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Studio: Visual 80
Status: Finished

Melos is a good boy from Messina and has come to Syracuse, the magnificent city of temples, to buy a ritual sword for his sister's marriage ceremony. He meets a very talented sculptor and they become friends.

Later, the King's guards arrest Melos while he was having a walk in the castle's gardens and Syracuse's King, obsessed by the idea of assassins out to kill him, sentences him to death. Melos is desperate, but most of all he wants to be present at his sister's marriage, so he asks the King for three days to go to Messina for the celebration and then return to Syracuse where he will accept the death penalty. The King does not trust Melos, but, trying to demonstrate that nobody could trust him, asks him to find a volunteer substitute in case he breaks his promise. The sculptor accepts to be Melos' substitute in this case...

Tags: Historical , Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , Classic Literature , Male Protagonist , Politics , Swordplay , Gore , Tragedy , Nudity

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Bessatsu Olympia Kyklos

Also known as Extra Olympia Kyklos.

Studio: Dentsu , Gosay Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life , Sports

Demetrios was a young man in Ancient Greece who was a potter's apprentice, but also a rather timid otaku. Despite pursuing the arts, he was blessed with natural athletic talent. One day, he gets dragged into a village conflict. Demetrios contemplates how helpless he is, but then is struck by lightning! When he comes to, he is no longer in Greece, but a strange land where he can't understand the language and people look rather different. Yes, he somehow ended up 1964 Tokyo! Of course, Demetrios has no idea what Japan even is. What will become of him?!

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Stop Motion , Athletics , Historical , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Time Skip , Nudity , Time Manipulation , Educational , Seinen , Gods , Isekai , Wrestling , Swimming , Drawing , War

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Crunchyroll

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Mouryou no Hako

Studio: MADHOUSE
Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

Between August and October, 1952, a series of unusual crimes takes place in Musashino and Mitaka: the attempted murder of 14-year-old Kanako Yuzuki, Kanako's abduction from the strange research "hospital" where she was recovering, then abductions of other girls, followed by their severed limbs in custom-fitted boxes being placed in surrounding towns. News editor Morihiko Toriguchi and crime fiction writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi investigate with the help of onmyōji Akihiko Chūzenji. Meanwhile, Tōkyō police detective Shutaro Kiba searches for Kanako, despite Kanagawa police having jurisdiction; and the lawyer for the estate of Kanako's grandfather hires private investigator Reijiro Enokizu to find Kanako, as well. Their investigation uncovers bizarre truths and dark family secrets along the way.

Tags: Historical , Achronological Order , Ensemble Cast , Police , Detective , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Denpa , Incest , Rural , Body Horror , Youkai

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Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite

Also known as Orb: On the Movements of the Earth.

Studio: MADHOUSE , SKY Perfect Pictures , Shogakukan , NHK Enterprises , MADHOUSE , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama

The setting is 15th-century Poland. It was a time when heretical ideas lead those to who possessed such a mindset to being burned at the stake for their beliefs.

The protagonist, Rafał, a child prodigy, is expected to major in theology, the most important subject at the time, at the university where he plans to skip a grade. One day, however, he comes across a mysterious man, and is now studying a possible "truth" in the midst of heretical thought!

Tags: Astronomy , Religion , Philosophy , Fugitive , Historical , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Foreign , Rural , Primarily Male Cast , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Time Skip , Female Protagonist , Assassins , Male Protagonist , Torture , Politics , Gore , Swordplay , Suicide

Where to watch?

Netflix

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Seishun Anime Zenshuu

Also known as Animated Classics of Japanese Literature.

Studio: Nippon Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

A brilliant collection of beautifully animated episodes based on selected masterpieces of Japanese modern literature.

The aim of this series is to appeal to the viewer at large and to give him or her some idea of the variety and individuality which Japanese literature has developed over the last hundred years.

The authors range from Higuchi Ichiyou (Takekurabe), Mori Ougai (The Dancing Girl) and Natsume Souseki (Botchan) to Kawabata Yasunari (The Izu Dancer), Nobel laureate of 1968, and Mishima Yukio (The Sound of Waves).

Tags: Historical , Classic Literature , Anthology

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No streaming links available

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Wagahai wa Neko de Aru

Studio: Toei Animation , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Based on Natsume Souseki's comical novel.

Tags: Animals

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Hi no Tori

Also known as Phoenix.

Studio: Touhouku Shinsha , NHK , Tezuka Productions , Media Blasters , NYAV Post
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Hi no Tori is a collection of stories that all have something in common. The Phoenix, whose blood is believed to give an eternal life to one who drinks it. Therefore many seek to kill it, but as the Phoenix of the tale, it's reborn from the ashes. Stories take place in future and the past, where humans fight with each other as always, and everyone is afraid to die. But still, every story teaches a lesson: Life is beginning of an eternity, an never-ending cycle.

Tags: Mythology , Historical , Philosophy , Reincarnation , Anthology

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Crunchyroll

Hoopla

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Kino no Tabi: the Beautiful World

Also known as Kino's Journey.

Studio: WOWOW , Genco , A.C.G.T. , Sentai Filmworks , Studio Wombat
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Slice of Life

Based on a hit light novel series by Keiichi Sigsawa, the philosophical Kino's Journey employs the time-honored motif of the road trip as a vehicle for self-discovery and universal truth. Deeply meditative and cooler than zero, the series follows the existential adventures of the apt marksman Kino along with talking motorcycle Hermes as they travel the world and learn much about themselves in the process. Imaginative, thought-provoking, and sometimes disturbing, Kino's journey is documented in an episodic style with an emphasis on atmosphere rather than action or plot, though still prevalent.

Tags: Philosophy , Episodic , Travel , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Foreign , Meta , Motorcycles , Achronological Order , Dystopian , Guns , Rural , Steampunk , Agender , Snowscape , Denpa , Seinen , Mopeds , Politics , Cannibalism , Robots , Kuudere , War , Battle Royale , Aviation , Tanks

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