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Plot Summary:
Tenchi Masaki is a normal high school student in Japan, who spends the summers doing chores around his grandfather's family shrine. One day, Tenchi manages to steal the key to a mysterious cave where an oni (Japanese demon) is said to have been sealed away by his ancester Yoshou, whose sword still stands guard over it. When he enters this cave, he finds that, much to his surprise, the legend is indeed true when the oni's dessicated skeletal form ("mira"--Japanese mummy) comes to life and attacks him. Tenchi flees the cave in a panic, and later returns to high school, taking the hilt--seemingly all that remains of the ancestral sword--with him. At school, Tenchi is again attacked by the oni, whose name is Ryouko, who has now completely revived herself. Tenchi manages to defeat her with the sword's help, but this is only the beginning of a hilarious Japanese romantic comedy OAV (Original Animation Video, the Japanese equivalent of American made-for-video movies) series which has spawned.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, exciting, humorous, semi serious, detective, black comedy, slapstick comedy, dark comedy
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The demonic space criminal Kain has escaped from prison and destroyed the Galaxy Police headquarters. To ensure that the Jurai will not stop him, Kain travels back to 1970 to eliminate Tenchi's mother before he is even born. Now, Tenchi and the gang must travel to the past to stop him before he ceases to exist.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, exciting, humorous, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, black comedy
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Agent Aika (1997)
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From the creator of Project A-Ko! She's sexy, suave and sophisticated, but she's no bimbo. She's a martial arts expert and a jet fighter pilot with the body of a supermodel. Agent Aika, known in Japan as simply AIKa, is an adventure anime OVA series. Aika Sumeragi is a Japanese woman (voiced by Rei Sakuma) who works as a salvager for hire, but gets caught up in a plot for world domination. The series was available in North America from Central Park Media, but now it has been licensed by Bandai Entertainment. The series is well known for copious amounts of fan service, specifically "creative" camera angles that focused on the undergarments of the many female characters that populate the show.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: anime, ecchi, black comedy, dark comedy
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Makoto is a high school student who one day found himself sent to a strange, magical world called El Hazard. He is then forced to impersonate a missing princess(an idea for which he does not care for). Other earthlings sent to this world include Makoto's teacher (Fujisawa), his girlfriend (Nanami), and his girlfriend's brother (Jinnai). Jinnai, by the way has teamed up with an evil army of giant insect creatures so that he can take over El Hazard and kill Makoto. Luckly, Makoto has a guide and a bodygaurd to help him get by. Well actually, the guide is a girl who falls in love with every woman she meets and the bodyguard is just a cat... oh well.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 235 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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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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Sailor Moon (1995)
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The story centers around an air-headed crybaby, named Usagi, and her friends Ami, Rei, Makato, and Minako. Using special powers, they can transform into Sailor Solders. They become Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Venus respectfully. They fight for love and justice against the evil minions of The Dark Kingdom. To help them in their quest, they heed the advice of two talking cats, Luna and Artemis, and also the mysterious Tuxedo Mask.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, touching, retro, adult anime, children's program, semi serious, epic, saga, feel good
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Tokyo Mew Mew (2002)
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Earth is a beautiful planet...rich in natural resources and home to millions of living species. However, over the years 2,500 of these species have become extinct. Humans are taking for granted what Earth has to offer. They have become selfish, destroying nature to build polluted cities. Other planets are not so lucky. Their inhabitants envy the selfish humans and want Earth for themselves. These aliens, led by Deep Blue, use creatures called Predacytes and use their power to merge them with the DNA of animals to make monsters. Enter Elliot Grant and Wesley J. Coolidge, who are aware of Deep Blue's plot and plan to destroy the monsters with a project called The Mew Project. Five young girls (Zoey Hanson, Corina Bucksworth, Bridget Verdant, Kikki Benjamin, and Renee Roberts) are secretly fused with the DNA of a specific endangered animal giving them super powers. These girls will rise up to the threat of Deep Blue and his minions and stand up for every living animal on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, feel good, captivating, stylized, shoujo, mahou shoujo, semi serious, fast, humorous
