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DARLING in the FRANXX (2018)

The distant future: Humanity established the mobile fort city, Plantation, upon the ruined wasteland. Within the city were pilot quarters, Mistilteinn, otherwise known as the “Birdcage.” That is where the children live... Their only mission in life was the fight. Their enemies are the mysterious giant organisms known as Kyoryu. The children operate robots known as FRANXX in order to face these still unseen enemies. Among them was a boy who was once called a child prodigy: Code number 016, Hiro. One day, a mysterious girl called Zero Two appears in front of Hiro. “I’ve found you, my Darling.”

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    Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

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    2011 · 23 min · Animation · Drama · Mystery

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    Jinta Yadomi and his group of childhood friends have become estranged after a tragic accident split them apart. Now in their high school years, a sudden surprise forces each of them to confront their guilt over what happened that day and come to terms with the ghosts of their past.

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    • strong shared themes: anime and coming of age
    • several principal cast members
    • similar audience response
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    Wonder Egg Priority

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    2021 · 23 min · Animation · Drama · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    Ai, a young girl with shut-in tendencies, who tries not to interact with others. She keeps one of her eyes hidden behind her hair. One day, she happens to stop by a deserted arcade, where she meets "Aka." Spinning the gacha at their urging, she acquires a "Wonder Egg," and from that moment, her fate begins to change...

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    • shared themes: anime and romance
    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era
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    Toradora!

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    2008 · 23 min · Animation · Comedy · Drama

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    Menacing in appearance but gentle at heart, second year high school student Ryuuji forms an unlikely friendship with classmate Taiga, a tiny girl with a sharp tongue and a tough attitude.

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    • strong shared themes: anime and coming of age
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • similar audience response
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    Star Driver

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    2010 · 25 min · Action & Adventure · Animation · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    One night, a boy named Takuto washes up on shore swimming from the mainland. He later enrolls in Southern Cross High School as a freshman and makes new friends. However, beneath the school is a group of mysterious giants called Cybodies, which can be controlled by humans in an alternate dimension known as Zero Time. Takuto, The "Galactic Pretty Boy", finds himself dragged into opposition with the "Glittering Crux Brigade".

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    • strong shared themes: anime and coming of age
    • principal cast overlap
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    Orange

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    2016 · 24 min · Animation · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    One day, Naho Takamiya receives a letter written to herself from ten years in the future. As Naho reads on, the letter recites the exact events of the day, including the transfer of a new student into her class named Kakeru Naruse. The Naho from ten years later repeatedly states that she has many regrets, and she wants to fix these by making sure the Naho from the past can make the right decisions—especially regarding Kakeru. What's more shocking is that she discovers that ten years later, Kakeru will no longer be with them. Future Naho asks her to watch over him closely.

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    • strong shared themes: anime and romance
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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    Waiting in the Summer

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    2012 · 24 min · Animation · Comedy · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    While testing out his camera on a bridge one summer night, Kaito sees a blue light streaking across the sky, only to be blown off the railing seconds later. Just before succumbing to unconsciousness, a hand reaches down to grab ahold of his own. He woke up the next morning wondering how he ended up back in his own room with no injuries or any recollection of the night before. As he proceeds with his normal school life, Kaito and his friends discuss what to do with his camera, finally deciding to make a film with it over the summer break. Noticing that Kaito has an interest in the new upperclassmen Ichika Takatsuki, his friend Tetsurou decides to invite her, as well as her friend Remon Yamano, to join them in their project. In what becomes one of the most entertaining and exciting summers of their lives, Kaito and his friends find that their time spent together is not just about creating a film, but something much more meaningful that will force them to confront their true feelings.

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    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • shared themes: anime and romance
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    The Piano Forest

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    2018 · 24 min · Animation · Drama

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    A tranquil tale about two boys from very different upbringings. On one hand you have Kai, born as the son of a prostitute, who's been playing the abandoned piano in the forest near his home ever since he was young. And on the other you have Syuhei, practically breast-fed by the piano as the son of a family of prestigious pianists. Yet it is their common bond with the piano that eventually intertwines their paths in life.

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    • shared themes: anime and coming of age
    • shared coming of age series style
    • a closely matched era
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