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Plot Summary:
Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli is an anime adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's original collection of stories, The Jungle Book. It aired in 1989, and consists of a total of 52 episodes. The series, a compromise between the original Mowgli stories and the Walt Disney version, received international acclaim and was aired in different countries around the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, sentimental, retro, epic
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The adventures of a heroic lone wolf-dog and his human friends in the Klondike Gold Rush.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Canada, France
Duration:
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When Mowgli was just a baby, or as his adopted parents call him, a "man cub," Shere Khan the tiger went after Mowgli's mother and father. Baby Mowgli wondered off into the den of a wolf family with newly arrived cubs. The mother wolf wants to add Mowgli to her pack of cubs and when the others see how brave Mowgli is, they agree. Shere Khan, having been searching for the baby since he attacked the parents, finally finds him in the wolf den. When the wolves protect him, Shere Khan vows to hunt Mowgli down someday and becomes driven to destroy him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: mockbuster
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime
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IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, korean anime
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
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Duration: 30 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 22 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, juvenile
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Animation, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, juvenile, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, vintage
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Adventure, Animation, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, atmospheric, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min
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FLCL Alternative is a sequel to FLCL and FLCL Progressive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: anime
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This animation series follows the childhood "adventures" of a girl named Heidi, who lives with her grandfather somewhere on the Alps.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan, West Germany
Duration: 24 min
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IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: India, Germany, France
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, light, sincere, entertaining, feel good, wild
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IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: anime, juvenile, sentimental, feel good, serious, realistic
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends is a British animated television series based on the works of Beatrix Potter, featuring Peter Rabbit and other anthropomorphic animal characters created by Potter. It was originally shown in the U.K. on BBC between 1992 and 1995 and subsequently broadcast in the U.S. on Family Channel from 1993–1995. The series has also been released on VHS and DVD by Carlton Video.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anthology, anime, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Maya the Bee is an anime television series produced by Zuiyo Enterprise in Japan. The series consisted of 52 episodes and was originally telecast across Japan from April 1975 to April 1976 on the TV Asahi network. Based on the classic children's book Maya the Bee by Waldemar Bonsels, the anime series has become extremely popular in Europe and has been rebroadcast in countries and languages all around the world since its premiere. Two English-dubbed versions of the series exist, a British version, using a translated version of the original theme tune, and featuring British accents for the characters; and a United States version with an entirely new theme tune, produced by Saban Entertainment, which was broadcast from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1992 on the children's television channel Nickelodeon. Maya the Bee aired alongside other juvenile-targeted anime such as Adventures of the Little Koala, Noozles and The Littl' Bits as part of Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block of programming for young children. A second Maya the Bee series, Shin Mitsubachi Māya no Bōken, was a co-production made in 1979 by Wako Productions and Austrian/German Apollo Film, Wien. The second series first premiered in Germany from September 1979 to September 1980. The very different and cartoon-like second series, which lasted for 52 episodes, wasn't very popular and did not premiere in Japan until October 1982, on TV Osaka, and aired through September 1983. Ten episodes from this series were added to 45 from the original for the U.S. broadcast run, bringing the total of Maya episodes aired on Nickelodeon in the U.S. to 55.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Austria, Japan, West Germany
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, retro, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Taz-Mania is an American cartoon sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Animation from 1991 to 1995, broadcast in the United States on Fox and in Canada on Baton Broadcast System. The show follows the adventures of the classic Looney Tunes character, Taz in the fictional land of Tazmania. Similar to other Warner Brothers cartoons of its time, such as Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures, Taz-Mania frequently broke the fourth wall, and often made jokes showing that Taz could actually speak perfectly normal when he wanted to. The intro indicates that, in this rendering of Tasmania, "the sky's always yellow, rain or shine". The title song is performed by Jess Harnell and Jim Cummings.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: retro, anime, feel good, humorous, satirical, colorful, sentimental, cult classic, light, colourful
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Baloo the Bear from the Jungle Book is cast as a 1930's Pacific Islands bush pilot.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, South Korea, France, Japan, Taiwan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, feel good, semi serious, fairy tale, retro, anime, dieselpunk, cult classic, nostalgic
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The Jungle Bunch: News Beat (2011)
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Through this series of reports and interviews, these animals will reveal a bit of their private lives to us and we will discover their habitat, their eating habits, their hobbies etc. In this way, they may explain to us how they spend their days; things that are not necessarily as extraordinary as we may think but certainly very interesting. These are everyday events, from their daily lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: France
Duration:
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Marsupilami is an animated series that first appeared on television in Raw Toonage in 1992, and was then spun off into his own eponymous show on the CBS television network for the 1993–1994 season.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, offbeat, humorous, not serious, slapstick, nostalgic
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The Legend of Tarzan (2001)
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Philippines, Australia, Taiwan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, captivating, disturbing, sentimental, anime, action adventure, stylized, semi serious, 2d animation
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The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
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Mowgli, missing the jungle and his old friends, runs away from the man village unaware of the danger he's in by going back to the wild.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA, Australia, France
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: stylized, feel good, exciting, entertaining, dark drama, humorous, semi serious, sexy, unusual plot structure, sweet
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The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, often simply referred to as Timon & Pumbaa, is an animated comedy television series made by the Walt Disney Company. It centers on Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog from the Disney film franchise The Lion King, without most of the other characters in the franchise. The show ran for three seasons from September 16, 1995 to September 24th, 1999.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA, South Korea, Philippines, Australia, Taiwan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, anime, colorful, cult classic, slapstick, semi serious, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy