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Anime
20 curated works in anime.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
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Ghost in the Shell
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Ghost in the Shell
1990s
A cyborg police officer hunts a hacker. Identity, consciousness, and the post-human condition.
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Akira
1980s
Neo-Tokyo, psychic children, and the apocalypse. The film that brought anime to the world.
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Serial Experiments Lain
1990s
A landmark anime of networked identity, urban unease, and technological alienation with a distinctly Tokyo afterimage.
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Cowboy Bebop
1990s
A score-driven anime of style, movement, melancholy, and late-night cool.
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Anime 1990s
Perfect Blue
A psychological anime-thriller of media pressure, fractured identity, urban paranoia, and performance anxiety.
Anime 2000s
Monster
A neurosurgeon hunts the psychopath he once saved. 74 episodes of psychological thriller perfection.
Anime 2010s
Attack on Titan
Humanity fights giant humanoids behind massive walls. Freedom, fascism, and cycles of violence.
Anime 2000s
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Two brothers seek the philosopher's stone. Equivalent exchange as moral philosophy.
Anime 2010s
Steins;Gate
A self-proclaimed mad scientist discovers time travel via microwave. Paradoxes and heartbreak.
Anime 2010s
Hunter x Hunter
A boy searches for his absent father in a world of hunters. Shonen manga's most sophisticated adaptation.