to the world around him, having been educated with the fact that the all civilization but Tokyo has been destroyed. But all that changes when the mysterious civilization "MU" invades his home, raining destruction down from the sky in the form of strange monsters called Dolems. The events that occur next will lead Ayato to the mysterious woman named Reika Mishima, to the truth of their existence, the discovery of what and who he is, and to the powerful angelic robot RahXephon.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, atmospheric, serious, stylized, mecha, psychological
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The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye (2006)
Plot Summary:
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
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Guilty Crown (2011)
Plot Summary:
Guilty Crown is a 2011 Japanese anime television series produced by Production I.G which aired on Fuji TV's noitaminA program block from October 2011. The story revolves around Shu Ouma, a high school boy who inadvertently obtains an ability called "The Power of the Kings" that enables him to draw out items called "Voids" from other people. He is then thrown into the conflict between a resistance group called Funeral Parlor which aims to restore Japan's independence from a quasi-governmental organization known as the GHQ. In the process, Shu has to deal with the burden his ability puts on his shoulders and the horrific mystery of his past. The series incorporates elements of numerous genres, mostly drawing from science fantasy. One manga adaptation has been published by Square Enix in their Monthly Shōnen Gangan which began in November 2011. A light novel was published by Nitroplus entitled Guilty Crown: Princess of Deadpool in April 2012. A spin-off visual novel named Guilty Crown: Lost Christmas was also developed by Nitroplus which came bundled with a 15 minute original video animation tentatively named Guilty Crown: Lost Christmas. Critics praised the series' presentation but panned the plot for being jumbled and cliché.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, serious, psychological, shounen, futuristic, stylized
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Heroic Age (2007)
Plot Summary:
When the Golden Race invited other races to join them in the stars, three sentient races answered their call. The Goldens called them the Bronze, Silver and Heroic Tribes. Just before the Gold Tribe left to travel to another Universe, a fourth race appeared, traveling to the stars on their own accomplishments. The Golds named the human race the Iron Tribe. During the passing of time, humanity suffers at the hands of the more dominant races and is now facing extinction. Following a prophecy left by the Gold Tribe, Princess Deianeira sets out to search for the powerful being who might be able to save humankind. She meets a wild haired boy on an abandoned planet—a fateful encounter that will not only change the fortunes of Humanity, but also the fate of the universe.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, tense, captivating, mecha, epic, serious, fast
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VanDread (2000)
Plot Summary:
Vandread is a Japanese anime series directed by Takeshi Mori and created by Gonzo and Media Factory animation studios. The series is composed of two seasons, each composed of thirteen episodes of twenty-five minutes. The first series is summarized in the Vandread Taidouhen OVA in 2001, and the second in the Vandread Gekitouhen OVA, released in 2002. There is a Vandread Extra Stage Novel, that explains the events after Vandread: The Second Stage. Along with acquiring the two original series from Geneon, Funimation also licensed the two OVAs.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Action, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, mecha, ecchi, campy
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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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Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
Plot Summary:
Mobile Suit Gundam is a televised anime series, produced by Sunrise. Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network on April 7, 1979, and lasted until January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes. It was the very first Gundam series, which has subsequently been adapted into numerous sequels and spin-offs. In 1981, the series was re-edited for theatrical release and split into three movies. The characters were designed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, and Kunio Okawara was responsible for the mechanical designs, including the eponymous giant robot, the RX-78-2 Gundam. The first movie was released on February 22, 1981.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, suspenseful, adult anime, bleak, stylized, futuristic, cyberpunk anime
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Ark (2005)
Plot Summary:
The population of the planet Alcyone is split in two; the cultures of the Ceveans and the Storrions are locked in eternal war, destroying their home. Led by their priestess Amiel, the Ceveans constructed the Ark in an attempt to flee their world, but the Ark was ceased by the Storrions, enslaving some of the Ceveans and banishing the rest to the wastelands.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, anime, bleak, serious, mecha, computer animated