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Plot Summary:
Girls who live in a provincial city perform a certain ritual. The girls are in the "Crystal Radio Club." It is an interest circle that Asuka Tsuchimiya, a girl known for her cheerfulness, started with friends in her high school. That ritual was considered just an urban legend. However, with several conditions coincidentally falling into place, it stops being fun and games.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Animation, Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, super sentai
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Persona 5 the Animation: The Day Breakers (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story focuses on the 16-year-old Protagonist after he is transferred to Shujin High School in Tokyo. Staying with friends of his parents, he meets up with two fellow students, problem child Ryuuji Sakamoto and withdrawn Anne Takamaki, and a talking, shape-shifting cat-like creature known as Morgana. During his time there, feeling suppressed by their environment, the four form a group known as the "Phantom Thieves," working together to carry out heists and encountering mysterious phenomena along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, captivating, contemplative, anime
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Black Bullet (2014)
Plot Summary:
Virus Gastrea menyebar seperti api, membuat setiap wadah yang terinfeksi bermutasi dengan cepat, mendapatkan kekuatan baru dan kemampuan dengan setiap tahap perkembangan, bahkan saat mereka terus menyerang, membunuh dan menginfeksi beberapa host baru.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, rough, serious, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating, manga
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Dies Irae (2017)
Plot Summary:
On May 1, 1945 in Berlin, as the Red Army raises the Soviet flag over the Reichskanzlei, a group of Nazi officers conduct a ritual. For them, the slaughter in the city is nothing but the perfect ritual sacrifice in order to bring back the Order of the 13 Lances, a group of supermen whose coming would bring the world's destruction. Years later, no one knows if this group of officers succeeded, or whether they lived or died. Few know of their existence, and even those who knew began to pass away as the decades passed. Now in December in the present day in Suwahara City, Ren Fujii spends his days at the hospital. Every night he sees the same dream: A guillotine. Murderers who hunt people, and the black clothed knights who pursue the murderers. He is desperate to return to his normal, everyday life, but even now he hears his friend Shirō's words: "Everyone who remains in this city eventually loses their minds.".
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Ao Oni The Animation (2016)
Plot Summary:
In most ordinary high schools, many stories and rumors float around—some scandalous, some happy and some...more macabre. One such example is of monsters lurking in an abandoned mansion outside of town. Such tales, however, prove too tempting to resist for Hiroshi and his friends Mika, Takeshi, and Takurou. They decide to brave the rumored dangers in order to investigate the manor and complete a test of courage. Each of them approaches the mansion with an overwhelming sense of dread. And when they enter, they come upon a blue monster named Ao Oni who attacks them. As Hiroshi and his friends try to solve the various puzzles in the mansion and escape their new blue nemesis, they find themselves meeting several horrible endings as they fail miserably.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 3 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, 3d animation, anime
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Dance with Devils (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ritsuka Tachibana is a female second-year high school student who attends Shiko Academy in Shiko Town. She enjoyed her school life while living with her mother Maria, but one day, that balance fell into ruin when she discovers several of her attractive, male classmate are demons.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: shoujo, anime, tense, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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Investigation 13 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of students investigates the urban legend of the Mole Man, an ex-patient of the Black Grove Psychiatric Asylum who is thought to live within its walls.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Animation, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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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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Magica Wars (2014)
Plot Summary:
"Mahou Shoujo Taisen" is a project created from a variety show for the Otaku "2.5 Chigen TV" (2.5 Dimension TV). The characters are the mahou shoujo that represent each local town in Japan. The characters that won from the second illustration competitions that were held on pixiv will appear in the anime.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense
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Tokyo Revengers (2021)
Plot Summary:
Takemichi Hanagaki is a freelancer that’s reached the absolute pits of despair in his life. He finds out that the only girlfriend he ever had, in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, had been killed by the ruthless Tokyo Manji Gang. The day after hearing about her death, he’s standing on the station platform and ends up being pushed over onto the tracks by a herd of people. He closes his eyes thinking he’s about to die, but when he opens his eyes back up, he somehow had gone back in time 12 years. Now that he’s back living the best days of his life, Takemichi decides to get revenge on his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, suspenseful, suspense, shounen, touching, crying
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Kowabon (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kowabon, a horror story, will be animated using a technique called rotoscoping. Animators will trace live-action footage frame-by-frame to recreate it as animation.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Animation, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 3 min
Plot tags: anime, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga (2017)
Plot Summary:
After discovering that he's the son of Satan, a young man must join the True Cross Academy in order to master his abilities and defeat Satan himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, manga, shounen
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Laughing Under the Clouds (2014)
Plot Summary:
When swords were outlawed in the eleventh year of the Meiji era, the mighty samurai population began to dwindle. Those who rejected the ban on blades rebelled, causing violent unrest to erupt throughout the countryside. To combat the rise in criminal activity, an inescapable lake prison was constructed. Three young men, born of the Kumo line, were given the duty of delivering criminals to their place of confinement – but could there be more to their mission than meets the eye?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, shoujo, absurd, josei
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Fog Hill of Five Elements (2020)
Plot Summary:
A legend tells that a long time ago, monsters could give the ability to certain elected officials to master the five elements. But for that, you have to go through the dangerous foggy mountains... We follow the adventures of one of these elected officials.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: China
