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Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters

Also known as Digimon Universe App Monsters.

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Everyone in the world uses smartphone apps. But inside them lurks unknown creatures called "Appli Monsters," or "Appmon." The Appmon are AI lifeforms with the ability to think and act, and exist in the boundary between the human world and digital space to allow people and the system to interface and function. But in the vast sea of the internet, the "last boss AI" Leviathan takes control of the Appmon with a virus and begins hacking every system, thus starting to control the human world from the world of the net.

The protagonist, Haru Shinkai, is led to acquire the Appli Drive, and uses it to materialize Gatchmon, a search app monster. What is the secret hidden within the Appli Drive? What is the mysterious field that exists between net world where the Appmon exist, and the real world? What is the "App Combine" that can combine two Appmons? What is Leviathan's true goal?



Tags: Artificial Intelligence , Kids , Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Virtual World , Primarily Child Cast , Robots , Henshin , Anthropomorphism , Kaiju , Proxy Battle , CGI , Crossdressing

Rockman.EXE

Also known as MegaMan NT Warrior.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Xebec , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Viz Media , NAS , Half H.P Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

In the year of 20XX, a young boy by the name of Netto Hikari receives a very special gift as he enters the 5th grade. His very own customized net navi, Rockman! Despite Rockman's small size and far more responsible personality, the two boys quickly become the best of friends. A net navi is designed to guide his operator from the inside of his or her PErsonal Terminal, or simply PET for short. Children and adults alike enjoy friendly "Net Battles", where they spar their navis against each other to prove their worth.



Tags: Artificial Intelligence , Virtual World , Primarily Child Cast , Kids , Male Protagonist , E-Sports , School , Terrorism

Digimon Adventure

Also known as Digimon: Digital Monsters.

Studio: Toei Animation , Yomiko Advertising , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Seven kids are transported to the Digital World, a strange place where digital creatures called "Digimon" reside. A group of Digimon soon befriend them and keep the kids out of harm's way. The children then discover they are the Chosen Children, which protect the Digital World from evil Digimon like Devimon and Vamdemon.

Tags: Isekai , Virtual World , Primarily Child Cast , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Proxy Battle , Artificial Intelligence , Kaiju , Kids , Henshin , Animals , Dinosaurs , Cosmic Horror , Anthropomorphism , Angels , Primarily Animal Cast , Family Life , Time Skip , Dragons , Demons , Creature Taming , Male Protagonist , Adoption

Digimon Ghost Game

Also known as Digimon Ghost Game.

Studio: Toei Animation , Fuji TV , Yomiko Advertising
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Sightings of mysterious creatures known as "Hologram Ghosts" have been a popular topic on social networks for the past few years. According to the rumors, several people have fallen victim to these specters. Those fortunate to survive their encounters with the paranormal beings claim that they resembled glitched holograms.

Hazakura Academy middle school student Hiro Amanokawa believes these sightings are merely an urban legend. However, as the incidents start to increase in frequency, he is reminded of the day his father suddenly vanished, with strange digital watches serving as the only relics of his disappearance. Much like the other sightings, what happened to Hiro's father cannot be explained by conventional logic.

One day, when a fellow student in the academy is attacked by a Hologram Ghost, Hiro and his friend Kiyoshirou Higashimitarai decide to look into the matter. Little does Hiro know that this investigation will be their first step toward discovering a dangerous world previously unknown to mankind.



Tags: Kids , Episodic , Artificial Intelligence , Body Horror , Youkai , Henshin , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Child Cast , Ghost , Dinosaurs , Virtual World , Kaiju , Suicide , Zombie , Anthropomorphism , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Vampire , Slavery , Yandere , Dullahan , Proxy Battle , Marriage , Isekai

Youkai Watch

Also known as Yo-kai Watch.

Studio: OLM , TV Tokyo , Dentsu Entertainment USA , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Supernatural

Animated adaptation of Level-5's Nintendo 3DS video game.

