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Plot Summary:
The Amanto, aliens from outer space, have invaded Earth and taken over feudal Japan. As a result, a prohibition on swords has been established, and the samurai of Japan are treated with disregard as a consequence. However one man, Gintoki Sakata, still possesses the heart of the samurai, although from his love of sweets and work as a yorozuya, one might not expect it. Accompanying him in his jack-of-all-trades line of work are Shinpachi Shimura, a boy with glasses and a strong heart, Kagura with her umbrella and seemingly bottomless stomach, as well as Sadaharu, their oversized pet dog. Of course, these odd jobs are not always simple, as they frequently have run-ins with the police, ragtag rebels, and assassins, oftentimes leading to humorous but unfortunate consequences.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, parody, semi serious, shounen, entertaining, absurd, manga, fantasy anime, humorous
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Gintama the Movie: The Final Chapter - Be Forever Yorozuya (2013)
Plot Summary:
What would have happened if the Shiroyasha never existed? Edo is thrown to chaos by a mysterious cause. Sakata Gintoki, now lives in a world where the future has changed, without him. What has happened to the Yorozuya? Gintoki, who is now a ghost of the past, must once again carry the burden in order to save his friends. He must finish the biggest job ever, which may be the final job of Yorozuya.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, epic
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Gintama: The Final (2021)
Plot Summary:
The concluding film to the Gintama anime series, adapting the final chapters of the manga series of the same name written by Hideaki Sorachi. The film covers chapters 699-704 of the original manga, with original material added in.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anime, parody, tense, humorous, disturbing, semi serious, funny, shounen
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Brave 10 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Brave 10 is a manga series by Kairi Shimotsuki, serialized in Media Factory's Comic Flapper from 2007 to 2010. The series was resumed on June 15, 2011 and retitled Brave 10 Spiral, better known as Brave 10 S, serialized in Monthly Comic Gene. An anime adaptation by Studio Sakimakura and TMS Entertainment began airing on January 8, 2012. The original manga series is licensed by Tokyopop, though no volumes have been released as of 2012. The series is based on the legendary Sanada Ten Braves, a group of ninja that assisted warlord Sanada Yukimura during the Sengoku period of Japan. The series had been licensed for streaming on Crunchyroll.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, humorous, captivating, stylized, semi serious, seinen
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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006)
Plot Summary:
On his first day of high school, Kyon meets an eccentric girl named Haruhi Suzumiya, who announces to the class that she is interested only in meeting aliens, time travelers, and espers. Discontent with the selection of afterschool clubs presented before her, she starts a new club called the SOS Brigade and enlists Kyon, a quiet bookworm named Yuki Nagato, a shy but beautiful junior named Mikuru Asahina, and a grinning and loyal transfer named Itsuki Koizumi. Each of them except Kyon is secretly part of one of the groups Haruhi desired to meet, and they all must keep close watch on her. If she ever grows dissatisfied with reality, she may unintentionally destroy the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, semi serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, entertaining, seinen, offbeat
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Rin-ne (2015)
Plot Summary:
As a child Sakura Mamiya mysteriously disappeared in the woods behind her grandma's home. She returned whole and healthy, but since then she has had the power to see ghosts. Now a teenager, she just wishes the ghosts would leave her alone! At school, the desk next to Sakura's has been empty since the start of the school year, then one day her always-absent classmate shows up, and he's far more than what he seems!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, touching, humorous, tense, entertaining, shounen, super sentai
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Date a Live (2013)
Plot Summary:
Thirty years ago a strange phenomenon called a "spacequake" devastated the center of Eurasia, claiming the lives of at least 150 million people. Since then, smaller spacequakes plague the world on an irregular basis. Shido Itsuka, a seemingly ordinary high schooler comes across a mysterious girl at the ground zero of a spacequake and learns she is one of the "Spirits" who are the real cause of the spacequakes that occur when they manifest themselves in the world. He is recruited to make use of his mysterious ability to seal the Spirits' powers thus stopping them from being a threat to mankind. However, there is a catch: to seal a Spirit's power, he must make her fall in love with him and kiss him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, offbeat, exciting, suspenseful, romantic, futuristic, captivating, manga, humorous
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IDOLM@STER: Xenoglossia (2007)
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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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Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne (2012)
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Madoka is the lone member of her school's Jersey Club. She is one day recruited by a mysterious girl named Lan to pilot the robot "Vox" and protect her city from space invaders. They are joined by a third girl, Muginami, who has a different goal than Ran. Meanwhile, they still don't know their enemies' true goal, or what "Rinne" might be.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, futuristic, captivating, entertaining, sexy, mecha, semi serious
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Strike Witches (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in year 1944 and the world lives in fear of unidentified flying objects called neuroi. A young heroine Named Yoshika miyafuji joins the 501st joint wing, known as the strike witches to fight and defeat the neuroi so that way she can protect the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, ecchi
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Samurai Champloo (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mugen is a ferocious, animalistic warrior with a fighting style inspired by break-dancing. Jin is a ronin samurai who wanders the countryside alone. They may not be friends, but their paths continually cross. And when ditzy waitress Fuu gets them out of hot water with the local magistrate, they agree to join her search for the "samurai who smells of sunflowers.".
