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Plot Summary:
It's 2162 and life is a blast for space adventurer siblings, Jet and Adelaide Nova. After all, what tween wouldn't want to divide their days between living on an international space station and accompanying their parents on awesome interstellar missions. Of course it's not all asteroid chases and exploding star systems. Jet and Adelaide also have to attend school, do homework (though their chores aren't always so typical, like recharging the family robot and scrubbing their star ships hull!). Still, on weekends this Aussie astronaut family have their own unique way of unwinding, with Jet and Adelaide heading off with parents Hugo and Josie on mind blowing adventures to navigate unexplored planets, surf solar flares, hop between rogue stars and occasionally even discover previously unknown life forms.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Animation
Country: Australia, Malaysia
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Tashi (2014)
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When Jack's parents bundle him off to stay with his distant cousin Tashi, the two boys become swept up in a series of wild adventures exploring a fantastical land far, far away and protecting Tashi's village from a host of creatures and villains.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Animation
Country: Australia
Duration: 11 min
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RObotzi (2011)
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RObotzi este un serial românesc de desene animate creat de CreativeMonkeyz care apare săptămânal și are ca personaje principale 2 roboți: MO și F.O.C.A., creați drept „primii roboți de talie mică produși în România, a căror perioadă de glorie s-a încheiat odată cu apariția primilor roboți de talie mare”. Aceștia ar fi rămas într-un depozit al Institutului Național de Robotică de a cărui bună funcționare trebuie să se asigure. Serialul a debutat la data de 20 ianuarie 2011. Durata aproximativă a fiecărui episod este de 2-3 minute, pe parcursul cărora se folosesc adesea cuvinte și expresii vulgare. Primul sezon cuprinde 26 de episoade, iar al doilea 14.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Romania
Duration: 4 min
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Super Sema (2021)
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Super Sema is the first African kid superhero animated series about an ordinary young girl on an extraordinary mission to protect her African village from a heartless villain and his army of pesky robots.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Animation
Country: Kenya
Duration:
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StoryBots: Answer Time (2022)
Plot Summary:
Got a question? The StoryBots have an answer! Join curious friends Beep, Boop, Bing, Bang and Bo on fun adventures to find facts for real kids like you.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: educational
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HEYBOT! (2016)
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The anime takes place on the screw-shaped island country of Nejigajima and follows the two "Bokyabots" Hebot and the Yurui Prince Nejiru as they collect different "Bokya Neji" screws. When the Bokyabots wear the Bokya Neji screws on their heads, they're able to compete in "Bokya Battles," battles for who can think up and tell the best jokes.
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Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: parody, mecha
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Little Astro Boy (2014)
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Astro Boy is a 5 year old robot boy, learning about the world around him from his robot parents, his mentor Dr. O'Shay, & his older human friends. He is an upbeat & positive child, but his abilities are envied by the mansion-dwelling criminal Hamegg. Hamegg enlists the help of his friends, the scientist Dr. Flau & the purple gorilla Gora, in schemes to outsmart, outdo, or even impress Astro & friends. In the end, Astro either succeeds against Hamegg or winds up working together with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Nigeria, Japan
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: anime
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Fireball (2008)
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Fireball is a series of CGI anime shorts created by Jinni's Animation Studios in conjunction with Disney. The designer is Hitoshi Fukuchi. It is animated entirely in 3D with no cel-shading of any sort, as would be typical for the medium. The show takes place in the distant future of the 49th millennium, and revolves around the happenings inside a giant manor inhabited by two robots; the gynoid duchess Drossel von Flügel and her massive cyclopian arachnoid servant, Gedächtnis. The episodes are usually nonsensical in nature, normally showing the two characters making idle conversation in the midst of a war with humanity. A third character, a monkey-robot named "Schadenfreude", joins them later.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 1 min
Plot tags: anime
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Doug Unplugs (2020)
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Doug is a young robot who senses there’s more to life than just the facts. While other robots plug in for their daily download, Doug unplugs and journeys into the human world with his best friend Emma to experience its wonders firsthand.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
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Dick Spanner, P.I. (1987)
