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Plot Summary:
For a thousand years, the Vikings have made quite a name and reputation for themselves as the strongest families with a thirst for violence. Thorfinn, the son of one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, spends his boyhood in a battlefield enhancing his skills in his adventure to redeem his most-desired revenge after his father was murdered.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, serious, exciting, rough, epic, manga, seinen
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Big Order (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, a child wished for the destruction of the world. Now, a group of people has the ability to grant their wishes depending on their power. They are called "Order User." Before these great people who have the power of "Order," one person excels the most with the ability to rule and conquer the world and turn people into puppets when it is in his jurisdiction. This power belongs to Hoshimiya Eiji, who is also responsible for the destructive phenomena that happened exactly ten years ago.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, stylized, captivating, suspense, disturbing, manga, shounen
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Rurouni Kenshin (1996)
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The Meiji Era was one of great renewal for Japan, where swords and killing were outlawed. However, many survivors from the time of Revolution still live, lurking in the shadows and waiting for a chance to use their killing blades again. Only Kenshin Himura, formerly one of the most brutal of killers, hopes to keep his swordsman's honor and still live in the new era.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, exciting, shounen, brutal, serious, stylized, period piece
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Golden Kamuy (2018)
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Saichi Sugimoto is a tough soldier who participates in the Russo-Japanese War and who earned the nickname "Sugimoto the Immortal." Honors in combat are of little use to him when he is expelled from the army for a certain incident, but he has a goal to fulfill, a promise to keep, and for that he will need money. His first idea to get it will be to join the recent Hokkaido gold rush and try his luck, but destiny prepared him a more interesting challenge and at the same time, more profitable. When a strange man tells the story of how a thief stole a large amount of gold from a group of Ainu to later hide his booty, his eyes light up. Is it a false story? The man tells him that the only way to find the stolen gold is to locate a number of men who were in prison with the thief and who carry the tracks tattooed on their own bodies. But Hokkaido is a tough region and its relentless nature, so when you're still deciding if such a story is more than a Chinese tale, you'll have to fight to protect your life from a huge bear ... and who will come to your rescue is a Ainu girl who seems to know something about the story told by the old man.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, History, Western
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, entertaining, semi documentary, semi serious, road movie, seinen, comic
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Onihei (2017)
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The historical novel series depicts Heizou Hasegawa, who metes justice on wrongdoers and supervises the crackdown on arsonists and robbers in Japan's Edo period (1603-1868).
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, disturbing, manga, seinen
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Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection (2001)
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Despite his happy marriage to Kamiya Kaoru and the birth of their first child, Kenji, Himura Kenshin continues his tireless search for atonement even as illness threatens to claim his life and rob him of him of his memories.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, captivating, stylized, exciting, tense, suspenseful, shounen
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Le Chevalier D'Eon (2006)
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It's 1742 in Paris, France. Louis XV is still king of France. A woman was found dead in a coffin floating in the Seine River. The brother of the deceased woman is D'Eon, who is determined to find the murderer of his sister: Lia. But as D'Eon investigates and tracks down the killer. He soon discovers that strange and supernatural things are involved with this series of killings. And only he can avenge Lia's death. As evil lurks in the palaces of the royal and the dark side of Europe.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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Jormungand (2012)
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Jonah is a child soldier and the newest bodyguard for Koko, an international arms dealer with an entourage of hired guns. The cold-blooded kid hates Koko’s line of work, but following her into the darkest corners of the black market might be the only way he can find those responsible for his family’s slaughter. Besides, his employer isn’t like most merchants of death. She uses guile and cutthroat tactics to keep her clients armed to the teeth—all while cultivating her own warped plan for the future of world peace. With the CIA desperate for her capture, assassins eager to collect her head, and the potential for every contract to end in ultra-violence, Koko and her comrades in arms bring the boom to every corner of the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, seinen, manga