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, thought provoking, atmospheric, captivating, manga, adult animation, adult anime, shounen, spectacular
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Dream Eater Merry (2011)
Plot Summary:
Dream Eater Merry is a Japanese action fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Ushiki Yoshitaka. The series is serialized in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Forward. The manga was adapted into an anime television series by J.C. Staff which aired in Japan between January 7, 2011 and April 8, 2011.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, seinen, emotional, captivating, entertaining, light, manga, offbeat
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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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Marriage of God & Soul Godannar!! (2003)
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Godannar is an anime series created and directed by Yasuchika Nagaoka. The first season aired in Japan from October 1 to December 24, 2003 on AT-X. A second season later aired from April 5 to June 29, 2004. Both seasons were licensed by ADV Films for North America. However as of 2013, it is now licensed by Sentai Filmworks.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, ecchi, emotional, stylized, mecha, super sentai, futuristic
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Gintama: The Movie (2010)
Plot Summary:
Odd Jobs Gin has taken on a lot of odd work in the past, and when you're a Jack of All Trades agency based in a feudal Japan that's been conquered and colonized by aliens, the term "Odd Jobs" means REALLY ODD jobs. But when some more than slightly suspicious secrets from the shadows of Gintoki Sakata's somewhat shady former samurai past and a new pair of odd jobs collide, the action is bound to get so wild and demented that only a feature film will do it justice!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, History, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, epic, offbeat, slapstick, fast
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Birdy the Mighty: Decode (2008)
Plot Summary:
While pursuing fugitives the Space Federation police officer Birdy Cephon Altera finds herself on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
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Psychic Squad (2008)
Plot Summary:
They're cute, adorable and three of the most powerful Espers the world has ever seen: Kaoru, the brash psychokinetic who can move objects with her mind; Shiho, the sarcastic and dark natured psychometric able to pick thoughts from people's minds and read the pasts of inanimate objects like a book; and Aoi, the most collected and rational of the three, who has the ability to teleport herself and the others at will. So what to do with these potential psychic monsters in the making? Enter B.A.B.E.L., the Base of Backing ESP Laboratory, where hopefully "The Children" and others like them can become part of the answer to an increasing wave of psychic evolution. It's a win-win solution... Unless you're Koichi Minamoto, the overworked young man stuck with the unenviable task of field commanding a team of three pre-teen girls!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, futuristic, suspenseful, semi serious, rough, stylized, action comedy, shounen
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Medaka Box (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kurokami Medaka is an exceptional first year student at Hanokiwa Academy who got elected as president of the student council with a smashing 98% of the votes. Extremely intelligent, strong, and rich; she wants to help anyone in need. To do that, she introduces a suggestion box that allows any student to contact her. Later known as the Medaka Box, it will bring forth incredible challenges to Kurokami and her friends of the student council.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, exciting, captivating, light, entertaining, ecchi, shounen, semi serious, super sentai
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal (2011)
Plot Summary:
Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal is a Japanese manga and anime series and the third main spin-off series of the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise. The manga began serialization in Shueisha's V-Jump magazine from December 2010 and is licensed in North America by Viz Media. The anime series, produced by Nihon Ad Systems and Studio Gallop, aired on TV Tokyo between April 2011 and September 2012, following the previous anime series, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, with an English-language version airing in North America between October 2011 and August 2013. A second series, Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal II, began airing in Japan on October 7, 2012 and in North America from August 18, 2013. The series aired on The CW's Saturday morning cartoon block, Toonzai, and continues to air on its successor, Vortexx, later airing on Nicktoons from April 2013. It now airs every Sunday at 11:30,on Nicktoons.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, captivating, tense, entertaining, stylized, semi serious, shounen
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Transformers: Energon (2004)
Plot Summary:
Transformers: Energon, known in Japan as Transformer: Superlink, is the 2004–2005 Transformers toyline, animated series and comic book series, another co-production between Hasbro and Takara and a direct sequel to Transformers: Armada. It is also the first Japanese Transformers show where the Transformers are computer-generated, in a cel-shaded technique similar to the Zoids anime, which was a trend that would continue into the next series, Transformers: Cybertron. In this series, the Transformers' primary gimmicks are the Autobots' ability to combine with partners of the same size, the Decepticons' ability to use powered up forms, and the addition of Energon weapons and stars that can be placed on any Transformer. Mini-Cons, from the previous line, are still present, but all Mini-Con pegs are "dead", and they do not activate a function on the toy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, computer animated, bleak
