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.hack//SIGN (2002)
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.hack//SIGN (2002)
Original name: .hack
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: .hack follows several young players as they navigate the vast, mysterious MMORPG known as “The World” – a place, it turns out, that is sometimes impossible to leave.
Style: anime, suspenseful, stylized, psychological, serious, cyber, whimsical, cyberpunk anime
Plot: cyberspace, isekai, ghost, time travel, artificial intelligence, supernatural, virtual reality, heroes, androids and robots, life is a bitch, getting home, chaos, imaginary, man versus machine, technology gone awry, dystopian future, father son relationship, swordplay, apocalypse, fictional reality, escapades, rivalry, society, danger, benign alien ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010
Keyword: a.i.

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, serious, exciting and stylized films and TV series with plots about danger, androids and robots, rivalry, heroes, escapades, imaginary and chaos mostly in Animation, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like .hack//SIGN: Bubblegum Crisis (1987), Parasite Dolls (2003), Xenosaga: The Animation (2005), Kino's Journey (2003), Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bubblegum Crisis (1987)
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: In the near future, Tokyo was left flattened as a result from a great earthquake. A new city, MegaTokyo, was then recreated due in no small part from the aid of a multi-million dollar company, Genom Corp. Genom created and mass-produced ...
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Time: 2030s, future, 80s
Place: tokyo, japan
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100%
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Parasite Dolls (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story: Beauty is only skin deep, but when you can’t see beneath the skin, how can you know what you’re really dealing with? In a world where perfect androids called Boomers have infiltrated every aspect of society, it’s the job of Branch to maintain ...
Style: anime, futuristic, cyber, exciting, serious ...
Plot: androids and robots, cyberpunk, imaginary, society, supernatural, chaos and mayhem, parallel world, chaos, dystopian future, escapades, life is a bitch, man versus machine ...
Time: future
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Xenosaga: The Animation (2005)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: 4000 years have passed since humanity abandoned Earth. Forced to fight an alien form of life, Gnosis, mankind developed KOS-MOS - a battle android with amazing capabilities. When a ship carrying android is being attacked, KOS-MOS gets activated and ...
Style: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Kino's Journey (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: In this 13-part mini-series, Kino and her talking motorcycle Hermes travel around the world, visiting different countries for three days each in order to learn about each one.
Style: anime, psychological, thought provoking, road movie, deep ...
Plot: young heroes, social differences, travel, motorcycle, steampunk, slice of life, on the road, mature, existentialism, loneliness, urban, dystopia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (1998)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 is a Japanese anime series produced by Anime International Company and funded by ADV Films. A retelling of the 1987 original video animation Bubblegum Crisis, the series premiered on TV Tokyo on October 8, 1998 where it ...
Style: anime, cyber, stylized, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: police, distopia, dark future, artificial intelligence, androids, dystopia, motorcycle, technology gone awry, down on your luck, computers and web, battles, chaos ...
Time: 2040s
Place: tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Aquarion (2005)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the future, a giant fighting machine called the Aquarion is humanity's only effective weapon in the fight against the technologically advanced species called the Shadow Angels.
Style: anime, exciting, serious, mecha, entertaining ...
Plot: reincarnation, dystopian future, danger, space and aliens, man versus machine, space travel, artificial intelligence, teenage life, imaginary, chaos, save the world, environmentalism ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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.hack//Roots (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: .hack//Roots is a 26-episode anime series, animated by studio Bee Train, that sets as a prologue for the .hack//G.U. video games. It is the first .hack TV series broadcast in HDTV. It is set seven years after the events of the first two anime series ...
Style: anime, serious, captivating, cyber, futuristic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberspace, obsessive quest, rivalry, good versus evil, imaginary, danger, escapades, dystopian future, hacking, computer, hacker, geek ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Kiddy Grade (2002)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Two women carry out missions and fight crime across the galaxy.
Style: anime, futuristic, stylized, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, space travel, danger, undercover, imaginary, chaos, dystopian future, life is a bitch, man versus machine, partners against crime, ghost, state affairs ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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RahXephon (2002)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: In a world where time passes at a crawl and the blood of your neighbor runs blue, 17 year old high school student Ayato Kamina goes about his daily life within Tokyo Jupiter oblivious to the world around him, having been educated with the fact that ...
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Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Ergo Proxy (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story: Ergo Proxy is a science fiction suspense anime television series, produced by Manglobe, which premiered across Japan on 25 February 2006 on the WOWOW satellite network. It is directed by Shukō Murase, with screenplay by Dai Satō et al.. Ergo Proxy ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
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Style: anime, serious, suspenseful, captivating, mecha
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic mission, rivalry, imaginary, space travel, technology gone awry, apocalypse, escapades, danger, artificial intelligence, dystopian future, robot, androids and robots ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The future Earth; with over 80% having been annihilated in a great war, the rest live under the dominion of a race known as The Third. These beings possess a third Space Eye on their foreheads, and watch over the Earth and it's remaining ...
