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Plot Summary:
Awakening her dormant abilities as a devil one day, Yuuko Yoshida aka Shadow Mistress Yuuko, is entrusted with the mission to defeat the Light clan's shrine maiden, a magical girl, by her ancestor Lilith. Yuuko meets magical girl Momo Chiyoda through her classmate Anri Sada, and challenges her to a duel, but loses quickly due to her lack of strength. Since then, Yuuko has struggled with her role as a devil and her duel with Momo, and borrowed help from her regularly. However, by a strange coincidence, Yuuko also weakens Momo by taking away her power to cooperate in protecting the peace of Tama city.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, light, humorous, absurd, semi serious, super sentai, parody
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Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma (2015)
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Yukihira Souma's dream is to become a full-time chef in his father's restaurant and surpass his father's culinary skill. But just as Yukihira graduates from middle schools his father, Yukihira Jouichirou, closes down the restaurant to cook in Europe. Although downtrodden, Souma's fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichirou which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Souma survive?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, feel good, shounen, ecchi, semi serious, light, manga, emotional, super sentai
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March Comes in Like a Lion (2016)
Plot Summary:
Rei is a 17-year old professional shōgi player, who lives by himself, not having a real family, and has scarcely any friends. Among his acquaintances is a family, which consists of a young woman, Akari, and two young girls, Hinata and Momo, and who also keep a numerous number of cats.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, semi serious, adult animation, seinen, humorous, captivating
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Flying Witch (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the witches' tradition, when a practitioner turns 15, they must become independent and leave their home to study witchcraft. Makoto Kowata is one such apprentice witch who leaves her parents' home in Yokohama in pursuit of knowledge and training. Along with her companion Chito, a black cat familiar, they embark on a journey to Aomori, a region favored by witches due to its abundance of nature and affinity with magic. They begin their new life by living with Makoto's second cousins, Kei Kuramoto and his little sister Chinatsu. While Makoto may seem to be attending high school like any other teenager, her whimsical and eccentric involvement with witchcraft sets her apart from others her age. From her encounter with an anthropomorphic dog fortune teller to the peculiar magic training she receives from her older sister Akane, Makoto's peaceful everyday life is filled with the idiosyncrasies of witchcraft that she shares with her friends and family.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, exciting, humorous, captivating, semi serious, shounen, super sentai, educational, iyashikei
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The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! (2021)
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The Great Jahy, the Dark Realm's second-in-command, cuts a frightening figure, feared and revered by all. But when a run-in with a magical girl results in the destruction of the precious mana crystal, the Dark Realm falls, transporting the newly tiny and powerless Jahy to the human world! Unfortunately, plotting the revival of the Dark Realm from a cramped, crumbling one-room apartment is no easy feat when you have rent to pay and a job to keep!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, ecchi, manga, sexual, sexy
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Negima!? Magister Negi Magi (2006)
Plot Summary:
Wizard Negi Springfield may be a boy, but he has a man-sized job to do! Fresh from the Academy of Magic, Negi continues his training as an instructor at Mahora Academy in Japan. But before he can get his Master’s in magic, the 31 schoolgirls of Class 3-A are gonna keep him up all night cramming for a final exam in will power. Temptation aside, Negi has more on his syllabus than flirting and spells. Darkness is closing in, and Negi is gonna need help from his student bodies to drive the ghouls from their school. These girls want to prove that they’re best in class, and extra credit is available to the cuties that aren’t afraid of after hours phantom fighting – especially if it means more time with their favorite professor.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, ecchi, shounen, super sentai
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Inu x Boku Secret Service (2012)
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Protected by the highest security, the Maison de Ayakashi is rumored to be haunted, where only eccentrics could live. In reality, it is a place for humans with non-human ancestors to live. The socially-inept Ririchiyo has come here to improve herself. She meets secret service bodyguard Soushi, who is assigned to protect residents. He has a request of her: "Please make me your dog.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, humorous, semi serious, romantic comedy, shounen, suspenseful