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Divergence Eve (2003)
Plot Summary:
In the future, interstellar travel takes place via "inflation gates" that pass through a parallel universe. Unfortunately, denizens of another universe, called "ghouls", want to invade our universe using the same portals. At Watcher's Nest, a distant station, a ship arriving through a portal is attacked by a ghoul, and one of the passengers, rookie soldier Kureha Misaki, undergoes a dreadful change.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, offbeat, ecchi, campy
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Martian Successor Nadesico (1996)
Plot Summary:
Martian Successor Nadesico, known in Japan as Mobile Battleship Nadesico, is a science fiction comedy anime TV series, and a later manga series created by Kia Asamiya. The manga, published in English by CPM Manga, is significantly different from the anime. In 2005 Anime News Network reported that plans for Nadesico 2 were scrapped, citing an entry on Stellvia director Tatsuo Sato's blog.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, parody, exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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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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Black Clover (2017)
Plot Summary:
Asta and Yuno were abandoned together at the same church, and have been inseparable since. As children, they promised that they would compete against each other to see who would become the next Emperor Magus. However, as they grew up, some differences between them became plain. Yuno was a genius with magic, with amazing power and control, while Asta could not use magic at all, and tried to make up for his lack by training physically. When they received their Grimoires at age 15, Yuno got a spectacular book with a four-leaf clover (most people receive a three-leaf-clover), while Asta received nothing at all. However, when Yuno was threatened, the truth about Asta's power was revealed, he received a five-leaf clover Grimoire, a "black clover"! Now the two friends are heading out in the world, both seeking the same goal!.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, humorous, stylized, shounen, manga, semi serious, whimsical
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Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End (2008)
Plot Summary:
Simon and Kamina live in an underground city monitored by the village chief. When Simon stumbles upon an artifact and beastmen invade from the surface, Simon and Kamina rebel against them.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, semi serious, captivating, mecha, manga, apocalyptic, fast, compilation film
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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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Blue Dragon (2007)
Plot Summary:
A terrible and mysterious enemy attacks the small village of Shu and his friend Kluke. The great warrior Zola, followed by Jiro, will help them discover the ability to evoke shadows (in the form of monsters of all kinds) to fight against the evil invaders. The four, who call themselves Shadow Evocators, take a trip to find all the other boys who have a shadow to defeat the wicked Nene, who heads the Great Reagan, an army that attacked Talta. The evocative boys are actually descendants of the legendary Soldiers of Light, those who for centuries had saved the world from evil. The group will also join the lovely Marumaro, and the sweet Bouquet.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan, France
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, manga, shounen, epic
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Aria the Scarlet Ammo (2011)
Plot Summary:
In response to the worsening crime rate, Japan creates Tokyo Butei High, an elite academy where "Butei" or armed detectives hone their deadly skills in hopes of becoming mercenary-like agents of justice. One particular Butei is Kinji Tooyama, an anti-social and curt sophomore dropout who was once a student of the combat-centric Assault Division. Kinji now lives a life of leisure studying logistics in order to cover up his powerful but embarrassing special ability. However, his peaceful days soon come to an end when he becomes the target of the infamous "Butei Killer," and runs into an emotional hurricane and outspoken prodigy of the highest rank, Aria Holmes Kanzaki, who saves Kinji's life and demands that he become her partner after seeing what he is truly capable of.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, romantic, captivating, manga, shounen, tsundere
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Gatchaman Crowds (2013)
Plot Summary:
Tachikawa, Japan, is a "second metropolis" of Tokyo, protected by the Gatchaman, warriors who fight in special reinforced suits powered by the manifestation of their spiritual powers called NOTE. When the energetic and cheerful Hajime Ichinose becomes their newest member, the Gatchaman must deal with Berg Katze, an enigmatic alien creature bent on destroying Earth just like it did with several other planets in the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, light, adult anime, serious, suspenseful, stylized, super sentai
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Ninja Nonsense (2004)
Plot Summary:
Shinobu is a naive ninja-in-training. In order to test her ninja abilites, she must steal the panties of all the high school girls. The first house she stops at is the abode of one Kaede Shiranui, who happens to catch Shinobu in the act. Kaeda is the voice of reason and the two girls become quick friends, despite a round yellow ball-thing who claims to be a ninja master and tries to get in the way of their friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, not serious, tense, sentimental, funny, light, captivating, melancholic, absurd