Black Clover [TV]
Abandoned
Aster and Yuno were abandoned together at the same church, and have been inseparable since. As children, they promised that they would compete against each other to see who would become the next sorcerous emperor.
5851 users added this.
Jujutsu Kaisen [TV]
jovialriver gave it a
10.
The story of Jujutsu Kaisen is set in a world where Cursed Spirits feed on unsuspecting humans and fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and scattered about.
Should any curse consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it.
2397 users added this.
Grave of the Fireflies [Movie]
jovialriver gave it a
10.
On the final days of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his four-year-old sister Setsuko are orphaned after their mother is killed during an air-raid by American forces in Kobe, Japan. After having a falling-out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter.
2336 users added this.
Hunter X Hunter (TV 2011) [TV]
jovialriver gave it a
10.
Remake of Hunter X Hunter (TV)
2261 users added this.
Kimi No Na Wa [Your Name] [Movie]
jovialriver gave it a
10.
Kimi No Na Wa (2016)
The story is set one month after a comet has fallen for the first time in a thousand years in Japan. Mitsuha, a high school girl living in the countryside, wants to live in the city because she is tired of life in the country.
4770 users added this.
Spirited Away [Movie]
jovialriver gave it a
10.
Chihiro and her family are on their way to their new house in the suburbs when her father decides to take a shortcut along a lonely-looking dirt road. After getting out of the car and walking along a path for a while, they discover an open-air restaurant filled with food but with no workers or customers present.
17733 users added this.
Ponyo [Movie]
jovialriver gave it a
10.
This heart-warming story by famed and beloved director Miyazaki centers around Ponyo, a tiny fish-girl who dreams of being human. Reminiscent of classic story "The Little Mermaid", she is washed ashore and rescued by a young boy, Sosuke, but despite their friendship she simply has to return to the oceans.
6763 users added this.
Berserk [TV]
jovialriver gave it a
10.
Gatts, an incredibly powerful warrior, is a lone swordsman in a medieval-type fantasy world. He loses in a battle with a mysterious swordsman named Griffith, who holds a pendant called the Eye of God.
6949 users added this.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba [TV]
jovialriver gave it a
10.
Bloodthirsty demons lurk in the woods, and nobody dares to venture out at night, save for the demon slayer of legend. Surviving in this harsh world, young Tanjirou takes it upon himself to protect his family–until the day that everything is taken from him in a vicious slaughter.
8624 users added this.
Howl's Moving Castle [Movie]
jovialriver gave it a
10.
The curse of an evil witch turns a plain young hat-maker, Sophie, into an old woman. Sophie runs away to confront the witch and become young again when she rescues a trapped animated scarecrow.
14800 users added this.
Akira [Movie]
jovialriver gave it a
10.
Directed by Ootomo Katsuhiro of Memories and Steamboy. In the year 2019, thirty-one years after World War III, the authority of Neo-Tokyo is waging a constant battle against Underground rebels.
4402 users added this.
Tonari no Totoro [Movie]
jovialriver gave it a
9.
Totoro is a forest spirit that little Mei, and later her older sister Satsuki, encounter in a giant camphor tree near their new home in the countryside. Although their father, a university professor, is with them when they move, their mother is in the hospital, recovering from some unnamed illness.
3772 users added this.
Haikyu!! [TV]
jovialriver gave it a
9.
After witnessing the “Little Giant” of Karasuno play in a national championships volleyball match, young Hinata Shoyo instantly gets inspired and decides to revive his school’s volleyball club. Although managing to force some of his friends to join his team and even participate in a tournament against other schools, Hinata’s inexperienced team terribly loses their first game against the prodigal “King of the Court” Tobio Kageyama.
1875 users added this.
Haikyuu!! [TV]
jovialriver gave it a
9.
Hinata began playing volleyball after seeing the "small giants" who played the sport when he was in elementary school. He suffers a crushing defeat in his first and last tournament in middle school at the hands of his rival Tobio Kageyama.
4561 users added this.
Wolf Children [Movie]
jovialriver gave it a
8.
Nineteen-year-old college student Hana meets a young man who sneaks into her classes for lessons and falls in love with him immediately. They soon start dating.
1973 users added this.
A Silent Voice [Movie]
jovialriver gave it a
8.
Shōya Ishida walks along a bridge, contemplating suicide. He flashbacks to his elementary school days when his teacher introduces a new student, Shōko Nishimiya, who is deaf.
4117 users added this.
Devilman: Crybaby [TV]
jovialriver gave it a
2.
The protagonist Akira Fudo learns from his best friend, Ryo Asuka, that an ancient race of demons has returned to take back the world from humans. Ryo tells Akira that the only way to defeat the demons is to incorporate their supernatural powers, and suggests that he unite with a demon himself.
2252 users added this.
