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Plot Summary:
The story features four divine Dragon Kings, rulers of the four parts of the world according to Chinese myths. The brothers are reborn in the modern world, complete with supernatural powers and the ability to become the Dragons which are their true forms. They are content to live ordinary lives as long as nobody meddles with them.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anime
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Undead Murder Farce (2023)
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The end of the 19th century—a vampire's wife is murdered, and the detective known as the "cage user" is called in to solve the crime. But there's more to the detective and the curtained birdcage he carries...after all, when solving a case involving a monster, it might just take one to know one!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, anime, gothic, 2d animation
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Spy Classroom (2023)
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Spy-in-training Lily is desperate to score a passing grade. Eager to prove herself, she leaps at the chance to join the mysterious team Lamplight and beat the Impossible Mission. Too bad the task ahead is even more harrowing than she imagined….
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: seinen, anime
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Elegant Yokai Apartment Life (2017)
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The high school freshman Yūshi Inaba has to look for new place to live after his high school dormitory burnt down. Having no parents and wanting to live independently from his uncle, he eventually finds a cheap apartment for 25,000 yen called Kotobuki-sō, only to find out that the place has human and supernatural creatures such as ghosts, yōkai, and mononoke living together. There, Yūshi's new daily life begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Animation, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, urban fantasy
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Emily of New Moon (2007)
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Based on the Emily of New Moon novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Emily is an orphan who gets sent to live with her relatives on Prince Edward Island, after her father dies. In New Moon she lives with her Aunt Elizabeth, Aunt Laura, and Cousin Jimmy, and learns to adapt with the help of her imagination and new friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime
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Ghost Talker's Daydream (2004)
Plot Summary:
A dominatrix must solve a ghost mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime
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Thriller Restaurant (2009)
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Based on the best selling Kaidan Restaurant line of ghost story anthologies by Miyoko Matsutani and illustrators Yoshikazu Takai and Kumiko Kato. Each episode contains three short stories, an"appetizer", "entree" and "desert". The first two "dishes" of each episode depict the ghostly events that revolve around sixth-grade schoolgirl Ozora Ako. The closing chapter of each episode is a ghost story told by Ako and her classmates.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Vampire Holmes (2015)
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While crowded in daytime, this London neighborhood has been haunted by a “vampire killer” for many nights. The protagonist wakes up in a residence, with a man calling himself "Holmes" and claiming to have entered the house chasing after a vampire. Unknowingly, the door of the residence has been locked from the outside.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 3 min
Plot tags: anime, detective
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Housing Complex C (2022)
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Kimi lives in a small, low-cost housing complex located in the seaside town of Kurosaki, with horrific incidents starting to occur and trouble seemingly following her wherever she goes. Is an ancient evil stalking the residents of Housing Complex C?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Animation, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: anime
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Make My Day (2023)
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On a cold planet of ice and snow, mysterious creatures suddenly have appeared from the dark underground and have begun to attack the inhabitants. Can humanity survive the terror lurking beyond the horizon?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime
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Kukuru Misakino, an 18-year-old high school girl working in an aquarium, meets Fuuka Miyazawa, a former idol who lost her place in Tokyo and escaped. Fuuka will spend her days in the aquarium with her own thoughts in mind. However, the crisis of closing is approaching for the aquarium, as the girls explore their dreams and reality, loneliness and friends, bonds and conflicts.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, sincere, captivating
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Tokyo Babylon (1992)
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Subaru Sumeragi, a young Onmyouji sorcerer, investigates a series of unusual murders with the aid of his twin sister and fellow Onmyouji Seishirô.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: anime, detective
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Mushishi Tokubetsu-hen: Hihamukage (2014)
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A powerful mushi appears during an eclipse, drawing other mushi to form a huge shadow that blocks the sun over a small village. Looking for clues about the mushi, Ginko meets a child who is afflicted by a strange disease that manifests itself when she is exposed to sunlight, and it does not take long for him to find out that both facts are related.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: anime, philosophical, psychotronic
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The Ancient Magus' Bride (2017)
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Chise Hatori, 15 years old. Lost, without hope, and without family, she is bought for money – not by another person, but by a non-human sorcerer named Elias. Though she hesitates, she begins life anew as his apprentice and future wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, enigmatic, romantic, captivating, dark fantasy, stylized, manga, shounen, exciting
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Bibliophile Princess (2022)
