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Plot Summary:
Beautiful immortals have gathered in Harajuku to compete for a grand prize: Immense power! For years now the artists behind worldly culture and music have secretly been vampires, including those who produce Visual Kei. Now, they perform their most beautiful songs in the hallowed grounds of the Prison under the Scarlet Moon.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, unusual plot structure, psychotronic, visually appealing
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Suite Precure♪ The Movie: Take It Back! The Miraculous Melody That Connects Hearts! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Music is disappearing from Majorland. Rumors say that the one who's deleting the music is actually Aphrodite-sama. If that's the case, the Melody of the heart, the exploding Rhythm and the beating Beat will also disappear.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, light, captivating
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Technoroid OVERMIND (2023)
Plot Summary:
Four ownerless androids shack up in an abandoned house, but with no electricity to recharge themselves, they face the threat of a forced shutdown. To get utilities up and running, they rally together to perform at Babel, the epicenter of entertainment where singers sing their way through a tournament for prize money. Will this android boy band have what it takes?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Animation, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Sensual Phrase (1999)
Plot Summary:
An anime about a rock band who's lead vocalist falls in love with a high school girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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Luminous Witches (2022)
Plot Summary:
Morale matters just as much as launching a counterassault. Instead of standing on the front lines with the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, the Luminous Witches of the League of Nations Air Force bring smiles to civilians displaced in the human-Neuroi war.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Animation, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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I★Chu: Halfway Through the Idol (2021)
Plot Summary:
Youths aiming to become full-fledged idols enroll in the Étoile Vio School where the students are called IChu. But soon after they begin, Kuma Kocho gets them off to a rocky start with a single phrase...?! As they each work toward their individual goals, their activities as idols make the IChu begin to wonder... "What is an idol?" In their struggle to find an answer, the springtime of the IChu's lives is whittled out in glittering moments and flashes of brilliance. Their story begins now!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, inspirational, sweet
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Tsukiuta. The Animation (2016)
Plot Summary:
Six Gravity and Procellarum are two rival male idol groups who happen to live in the same dorm. Six Gravity is made up of young men who represent the months of December to May, while Procellarum’s members represent June to November. Follow the daily lives of these twelve young men as they deal with the stresses of idol-hood, school, and living together.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Heroines Run the Show (2022)
Plot Summary:
What would you do to pursue your passion? For Hiyori Suzumi, it’s leaving her simple rural hometown for the bustling city of Tokyo to join Sakuragaoka High School’s track team. Between being a manager-in-training for two cutthroat schoolboy idols, track, and friends, Hiyori shows no signs of slowing down.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Ace of Diamond (2013)
Plot Summary:
Eijun Sawamura is a pitcher who joins an elite school with a brilliant catcher named Kazuya Miyuki. Together with the rest of the team, they strive for Japan's storied Koushien championships through hard work and determination.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, touching, captivating, light, shounen
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Miss Monochrome - The Animation (2013)
Plot Summary:
Miss Monochrome is an android who decides to try and become a top idol singer in the ever growing competitive market.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 5 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, manga
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Back Street Girls (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of 3 yakuza failed their boss for the last time. After messing up an important job, the boss gave them 2 choices: honorably commit suicide, or go to Thailand to get a sex reassignment surgery in order to become "female" idols. After a gruesome year training to become idols, they successfully debut, with overwhelming popularity, much to their dismay. This is where their tragedy truly begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, ecchi, seinen
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Makai Ōji: Devils and Realist (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ritsuka Tachibana is a female second-year high school student who attends Shiko Academy in Shiko Town. She enjoyed her school life while living with her mother Maria, but one day, that balance fell into ruin when she discovers several of her attractive, male classmate are demons.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Animation, Comedy, History, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, super sentai
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Vampire in the Garden (2022)
Plot Summary:
Once, vampires and humans lived in harmony. Now, a young girl and a vampire queen will search for that Paradise once again. In the divided world of the future, two girls want to do the forbidden: the human wants to play the violin, and the vampire wants to see a wider world.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, thrilling
