Genres: adventure, drama, fantasy.
Themes: Military, steampunk.
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity).
Plot Summary: After losing their mother, Alphonse and Edward Elric attempt to bring her back using the forbidden science of human alchemy. However, alchemy operates on the theory of equivalent trade, and breaking the human alchemy taboo carries a heavy price. Ed loses his leg, and Al loses his body. Ed is able to seal Al's soul inside of a huge suit of armor, at the cost of his arm. Years later, Ed (now with two mechanical limbs) and Al (still trapped in the armor) leave their childhood home, each brother concerned with the other's happiness. Ed, who has a natural talent and skill for alchemy, becomes nationally certified and is soon known everywhere as the "Fullmetal Alchemist." Their true objective is to search for any information on the fabled Philosopher's Stone, hoping it will allow them to regain their old bodies. All of their hopes rest with this mythical stone, which may not even exist at all. However, the brothers soon learn that they are not the only ones after the powerful stone.
2. Cowboy Bebop (TV) Rating 8.90 Votes 6250
Genres: action, drama, science fiction.
Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Plot Summary: Spike Spiegel, a bounty Hunter with a dark past, lives on bounty to bounty, barely making it each time, or not making it at all. His partners Jet Black, Faye Valentine, Ed and Ein the dog all help him in his adventures from planet to planet.
3. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) Rating 8.76 Votes 5394
Genres: comedy, psychological, science fiction, slice of life, supernatural
Themes: otaku, school.
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity.
Plot Summary: On the first day of high school a beautiful girl named Haruhi Suzumiya introduces herself as having "no interest in ordinary humans". She asks for any aliens, time travelers, sliders or espers to join her. Watching her weird behaviour is Kyon who sits in front of Haruhi and is the only person who talks to her. When Kyon comments about Haruhi's joining every club in school and then quitting he unwittingly gives Haruhi an idea to start her own after school club. Thereafter Kyon and several others find themselves dragged, literally, into the Save our world by Overloading it with fun Suzumiya Haruhi's Brigade (the S.O.S. Brigade for short).
4. Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) Rating 8.35 Votes 5623
Genres: action, drama, psychological, science fiction
Themes: Mecha, Military.
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: At the age of 14 Shinji Ikari is summoned by his father to the city of Neo Tokyo-3 after several years of separation. There he unwillingly accepts the task of becoming the pilot of a giant robot by the name EVA01 and protect the world from the enigmatic invaders known as "angels." Even though he repeatedly questions why he has accepted this mission from his estranged and cold father, his doing so helps him to gradually accept himself. However, why exactly are the angels attacking and what are his father’s true intentions are yet to be unraveled.
5. Princess Mononoke (movie) Rating 8.91 Votes 4936
Genres: adventure, drama, fantasy.
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: While fighting to save his village from the attack of a demon-god Ashitaka comes in contact with it and is inflicted with a deadly curse. In his search for a cure he is forced to leave his village forever and journey to the forest inhabited by animal gods. There he finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and a village led by lady Eboshi.
6. Death Note (TV) Rating 8.95 Votes 4842
Genres: drama, mystery, psychological, supernatural, thriller
Themes: Police, shinigami, Suicide.
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Yagami Light is an ace student with great prospects, who's bored out of his mind. One day he finds the "Death Note": a notebook from the realm of the Death Gods, with the power to kill people in any way he desires. With the Death Note in hand, Light decides to create his perfect world, without crime or criminals. However, when criminals start dropping dead one by one, the authorites send the legendary detective L to track down the killer, and a battle of wits, deception and logic ensues...
7. Spirited Away (movie) Rating 8.91 Votes 4818
Genres: adventure, drama, fantasy, supernatural
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: On their way to their new home, a young girl, Chihiro, and her parents stumble into what appears to be an abandoned theme park. But all is not as it seems, as the theme park is a bath-house for the spirits, and not a place where humans are welcome. Chihiro must fend for herself and rescue her parents, as they have been turned to pigs as punishment for eating the food meant for the gods.
8. Bleach (TV) Rating 8.38 Votes 4897
Genres: action, comedy, drama, supernatural.
Themes: Giant Weapons, shinigami, Spirits, Superhumans.
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Kurosaki Ichigo is a 15 year old boy that has an ability to see ghosts/spirits. Because of his ability, he is able to meet a female death god (a.k.a Shinigami) named Kuchiki Rukia. To save his family and friends from unwanted soul-eating spirits (Hollows), Rukia transfers her Shinigami powers to Ichigo. As Rukia takes on a human shell, together they solve mysteries involving spirits and hollows until from the spirit world comes 2 other shinigamis explaining that it is illegal to transfer Shinigami powers to humans and Rukia exceeded the time limit to stay in the human world. After they sentence her death for breaking the laws, Ichigo snaps and swears to everyone he will retrieve Rukia by breaking into the spirit world.
Kurosaki Ichigo was born gifted with the power to see spirits. But one fateful day, trying to save a spirit he met from a Hollow, he finds he's power goes beyond just spirits but Shinigami (death god) like Kuchiki Rukia. In an attempt to save his family from Hollows, he creates a pact with Rukia to become a Shinigami. However, Ichigo's power was beyond what Rukia imagined and she soon found she was stripped of her powers, becoming a wandering soul. After the ordeal, Rukia remains in the human world with the help of Uruhara (former death god) to help Ichigo deal with spirits and Hollows. By the time Rukia began to understand and fit in with the human world, two other shinigamis appear to force Rukia back for her punishment in relinquishing her power to a human - that is death. Ichigo and his friends - Sado, Inoue and Ishida - all enter vigorous training to enter Soul Society (spirit world) to rescue their friend before it's too late.
9. Elfen Lied (TV) Rating 8.58 4670
Genres: drama, horror, psychological, romance, science fiction
Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Plot Summary: The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic abilities. Due to this dangerous power, they have been captured and isolated in laboratories by the government. Lucy, a young and psychotic Diclonius, manages to break free of her confines and brutally murder most of the guards in the laboratory, only to get shot in the head as she makes her escape. She survives and manages to drift along to a beach, where two teenagers named Kouta and Yuka discovers her. Having lost her memories, she was named after the only thing that she can now say, "Nyuu," and the two allow her to stay at Kouta's home. However, it appears that the evil "Lucy" is not dead just yet..
10. FLCL (OAV) Fooly Cooly Rating 8.22 Votes 4700
Genres: comedy, drama, science fiction.
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Naota is a normal Japanese 6th grade boy (although a little cynical), but when his older brother leaves for America to play baseball, his brother leaves his homeless 17 year old girlfriend Mamimi behind. Mamimi is sending mixed signals and advances to Naota, and he doesn't know what to do about her. But to make matters worse, Naota's world is totally turned upside down when he is run over by a woman on a Vespa. During their first encounter, she hits him over the head with her guitar, which then causes a horn to grow out of his forehead. She calls herself "Haruko" and her presence changes Naota's life to even further insanity.
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