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Description
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Studio
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Year
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Anime
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Two war orphans starve to death in WWII era Japan.
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Studio Ghibli
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1988
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Hotaru No Haka
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Cute high school girls eat cake, drink tea, and occasionally play pop-rock music.
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Kyoto Animation
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2009
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K-On!
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Being a magical girl is suffering.
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Shaft
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2011
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Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica
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A girl from the countryside and a boy from the city suddenly switch bodies. They begin to search for one another.
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CoMix Wave Films
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2016
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Kimi No Na Wa.
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The autocratic Galactic Empire and the democratic Free Planets Alliance fight for control of the entire galaxy.
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Artland
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1988
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Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu
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The girls of the Amusement Club spend their afternoons lazing about and fawning over each other.
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Doga Kobo
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2011
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Yuru Yuri
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"In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law? Is it like the hand of God hovering above?"
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Oriental Light and Magic
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1997
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Berserk
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A girl accidentally discovers that she can leap through time.
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Madhouse
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2006
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Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo
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Three teenagers have to synchronize with giant "robots", ostensibly to protect the Earth from Angels. Existential angst ensues.
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Gainax
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1995
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
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A 30 year old salaryman adopts his grandfather's illegitimate daughter and learns a thing or two about parenthood.
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Production I.G
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2011
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Usagi Drop
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With the advent of the virtual world Wired, the boundaries of reality and cyberspace become increasingly blurred. Many of the messages of this series are more relevant today than when the show came out.
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Triangle Staff
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1998
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Serial Experiments Lain
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A seemingly perfect high school girl is actually a spoiled brat who just plays video games, reads manga, eats potato chips, and drinks cola.
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Doga Kobo
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2015
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Himouto! Umaru-chan
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A transvestite, an alcoholic, and a runaway teenager try to find the mother of an abandoned baby.
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Madhouse
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2003
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Tokyo Godfathers
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Four art school students live as neighbors. Features a unique animation style with extremely wide faces.
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Shaft
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2007
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Hidamari Sketch
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A bartender challenges recently deceased people to play games in order to decide whether they should go to heaven or hell.
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Madhouse
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2015
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Death Parade
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In order to prevent their school from shutting down, nine high school girls try to boost the school's popularity by becoming "school idols".
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Sunrise
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2013
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Love Live! School Idol Project
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A giant earthquake strikes the Kanto region. Three survivors try to make their way back home - if they even have a home anymore.
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Bones / Kinema Citrus
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2009
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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
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In the dystopic Neo-Tokyo, two best friends get tangled in secret military experiments to control human psychic powers.
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Tokyo Movie Shinsha
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1988
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Akira
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A precocious fifth-grader moves from Tokyo to a countryside village where the school has only five students.
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Silver Link
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2013
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Non Non Biyori
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Every five years, the biggest car race in the galaxy is held, with absolutely no rules. Pure adrenaline from start to finish.
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Madhouse
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2009
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Redline
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A ten year old child prodigy (whose father may or may not be a cat) enters high school. The original high school moe anime.
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J.C.Staff
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2002
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Azumanga Daioh
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A strange website allows people to send people they hate to hell. The catch is that the bearer of the grudge is also condemned to hell.
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Studio Deen
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2005
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Jigoku Shoujo
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The Yamada family finds an extremely cute stray kitten. Even though their apartment doesn't allow pets, they decide to keep her.
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Madhouse
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2008
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Chi's Sweet Home
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