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Plot Summary:
A little girl named Kohina ends up summoning a Kokkuri-san, a lower-ranking ghost in Japanese folklore. The Kokkuri-san she calls ends up being a white-haired handsome, young man. Although he had intended to merely haunt her at first, he becomes worried about her terrible eating habit of cup ramen for every meal, so he decides to haunt her in order to protect her.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, shounen, super sentai, unusual plot structure
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Kamichu! (2005)
Plot Summary:
Kamichu! is a Japanese anime television series, strongly influenced by the Shinto religion, that follows the adventures of teenage goddess Yurie Hitotsubashi and her friends. The title is short for Kamisama de Chūgakusei. The series was created by Besame Mucho, which is the joint pen name of Tomonori Ochikoshi, Koji Masunari, and Hideyuki Kurata. It was broadcast by the anime television network Animax on its respective networks worldwide, including Japan, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, where it received its first English-language broadcast. The series was adapted as a manga serialized in Dengeki Daioh, a shōnen manga magazine, and collected in two tankōbon volumes. At the 2005 Japan Media Arts Festival, Kamichu! received an Excellence Prize for animation. On July 3, 2008, Geneon Entertainment and Funimation Entertainment announced an agreement to distribute select titles in North America. While Geneon Entertainment will still retain the license, Funimation Entertainment will assume exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of select titles. Kamichu! was one of several titles involved in the deal. However, as of August 2011, the rights to the series had expired.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, light, captivating, entertaining, feel good, iyashikei
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Sarazanmai (2019)
Plot Summary:
The stage is Asakusa. One day, three second-year middle school students — Kazuki Yasaka, Toi Kuji, and Enta Jinai — meet a kappa-like creature named Keppi, who is the self-proclaimed heir to the throne of Kappa Kingdom. Keppi forcibly takes the students' shirikodama (a mythical organ kappa steal through a person's anus) and they are transformed into kappa. Keppi informs them, "If you want to return to your former selves, you need to connect in 'that way' and you must bring me the shirikodama of zombies." Will the three boys be able to connect and take the shirikodama of zombies? At the same time, two policemen, Reo Niiboshi and Mabu Akutsu, try to do something at the police box where they are stationed.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, surreal, touching, captivating, yaoi, corny
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Sankarea: Undying Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
Zombie-obsessed Furuya is making a potion to reanimate his dead cat when he meets Rea. She’s about as miserable as a girl can get, thanks to her creepy, domineering father. When the pain becomes too much, she tries to commit suicide with a sip of Furuya’s weird elixir. The potion doesn’t kill her – but it does turn her into a zombie after she falls from a cliff. Now that Rea’s undead and ready to finally live, she hides out with Furuya, who’s always dreamed of having a zombie girlfriend. Their one-of-a-kind relationship comes with some challenges, like the fact that Rea is decomposing. Even worse, her freak-show dad is dangerously determined to get her back under his control. As Furuya fights to keep his ghoulfriend safe, Rea finds the secret to resurrecting her happiness: Live like you’re dying – even if you’re already dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, ecchi, absurd, bleak
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Nyan Koi! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nyan Koi! is a manga created by Sato Fujiwara. It started serialization on Flex Comix's free web comic FlexComix Blood on August 10, 2007. An anime adaptation premiered on October 1, 2009 in Japan. North American anime distributor Section23 Films announced that Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series. The complete subtitled set was released on December 14, 2010. The series will be re-released on DVD and Blu-ray with and English dub on September 13, 2013.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy, shounen, offbeat, ecchi
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Flying Witch (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the witches' tradition, when a practitioner turns 15, they must become independent and leave their home to study witchcraft. Makoto Kowata is one such apprentice witch who leaves her parents' home in Yokohama in pursuit of knowledge and training. Along with her companion Chito, a black cat familiar, they embark on a journey to Aomori, a region favored by witches due to its abundance of nature and affinity with magic. They begin their new life by living with Makoto's second cousins, Kei Kuramoto and his little sister Chinatsu. While Makoto may seem to be attending high school like any other teenager, her whimsical and eccentric involvement with witchcraft sets her apart from others her age. From her encounter with an anthropomorphic dog fortune teller to the peculiar magic training she receives from her older sister Akane, Makoto's peaceful everyday life is filled with the idiosyncrasies of witchcraft that she shares with her friends and family.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, exciting, humorous, captivating, semi serious, shounen, super sentai, educational, iyashikei
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Mischief of the Gods (2014)
Plot Summary:
Yui Kusanagi is ordered by Zeus, a god and the headmaster of a school he created, to teach the meaning of love to young and handsome gods. The reason he has for doing this is to cancel the negative effects of the weakening bond between the world of the divine and the world of the humans.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: shoujo, anime, touching, humorous, sentimental, super sentai
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Inu x Boku Secret Service (2012)
Plot Summary:
Protected by the highest security, the Maison de Ayakashi is rumored to be haunted, where only eccentrics could live. In reality, it is a place for humans with non-human ancestors to live. The socially-inept Ririchiyo has come here to improve herself. She meets secret service bodyguard Soushi, who is assigned to protect residents. He has a request of her: "Please make me your dog.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, humorous, semi serious, romantic comedy, shounen, suspenseful
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The Ancient Magus' Bride (2017)
Plot Summary:
