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In a future controlled by a fascist government which has monopolized all modern weaponry, a citizen rebellion fights back the only way they can: By using antique firearms formally relegated to museums. Though hopelessly outmatched on the surface, the spirits of these weapons have taken form to give the resistance fighters an unexpected edge in the battles ahead.
A post-apocalyptic action-drama with a large amount of daily life centered content.
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Utterly defeated at the last championship, Nagisa Aragaki redoubles her efforts at improving her badminton skills at all costs. Worried that her intensity will be the end of the team the new coach decides the best course of action is to recruit someone who can stand at her level, and as luck would have it just such a person has begun attending the school: Ayano Hanesaki… the same girl who defeated Nagisa at that previous tournament.
A drama-heavy sports series with a moderate amount of comic relief.
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The year is 1274. With the Mongols poised to invade Japan and the island of Tsushima needing every available warrior, groups of prisoners from the mainland end up conscripted to serve on the front lines. Jinzaburou Kuchii is one such prisoner, and with just his own previous wartime experience along with a small band of followers he must find a way to triumph against overwhelming odds.
An action-heavy war drama with minor romance elements.
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After a strange red miasma suddenly appeared in Toyko, putting any living creature it touched into a deep sleep, the city was quarantined from the rest of the country. The sleepers begin to awaken a week later with seemingly no ill effects and with some in possession of strange abilities, triggering a conflict against demonic entities trying to force their way into the world.
An action-drama based off the fourth Lord of Vermilion arcade game. It does not require any familiarity with the franchise to follow.
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Recently having moved to London to study abroad, Ton Baileu is initially exuberant to finally be in a new country. Exuberance however soon gives way to confusion after she’s robbed by a goblin and led to a special café staffed by a quartet of supernatural men, men who happen to have been acquaintances of her great-grandmother. Quickly adapting to the situation they help recover her belongings and send her on her way… but her presence in the city has been noticed, and darker forces have already begun to move.
An action-drama with significant comic relief elements and a minor thread of romance.
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With the long war finally over, those who defined themselves through military service must now find a new path… a task especially difficult for someone who was raised to be nothing more than a weapon. This is the position Violet Evergarden now finds herself in, and with the last words of her cherished someone still echoing in her head she decides to try her hand as a ghostwriter; to give shape to others’ feelings in the hopes of eventually understanding her own.
A post-war character drama with occasional splashes of comic relief, framed with romance elements and peppered with wartime flashbacks.
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Attending the prestigious Seishou Music Academy, Karen Aijou holds a dream of performing on stage in the Starlight Revue with her childhood friend Hikari Kagura. A dream which finally seems within her reach when Hikari returns from overseas to attend Seishou as well… but the path to the Revue is a harsh one, and only a single performer out of a select group can qualify for the honor.
A school-life relationship drama centered on theater performance as combat. It has a large of amount of comic relief and a fondness for symbology.
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After being unable to save Kurisu, Rintarou decides to abandon time travel and live a normal life despite the threat of an impending third world war. A choice sorely tested after encountering an advanced AI based on Kurisu’s research and past memories, an AI which reminds him of everything he had tried so hard to forget.
This is an alternative conclusion to Steins;Gate, continuing from where the β version of its 23rd episode left off. It’s intended to be watched after that and features a similar genre composition weighted more heavily toward drama.
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After a group of five cutting-edge androids equipped with quantum computing devices break out of a research facility, some of them proceed to cause general mayhem in the city while one attaches herself to Arato Endou as a combination of bodyguard and domestic servant. As it turns out Arato is somehow related to her creation, and her appearance entangles him in the often violent intrigues surrounding these ‘Lacia-class’ humanoid interface devices.
An action-drama with a secondary focus on romance and general human vs. machine theme.
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Wandering through Kyoto‘s Teramachi Sanjou shopping district, Aoi Mashiro decides to visit the antique shop Kura in the hopes of selling something of her late grandfather’s. She instead ends up working there to help out the grandson of the shop’s owner, who handles most of the day-to-day business of appraisal and has come to be known around town as “Holmes-san” in part for his ability to get to the heart of any questionable situation.
An educational pseudo-mystery slice of life series with prominent romance elements, frequent comic relief, and periodic emotional outbursts.
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