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Plot Summary:
A desolate land stretches out from the city of poverty. A motorcycle speeds recklessly, blowing clouds of sand and dust. The rider is the protagonist of this story – he has neither a name nor a past. All he has is his ring name, “Junk Dog” and a technique for rigging MEGALOBOX matches with his pal Gansaku Nanbu, which they use to support their hand-to-mouth lives. JD is bored, resigned, and unfulfilled. Yuri has been the reigning champion of MEGALOBOX for the past few years. He has the skills and presence of a true champion. This is a story of JD and his rival, Yuri.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, shounen, masterpiece
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Generator Gawl (1998)
Plot Summary:
Gawl, Koji, and Ryo, three young scientists from the future, time travel to early 21st-century Japan to stop a terrible threat from undoing civilization. As they fight against time, their quest disrupts the lives of the townspeople, and the trio must use their incredible intelligence, along with Gawl's unique abilities, to protect their identities, their friends, and their future.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime
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Tsuritama (2012)
Plot Summary:
Yuki Sanada has always felt like a fish out of water. Socially awkward and anxious, he struggles to fit in with his surroundings and moves from town to town with his grandma. As he and his grandma settle into the charming seaside town of Enoshima, Yuki hopes for a fresh start. However, his reputation at school is jeopardized by the arrival of fellow transfer student Haru. The eccentric Haru immediately makes a splash, wildly claiming to be an alien and declaring that Yuki is his friend. Pairing the reluctant Yuki with their classmate and fishing talent, Natsuki Usami, he tasks both of them with the absurd mission of saving the world from a mysterious threat in the ocean. Mischief and hijinks ensue, as these three embark on a whimsical adventure filled with laughs, heart, and self-discovery!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, semi serious, exciting, touching, captivating, suspenseful, cute, iyashikei, humorous
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Mazinger Z (1972)
Plot Summary:
Mazinger Z, known briefly as Tranzor Z in the United States, is a Japanese super robot manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from October 1972 to August 1973, and it later continued in Kodansha TV Magazine from October 1973 to September 1974. It was adapted into an anime television series which aired on Fuji TV from December 1972 to September 1974. A second manga series was released alongside the TV show, this one drawn by Gosaku Ota, which started and ended almost at the same time of the TV show. Mazinger Z has spawned several sequels and spinoff series, among them UFO Robot Grendizer and Mazinkaiser. It was a very popular cartoon in Mexico during the 1980s, where it was dubbed into Spanish directly from the Japanese version, keeping the Japanese character names and broadcasting all 92 episodes, unlike the version aired in the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, shounen
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Avenger (2003)
Plot Summary:
Avenger is an anime series, produced by Bandai Visual, Bee Train and Xebec, and directed by Koichi Mashimo. It is set on post-apocalyptic colonized Mars. The series premiered across Japan between 1 October 2003 and 24 December 2003 on the TV Tokyo network. It was later licensed for North American distribution by Bandai's distributive unit across the region, Bandai Entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, serious, suspense, mecha, seinen, shounen
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Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust (2012)
Plot Summary:
Third film of the Mardock Scramble series. Rune Balot goes to a casino connected to the October corporation to try to wrap up her case once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, bleak, humorous, cyberpunk anime
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Gunslinger Girl (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Social Welfare Agency saves the lives of terminal patients using cybernetic implants. Then it teaches them to kill. After surviving the slaughter of her family, young Henrietta awakens to her new life at the Agency with a rebuilt body and no memory. Teamed with Jose, who is responsible for turning her into the perfect assassin, Henrietta’s been given a second chance—but at what cost?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological, cyber, stylized, gloomy
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Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010)
Plot Summary:
The series begins in U.C. 0001, at the very beginning of human space colonization, when a space station called Laplace is destroyed during a ceremony hosted by the Federation's Prime Minister ushering in the Universal Century Calendar. The main story takes place in UC 0096, sixteen years after the end of the One Year War, three years after the events of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, and 27 years before Mobile Suit Gundam F91. The story revolves around Banagher Links, a seemingly normal boy living and going to school in the space colonies. His life changes one day when he meets a girl named Audrey Burne, as the encounter brings him into contact with a new Gundam and its connections to an item called "Laplace's Box.".
