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The spirits of giant monsters have been reincarnated in the bodies of high school girls. Can the girls learn to harness their power and become full-fledged Kaijuu Girls?
A super-deformed comedy with transformation scenes done in the standard Anime style. It aims for earnest parody with an actual plotline instead of just stringing gags together.
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Having reached the final qualifier match for the Nationals, Karasuno must now push themselves beyond their limits in order to defeat Shiratorizawa.
Continuing from where the second season left off, this one covers the single titular game between the two teams. While it’s the same mix of comedy and hot-blooded sports action as always there’s not much point in jumping into the series here, so if you haven’t yet seen the prequel(s) you should do so before attempting to watch this.
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On Tsukushi’s first day of high school he’s invited to a pickup game of soccer. Despite being awful, his burning determination is ignited and he soon joins the school’s soccer team.
A sports shounen that plays things straight and earnest. It does contain comedic segments, but the comedy primarily arises from the contrast between Tsukushi’s appearance/personality/ability and everyone else’s.
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Ren Homura has just returned to his hometown after a lengthy absence with no memories of the place. After being forced to replace his smartphone after an accident, he finds himself caught up in a game where monsters are summoned to do battle against one another… a game which seems to be related to his lost memories.
For the most part this is not a serious show and plays just about everything for laughs with a random sense of humor; it’s only in the last quarter or so it becomes a full battle shounen. It’s also shorter than the episode count would suggest, as each is only ~7 minutes long. Episodes with longer runtimes are padded with advertisements for various things related to the game and Anime.
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Around 200 years in the future an organization called The Historical Revisionists labors to change history through the use of a time-traveling army of monsters. To prevent their meddling, warriors created from the spirits of various famous swords are sent back in time to fight them.
In reality this show mostly consists of daily life scenes focused on the swords’ antics around the citadel compound and their reminiscence of past events as weapons. The action aspects, when they show up at all, are relegated to a 5-minute or so mission segment toward the end of each episode.
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An ordinary high school boy finds himself awakening from a strange dream with an unexplained cut on his palm, while a second dream shortly after gifts him with a card that he swears to protect with his life. This card is able to summon a hero from the past to battle on his behalf in a death game to decide China’s fate.
The show starts out using a standard proxy-battle setup and features a pronounced manga-style texture filter; a visual choice that may make it difficult to watch. Each episode runs ~10 minutes and it ends as the story continues to evolve.
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Some time after the events of the first series, a new enemy has launched a surprise attack on Sound Planet and caused mass destruction. With it already being too late to fight back, a trio of ninja resort to time travel to warn the populace and hopefully prevent the impending tragedy.
While you don’t have to watch the prequel to follow the new storyline, that is where most of the characters and their quirks are introduced and it may be a bit overwhelming to have them all appear at once. The two seasons aren’t much different, having the same style of comedy (situational) and a similar mix of music, everyday cheerful situations, and bursts of personal/relationship-based drama.
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The kingdom of Germania has just invaded the small duchy of Eylstadt, whose princess is in a neutral territory lobbying for the assistance of Britannia and its allies. Captured by enemy soldiers and on the verge of sacrificing herself she encounters a most unlikely ally from her past: Izetta, the world’s last magic user.
A sort of alternate history, this show re-tells the early events of World War II with the twist of enlisting the aid of a powerful sorceress against Germany before the USA got involved. While for the most part a war drama with occasional daily life interludes, it concludes as something of a sci-fi/fantasy spectacle.
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Framed for murders he didn’t commit, Liu Mi finds himself and his three accomplices sentenced to death. Before the sentence can be carried out, the prisoners are abducted by unknown assailants and forced to participate in a death match against giant monsters.
The show has a straight-forward closed-area survival setup accented with a hint of mystery/conspiracy that’s ever so slowly elaborated on. It also ends right in the middle of a scene.
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The private investigators of the Armed Detective Agency handle cases the police and military cannot, thanks to the unique powers at their disposal. They’re not the only ones with supernatural powers though and often find themselves facing off against those who direct their abilities toward more nefarious ends.
An action-comedy featuring a mix of character deformation and reaction-based humor peppered with periodic bursts of drama and mystery. It starts off slightly episodic, with each episode being focused on either a single case or a particular part of an ongoing case, eventually becoming plot driven with a greater focus on drama.
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