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Leviathan ONA 12 12 12EPS Leviathan ONA 12 eps 24m 2025 Finished Set in a war-torn reimagining of 1914, Leviathan follows Alek, a fugitive prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Deryn Sharp, a daring young girl disguised as a boy to serve in the British Air Service. When fate thro... Sci-FiAdventureHistorical 12 12 Taisho Otome Fairy Tale TV 12 12 12EPS Taisho Otome Fairy Tale TV 12 eps 24m 2021 Finished Tamahiko Shima is the youngest son of the powerful and wealthy Shima family. Blessed with great fortune since his childhood, he grew up wanting nothing but affection from his oftentimes distant family. After losing his m... ShounenRomanceComedy 12 12 Puppet Princess OVA 18+ 1 1 Puppet Princess OVA 41m 2000 Finished Princess Rangiku lost her entire family to Lord Karimata, who invaded her home seeking her father's life work, puppets with unique capabilities. As her duty, Rangiku sets out with three of her father's greatest puppet wa... ActionFantasySupernatural ★ 6.5 1 1 Samurai 7 TV 26 26 26EPS Samurai 7 TV 26 eps 26m 2004 Finished In the far distant future, on a planet that might have been called "earth", there was a war between samurai who mechanized their bodies. After the long war, people enjoyed a modest peace. Facing starvation and abductions... Sci-FiMechaHistorical ★ 7.5 26 26 Battle Girls: Time Paradox TV 18+ 13 13 13EPS Battle Girls: Time Paradox TV 13 eps 23m 2011 Finished Yoshino Hide is an average girl who always seems to find trouble wherever she goes. One day Yoshino visits a local shrine to pray in order to pass her upcoming test. However, Yoshino sees a blue light coming from inside... Sci-FiActionComedy ★ 6.6 13 13 A Moment but Forever ONA 14 14EPS A Moment but Forever ONA 14 eps 22m 2024 Finished The Goddess of the Machine God descended to earth to retrieve the hand of God, broke the rules and changed her fate against the will of heaven, and experienced an unparalleled love affair, achieving a double harvest in c... ActionFantasyRomance ★ 6.9 14 Mr. Stone Feels Lonely ONA 36 36EPS Mr. Stone Feels Lonely ONA 36 eps 8m 2022 Finished Shi Zhou Wu is the older brother of the Ren Tian Faction. He has dedicated himself to martial arts and has been oblivious to worldly affairs since he was a child. He is serious, does not smile and is often feared by the... ActionComedyHistorical 36 Cat God ONA 10 10EPS Cat God ONA 10 eps 14m 2025 Finished The story unfolds through the eyes of cats, offering glimpses of intense battlefields, fleeting moments in history, heartfelt family bonds, and imaginative visions of the future. Rendered in a variety of styles, includin... ActionFantasyAdventure 10 The Mirage House in the Clouds ONA 26 26EPS The Mirage House in the Clouds ONA 26 eps 14m 2024 Finished ActionFantasyHistorical 26 Jian Gu ONA 60 60EPS Jian Gu ONA 60 eps 10m 2023 Finished ActionFantasyAdventure 60 Manga Nihon Keizai Nyuumon TV 5 25EPS Manga Nihon Keizai Nyuumon TV 25 eps 25m 1987 Finished Depiction of Japan's economy, based on Shoutarou Ishinomori's epynomous manga. DramaSlice of LifeSeinen 5 Masamune Datenicle ONA 6 6EPS Masamune Datenicle ONA 6 eps 16m 2016 Finished The coming-of-age battle story will center on the famous 17th-century Japanese warlord Date Masamune when he was young. The Date clan took its name from the Date region of the former Mutsu province, which comprises part... ActionSuper PowerHistorical ★ 6.0 6 Hanayaka Nari, Waga Ichizoku: Kinetograph OVA 2 2EPS Hanayaka Nari, Waga Ichizoku: Kinetograph OVA 2 eps 51m 2012 Finished During the Taishou period of early 