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Dick Spanner, P.I. is a 1986 British stop-motion animated comedy series which parodied Chandleresque detective shows. The title character and main protagonist was Dick Spanner, voiced by Shane Rimmer, a robotic private detective who works cases in a futuristic urban setting. The show made frequent use of puns and visual gags. The series consisted of 22 six-minute episodes, covering two story arcs of equal length: "The Case Of The Human Cannonball" and "The Case Of The Maltese Parrot". The programme was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom as a segment of the Sunday morning show Network 7 on Channel 4, and was later repeated on the same channel in a late night spot. Produced by Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson, the series was created and written by Terry Adlam, who had previously worked on effects for Anderson's Terrahawks. It was also the basis for the Anderson-created Tennants Pilsner advertising campaign using the Lou Tennant character.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 6 min
Plot tags: parody
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Me & Roboco (2022)
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In a world where most families own a cute maid robot, average elementary kid Bondo hopes for one of his own. But the robot who shows up is anything but average! Meet Roboco—the wackiest, most powerful maid imaginable!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, shounen
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Dallas & Robo (2018)
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Sassy space-trucker Dallas and self-proclaimed warrior-poet Robo navigate their way around cannibal bikers, rival space truckers, and vending machine burritos as they try to make a buck in the seedy world of interplanetary big-rigging.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: adult animation, exciting, thought provoking, captivating
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Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? (2002)
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Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? is an American animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network from 2002 to 2003. The show centers on Robot Jones, a robotic teenager attending a suburban middle school. The show is the 12th series to fall under the Cartoon Cartoons label.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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Robozuna (2018)
Plot Summary:
A boy and his homemade robot enter the toughest competition in the universe while attempting to free their oppressed home from an evil empire.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Little Robots (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tiny and his Little Robot friends create their own world from the scrapheap on which they find themselves abandoned.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Animation, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 10 min
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Atom: The Beginning (2017)
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Japan in the near future suffers an unexplained major disaster. Five years later, reconstruction is well underway. Two young researchers at a university are pinning all their hopes on robot development. Now their new interpretation of the eternal hero Astro Boy up until his birth is just about to start!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, disturbing, experimental, super sentai
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Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar (2009)
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The story is set in an alternate world called Geminar, where countries have fought endless wars with replicas of humanoid Seikishi weapons that they found in ancient ruins. 15-year-old Kenshi Masaki, the half-brother of Tenchi Muyo! protagonist Tenchi Masaki, is summoned from another world to Geminar.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anime, suspenseful, exciting, scenic, humorous, captivating, mecha, ecchi, shounen
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Trava: Fist Planet (2003)
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Ace pilot Trava and his personal mechanic buddy Shinkai, on their way to mark an out-of-the-way planet, pick up Mikuru, a girl with no memory. The three are about to discover that the planet is more than it seems. A four-part OVA that was part of the "Grasshoppa!" video anthology/DVD magazine.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating
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LBX: Little Battlers eXperience (2011)
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Danball Senki, generally known as Little Battlers eXperience is a series of action role-playing video games created by Level-5, involving small plastic model robots known as LBXs that fight on dioramas made out of cardboard, with the main character setting out to battle against LBXs created by other characters. The first game of the series is released on June 16, 2011 for the PlayStation Portable and has expanded to 6 official games and three Japanese anime series.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Animation, Action
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining
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Zoids Wild (2018)
Plot Summary:
A quest for freedom and legendary treasure begins when a cheerful young adventurer follows his father's footsteps to become the greatest Zoids hunter.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, captivating, entertaining
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Majestic Prince (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the latter half of 21st century, humans leave the Earth and begin to live in space. In order to adapt to the environment in space and deal with the hostile aliens in Jupiter, genetically engineered children called "Princes" are artificially raised and trained to be pilots of armed robots "AHSMB (Advanced High Standard Multipurpose Battle Device). This is a bonus epilogue episode for Majestic Prince.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, emotional, futuristic, tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, mecha, stylized
