Shigofumi
When someone dies, what should their final words be? Words that couldn't be said while still alive - of love, hate, hope, regret or perhaps words...
Anime like Perfect Blue
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Millennium Actress
Millennium Actress blurs the lines between the past and the present, and truth and fiction, when a documentary filmmaker fulfills his quest to...
Paprika
Prepare to enter the realm of fantasy and imagination where reality and dreams collide in a kaleidoscopic mindscape of sheer visual genius. The...
Monster
Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a renowned Japanese brain surgeon working at a leading hospital in Germany. One night, Dr. Tenma risks his reputation and...
ODDTAXI
A taxi driver's ordinary conversations slowly connect to a missing person case.
Serial Experiments Lain
We're all connected... There is the world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation, and culture. There is the wired world, inside the...
SHIROBAKO
Once upon a time, five girls made an animated film and it was so much fun that they pledged to get jobs in animation so that someday they could...
Pompo: The Cinéphile
The manga depicts the craft of movie-making and revolves around Joelle Davidovich "Pompo" Pomponette, a talented movie producer who looks like a...
Skip Beat!
Kyouko followed her true love and childhood friend Shou to Tokyo so she could help him reach his dream of becoming an idol. She cleans, cooks,...
The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio
Yuuhi Yugure and Yasumi Utatane, high school classmates and co-hosts of a weekly radio program, paint a picture-perfect friendship for their...
LOOK BACK
Ayumu Fujino is a fourth grader who draws a manga strip for the school newspaper. Her art makes her the star of the class, but one day she's told...
Oshi No Ko
When a pregnant young starlet appears in Gorou Amemiya’s countryside medical clinic, the doctor takes it upon himself to safely (and secretly)...
The Promised Neverland
Emma, Norman and Ray are the brightest kids at the Grace Field House orphanage. And under the care of the woman they refer to as “Mom,” all the...
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
One night, 14-year-old Madoka Kaname has a terrible nightmare - against the backdrop of a devastated city, she witnesses a girl fight a losing...
Great Pretender
Self-styled “Japan's greatest swindler” Makoto Edamura is mainly targeting elder people and occasional foreign travelers. But when he tries to...
Planetes
In the year 2075, mankind has reached a point where journeying between Earth, the moon and the space stations is part of daily life. However, the...
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
When girl meets boy, love takes off... Scott Pilgrim meets the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers, but learns he must defeat her seven evil exes...
Snow White with the Red Hair
In the kingdom of Tanbarun lives Shirayuki, an independent and strong-willed young woman. Her resourceful intelligence has led her become a...
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