20th-century Japan, Haru Asagi is sent to work as a maid to support her struggling family. The Miyanomori family, which she serves, is highly influential across Japan and consists of on... DramaHistoricalJosei ★ 6.5 2 Rail of the Star: A True Story of Children MOVIE 1 1EPS Rail of the Star: A True Story of Children MOVIE 1 ep 79m 1993 Finished This is the autobiographic tale of Kobayashi Chitose, a young Japanese girl growing up in a Japanese-occupied North Korea. As World War II progresses, Chitose begins to realize that her family will not be able to escape... DramaHistorical ★ 7.1 1 Tomorrow's Nadja TV 50 50EPS Tomorrow's Nadja TV 50 eps 24m 2003 Finished This story takes place about one hundred years ago. Nadja is a bright, cheerful girl who was raised in an orphanage near London, England. Nadja was entrusted to the orphanage when she was a baby. So she thought her fathe... DramaAdventureRomance ★ 7.6 50 cocoon: One Summer of Girlhood SPECIAL 1 1EPS cocoon: One Summer of Girlhood SPECIAL 1 ep 40m Finished San and Mayu are two schoolgirls living in Okinawa during the closing months of the Pacific War. Together with their classmates, the two friends are drafted into the war effort as nurses for wounded soldiers. When ordere... DramaAdventureHistorical ★ 6.9 1 Reign: The Conqueror TV 18+ 13 13 13EPS Reign: The Conqueror TV 13 eps 23m 1999 Finished In 356 BC, Alexander the Great arrives in Greece with the ominous destiny that he will become the "destroyer of the world." Inheriting the crown, he becomes king of the Macedonians and starts down a road of conquest with... Sci-FiActionFantasy ★ 5.7 13 13 Niji no Kanata e! Shoujo Diana Monogatari SPECIAL 1 1EPS Niji no Kanata e! Shoujo Diana Monogatari SPECIAL 1 ep 23m 1986 Finished The rare anime biography of Princess Diana from her birth to her early teen years. HistoricalShoujo ★ 5.2 1 Nightsong of Splendor OVA 18+ 4 4EPS Nightsong of Splendor OVA 4 eps 28m 1989 Finished The story takes place in old Tokyo, the Tokyo of August-September 1923 (Showa 12). At this moment in time, the city is a mixture of extremes... past and present, rich and poor, good and bad. This is a city where we see b... DramaRomanceHistorical ★ 6.7 4 Kuro ga Ita Natsu MOVIE 1 1EPS Kuro ga Ita Natsu MOVIE 1 ep 67m 1990 Finished Hiroshima, summer of 1945. A young girl named Nobuko saves a starving kitten from crows. She wants to keep the kitten, but her parents dismiss the idea. Nobuko eventually convinces them to let her keep it. She and her br... DramaHistorical ★ 6.4 1 Kuroi Ame ni Utarete MOVIE 18+ 1 1EPS Kuroi Ame ni Utarete MOVIE 1 ep 94m 1984 Finished Anime adaptation of the manga Kuroi Ame ni Utarete by Nakazawa Keiji. DramaSlice of LifeSeinen ★ 5.8 1 Kochoki TV 12 12EPS Kochoki TV 12 eps 23m 2019 Finished The series is a historical drama aesthetically and boldly adapting the life of Oda Nobunaga in his teens up to his time as a warlord against his brother, Nobuyuki. DramaActionHistorical ★ 6.5 12 Kishin Corps OVA 7 7 7EPS Kishin Corps OVA 7 eps 33m 1993 Finished October 1941, as the second World War threatens to destroy the civilized world, an unforeseen complication suddenly occurs. An alien invasion! Despite the sudden appearance of these extraterrestrial aggressors, the Axis... Sci-FiMechaAdventure ★ 6.3 7 7 Neon The Animation ONA 6 6EPS Neon The Animation ONA 6 eps 5m 2011 Finished Promotional animated videos of Osaka's entertainment and shopping district, Nipponbashi (or colloquially known as Nippombashi) narrated by Nipponbashi's mascot Neon and her sister Hikari-chan. Nipponbashi is the equal of... MechaComedySlice of Life ★ 5.5 6