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Gachiakuta (2025)
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Original name: ガチアクタ
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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In a floating city where the rich discard their waste—and people—Rudo is framed for murder and thrown into the Pit, where a hellscape of mutated garbage beasts dwell. To survive, he must wield a new power and join the rogue Cleaners. Rudo doesn’t just aim to battle monsters, but the corrupt who cast him into Hell.
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dark fantasy, anime, bleak, tense, neo noir, surreal, adult animation, shounen, dystopian
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revenge, survival, junkyard, dystopia, violence, toxic waste, wrongful imprisonment, exile, corruption, cyberpunk, class struggle, moral ambiguity, urban decay, escape, rebellion, vigilante, social satire, anti establishment, post apocalyptic, coming of age, post apocalypse, discrimination, vengeance, supernatural power, false accusation ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, dark fantasy, shounen and tense films and TV series with plots about revenge, violence, anti hero, survival, moral ambiguity, male protagonist and supernatural mostly in Animation, Action and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Gachiakuta: Fire Force (2019), Ragna Crimson (2023), Hunter x Hunter (1999), My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (2025), Togainu no Chi: Bloody Curs (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Year 198 of the Solar Era in Tokyo, special fire brigades are fighting against a phenomenon called spontaneous human combustion where humans beings are turned into living infernos called "Infernals". While the Infernals are first ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Ragna teams up with the enigmatic Crimson to stand against the dragons menacing the world. Although Crimson’s motivations are mysterious, his goal and Ragna’s perfectly align, and together they’ll vanquish the dragons once and for all.
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anime, dark fantasy, shounen, captivating, grim ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Gon Freecss discovers that the father he had always been told was dead was actually alive the whole time. Ging is a famous Hunter: an individual who has proven themself an elite member of humanity. Gon becomes determined to follow in his ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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After a life-changing incident, timid college student Koichi Haimawari accepts an offer from revered vigilante Knuckleduster to train as his protégé.
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anime, dark, tense, noir, suspense ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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After being devastated in the third World War (known as The Third Division), Japan was divided in two. Several years after the end of the war, a crime organization called Vischio has taken control of the destroyed city of Toshima (formerly Tokyo, ...
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future, near future
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japan
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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In a world where heroism is a punishment, Xylo Forbartz, a condemned goddess killer, battles endless hordes of monstrous abominations as part of Penal Hero Unit 9004. Death is no escape, only a cycle of resurrection and relentless combat. But when ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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A squad of prisoners and their guards are sent to investigate a mysterious island. They get stranded there and must rely on each other to survive the island's mysterious and monstrous residents.
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Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Two young people living in the Wahrheit Empire are planning to relocate to the capital city: the shy Inumael who works as a transporter and left his beloved sister behind at his parents' home, and Leocadio, a naive new soldier of the Empire who ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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A desolate land stretches out from the city of poverty. A motorcycle speeds recklessly, blowing clouds of sand and dust. The rider is the protagonist of this story – he has neither a name nor a past. All he has is his ring name, “Junk Dog” and ...
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anime, bleak, stylized, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
kids
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Touka always faded into the background at school. And when he’s summoned to another world with his classmates, that still doesn’t change! They all acquire top-rank skills, except Touka, who’s deemed a failure and cast to ancient ruins by the ...
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anime, dark fantasy, twisted, grim
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 200 min.
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Compilation of Area 88 Acts I-III.
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anime, tense, psychological, bleak, intense ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 22 min.
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Duration: 70 min.
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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anime, captivating, exciting, disturbing, dark fantasy ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
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anime, stylized, tense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
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