Chise Hatori, 15 years old. Lost, without hope, and without family, she is bought for money – not by another person, but by a non-human sorcerer named Elias. Though she hesitates, she begins life anew as his apprentice and future wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, enigmatic, romantic, captivating, dark fantasy, stylized, manga, shounen, exciting
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Zakuro (2010)
Plot Summary:
In an alternate Japan, humans and spirits coexist. To solve the problems that arise between the two, human lieutenants are partnered with half-spirit girls to form the Ministry of Spirit Affairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, captivating, tense, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, shoujo, seinen, manga
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Somali and the Forest Spirit (2020)
Plot Summary:
The world is ruled by spirits, goblins, and all manner of strange creatures. Human beings are persecuted, to the very point of extinction. One day, a golem and a lone human girl meet. This is a record of the pair, one a member of a ruined race, the other a watchman of the forest. It tells of their travels together and of the bond between father and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fantasy
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Hozuki's Coolheadedness (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hozuki is the chief of staff to the great king of Japanese Hell, King Enma. Dedicated, unflappable and super-sadistic, he oversees the day-to-day operations of Hell, from diplomatic relations with the other Hells to ensuring proper torture of the damned, and deals with any trouble-makers swiftly and without mercy (often including King Enma himself). However, he also likes spending his free time on his hobbies, such as fawning over cute animals and raising Goldfish Flowers.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, parody, humorous, light, seinen, dark comedy, dark, super sentai, tense
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We Rent Tsukumogami (2018)
Plot Summary:
The series is set during the Edo period, in the Fukagawa ward of old Edo (present-day Tokyo). Because the area is prone to fire and flooding, residents rent everyday items like pots, futons, and clothing from shops instead of purchasing them, so as not to impede them when they flee. Obeni and Seiji, an older sister and younger brother, run one such rental shop called Izumoya. However, mixed in with their inventory are tsukumogami, objects that have turned into spirits after a hundred years of existence. The siblings sometimes lend these sentient items to customers. Both Obeni and Seiji can see and talk to these spirits, and other tsukumogami often come to the store after hearing of the famed siblings.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Animation, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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Maburaho (2003)
Plot Summary:
High school student Kazuki Shikimori comes from a line of powerful magicians with extraordinary DNA and he attends the most prestigious school for wizards in all of Japan. It would seem that life is good for Kazuki. Unfortunately, that couldn’t be further from the truth. He’s not the most smooth when it comes to the ladies, his grades are poor, his athletic skill is next to none, and to top it all off, he can only use his magic eight times before he turns into dust! However, three magical hotties have learned of his genetic secret and are all after him! Suddenly he has become the most “popular” kid in class. Are all these girls out to romance him, or are they only after his DNA?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, semi serious, captivating, ecchi
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Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kobayashi lives alone in an apartment, until one day, Tooru appeared and they ended up living together. Tooru looks down on humans as inferior and foolish, but having been saved by Kobayashi-san, she does everything she can to repay the debt and help her with various things, although not everything goes according to plan. A mythical everyday life comedy about a hard working office lady living with a dragon girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, stylized, light, entertaining, sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious, yuri
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Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun (2020)
Plot Summary:
At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school's Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third floor girls' bathroom in the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Nene Yashiro, an occult-loving high school girl who dreams of romance, ventures into this haunted bathroom...but the Hanako-san she meets there is nothing like she imagined! Kamome Academy's Hanako-san...is a boy!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, funny, entertaining, fairy tale
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Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! (2021)
Plot Summary:
The peaceful days of the very popular work Bungou Stray Dogs are here. The characters of the Armed Detective Agency and the Mafia are in miniature form?! Due to Atsushi and co. becoming cute, this is a different experience to the original work—a pleasant gag manga!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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Dance with Devils (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ritsuka Tachibana is a female second-year high school student who attends Shiko Academy in Shiko Town. She enjoyed her school life while living with her mother Maria, but one day, that balance fell into ruin when she discovers several of her attractive, male classmate are demons.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: shoujo, anime, tense, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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Mr Love: Queen's Choice (2020)
Plot Summary:
A girl inherits a company that is almost bankrupt from her late father. Lacking the funds, she must now become the producer herself in order to save the company from collapse. During her work, she meets four boys—financial expert Zen, the idol Kira, police officer Haku, and leading neuroscientist Simon—and is suddenly involved with the conspiracies and mysteries over the existence of special powers known as "Evol.".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, psychological, exciting, tense, touching, captivating, suspense
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Magica Wars (2014)
Plot Summary:
"Mahou Shoujo Taisen" is a project created from a variety show for the Otaku "2.5 Chigen TV" (2.5 Dimension TV). The characters are the mahou shoujo that represent each local town in Japan. The characters that won from the second illustration competitions that were held on pixiv will appear in the anime.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense