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When book-loving Lady Elianna spots Prince Christopher—her betrothed in name only—consorting with another noble lady, she realizes the recent rumors must be true. The prince has someone he truly loves, which means the annulment of their engagement is both inevitable and fast-approaching. What she doesn't realize is that this is merely a surface ripple—one of many where the truth runs deep, in a conspiracy surpassing her imagination!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales (2006)
Plot Summary:
A collection of three classic Japanese horror stories: "Yotsuya Kaidan," the story of a wife betrayed by her husband who seeks vengeance even in death, "Tenshu Monogatari," the story of forbidden love between a goddess and a human, and "Bakeneko," the story of a mysterious cat monster with a vendetta against a certain family.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, anthology, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, unusual plot structure
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Junji Ito Collection (2018)
Plot Summary:
A collection of animated horror stories based on the works of Japanese artist Junji Ito.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, bleak, psychotronic, tense, atmospheric, absurd, gothic horror, disturbing, anthology, adult anime
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Sonny Boy (2021)
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On August 16, midway through a seemingly endless summer vacation, middle school third-year student Nagara, the mysterious transfer student Nozomi, and classmates such as Mizuho and Asakaze, are suddenly transported from their tranquil daily lives to a school adrift in an alternate dimension. They must survive with the super powers that have awakened within them.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, psychological
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Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (2004)
Plot Summary:
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo is an anime series loosely based on Alexandre Dumas, père's classic French novel, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. Spanning 24 episodes, it was produced by Gonzo, directed by Mahiro Maeda and broadcast by Animax across its respective networks in Japan, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America, and other regions. Gankutsuou's unusual visual style layers Photoshop textures into digital animation, with backgrounds often rendered in 3D. The series features several famous pieces of classical music, including Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony, the Donizetti opera Lucia di Lammermoor, and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. Gankutsuou is set in the far future, during the year 5053, whereas Alexandre Dumas's original novel takes place during the 19th century. Though Gankutsuou incorporates elements of science-fiction and fantasy, it also retains many aesthetics of France in the 19th century, particularly in regard to social classes and wealth. In addition, each of the episodes begin with a summary spoken in French. Geneon Entertainment acquired the North American release rights for Gankutsuou and released it under the title Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo. As of September 12, 2006, all six volumes have been released on DVD. A box set was also released as a compilation of the six DVDs. On December 27, 2008, Funimation announced that they had acquired the license and planned to release the series in 2009.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspenseful, stylized, dark fantasy, tech noir, exciting, serious, surreal, non-linear
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Narumi Fujishima is an ordinary high school boy who remains isolated from his fellow classmates. One afternoon fellow classmate Ayaka Shinozaki invites Narumi to join the gardening club and introduces him to a reclusive detective named Alice. Alice hires Narumi as an assistant and puts him to work solving the strange mysteries of Angel fix, an illegal drug. Little does he know it could put him and Ayaka in serious trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, captivating, entertaining, psychological, tense, detective, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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Boogiepop Never Laughs: Boogiepop Phantom (2000)
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Boogiepop Phantom is a twelve-episode anime television series produced by Madhouse Studios, based on the Boogiepop light novel series by Kouhei Kadono, particularly that of Boogiepop and Others and Boogiepop At Dawn. The series is directed by Takashi Watanabe, from a screenplay by Sadayuki Murai, with original character designs by novel illustrator Kouji Ogata, and sound direction by Yota Tsuruoka. The story takes place in an unnamed Japanese city, a month after a pillar of light appeared in the night sky and five years after a string of serial killings. Boogiepop Phantom follows an ensemble cast of characters, mostly high school students, who are witnesses to the incident and its consequences. At the time of the series, high school students have started to disappear again and the blame is placed on Boogiepop, an urban legend who is said to be the personification of Death. Each episode centers on different characters who sometimes have just a short involvement in the major events of the series. For this reason, many scenes are seen twice, from different perspectives, and some episodes are out of sequence, although there is a slow general time progression. An unusual visual style is employed wherein, for all but the last episode, a much reduced color palette is used in conjunction with a vignette effect. The sound design features many varied music genres from Gregorian to electronic, and even some sounds that appear to be unique to the show. Through the non-linear style of the series, the characters are used to develop the central themes of the series: Change, Escapism, Memory, and Relationships.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, scary, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, psychological horror, adult anime, seinen, detective, serious
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Intrigue in the Bakumatsu: Irohanihoheto (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Shogunate is in its final years, and war is fast approaching. When Yojiro Akizuki, a dark and mysterious mercenary, nears something supernatural with some kind of importance to him, the ornament on the end of his sword hilt waves in its direction, his eyes glow mysteriously, and he is driven to go after it. He comes across a traveling theater group who is out for revenge for the killing of the parents of the group's leader, and whose mysterious playwright likes to secretly help along events of history. Yojiro joins them to lend them his skill against their enemies, while dark conspiracy continues to follow behind him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, stylized, atmospheric
