Haruo Sotozaki

Haruo Sotozaki

Haruo Sotozaki is a Japanese anime and film director best known for his work on the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba series. He began his career in the animation industry in the mid-1990s, contributing as a key animator and storyboard artist on various projects. Sotozaki made his full directorial debut with the anime adaptation of Ninja Nonsense (2004). In 2019, he directed the critically acclaimed Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba television series, followed by the record-breaking film Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train (2020). His direction is noted for its dynamic action sequences and faithful adaptation of source material.

  • Title: Haruo Sotozaki
  • Popularity: 6.858
  • Known For: Directing
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  • Place of Birth: Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan
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  • Also Known As: そとざき はるお, 外崎 春雄
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Haruo Sotozaki Movies

  • 2020
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    Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

    Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

    8.2 2020 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2019
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    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Sibling's Bond

    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Sibling's Bond

    7.9 2019 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2021
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    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hashira Meeting Arc

    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hashira Meeting Arc

    6.945 2021 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2021
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    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mt. Natagumo Arc

    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mt. Natagumo Arc

    7.8 2021 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2014
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    Tales of Zestiria: The Shepherd's Advent

    Tales of Zestiria: The Shepherd's Advent

    8.2 2014 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Ai Kayano

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  • 2020
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    Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

    Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

    8.2 2020 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2003
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    New Fist of the North Star: The Cursed City

    New Fist of the North Star: The Cursed City

    6.2 2003 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Takehito Koyasu

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  • 2013
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    Magical Sisters Yoyo & Nene

    Magical Sisters Yoyo & Nene

    6.6 2013 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Sumire Morohoshi

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  • 2014
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    Tales of Zestiria: The Shepherd's Advent

    Tales of Zestiria: The Shepherd's Advent

    8.2 2014 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Ai Kayano

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  • 2020
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    Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

    Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

    8.2 2020 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2014
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    Tales of Zestiria: The Shepherd's Advent

    Tales of Zestiria: The Shepherd's Advent

    8.2 2014 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Ai Kayano

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  • 2004
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    Lupin the Third: Swallowtail Tattoo

    Lupin the Third: Swallowtail Tattoo

    6.6 2004 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Kanichi Kurita

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  • 2014
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    Tales of Zestiria: The Shepherd's Advent

    Tales of Zestiria: The Shepherd's Advent

    8.2 2014 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Ai Kayano

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  • 2020
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    Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

    Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

    8.2 2020 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2005
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    Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel

    Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel

    6.7 2005 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Junko Takeuchi

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  • 2024
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    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Hashira Training-

    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Hashira Training-

    6.473 2024 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2022
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    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Asakusa Arc

    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Asakusa Arc

    7.9 2022 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2022
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    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Tsuzumi Mansion Arc

    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Tsuzumi Mansion Arc

    7.553 2022 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2001
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    Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

    Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

    7.7 2001 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Koichi Yamadera

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  • 1999
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    You're Under Arrest: The Motion Picture

    You're Under Arrest: The Motion Picture

    5.8 1999 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Akiko Hiramatsu

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  • 2002
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    eX-Driver the Movie

    eX-Driver the Movie

    6 2002 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Yoko Asada

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  • 2009
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    Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike

    Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike

    6.385 2009 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Kohsuke Toriumi

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  • 2001
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    Initial D: Third Stage

    Initial D: Third Stage

    6.9 2001 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Shin-ichiro Miki

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  • 2001
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    Digimon Adventure 02: Diablomon Strikes Back

    Digimon Adventure 02: Diablomon Strikes Back

    6.9 2001 HD

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Reiko Kiuchi

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  • 2001
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    Initial D: Third Stage

    Initial D: Third Stage

    6.9 2001 HD

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Shin-ichiro Miki

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  • 2023
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    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Swordsmith Village-

    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Swordsmith Village-

    7.4 2023 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2010
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    Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost

    Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost

    7 2010 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Ryohei Kimura

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  • 1970
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    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Infinity Castle

