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The Twelve Kingdoms (2002)
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The Twelve Kingdoms (2002)
Original name: 十二国記
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Nakajima Youko is your average somewhat timid high school student. One day, a strange man named Keiki appears before her, swearing allegiance. Before she could properly register what was happening, demon-like creatures attack Youko and her friends, after which they are pulled into a different world. A world unlike what she has ever known. Separated from Keiki, Youko and her friends must do whatever they can if they wish to survive in this new world.
Style: anime, atmospheric, serious, stylized, manga, epic fantasy
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: parallel world, isekai, good versus evil, young heroes, ancient mystery, self esteem, heroic mission, magic, escapades, imaginary kingdom, getting home, stranger, imaginary, magical, fantasy world, destiny, supernatural, heroes, youth, politics, desire, ordinary person, hopes, beast, female nudity ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, exciting, serious and stylized films and TV series with plots about escapades, good versus evil, imaginary, heroes, danger, supernatural and rivalry mostly in Animation, Adventure and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Twelve Kingdoms: Wolf's Rain (2003), Claymore (2007), InuYasha: The Final Act (2009), Magic Knight Rayearth (1994), Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Claymore (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In a world rife with deadly creatures called "youma", a young silver eyed woman, Clare, works on behalf of an organization that trains female youma halfbreeds into warriors with the ability to destroy these creatures. Considered a rogue ...
Style: anime, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, manly
Plot: good versus evil, supernatural ability, monster, beast, female warrior, heroic mission, imaginary, supernatural, suffering, heroes, obsession, death ...
Time: medieval times
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
InuYasha: The Final Act (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: InuYasha's story draws to a close but not before finding Naraku and the Sacred Jewel, and facing new enemies and new dangers.
Style: anime, exciting, serious, stylized, atmospheric
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, heroic mission, heroes, young heroes, master warrior, battles, escapades, master villain, danger, imaginary, ghost, uninhibited rivalry ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Magic Knight Rayearth (1994)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Magic Knight Rayearth is a Japanese manga series created by Clamp, an all-female manga artist team consisting of Satsuki Igarashi, Ageha Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi and Mokona. Appearing as a serial in the manga magazine Nakayoshi from the November 1993 ...
Style: anime, serious, exciting, humorous, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: good versus evil, knight, kidnapping, supernatural, survival, friends, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, robot, female protagonist, magical, isekai ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: This story is about the flow of fate and the battle to keep the world on the right path. Aladdin is a boy who has set out to explore the world after being trapped in a room for most of his life. His best friend is a flute with a djinn in it named ...
Style: anime, captivating, stylized, exciting, serious ...
Audience: pre-teens
Plot: supernatural, imaginary, friendship, magic, youth, good versus evil, danger, hopes, young heroes, rivalry, legends and myths, destiny ...
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Phantom in the Twilight (2018)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan, China
TV show
Story: A girl in London encounters a cafe that opens only at night, which stands on the boundary of the worlds of humans and shadows.
Style: anime, unusual plot structure, captivating, atmospheric, weird
Plot: legends and myths, friendship, escapades, heroine, fantasy world, martial arts, uncover truth, young heroes, heroes, showdown, supernatural ability, monster ...
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Tales from Earthsea (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn't enter the world of humans. Due to all ...
Style: anime, adult animation, exciting, touching, manga ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dragon, wizards and magicians, good versus evil, heroes, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, wizard, supernatural ability, master villain, sword and sorcery, imaginary ...
Place: fictional island, seattle, europe, macedonia
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100%
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: When Haruhito awakens, he's in the dark. He doesn't know where he is, why is he here, and where he came from. Around him there are several men and women who have the same circumstances. Haruhito and his companions find themselves in a ...
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60%
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Scrapped Princess (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Pacifica Casull is the most feared and hated person by the followers of the God Mauser. Known as the Scrapped Princess, she is the poison that will destroy the world. To avoid being killed by the zealots of Mauser, Pacifica and her adoptive brother ...
Style: anime, serious, captivating, mecha
Audience: family outing, kids
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Deltora Quest (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The evil Shadow Lord has taken control of the kingdom of Deltora and has driven the land and its people into misfortune and suffering. Lief, the son of a blacksmith, has just turned sixteen and is entrusted, along with his two companions Barda and ...
Style: anime, exciting, serious, stylized
Audience: kids
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45%
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Chaotic (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Chaotic is an American-Canadian animated fantasy television series produced by 4Kids Entertainment and animated by Bardel Entertainment. It is based on the Danish trading card game of the same name. Much of the plot is based on the original ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, anime, dark fantasy
Audience: kids, family outing
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44%
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The Slayers (1995)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Slayers follows the exploits of the young sorceress Lina Inverse, whose life revolves around food, treasure, and fighting. After stealing treasure from a group of bandits, Lina is accosted by stragglers during her journey to the next town. ...
Style: anime, fantasy anime, semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: sword and sorcery, treasure hunt, sorcery, magic, escapades, heroes, imaginary kingdom, righting the wronged, supernatural, rivalry, fame, gold ...
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43%
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Brave Story (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jr. High School Student Wataru and his friends like playing in an abandond building and looking for ghosts. However it seems he is not the only one. Another mysterious student Mitsuru shows Wataru that there is a magical door to another world where ...
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Audience: kids
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42%
Fate/stay night (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Shirou Emiya lost his parents in a fire when he was young and was later adopted by the sorcerer Kiritsugu Emiya. Shirou is drawn into the Holy Grail War summons a female "Servant" known as Saber to protect him and obtain the Holy Grail.
