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Action!
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Dhoom 2: Back in Action
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Action!
Keeps a workable bridge into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Bhagavad Gita
Carries a strong pull into anime through identity and modernity.
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Blue Eye Samurai
Carries a strong pull into anime through identity and surveillance.
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Children of Men
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Stone Butch Blues
1990s
Stone Butch Blues is a historical fiction novel written by Leslie Feinberg about life as a butch lesbian in 1970s America. While fictional, the work also takes inspiration from Feinberg's own life, and she describes it as her "call to action."
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Anime · Strong bridge
Mob Psycho 100
2010s
A psychic middle schooler tries to live normally. Emotional growth disguised as action comedy.
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Seven Samurai
1950s
The foundational action epic. Duty, sacrifice, and the cost of protection.
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The Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna's dialogue with Krishna on the battlefield. Duty, action, and the nature of the self.
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Television 2010s
Castlevania
Dracula declares war on humanity. Video game adaptation that became animation's dark action benchmark.
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Action!
2004 novel by Carolyn Keene
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Anime 2010s
Angel Beats!
Dead teenagers in a purgatory school rebel against God. Comedy, action, and devastating endings.
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Film 1990s
The Matrix
Reality is a simulation. The film that redefined action cinema and philosophical sci-fi.

Television 2020s
Blue Eye Samurai
A mixed-race swordsmith seeks revenge in Edo-period Japan. Animated action as identity story.
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Anime 2020s
Jujutsu Kaisen
A student swallows a cursed finger and enters the world of sorcerers. Stylish supernatural action.