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The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. (2016)
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Gifted with a wide assortment of supernatural abilities ranging from telepathy to x-ray vision, Kusuo Saiki finds this so-called blessing to be nothing but a curse. As all the inconveniences his powers cause constantly pile up, all Kusuo aims for is an ordinary, hassle-free life—a life where ignorance is bliss.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, exciting, light, entertaining, captivating, humorous, absurd, shounen, parody
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Heaven's Design Team (2021)
Plot Summary:
I made the light, the water, and the earth below. Now it's time to make the life that dwells upon it. Actually... that sounds like a giant headache, so I'll contract it out! Heaven's Design Team is an agency that creates made-to-order life forms for their client, God. Why does this life form look like that? Why does this life form live this way? Watch the trials and successes of the designers and engineers forced to breathe life into God's absurd requests!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, sincere, captivating, shounen, feel good, humorous, tense
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Inari Kon Kon (2014)
Plot Summary:
Fushimi Inari is a shy, not-so-bright middle school girl living in Kyoto's Fushimi ward. She has a crush on her classmate Tanbabashi, but cannot express her feelings. One day, as thanks for helping a fox pup, the deity Uka no Mitama no Kami grants her the ability to change her form.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, captivating, entertaining, light, sincere, humorous, romantic comedy
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The Titan's Bride (2020)
Plot Summary:
One day, Koichi, a student about to graduate, is summoned to another world. It's a country of Titans where a much larger race lives. The Prince of the country, Caius, appears in front of him. He enthusiastically sees Koichi and proposes, "I want you to be my bride and carry my children!".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, yaoi, captivating, entertaining, adult animation, manga, humorous, 2d animation
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Mob Psycho 100 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shigeo Kageyama, a.k.a. "Mob," is a boy who has trouble expressing himself, but who happens to be a powerful esper. Mob is determined to live a normal life and keeps his ESP suppressed, but when his emotions surge to a level of 100%, something terrible happens to him! As he's surrounded by false espers, evil spirits, and mysterious organizations, what will Mob think? What choices will he make?.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, exciting, shounen, light, humorous, gothic, manga, adult anime, parody
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Kamisama Kiss (2012)
Plot Summary:
Nanami was just a normal high school girl down on her luck until a stranger’s lips marked her as the new Land God and turned her world upside down. Now, she’s figuring out the duties of a deity with the help of Tomoe, a reformed fox demon who reluctantly becomes her familiar in a contract sealed with a kiss. The new responsibilities—and boys—are a lot to handle, like the crow demon masquerading as a gorgeous pop idol and the adorable snake spirit who’s chosen the newly minted god to be his bride. As the headstrong Tomoe tries to whip her into shape, Nanami finds that love just might have cute, pointed fox ears. With romance in the air, will the human deity be able to prove herself worthy of her new title?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, exciting, romantic, humorous, touching, captivating, semi serious
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The Urara of Labyrinth Town (2017)
Plot Summary:
This is Meiro-machi (Labyrinth Town), the town of fortune-telling. In town, there is a fortune-telling shop called Urara, where girls aspiring to be fortune-tellers come from all over the country. Chiya, who was raised in the mountains, comes to the town with a purpose, but what is it exactly? There, she meets Kon who is always serious, Koume who loves all things western, and the shy Nono. Their fun days of living together as apprentice fortune-tellers are about to begin.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, psychological, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, yaoi, yuri, super sentai
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Ms. Vampire Who Lives in My Neighborhood (2018)
Plot Summary:
The modern-day vampire comedy centers on high school girl Amano, who was saved from a strange incident by a vampire girl named Sophie Twilight, and has been interested in her ever since. Akari arrives at her house uninvited and the two start to live together. Although a vampire, Sophie never attacks humans, but purchases blood and anime goods via mail and lives a modern life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Dr. Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist (2021)
Plot Summary:
So long as people have hearts, there will be those with worries and concerns. Those hearts are then invaded by something strange, causing them to show strange physical symptoms. These ailments, called "mysterious diseases," exist unseen to most people. Modern medicine offers no cure, but there is one doctor who fights these diseases along with his pupils. His name is Ramune. He looks nothing like a doctor, is foul-mouthed, and does whatever he pleases, but he has the ability to pinpoint the cause of the troubles hidden deep within his patients' hearts and cure their mysterious diseases.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, shounen, satirical, 2d animation
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Magical Sisters Yoyo & Nene (2013)
Plot Summary:
It is a story about a pair of sisters who work as "noroiya" (cursers) using magic in a fantasy world. One day a big tree suddenly appears in a forest, and tall buildings that look like they are from our world can be seen entangled in it. The two sisters go there to investigate and get ported to our world. They then encounter two children who are startled by the sisters' sudden appearance and rush back home but at home they see their parents turned into monsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Shaman King (2021)
Plot Summary:
The Shaman King is the one who can contact the king of spirits and reshape the world. Every 500 years, shamans, who can commune between the worlds of the living and dead, compete in the Shaman Fight to become the next Shaman King. Among those aiming for the top is a young shaman named Yoh Asakura.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, contemplative, shounen, gothic