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Plot Summary:
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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Kaiba (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a world where memories exist in memory chips separate from the body, death of the body no longer means death of the soul. It is possible for memories to be viewed, altered, and transferred between bodies. These memory chips are used by the rich to obtain eternal lives in carefully selected bodies, while for the poor, selling their own bodies and conserving their souls in the chips often become the only way to earn a living. An electrolytic cloud in the sky serves as a barrier between the heavens of the fortunate and the underworld of the destitute, making this social division impregnable. One day, a man named Kaiba wakes up in an empty room with no memories, a mysterious hole in his chest, and a locket holding the picture of an unknown woman. After escaping an attack and stumbling upon a decrepit village of underworld residents, he begins his adventure across the different planets of this strange universe to find out more about his own identity and the woman he once knew.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, futuristic, psychological, psychedelic, tense, adult anime
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RErideD – Derrida, who leaps through time – (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 2050 engineer Derrida Yvain is famous for his contribution to "Autonomous Machine DZ," at his father's company, Rebuild. But when he and his colleague Nathan discover a dangerous flaw in their creation, their warnings go ignored. The next day after Nathan's daughter Mage's birthday party, the group barely escapes an attack by unknown forces, leading to Derrida's unwitting captivity in cryogenic stasis. Ten years later, he emerges in a world at war with the mechanical lifeforms he helped create. Now, he fights to survive his nightmare future to make good his promise to "Take care of Mage.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, futuristic
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Norn9 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Guided by a strange, haunting song, elementary-schooler Sorata Suzuhara from the Heisei Era is warped back in time to 1919, in a high-tech ship called Norn9. This ship, flying above towns resembling that of the Meiji or Taishō period, harbours The Gifted, a group of three girls and eight boys with special abilities. As he tries to find a way to return to his time, he discovers incredible secrets about the world and spacetime itself.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, super sentai, josei
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Project ARMS (2001)
Plot Summary:
ARMS is an manga series that is heavily influenced by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The series is created by Kyoichi Nanatsuki and Ryoji Minagawa. In 1999, the manga received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen. The manga was adapted as an anime series called Project ARMS. It stars a young man named Ryo Takatsuki, who at the beginning of the series believes that he was in an accident causing his right arm to be severed from his body. However, as the story progresses, it is revealed that he was actually a test subject for experiments involving genetics and an "ARMS" nanomachine implant, along with 3 other youths: Kei Karuma, Takeshi Tomoe, and Hayato Shingu. They all meet under strange circumstances and after many battles they set off on a journey to rescue Ryo's girlfriend Katsumi Akagi who is kidnapped by the Egrigori. The Egrigori are the creators of the ARMS technology.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, psychotronic, shounen
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Classroom Crisis (2015)
Plot Summary:
Humanity has successfully colonized all the planets in the Solar System, with intentions to continue into new frontiers. Individuals live stable lives in these colonies, including young high school students living in 4th Tokyo on Mars. Two of these students are Iris Shirazaki and Mizuki Sera. Iris is finishing her last year of high school while studying to be a test pilot while her friend Mizuki also works as a mechanic on the aircraft. Her own brother, Kaito, oversees Mizuki and Iris as their homeroom teacher and program director.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, disturbing
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FLCL Progressive (2018)
Plot Summary:
Many years have passed since Naota and Haruhara Haruko shared their adventure together. Meanwhile, the war between the two entities known as Medical Mechanica and Fraternity rages across the galaxy. Enter Hidomi, a young teenaged girl who believes there is nothing amazing to expect from her average life, until one day when a new teacher named Haruko arrives at her school. Soon enough, Medical Mechanica is attacking her town and Hidomi discovers a secret within her that could save everyone, a secret that only Haruko can unlock. But why did Haruko return to Earth? What happened to her Rickenbacker 4001 she left with Naota? And where did the human-type robot "Canti" go?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Deep Insanity: The Lost Child (2021)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious illness. An underground realm at its origin. Gifted with immunity, one young man enters to find a cure.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Astra Lost in Space (2019)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2061, when space travel is now possible and commercially viable, and the students of Caird High School embark on their Planet Camp. But soon after Group B5 arrived at their planetary camp site, a mysterious and unforeseen sentient light sphere warps its 9 members into outer space, stranding them 5012 light years away from their home planet. With the discovery of an old, unmanned spaceship nearby, the students must stay strong, manage their limited resources and remain united in the darkness of space, so that all of them can survive their long and likely perilous trek back home aboard the Astra.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, psychological, captivating, disturbing, futuristic, tense, adult anime, shounen