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Ragna Crimson (2023)
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Ragna teams up with the enigmatic Crimson to stand against the dragons menacing the world. Although Crimson’s motivations are mysterious, his goal and Ragna’s perfectly align, and together they’ll vanquish the dragons once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, anime, shounen, 2d animation
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The Faraway Paladin (2021)
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In a city of the dead, long since ruined and far from human civilization, lives a single human child. His name is Will, and he's being raised by three undead: the hearty skeletal warrior, Blood; the graceful mummified priestess, Mary; and the crotchety spectral sorcerer, Gus. The three pour love into the boy, and teach him all they know. But one day, Will starts to wonder: "Who am I?" Will must unravel the mysteries of this faraway dead man's land, and unearth the secret pasts of the undead. He must learn the love and mercy of the good gods, and the bigotry and madness of the bad. And when he knows it all, the boy will take his first step on the path to becoming a Paladin.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Kemono Jihen (2021)
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When a series of animal bodies that rot away after a single night begin appearing in a remote mountain village, Inugami, a detective from Tokyo who specializes in the occult, is called to investigate. While working the case, he befriends a strange boy who works in the field every day instead of going to school. Shunned by his peers and nicknamed “Dorotabō” after a yokai that lives in the mud, he helps Inugami uncover the truth behind the killings — but supernatural forces are at work, and while Dorotabō is just a nickname, it might not be the only thing about the boy that isn’t human.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, detective, shounen, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, suspense
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Fire Force (2019)
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Year 198 of the Solar Era in Tokyo, special fire brigades are fighting against a phenomenon called spontaneous human combustion where humans beings are turned into living infernos called "Infernals". While the Infernals are first generation cases of spontaneous human combustion, later generations possess the ability to manipulate flames while retaining human form. Shinra Kusakabe, a youth who gained the nickname Devil's Footprints for his ability to ignite his feet at will, joins the Special Fire Force Company 8 which composes of other flames users as they work to extinguish any Infernals they encounter. As a faction that is creating Infernals appears, Shira begins to uncover the truth behind a mysterious fire that caused the death of his family twelve years ago.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, inspirational, manga, shounen, psychological, suspense
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Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor (1967)
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Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor is a science fiction animated series created by Alex Toth for Hanna-Barbera Productions, which ran on CBS from 1967 to 1969. Despite Moby's name coming first, he had only one short per half-hour episode, sandwiched between two with Mightor; the same structure was used the previous season for H-B's Frankenstein, Jr. and The Impossibles.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, children's program, prehistoric
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Psychic Detective Yakumo (2010)
Plot Summary:
In order to help a friend possessed by a spirit, Ozawa Haruka knocks on the door of her university's movie research association. There she meets Saitou Yakumo, a rude, unkempt young man with a red left eye, who is said to have spiritual powers. At first Haruka is skeptical, but she comes to believe him when he conveys messages from her older sister, who died when she was a child. Together, they work to shed light on the terrifying events happening at their university. But this is only the prologue of what's to come.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Animation, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, stylized, captivating, atmospheric, bleak, humorous, detective
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Un-Go (2011)
Plot Summary:
Un-Go is set in a war-torn Tokyo, in a near-future Japan. In response to Japan sending their military abroad as peacekeeping forces, terrorists launched multiple attacks on Japan, killing many people and destroying much of its cityscapes. Some time after the war receded to a period of uneasy peace, the Japanese Parliament passed the "Information Privacy and Protection Act", which gives the Japanese government control over the Internet. Detective Shinjuurou Yuuki and his strange partner Inga make a living in solving crimes and exposing human souls, all influenced in some way by the dystopian backdrop.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, rough, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, seinen, bleak, serious
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Summer Time Rendering (2022)
Plot Summary:
Upon hearing of Ushio's death, Shinpei returns to his hometown of Wakayama City on Hitogashima and reunites with his childhood friend's family. The funeral goes smoothly, but under the surface something strange is brewing on the island. What mysteries await him on this secluded summer island?.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, mystical
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Big Order (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, a child wished for the destruction of the world. Now, a group of people has the ability to grant their wishes depending on their power. They are called "Order User." Before these great people who have the power of "Order," one person excels the most with the ability to rule and conquer the world and turn people into puppets when it is in his jurisdiction. This power belongs to Hoshimiya Eiji, who is also responsible for the destructive phenomena that happened exactly ten years ago.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, stylized, captivating, suspense, disturbing, manga, shounen