    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Infinity Castle

    1 1970 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 1970
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    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Infinity Castle 3

    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Infinity Castle 3

    1 1970 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 1970
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    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Infinity Castle 2

    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Infinity Castle 2

    1 1970 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2024
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    8.655 2024 HD

    It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2024
    imgS5 E8

    8.655 2024 HD

    It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2024
    imgS5 E8

    8.655 2024 HD

    It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2001
    imgS1 E26

    7 2001 HD

    Tohru Honda is 16 year old orphaned girl who gets invited to live in the house of her classmate, the handsome boy Sohma Yuki, and his cousins, 16...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Yui Horie

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  • 2001
    imgS1 E26

    7 2001 HD

    Tohru Honda is 16 year old orphaned girl who gets invited to live in the house of her classmate, the handsome boy Sohma Yuki, and his cousins, 16...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Yui Horie

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  • 2024
    imgS5 E8

    8.655 2024 HD

    It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2024
    imgS5 E8

    8.655 2024 HD

    It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2012
    imgS3 E3

    7.8 2012 HD

    Two worlds exist, unaware of the other`s existence. These worlds survive by competing for the use of mana. The most important beings in these worlds...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Nana Mizuki

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  • 2017
    imgS2 E13

    7.094 2017 HD

    Legends speak of the Shepherd, a savior who will bring peace to the seraphim and human worlds. Sorey has spent his life studying ancient books and...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Ryohei Kimura

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  • 2024
    imgS5 E8

    8.655 2024 HD

    It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Natsuki Hanae

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  • 2007
    imgS4 E220

    8.361 2007 HD

    Naruto Uzumaki, a mischievous adolescent ninja, struggles as he searches for recognition and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the village's leader and...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Junko Takeuchi

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  • 2001
    imgS1 E9

    6.5 2001 HD

    When a girl named Ariyoshi Juna has a severe accident, her spirit turns to light and rises up out of her body into the night sky where she gets a...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Mami Higashiyama

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  • 2010
    imgS1 E64

    8.7 2010 HD

    Disregard for alchemy’s laws ripped half of Edward Elric’s limbs from his body and left his brother Alphonse’s soul clinging to a...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Romi Park

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  • 2007
    imgS4 E220

    8.361 2007 HD

    Naruto Uzumaki, a mischievous adolescent ninja, struggles as he searches for recognition and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the village's leader and...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Junko Takeuchi

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  • 2005
    imgS2 E26

    8.197 2005 HD

    In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Atsuko Tanaka

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  • 2001
    imgS1 E62

    8.5 2001 HD

    Gon Freecss discovers that the father he had always been told was dead was actually alive the whole time. Ging is a famous Hunter: an individual who...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Junko Takeuchi

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  • 1998
    imgS1 E12

    7 1998 HD

    Bolt Crank, the World's Greatest Mercenary, who has the ability to eat any object, mostly metal and weapons. When the time comes, he can reproduce...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Masashi Ebara

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  • 1998
    imgS1 E12

    7 1998 HD

    Bolt Crank, the World's Greatest Mercenary, who has the ability to eat any object, mostly metal and weapons. When the time comes, he can reproduce...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Masashi Ebara

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  • 2006
    imgS1 E24

    7.6 2006 HD

    When summer break begins, Haruka is only thinking of hanging out with her friends—until one fateful night she learns that she’s the...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Fujiko Takimoto

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  • 1998
    imgS3 E32

    8.5 1998 HD

    The Meiji Era was one of great renewal for Japan, where swords and killing were outlawed. However, many survivors from the time of Revolution still...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Mayo Suzukaze

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  • 2022
    imgS5 E13

    7.1 2022 HD

    Many years ago, humans and demons lived in harmony. But that unity ended when demons started attacking humans and plotted a mission to unleash...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Akira Ishida

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  • 2002
    imgS1 E3

    7.9 2002 HD

    Yomiko Readman is a lovable, near-sighted bibliomaniac working as a substitute teacher at a Japanese high school. Her real identity, however, is that...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Konta

