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Steins;Gate (2011)

A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.

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    Steins;Gate 0

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    2018 · 23 min · Animation · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    Eccentric Rintaro falls into a depression after failing to save Kurisu, but then a neuroscientist offers him the chance to interact with an AI copy.

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    • strong shared themes: anime and based on visual novel
    • several principal cast members
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    ERASED

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    2016 · 25 min · Animation · Drama · Mystery

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    Satoru Fujinuma is a struggling manga artist who has the ability to turn back time and prevent deaths. When his mother is killed he turns back time to solve the mystery, but ends up back in elementary school, just before the disappearance of his classmate Kayo.

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    • strong shared themes: angst and anime
    • shared time travel series style
    • similar audience response
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    Nobunaga Concerto

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    2014 · 22 min · Animation · Comedy · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    Saburo is a high school student good in sports, but not very good with his studies. One day, Saburo travels back in time and arrives in the Sengoku period of 1549. There, Saburo meets Nobunaga Oda who looks and sounds just like Saburo. Nobunaga Oda is the son of a warlord and magistrate of the lower Owari Province. Nobunaga Oda, though, is physically weak, and he asks Saburo to take his place. Then, Saburo as Nobunaga Oda attempts to unify the country of Japan.

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    • strong shared themes: anime and romance
    • shared time travel series style
    • a closely matched era
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    Remake Our Life!

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    2021 · 24 min · Animation · Drama · Mystery

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    Hashiba Kyouya is a 28-year-old game developer. With his company going bankrupt, and him losing his job, he returns to his hometown. Looking at the success of creators of his age, he finds himself regretting his life decisions as he lay distressed on his bed. As Kyouya wakes up, he discovers that he has traveled ten years back to the time before he entered college. Will he be able to finally make things right?

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    • strong shared themes: anime and romance
    • shared time travel series style
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  5. 05

    A Certain Scientific Railgun

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    2009 · 24 min · Action & Adventure · Animation · Comedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    Misaka's electro-manipulation skills - and her delightfully destructive railgun projectile movement - make her a rock star in Academy City. The techno-metropolis is filled with supernaturally powerful students known as Espers, including Misaka's flirtatious friend and roommate, Shirai Kuroko. She uses her teleportation skills as a member of the Judgment law enforcement team, fighting crime alongside fellow agent Uiharu. Joined by their friend Saten, a spunky Level 0 Esper, Misaka, Kuroko, and Uiharu have a blast taking on danger whenever and wherever it arises.

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    • strong shared themes: anime and seinen
    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era
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    Beyond the Boundary

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    2013 · 24 min · Action & Adventure · Animation · Comedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    The dark fantasy follows a high school sophomore named Akihito Kanbara. Although the boy appears human, he is half Youmu and invulnerable to wounds because he can heal quickly. One day, Akihito meets freshman Mirai Kuriyama when it seems she is about to jump from the school rooftop. Mirai is isolated because of her ability to manipulate blood, which is considered heresy among members of the spirit world. Disturbing events begin to unfold after Akihito saves Mirai.

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

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    2023 · 55 min · Comedy · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    A comedy focusing on Kondo Asami, a 33-year-old single woman who lives with her parents and works at the local city hall, and suddenly finds herself starting her life over from scratch.

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    • shared themes: butterfly effect and time travel
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    Puella Magi Madoka Magica

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    2011 · 25 min · Animation · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    She has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time... Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader of Mitakihara middle school, is one of those who lives such a life. One day, she had a very magical encounter. She doesn't know if it happened by chance or by fate yet. This is a fateful encounter that can change her destiny. This is a beginning of the new story of the magical witch girls.

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    • shared themes: anime and psychological
    • shared genre DNA
    • a closely matched era
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    Planetes

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    2003 · 25 min · Animation · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    In the year 2075, mankind has reached a point where journeying between Earth, the moon and the space stations is part of daily life. However, the progression of technology in space has also resulted in the problem of the space debris, which can cause excessive and even catastrophic damage to spacecrafts and equipment.

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    • substantial genre overlap
    • a principal cast member
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  10. 10

    Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!

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    2019 · 24 min · Animation · Comedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    Kurihara Misato was a little more capable than other high school girls, and as a result, she was always alone and couldn't live her life the way she wanted. When she was reincarnated in another world after a tragic accident, she wanted a chance to make normal friends and live a normal life. So she asked God for one thing... "Give me abilities that are average for that world!" But the abilities God gave her were not "average" at all... And now this girl, who's been reborn in a world where magic is real, struggles to find simple, ordinary happiness!

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    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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