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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006)
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On his first day of high school, Kyon meets an eccentric girl named Haruhi Suzumiya, who announces to the class that she is interested only in meeting aliens, time travelers, and espers. Discontent with the selection of afterschool clubs presented before her, she starts a new club called the SOS Brigade and enlists Kyon, a quiet bookworm named Yuki Nagato, a shy but beautiful junior named Mikuru Asahina, and a grinning and loyal transfer named Itsuki Koizumi. Each of them except Kyon is secretly part of one of the groups Haruhi desired to meet, and they all must keep close watch on her. If she ever grows dissatisfied with reality, she may unintentionally destroy the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, semi serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, entertaining, seinen, offbeat
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Maburaho (2003)
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High school student Kazuki Shikimori comes from a line of powerful magicians with extraordinary DNA and he attends the most prestigious school for wizards in all of Japan. It would seem that life is good for Kazuki. Unfortunately, that couldn’t be further from the truth. He’s not the most smooth when it comes to the ladies, his grades are poor, his athletic skill is next to none, and to top it all off, he can only use his magic eight times before he turns into dust! However, three magical hotties have learned of his genetic secret and are all after him! Suddenly he has become the most “popular” kid in class. Are all these girls out to romance him, or are they only after his DNA?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, semi serious, captivating, ecchi
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The Familiar of Zero (2006)
Plot Summary:
When Saito, an ordinary teen living in Japan, is suddenly whisked away to the magical kingdom of Halkeginia, he becomes the familiar servant of Louise, a young girl enrolled in an academy for aristocrat magicians.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, exciting, tsundere, super sentai
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Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kobayashi lives alone in an apartment, until one day, Tooru appeared and they ended up living together. Tooru looks down on humans as inferior and foolish, but having been saved by Kobayashi-san, she does everything she can to repay the debt and help her with various things, although not everything goes according to plan. A mythical everyday life comedy about a hard working office lady living with a dragon girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, stylized, light, entertaining, sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious, yuri
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The Devil Is a Part-Timer! (2013)
Plot Summary:
Foiled by a hero when he’s inches away from conquering the world, the devil finds himself in modern-day Tokyo. With no real-world skills to speak of, the devil is forced to make ends meet flipping burgers at a fast food joint! To stall any further plans of world domination, the hero tracks the devil’s trail and takes on the lowly tasks of a telemarketer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, light, humorous, offbeat, semi serious, romantic, absurd, manga, sitcom
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Armor Shop for Ladies and Gentlemen (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a world of sword and sorcery a young villager named Kautsu comes upon a unique armor shop that only deals with a certain kind of equipment for female adventurers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, ecchi
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Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Alzano Imperial Magic Academy is located in the southern part of the Alzano Empire and is among most prominent magic schools in the world, where students can learn the highest forms of magic. All those who strive to learn magic dream of studying at this academy, and its students as well as its teachers are proud to be a part of its 400-year history. Glenn Radars is a new instructor who has suddenly been appointed to teach part-time at this highly respected academy. The previously unheard-of lessons of this man known as a good-for-nothing bastard are about to begin.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, shounen, light, entertaining
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Yuki Yuna is a Hero (2014)
Plot Summary:
Yuna Yuki is an ordinary second-year middle school student. She gets up in the morning, gets ready for school, goes to classes, participates in club activities, and has fun with her friends. But there is one extraordinary thing about Yuki -- she belongs to the “Brave Hero Club.” What does the Brave Hero Club do? Who is the mysterious being called “Vertex?” Yuki Yuna and her friends’ story takes place in Year 300, Era of the Gods.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, atmospheric, humorous, entertaining, stylized, dark fantasy
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Blood Lad (2013)
Plot Summary:
Staz is a vampire from the surreal "Demon World", and Fuyumi, an ordinary girl, accidentally wanders into the Demon World through a portal. Subsequently after meeting each other, Fuyumi is killed by a carnivorous plant and turned into a ghost, causing Staz to take responsibility and pledge to help bring her back to life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, exciting, humorous, surreal, stylized, satirical, manga, offbeat, seinen
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Beelzebub (2011)
Plot Summary:
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:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, shounen, psychotronic
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KAGINADO (2021)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a small miracle. Stars from different universes and different times that were never meant to cross paths. By irony of fate, these stars come together in “Kaginado Academy”. What awaits them there is a lively school life full of hope and dreams. The wonderful encounters provide the stars with new radiance. What awaits beyond that radiance...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Animation, Short, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, colorful, visually appealing, colourful
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Ushio and Tora (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ushio thinks that his father's talk of an ancient ancestor impaling a demon on a temple altar stone with the legendary Beast Spear is nuts, but when he finds the monster in his own basement, Ushio has to take another look at the family legend! To save his friends and family from the invading spirits, Ushio is forced to release Tora from his captivity. But will the creature prove to be worse than the curse?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, humorous, shounen, super sentai, dark fantasy
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Squid Girl (2010)
Plot Summary:
Squid Girl has come to the land from the depths of the sea to conquer humanity in revenge for pollution of the ocean. Unfortunately she ruins the first house she uses as an invasion base and has to work to pay for repairs. Of course, she can't overcome the Aizawa sisters who manage the house, so who knows whether she can subjugate humankind.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, sitcom, exciting, offbeat
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Gabriel DropOut (2017)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel White graduated at the top of the class at angel school and attends a human school on earth in pursuit of knowledge, but then gets engrossed in a web game and decides its too much trouble to go anywhere. (from manga).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, entertaining, shounen, captivating, light
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Akebi's Sailor Uniform (2022)
Plot Summary:
Robai Private Academy is a well-known girls’ junior high school in the countryside. Komichi Akebi is a girl who, for a certain reason, has dreamed of wearing a Robai Academy sailor uniform. Her dream comes true, and her heart races as the day of the school entrance ceremony arrives. With her heart set on her new sailor uniform, Komichi embarks on the junior high school life of her dreams. Komichi dashes headlong through days full of “firsts”—classmates, school lunches, club activities, and more—in this sparkling diary of girlhood. “I hope I can make a lot of friends.”.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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A-Channel (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tooru and Run have been best friends forever, so when Tooru learns that she's managed to get into the same high school as Run, she runs to tell her... only to find Run in a compromising position with yet another girl, Yuko. Needless to say, that makes things a bit awkward at school, with Tooru fending off those who might be interested in Run while Yuko and their other girlfriend, Nagi, have to deal with Run's own penchant for drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, seinen, yuri, iyashikei
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Hitoribocchi no Marumaruseikatsu (2019)
Plot Summary:
Hitori Bocchi suffers from extreme social anxiety, she's not good at talking to people, takes pretty extreme actions, is surprisingly adept at avoiding people, her legs cramp when she overexerts herself, gets full of herself when alone, will vomit when exposed to extreme tension and often comes up with plans. Now she is entering middle school and her only friend, Yawara Kai, is attending a different school. This leaves Bocchi alone, surrounded by new classmates with whom she must make friends before Kai will talk to her again.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, shounen
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Fruits Basket (2001)
Plot Summary:
Tohru Honda is 16 year old orphaned girl who gets invited to live in the house of her classmate, the handsome boy Sohma Yuki, and his cousins, 16 year old Kyo and 27 year old Shigure. However, these young men and parts of the rest of their family (both close and distant) hold a curse; if they are hugged by the opposite gender, they transform into animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Everyday is an adventure for sweet Tohru, as she gets to know everyone in the large family better (especially Yuki and Kyo), in both common and bizarre situations. But, the Sohma Family curse is certainly no laughing matter... it also holds horrible cruelty and heartbreak.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, shoujo, touching, feel good, semi serious, humorous, cute, adult cartoon, romantic comedy
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Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts (2010)
Plot Summary:
Advanced placement into a school of higher grade proof-reading is determined by the results of the Promotion Test strictly for class type. Ranging from A class with the best facilities anyone can offer all the way down to F Class which is composed of low dining tables, rotten tatami mats and other worn out facilities. Students can change classes by competing using the Examination Summons Battle system or ESB. Students summon characters with their equivalent test mark scores and use them to compete with other classes.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, parody, absurd, offbeat
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Kamisama Kiss (2012)
Plot Summary:
Nanami was just a normal high school girl down on her luck until a stranger’s lips marked her as the new Land God and turned her world upside down. Now, she’s figuring out the duties of a deity with the help of Tomoe, a reformed fox demon who reluctantly becomes her familiar in a contract sealed with a kiss. The new responsibilities—and boys—are a lot to handle, like the crow demon masquerading as a gorgeous pop idol and the adorable snake spirit who’s chosen the newly minted god to be his bride. As the headstrong Tomoe tries to whip her into shape, Nanami finds that love just might have cute, pointed fox ears. With romance in the air, will the human deity be able to prove herself worthy of her new title?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, exciting, romantic, humorous, touching, captivating, semi serious
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Leviathan: The Last Defense (2013)
Plot Summary:
The fantasy world of Aquafall is abound with water and greenery, and populated by dragons and fairies. Meteorites of evil creatures threaten all living things on the planet. The fairy Syrup assembles the Aquafall Defense Force, with three girls of the dragon clans as recruits. The story follows Syrup and the dragon girls Leviathan, Bahamut, and Jörmungandr as they work together to battle enemies and grow up.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, anime, exciting, captivating, super sentai
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Demon King Daimao (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maō, also known as Demon King Daimao, is a Japanese light novel series written by Shotaro Mizuki and illustrated by Souichi Itō, published by Hobby Japan under their HJ Bunko imprint. The first volume was published on February 1, 2008, with a total of 11 volumes available as of December 2010. A manga adaptation began monthly serialization in the September 2008 issue of Akita Shoten's magazine Champion Red, and a 12-episode anime adaptation by Artland aired between April and June 2010 on Tokyo MX and other channels.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, light, captivating, stylized, ecchi, semi serious, manga, shoujo, offbeat
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Futari wa Pretty Cure (2004)
Plot Summary:
Pretty Cure, known in Japan as Futari wa Pretty Cure, is a Japanese magical girl anime series produced by Toei Animation and broadcast across Japan by Animax, TV Asahi and Asahi Broadcasting Corporation. It is the first series in the Pretty Cure metaseries created by Izumi Todo. The series is watched mostly by elementary and secondary students in Japan; it is also broadcast around the world. The original Pretty Cure series, directed by Daisuke Nishio aired on TV Asahi between February 1, 2004 and January 30, 2005. It is the only Pretty Cure series to date to have received an English-language version, which aired in Canada from March 2009. A direct sequel, Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart, or simply Max Heart, aired in Japan between February 6, 2005 and January 29, 2006. Two Max Heart movies were released on April 16, 2005 and December 10, 2005 respectively. The theme of the series revolves around Yin and Yang, which explains the relationship between Nagisa and Honoka trying to work together as Pretty Cures.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, light, dark, shoujo
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Yozakura Quartet (2008)
Plot Summary:
Yozakura Quartet is a Japanese manga created by Suzuhito Yasuda that began publishing by Kodansha in 2006, and was then published in the US by Del Rey in 2008. The series was animated in Japan and aired from October 2 to December 18, 2008; it comprises 12 episodes, all of which have aired. The anime was produced by Nomad and aired on TBS on Thursdays. Three anime OVAs were released alongside volmunes 9-11 of the manga, between October 10, 2010 to November 9, 2011. A new anime adaptation of the series was announced in April 2013, with the cast returning from the first anime and OVAs, but it will be produced at Tatsunoko Production to be aired in Fall 2013. Yozakura Quartet is Suzuhito Yasuda's first manga. Before the creation of Yozakura Quartet, he was an illustrator. He drew the original character designs for Yoshikazu Kuwashima's series Kamisama Kazoku and Ryohgo Narita's Durarara!!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, shounen