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Audience: teens
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Place: japan, asia
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Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (2020)
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Kekkaishi (2006)
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Kekkaishi is a supernatural manga series written and illustrated by Yellow Tanabe. It was serialized in Japan by Shogakukan in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday from 2003 to 2011, and licensed for an English-language release in North America by Viz ...
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Endride (2016)
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Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Shun Asanaga is a 15-year-old junior high school student with an optimistic and bright personality. One day, he finds a mysterious crystal in the office of his father, who is a scientist and businessman. When he touches it, the world becomes ...
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39%
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Kyo Kara Maoh! (2004)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Shibuya Yuuri, an ordinary high school boy got flushed in a toilet and he saw himself in another world. He was then declared as the 27th maou or the demon king of the Demon world by Gunter von Christ and Konrad Weller . When Yuuri now travels back ...
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39%
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Arcadia is plagued with evil, life-draining demons called Thanatos and a vast lack of Purifiers to exterminate them all. While attending school, Angelique attracts the eye of a man who intends to turn the tides to the people's favor. What ...
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Sailor Moon (1992)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: One day, Usagi Tsukino, clumsy 2nd-year middle school student (8th grader), stumbles upon a talking cat named Luna. Luna tells her that she is destined to be Sailor Moon, "champion of love and justice", and she must search for the fabled ...
Style: anime, exciting, atmospheric, stylized, shoujo ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, kids, family outing
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Time: 90s
Place: japan, tokyo
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Final Fantasy: Unlimited (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Final Fantasy: Unlimited is an anime television series based on Square Enix's popular Final Fantasy role-playing video game franchise. Final Fantasy: Unlimited incorporates both 2D animation and 3D graphics, and takes elements from the Final ...
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36%
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Guin sâga (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: "The seal will be broken after many years". In the land of Nospherus, four heroes embark on a patch of destiny that will weave a new legend. The story follows Guin, a powerful swordsman with a leopard head, the adolescent royal twins Remus ...
Style: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, entertaining ...
Plot: twins, destiny, good versus evil, jungle, friendship, young heroes, friends, rivalry, legends and myths, imaginary kingdom, battles, escapades ...
Time: medieval times
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.3
 125
Amatsuki (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Ordinary high school student, Rikugou Tokidoki, has to take supplementary History classes, to boost his failing grade, at a state-of-the-art museum. This museum allows the visitor to use high-tech virtual reality to reconstruct a realistic Edo of ...
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36%
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MÄR: Märchen Awakens Romance (2005)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Ginta Tiramizu is an average school student but keeps on having weird dreams about an amazing land. One day, something strange happens and Ginta appears in his fantasy. Together with Ginta's friends on the way, he will be able to fight an evil ...
Style: anime, humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
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35%
Niko and the Sword of Light (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Ten-year-old Niko, the last of his kind in a strange world, embarks on an epic quest to bring light back to his land. Armed with his magic sword, Niko journeys to the Cursed Volcano, making new friends and powerful foes while uncovering secrets ...
Style: humorous, exciting, semi serious, captivating, adult animation ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: heroic mission, good versus evil, young heroes, child hero, save the world, heroes, supernatural, magic, friendship, rivalry, danger, friends ...
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34%
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Naruto (2002)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Many years ago, in the hidden village of Konoha, lived a great demon fox. When it swung one of it's nine tails, a tsunami occurred. The fourth hokage sealed this demon fox inside a boy in exchange for his own life. Naruto was that boy, and he ...
Style: anime, exciting, manga, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, manly
Plot: determination, friends, danger, ninja, rivalry, friendship, master warrior, training, good versus evil, teenage life, youth, naruto ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Yu-Gi-Oh! is a 1998 Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation and Bandai based on chapters 1-59 of the manga of the same name written by Kazuki Takahashi. The series aired on TV Asahi between April 4, 1998, and October 10, 1998. An ...
Style: anime, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen fantasy
Plot: heroic mission, supernatural ability, good versus evil, danger, rivalry, escapades, imaginary, mind control, battles, ancient mystery, duel, artifact ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
InuYasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Inuyasha and his brother, Sesshomaru, each inherited a sword from their father after his death. However, their father had a third sword, named Sounga, that he sealed away. Seven hundreds years after his death, Sounga awakens and threatens ...
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, exciting, stylized
Audience: pre-teens, kids
Plot: supernatural, good versus evil, heroic mission, young heroes, danger, master warrior, youth, escapades, imaginary, curses spells and rituals, clairvoyant, haunting ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Saint Seiya (1986)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Ages ago, the goddess Athena was served by fighters called Saints who channeled the power of the Cosmos within them. Now a youth named Seiya has trained to become a Saint himself by earning the mystical Cloth of Pegasus. He is joined by other Saints ...
Style: anime, serious, tense, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: legends and myths, good versus evil, rescue, imaginary, danger, evil force, protector, rivalry, save the world, supernatural, heroic mission, destiny ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: japan, asia, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Sacred Blacksmith (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: This show is based on the light novel series by Isao Miura of the same name. Cecily Campbell is the only child of the famous Campbell family. When her father passes away she joins the prestigious Knight Guards to honour her family's legacy. ...
Style: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, entertaining ...
Plot: escapades, rivalry, save the kingdom, danger, blacksmith, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, good versus evil, love and romance, partner, sword fight, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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