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DRIFTERS anime cover
2016TV12 episodes

DRIFTERS

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Reincarnated as a Sword anime cover
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Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai anime cover
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Magical Explorer anime cover
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A Tale of the Secret Saint

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Berserk anime cover
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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation anime cover
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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

When a 34-year-old underachiever gets run over by a bus, his story doesn’t end there. Reincarnated in a new world as an infant, Rudeus will seize...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba anime cover
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make...

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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Lonely thirty-seven-year-old Satoru Mikami is stuck in a dead-end job, unhappy with his mundane life, but after dying at the hands of a robber, he...