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Genre: Action, Comedy, Historical, Parody, Samurai, Sci-Fi
Alternative: Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen
Manga: Read Gintama Manga Online
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +13  

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English: Silver Soul

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Sakata Gintoki is a samurai living in an era when samurais are no longer needed. To add to his troubles, oppressive aliens have moved in to invade. Gintoki lives with Kagura and Shinpachi, taking on odd jobs to make the world a better place...and to pay their rent. (Source: ANN)

Genre: Comedy, Historical, Parody
Episodes: 52
Type: ONA Series
Sequel: Hetalia World Series
Age Rating:   Everyone  

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English: Hetalia Axis Powers
Synonyms: Axis Powers Hetalia

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Based on a popular web-released manga series by Hidekazu Himaruya, this has been described as a "cynical gag" story set in Europe in the years between WW1 and WW2 (1915-1939), using exaggerated caricatures of the different nationalities as portrayed by a gaggle of bishōnen. For example, the Italia Veneziano character is into pasta and women. The Deutsche (German) bishi loves potatoes and sausages, and Nippon is an otaku boy. Installments of the manga have jumped back and forth in setting from the ancient times to modern-day geopolitics. The manga's title comes the Japanese words for "useless" (hetare) and Italy (Italia).

Genre: Drama, Historical, Romance, Josei
Episodes: 11
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +17  

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English: Millennium Old Journal: Tale of Genji
Synonyms: Genji Monogatari Sennenki Genji, The Tale of Genji

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Born from a much loved, but lowly ranked concubine, Genji Hikaru is called the Shining Prince and is the beloved second son of the Emperor. Although he cannot be an heir to the throne of his father, Genji spends his life surrounded by every pleasure and love. And yet, his one longing in love is something that even the power of an Emperor can never give him.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Historical, Samurai, Supernatural
Episodes: 13
Manga: Read Blade of Immortal Manga Online
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +17  

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English: Blade of the Immortal
Synonyms: Mugen no Juunin

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Manji is an amoral swordsman, who has been cursed with eternal life. He has grown tired of living with all the death he has created. He has no skills other then those of killing, thus he forms a plan to regain his mortality: he shall kill one hundred evil men for each good one he has killed. The old witch who afflicted Manji with immortality agrees to Manji's proposition and Manji is set on his path to kill one thousand evil men. On his journey he meets a young girl, Rin, who has her own vengeance to seek against the sword school whose members slaughtered Rin's family. Rin and Manji journey together, each hoping to find some kind of peace. In their way are many varied enemies. Rin and Manji are almost constantly under attack and must learn to live their lives, avoiding being consumed by revenge.

Genre: Action, Drama, Historical, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Episodes: 12
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +17  

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Adaptation of Takashi Noguchi’s manga, which itself adapts Baku Yumemakura’s supernatural romance novel. The original novel is about a 12th-century man named Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Kurou). Kurou flees into the mountains after losing to his brother Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first Shogun to rule all of Japan. History records that he committed suicide, but instead, Kurou meets a strange, beautiful woman named Kuromitsu in her mountain hermitage. Eventually, Kurou falls in love with Kuromitsu, but then realizes she conceals a dark secret. He learns that he is unable to die and continues to live for a thousand years as Japan evolves into a future society. (Source: ANN)

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Shounen, Supernatural
Episodes: 26
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +13  

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English: Samurai Deeper Kyo

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In the year 1600, during the battle of Sekigahara, warriors Kyoshiro Mibu and "Demon Eyes" Kyo - the legendary slayer of a thousand men - engaged in fierce combat. Both men disappeared when a meteor crashed in the battlegrounds. Four years later, Kyoshiro is spotted on a rural highway, acting as a traveling medicine salesman. He is captured by the female bounty hunter Yuya Shiina when she discovers that deep inside him is the dormant personality of "Demon Eyes" Kyo himself.

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Genre: Action, Comedy, Demons, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Supernatural
Episodes: 26
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +13  

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English: Shonen Onmyoji
Synonyms: Shonen Onmyoji, The Young Spirit Master, Teenager Onmyoji, Shonen Onmyouji

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The young Masahiro is the grandson of the famed Abe no Seimei, the great onmyouji. However, having lost his sixth sense and the ability to see spirits, Masahiro struggles to prove himself that he is more then just "Seimei's grandson". Out of nowhere, a mononoke begins to follow Masahiro around, who then decides to call the mononoke Mokkun. Without realising, Mokkun is actual the fearsome Touda, or Guren as Seimei has named him, one of Seimei's twelve shikigamis. With the assistance of Mokkun, Masahiro begins to battle the spirits haunting their city, and perhaps develop his innate ability that could even surpass Seimei. Based on the novel by Yuuki Hikaru.

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Historical, Supernatural
Episodes: 13
Manga: Read Amatsuki Manga Online
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +13  

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Tokidoki is a Japanese high school student who, when he fails his history class, is sent to a high-tech history museum that virtually recreates the Edo period to do make-up work. However, what was supposed to be a simple school project becomes much more complicated when he's attacked by two supernatural beings known as "the nue" and "the yakou" and loses the vision in his left eye. After he's saved from the nue by a girl named Kuchiha, he realizes that he's no longer wearing the simulation goggles, and is trapped in the virtual Edo.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Martial Arts, Shounen
Episodes: 13
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +13  

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Synonyms: Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran, Wind-borne Moon-lit Ran, Ran, The Samurai Girl, Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran

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In the Edo or Tokugawa period (1600-1868), Ran, a female wandering samurai whose skill with the katana is only matched by her taste for sake (rice wine), is joined by a chinese martial artist who calls herself Lady Meow of the Iron Cat Fist. Tsukikage Ran has individual episodes that are just short stories of their adventures.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Samurai, Romance, Supernatural
Episodes: 24
Manga: Read Basilisk Manga Online
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +17  

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English: Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls
Synonyms: Basilisk, Basilisk ~ Koga Nimpo Cho ~

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The year is 1614 AD. Two warring ninja clans, each supporting a son of Hidetada Tokugawa as the next shogun, send ten representatives each to fight to the death for the possession of a scroll. The prize: the annihilation of the other and the staunch support of the Tokugawa government for the winning clan for the next thousand years.