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Plot Summary:
Sho and his friend Tetsurou stumble upon an odd alien artifact while walking through the woods. Then, the alien artifact breaks free of its metallic bonds and enters Sho's body, turning him into the Guyver. With this new power, Sho must do battle with the evil Chronos corporation and their genetically enhanced Zoanoids, who seek to get the Guyver back into their labs. No one close to Sho is safe from Chronos. He must fight.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 979
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, mind bending, mecha, exciting, serious, brutal, futuristic, suspenseful, vintage
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Gasaraki is a mecha anime television series produced by Sunrise. It was directed by Ryousuke Takahashi, who also co-created the series along with Sunrise and was assisted by Goro Taniguchi. The screenplay was written by Toru Nozaki. The series centers on Yushiro Gowa who pilots a bipedal weapons system known as a TA, short for Tactical Armor. Much of the initial plot is driven by means of news reports. Set in the near-future the series is formed around political narratives that concern a fictional war between the US and the fictional Middle Eastern country of Belgistan. An influential Japanese family, the Gowa, produce a bipedal weapon, the TA. When US military forces attempt to seize the capital they are systematically wiped out by what appear to be rival TAs. The Gowa Family seizes this opportunity to demonstrate their weapon system, and civilian pilot Yuushiro Gowa and the military squad to which he is attached are deployed to Begilstan. There, he meets rival TA pilot Miharu, with whom he seems to share a deep spiritual bond. The series has a mix of futuristic and historical narratives and includes elements of Japanese culture, such as Noh and Shinto, rigid family hierarchies, corruption of government by Zaibatsu and Samurai appear throughout the series.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 625 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
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In the near future, a Japanese scientist engineers a powered exoskeleton called "Infinite Stratos" (IS). Possessing technology and combat capabilities surpassing those of any other arms system, the IS threatens to destabilize the world. Faced with such an overpowered weapon, the nations of the world enact the "Alaska Treaty", which states that IS shall never be used for militant combat, and that existing IS technology must be equally distributed to all nations, to prevent any one nation from dominating the others. The introduction of the IS does, however, have a major effect on society. As IS can only be operated by women, there is a shift in the power balance between men and women, where women now dominate society over men. Ten years after the IS was initially introduced, the world has entered a new age of peace. The peace is shattered, however, by Ichika Orimura, a 15-year-old Japanese boy. In a coincidental run-in with a (hibernating) IS suit, it is revealed that he possesses the innate ability to operate an IS. Realizing the potential, the Japanese government forces the bewildered young man to attend the prestigious Infinite Stratos Academy, a multicultural academy where IS pilots from all over the world are trained. Thus, he starts a busy high school life surrounded by girls training to pilot IS.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, ecchi, manga, mecha, serious, futuristic, super sentai, exciting, suspenseful
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, offbeat, exciting, suspenseful, romantic, futuristic, captivating, manga, humorous
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor is a Japanese anime series based on the long-running manga series, Bio Booster Armor Guyver, written by Yoshiki Takaya, adapting chapters 1 - 59 of the manga. The production was in association with ADV Films and Kadokawa Shoten. The series first episode aired in Japan on August 6, 2005 and the last episode aired on February 18, 2006. The series aired in North America on December 20, 2010, on the FUNimation Channel.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, captivating
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, exciting, tense, stylized, manga, adult cartoon, vintage
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IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 46000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, futuristic, stylized, spoof, parody, vintage
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IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, adult anime, apocalyptic, adult animation, shounen, brutal
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, mecha, futuristic, captivating, tense, entertaining, serious
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 260
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 244
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: USA, Japan
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
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In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
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