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, captivating, stylized
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FLCL Alternative (2018)
Plot Summary:
FLCL Alternative is a sequel to FLCL and FLCL Progressive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: anime
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Fighting Spirit: New Challenger (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ippo continues to defend his title and training to reach his goal, Ichiro Miyata. While Takamura goes for the world, and faces the world champion, Brian Hawk. In what is to become his toughest fight so far.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating
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Levius (2019)
Plot Summary:
With the casualties of war still haunting him, young Levius uses his prosthetic arm to take his fight into the brutal world of Mecha Boxing.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating, seinen
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Hikaru no Go (2001)
Plot Summary:
Hikaru Shindo is just a normal 12 year old boy, but one day he's rummaging through his Grandfather's things to see if he can find something to sell and pulls out an old Go board. A ghostly apparition appears out of the board and tells Hikaru his sad story. His name is Sai Fujiwara, a man who was a Go instructor to the emperor of Japan a thousand years ago. However, because of bad sportsmanship of his opponent during a game, Sai was accused of cheating and banished from the city. With no livelihood or any other reason to live, Sai committed suicide by drowning himself. Now, he haunts a Go board, and wants to accomplish the perfect Go game, called the "Hand of God" which he hopes to do through Hikaru. If Hikaru will be able to do it or not (or even wants to) will have to be seen.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, exciting, serious, tense, captivating, light, feel good, shounen, offbeat
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7Seeds (2019)
Plot Summary:
Shy Natsu awakens as part of a group chosen to ensure the survival of humanity. Together, they have to survive on a changed Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, stylized, mecha
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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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The Irregular at Magic High School (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a world where magic is not a fairy tale but has existed for one hundred years siblings Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba prepare to begin their studies at the elite Private Magic University Affiliated High School (Magic High School for short). Entering on different levels of the academic spectrum the two turn the once peaceful campus into a chaotic one.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, stylized, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, offbeat, manga, futuristic
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Legends of the Dark King: A Fist of the North Star Story (2008)
Plot Summary:
The world has been reduced to a wasteland, populated by desperate villagers, marauding bandits, and ruthless warriors. One such warrior, Raoh, dares to challenge the Demon King.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, splatter
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Baki the Grappler (2001)
Plot Summary:
Baki Hanma is a young fighter who yearns to follow in the footsteps of his father, Yujiro, and become the strongest fighter in the world. Through that he trains tirelessly and fights constantly to hone his skills and develop his body to achieve these goals. Many intense battles lay ahead of Baki as he goes about his quest to be the best and ultimately take the title of "King" from his father.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, bloody, captivating
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (1997)
Plot Summary:
The year is AC 196. A year has past since the Gundam pilots fought for peace between the colonies and Earth. Now a new threat has arisen and threatens to take over the Earth. The result: Relena is kidnapped by Trieze's daughter and the Gundam pilots must fight for peace...one last time. The Endless Waltz has begun.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix (2005)
Plot Summary:
IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix refers to two anime series co-produced simultaneously by Cartoon Network and Production I.G. The first is a "microseries" consisting of five 5-minute episodes, and the second is a 26-episode animated series loosely related to the first. Koichi Mashimo co-wrote and directed the microseries, while Bee Train Animation and Production I.G animated it, and Bandai Entertainment acted as the North American distributor. The full-length anime series was handled by director and writer Mitsuru Hongo and was animated by Production I.G, with Bee Train returning for in-between animation. Production I.G president Mitsuhisa Ishikawa joined on as producer for the series. It was the first time he had worked on a joint U.S. Japanese production, due to the Pokémon companion franchise. The series' production was managed by Williams Street in Atlanta, Georgia. Bang Zoom! Entertainment in Burbank, California produced the English dub for the series, as well as adapted the scripts alongside Williams Street. IGPX was commended for being the first original series on Toonami. An IGPX video game was released on September 12, 2006, for the PlayStation 2.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, futuristic, captivating, entertaining, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is an anime television series, the 11th incarnation of Sunrise studio's long-running Gundam franchise comprising two seasons. The series is set on a futuristic Earth and is centered on the exploits of the fictional paramilitary organization Celestial Being and its efforts to rid the world of war and conflict with a series of unique and extremely advanced mechas mobile suits known as "Gundams". It is directed by Seiji Mizushima and written by Yōsuke Kuroda, and features character designs by Yun Kōga. The 25-episode season was officially announced by Sunrise during a 15-second trailer on June 2, 2007. The series aired on the Mainichi Broadcasting System and Tokyo Broadcasting System from October 5, 2007 to March 29, 2008. The second season began on October 5, 2008 and concluded on March 29, 2009. A movie sequel was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 25, 2010 in Japan. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is the first Gundam series to be animated in widescreen and in high-definition.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
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Solty Rei (2005)
Plot Summary:
