Anime like The Chocolate Panic Picture Show

Genres: Psychological

What is The Chocolate Panic Picture Show about?

Studio: Tezuka Productions
Status: Finished

Follow Manbo, Chinbo and Chonbo as they are flung into a strange, psychedelic world of madness they don't understand. See them cause chaos through their zany, unpredictable antics in this comical take on cultural imperialism.

Note: Gainax's first professional production, The Chocolate Panic Picture Show is a wacky musical OVA based on a manga by Fujiwara Kamui, serialised in Monthly Super Action and partly inspired by Jamie Uys's The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980).

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Dancing , Idol , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , No Dialogue
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Gondora

Gondora

Studio: Studio 4°C
Status: Finished
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A short anime about a guy living in his own world.

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The Flying Luna Clipper

The Flying Luna Clipper

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Music , Psychological

A trip on a chartered plane with a number of other thrill-seekers (most of whom are anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables) and hop from island to island, each of which offer their own unique visual delights.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Aviation , Foreign , Full CGI , Coastal , Dancing , Ensemble Cast , Anthropomorphism
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Eternal Family

Eikyuu Kazoku

Also known as Eternal Family.

Studio: Horipro , Studio 4°C
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Psychological

It started as a sociological experiment. 6 different people were brainwashed to think that they were a family and then put in arbitrary situations to see how they would react. However, when a taping of the families conducts is sold in a desperate attempt to make a little capital it instantly becomes a success. Now the family is a first rated show and their every move is broadcasted around the world without them knowing it. But when a clogged toilet sets off a chain of events that ultimately frees the family from the room they are confined in the broadcasters, not willing to lose their source of income, set out to hunt down and recapture every member of the Eternal family.



Tags: Family Life , Ensemble Cast , Slapstick , Dystopian , Amnesia , Satire
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BIRTH

BIRTH

Also known as BIRTH.

Studio: ADV Films , Victor Entertainment , Kaname Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Mecha , Psychological , Sci-Fi

Aqualoid was a prosperous planet, but an attack from a mysterious life force, the Inorganics, transforms it into a post-apocalyptic shell of its former self. When Nam finds a mysterious sword, he is suddenly the object of a planet-wide chase. With the Inorganics closing in, will Nam and his friends discover the secret of the sword and save their world? Or will they destroy Aqualoid in favor of a new Birth?


Tags: Aliens , Robots , Ensemble Cast , Lost Civilization , Space , Aviation , Desert , Shounen , Guns , Afterlife , Reincarnation , Female Protagonist
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NOISEMAN SOUNDINSECT

Onkyou Seimeitai Noiseman

Also known as NOISEMAN SOUNDINSECT.

Studio: Horipro , Bandai Visual , Studio 4°C
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

The film is set in the distant future in a city called Cahmpon. A scientist creates a synthetic life-form called Noiseman, which erases music from the airwaves by turning it into crystals. A group of Biker street kids rebels against this tyranny.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Fugitive
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Kenya Boy

Shounen Kenya

Also known as Kenya Boy.

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure

It is the year 1941. 11-year-old Murakami Wataru lives with his family, Japanese textile traders operating in British Kenya, when war breaks out between Japan and the Allies. Fleeing into the bush, young Wataru falls headlong into a series of fantastic adventures.



Tags: Survival , Historical , Conspiracy , Fugitive , Achromatic , Foreign , Anachronism , War , Spearplay , Cult , Male Protagonist , Dinosaurs , Time Manipulation
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Gurren Lagann

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Also known as Gurren Lagann.

Studio: Gainax , Aniplex , Konami , Half H.P Studio , Bandai , Bandai Entertainment , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

In a far away future, mankind lives underground in huge caves, unknowing of a world above with a sky and stars.

In the small village of Jiha, Simon, a shy boy who works as a digger discovers a strange glowing object during excavation. The enterprising Kamina, a young man with a pair of rakish sunglasses and the passion of a firey sun, befriends Simon and forms a small band of brothers, the Gurren Brigade, to escape the village and break through the ceiling of the cave to reach the surface, which few believe exist.

The village elder won't hear of such foolishness and punishes the Brigade. However, when disaster strikes from the world above and the entire village is in jeopardy, it's up to Simon, Kamina, a girl with a big gun named Yoko, and the small yet sturdy robot, Lagann, to save the day.

The new friends journey to the world above and find that the surface is a harsh battlefield, and it's up to them to fight back against the rampaging Beastmen to turn the tide in the humans' favor! Pierce the heavens, Gurren Lagann!

Tags: Super Robot , Coming of Age , Dystopian , Found Family , Male Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Primarily Adult Cast , Space Opera , Tragedy , Travel , Class Struggle , Space , War , Aliens , Time Skip , Desert , Politics , Anthropomorphism , Outdoor , Heterosexual , Henshin , Military , Animals , Alternate Universe , Guns , Cosmic Horror , Shounen , Urban , Nudity , CGI , Love Triangle , Suicide , Swordplay , Boys' Love

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