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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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Zatch Bell! (2003)
Plot Summary:
Takamine Kiyomaro, a depressed don't-care-about-the-world guy, was suddenly given a little demon named Gash Bell to take care of. Little does he know that Gash is embroiled into an intense fight to see who is the ruler of the demon world.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, funny, light, captivating, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, depressing, shounen
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A Certain Magical Index (2008)
Plot Summary:
Kamijo is a student in Academy City, where people use science to develop supernatural abilities. The guy’s got a lot of heart – luckily for a young nun named Index. She’s on the run from a sorcery society that covets the astonishing 103,000 volumes of magical knowledge stored in her memory. When Index stumbles into Kamijo’s life, she finds a faithful friend and protector, and while Kamijo’s easily the weakest kid in Academy City, he’s got something else going for him: the Imagine Breaker, an unexplainable power stored in his right hand that negates the powers of others. With scientists and sorcerers attacking from all sides, the Imagine Breaker will definitely come in handy – but it’s Kamijo’s loyalty to Index that will be his greatest weapon in the fight to keep her safe.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, romantic, stylized, exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ecchi, manga, futuristic
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Bloodivores (2016)
Plot Summary:
Also called Time Prisoners, this is based on a Chinese webtoon by Bai Xiao. It's an alternative world where people researched and found the cure for a mysterious sleep-deprivation sickness where people became mad 60 yers ago. Those people who were treated are now wearing a black collar who produces a dangerous side-effect: they become vampires. However, this story will take a more grave situation when these vampires/bloodivores start to be menaced by some mysterious Special Forces.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror
Country: China, Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, detective, crying
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Dorohedoro (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around Kaiman, who does not remember who he was before he was transfigured by a Magic user. This transformation left him with a reptile's head, and a desire to find out the truth about who he really is. Accompanied by Nikaido, his female companion, he tracks down Magic Users in "The Hole" and unceremoniously chomps down on their head, hoping to find out who it was that put him in this state. One by one, they witness this "second man" inside the head of Kaiman, and after pulling them back out of his mouth he asks them all a question... "What did the guy inside my head say?".
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, funny, enigmatic, bloody, manga, adult anime, seinen, brutal, ecchi
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Servamp (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a stray black cat named Kuro crosses Mahiru Shirota's path, the high school freshman's life will never be the same again. Kuro is, in fact, no ordinary feline, but a servamp: a servant vampire. While Mahiru's personal philosophy is one of non-intervention, he soon becomes embroiled in an ancient, altogether surreal conflict between vampires and humans.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, anime, light, humorous, urban fantasy, josei
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Zombie-Loan (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on the manga by PEACH-PIT, serialised in G-Fantasy. When a human is marked to die, a faint gray line that is invisible to most appears around their neck. As time passes, that ring becomes darker and darker, until it is eventually black, and that person dies. Kita Michiru has an unusual gift - she posses "Shinigami eyes," which allow her to see these rings. When Michiru notices that two of the boys in her Class, Akatsuki Chika and Tachibana Shito not only have rings, but that they`re jet black, they reveal to her that the were supposed to die in a tragic accident six months ago. With the help of the Zombie Loan loan office, they were given a second chance at life, should they be able to pay for their debt by doing the work of Shinigami and killing malicious zombies. They petition Michiru to assist them in their efforts, and she finds her everyday life changing dramatically.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, absurd, shounen
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Blood Lad (2013)
Plot Summary:
Staz is a vampire from the surreal "Demon World", and Fuyumi, an ordinary girl, accidentally wanders into the Demon World through a portal. Subsequently after meeting each other, Fuyumi is killed by a carnivorous plant and turned into a ghost, causing Staz to take responsibility and pledge to help bring her back to life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, exciting, humorous, surreal, stylized, satirical, manga, offbeat, seinen
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Taboo Tattoo (2016)
Plot Summary:
Seigi, a martial arts trained middle schooler, often feels driven to protect the weaker people around him. One day, he defends a homeless man against some punks, and the man gives him a strange tattoo on his palm in return. The tattoo is a secret weapon produced in the arms race between America and the Serinistan Kingdom. Seigi finds himself in over his head when a powerful girl, using the same secret weapon, violently pursues him in order to retrieve it. His skill at martial arts may not be enough to keep him alive, but will he be able to learn how to trigger the power of his tattoo in time?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, disturbing, manga, seinen, light, satirical
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Noragami (2014)
Plot Summary:
The world consists of two parts: the near shore and far shore. The near shore is the place where people reside, while the far shore is the place for deities and ayakashi, which are emotional fragments that can posses humans and cause trouble. So it is a deity's responsibility to remove those ayakashi from the near shore with the help of weapons called Shinki, made from the spirits of dead people. Yato is a minor deity of war without shrine. Together with his Shinki, Tomone, he runs a Delivery Wish Granting Service, granting wishes for only 5 yen. After his Shinki leaves him on less than agreeable terms, he decides to run simple errands that do not involve ayakashi-related matters. While on a mission to find a lost kitten, he is nearly hit by a bus, but saved by a girl named Iki Hiyori. Hiyori dies for a moment, but then comes back to life. This, however, causes Hiyori's soul to become unstable, leaving her body frequently. So by offering 5 yen, she asks Yato to fix her body... but Yato cannot help without a Shinki, so Hiyori accompanies him on his journey to find one, in the hopes of becoming normal again. But behind Yato's kind-hearted face lies a twisted past.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspense, captivating, humorous, offbeat, tense, semi serious, manga, shoujo
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Blue Exorcist (2011)
Plot Summary:
Humans live in the world of Assiah, demons in Gehenna. The two dimensions are not meant to interfere with each other, but demons still possess creatures in Assiah in spite of this. The humans who can fight these demons are known as exorcists. Rin Okumura is a boy who bears the curse of being Satan's illegitimate son. His foster father sacrificed himself to save him from demons. To avenge his foster father's death as well as to prove himself, Rin decides to follow the path of an exorcist.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense, serious, manga, shounen, stylized, crying
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Soul Eater (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set at the "Death Weapon Meister Academy", the series revolves around three teams, each consisting of a weapon meister and weapon that can transform into a humanoid. Trying to make the latter a "death scythe" and thus fit for use by the academy's headmaster Shinigami, the personification of death, they must collect the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch, in that order; otherwise, they will have to start all over again.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, semi serious, humorous, stylized, manga, intense, shounen, mad
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Gugure! Kokkuri-san (2014)
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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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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Dream Eater Merry (2011)
Plot Summary:
Dream Eater Merry is a Japanese action fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Ushiki Yoshitaka. The series is serialized in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Forward. The manga was adapted into an anime television series by J.C. Staff which aired in Japan between January 7, 2011 and April 8, 2011.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, seinen, emotional, captivating, entertaining, light, manga, offbeat
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Beelzebub (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ishiyama High is a school populated entirely by delinquents, where nonstop violence and lawlessness are the norm. However, there is one universally acknowledged rule—don't cross first year student Tatsumi Oga, Ishiyama's most vicious fighter. One day, Oga is by a riverbed when he encounters a man floating down the river. After being retrieved by Oga, the man splits down the middle to reveal a baby, which crawls onto Oga's back and immediately forms an attachment to him. Though he doesn't know it yet, this baby is named Kaiser de Emperana Beelzebub IV, or "Baby Beel" for short—the son of the Demon Lord! As if finding the future Lord of the Underworld isn't enough, Oga is also confronted by Hildegard, Beel's demon maid. Together they attempt to raise Baby Beel—although surrounded by juvenile delinquents and demonic powers, the two of them may be in for more of a challenge than they can imagine.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, shounen, psychotronic
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The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. (2016)
Plot Summary:
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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Ushio and Tora (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ushio thinks that his father's talk of an ancient ancestor impaling a demon on a temple altar stone with the legendary Beast Spear is nuts, but when he finds the monster in his own basement, Ushio has to take another look at the family legend! To save his friends and family from the invading spirits, Ushio is forced to release Tora from his captivity. But will the creature prove to be worse than the curse?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, humorous, shounen, super sentai, dark fantasy
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Naruto SD: Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals (2012)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to the Hidden Leaf Village. The village where Uzumaki Naruto, star of the TV show "Naruto" makes his home. Every day, countless powerful ninjas carry out missions and train to hone their skills. Our main character is one of these powerful ninjas...but it's not Naruto! It's the ninja who can't use ninjutsu, Rock Lee!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, funny, light, humorous, captivating, manga
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FLCL (2000)
Plot Summary:
In this 6-part mini-series, a 12-year old boy named Naota one day meets a strange woman, riding a Vespa and wielding a big guitar. As soon as she appears, mysterious things start happening.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Canada, UK, France
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: anime, atmospheric, psychedelic, stylized, exciting, semi serious, manga, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Tactics (2004)
Plot Summary:
Tactics is a Japanese manga series written as a collaboration between Sakura Kinoshita and Kazuko Higashiyama. It was serialized in Comic Blade Masamune. Kinoshita supplied the character "Kantarou," and Higashiyama supplied the character "Haruka." While the manga was previously licensed for released in English in paperback by both ADV Manga and Tokyopop, the manga is now only available in English in digital format on JManga. The animation studio Studio Deen adapted the Tactics manga into a 25-episode anime series, which ran on Japanese television from October 5, 2004 to March 29, 2005. The English dub of the anime was distributed by Manga Entertainment in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, shounen