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The Strange Chores (2019)
Plot Summary:
The show centers around two teenage warrior-heroes and a spirited ghost girl who master the skills they need to replace an ageing monster-slayer by doing his supernatural chores.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Animation
Country: Australia
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, contemplative, spooky
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Gundam Reconguista in G (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Universal Century, a history marked by space colonization and space warfare, has passed. Humanity's prosperity, which ushered in a new era known as Regild Century (R.C.), was believed to endure alongside the global peace. Beruri Zenamu a pilot in training of the of the Capitol Guard is somehow chosen by the G-Serufu - a highly maneuverable Mobile Suit of unknown origin - to lead to uncover hidden truths that will shake the peace of the Regild Century era.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 650 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, mecha
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Bomberman Jetters (2002)
Plot Summary:
The space police force known as the "Jetters" fight against the villains making sure that the universe is safe.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Octonauts: The Ring of Fire (2021)
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In this film's adventure, a volcano erupts suddenly, suddenly awakening the Pacific Ocean floor of hundreds of volcanoes composed of the "ring of fire", this sudden event quickly turned into a global catastrophe. The volcanic clusters that are about to erupt en masse threaten the horned whales washed ashore by the tsunami, the cap penguins living in the volcanic islands, the equipment of the small column maintenance station, the food planted by plant fish in the marine farms... Not to mention the plants and animals that live in the crater all year after year!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Animation
Country: China, UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Liverspots and Astronots (2018)
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No one seems to know why Dusty Craters, a dilapidated nursing home, is floating through space carrying a colorful assortment of grumpy old folks under the care of an evil goat doctor. But then again nothing seems to make sense in a world where a talking two-dollar bill lives in a Cracker Jack box and a three-eyed ape just might be the center of the universe. Best friends Roosi and Big Man uncover these mysteries and more as they go on one epic adventure after another in this buddy comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Animation
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, surreal, semi serious
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Once Upon a Time Was the Space (1982)
Plot Summary:
Once Upon a Time… Space is a French/Japanese animated TV series from 1982, directed by Albert Barillé. The series was animated in Japan by the animation studio Eiken, and is thus considered to be anime as it also aired on Japanese TV, albeit not until 1984, under the title Ginga Patrol PJ. In contrast to the show's success in the West, the series' Japanese broadcast was consigned to an early-morning time slot and attracted little attention.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Canada, Argentina
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, serious, captivating, educational
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New Getter Robo (2004)
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New Getter Robot is an anime original video animation co-produced by Dynamic Planning and Bandai Visual. The series is a re-imagining of the 1970s manga Getter Robo, created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa, that incorporates aspects of Japanese mythology like the Oni and Abe no Seimei.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, mecha
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Hero Factory (2010)
Plot Summary:
Based on the Lego Hero Factory toys, the show focuses on building heroes to protect the world from evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, stylized, offbeat
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Heroes: Legend of Battle Disks (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story is set in the galaxy located near the center of the universe. There are Planet Aernia (a planet for Heroes) and Planet Orbs (a planet for robots), governed by Orbiton, in this same galaxy. Various countries are present in Planet Aernia; they are, Volculm (volcanic country of fire), Zylan (oceanic country of water), Elvan (green-rich country of forest), and Aleum (celestial country of clouds). Antania, is a nucleus of all the present countries. It has an academy that fosters Heroes. Under the reign of the Governor General, Antania upholds a national policy to train Heroes to prevent Planet Aernia to be infringed by the Dark Desire. Heroes are not only the reliable source of battle who have special abilities to freely use the battle discs, but also a symbol of unfailing justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan, Italy, USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, mecha, anime
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Zatch Bell! Attack of Mechavulcan (2005)
Plot Summary:
As Kiyomaro races to catch the bus to seaside camp, little does he know that Dr. M2, a demonic magic scientist from the future, has sent out a robot to kidnap him. He's trapped in limbo with the mad magic scientist who wants to be his partner and an army of Vulcan robot lookalikes. Dr. M2 sends a robot to pretend to befriend Gash, keeping him away from Kiyomaro until M2 can abscond with the teen genius to the future. In the end, it comes down to saving the world with a little help from their friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing