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Plot Summary:
Occult Academy is a Japanese anime television series produced by A-1 Pictures and Aniplex and directed by Tomohiko Itō. The 13-episode anime premiered in Japan on the TV Tokyo television network on July 6, 2010. Occult Academy is the third project of Anime no Chikara. It was shown by Crunchyroll an hour after the Japanese broadcast. A manga adaptation of the anime is currently serialized in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Alive. A series of DVD/Blu-ray releases are made over six volumes. Volumes one through five each contain two episodes from the series and comes with extras, such as bonus songs sung by various voice actors for the characters. The final volume covers the last three episodes There are also four spinoff episodes, the first of which is included with the second volume. The series has been picked up in North America by NIS America, who released the series on Blu-ray on May 8, 2012.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, humorous, serious, offbeat, futuristic
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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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The Legend of the Legendary Heroes (2010)
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Ryner Lute is a lazy student of the Roland Empire Royal Magician's Academy. One day, the Roland Empire goes to war against their neighboring country Estabul, and Ryner loses his classmates in the war. After the war, Ryner sets out on a journey to search the relics of a "Legendary Hero" at King Sion Astal's command and finds out that a deadly curse is spreading throughout the continent.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, manga, thought provoking, shounen, exciting, offbeat, stylized
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, tense, captivating, bleak
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, rough, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing, serious
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, manga, humorous, seinen, fast
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, suspenseful, exciting, serious, stylized
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, ecchi
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Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas – The Myth of Hades, also known as simply The Lost Canvas, is a manga written and illustrated by Shiori Teshirogi. It is a spin-off based on the manga series Saint Seiya, which was created, written and illustrated by Japanese author Masami Kurumada. The Lost Canvas was published by Akita Shoten in the Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine since August 24, 2006, concluding after 223 chapters on April 6, 2011, with twenty-five tankōbon released. Originally envisioned as a comic book whose purpose was to work simultaneously with Kurumada's Saint Seiya Next Dimension as a multi-angle interpretation of the shared elements of its storyline, which stems from an event mentioned in Kurumada's original Saint Seiya manga; the approach was quickly abandoned, as both works greatly diverged, Kurumada's Next Dimension stayed as the canonical telling of these events, and The Lost Canvas as a separate alternate retelling. The story takes place in the 18th century, and focuses on how an orphan known as Tenma becomes one of Athena's 88 warriors known as Saints and finds himself in a war fighting against his best friend Alone who is revealed to be the reincarnation of Athena's biggest enemy, the God Hades.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, serious
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, bleak, epic, serious
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Corpse Princess (2008)
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 807
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 418
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Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gothic, ecchi
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, exciting, atmospheric, stylized, shounen
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Beelzebub (2011)
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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:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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In the future, Japan is a wasteland. In the Great Kanto Desert, scattered humans eke out a living in the hot sand. Among them, a short-statured man they call "Sunabozu" makes a living as a bounty hunter. Like a demon of the sand, he seems unbeatable. Yet, like all men, he has a particular weakness for the opposite sex.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 580 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, serious, stylized, apocalyptic, futuristic
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Plot Summary:
An asteroid is headed for Earth and in order to avoid Earth's impending destruction, the ISDA create the "Dragonaut" after finding a dragon egg under the ocean. This weapon's primary purpose is to destroy the asteroid when the time comes. However, they soon find out that the asteroid is not their only threat, as powerful dragon-like creatures, which are bent on destruction, appear. After witnessing a murder by one of the creatures, Jin Kamishina, a lonely 18-year-old boy who lost his family in a shuttle accident, gets involved in the mysteries of the dragons and becomes the chosen pilot of the Dragonaut. Helping him on his journey is Toa, a mysterious girl who saves him from falling to his death after the creature attacks him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, mecha, shounen, 2d animation
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
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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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Imperial Capital, 1930. A strange group of people carrying musical instrument cases landed on Tokyo station. They are called the "Jaegers", who came to hunt vampires. Amongst them, there stood a young man with striking serenity and unusual aura. His name is Yuliy, a werewolf whose home village was destroyed by vampires. Yuliy and the Jaegers engage in deadly battle over a mysterious holy arc only known as "The Arc of Sirius". What truth awaits them at the end...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, History, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious, perverse