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  • 2012
    imgS1 E13

    6.4 2012 HD

    The story starts off with a face-off between two rival heroes, ZET and ALPHAS, and then traces their origins - Jin Kanzaki, a young man with the...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Daisuke Namikawa

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  • 2001
    imgS1 E26

    6.3 2001 HD

    Claude C. Kenni, a crewmember on the spaceship Calnus and son of the commander of the ship, is transported to Expel, a backwards planet with swords...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Tomokazu Seki

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  • 2004
    imgS1 E26

    6.858 2004 HD

    As villages perish under the thumb of a cruel race of warriors, a young priestess named Kirara travels the countryside gathering stray samurais.

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Kong Kuwata

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  • 2012
    imgS3 E3

    7.8 2012 HD

    Two worlds exist, unaware of the other`s existence. These worlds survive by competing for the use of mana. The most important beings in these worlds...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Nana Mizuki

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  • 2003
    imgS1 E26

    3.8 2003 HD

    E's is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and drawn by Satoru Yuiga. It was originally serialized in Monthly GFantasy from 1997 through 2005,...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Akiko Hiramatsu

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  • 2002
    imgS1 E51

    7.7 2002 HD

    Fifty years ago, malevolent stones known as Dark Brings brought about the "Overdrive," a calamitous event that destroyed one-tenth of the world. In...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Ayako Kawasumi

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  • 1999
    imgS1 E12

    7.5 1999 HD

    In a world where the dead walk, where good and evil exist as palpable forces, a darkness is stirring. The undead march against the cities of light,...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Etsuko Kozakura

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  • 2003
    imgS1 E25

    5.9 2003 HD

    Heat Guy J is a 26 episode science fiction anime series created by Escaflowne director Kazuki Akane and Satelight. Heat Guy J was licensed and...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Masaya Matsukaze

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  • 2004
    imgS1 E24

    8.2 2004 HD

    Shinobu is a naive ninja-in-training. In order to test her ninja abilites, she must steal the panties of all the high school girls. The first house...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Tomokazu Seki

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  • 2001
    imgS1 E13

    7.5 2001 HD

    Kyosuke Date who was killed by his mother afterwards gained the ability to turn into a monster known as "The SoulTaker".

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Michiko Neya

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  • 2003
    imgS1 E25

    5.9 2003 HD

    Heat Guy J is a 26 episode science fiction anime series created by Escaflowne director Kazuki Akane and Satelight. Heat Guy J was licensed and...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Masaya Matsukaze

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  • 2007
    imgS1 E26

    7 2007 HD

    Reideen is a Japanese animated television series remake of the 1975 Super Robot anime Brave Raideen. It was produced by Production I.G and directed...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Shin-ichiro Miki

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  • 2002
    imgS1 E24

    7.443 2002 HD

    It's the year of destiny and 15 year old Kamui Shirō, a powerful psychic, has returned to Toyko after a 6 year absence. He returns to protect his...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Junichi Suwabe

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  • 2008
    imgS1 E12

    5.3 2008 HD

    Antique Bakery is a manga by Fumi Yoshinaga depicting the lives of four men who work in a small bakery. It was published in Japan by Shinshokan and...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Shin-ichiro Miki

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  • 2001
    imgS1 E9

    6.5 2001 HD

    When a girl named Ariyoshi Juna has a severe accident, her spirit turns to light and rises up out of her body into the night sky where she gets a...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Mami Higashiyama

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  • 2001
    imgS1 E9

    6.5 2001 HD

    When a girl named Ariyoshi Juna has a severe accident, her spirit turns to light and rises up out of her body into the night sky where she gets a...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Mami Higashiyama

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  • 1998
    imgS1 E12

    4 1998 HD

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jouji Nakata

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  • 2003
    imgS1 E3

    7 2003 HD

    A fortified zone has been created by a man named Sanga, he calls it The Lastland. A group of villagers have discovered safe water, and Sanga wants...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast:

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