Style: anime, exciting, mecha, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience: teens
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Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Virus Buster Serge (1997)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Virus Buster Serge, known in Japan simply as Virus is a Japanese media franchise. It originated as an adventure game for the Sega Saturn. It was adapted into an anime television series which was directed by Masami Ōbari, produced by J.C.Staff and ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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53%
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s-CRY-ed (2001)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 629 min.
TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Macross Plus (1994)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
TV show
Story: Macross Plus is a four-episode anime OVA and theatrical movie in the Macross series. It was the first sequel to the original Macross television series that took place in the official timeline. Plus was a groundbreaking combination of traditional cel ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.4
 530
Cyborg 009 (2001)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Eighteen-year-old Joe Shimamura, a rebellious, spiky-haired half-Japanese youth, wakes up one afternoon to find himself lying on an operating-room table with a strange suit and superhuman abilities such as the ability to move faster than the human ...
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Audience: kids
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Geneshaft (2001)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
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TV show
Story: In the 21st century mankind was on the brink of destruction. Through genetic engineering however they eradicated such feelings as love and the desire for power. Since women are naturally less aggressive than men, women to man ratio was set to 9:1. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, stylized, anime, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Country: Japan
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Eureka Seven (2005)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Eureka Seven, known in Japan as Psalms of Planets Eureka seveN, is a Japanese mecha anime TV series by Bones. Eureka Seven tells the story of Renton Thurston and the outlaw group Gekkostate, his relationship with the enigmatic mecha pilot Eureka, ...
Style: anime, mecha, serious, stylized, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens
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Time: future
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Black Magic M-66 (1987)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min.
Story: A freelance reporter stumbles on a desperate military operation. An army chopper has crashed and its cargo has been activated. Now there are two killer androids running loose in the wilderness and have the daughter of their inventor as their target. ...
Style: anime, mecha, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
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Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mobile Suit Gundam is a televised anime series, produced by Sunrise. Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network on April 7, 1979, and lasted until January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes. It was the ...
Style: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
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Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
New Getter Robo (2004)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: New Getter Robot is an anime original video animation co-produced by Dynamic Planning and Bandai Visual. The series is a re-imagining of the 1970s manga Getter Robo, created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa, that incorporates aspects of Japanese ...
Style: anime, serious, suspenseful, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 14 min.
TV show
Story: In the Year 2016, Resistance fighter Blair Williams embarks on a deadly mission to search for a threat that is weakening humanity's defense against the self-aware artificial intelligence called Skynet and it's lethal Terminators.
Style: suspenseful, stylized, serious, exciting, adult animation ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: terminator, battles, man versus machine, tough girl, manhunt, save the world, rivalry, heroes, daring rescue, destiny, technology gone awry, chaos ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.9
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Wolf's Rain (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 701 min.
TV show
Story: In some distant future, it's common knowledge that all wolves have been extinct for 200 years. However, it seems this is false as wolves have not disappeared but rather have taken human form. Kiba, a lone wolf, wanders into a city, trying to ...
Style: anime, serious, exciting, atmospheric, manga ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, adult
Plot: good versus evil, danger, wolf, supernatural, parallel world, fate of humanity, legends and myths, young heroes, apocalypse, dystopian future, escapades, heroic mission ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.8
 3K
Oldman Z (1991)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An old man is being treated specially by the Department of Health under the so-called Project Z, a special nursing bed with a 6th generation computer on board. When the pain and loneliness of the old man reaches his ex-private nurse, she decides to ...
Style: anime, manga, cyber, cult classic, mecha ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, medical, artificial intelligence, satire, hacker, benign alien, rivalry, society, man versus machine, life is a bitch, mad scientist, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters, detectives and cyborgs all in an ...
Style: anime, serious, cyber, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, adult
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Time: future, 2030s, near future, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 162 min.
Story: The year is 2030. Six months passed since the Laughing Man Incident was solved. About 3 million refugees are living in Japan, invited to fill the labor shortage. However, the emergent presence of the invited-refugees intensified their confrontation ...
Style: anime, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cyber ...
Plot: androids and robots, computer, terrorism, ghost in the shell, cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, chaos, danger, battles, escapades, rivalry, imaginary ...
Time: future
Place: japan, taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Transformers: Energon (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Transformers: Energon, known in Japan as Transformer: Superlink, is the 2004–2005 Transformers toyline, animated series and comic book series, another co-production between Hasbro and Takara and a direct sequel to Transformers: Armada. It is also ...
Style: anime, exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: kids
Plot: androids and robots, transforming robot, transformers, artificial intelligence, heroes, imaginary, battles, chaos, rivalry, danger, escapades, superhero ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Armitage III: Dual Matrix (2001)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Naomi Armitage and Ross Sylibus have changed their names and live with their daughter Yoko as a happy and normal family on Mars — until an android riot breaks out at an anti-matter plant on Earth.
Style: anime, stylized, serious, suspenseful, cyber ...
Audience: toddlers, boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, mars, ghost, robot, dystopian future, good versus evil, artificial intelligence, apocalypse, chaos and mayhem, haunted by the past, imaginary, master villain ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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