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Zenonzard: The Animation (2019)
Plot Summary:
* Part of Bandai's Zenonzard media franchise with focus on the smartphone card game app. The year 20XX. Humans called.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, futuristic
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Magic-Kyun! Renaissance (2016)
Plot Summary:
A world where art becomes magic. In this world, people who can inspire passion with their Magic Arts are called Artistas, and are employed in show business. In Hoshinomori Private Magical Arts High School, where Artistas are taught, a strange new student named Ohana Aigasaki transfers into the school. Ohana is placed on the planning committee for the school's yearly Hoshinomori Summer Festa cultural festival. She spends her romantic school life with six other boys who aim to become entertainers in the future and alongside Ohana, to be the school's Artista Prince and Princess, only chosen once a year.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Animation, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, shoujo
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Love Live! Superstar!! (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yuigaoka Girls High School is a newly established school that lies between the Omotesando, Harajuku, and Aoyama neighborhoods of Tokyo. The story centers on its first batch of students. With no history, no upperclassmen or alumni, and no reputation, it is a school full of unknowns. Five girls, among them Kanon Shibuya, have a fateful encounter with school idols. Kanon decides, "I love singing. I want to make something come true with song!" Many feelings converge upon a star that has only started to grow. The future is blank and full of possibility for these girls, and their story that everyone will make possible has only just begun. Soar with your wings, our Love Live!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Shine Post (2022)
Plot Summary:
Although the idol group TiNgS is chasing after big dreams, so far their accomplishments have only been small — and now, suddenly, they're facing a potential break up! Hope seems lost, but when a new manager with a special skillset takes them under his wing, the members of TiNgS find themselves shooting for the stars all over again.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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BanG Dream! (2017)
Plot Summary:
Since she was very young, Kasumi Toyama has always been searching for the "Star Beat", a sparkling and exciting sound she heard while looking up at the night sky. Just after getting into high school, Kasumi comes across a "star-shaped guitar" in the storage area of an old pawn shop. Feeling a rush and excitement she has never felt before, Kasumi teams up with four other girls and embarks on a journey to seek out the shiny place. We promise to perform a live here!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, tsundere, super sentai, 3d animation
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B-PROJECT (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tsubasa is a new hire in the A&R department of the major recording company Gandala Music. Tsubasa is immediately assigned to oversee the idol unit "B-PROJECT," which is made up of three idol groups: Kitakore, Thrive, and MooNs. This is Tsubasa's first job, and she gets involved in various incidents and accidents as she deals with this group of young men who each have their own differing personalities.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing, shoujo
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Ya Boy Kongming! (2022)
Plot Summary:
General of the Three Kingdoms, Kongming had struggled his whole life, facing countless battles that made him into the accomplished strategist he was. So on his deathbed, he wished only to be reborn into a peaceful world... and was sent straight to modern-day party-central, Tokyo! Can even a brilliant strategist like Kongming adapt to the wild beats and even wilder party people?!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, seinen
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Show by Rock!! Mashumairesh!! (2020)
Plot Summary:
New Show by Rock!! TV Series featuring the new band Mashumairesh!!.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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TsukiPro the Animation (2017)
Plot Summary:
SOARA, Growth, SolidS, and QUELL are four groups belonging to Tsukino Entertainment Production (AKA TSUKIPRO). The slice of life music anime "PRO ANI" depicting their music overflowing with uniqueness and the drama surrounding their lives begins now! Will you open this glittering treasure box of music?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Starmyu (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ayanagi Academy: home of musical dreams and insane competition. New student Yuta Hoshitani dreams of being in show business, but to get there he'll have to gain acceptance from the Kao Council (Cherry Blossom Flower Council), Ayanagi Academy's five highest ranking students. For Yuta and his friends to do well in the music department, they'll have to get onto a Star Team, lead by the Kao Council members. Though the newcomers are struggling, they catch the interest of one of the Kao Council members, which just might send them on the starlit journey they've been dreaming of! From director Shunsuke Tada (Kuroko's Basketball and Prince of Tennis) comes a new show that will have you dreaming of stardom.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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D4DJ (2020)
Plot Summary:
Rinku Aimoto, who has a habit of saying "Happy Around!", has returned to Japan from abroad and enrolls at Yoba Academy where DJing is popular. She is deeply moved by a DJ concert she sees there and decides to form a unit of her own with DJ Maho Akashi, VJ Muni Ohnaruto and keyboardist Rei Togetsu. While interacting with other DJ units like Peaky P-key and Photon Maiden, Rinku and her friends aim for the high stage!.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, 3d animation
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Phantom of the Idol (2022)
Plot Summary:
Yuya is part of the idol duo ZINGS, but his laziness and disdain for fans puts him in danger of getting blacklisted. That is, until he meets Asahi, the ghost of a former idol who’s eager to stage her own comeback by possessing Yuya's willing body!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good, josei
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Call of the Night (2022)
Plot Summary:
Nanakusa is a vampire. That's okay with human Ko. He wants to be one too. But transformation doesn't come that easily... When Nazuna invites Ko to spend the night at her place in an abandoned building, he's stoked! But then he awakens to kisses on his neck with a little too much bite to them... Is it just the delicious taste of his blood that makes her meet him night after night for late-night adventures, conversation and...naps? Or something else? Then, when a cute girl from Yamori's past shows up and competes for his attention, his budding relationship with the undead is put to the test!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, romantic, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, shounen
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Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
Since the graduation of the senior members of the club, Takezou ends up being the sole member of the "Koto" (traditional Japanese string instrument) club. Now that the new school year has begun, Takezou will have to seek out new members into the club, or the club will become terminated. Out of nowhere, a new member barges into the near-abandoned club room, demanding to join the club. How will Takezou be able to keep his club alive and deal with this rascal of a new member?.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, sentimental, sincere, humorous, touching, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, shounen
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Wake Up, Girls! (2014)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas 2013, the band Wake Up, Girls plays their debut song to a small audience without much fanfare. After the concert, the group’s manager takes off with the money, leaving Green Leaves Entertainment on the verge of closure and the band without a future. Despite this tumultuous beginning, the girls get a second chance, thanks to a mysterious benefactor and a shady business proposal. From here it’s a rocky climb to the top, but it’s a climb the girls are ready to make. Wake Up, Girls! follows the internal and external struggles of being a small-time idol girl band, from finding and accepting gigs to competing in popularity against other pop bands. Through the band, the girls come to accept their pasts and become more certain about their futures. Faced with increasing stakes and popularity, each of the band’s seven members must find the strength and courage inside herself to give her all to the band.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, super sentai
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Marginal#4 Kiss Kara Tsukuru Big Bang (2017)
Plot Summary:
On February 13, as snow flurries dance in the air, a new idol unit is born at Pythagoras Production. They are the idols who will deliver their kiss to the ends of the galaxy: "Marginal #4." Its members, Atom Kirihara, Rui Aiba, L Nomura, and R Nomura, put all their effort into their entertainment career for the sake of the fan supporting them! They continue to mature as idols along with the senior unit pulling the entertainment industry forward, Lagrange Point, and the younger unit preparing to make their debut, Unicorn Jr. But when they step off the stage, they're ordinary high school boys with some chaotic student lives! This is the tale of Margninal #4, a school slice-of-life about idols that shine brighter than the stars.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining, anime
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Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto (2016)
Plot Summary:
First year high school student Sakamoto isn't just cool, he's the coolest! Almost immediately after starting school, he began attracting everyone's attention. The girls love him, and most of the boys resent him. There's even a boy in the class who works as a model, but who is constantly upstaged by Sakamoto! No matter what tricks the other boys try to play on him, Sakamoto always manages to foil them with ease and grace. Though Sakamoto may seem cool and aloof, he helps others when asked, such as in the case of the boy in his class who was being constantly bullied. No matter what difficulties Sakamoto encounters, he moves through his high school life with confidence and class.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, funny, feel good, absurd, ironic, seinen, super sentai, humorous, teen comedy
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My Love Story!! (2015)
Plot Summary:
Takeo Godau is a giant guy with a giant heart. Too bad the girls don't want him! (They always go for his good-looking best friend, Makoto Sunakawa.) Used to being on the sidelines, Takeo simply stands tall and accepts his fate. But one day when he saves a girl named Rinko Yamato from a harasser on the train, his (love!) life suddenly takes an incredible turn! Takeo can hardly believe it when he crosses paths with Rinko again, and he finds himself falling in love with her... But with handsome Suna around, does Takeo even stand a chance?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: shoujo, anime, entertaining, humorous, manga, romantic, touching, feel good, captivating, romantic comedy