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Born into a secretive Chinese clan of supernatural martial artists, Feilong Lin has long been ostracized due to the abnormal color of the jewel he was born with. In the hopes of having him become strong enough to overcome the clan’s hostility his father sends him to Japan, where he meets a rebellious clone whom he becomes determined to protect from the people who created her.
A character drama with a couple brief action scenes.
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Saki Uno is just an ordinary girl with a crush on a popular idol, a feeling strong enough that she’s tried to become an idol herself in order to get closer to him… with notably lackluster results. Even worse, after coming home from yet another failed event she gets browbeaten by what appears to be a member of the yakuza while her crush gets kidnapped. One thing leads to another and soon she’s fighting demons as a crossdressing man with great physical power. Will her life ever be normal again?
An absurdist, 4th-wall breaking magical girl action comedy with an idol subtheme and several romantic subplots.
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In a world without horses there exists a subset of girls who have inherited the souls and physical attributes of racehorses from our world, and a special academy was created for these horse girls in order to prepare them for nationally-viewed racing and performance events. Special Week is one such girl who has recently arrived from the countryside, and she’s determined to rise to the top of the rankings.
An idol-focused school life show fused with a horse-racing themed sports comedy.
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It’s the start of Sakura’s first year of middle school and Shaoran has returned. What should be a happy reunion however becomes complicated when the Clow Cards begin to change and Sakura’s dreams take on a sinister cast.
Part school life slice of life and part magical girl action-drama with a liberal amount of comic relief distributed throughout. It continues from where Sakura to Futatsu no Kuma left off following a brief time skip.
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What starts as just another school day for Sakura quickly becomes something more when first Eriol announces that he’s moving back to England and then Shaoran makes a shocking announcement of his own.
A romance-focused bridge between the movie conclusion of the first series and the 2018 continuation. If you haven’t seen those earlier works the character references here won’t make much/any sense.
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Trapped in a seemingly endless battle against a hoard of undead, what keeps Shuiyin Lu going are his memories of a girl. A girl he first met as a child and again as a college student… a girl with a mysterious past whom a sinister underground organization will stop at nothing to possess.
An action-comedy primarily set in a virtual world which features a bit of ecchi and romance along with a small amount of drama.
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Though Mo Lan has long had a crush on Yifeng Liu he doesn’t see her as anything more than a friend… and a male friend at that. One day she comes across a magical flower that has the ability to transform her into a long-haired beauty, a form in which she gets to see an entirely different side of him.
A school-life romance with a large amount of comic relief and minor fantasy elements which become more pronounced toward the end.
While investigating a power outage on the roof Xiong Ma Ying discovers a girl floating in mid-air who promptly gets knocked unconscious by a bolt of lightning. Not believing his eyes but wanting to help her all the same he attempts CPR, only to be violently rebuffed as the girl, a cultivator by the name of Muzi Li, suddenly regains consciousness. Not quickly enough to prevent some of her power from transferring into Xiong however, and now he’s faced with a choice: Join the secret world of cultivation as her partner… or die.
A multi-genre series, featuring a relatively even mix of romantic comedy, action, and drama, with a small amount of ecchi content.
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The everyday adventures of the two cats Azuki and Daizu, who were recently adopted and now have to acclimate to a new home inhabited by an assortment of strange people.
A short-episode slice of life comedy with picture drama style visuals.
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Transported, along with his allies and all of Arkham Asylum’s inmates, to what appears to be feudal Japan by one of Gorilla Grodd’s contraptions, Batman must find a way to both untangle the mess history has become and return to the modern day.
An action movie with both martial arts and mecha action along with a bit of comic relief in the form of the Joker and Harley’s personality. Be aware that it requires some basic knowledge of the Batman franchise to understand the character dynamics and that the English script differs significantly from the original Japanese version.
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