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Night Head 2041 (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story follows the Kirihara brothers who from a young age were incarcerated in a secure scientific facility due to their supernatural powers, having escaped after the barrier that was preventing them malfunctions. The story also follows the Kuroki brothers who are trying to chase the Kirihara brothers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
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Link Click (2021)
Plot Summary:
Using superpowers to enter their clientele’s photos one by one, Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang take their work seriously at “Time Photo Studio,” a small photography shop set in the backdrop of a modern metropolis. Each job can be full of danger, but nothing is more important than fulfilling every order, no matter the scale…or peril involved!.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: China
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, suspense, urban fantasy, 2d animation
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Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation (2016)
Plot Summary:
Itsuki Tachibana is a student of Seiga Academy, a co-ed boarding high school with excellent reputation, located in a suburb outside the city center. On a day of second semester, he was summoned by Rina Izumi, the most esteemed and praised chairperson, to the student council room, without knowing what awaits him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, mecha, super sentai
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Infini-T Force (2017)
Plot Summary:
Emi is a seventeen-year-old girl living in Shibuya. Her father is always away with work and she's grown listless. Suddenly, a twist of fate involving a certain magical item changes everything. A mysterious pencil, of all things, is linked to the appearance of heroes from another world! Could this be the start to the excitement she's so desperately craving, or is there something more?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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C³ Cube x Cursed x Curious (2011)
Plot Summary:
A high school student named Yachi Haruaki receives a mysterious, super-heavy black cube from his father overseas. That night, Haruaki wakes up to a suspicious noise in the kitchen, and he discovers a fully naked female thief of rice crackers. The girl, Fear, is the first of several surprises that Haruaki receives.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, ecchi
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Scarlet Nexus (2021)
Plot Summary:
Saved by the Other Suppression Force as a child, psychokinetic Yuito enlists in this elite team formed to fight Earth’s enemy. Meanwhile, prodigy Kasane was scouted for her abilities. Kasane’s dreams tell her strange things, dragging the two into an unavoidable fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, dark fantasy
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A Dark Rabbit has Seven Lives (2011)
Plot Summary:
Taito has been really sleepy lately, and keeps dreaming of a female vampire who says she has given him her "poison." Sometimes he even thinks he hears her voice when he's awake. But after surviving an accident that should have killed him, Taito's world changes drastically and he realizes that his dreams are more real than he thought.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts (2019)
Plot Summary:
The democratic nation of Patria was created on the continent of Patria. Because of economical disputes, the country split north and south, creating the Northern Union of Patria and the Southern Confederation of Patria and they waged a long civil war. With their numbers dwindling, the North decides to use forbidden technology in order to defeat the South. This technology turns humans into monster-like soldiers, giving them almost godlike powers. And with those powers, the long war came to an end and peace was restored.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, shounen
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Zetman (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story starts off with a face-off between two rival heroes, ZET and ALPHAS, and then traces their origins - Jin Kanzaki, a young man with the ability to transform into a superhuman being known as ZET, and Kouga Amagi, a young man with a strong sense of justice who uses technology to fight as ALPHAS. The fates of these two men and those around them intertwine as they fight to protect mankind and destroy monstrous abominations known as Players.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, disturbing
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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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BBK/BRNK (2016)
Plot Summary:
It’s been ten years since Azuma Kazuki has been in Japan, and upon his arrival he is taken prisoner by a group of armed men. Azuma is saved by his childhood friend, Kogane Asabuki, thanks to a living weapon she wields on her right hand, known as a Bubuki. Learning about these weapons, Azuma becomes a Bubuki wielder himself and sets out on a journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating
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Platinum End (2021)
Plot Summary:
As his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives some salvation from above in the form of an angel. Now Mirai is pitted against 12 other chosen humans in a battle in which the winner becomes the next god of the world. Mirai has an angel in his corner, but he may need to become a devil to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, psychological, shounen