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: anime, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, 2d animation
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Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation (2018)
Plot Summary:
Are you a victim of unwanted spirit possession? Is there a ghost you need sent up and away...or down to burn for all eternity? If the answer is yes, then you need Muhyo and Roji, experts in magic law. Serving justice to evil spirits is their specialty.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, humorous, captivating, contemplative, shounen, unusual plot structure
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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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Boogiepop and Others (2019)
Plot Summary:
There is an urban legend that tells of a shinigami that can release people from the pain they are suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name—Boogiepop. And the legends are true. Boogiepop is real. When a rash of disappearances involving female students breaks out at Shinyo Academy, the police and faculty assume they just have a bunch of runaways on their hands. Yet some students know better. Something mysterious and foul is afoot. Is it Boogiepop or something even more sinister...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, psychological, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 Motion Comic (2010)
Plot Summary:
Posing as a viscount's daughter, Faith infiltrates Lady Genevieve's gala and is attacked by Roden's gargoyle security team. Elsewhere, Willow offers to Dawn with her plus-sized problem and is called upon to upgrade the castle's defense system.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 275 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Scar on the Praeter (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of a rebellion in the Akatsuki Special Ward of Tokyo, agents known as the Scard rise up to become the protectors of peace. With Divine Tattoos that each possess unique powers, they’ll have to fight to preserve their own definitions of justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 2nd A's (2012)
Plot Summary:
Six months after the events of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st, Fate has returned to Uminari City with Lindy as her legal guardian and is living the life of a normal elementary schoolgirl along with Nanoha and her friends. The reunion between the two new-found friends is cut short, however, when they are assaulted by four ancient magic users who identify themselves as the Wolkenritter. As the motives behind the actions of the Wolkenritter become clear, Nanoha and Fate find themselves in a race against time to stop the reactivation of a highly dangerous artifact known as the Book of Darkness.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, suspense, contemplative, seinen
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Tokyo Ghoul: Root A (2015)
Plot Summary:
Tokyo Ghoul: Root A.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, scary, exciting, bloody, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, visually appealing, humorous
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Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom (2014)
Plot Summary:
The second part of the retelling of the first and second seasons of the anime.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, super sentai, exciting, unusual plot structure
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Overlord: The Dark Hero (2017)
Plot Summary:
The second recap film of season 1 of the anime TV series Overlord, covering episodes 8 to 13.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, anime, unusual plot structure
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Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Chizuru Yukimura comes to Edo-period Kyoto searching for her missing father, she witnesses a bloody murder by crazed members of the Shinsengumi - the shogunate's secret police and supposed peacekeepers. Taken into custody after seeing something she wasn't supposed to see, Chizuru finds herself caught up in the group's battles and secrets. Based on the video game by Otomate.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, super sentai, exciting, unusual plot structure
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Tiger & Bunny: The Beginning (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set on an alternative Earth, Superheroes are celebrities and a high rating TV show rates their achievements, awarding them points until an annual King of Heroes is crowned. Old-school hero Wild Tiger is assigned a new partner with very different views on the heroes role in society but soon a vigilante criminal presents them with a serious problem.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, compilation film
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Hot Streets (2016)
Plot Summary:
An FBI agent, his partner, his niece and her cowardly dog investigate supernatural phenomena.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags: adult animation, exciting, feel good, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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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
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Trese (2021)
Plot Summary:
In Manila, where dark supernatural forces pervade the criminal underworld, it’s up to Alexandra Trese to keep the peace — but there’s a storm brewing.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines
Duration: 33 min
Plot tags: anime, dark, adult animation, scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, gothic
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Supernatural: The Anime Series (2011)
Plot Summary:
After losing their mother to a demon, two brothers grow up fighting supernatural beings.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, rough, suspense, dark, adult animation, manga, detective, serious, suspenseful, scary
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Concrete Revolutio (2015)
Plot Summary:
The stage is set in "another Japan" as a banquet of diverse superhumans unfolds... In an imaginary "age of gods" about 20 years after the war, Japan has grown and developed by leaps and bounds. What if all the superhumans ever written about in fictional stories existed at the same time? Superhumans who came into existence through different circumstances, and who are special in different ways—Titans from outer space, lifeforms from a mystical world, phantoms and goblins from ancient times, cyborgs created by scientists, relics that rose out of the ruins of ancient civilizations, and the list goes on. One segment of these superhumans makes no secret of their existence and has gained popularity in society. Others cloak their identities and fight in secrecy. There are enemies of superhumans as well, organizations that operate in the shadows. The Japanese government has taken many measures to secure peace and order. One is the establishment of an organization under the Ministry of Health and Welfare—the Overpopulation Research Laboratory, a.k.a. the Superhuman Bureau. Their mission is to identify and approach superhumans, then oversee and safeguard them. One member of the Superhuman Bureau, Jirou Hitoyoshi, is protagonist of this series.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, feel good, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, mecha, super sentai, unusual plot structure