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Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga (2017)
Plot Summary:
After discovering that he's the son of Satan, a young man must join the True Cross Academy in order to master his abilities and defeat Satan himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, manga, shounen
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Ghost Hunt (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ghost Hunt, originally titled Akuryō Series, is a light novel series written by Fuyumi Ono. It follows the adventures of the Shibuya Psychic Research Center as they investigate mysterious occurrences all over Japan with a team of other spiritualists and clever assistants. Although the last novel was published in 1994, the story was left incomplete. Speculation arose to the continuation of the series when the creator Fuyumi Ono stated in an interview that she was resuming work on a "girls' horror story" that she began long ago, even though Ono's statement has never been officially confirmed to be in reference to Ghost Hunt. The novels were adapted into a radio drama for Akuryō Series in 1997. A manga adaptation written and illustrated by Shiho Inada began serialization in Nakayoshi in the July 7, 1998 issue where it is still on-going. The individual chapters have been collected and published in eleven tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. It is licensed for English-language release, under the name Ghost Hunt in North America by Del Rey Manga and in the United Kingdom by Tanoshimi. An anime adaptation of the manga was created by J.C.Staff and premiered on October 3, 2006 in Japan on TV Tokyo where it ran for twenty-five episodes until its conclusion. The anime is licensed for English release on Region 1 DVD by Funimation Entertainment, which also used the name Ghost Hunt.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, mind bending, offbeat, scary, detective, shoujo, serious
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012)
Plot Summary:
Beginning its tale in 19th century England, young aristocrat Jonathan Joestar finds himself locked in bitter rivalry with Dio Brando, a low-born boy who Jonathan’s father took under his wing after the death of Dio’s father. Discontent with his station in life, Dio’s fathomless drive to reign over all eventually leads him to seek the supernatural powers of an ancient Aztec stone mask in the Joestars' possession – an artifact that will forever change the destiny of Dio and Jonathan for generations to come. Fifty years later, in 1938 New York City, Jonathan’s grandson Joseph Joestar must take up his grandfather’s mission and master the abilities necessary to destroy the stone mask and its immensely powerful creators, the Pillar men, who threaten humanity's very existence.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, entertaining, manga, shounen, brutal, adult cartoon, adult anime, cult classic
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My Hero Academia (2016)
Plot Summary:
People are not born equal, a realization that 4-year-old Midoriya Izuku faced when bullied by his classmates who had unique special powers. Izuku was one of the rare cases where he was born with absolutely no unique powers. This did not stop Izuku from pursuing his dream, a dream of becoming a great hero like the legendary All-Might. To become the great hero he hopelessly wants to become, he now will join the ranks of one of the highest rated "Hero Academies" in the country: UA. With the help of his idol All-Might, will he be able to claim the ranks and become a true hero?.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, entertaining, sincere, humorous, manga, shounen, adult anime, comic
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A Certain Scientific Accelerator (2019)
Plot Summary:
After rescuing Last Order and subsequently taking a bullet to the head, Academy City’s top-ranked esper rests in the hospital. But Accelerator’s recovery is cut short when a mysterious girl carrying a photo of his little clone companion asks for help. Now they’re taking on Disciplinary Action—an anti-evil coalition whose sinister plans threaten Last Order, Academy City, and even the entire world!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: exciting, anime, captivating, tense, humorous
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GeGeGe no Kitaro (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the Japanese modern era, almost all people have forgotten about Youkai.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, light, sincere, humorous, captivating, shounen
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One-Punch Man (2015)
Plot Summary:
Saitama is a hero who only became a hero for fun. After three years of “special” training, though, he’s become so strong that he’s practically invincible. In fact, he’s too strong—even his mightiest opponents are taken out with a single punch, and it turns out that being devastatingly powerful is actually kind of a bore. With his passion for being a hero lost along with his hair, yet still faced with new enemies every day, how much longer can he keep it going?.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 181000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, exciting, entertaining, humorous, parody, captivating, manga, absurd, adult animation
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Black Blood Brothers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Remnants of a vampire clan that wanted to rule the world alone, but got defeated in a war by joined forces of other vampires and humans, kidnap the brother of a vampire war veteran. He looks for them in a secret vampire city.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, entertaining, manga, shounen, scary, fast, serious
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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
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Akame ga Kill! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Young Tatsumi travels to the capital of the Empire in order to earn money for his starving people and encounters a world of unimaginable depravity, dominated by the ruthless Prime Minister who controls the child Emperor. Tatsumi is recruited by Night Raid, a group of assassins dedicated to eliminating corruption by mercilessly killing officials and privileged nobles.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, serious, tense, captivating, exciting, manga, humorous, seinen, shounen