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Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hundreds of years ago, the borders between the worlds of humans and youkai temporarily overlapped, resulting in many residents of both crossing over to the other side. In the years since this event, the city of Sakurashin has become a central hub for all inter-dimensional affairs—a result of both the sacred Seven Pillars around the city serving as a beacon for the youkai, and the efforts of the Hiizumi Life Counseling Office in keeping the townsfolk happy. This office is composed of Hime Yarizakura, the young mayor of the city; satori Ao Nanami, who can read people's minds; half-youkai Kotoha Isone, who can summon anything by speaking a word; oni siblings, Kyousuke and Touka Kishi; and the office director Akina Hiizumi, who inherited his family's ability to force youkai back to their world.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, shounen
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Classroom of the Elite (2017)
Plot Summary:
Koudo Ikusei Senior High School is a leading prestigious school with state-of-the-art facilities where nearly 100% of students go on to university or find employment. The students there have the freedom to wear any hairstyle and bring any personal effects they desire. Koudo Ikusei is a paradise-like school, but the truth is that only the most superior of students receive favorable treatment. Ayanokouji Kiyotaka is a student of D-class, which is where the school dumps its "inferior" students in order to ridicule them. For a certain reason, Kiyotaka was careless on his entrance examination, and was put in D-class. After meeting Horikita Suzune and Kushida Kikyou, two other students in his class, Kiyotaka’s situation begins to change.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, adult anime, humorous, light
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Mr Love: Queen's Choice (2020)
Plot Summary:
A girl inherits a company that is almost bankrupt from her late father. Lacking the funds, she must now become the producer herself in order to save the company from collapse. During her work, she meets four boys—financial expert Zen, the idol Kira, police officer Haku, and leading neuroscientist Simon—and is suddenly involved with the conspiracies and mysteries over the existence of special powers known as "Evol.".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, psychological, exciting, tense, touching, captivating, suspense
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Battle Game in 5 Seconds (2021)
Plot Summary:
It was just a usual morning. Akira Shiroyanagi, a high schooler who loves games and Konpeito (Japanese sweets), has suddenly been dragged into a battlefield by a mysterious girl who calls herself Mion. The participants are told that they are "erased from the family register, involved in an experiment, and gained certain powers." Akira is determined to win the game with his newfound powers and destroy the organization. Armed with a power no one expects and his "brain" skills, the new period of intelligence battle begins!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, shounen
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Tokyo ESP (2014)
Plot Summary:
Rinka Urushiba is a normal high school girl, until she encounters a penguin and shoals of glowing fish swimming through the sky. She looses consciousness only to awaken with the power to move through inanimate objects. At first she thought it was a hallucination if it were not for Kyotaro Azuma who witnessed the event and who, incidentally, has the ability to teleport. They decide to use their powers to combat people who might use their powers for evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Anne Happy♪ (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story centers around class 1-7 of Tennomifune Academy, where all the students with "bad karma" or misfortune seem to have been gathered. Hibari, a student in this class, meets the unlucky Hanako and the perennially unhealthy Botan on her first day of school, and together they try to find a way to turn their school life into a happy one.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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MADE IN ABYSS (2017)
Plot Summary:
The “Abyss” is the last unexplored region, an enormous and treacherous cave system filled with ancient relics and strange creatures. Only the bravest of adventurers can traverse its depths, earning them the nickname, “Cave Raiders.” Within the depths of the Abyss, a girl named Riko stumbles upon a robot who looks like a young boy. Tantalized by the Abyss, Riko and her new friend descend into uncharted territory to unlock its mysteries, but what lies in wait for them in the darkness?.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 325 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspenseful, touching, enigmatic, captivating, mecha, manga, spooky, seinen
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Dr. Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist (2021)
Plot Summary:
So long as people have hearts, there will be those with worries and concerns. Those hearts are then invaded by something strange, causing them to show strange physical symptoms. These ailments, called "mysterious diseases," exist unseen to most people. Modern medicine offers no cure, but there is one doctor who fights these diseases along with his pupils. His name is Ramune. He looks nothing like a doctor, is foul-mouthed, and does whatever he pleases, but he has the ability to pinpoint the cause of the troubles hidden deep within his patients' hearts and cure their mysterious diseases.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, shounen, satirical, 2d animation
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D.Gray-man Hallow (2016)
Plot Summary:
Allen Walker is an exorcist working for the Black Order whose mission is to protect mankind from the evil Millennium Earl and his deadly Akuma. Allen and his comrades must recover lost Innocence while defending against the Earl’s terrifying army. But if they fail, Innocence will be lost forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, disturbing, shounen
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The World Ends With You: The Animation (2021)
Plot Summary:
Neku awakens in the middle of Shibuya's bustling Scramble Crossing with no memory of how he got there. Little does he know, he's been transported to an alternate plane of existence known as the Underground. Now an unwilling participant in the mysterious "Reapers' Game," Neku must partner up with a girl named Shiki in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, contemplative, shounen