While going deeper into the woods one day, primary school student Keita Amano ('Nate' in the English localisation) notices a bizarre capsule toy machine who tells him to insert money which he obeyingly does. But after opening the capsule that came out, a ghostly creature named Whisper materialises. Whisper, who was sealed inside the capsule, rewards his liberator Keita by becoming his Yo-kai butler and gives him a Yo-kai Watch. Whoever wears the watch gains the ability to see supernatural creatures called Yo-kai, each type possessing different kinds of magical abilities, and which are normally invisible to humans. The Yo-kai Watch also allows the wearer to summon any Yo-kai they have befriended, enabling the wearer to make use of the Yo-kai's powers. Using it, Keita and Whisper encounter many mischievous Yo-kai around town, resolving the trouble they're causing and befriending many at the same time.

Tags: Youkai , Kids , Proxy Battle , Dancing , Surreal Comedy , Urban Fantasy

Corrector Yui

Also known as Corrector Yui.

Studio: Nippon Animation , NHK , Viz Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Mahou Shoujo , Sci-Fi

In the year 2000-something, a massive central network called Comnet links the computers of the world, forming a single global computer system. Comnet, designed to serve the interests of mankind, is managed by the supercomputer, Grosser. But when Grosser decides to take over the world, a savior is needed!

A computer-illiterate girl named Yui Kasuga happens upon software program IR, which recruits her as savior of Comnet and pulls her into the virtual world inside. There, Yui is given the power to become Corrector Yui so that she can fight against Grosser and his evil Corruptors.

Inside the virtual world for the first time, Yui must face one of Grosser's henchmen. She must also battle another of Grosser's minions, this time one who's infecting the e-mail passed between Yui and her friends. And finally, Yui and IR suspect foul play when Chef Kirch, a family friend who can never get his recipes quite right, has to face customers who've turned into ravenous zombies!



Tags: Virtual World , Female Protagonist , Magic , Primarily Female Cast , Shapeshifting , Kuudere , Video Games

Wagamama☆Fairy Mirumo de Pon!

Also known as Mirmo Zibang!.

Studio: Studio Hibari , Viz Media , Trinity Sound
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

Kaede is a cheerful and energetic eighth grader. When it comes to boys, however, she is hopelessly shy.

One day, on her way home from school, Kaede walks into a mysterious shop and buys a colorful cocoa mug. When she reaches home, she casually peeks into the bottom of the mug and discovers an engraved note, which says, "If you read this message aloud while pouring hot cocoa into the mug, a love fairy ("muglox") will appear and grant your every wish." The skeptical but curious Kaede follows the directions and announces her wish to date Yuuki, the class heartthrob. Suddenly, the adorable blue Mirumo appears! We soon find out, however, that this cute little muglox would rather eat chocolate and create mischief than help Kaede.

Mirumo, it seems, is prince of the muglox world. Horrified at the prospect of having to marry Rirumu, his princess bride-to-be, Mirumo has escaped the muglox world. Hot on his heels, however, are Rirumu, Yashichi the bounty hunter, and a cast of hundreds of muglox ranging from the good to the bad to the nutty. This gang of adorable troublemakers will see to it that school life for Kaede and her friends is never the same...



Tags: Magic , Love Triangle , Kids , Henshin , Ninja , Fairy , Female Protagonist , Chibi

Digimon Adventure 02

Also known as Digimon: Digital Monsters 02.

Studio: Toei Animation , Yomiko Advertising , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

A few years after the adventures of the Chosen Children in the Digital World, a new batch of Chosen Children are summoned to save the Digital World. An evil ruler known as the Digimon Kaiser, or Digimon Emperor, is forcing the Digital World's Digimon into enslavement. The new group of Chosen Children, with the help of their Digimon, then begin a journey to stop the evil Digimon Emperor.


Tags: Primarily Child Cast , Virtual World , Kaiju , Artificial Intelligence , Henshin , Male Protagonist , Animals , Primarily Animal Cast , Dragons , Kids , Anthropomorphism , Proxy Battle , Alternate Universe , Cosmic Horror , Dinosaurs , Gods , Chimera