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Plot Summary:
Viewtiful Joe is a Japanese anime series based on the video game series of the same name. The series follows a similar plot of the games, but there are many differences. The series, comprising fifty-one episodes, was shown every Saturday on the Japanese television station TV Tokyo from October 2, 2004 until September 24, 2005. The show was licensed by anime distributor Geneon Entertainment, with its first twenty-six episodes airing in United States on Kids' WB. It was taken off the air when Kids' WB block transferred to The CW. Viewtiful Joe was later licensed for distribution in other parts of the world by MGM Television. The anime debuted in the United Kingdom on Jetix on July 2, 2007. Viewtiful Joe premiered on Cartoon Network Brazil on July 3, 2006 and reruned in country's RedeTV! on HD at November 27, 2006. It aired in Mexico starting on July 4, 2006. On June 23, 2008, the show began airing on Cartoon Network in other parts of Latin America. In 2009, Viewtiful Joe became available on Crunchyroll's streaming service for its users outside Asia.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining
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Japan, 2019, just before the dawn of a new era. Suddenly, a rift to another dimension appears in the sky, revealing an alternative world "Shinkoku Nippon," with the sky and the earth upside down. This parallel world keeps the former militarism, with its era being Eternal Showa. The military invades the real Japan with giant humanoid robots called "GARANN" and their gas weapons "GENMU", rendering our modern weapons ineffective. "Shinkoku Nippon" instantly seizes the government and achieves de facto conquest of Japan. The new era, "Reiwa," has not arrived for Japan.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, shounen, intellectual, exciting, captivating, entertaining, suspenseful, disturbing, 2d animation
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IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Animation, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Animation, Action
Country: Japan
Duration:
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When a giant robot suddenly attacks the city, a high-school student named Aoba is saved by a classmate who's piloting her own mecha. After accepting an offer to join the alliance she's is a part of, Aoba is thrust into the middle of high-flying robot warfare in this new series from the studio that brought you Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, and Escaflowne!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 139
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Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 139
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Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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Plot Summary:
2008 revival of Yatterman.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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More powerful than any human, Max Steel is more radical than ever in his first movie "Endangered Species". Along with his friends Kat and Berto, Max Steel will have to face his greatest enemies, Bio-Constrictor and Psycho, who want to genetically modify animals and terrorize the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, cyberpunk anime
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, futuristic
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, shounen, manga
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, shounen
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration:
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Plot Summary:
In order to prevent the catastrophe called the Grand Fall, Rid Hershel and his companions Farah, Keel and Meredy have obtained the three Greater Spirits ("Craymels" in the game version) of Inferia. En route to Mount Farlos, Rid is kidnapped by the bounty hunter Marone Blucarno, and the party is compelled to head to Belcarnu, an archipelago far from the major cities of Inferia. A series of adventures forces them to remain on the islands, where a more immediate threat to Inferia sleeps.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers join forces with the Avengers, Earth's mightiest heroes, to fight against the tyrannical Loki and his mighty empire.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, light, captivating, entertaining
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Dragon Booster (2004)
Plot Summary:
Dragon Booster is a Canadian animated series first broadcast in 2004. It follows the story of young Artha Penn, a stable boy who rides Beaucephalis, the dragon of legend. He becomes a Dragon Booster, a hero to protect the world from the impending Dragon-Human war and unite humans and dragons for all time. Many of the characters are named after characters from the tales of King Arthur. Artha Penn being a play on words for Arthur Pendragon. Moordryd is for Mordred Le Fey, and Lance Penn is for Lancelot. This series is produced in cel shaded CGI. As the series has not made any new episodes with no plans to due to cancellation, there are many online petitions made by fans in hopes of scoring a continuance into the second incarnation Dragon Booster Academy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Action, Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: computer animated, exciting, captivating, stylized, semi serious, futuristic, anime, arthurian
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Plot Summary:
Zero was mankind’s first real superhero. Under his watch, countless other superheros appeared and followed in his footsteps. However, after 5 years of war, Zero disappeared without a trace.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: China
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: exciting, anime, light, entertaining, feel good, captivating, futuristic, cult classic, serious, suspenseful
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Recently discharged Marine sniper John Stewart is at a crossroads in his life, one which is only complicated by receiving an extraterrestrial ring which grants him the powers of the Green Lantern of Earth. Unfortunately, the ring doesn't come with instructions - but it does come with baggage, like a horde of interplanetary killers bent on eliminating every Green Lantern in the universe. Now, with the aid of the light-hearted Green Arrow, Adam Strange and Hawkgirl, this reluctant soldier must journey into the heart of a galactic Rann/Thanagar war and somehow succeed where all other Green Lanterns have failed.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, anime, 2d animation