It’s been twelve years since the Blast Fall, an unexplained disaster that left countless dead and many more maimed. Society is divided and every citizen feels the burn, most of all the Resembles – people whose mangled bodies have been rebuilt with high-tech prosthetic devices. Bounty hunter Roy Revant has seen it all, walking alone in this shattered city. That is, until the day a strange little girl named Solty falls from the sky straight into his heart. The search for family turns into a search for meaning and those that wield harsh power over society won’t go unnamed for long. Roy and Solty may seek different things… But who wants to search for truth alone?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful, mecha, bleak
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Macross Zero (2002)
Plot Summary:
Taking place one year before the events of the original Macross series, Macross Zero chronicles the final days of the war between the U.N. Spacy and anti-U.N. factions. After being shot down by the anti-U.N.'s newest fighter plane, ace pilot Shin Kudo finds himself on the remote island of Mayan, where technology is almost non-existent. While Shin stays on the island to heal his wounds, the tranquility of the island is shattered by a battle that involves the UN's newest fighter - the VF-0.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, bleak, serious, adult anime, seinen, futuristic
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Guilty Crown (2011)
Plot Summary:
Guilty Crown is a 2011 Japanese anime television series produced by Production I.G which aired on Fuji TV's noitaminA program block from October 2011. The story revolves around Shu Ouma, a high school boy who inadvertently obtains an ability called "The Power of the Kings" that enables him to draw out items called "Voids" from other people. He is then thrown into the conflict between a resistance group called Funeral Parlor which aims to restore Japan's independence from a quasi-governmental organization known as the GHQ. In the process, Shu has to deal with the burden his ability puts on his shoulders and the horrific mystery of his past. The series incorporates elements of numerous genres, mostly drawing from science fantasy. One manga adaptation has been published by Square Enix in their Monthly Shōnen Gangan which began in November 2011. A light novel was published by Nitroplus entitled Guilty Crown: Princess of Deadpool in April 2012. A spin-off visual novel named Guilty Crown: Lost Christmas was also developed by Nitroplus which came bundled with a 15 minute original video animation tentatively named Guilty Crown: Lost Christmas. Critics praised the series' presentation but panned the plot for being jumbled and cliché.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, serious, psychological, shounen, futuristic, stylized
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Gad Guard (2003)
Plot Summary:
It’s the future, and humanity is worn out. Hajiki’s struggling to make ends meet on the hard-luck streets of Night Town, where everyone is fighting for the same thing: the Gad. If you’ve got a Gad, you’ve got the power of a robotic Techode at your disposal.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, stylized, bleak
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Super Dimensional Cavalry: Southern Cross (1984)
Plot Summary:
The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross is a Japanese science fiction mecha anime TV series released in 1984.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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Galaxy Express 999 (1978)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future, people are able to take on artificial bodies and achieve immortality. A poor orphan, Tetsuro Hoshino, strives to obtain a mechanical body for the triple incentive of eternal life, of revenge (his mother was gunned down by machine men) and to fulfill her dying wish (that he acquire a mechanical body to live forever, and not die like her). He plans to board the Galaxy Express 999, a space train that comes to Earth once a year, and head to the Prometheum, a planet that gives out machine bodies for free. To his surprise, Maetel, a mysterious woman who resembles his mother, selects him as her companion aboard the 999. And thus begins Tetsuro's trip through the stars, where he encounters incredible worlds and makes many friends. But as he travels with Maetel, he witnesses the hardships of mechanical life and wonders, is it worth it? And what secret is the inscrutable Maetel hiding?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, vintage, 2d animation
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Trinity Blood (2005)
Plot Summary:
Many centuries ago, man's Armageddon gave birth to the vampires' wrath. As man and immortal clash, a reality-shattering threat looms. Hope resides solely in a new breed of hunter operating under the Vatican's authority. The true battle between holiness and evil has begun.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, suspenseful, stylized, manga, suspense, seinen, serious
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Kengan Ashura (2019)
Plot Summary:
Since the Edo periods of Japan, gladiator arenas exist in certain areas. In these arenas, wealthy business owners and merchants hire gladiators to fight in unarmed combat where winner takes all. Toki Taouma, nicknamed "Ashura," joins these arenas and devastates his opponents. His spectacular ability to crush his enemies catches the attention of the big business owners, including the Nogi Group chairman, Nogi Hideki.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, exciting, serious, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, manga
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Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's (2008)
Plot Summary:
Many years in the future after the exploits of Yugi Mutou, Domino City has become a shadow of its former self: Neo Domino City. There lies a strong divide between the rich and the poor, and bridging that gap proves to be difficult. Neo Domino seems fit to entertain itself with a wild new event called "Riding Duels", the newest form of playing the ever popular Duel Monsters card game. Enter Yusei Fudou, a young man who lives on the edge of the law, making his own rules. His desire to reclaim what is rightly his from an old friend turns into much more than what he and many of his newfound companions called "Signers" would have ever bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, serious, shounen
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Wolverine (2011)
Plot Summary:
Wolverine is a mutant, possessing animal-keen senses, enhanced psychical capabilities, three retracting bone claws on each hand and a healing factor that allows him to recover from virtually any wound, disease or toxin at a accelerated rate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Parasite Dolls (2003)
Plot Summary:
Beauty is only skin deep, but when you can’t see beneath the skin, how can you know what you’re really dealing with? In a world where perfect androids called Boomers have infiltrated every aspect of society, it’s the job of Branch to maintain peace between the people and the plastic. Unfortunately, not all boomers are created perfect, and when boomers go bad, people die. The thin blue line that separates man from machine is about to meet its most horrifying test in Parasite Dolls.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, cyber, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, detective, mecha