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Alderamin on the Sky (2016)
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At war with the adjacent Kioka Republic, the Katjvarna Empire. In that region, due to certain circumstances, there was a certain youth unwillingly preparing to take the High Grade Military Officer Exam. His name, Ikta. Disliker of war, lazy, admirer of women. No one predicted that that kind of Ikta would later on become a soldier referred to even as a great commander... He who survived a world embroiled in war with his superior genius, Ikta. Illustrating his dynamic, dramatic life, a splendid fantasy military history, the curtain is raised at last!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Azur Lane (2019)
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When the "Sirens," an alien force with an arsenal far surpassing the limits of current technology, suddenly appeared, a divided humanity stood in complete solidarity for the first time. Four countries formed Azur Lane, paving the way for the improvement of modern warfare, which led to an initial victory. However, this tenuous union was threatened by opposing ideals, dividing the alliance into two and humanity became fragmented once again. As a seasoned and experienced fighter, the "Grey Ghost" Enterprise shoulders Azur Lane's hope for ending the war. But behind her stoic persona hides a frail girl, afraid of the ocean. Even so, she continues to fight as she believes that it's the only purpose for her existence. Amidst the neverending conflict within humankind, the keys that could unite a fragmented race might exist: a soldier coming to terms with her mysterious personality and camaraderie between those with different ideals.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, disturbing
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CESTVS -The Roman Fighter- (2021)
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Cestvs enters his first match at the slave gladiator training school. Though he's bewildered to discover that his opponent is his best friend, he wins the match, and his opponent is killed on the spot. According to his instructor Zafar, losers have no future. "Every time you win, your opponent will die. You're practically a murderer!" With all his sorrow and rage clenched in his fists, Cestvs survives, as one after another powerful opponents stand in his way, as well as the shadow of Nero, fifth emperor of the Roman Empire. With no other way to secure his freedom, can Cestvs seize his future?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, seinen
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Yona of the Dawn (2014)
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The legend of the Four Dragons and the origin of the land has been passed down for generations in the land of Kouka. Currently, Hiryuu Palace has no one else next in line for the throne other than the fifteen year old princess, Yona, who had been raised with care. Finally, the night of her sixteenth birthday arrives. She expects it to be a wonderful day spent with her peace-loving father, Il, her servant and friend Hak, and her cousin Soo-won, who she had feelings for... However... That night, Yona goes to visit her father to tell him how she really feels, because he opposes to her getting married to Soo-won. However, when she gets to her room, she encounters a shocking truth. The destinies of Yona and the Four Dragons entwine in this period drama fantasy romance!.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, Taiwan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, shoujo, suspenseful, manga, tsundere, epic fantasy, rough, suspense
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The Rose of Versailles (1979)
Plot Summary:
Raised from birth as a man, the Lady Oscar commands the palace guards at Versailles in the years before the French Revolution. Her beauty and noble spirit make her a shining figure in the eyes of both men and women but she is torn between her chosen life of service and duty to class and country and her own heart and desires. She lives as a noble amidst the opulence of Versailles but her keen senses and compassion are not blinded to the poverty of the French people.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, adult cartoon, sentimental, serious, realistic
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Baki (2018)
Plot Summary:
The protagonist, Baki Hanma, trains with an intense focus to become strong enough to surpass his father, Yujiro Hanma, the strongest fighter in the world. Five of the world's most violent and brutal death row inmates are gathering to face Baki. Their objective is to taste defeat -- their unmatched strength and skill have led them to grow bored of life itself, and they now seek out Baki in the hopes that he can overwhelm and utterly crush them. In this crisis, other underground martial art warriors gather to fight by Baki's side: Kaoru Hanayama, Gouki Shibukawa, Retsu Kaioh, and Doppo Orochi.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspense, breathtaking, unusual plot structure, visually appealing, manga, shounen, epic, brutal
