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Best 1 Tomorrow's Joe 2
Tomorrow's Joe 2

Yabuki Joe is left downhearted and hopeless after a certain tragic event. In attempt to put the past behind him, Joe leaves the gym behind and begins wandering. On his travels he comes across the like...

8.77 Excellent
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2 Spirited Away
Spirited Away

Stubborn, spoiled, and naïve, 10-year-old Chihiro Ogino is less than pleased when she and her parents discover an abandoned amusement park on the way to their new house. Cautiously venturing inside, s...

8.72 Excellent
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3 THE FIRST SLAM DUNK
THE FIRST SLAM DUNK

Shohoku's “speedster” and point guard, Ryota Miyagi, always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. Born and raised in Okinawa, Ryota had...

8.64 Excellent
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4 Ping Pong the Animation
Ping Pong the Animation

Despite being polar opposites, Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto and Yutaka "Peco" Hoshino have been best friends since childhood. Although the overly confident Peco strives to be the best ping-pong player in...

8.60 Excellent
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5 Fighting Spirit: New Challenger
Fighting Spirit: New Challenger

Japanese Featherweight Champion Ippo Makunouchi has successfully defended and retained his title. Meanwhile, his rival, Ichirou Miyata, has resurfaced in Japan, aiming for his own Featherweight belt i...

8.56 Excellent
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6 Natsume's Book of Friends Season 6
Natsume's Book of Friends Season 6

Takashi Natsume has grown accustomed to his encounters with youkai through the Book of Friends, which contains the names of youkai whom his grandmother, Reiko Natsume, has sealed in contracts. These e...

8.48 Excellent
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7 Nichijou - Complete Series
Nichijou - Complete Series

Nichijou is a Japanese animated comedy series known for its surreal and slice-of-life humor. The complete series collects the various episodes, showcasing the daily, often absurd, antics of its main c...

8.45 Excellent
8 Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl

Six months ago, Sakuta Azusagawa had a chance encounter with a bunny girl in a library. Ever since then, he's been blissfully happy with his girlfriend: Mai Sakurajima, that same bunny girl. However,...

8.44 Excellent
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9 Nichijou - My Ordinary Life
Nichijou - My Ordinary Life

Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase S...

8.41 Excellent
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10 Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2
Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2

As with its prequel, Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou is about Takashi Natsume, a boy who has had the ability to see youkai since he was young, and his bodyguard youkai Madara, nicknamed Nyanko-sensei. Natsume...

8.34 Excellent
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11 Run with the Wind
Run with the Wind

Former ace runner of Sendai Josei High School, Kakeru Kurahara is chased away from a convenience store for shoplifting. Shaking off his pursuer, he runs into Haiji Kiyose, another student from his uni...

8.34 Excellent
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12 Rainbow
Rainbow

Japan, 1955: Mario Minakami has just arrived at Shounan Special Reform School along with five other teenagers who have been arrested on serious criminal charges. All assigned to the same cell, they me...

8.31 Excellent
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13 Fighting Spirit: Champion Road
Fighting Spirit: Champion Road

The challenger has become the champion as Ippo Makunouchi now wears the featherweight championship belt of Japan. Some time has passed since Ippo's victory, and he has found his friends and coach as s...

8.31 Excellent
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14 Medalist
Medalist

Tsukasa Akeuraji always dreamed of becoming a competitive solo figure skater, but starting too late in life meant his ambitions never got off the ground. Now barely scraping by, he takes on an assista...

8.27 Excellent
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15 Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

Jinta Yadomi is peacefully living as a recluse, spending his days away from school and playing video games at home instead. One hot summer day, his childhood friend, Meiko "Menma" Honma, appears and p...

8.27 Excellent
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16 K-ON! The Movie
K-ON! The Movie

Graduation looms for the founding members of the Light Music Club. With only a few precious weeks of school left, the girls decide to make the most of it and plan a trip abroad. Hawaii, New York, Duba...

8.26 Excellent
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17 Dr. Stone: New World Part 2
Dr. Stone: New World Part 2

Years ago, astronaut Byakuya left behind precious materials in the belief that his son, the scientifically-gifted Senkuu, would one day find them. In the present, the Kingdom of Science's Kohaku and G...

8.25 Excellent
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18 Major S5
Major S5

The Baseball World Cup is nearing, and Gorou Honda is eager to represent his country. However, one small problem stands in his way: the team roster has already been selected, and he is not a part of i...

8.24 Excellent
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19 Dr. Stone: Science Future
Dr. Stone: Science Future

Having resolved the crisis in the Petrification Kingdom, Senkuu and his companions gear up to deal directly with the mastermind behind the petrification phenomenon—who supposedly resides on the moon....

8.24 Excellent
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20 Welcome to the N.H.K.
Welcome to the N.H.K.

Twenty-two-year-old college dropout Tatsuhiro Satou has been a hikikomori for almost four years now. In his isolation, he has come to believe in many obscure conspiracy theories, but there is one in p...

8.23 Excellent
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21 Cardcaptor Sakura
Cardcaptor Sakura

Ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto is an ordinary fourth-grade student living in Tomoeda until, one day, she stumbles upon a mysterious book of cards titled "The Clow." Pondering over her discovery, she uni...

8.19 Excellent
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22 Laid-Back Camp
Laid-Back Camp

While the perfect getaway for most girls her age might be a fancy vacation with their loved ones, Rin Shima's ideal way of spending her days off is camping alone at the base of Mount Fuji. From pitchi...

8.19 Excellent
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23 Daily Lives of High School Boys
Daily Lives of High School Boys

Roaming the halls of the all-boys Sanada North High School are three close comrades: the eccentric ringleader with a hyperactive imagination Hidenori, the passionate Yoshitake, and the rational and pr...

8.19 Excellent
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24 Call of the Night Season 2
Call of the Night Season 2

A human may become a vampire only if they fall in love with one—and 14-year-old Kou Yamori wishes for nothing more. Kou has decided to fall in love with a vampire named Nazuna Nanakusa, and he has onl...

8.18 Excellent
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25 Sweetness & Lightning
Sweetness & Lightning

Since the death of his wife, Kouhei Inuzuka has been caring for his young daughter Tsumugi to the best of his abilities. However, with his lack of culinary knowledge and his busy job as a teacher, he...

8.14 Excellent
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26 A Certain Scientific Railgun T - Part One [Blu-ray]
A Certain Scientific Railgun T - Part One [Blu-ray]

Mikoto Misaka and her friends prepare for the Daihasei Festival, a seven-day athletic competition between esper schools. Academy City opens to the public for the event, but with the whole town abuzz,...

8.14 Excellent
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27 Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End
Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End

Animation studio Gainax presented a website for the release of a movie adaptation of the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann TV series in the fall of 2008. Both the original director and series script editor w...

8.13 Excellent
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28 Major S1
Major S1

Gorou Honda, a little boy obsessed with baseball, has always admired his father, Shigeharu. Wishing to follow in his father's footsteps, Gorou dreams of becoming a professional baseball player. In tur...

8.11 Excellent
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29 Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu
Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu

After a year in America, Kurisu Makise returns to Akihabara and reunites with Rintarou Okabe. However, their reunion is cut short when Okabe begins to experience recurring flashes of other timelines a...

8.10 Excellent
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30 Azumanga Daioh: The Animation
Azumanga Daioh: The Animation

Chiyo Mihama begins her high school career as one of the strangest students in her freshman class—a tiny, 10-year-old academic prodigy with a fondness for plush dolls and homemade cooking. But her hom...

8.09 Excellent
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