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Plot Summary:
Takumi Fujiwara continues his undefeated racing streak, touring the mountain passes of Japan with rival driver Keisuke Takahashi as a part of ex-racer Ryosuke Takahashi's racing team: "Project D".
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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OVERTAKE! (2023)
Plot Summary:
Haruka Asahina is a high school teen racing in Formula 4. He crosses paths with a washed-up photographer, Kōya Madoka, who decides to help Haruka realize his dream and reach the podium. The heat is on, and competition is fierce. Racing for the family-run Komaki Motors team means Haruka must push the car, and himself, to the limits to catch the attention of top teams. Buckle up, it’s time to race!.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime
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Ippon Again! (2023)
Plot Summary:
After one last tournament and an embarrassing loss in the final round, Michi decides to call it quits on the sport of judo. Between high school social activities and entrance exams, she’ll have no time to compete in the martial art she loves most, but putting aside old hobbies is a normal part of growing up. Still, the love of judo lingers—and it comes back full force when she meets her new classmate Towa, the girl who bested Michi in her final match! Towa wants to form a judo club at their school, but she’ll need new members to get it up and running. United by their love of judo, they’ll throw in their passions into the ring together and score ippon again!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Goooal! (1993)
Plot Summary:
Toshihiko Tanaka decided to go to Kakegawa high school after graduating from junior high, along with Kazuhiro Hiramatsu and Kenji Shiraishi, the other two members of the Golden Trio in Kakenjshi Junior High football team. Although there are some problems at the beginning, the new players finally fit the team well And after being trained by the team's junior caption Yoshiharu Kubo. A year before, freshman player Kubo led the two-month-old team to the quarterfinal in the highly competitive Shizuoka province tournament single handedly. The new team needs to rebuild itself before the National Tournament in summer, without their leader Kubo. Assistant caption Atsushi Kamiya remains strong and shows great leadership to replace the caption spot, and new comer Keigo Mahori fulfills Kubo's mid-field position. This totally break team inherits the spirit of Kubo and again aims for the national championship. Toshihiko, who takes Kubo's number 10 jersey, now needs to endeavor for his skill in.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime
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Wangan Midnight (2007)
Plot Summary:
After losing a street race to Tatsuya Shima's legendary "Blackbird" Porsche 911 Turbo, high school student Akio Asakura purchases a heavily-modified first-generation Datsun S30 Fairlady Z from a junkyard. The car has a dark history of accidents, leading some to believe it's cursed; hence its nickname "Devil Z." Akio also discovers that the Z's first owner shared his first and last name, and was killed in the car during a race with the Blackbird. Meanwhile, fashion model Reina Akikawa joins the rivalry between Akio and Tatsuya with her modified Nissan Skyline GT-R R32.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Animation, Action, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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MF GHOST (2023)
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Japan adopts self-driving electric automobiles and renders most gas engines obsolete by 202X. The fastest cars find new life in the MFG, a racing circuit held on Japanese motorways. Drivers from around the world race for a shot at the title. Kanata Rivington returns from Britain to Japan for the MFG—and to find his father. Can he win the title and find answers? Buckle up and push it to the limit!.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Animation, Action, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: seinen, anime
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Sensual Phrase (1999)
Plot Summary:
An anime about a rock band who's lead vocalist falls in love with a high school girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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Initial D: Third Stage (2001)
Plot Summary:
With high school graduation right around the corner, Takumi Fujiwara has a lot on his mind and a lot to prepare for. Everything becomes even more complicated when Takumi is offered a spot on Ryosuke Takahashi's elite Kengai Racing Team, which seeks to assemble the greatest racers in the Gunma area for a tour of Japan's mountain passes. Before he can accept however, Takumi feels the need to settle the score with the Lancer Evo driving Emperor team, defend his downhill-racer crown against the son of his father's greatest rival, and finally settle things with his unfaithful girlfriend Natsuki.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating
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Initial D Battle Stage 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Initial D Battle Stage 2 summarizes the major street races from the Initial D: Fourth Stage. Two races that were previously seen only in the manga were animated specially for this OVA. The first race is Takahashi Keisuke vs. Smiley Sakai, and the other is Keisuke vs. Kawai Atsuro.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining
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Whistle! (2002)
Plot Summary:
Everybody has a dream, and for Shou Kazamatsuri, that dream is simple: he wants to be the best soccer player he can possibly be. Although he is not very good at the game and he's not very tall.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Highschool! Weird Looking Bunch (1985)
Plot Summary:
College anime that follows a group of friends who solve the strange situations in which they get into with a lot of humor. All amongst very stereotyped characters.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime
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Kenkou Zenrakei Suieibu Umishou (2007)
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Kaname Okiura, a student of Umineko Shougyou High ("Umishou" for short), joined the school’s swimming club in order to learn how to swim, but the club is filled with weirdos. Then, a sunny, happy-go-lucky girl named Amuro Ninagawa who transferred from Okinawa joined the club. Her extraordinary underwater speed and unorthodox swimming style surprised every club member, especially Okiura, because she reminds him of a mermaid he saw only once in his early childhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, ecchi
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Here Is Greenwood (1991)
Plot Summary:
When a young boy's fist love marries his brother, his last resort is to move into the dorms of the local school. Unfortunately, the school administration places him in the weirdest house on campus with an unusual roommate, and strange neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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Bokura ga ita (2006)
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Nanami Takahashi is a high school student entering her first year. Immediately on her first day however, she becomes the victim of a practical joke by the school's most popular guy, Motoharu Yano, who coincidentally also ends up in her class. While the two get off to a rocky start, they soon find themselves falling in love with one another and begin dating. But their relationship is marred by Yano's past which includes the death of Yano's previous girlfriend, Nana Yamamoto, and the betrayal surrounding her death. To make matters more complicated her younger sister, Yuri, is in the same class as Yano and Nanami. As Yano struggles to come to grips with Nana's death and his unresolved feelings for her, so too must Nanami learn to understand Yano if the two hope to continue their relationship with one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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Big Windup! (2007)
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Follows Ren Mihashi, who had previously excelled as his middle school baseball team's ace pitcher, due to his grandfather's connections as its manager. As he graduates to high school, whose baseball team his grandfather does not manage, he initially does not believe he is good enough to succeed at baseball, however, but assisted by his friends, he grows in stature, confidence and skill, helping his team excel with his own ability.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good
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Suzuka (2005)
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Yamato Akitsuki travels to Tokyo alone to study in one of the high schools located within the area. He lives in with his aunt who operates a public bath solely for the ladies in the local district and begins his normal high-school life. One day, he chances upon a girl in school and is immediately mesmerized by her beauty. He is shocked when he realizes later that the girl, Suzuka, is actually living next door to him. From then on, Yamato's ordinary life begins to change little by little.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Hyper Police (1997)
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Hyper Police is the name of a manga and anime series created by Minoru Tachikawa under the pseudonym MEE. It is a comic science fiction, set in a period in the far future, in which humanity is almost extinct and most of the population are monsters. It is mostly set in the offices of a private police company and focuses on the life of Natsuki Sasahara, a young catgirl, and her co-workers: Foxgirl Sakura Bokuseiinmonzeninari, werewolf Batanen Fujioka and his cousin Tomy Fujioka. For many years, the only western language to have official translations of the Hyper Police manga was Spanish. English translations have been completed by US company Tokyopop.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, detective, 2d animation
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Maison Ikkoku (1986)
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Godai is a ronin (someone who has failed university entrance exams) living in a run down apartment house called Maison Ikkoku. Among the other residents are the nosy Ichinose, the sexy Akemi Roppongi, and the mysterious Yotsuya. The others are given to having wild parties which makes it difficult for Godai to study. Into this mayhem comes the recently widowed Kyoko as the new live-in manager. Godai falls for her, but doesn't have the nerve to tell her. As time passes, their relationship slowly develops amid life at Maison Ikkoku, despite all sorts of romantic hurdles.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Giant Killing (2010)
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Giant Killing follows a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo who are struggling in Japan's top football league. Nearing the bottom, they have lost 5 matches in a row which hasn't done much to team morale. Even with the fan's turning their backs on the team, it seems as if the end is near. East Tokyo United can only blame their coach right now. However, their Coach is going to do something drastic to prove to his team and fans, that against the biggest club in the nation, he can make this team win.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Mazinkaiser SKL (2010)
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Mazinkaizer SKL (マジンカイザースカル Majinkaizā Sukaru?) is a Japanese OVA spinoff of Go Nagai's Mazinkaiser, which was in itself a spinoff of Mazinger Z. The first episode was released on November 27, 2010 and was first screened on November 27, 2010. It also has a novel adaptation serialized in ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Hobby Magazine and a manga adaptation published in the mobile phone magazine Shu 2 Comic Gekkin. Like Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z Hen, characters and references to other works of Go Nagai appear in this series.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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Bibliophile Princess (2022)
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When book-loving Lady Elianna spots Prince Christopher—her betrothed in name only—consorting with another noble lady, she realizes the recent rumors must be true. The prince has someone he truly loves, which means the annulment of their engagement is both inevitable and fast-approaching. What she doesn't realize is that this is merely a surface ripple—one of many where the truth runs deep, in a conspiracy surpassing her imagination!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Magical Mako (1970)
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Mahō no Mako-chan is a Japanese anime series by Toei Animation. The story is loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale The Little Mermaid. The series has been dubbed into various languages including French, Spanish, Polish and Italian. It is also often known as Mako the Mermaid, Mako-chan’s Magic, Syrenka Mako and Magical Mako-chan. Mahō no Mako-chan aired in 1970 via Nippon Educational TV, which is now TV Asahi.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, fairy tale, mahou shoujo
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Initial D (1998)
Plot Summary:
Takumi Fujiwara is an average 18-year old high school student with an average job as a gas station attendant, and a not-so-average hand in the family business. To help his father's tofu shop, Takumi has been delivering tofu in his father's 'Eight-Six' Trueno (known as the Toyota Corolla GT-S in the US) to a hotel at the peak of Mt. Akina (the local mountain), every night at 4 a.m. In doing so, Takumi has been unknowingly training to be the greatest mountain-pass drift-racer in all of Japan. After a freak late-night encounter with Keisuke Takahashi, the number two driver of the infamous RedSuns team, Takumi is quickly, and unwillingly plunged into a high-speed world of white-knuckle contests on the most dangerous mountain passes in the Gunma prefecture. Assisted by the local Akina Speedstars team, his slightly obnoxious friend Itsuki, his somewhat shady girlfriend Natsuke and the sage-like words of his chain-smoking, ex-racer father Bunta, he'll need all the help he can get to outwit.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, exciting, adult animation, semi serious
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Area 88: The Blue Skies of Betrayal (1985)
Plot Summary:
Compilation of Area 88 Acts I-III. A pilot struggles to retain his humanity when he is shanghaied into a mercenary jet fighter force.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: anime, shounen, vintage
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Aoharu x Machinegun (2015)
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When Hotaru moves into a new apartment alone, there's a mysterious man standing nearby the apartment. Hotaru decides to confront the man, who turns out to live in the neighboring apartment. The next day at school, Hotaru's best friend Kanae tells Hotaru that a host tricked her out of her money. When Hotaru goes to confront the host, he happens to be none other than Hotaru's neighbor, Masamune?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, shounen, super sentai
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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (1993)
Plot Summary:
Based on the long-running manga by Hirohiko Araki, the first OVA series follows Josef Joestar and his 17-year-old grandson Jotaro as they attempt to finish the family blood feud against the immortal vampire Dio. Josef and Jotaro have gathered several mystical warriors each with powers representing one card from The Stand (a variation of Tarot cards), with Jotaro having powers over the strongest Stand - the Star Platinum. Dio himself has gathered Stand warriors and together they face off for the sake of Jotaro's mother Holly and domination of the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, cult classic, shounen, campy
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Sola (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sola is a Japanese work originally conceived by Naoki Hisaya with original character design by Naru Nanao. Sola is a mixed media project, first unveiled through the prologue of the manga featured in the Japanese manga magazine Dengeki Daioh on December 21, 2006, published by MediaWorks. The manga, which is illustrated by Chako Abeno, ended serialization on February 21, 2008. The manga has been licensed for distribution in North America by Broccoli Books with the first volume being released in June 2008. A short drama CD which also served as a prologue to the series was released at Comiket 71 in December 2006, and a second drama CD was released in May 2008. An anime version aired in Japan between April and June 2007; the anime contained thirteen episodes, and two additional DVD-exclusive episodes followed. The anime was licensed by Bandai Entertainment for distribution in North America in a subtitle-only box set of all fifteen episodes. The title, Sola, is close in pronunciation to the Japanese word sora. At the end of 2007, Japanese anime fans voted Sola as the best anime of the year.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Cross Game (2009)
Plot Summary:
Kō Kitamura, whose family owns a sporting goods store, has known the Tsukishima girls since he was born. The Tsukishima family runs a batting center and cafe, and they have four daughters. There's Ichiyo, the responsible eldest; Wakaba, Kō's cheerful best friend; Aoba, who doesn't get along with Kō; and Momiji, the energetic youngest daughter. During the summer of their fifth grade, Wakaba leaves for camp after making a promise with Kō to go to the summer festival when she gets back. But she dies in an accident while at camp, and Kō goes to the summer festival by himself in mourning. When Kō enters high school, he aspires to lead his baseball team to the Koshien National High Schol Championship as their ace pitcher and make Wakaba's last dream come true.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Animation, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, realistic, touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, shounen, tsundere
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Zenki the Demon Prince (1995)
Plot Summary:
Zenki is a Japanese manga series written by Kikuhide Tani and illustrated by Yoshihiro Kuroiwa. It was serealized in the Shueisha publication, Monthly Shōnen Jump from 1992 to 1996. Zenki was adapted into a fifty-one episode anime television series in 1995 by Studio Deen and also spawned five video games. Enoki Films handles the English language version of the anime.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, corny
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The Dangers in My Heart (2023)
Plot Summary:
Kyotaro Ichikawa, a boy barely clinging to the bottom rung of his school's social ladder, secretly believes he’s the tortured lead in some psychological thriller. He spends his days dreaming up ways to disrupt his classmates' peaceful lives and pining after Anna Yamada, the class idol. But Kyotaro's not nearly the troubled teen he pretends to be…and it turns out Anna's a bit odd herself!.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, shounen, romantic comedy
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Chihayafuru (2011)
Plot Summary:
6th-year grade-schooler Ayase Chihaya's dream is for her sister to be Japan's top model. However, transfer student Wataya Arata admonishes her that a dream must be about one's own self. Thus, she takes up karuta, a Japanese card game, competitively. Together with Arata and Mashima Taichi, Chihaya's childhood friend, they have great fun playing each other, but separate after graduation. 4 years later, Chihaya returns to town. Although Arata no longer plays the game, she believes that they will eventually reunite as long as she continues karuta. Together with Taichi, she establishes the Mizusawa High-school Karuta Club.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, serious, captivating, entertaining, super sentai, josei