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Plot Summary:
Based on a mixed media project that blends fantasy, magical girl, and idol elements, Lapis Re:LiGHTs will follow a group of students as they train to become idols. Together, they'll use the magic of music and the magic of... well, literal magic... in their performances.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, adult anime
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El Hazard: The Magnificent World 2 (1997)
Plot Summary:
With the Shadow Realm's attempt to destroy El Hazard defeated, our heroes are adjusting to their new peaceful lives in this world. This includes the preparations of Miz Mishtal's wedding to Mr. Fujisawa, and the gang enduring the antics of the insufferable Princess Fatora. However things get complicated when Mr. Fujisawa develops cold feet and flees just the wedding for a walk-about. Miz, Makoto and most of their close friends set out to search for him. Meanwhile, their enemies, Queen Diva and Jinnai of the devastated Bugrom nation are in search for a new home and hopefully, a new super-weapon for conquest. They find both and the consequences of that find leads them to meet up with Makoto's party and new dangers neither sides have expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime
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Angel's 3Piece! (2017)
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A shut-in ever since he had a traumatic experience, Nukui Hibiki's biggest hobby has been using vocalization software to create and uploading songs online. One day, he receives an email from some fifth-grader girls, asking to meet and discuss something with him. The three girls, who have grown up together almost like siblings, ask him to help them show their gratitude to the people who have taken care of them. The method they've devised? Putting on a successful concert at a place full of memories.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, ecchi
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Music Girls (2018)
Plot Summary:
Haru Chitose, Eri Kumagai, Sarasa Ryuuouh, Kiri Mukae, Uori Mukae, Sasame Mitsukuri, Miku Nishio, Hiyo Yukino, Shupe Gushiken, Kotoko Kintoki, and Roro Morooka are the eleven members of "Music Girls," an idol group produced by Pine Records. However, they're a third-rate idol group that can't seem to sell CDs at all. But even though they're obscure and constantly in debt, the members and their producer, Ikehashi, are all trying their hardest. Ikehashi gets the idea that Music Girls needs a new member—an idol who can light a fire under them so that they can grasp success!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime
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Re:Stage! Dream Days♪ (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story centers around the first-year student Mana Shikimiya as she pursue her dreams of winning at the Prism Stage, the competition that determines the top middle-school idol.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, super sentai, 2d animation
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Eternal Boys (2022)
Plot Summary:
“The Mature Idol Project” - The latest project proposed by Manpuku Entertainment Productions, in a bid to revive the company. Experienced in the successes and failures of the business world, 6 middle-aged men now face the many hurdles of age and physical ability, whilst pursuing their goal to become idols. In an effort to prove that old dogs can learn new tricks, and that you can still learn to shine no matter your age, these middle-aged men, at the end of their ropes, are taking a stand!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Bocchi the Rock! (2022)
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Hitori Gotoh, “Bocchi-chan,” is a girl who’s so introverted and shy around people that she’d always start her conversations with “Ah...” During her middle school years, she started playing the guitar, wanting to join a band because she thought it could be an opportunity for even someone shy like her to also shine. But because she had no friends, she ended up practicing guitar for six hours every day all by herself. After becoming a skilled guitar player, she uploaded videos of herself playing the guitar to the internet under the name “Guitar Hero” and fantasized about performing at her school’s cultural festival concert. But not only could she not find any bandmates, before she knew it, she was in high school and still wasn’t able to make a single friend! She was really close to becoming a shut-in, but one day, Nijika Ijichi, the drummer in Kessoku Band, reached out to her. And because of that, her everyday life started to change little by little.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime
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Happiness! (2006)
Plot Summary:
There is a school for regular students and another for students who can use magic. There will be a problem in the magic school and all the students will go to the normal students school.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Animation, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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El Hazard: Wanderers (1995)
Plot Summary:
At Shinonome High School, Makoto, a mild mannered engineering prodigy is working on a special science project with some help from his girl friend, Nanami, an entrepreneurial whiz as passionate about her work as Makoto is at his. Unfortunately, her brother, Jinnai, a mega-maniacal cheat who irrationally thinks that Makoto is out to ruin his every ambition including his corrupt school presidency, has other plans. He tries to sabotage Makoto's device when Makoto catches him. In the ensuing struggle, the rewired machine opens a dimensional portal that throws Makoto, Jinnai, Nanami and their history teacher friend, Mr. Fujisawa into the world of El Hazard. Once there, Makoto and friends struggle to find a way home with all the help that a princess they meet, Rune Venus of Roshtaria, can give them as well the special powers granted to each of them as a by-product of the trip. At the same time, they must also stop Jinnai, who has allied with an enemy nation, called the Bugrom to conquer El.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime
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KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World (2023)
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Yukito, the son of a questionable cult leader, lost his life due to the cult's ridiculous training practices. Now to his surprise, he was reincarnated into another world! It was an ideal world for him without the concept of "God" or "religion" BUT...! A unique "reincarnating in other world" adventure begins: creating a "religion" in a world without God?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Animation, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: ecchi, anime
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Idoly Pride (2021)
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After a successful audition, high school student Kotono Nagase and her best friend move into a dorm with eight other aspiring idols. They quickly realize it takes more than cute choreography and cute outfits to reach the top—it will take blood, sweat, and tears to advance in the idol-ranking VENUS program, where the top spot is held by superstar Mana Nagase... who happens to be Kotono’s older sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
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One day, Miu Takigawa suddenly receives a letter notifying her that she has been chosen as a member of a brand-new project. Half in disbelief, she heads over to the location stated on the letter. There, she finds seven other girls summoned there in the same fashion. The girls behold a giant, top-secret facility. They stand in bewilderment as they are told: "You are going to debut for a major record label as an idol group." A new kind of idol, never-before-seen, is about to be born here.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, 2d animation
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Gokujo (2012)
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, yuri
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Maerchen Maedchen (2018)
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Animation, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
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Bikini Warriors (2015)
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Prepare yourself for an adventure of epic proportions. With warriors so skilled at battling questionable slimes and taming tumescent tentacles, there's no need for all that bulky armor.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min
Plot tags: anime, light, captivating, entertaining, ecchi, parody, yuri
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 55
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Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Animation, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: anime, light, captivating, entertaining, adult anime, yuri, super sentai
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Love Live! Superstar!! (2021)
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Yuigaoka Girls High School is a newly established school that lies between the Omotesando, Harajuku, and Aoyama neighborhoods of Tokyo. The story centers on its first batch of students. With no history, no upperclassmen or alumni, and no reputation, it is a school full of unknowns. Five girls, among them Kanon Shibuya, have a fateful encounter with school idols. Kanon decides, "I love singing. I want to make something come true with song!" Many feelings converge upon a star that has only started to grow. The future is blank and full of possibility for these girls, and their story that everyone will make possible has only just begun. Soar with your wings, our Love Live!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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After the idol group Aqours has won the final Love Live! contest, its remaining members prepare to enroll at a new school only to run into some unexpected trouble while the former members go missing on the way to their graduation trip. Separated, the girls begin to realize the value of their friendships as they attempt to find a solution to their various crises.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
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D4DJ (2020)
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Rinku Aimoto, who has a habit of saying "Happy Around!", has returned to Japan from abroad and enrolls at Yoba Academy where DJing is popular. She is deeply moved by a DJ concert she sees there and decides to form a unit of her own with DJ Maho Akashi, VJ Muni Ohnaruto and keyboardist Rei Togetsu. While interacting with other DJ units like Peaky P-key and Photon Maiden, Rinku and her friends aim for the high stage!.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, 3d animation
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Endro! (2019)
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Naral Island, a continent with swords and magic in which humans and monsters coexist. The terrible Demon King lives there. In ancient times, the first-generation hero defeated the Demon King. Over the many successive generations since then, the Demon King has been resurrected, and the hero who opposes him has likewise reappeared. Girls attend a school for adventurers in order to defeat the Demon King when he appears again. Though a bit absent-minded, Yusha has the body of a hero. The holy elf Seyla's trouble never ends because she is too serious. The cheerful warrior Fai loves to eat. Mei is a quiet otaku magician. As the four girls aim to be in the hero party, they live relaxed fantasy lives and show no sign of defeating the Demon King no matter how much time passes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Plot Summary:
In a world of sword and sorcery a young villager named Kautsu comes upon a unique armor shop that only deals with a certain kind of equipment for female adventurers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Vermeil in Gold: A Desperate Magician Barges Into the Magical World Alongside the Strongest Calamity (2022)
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Rather than take a more sensible approach to salvaging his grades in time for graduation, Alto summons a bit of otherworldly help. Only after does he learn he’s bound the legendary she-devil Vermeil into service as his familiar!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
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Matoi the Sacred Slayer (2016)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Plot Summary:
During the early 20th century, along with technological advancements, scientists were able to develop sophisticated magic. The combination of science and sorcery was Makinot, circuits made from spells that were put into objects to bring them to life and even gain a personality. It was developed as a military weapon and has now spread throughout the world. Akabane Raishin is now attending the Royal Academy to become the best in the world. Accompanied by the lovely teenage girl Yaya, who is actually Raishin’s puppet weapon, he plans on rocketing to the top of the class. However, his test scores come nearly dead last although his combat skills and determination are second to none. Raishin has to compete with the deadliest of classmates if he wants to come out as the king.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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Legend of Mana -The Teardrop Crystal- (2022)
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Not far from the town of Domina lives Shiloh, a boy who keeps hearing a voice in his dreams about a mission he must fulfill. But what mission could he be needed for remains unknown. That all changes when he meets two Jumi, a race that’s hunted for their unique gemstones, as a sudden outbreak of attacks against the Jumi occurs. His dream, his quest, becomes clear—help the Jumi and their gemstones!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Wake Up, Girls! (2014)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas 2013, the band Wake Up, Girls plays their debut song to a small audience without much fanfare. After the concert, the group’s manager takes off with the money, leaving Green Leaves Entertainment on the verge of closure and the band without a future. Despite this tumultuous beginning, the girls get a second chance, thanks to a mysterious benefactor and a shady business proposal. From here it’s a rocky climb to the top, but it’s a climb the girls are ready to make. Wake Up, Girls! follows the internal and external struggles of being a small-time idol girl band, from finding and accepting gigs to competing in popularity against other pop bands. Through the band, the girls come to accept their pasts and become more certain about their futures. Faced with increasing stakes and popularity, each of the band’s seven members must find the strength and courage inside herself to give her all to the band.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, super sentai
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Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club (2020)
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Nijigasaki High School is located in Odaiba, Tokyo. The school is popular due to its free school style and diverse majors. The story centers on the members of school idol club in Nijigasaki, and their attempt to prevent the club from being abolished.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
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RPG Real Estate (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story begins 15 years after the demon king was defeated and the world has become peaceful. Kotone, who graduated from school and became a magician, inquired the kingdom-affiliated RPG Real Estate in order to find a new home. In reality, RPG Real Estate was Kotone's place of employment, and together with Fa, a demi-human, the priest Rufuria, and the soldier Rakira, they help support the searches of new homes for the customers with various circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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