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Plot Summary:
Seina is unlucky, so unlucky that when he stumbles upon a recruiter looking for his senpai Tenchi he gets taken instead. Forced into the Galaxy police, his luck begins to change. A natural to randomly jumping near pirates, he is assigned his own decoy to draw out pirates. His luck brings him into the lives of four women who have a habit of cancelling out his bad luck, turning it into good. Armed with this luck, they pilot the most powerful ships in the Tenchi Universe to defeat the Barta pirates. Now the only uncertainty is whether the sexy Kaunaq, a former model turned GXP officer, sturdy Kiriko, who has known Seina for years, the mysterious Ryoko, a former pirate named after the legendary one, or the childish Neiju, a powerful witch, will win Seina.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, ecchi, offbeat, slapstick
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Tenchi Masaki is a normal high school student in Japan, who spends the summers doing chores around his grandfather's family shrine. One day, Tenchi manages to steal the key to a mysterious cave where an oni (Japanese demon) is said to have been sealed away by his ancester Yoshou, whose sword still stands guard over it. When he enters this cave, he finds that, much to his surprise, the legend is indeed true when the oni's dessicated skeletal form ("mira"--Japanese mummy) comes to life and attacks him. Tenchi flees the cave in a panic, and later returns to high school, taking the hilt--seemingly all that remains of the ancestral sword--with him. At school, Tenchi is again attacked by the oni, whose name is Ryouko, who has now completely revived herself. Tenchi manages to defeat her with the sword's help, but this is only the beginning of a hilarious Japanese romantic comedy OAV (Original Animation Video, the Japanese equivalent of American made-for-video movies) series which has spawned.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, futuristic, stylized, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, ecchi, romantic, semi serious, entertaining, manga, adult anime, shounen
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, captivating, tense, semi serious
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, not serious, captivating, fast, 2d animation
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 208
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 904
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Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, stylized, exciting, humorous, semi serious, scenic, parody, offbeat, shoujo
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, humorous, semi serious, manga, saga, anime, stylized, futuristic
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, not serious, humorous, adult animation, captivating, entertaining, psychedelic, adult anime, parody, seinen
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, exciting, humorous, stylized, not serious, parody, adult cartoon, offbeat, sex comedy, 3d animation