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Plot Summary:
Morale matters just as much as launching a counterassault. Instead of standing on the front lines with the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, the Luminous Witches of the League of Nations Air Force bring smiles to civilians displaced in the human-Neuroi war.
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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Suite Precure♪ The Movie: Take It Back! The Miraculous Melody That Connects Hearts! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Music is disappearing from Majorland. Rumors say that the one who's deleting the music is actually Aphrodite-sama. If that's the case, the Melody of the heart, the exploding Rhythm and the beating Beat will also disappear.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, light, captivating
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Heroines Run the Show (2022)
Plot Summary:
What would you do to pursue your passion? For Hiyori Suzumi, it’s leaving her simple rural hometown for the bustling city of Tokyo to join Sakuragaoka High School’s track team. Between being a manager-in-training for two cutthroat schoolboy idols, track, and friends, Hiyori shows no signs of slowing down.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Kemurikusa (2019)
Plot Summary:
A story about three sisters struggling to survive in a desolate world surrounded by decaying buildings and red fog. The story revolves around Rin, a girl with an updo. There's also Ritsu, the big sister who has cat ears and is always calm, and Rina, the innocent, cheerful one dressed in a maid's costume. Just what is it that these sisters are after in this mysterious world?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Sound of the Sky (2010)
Plot Summary:
On the outskirts of the country of Helvetia rests the tranquil town of Seize. Upon its cobbled streets, citizens go about their daily lives, undisturbed by the increasingly tense military relations between Helvetia and the neighboring Roman Empire. It is under these circumstances that the 1121st platoon of the Helvetian army, stationed at the Clocktower Fortress in Seize, receives a new recruit in the young and spirited Kanata Sorami. Having joined the military to fulfill her dream of learning to play the bugle, she excitedly accepts the tutelage of the Sergeant Major, Rio Kazumiya, who happens to be a skilled trumpeter. Working alongside them are the aloof mechanic, Noël Kannagi, the feisty gunner, Kureha Suminoya, and the compassionate Captain Felicia Heideman; together, they experience the beauty of life in Seize and the lasting joy of a community that has persevered in spite of the crumbling world around them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Miss Monochrome - The Animation (2013)
Plot Summary:
Miss Monochrome is an android who decides to try and become a top idol singer in the ever growing competitive market.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 5 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, manga
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Convenience Store Boy Friends (2017)
Plot Summary:
Six high school boys hang out at a local convenience store where they talk about their daily lives. Haruki Mishima and Towa Honda are first year students looking forward to the high school experience. Alongside them, there’s Nasa Sanagi, the only member of the cooking research club. Natsu Asumi is a loner but has third year students, Mikado Nakajima and Masamune Sakurakoji, looking out for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Flip Flappers (2016)
Plot Summary:
How does the world look in your eyes? Papika and Cocona, the heroines of the story, hold the keys to open the door. When the two girls meet, their adventures in a different time and different overlapping dimension called "Pure Illusion" begin. Many things in Pure Illusion will stand in the girls' way on their search for the mysterious crystal called the "Shard of Mimi," an item that is said to grant any wish. However, when the girls find themselves in danger, the Shard of Mimi shines, and they are able to transform.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, parody, yuri, super sentai
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Bottle Fairy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Bottle Fairy follows a quartet of cute fairies as they play, study, and learn (often incorrect) lessons about the human world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, sincere, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Magic-Kyun! Renaissance (2016)
Plot Summary:
A world where art becomes magic. In this world, people who can inspire passion with their Magic Arts are called Artistas, and are employed in show business. In Hoshinomori Private Magical Arts High School, where Artistas are taught, a strange new student named Ohana Aigasaki transfers into the school. Ohana is placed on the planning committee for the school's yearly Hoshinomori Summer Festa cultural festival. She spends her romantic school life with six other boys who aim to become entertainers in the future and alongside Ohana, to be the school's Artista Prince and Princess, only chosen once a year.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Animation, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, shoujo
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Maerchen Maedchen (2018)
Plot Summary:
When the two girls meet, magic begins. Hazuki Kagimura loves stories, an orthodox girl who is overly imaginative. Because her relationship with her new family does not go well, the environment sends her toward the stories in which she spends her days. One day after school, Hazuki gets lost among the bookcases of the library, leading her to a mysterious school where meets Shizuka Tsuchimikado. It is a magic school where girls (called "mädchen") are selected by the magical texts from which the world's stories are born. Hazuki herself is said to be chosen by the book of Cinderella. In order to become a true magician, Hazuki becomes friends with Shizuka and begins her new life at the school.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Animation, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, fairy tale, 2d animation
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Brave Witches (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Neuroi, an enemy of mankind, suddenly appeared mainly in Europe in the 1930s. Only girls with special magical powers called Witches could confront the Neuroi who were difficult to destroy with ordinary weapons. In 1944, the Neuroi nest above the republic of Gallia was eradicated, and safety of western Europe has been ensured. The allied forces earnestly began planning for an oppositional operation towards central and eastern Europe. An order to scramble is given to the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing "Brave Witches" whose base is in Peterburg within the Orussian Empire.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Selection Project (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of nine determined girls enter the 7th Annual “Selection Project,” a television show where they’ll audition to become idols…and pursue their dreams!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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TsukiPro the Animation (2017)
Plot Summary:
SOARA, Growth, SolidS, and QUELL are four groups belonging to Tsukino Entertainment Production (AKA TSUKIPRO). The slice of life music anime "PRO ANI" depicting their music overflowing with uniqueness and the drama surrounding their lives begins now! Will you open this glittering treasure box of music?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Magikano (2006)
Plot Summary:
Magikano is a manga series by Takeaki Momose, which was later adapted into an anime series, directed by Seiji Kishi and written by Hideki Mitsui. The anime series was also broadcast by Animax, who adapted and dubbed the series into English for broadcast across its English language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia from February 2007, where the series received its English language premiere. ADV Films has licensed the rights for the North American release of Magikano on DVD for $65,000, and released the first volume on December 4, 2007. ADV Films' Anime Network began airing the anime on January 3, 2008 on their Subscription On Demand platform. On March 6, 2008 the anime began airing on their Free On Demand platform. In July 2008, the series became one of over 30 ADV titles to be transferred to Funimation.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Vividred Operation (2013)
Plot Summary:
On an artificial island, Akane Isshiki, an innocent 14-year-old girl, lives a simple but happy life with her level-headed little sister Momo and their genius inventor grandfather. On clear days just over the water, everyone on the island can see the revolutionary invention that solved all the world's energy problems, the Manifestation Engine. Thanks to the Manifestation Engine, the peaceful days that everyone had dreamed of had arrived. But suddenly, a mysterious enemy called the "Alone" appear out of nowhere aiming to attack the Manifestation Engine, jeopardizing their quiet way of life. Equipped with incredibly powerful Palette Suits designed by her grandfather, Akane and her friends must rise up together in this desperate situation. Their friendship is the only hope to save the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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The Ancient Magus' Bride: The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm (2021)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel, an ordinary boy who just moved from London, was bored with his surrounding, until one day he saw a wisp of purple smoke from the window of his house. At that time, he hurriedly chased the smoke, looking for any kind of freedom and fun. Though they should not, the world of boys and wizards soon intersect.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, dark fantasy, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, shounen
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Fate/Grand Order: First Order (2016)
Plot Summary:
The year 2015 CE. The last era in which magecraft still thrived. The Chaldea Security Organization was founded to focus on preserving the continuation of human history. They observe a world which magecraft couldn't observe and science couldn't measure all to prevent the certain extinction of humanity. But one day, the future that Chaldea continued to observe disappears and humanity's extinction in 2017 becomes clear. Rather, it had already happened. The cause seems to be related to Fuyuki, a provincial town in Japan, in the year 2004 CE. There, an "unobservable region" that had not existed before appears. Based on the assumption that Fuyuki is the reason for humanity's extinction, Chaldea issues an order to explore, investigate, and possibly destroy this singularity – a quest for the Holy Grail, the Grand Order.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining
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Armor Shop for Ladies and Gentlemen (2018)
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:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, ecchi
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Buddy Complex (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a giant robot suddenly attacks the city, a high-school student named Aoba is saved by a classmate who's piloting her own mecha. After accepting an offer to join the alliance she's is a part of, Aoba is thrust into the middle of high-flying robot warfare in this new series from the studio that brought you Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, and Escaflowne!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Hyperdimension Neptunia (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is Gameindustri. Beings called Goddesses rule the countries of this unreal world. The four goddesses govern four states: Planeptune, Lastation, Lowee and Leanbox. For many long years these countries fought each other over the Share, the source of the Goddesses' power. However, fearful that the conflict would pointlessly erode their strength, the goddesses signed a Friendship Treaty forbidding them from taking the Share by force. Under the treaty, the Goddesses and their younger sisters took a step forward to a new stage in their relations. It is the dawn of a new, dynamic era marked occasionally by shared laughter, disputes as well as cooperation. But what does the future hold in store for Gameindustri...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, parody, ecchi
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World Witches Take Off! (2021)
Plot Summary:
Strike Witches, the 501st Joint Fighter Wing girls, are back from battle and ready to relax as best they can! War with the deadly Neuroi won’t last forever, but one thing is certain, the war on laundry is eternal. Join these aerial combat cuties in a down-to-earth series highlighting the team’s hijinks between missions.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Kyousougiga (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hidden within Kyoto is the "mirror capital" where youkai and humans live together and no one ever dies. It is protected by three people - Kurama, Yase, and Myoue - as they await the return of their parents, Myoue Jonin and Koto. One day a young girl named Koto (same name, different spelling) and her little brothers A and Un wander into the city from a different dimension looking for her mother. A mecha-geek with red eyes, it's not immediately clear whether she's human or youkai. Her arrival upsets the long peace that had ruled the city.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Suppose a Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town? (2021)
Plot Summary:
Lloyd is a novice adventurer whose dream is to discover “true strength” in the capital he’s always admired, despite growing up with neighbors who always considered him weak. The story starts with him departing from his hometown, which just so happens to be located right next to…one of the most dangerous dungeons in the world?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, captivating, light, shounen
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Queen's Blade Grimoire (2016)
Plot Summary:
The royal court's magician Alicia uses black magic and opens a doorway to another dimension.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, ecchi
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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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Smile of the Arsnotoria the Animation (2022)
Plot Summary:
Here in this magic academy city of Ashram, where everyone is required to live in dormitories, a close-knit group of girls known as “Pentagrams” pursue their studies, including training in manners and magic, to become “true ladies.” Arsnotoria, one of the students in Ashram, lives in Dorm 5 and is always with her dormmate friends: Mel, who’s the life of the party, Petit Albert, who’s quiet and does things at her own pace, Picatrix, who wants to be the class president, and Abramelin, who’s always cool. They take classes and work on their school duties together, and they throw tea parties after school in “that room”….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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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:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Magimoji Rurumo (2014)
Plot Summary:
Shibaki is a high school boy only interested in girls. However, he has been branded as the most perverted boy at school, and the girls go out of their way to avoid him. When he finds a book in the library about how to summon witches, he tries it as a joke; unexpectedly, though, the book works, and a cute witch named Rurumo appears to grant him a wish. Shibaki helps Rurumo and she in return refuses to take his soul. After some time, he thinks about his meeting with Rurumo, and wishes he could see her again. His wish is granted immediately, as Rurumo falls from the sky and crash-lands in front of him, tasked with getting him to use up 666 magic tickets that grant wishes before she can become a witch again. However, according to Rurumo's familiar, what she does not know is that each ticket he uses will shorten his life span, and, when the last ticket is used, he will die.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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I've Had Enough of Being a Magical Girl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Yuzuka Hanami is a young, carefree girl who lives the most ordinary life imaginable. Although her father works around the clock and her mother is rarely home, she still enjoys herself and strives to be an excellent student. Miton, on the other hand, is an alien life-form with the ability to transform his master into a magical girl, a warrior who fights evil wherever it may appear. However, there are not as many enemies as there used to be, so Miton has been out of work for a while. Starving and homeless, he has taken up residence in a pile of garbage. As Yuzuka walks past him one day, Miton seizes the opportunity to offer his services to the young girl. Yuzuka reluctantly agrees, but when she transforms into a magical girl and discovers that her outfit is a swimsuit, she begins to have second thoughts about what she has gotten herself into!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level (2021)
Plot Summary:
After dying of overwork in the real world, I’m reincarnated as an immortal witch, and I spend 300 years enjoying a relaxing life. At some point, though, I end up at level 99! All those years spent killing slimes to make the money to pay the bills gave me a ton of experience points. Rumors of the level 99 witch spread, and soon I’m up to my ears in curious adventurers, duelist dragons, and even a monster girl calling me her mom! I’ve never been on an adventure, but I’m the strongest in the world… What’s going to happen to my relaxing life?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, captivating, slapstick comedy, slapstick, 2d animation