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Plot Summary:
The story centers around millionaire Daisuke Kambe, the heir to one of the wealthiest families in Japan, who is assigned as a detective to the Modern Crime Prevention Task Force (aka MCPTF), at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Taking full advantage of his vast family wealth, he spares no expense in solving complex crimes, and has the tendency to evaluate everything including individual human lives in terms of their monetary value. Haru Kato, a detective with a compassionate heart who believes that money isn’t everything, is chosen as Kambe’s partner but is repulsed by his materialistic attitude. Having diametrically opposing personalities, witness how the two join forces to tackle seemingly unsolvable crimes and mysteries!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense, detective, unusual plot structure
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Ace Attorney (2016)
Plot Summary:
A rookie lawyer Ryuuichi Naruhodou stands up to save his defendants by proving their innocence from unusual cases! Is the defendant guilty or innocent...? Believing his client's innocence Naruhodou stands in court and battles his rival judges. With the word of "OBJECTION!" and limited evidence, Naruhodou makes a comeback when all odds are against him and seems like there is nothing more he can do. Don't miss out on the comical episodes between him and his mentor Chihiro Ayasato, assistant Mayoi Ayasato, rival prosecutor Reiji Mitsurugi, and numerous unique characters! The anime also depicts the childhood relationship between Naruhodou and his friends. With the skills inherited from his mentor Naruho reveals the truth!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, clever, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, seinen, detective, exciting
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Young Black Jack (2015)
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The year is 1968, and the world is swept up in the Vietnam War and student protests. In this time of turmoil, a mysterious young man with white and black hair and a scar on his face is enrolled in medical school. His genius skills with a surgical knife achieve many a medical miracle and are getting noticed. This hero origin story reveals how this young man earned his medical degree and the name of Black Jack.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, disturbing, medical drama, super sentai
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Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation (2015)
Plot Summary:
Shōtarō Tatewaki is a normal high school student with a serious demeanor hangs around with Sakurako Kujō. Sakurako is an extraordinarily beautiful woman in her mid-20s from a rich family who loves "beautiful bones." The two live in the city of Asahikawa in Hokkaido, and they get involved in various incidents regarding bones.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, seinen, detective, super sentai
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Case File N° 221: Kabukicho (2019)
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Shinjuku ward east side... The center of the street with most chaos, There's a Kabukicho with full of neon lights. When the light is stronger, the shadow is deeper. The story begins when certain bizarre murder happens one night! Suspense? Or Comedy? Drama that cannot identify begins!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, intellectual, captivating, suspenseful, detective, odd
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Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place at a certain middle school where several murder cases take place. Kobayashi, a boy who goes to this school, meets genius detective Akechi, who comes to the school to investigate. Kobayashi takes an interest in Akechi and, in spite of his friend Hashiba's worries, he volunteers to be Akechi's assistant.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Animation, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, tense, sincere, unusual plot structure, detective, contemplative
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Michiko & Hatchin (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in a fictional country with cultural traces from South American countries, mostly from Brazil. The title's Michiko is a free-willed "sexy diva" who escapes from a supposedly inescapable prison fortress, while Hatchin is a girl fleeing her abusive foster family. The two join forces on an improbable escape to freedom.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, touching, entertaining, serious, realistic, stylized
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A.D. Police: To Protect and Serve (1999)
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Set a few years before Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, A.D. Police chronicles the tales of Mega-Tokyo's special police division designed to control rogue Boomers in the city. A.D. Police Officer Kenji Sasaki faces a major dilemma: he loses another partner to a rabid boomer. A day after he's sent off-duty, he receives a new partner in the form of German cop Hans Kleif. Funny thing is that Kenji sucker-punched Hans at a bar the night before. Not only does Kenji face the everyday task of controlling Boomers, he has to learn to adjust with his new partner.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, cyber, mecha, cyberpunk anime
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Holmes of Kyoto (2018)
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Holmes, a young man whose family runs an antique shop in Kyoto, has the unique ability to read people and instantly distinguish genuine and high value antiques. When a local high school student, Aoi Maki, starts working alongside Holmes, together they begin to unravel the many mysteries surrounding the antiques brought to the shop.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, semi serious
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Banana Fish (2018)
Plot Summary:
Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands—and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, exciting, captivating, yaoi, bleak, humorous, yuri, noir, adult animation
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Heaven's Memo Notepad (2011)
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Narumi Fujishima is an ordinary high school boy who remains isolated from his fellow classmates. One afternoon fellow classmate Ayaka Shinozaki invites Narumi to join the gardening club and introduces him to a reclusive detective named Alice. Alice hires Narumi as an assistant and puts him to work solving the strange mysteries of Angel fix, an illegal drug. Little does he know it could put him and Ayaka in serious trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, captivating, entertaining, psychological, tense, detective, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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Pet (2020)
