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Beyond the Boundary (Kyoukai no Kanata)
Akihito Kanbara is half human and half youmu, a supernatural being, which lets him heal from almost any wound. When he meets first-year Mirai Kuriyama, the last surviving member of a clan that can control blood, the two outcasts are drawn into the hidden world of youmu and the people who hunt them.
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Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
Aladdin, a young boy who carries a djinn named Ugo in his flute, sets out to see a world inspired by the Arabian Nights. He teams up with Alibaba, who dreams of conquering one of the dungeons that grant a djinn's power, and Morgiana, a former slave from the Fanalis tribe, and the three are drawn in…
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The Irregular at Magic High School (Mahouka)
In a near future where magic is a technical discipline, siblings Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba enroll at First High School, an elite magic academy split into two courses. Miyuki tops the entrance exam while Tatsuya lands in the lower course, yet his real abilities and the Yotsuba family behind them keep…
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Kuroko's Basketball (Kuroko no Basket)
Tetsuya Kuroko is so easy to overlook that he once played as the phantom sixth man of Teiko Middle School's Generation of Miracles, a team of five prodigies. At Seirin High he teams up with Taiga Kagami, a powerful newcomer back from America, to take down his former teammates, now aces at rival sch…
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K-ON!
Yui Hirasawa has never played an instrument, but she joins her high school's light music club just as it needs one more member to avoid being shut down. With Mio, Ritsu, Tsumugi and later first-year Azusa, she spends the next three years on practice, tea breaks and school festival shows, all the wa…
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The Misfit of Demon King Academy
Two thousand years after sealing himself away, the Demon King Anos Voldigoad reincarnates and enrolls at the Demon King Academy, a school founded to find his successor. Its aptitude test brands him a misfit, and no one believes he is the founder himself. The anime runs two seasons, with Season II s…
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Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun
Fourteen-year-old Iruma Suzuki has never been able to say no, and his parents exploit it by selling him to a demon. The buyer, Sullivan, only wants a grandson and enrolls him at Babyls, the demon school he runs. Iruma has to get through class without anyone learning he is human, while his kindness …
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Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
On the island nation of Hinomoto, the undead Kabane have driven the living into walled stations linked only by armored steam trains. When Aragane Station falls, Ikoma, a young steamsmith who has turned himself into something between human and Kabane, escapes aboard the train Koutetsujou with Mumei,…
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Cells at Work!
Inside one human body, some 37 trillion cells work around the clock. A rookie Red Blood Cell who keeps getting lost on her delivery routes and a White Blood Cell who hunts down invading germs keep crossing paths as the body deals with everything from a scraped knee and the flu to heat stroke and ca…
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March comes in like a lion
Rei Kiriyama turned professional at shogi in middle school and now, at 17, lives alone in a Tokyo apartment, estranged from his foster family and winning matches without knowing what for. The three Kawamoto sisters, Akari, Hinata and Momo, keep pulling him to their dinner table, and slowly the game…
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