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Tom Sturridge

Vivienne Acheampong

Patton Oswalt

The Sandman (2022) TV Show

7.9 2.6K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 23

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what was stolen from him and restore his power.

Style: dark

Plot: dreams, mythology, nightmare, superhero, based on comic, based on graphic novel, witchcraft, raven, ...

Cast

Chlou00eb Grace Moretz

Riz Ahmed

Eugene Lee Yang

Frances Conroy

Nimona (2023)

7.9 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence.

Plot: monster, supernatural, on the run, knight, based on graphic novel, metamorphosis, lgbt, shape shifter, ...

I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level (2021) TV Show

7.8 240 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: After dying of overwork in the real world, I’m reincarnated as an immortal witch, and I spend 300 years enjoying a relaxing life. At some point, though, I end up at level 99! All those years spent killing slimes to make the money to pay the bills gave me a ton of experience points. Rumors of the level 99 witch spread, and soon I’m up to my ears in curious adventurers, duelist dragons, and even a monster girl calling me her mom! I’ve never been on an adventure, but I’m the strongest in the world… What’s going to happen to my relaxing life?!

Plot: witch, magic, slime, immortality, reincarnation, slice of life, anime, other world, ...

The Twelve Kingdoms (2002) TV Show

7.8 52 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 45

Story: Nakajima Youko is your average somewhat timid high school student. One day, a strange man named Keiki appears before her, swearing allegiance. Before she could properly register what was happening, demon-like creatures attack Youko and her friends, after which they are pulled into a different world. A world unlike what she has ever known. Separated from Keiki, Youko and her friends must do whatever they can if they wish to survive in this new world.

Plot: magic, supernatural, fantasy world, anime, isekai, fantasy, chinese mythology, based on light novel

Combatants Will Be Dispatched! (2021) TV Show

7.8 169 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: Turns out, evil takes initiative! With world domination close at hand, the Kisaragi Corporation turns its sights on interstellar conquest, and who better to take over a magical world than two randomly assigned minions—Combatant Agent Six and his android partner Alice? But Six’s path up the evil corporate ladder won’t be easy—a Demon Lord’s army is hatching its own nefarious plan!

Plot: magic, demon, ecchi, anime, isekai, based on light novel

Cast

Yoko Hikasa

Ai Kayano

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Kazuyuki Okitsu

No Game No Life: Zero (2017)

7.8 445 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: Six thousand years before Sora and Shiro were even a blink in the history of Disboard, war consumed the land, tearing apart the heavens, destroying stars, and even threatening to wipe out the human race. Amid the chaos and destruction, a young man named Riku leads humanity toward the tomorrow his heart believes in. One day, in the ruins of an Elf city, he meets Schwi, a female exiled "Ex Machina" android who asks him to teach her what it means to have a human heart.

Plot: magic, anti hero, post-apocalyptic future, prequel, end of the world, survival, tragedy, disaster, ...

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006) TV Show

7.8 302 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 28

Audience: TV-14

Story: I thought that when I entered high school, my days of believing in aliens, time travelers and ESPers were going to be over. That is, until she introduced herself. Claiming to be interested in only aliens, time travelers, and ESPers, Haruhi Suzumiya was the strangest girl I've met in a long time... Before I knew what's going on, I've been dragged into her weird club, and it looks like I'm not the only one who has been drafted into this "SOS Brigade" of hers, because there are three other students who don't seem to be so ordinary themselves.

Plot: time travel, high school, god, slice of life, alien, time loop, blunt, taunting, ...

Cast

Ariella Glaser

Orlando Schwerdt

Bryce Gheisar

Gillian Anderson

White Bird (2023)

7.8 241 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.

Plot: nazi, holocaust (shoah), private school, bullying, hitler youth, coming of age, german occupation of france, kindness, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Place: france

The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent (2021) TV Show

7.8 121 votes

Genre: Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Sei, a 20-year-old office worker, is whisked away to a whole new world. Unfortunately for Sei, the ritual that summoned her—meant to produce a "Saint" who would banish the dark magic—brought two people over instead of one. And everyone prefers the second girl over Sei?! But this is just fine by Sei, who leaves the royal palace to set up shop making potions and cosmetics with her newfound magic. Business is booming, and this might not be such a bad life, after all...as long as her supposed Sainthood doesn't come back to haunt her.

Plot: medicine, magic, romance, slice of life, female protagonist, shoujo, summons, anime, ...

Cast

Koki Uchiyama

Daisuke Namikawa

Rikiya Koyama

Hiroki Touchi

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010) TV Show

7.8 41 votes

Genre: Animation, Science Fiction, War

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-14

Story: When Banagher Links meets the mysterious Audrey Burne, he inherits the Unicorn Gundam and is swept up into the battle for space colony independence.

Plot: space battle, space colony, psychic power, mecha, giant robot, piloted robot, human subjugation, anime, ...

Cast

Rose McIver

David Anders

Robert Buckley

Malcolm Goodwin

iZombie (2015) TV Show

7.8 2.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 71

Audience: TV-14

Story: A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But every brain she eats, she also inherits their memories and must now solve their deaths with help from the Medical examiner and a police detective.

Plot: seattle, washington, based on comic, morgue, female protagonist, zombie, based on graphic novel, coroner, ...

So I'm a Spider, So What? (2021) TV Show

7.8 207 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: I, the protagonist, was just an ordinary high school girl, but suddenly I was reincarnated as a spider monster in a fantasy world. Not only that, but I awakened in a dungeon filled with vicious monsters. Armed with only my human knowledge and my overwhelming positivity, I'm forced to use spiderwebs and traps to defeat far stronger monsters just to stay alive... So begins the labyrinth survival story of a girl with incredible mental strength living as one of the lowest-ranked beasts!

Plot: spider, survival, creature, demon, fantasy world, summons, anime, other world, ...

Cast

Masaaki Mizunaka

Yu Serizawa

Azumi Waki

Yumi Hara

How Not to Summon a Demon Lord (2018) TV Show

7.8 354 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 22

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Sakamoto Takuma was so strong in the MMORPG Cross Reverie that his fellow players came to call him the "demon lord." One day, he gets summoned to another world in his avatar form, and meets two girls who both insist that they're the one who summoned him. They cast a spell used to enslave summoned beasts on him, but that activates his unique ability, Magic Reflect, and the girls end up being the ones put under the spell! And thus begins the otherworldly adventure of a demon lord (pretend) who blazes his own trail through overwhelming power.

Plot: video game, magic, harem, gamer, ecchi, anime, mmorpg, isekai, ...

School Spirits (2023) TV Show

7.8 275 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Maddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own mysterious disappearance, goes on a crime-solving journey as she adjusts to high school purgatory, but the closer she gets to discovering the truth, the more secrets and lies she uncovers.

Style: nostalgic, philosophical

Plot: supernatural, high school, based on graphic novel, lgbt, lgbt teen, speculative, curious, mysterious, ...

Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl (2011) TV Show

7.8 78 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: The story revolves around a highschool boy named Niwa Makoto. He lives with his aunt's family since his parents are away on business. It is there where he meets his mysterious cousin of the same age Touwa Erio — who happens to tie a futon mattress around her upper body and is a self-proclaimed alien. Her staple food is pizza. Erio had been missing for half a year and was found floating in the sea. She doesn't remember anything about what happened during that period of time, but she began to think that it was the act of an alien and wanders the neighbourhood wrapped in the futon.

Style: absurdist

Plot: amnesia, cousin, high school, parody, romance, slice of life, tragedy, coming of age, ...

Cast

Peter Weller

Ariel Winter

David Selby

Wade Williams

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012)

7.7 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 76 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?

Plot: dystopia, based on graphic novel, super power, dreary

Time: future

Absolute Duo (2015) TV Show

7.7 163 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: This is the story of Tooru Kokonoe who has enrolled at Kouryou Academy, a school which trains students in wielding Blaze, soul powered weapons to prepare them for the Dorn Agency's special peacekeeping corps. When Tooru is partnered with a mysterious girl: Julie Sigtuna, he finds he has to overcome many hurdles to ensure their teamwork and fighting skills are up to par for the duration of their training.

Plot: combat, anime, duo, based on light novel

Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out

Cast

Kaito Ishikawa

Asami Seto

Yurika Kubo

Nao Toyama

Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out (2023)

7.7 61 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 74 min.

Audience: NR

Story: After a draining December, Sakuta is quickly nearing the end of his second year of high school. Since Mai is a third-year student, they don't have much time left together before graduation rolls around. Meanwhile, his sister, Kaede, is slowly but steadily venturing outdoors again. Just as she begins to find her footing, she announces her most ambitious goal yet—attending her brother's high school! Sakuta knows better than anyone how difficult this will be for Kaede, and he's ready to support her however he can. He's just not sure if that's what's best for her...or what she really wants...

Plot: supernatural, sequel, anime, japanese high school, sister sister relationship, idol, high school life, based on light novel, ...

Cast

Kaito Ishikawa

Asami Seto

Yurika Kubo

Nao Toyama

Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid (2023)

7.7 80 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 75 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Finally, the day of Mai's high school graduation has arrived. While Sakuta eagerly waits for his girlfriend, an elementary schooler who looks exactly like her appears before him. Suspicious, and for all the wrong reasons... Meanwhile, Sakuta and Kaede's father suddenly calls, saying that their mother wants to see her daughter. She was hospitalized because Kaede's condition had been too much for her to bear, so what could she possibly want now?

Style: shocking

Plot: based on novel or book, supernatural, sequel, romance, anime, japanese high school, based on light novel

Cast

Yusuke Kobayashi

Inori Minase

Ikumi Hasegawa

Reina Ueda

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom (2021) TV Show

7.7 182 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan, Taiwan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-14

Story: Suddenly summoned to a fantasy world and betrothed to the princess, Kazuya Souma is crowned the new king. Unlike the royalty before him, he won’t be using swords and magic to rule; will administrative reform really get this kingdom back on track?

Plot: queen, economic theory, magic, princess, harem, romance, food, king, ...

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