Shout! Factory (Firm)
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When a bored teenager is looking for thrills, sometimes the only thing they can turn to is rock n' roll. Having no skill, money, or even a full set of drums, a feared trio of high school delinquents nevertheless decide they are destined for musical glory in a quest to impress their only friend, avoid a rival gang, and, most importantly, jam out. Animated almost entirely by director Kenji Iwaisawa, and featuring a lead performance by Japanese alt-rock...
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An out-of-commission satellite picks up a lovelorn ballad on her radio antenna and descends to Earth to find the source of such sincere emotions. But on the way she is caught in a raging magical battle and transforms into Satellite Girl, complete with Astro Boy-like rocket shoes and weapon-firing limbs. Meanwhile, the balladeer in question, a loser twentysomething at a café̌ open mic, meets the fate that befalls all broken-hearted lovers: he is...
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Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love. Just as they become inseparable, Minato loses his life in an accident at sea.
5) Blue thermal
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Arriving from Nagasaki with her wishful mantra of love is Tamaki Tsuru, who in high school could think only about volleyball. Things don't begin well, however, when she looks for an extracurricular club to join and proceeds to immediately ding a glider at aviation club tryouts ending up having to work it off. She is initially disillusioned with campus life. Then Kuramochi, the club leader and glider pilot, takes Tamaki under his wing, and from the...
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On the day before her birthday, young Akane meets the mysterious alchemist Hippocrates who brings her through a basement and into a fantastical world full of magic and color. Though things seem peaceful on the surface, he reveals this world is in danger and as the destined Goddess of the Green Wind, it is Akane's responsibility to bring back the rain and save this world from the terror known as Zan Gu. The only problem? Akane just wants to go home....
7) Perfect blue
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Mima quits her career as a pop singer to try her hand as an actress on a detective/murder mystery television program. Then her life falls apart as reality and hallucinations merge into a terrifying netherworld where innocence is lost and dreams turn into nightmares. She discovers Internet sites describing every intimate detail of her life. Her associates are threatened and even killed by a mysterious stalker.
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The World's Fair, Paris, 1889, a young inventor crosses paths with an enigmatic girl and her pet lion. Suddenly they find themselves pursued by villainous trio intent upon stealing the magical Blue Water. Join Nadia and Jean as they travel the high seas in search of Nadia's homeland and her past, their only clue the mysterious jewel Nadia wears. Can they unravel the Secret of the Blue Water before it is too late? Contains episodes 1-39.
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The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses...
10) Country crush
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Brothers Charlie and Cody are doing what they have to in order to get by after the death of their parents. Older brother Cody has enlisted in the army and is about to leave his wife Katherine and their young son. Charlie works as a car mechanic, having put his dream of becoming an engineer on hold when the cost of tuition was too high. When aspiring singer/songwriter Nancy comes to town, she and Charlie find themselves instantly attracted to each...
11) Camp Cold Brook
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When reality TV host Jack Wilson's paranormal reality show is about to be canceled, in a last-ditch effort to increase the ratings, Wilson takes his filming crew out to investigate the legendary Camp Cold Brook, an abandoned summer camp where a mass murder had taken place decades ago. They soon realize they are not alone.
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Dr. Michael Cayle thought leaving the chaotic lifestyle of New York City behind for the quiet, small town of Ashborough would bring his family closer together. Soon after arriving, however, he discovers the town's deepest secret: a terrifying and controlling race of creatures that live amongst the darkness in the woods behind his home.
14) The deer king
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After surviving another wave of a mysterious and incurable disease, former soldier Van and the young girl Yuna try take refuge in the countryside, only to find they must discover the cause of the plague for a chance at true survival.
15) The boy
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It's the summer of 1989. Nine-year-old Ted Henley and his father John are the proprietors of The Mtn. Vista Motel, a crumbling resort buried in the mountains of the American West. Since Ted's mother left, John has drifted into despondency, becoming a living ghost, haunting the motel, leaving Ted to fend for himself. In this isolation, unchecked by the bounds of parenting, Ted's darker impulses begin to manifest.
16) Dreambuilders
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Minna is a young girl discovering her ability to create and control other people's dreams. She's determined to teach her bothersome stepsister a lesson, but when she goes too far one night, Jenny can no longer wake up and Minna must enter the dream herself and face down the nightmare she created.
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Seventeen-year-old run-away Yui and eight-year-old Hiyori, who lost her family and her voice, have no place to go when they run into Kiwa, a strange old lady. She offers them a place to stay, in a slightly banged-up old house overlooking the sea, a Mayoiga. Despite joining Kiwa on a whim, the two girls find comfort in Mayoiga, a legendary house, said to look after lost travelers and the warm hospitality of Kiwa. Both girls' damaged hearts begin to...
18) Napping princess
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Three days before the opening of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Kokone Morikawa's father is arrested for stealing technology and Kokone and her childhood friend Morio must work together--and rely on Kokone's connection to a dream-world called Heartland--to save him.
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Doomsday machine (1967): In an effort to further explore the galaxy, the United States is hours away from launching a manned mission to Venus. But when a Chinese plot to destroy the Earth is uncovered, the U.S. teams up with the Soviet Union to replace members of its all-male crew with women. Now, it's up to the crew of Project Astra to keep the human race alive and thriving.
Wereworlf of Washington (1973): While on assignment in Hungary, a young...
20) Dark summer
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While home alone under house arrest for cyber stalking a girl on social media, a teenager soon experiences strange supernatural occurrences, which become increasingly more sinister and terrifying.