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Basilisk (2005)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1614 AD. Two warring ninja clans, each supporting a son of Hidetada Tokugawa as the next shogun, send ten representatives each to fight to the death for the possession of a scroll. The prize: the annihilation of the other and the staunch support of the Tokugawa government for the winning clan for the next thousand years.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, captivating, stylized, manga, brutal, adult anime, mind twisting, fantasy anime, exciting
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Blade of the Immortal (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young girl named Rin seeks to avenge her parents, who were ruthlessly killed by a group of master swordsmen, with the help of cursed samurai Manji, who is seemingly immortal.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, bloody, brutal, philosophical, melancholic, seinen, dark fantasy, epic fantasy, breathtaking
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I'm Standing on a Million Lives (2020)
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Ninth grader Yotsuya Yuusuke is practical, friendless, and not active in any clubs. Then one day, he and two female classmates are suddenly sent to another world where they must work together to battle for their lives. Yotsuya is a lone wolf and has always lived his life according to his wants, but how will that work out now that he’s supposed to be a hero?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: exciting, anime, captivating, seinen, shounen, suspense
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Hakuoki (2010)
Plot Summary:
Yukimura Chizuru is the daughter of a doctor who works in Edo; her father leaves Edo to work as a volunteer doctor and moves to Kyoto without his daughter. As time passes by, Chizuru starts worrying about losing contact with her father, so she decides to go to Kyoto in search of him. On the way, Chizuru is attacked by few criminals and witnesses a fight between an oni and the Shinsengumi. Taking her into custody and saving her, the Shinsengumi debate on what to do with Chizuru when they discover that she is the daughter of the doctor they are also looking for. So they decide to become Chizuru's protectors and help her look for her father (the doctor). Lots of events happen while she stays with the Shinsengumi, as they discover mysterious secrets and also fight against the Bakumatsu group.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, atmospheric, shoujo, adult anime, rough, touching, serious
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Kingdom (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kingdom (2012) In the Warring States Period of ancient China (475-221 BCE), Shin and Hyou are war-orphans in the kingdom of Qin. They dream of one day proving themselves on the battlefield. One day, however, Hyou is taken to the palace by a minister. Winding up on the losing side of a power-struggle, Hyou manages to return to the village, barely alive. Shin then meets a boy who closely resembles Hyou, Ei Sei. For now he is the king of Qin; later he will become the emperor Shi Huangdi.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime
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Kengan Ashura (2019)
Plot Summary:
Since the Edo periods of Japan, gladiator arenas exist in certain areas. In these arenas, wealthy business owners and merchants hire gladiators to fight in unarmed combat where winner takes all. Toki Taouma, nicknamed "Ashura," joins these arenas and devastates his opponents. His spectacular ability to crush his enemies catches the attention of the big business owners, including the Nogi Group chairman, Nogi Hideki.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, exciting, serious, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, manga
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Bleach (2004)
Plot Summary:
The show revolves around Ichigo Kurosaki, a good-hearted 15-year-old high school student who carries the undesired ability to see spirits. Others in his family (two sisters and his father) carry this ability to some extent as well. One evening, he encounters Rukia Kuchiki; a Shinigami, or Death God. It is her job to usher lost spirits to Soul Society, and to also eliminate those which cross over from the Hollow World.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, heroic, serious, stylized, shounen, manga, humorous, entertaining, brutal
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Attack on Titan (2013)
Plot Summary:
Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by Titans. Titans are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour human beings and, worst of all, seem to do it for the pleasure rather than as a food source. A small percentage of humanity survived by walling themselves in a city protected by extremely high walls, even taller than the biggest Titans. Flash forward to the present and the city has not seen a Titan in over 100 years. Teenage boy Eren and his foster sister Mikasa witness something horrific as the city walls are destroyed by a Colossal Titan that appears out of thin air. As the smaller Titans flood the city, the two kids watch in horror as their mother is eaten alive. Eren vows that he will murder every single Titan and take revenge for all of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 479000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, mysterious, serious, tense, disturbing, manga, adult anime, spectacular, adult animation
