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Durarara!! (2010)
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Durarara!! (2010)
Original name: デュラララ!!
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Durarara!!, often shortened to DRRR!!, is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita, with illustrations by Suzuhito Yasuda, that has also been adapted into a Japanese anime series. As of May 2012, eleven volumes have been published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation by Akiyo Satorigi started serialization in the shōnen manga magazine Monthly GFantasy on April 18, 2009. An anime adaptation began airing in Japan in January 2010. Durarara!! tells the story of a dullahan working as an underworld courier in Ikebukuro, an internet-based anonymous gang called The Dollars, and the chaos that unfolds around the most dangerous people in Ikebukuro. Two games based on the series for the PlayStation Portable were released.
Style: anime, touching, manga, exciting, captivating, humorous, serious, stylized, feel good
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: city life, urban legend, gang, friendship, escapades, supernatural ability, supernatural, mysticism, love and romance, gangster, ghost, urban, snitch, police, trippy, mind game, street gang, medical experiment, youth culture, newcomer, disorder, warning, high school student, supernatural power, secret ...
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, exciting, humorous and captivating films and TV series with plots about supernatural, friendship, rivalry, danger, supernatural ability, youth and escapades mostly in Animation, Action and Comedy genres. Some movies like Durarara!!: Ghost Hunt (2006), Black Butler (2008), Persona 4: The Animation (2011), Bakemonogatari (2009), Baccano! (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ghost Hunt (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story: Ghost Hunt, originally titled Akuryō Series, is a light novel series written by Fuyumi Ono. It follows the adventures of the Shibuya Psychic Research Center as they investigate mysterious occurrences all over Japan with a team of other ...
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Black Butler (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: In Victorian-era London, on the night of Ciel Phantomhive's tenth birthday, a fire destroyed his manor and killed both of his parents. In a moment of despair, Ciel strikes a deal with a demon - his soul in exchange for revenge. This demon ...
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Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, london, united kingdom, europe
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Persona 4: The Animation (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story: Persona 4: The Animation is a television anime series produced by AIC ASTA and directed by Seiji Kishi, based on the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 video game by Atlus. The story revolves around the protagonist, Yu Narukami, who acquires a mysterious ...
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Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: asia, japan
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Bakemonogatari (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 360 min.
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Story: The Monogatari Series revolves around on Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student who survived a vampire attack, and finds himself helping some girls involved with all kinds of apparitions, deities, ghosts, mythological beasts, and spirits.
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Baccano! (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, History, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 384 min.
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Story: During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling ...
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Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, chicago
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K Project (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
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Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Shiro is an easygoing teenager content with just being a student—until his seemingly perfect life is halted when a bloodthirsty clan, glowing red with fire, attempts to kill him in the streets. Unbeknownst to Shiro, he is suspected of murdering a ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Story: Someday's Dreamers is a manga written by Norie Yamada and illustrated by Kumichi Yoshizuki. It was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Comic Dragon magazine from May 2002 to January 2003 and was later collected in two bound volumes. In 2006, ...
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Audience: teens
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Place: japan, tokyo
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Fate/Zero (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Duration: 25 min.
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story: Black Lagoon is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rei Hiroe. It has been published in Shogakukan's Monthly Sunday Gene-X since 2002, and nine collected volumes have been released so far. It was later adapted into an anime ...
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Audience: kids
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Duration: 24 min.
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Duration: 22 min.
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Duration: 25 min.
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