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Sailor Moon R the Movie: The Promise of the Rose (1993)
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While enjoying the flower gardens, Sailor Moon (Usagi) and friends encounter an old childhood friend of Mamoru's: an alien! He's come back to give Mamoru a special flower, but doesn't like Usagi and the rest of the planet's inhabitants. Sailor Moon must defend the earth from the evil Kisenian Flower he's brought back... before the evil vines and blossoms overrun the planet!.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: anime, mahou shoujo, exciting, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, epic
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, ecchi, emotional, stylized, mecha, super sentai, futuristic
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The Daughter of Darkness (1997)
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Mayuka is a girl who appears one day and claims to be Tenchi's daughter. As the initial shock wears off, everyone in the Masaki household gets used to Mayuka's presence. However, things only become more interesting as Washu tries to discover Mayuka's background. What Washu found involves demon, the Prince of Jurai, and unrequited emotions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, futuristic, stylized, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (2002)
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Magical⛦Shopping Arcade Abenobashi is a Japanese anime television series created by Gainax. The supernatural comedy drama is directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga. The series premiered April 4, 2002 on Kids Station. It was licensed in North America by ADV Films. A manga adaptation, authored by Satoru Akahori, was published in English by Tokyopop; the Tokyopop version of the manga is out of print as of August 31, 2009.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, semi serious, captivating, spoof, black comedy, parody
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 20 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, stylized, adult anime, mahou shoujo, semi serious
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Sailor Moon (1992)
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, atmospheric, stylized, shoujo, epic, humorous, entertaining, manga, sitcom
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, captivating, tense, entertaining, stylized, semi serious, shounen
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InuYasha: The Final Act (2009)
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InuYasha's story draws to a close but not before finding Naraku and the Sacred Jewel, and facing new enemies and new dangers.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, stylized, atmospheric
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IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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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Needless (2009)
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Tenchi Muyo! GXP (2002)
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Seina is unlucky, so unlucky that when he stumbles upon a recruiter looking for his senpai Tenchi he gets taken instead. Forced into the Galaxy police, his luck begins to change. A natural to randomly jumping near pirates, he is assigned his own decoy to draw out pirates. His luck brings him into the lives of four women who have a habit of cancelling out his bad luck, turning it into good. Armed with this luck, they pilot the most powerful ships in the Tenchi Universe to defeat the Barta pirates. Now the only uncertainty is whether the sexy Kaunaq, a former model turned GXP officer, sturdy Kiriko, who has known Seina for years, the mysterious Ryoko, a former pirate named after the legendary one, or the childish Neiju, a powerful witch, will win Seina.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, ecchi, offbeat, slapstick
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Martian Successor Nadesico, known in Japan as Mobile Battleship Nadesico, is a science fiction comedy anime TV series, and a later manga series created by Kia Asamiya. The manga, published in English by CPM Manga, is significantly different from the anime. In 2005 Anime News Network reported that plans for Nadesico 2 were scrapped, citing an entry on Stellvia director Tatsuo Sato's blog.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Kagome Higurashi is a modern day young girl who lives with her family by the old Higure shrine. Unbeknownst to Kagome, she is the reincarnation of priestess Kikyo and posseses the "Jewel of Four Souls" (the Shikon jewel). One ill-fated day, Kagome locates an ancient well near her home and is abruptly transported through the well and into a feudal Japan, inhabited by demons. There, she encounters Inuyasha, son of a powerful demon father and a human mother, who is pinned to a tree by an enchanted arrow.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: exciting, anime, stylized, semi serious, adult anime, shounen, adult cartoon, humorous, fairy tale