Plot Summary:
The psychic suspense story revolves around people who possess the ability to infiltrate people's minds and manipulate memories. Their powers have been used in the underworld for covering up incidents, assassinations, and other deeds. These powers can not only destroy other people's spirits, but also corrupt the users' own hearts at the same time. The users had to protect their fragile and insecure hearts, as if chained to each other. They are called "pets" out of fear and despising.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Animation, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The File of Young Kindaichi (1997)
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High schooler Hajime Kindaichi is a brilliant detective beneath his slacker habits. With his old friend Miyuki, he solves cases the police can't.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, clever, dramatic, manga, detective, smart
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Cop Craft (2019)
Plot Summary:
15 years ago, an unknown hyperspace gate opened over the Pacific. Beyond this gate lies Reto Semaani, a strange alternate world where fairies and monsters live. San Teresa City—a city where over two million immigrants live from both worlds. As a result, there are the haves and the have-nots. Here is the world's newest "city of dreams." But in the shadow of the chaos, crime is rampant: drugs, prostitution, and weapon trafficking. The detectives who stand up to these heinous crimes are in the San Teresa City Police. When the detective Kei Matoba and the alternate-world knight Tirana—two individuals who differ in gender, personality, and even world of origin—meet, an incident erupts. Two worlds. Two justices. From this, the curtain rises on a buddy police action story!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized
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Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings (2009)
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During the Sengoku period, there are many factions constantly at war. One of these is led by a one-eyed man named Date Masamune and another by the imposing Takeda Shingen. The latter has a fiercely loyal subordinate named Sanada Yukimura who goes head to head against Date Masamune multiple times, but the battles between them tend to get interrupted. One such battle occurs when both men try to go after another leader named Imagawa, and they’re forced to break off their heated duel when Imagawa attempts to flee the scene with his body doubles. Yukimura and Masamune go after separate Imagawas, but all of the doubles are killed by a third party, and when their paths cross again, they are in front of the menacing Oda Nobunaga and his army. It was Nobunaga’s subordinates that killed those body doubles, and Nobunaga himself proceeds to kill the real Imagawa with a shotgun blast to the head.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, tense, captivating, bleak
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Ajin (2016)
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17 years ago, immortals first appeared on the battlefields of Africa. Later, rare, unknown new immortal lifeforms began appearing among humans, and they became known as "Ajin" (demi-humans). Just before summer vacation, a Japanese high school student is instantly killed in a traffic accident on his way home from school. However, he is revived, and a price is placed on his head. Thus begins a boy's life on the run from all of humankind.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspenseful, manga, tense, bleak, super sentai
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Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! (2021)
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The peaceful days of the very popular work Bungou Stray Dogs are here. The characters of the Armed Detective Agency and the Mafia are in miniature form?! Due to Atsushi and co. becoming cute, this is a different experience to the original work—a pleasant gag manga!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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07-Ghost (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in a gothic fantasy world, this is the story of Teito Klein, an orphaned slave who became the top military academy student. However, an unexpected turn of events left him pursued by the forces of the Barsburg Empire. Now an escaping convict, Teito's sheltered by the church and its law of sanctuary. Here, he discovered many mysteries surrounding himself, the church, and the Empire itself. The fact that he might be connected to a dethroned king and the mystical stone of god, "The Eye of Mikhael", made him the target of the empire more than ever. Fortunately the church is under the mythical 7 Ghost protection. But who are the Ghosts really. Will Teito be free from the military's clutch, and what of his said mission to uncover the history. And who is the military's Chief-of-Staff Ayanami exactly. Teito's future seems to have spiraled into an unexpectedly perilous path.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, josei
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You're Under Arrest (1996)
Plot Summary:
Tsujimoto Natsumi, a powerful young cop with a penchant for daredevil motorcycle riding, is teamed on her first day of work with another rookie, Kobayakawa Miyuki, a whiz of a mechanic and hell on wheels with a car. While the impulsive Natsumi and the quieter Miyuki don't seem to have anything in common at first, they soon learn that they compliment each other well on the job. In short, they become the perfect team to chase the bad guys down, where ever they appear in Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Un-Go (2011)
Plot Summary:
Un-Go is set in a war-torn Tokyo, in a near-future Japan. In response to Japan sending their military abroad as peacekeeping forces, terrorists launched multiple attacks on Japan, killing many people and destroying much of its cityscapes. Some time after the war receded to a period of uneasy peace, the Japanese Parliament passed the "Information Privacy and Protection Act", which gives the Japanese government control over the Internet. Detective Shinjuurou Yuuki and his strange partner Inga make a living in solving crimes and exposing human souls, all influenced in some way by the dystopian backdrop.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, rough, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, seinen, bleak, serious
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Bungo Stray Dogs (2016)
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Nakajima Atsushi was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Dazai Osamu, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. They're tracking down a tiger that has appeared in the area recently, around the time Atsushi came to the area. The tiger seems to have a connection to Atsushi, and by the time the case is solved, it is clear that Atsushi's future will involve much more of Dazai and the rest of the detectives!.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, emotional, tense, captivating, humorous, mysterious, seinen, detective, crying
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Moriarty the Patriot (2020)
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In the late 19th century, the British Empire nobility reigns while its working class suffers at their hands. Sympathetic to their plight, William James Moriarty wants to topple it all. Frustrated by the systemic inequity, Moriarty strategizes to fix the entire nation. Not even consulting detective Sherlock Holmes can stand in his way. It’s time for crime to revolutionize the world!.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, detective
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ID: INVADED (2020)
Plot Summary:
Sakaido is a genius detective who can track down any criminal. But when his daughter is murdered, revenge lands him on the other side of the law. Now in prison, he helps the police solve mysteries using a system that invades a person’s identity. Little by little, a trail of blood forms, and it all leads back to his daughter’s murderer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, disturbing, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, detective, psychological thriller
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Paranoia Agent (2004)
Plot Summary:
The infamous Shounen Bat (Lil' Slugger) is terrorizing the residents of Musashino City. Flying around on his rollerblades and beating people down with a golden baseball bat, the assailant seems impossible to catch—much less understand. His first victim, the well-known yet timid character designer Tsukiko Sagi, is suspected of orchestrating the attacks. Believed only by her anthropomorphic pink stuffed animal, Maromi, Tsukiko is just one of Shounen Bat's many victims. As Shounen Bat continues his relentless assault on the town, detectives Keiichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa begin to investigate the identity of the attacker. However, more and more people fall victim to the notorious golden bat, and news of the assailant begins circulating around the town. Paranoia starts to set in as chilling rumors spread amongst adults and children alike. Will the two detectives be able to unravel the truth behind Shounen Bat, or will the paranoia get to them first?.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, bleak, serious, surreal, adult animation
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Real Drive (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in 2061, 50 years after humanity developed the "Net society" that depended on information networks despite their security issues. To improve security, a new network called Meta Real Network — or "Metal" for short — was developed. People's personal memories are reduced to information and placed within "protected virtual stand-alone organic cyber enclaves" called bubble shells online. The result was a virtual "explosion" of creative freedom as people felt safe enough to explore instincts and desires on Metal that they would not otherwise explore in real life. This "friction" between the Metal's alluring lack of restrictions and rules-bound reality led to trouble and incidents that investigators known as "cyber divers" must handle. Masamichi Haru is one such cyber diver.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, cyber
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Terror in Resonance (2014)
Plot Summary:
In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to stop the paranoia spreading across the population. While the world searches for a criminal mastermind to blame for this tragedy, two mysterious children - children who shouldn't even exist - masterfully carry out their heinous plan. Cursed to walk through this world with the names Nine and Twelve, the two combine to form "Sphinx," a clandestine entity determine to wake the people from their slumber - and pull the trigger on this world.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tragic ending, touching, suspenseful, bleak, manga, adult animation, art house, detective
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MIU404 (2020)
Plot Summary:
The Mobile Investigative Unit (MIU) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department attempts to solve cases within 24 hours.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Suspects (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in London, each episode is a self-contained story, starting with a news report, then following the team of three detectives as they investigate the circumstances the crime. The cases themselves are hard-hitting with contemporary themes, such as the search for a soldier with PTSD, a murder that has been made to look like an assisted suicide and the gang rape of a young teenager.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama
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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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The Rising of The Shield Hero (2019)
Plot Summary:
Iwatani Naofumi was summoned into a parallel world along with 3 other people to become the world's Heroes. Each of the heroes respectively equipped with their own legendary equipment when summoned, Naofumi received the Legendary Shield as his weapon. Due to Naofumi's lack of charisma and experience he's labeled as the weakest, only to end up betrayed, falsely accused, and robbed by on the third day of adventure. Shunned by everyone from the king to peasants, Naofumi's thoughts were filled with nothing but vengeance and hatred. Thus, his destiny in a parallel World begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, feel good, suspense, manga, seinen, dark fantasy, psychological
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Samurai Flamenco (2013)
Plot Summary:
Male model Masayoshi Hazama decides to become a superhero, despite having no superpowers or the technology to create a high-powered suit. He becomes the hero, Samurai Flamenco and begins to fight crime in the name of justice. Police officer Hidenori Goto finds out about Samurai Flamenco and his real identity by a twist of fate, which leads to him getting involved in lots of trouble. These two young men will come face to face with hardships of being crime-fighters while discovering what it truly means to be a hero of justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, parody