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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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The gleaming utopian city of Olympus has been built atop the ruins of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, offering the promise of a peaceful life in a war-torn world. However, one person’s utopia is another’s prison. The city has its fair share of terrorists looking to upset the status quo and, with the help of a disillusioned ESWAT officer, they’ve decided to set their sights on stealing the prototype for a new autonomous weapons platform.
This movie is the first of several Appleseed adaptations, and it unfolds the most like a police procedural/thriller. Rather than being completely focused on Deunan and Briarios it’s more about the setting as a whole, with Calon (the disillusioned officer) playing a large role.
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Ling Xia has just graduated and is having trouble finding a job. After a run-in with a suspicious ‘fortune teller’ she finds herself embroiled in the spirit world, her fate entwined with that of a young general who oversees one of the limbo areas for the dead known as requiem streets.
The episodes alternate between a present-day time period focused on Ling’s tribulations (action/drama with a few bits of comedy) and flashing back to Yanbing’s past (mainly drama), showing how he became the area’s guardian. It’s essentially two separate battle shounens packaged as one and ends just as the real journey begins.
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A story of regrets and second chances. The protagonist receives a letter from her future self, on the first day of the second year of high school, detailing events that will soon occur and the choices she made at the time which in retrospect feel like mistakes. The letter implores her to not repeat them.
The time travel aspect is essentially just a gimmick, a bit of flair to make the show stand out. For the most part it’s a normal, realism-styled school life drama/romance that takes the uncommon step of dedicating a portion of each episode to showing how its characters (may have) ended up a decade later.
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A continuation of 2006’s D.Gray-man, this series picks up an indeterminable amount of time after the point that one ended. The protagonist(s) get their first chance to visit the Black Order’s new headquarters since being destroyed in the previous series, and Allen finds himself treated like an enemy after learning that he may no longer be alone in his own head.
The show does a decent job explaining the plot for people who may not have seen the earlier 103-episode series, but doesn’t elaborate on or explain the characters’ relationships with one another. So while you can jump right into the story here, treating it as an example of in medias res, you’ll probably not get much out of it since the character behavior/interactions are fairly central.
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