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Kyo Kara Maoh! (2004)
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Shibuya Yuuri, an ordinary high school boy got flushed in a toilet and he saw himself in another world. He was then declared as the 27th maou or the demon king of the Demon world by Gunter von Christ and Konrad Weller . When Yuuri now travels back to his new home (the castle), he meet up with Konrad's brothers. Wolfram von Biefield became Yuuri's fiancee when Yuuri slapped him for defending his mother's name. As a result, as the aristocrats tradition to propose a marriage, is by slapping one's left or right cheek with the back of your hand. By the time that Wolfram throw the knive and Yuuri picked it up, it means a battle between them. in their fight, Yuuri dodged Wolfram's majutsu and it hitted the girl just beside His Majesty. Yuuri got angry and turned into Maou, and punished Wolfram using his water majutsu. Yuuri fainted and when he came to senses after 3 days of sleeping, he did not remember anything that happened including using his powers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, stylized, exciting, humorous, semi serious, scenic, parody, offbeat, shoujo
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After rescuing Last Order and subsequently taking a bullet to the head, Academy City’s top-ranked esper rests in the hospital. But Accelerator’s recovery is cut short when a mysterious girl carrying a photo of his little clone companion asks for help. Now they’re taking on Disciplinary Action—an anti-evil coalition whose sinister plans threaten Last Order, Academy City, and even the entire world!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: exciting, anime, captivating, tense, humorous
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Blue Dragon (2007)
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A terrible and mysterious enemy attacks the small village of Shu and his friend Kluke. The great warrior Zola, followed by Jiro, will help them discover the ability to evoke shadows (in the form of monsters of all kinds) to fight against the evil invaders. The four, who call themselves Shadow Evocators, take a trip to find all the other boys who have a shadow to defeat the wicked Nene, who heads the Great Reagan, an army that attacked Talta. The evocative boys are actually descendants of the legendary Soldiers of Light, those who for centuries had saved the world from evil. The group will also join the lovely Marumaro, and the sweet Bouquet.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan, France
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, manga, shounen, epic
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Arcadia is plagued with evil, life-draining demons called Thanatos and a vast lack of Purifiers to exterminate them all. While attending school, Angelique attracts the eye of a man who intends to turn the tides to the people's favor. What lies within her is the key to Arcadia's survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Plot Summary:
Many years ago, in the hidden village of Konoha, lived a great demon fox. When it swung one of it's nine tails, a tsunami occurred. The fourth hokage sealed this demon fox inside a boy in exchange for his own life. Naruto was that boy, and he grew up with no family, and the villagers hated him thinking that he himself was the demon fox. Naruto's dream is to become Hokage, and have the villagers acknowledge him.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 122000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, exciting, semi serious, humorous, shounen, light, captivating, serious, suspenseful
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Slugterra (2012)
Plot Summary:
Following his father's death, 15-year-old Eli Shane embraces his destiny to follow in his dad's footsteps to a secret, subterranean world called Slugterra where he is determined to be the greatest Slugslinging hero of them all!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, captivating, anime, humorous, children's program
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Bakugan Battle Brawlers (2007)
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Bakugan Battle Brawlers is a Japanese action adventure anime television series produced by TMS Entertainment and Japan Vistec under the direction of Mitsuo Hashimoto. The story centers on the lives of creatures called Bakugan and the battle brawlers who possess them. Though initially a failure in Japan, the series became popular in the United States and Canada, prompting the creation/order of several follow-up seasons, which aired in other countries before Japan. The fourth and final season, Mechtanium Surge, was never broadcast in Japan and instead aired in Canadian and U.S. markets. The Bakugan franchise are co-productions from Nelvana Enterprises, Spin Master, Sega Toys and TMS Entertainment, with animation by TMS Entertainment in association with Sega Toys. On January 15, 2012, CoroCoro Comics announced that a spin-off series is currently in production that will be based and feature the characters from the BakuTech manga.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, South Korea, Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: exciting, anime, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, humorous, stylized, epic fantasy