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Fate/Apocrypha (2017)
Plot Summary:
The setting is a parallel world to Fate/stay night where the Greater Grail mysteriously disappeared from Fuyuki after the Third Holy Grail War. After many years of silence, around the same time as the Fifth Holy Grail War would have happened, the Yggdmillennia, a family of magi, openly declares their secession from the Mage's Association, and that they are in possession of the Grail. The Association dispatches fifty magi to retrieve it, and all but one are instantly slaughtered by a mysterious Servant. The one remaining manages to activate the reserve system of the Greater Grail, allowing for the summoning of fourteen Servants in total. In the city of Trifas, two factions will fight for the control of the sacred relic, each of them possessing their own team of seven Servants: the Black Faction whose members are part of Yggdmillennia, protecting the Grail, and the Red Faction whose members were sent by the Mage's Association, trying to take the Grail back. For an event of this scale, the Grail itself summons its own Servant, the holy Ruler, to oversee the conflict. This marks the start of the Great Holy Grail War.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, exciting, tense, atmospheric, stylized, semi serious, manga
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Drifters (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shimazu Toyohisa is a real-life samurai who fought in the pivotal Battle of Sekigahara. In his dying moments, Shimazu is transported to a world of magic with other famous warriors throughout history. These warriors are forced to fight each other in an endless battle.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, humorous
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Yasuke (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a war-torn feudal Japan filled with mechs and magic, the greatest ronin never known, Yasuke, struggles to maintain a peaceful existence after a past life of violence. But when a local village becomes the center of social upheaval between warring daimyo, Yasuke must take up his sword and transport a mysterious child who is the target of dark forces and bloodthirsty warlords.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, mecha, manga, brutal
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Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Holy Grail War is a battle royale among seven magi who serve as Masters. Masters, through the use of the command seals they are given when they enter the war, command Heroic Spirits known as Servants to fight for them in battle. In the Fifth Holy Grail War, Rin Tohsaka is among the magi entering the competition. With her Servant, Archer, she hopes to obtain the ultimate prize—the Holy Grail, a magical artifact capable of granting its wielder any wish. One of Rin's classmates, Shirou Emiya, accidentally enters the competition and ends up commanding a Servant of his own known as Saber. As they find themselves facing mutual enemies, Rin and Shirou decide to form a temporary alliance as they challenge their opponents in the Holy Grail War.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, tense, suspense, stylized, semi serious, epic
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Berserk (2016)
Plot Summary:
Spurred by the flame raging in his heart, the Black Swordsman Guts continues his seemingly endless quest for revenge. Standing in his path are heinous outlaws, delusional evil spirits, and a devout child of god. Even as it chips away at his life, Guts continues to fight his enemies, who wield repulsive and inhumane power, with nary but his body and sword—his strength as a human.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, manga, adult animation, humorous, seinen, saga, biting, suspenseful, rough
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Claymore (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a world rife with deadly creatures called "youma", a young silver eyed woman, Clare, works on behalf of an organization that trains female youma halfbreeds into warriors with the ability to destroy these creatures. Considered a rogue for picking up a stray child and almost losing herself to her youma side by "Awakening", she is constantly assigned rather dangerous missions.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, manga, adult anime, spectacular, psychological, brutal
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Dororo (2019)
Plot Summary:
A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, manga, perverse, jidai geki, adult anime
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Berserk (1997)
Plot Summary:
Guts, a man who calls himself "The Black Swordsman" looks upon his days serving as a member of a group of mercenaries, the Band of the Hawk, nicknamed "the Grim Reaper of the Battlefield." Led by an ambitious, ruthless, and intelligent man named Griffith, together they battle their way into the royal court, and are forced into a fate that may change their entire lives.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, dark fantasy, epic, slasher, dark, serious, manga, seinen, brutal
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Vikings (2013)
Plot Summary:
Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 568000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, exciting, heroic, captivating, historical drama, breathtaking, epic, costume drama, mythical, period piece