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An omnibus-format TV series consisting of anime adaptations of Japanese folk tales, this is one of Japan's longest-running TV series, and Group Tac's second TV series (the first was The Road to Munich...read more.
| TV | 1471 | 6.12 |
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This series is an anthology of old Japanese tales. (Source: AniDB)
| TV | 12 | 6.05 |
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Movie | 1 | 5.94 | |
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Like in any culture, Japanese kids grow up listening to the stories repeatedly told by their parents and grandparents. The boy born from a peach; the princess from the moon who is discovered inside a...read more.
| TV | 258 | 6.93 |
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Old Japanese folk legends released on Japanese and English to teach Japanese children English.
| OVA | 18 | 6.93 |
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Specials included on the Blu-ray/DVD volumes.
| Special | 6 | 6.52 |
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Sequel series to Furusato Saisei: Nihon no Mukashibanashi.
| TV | 50 | 6.13 |
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Each episode of this series tells the story of a famous fairy tale from all around the world. Some of them are adapted from famous books such as "The Iliad". (Source: ANN)
| TV | 127 | 6.98 |
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ONA | 12 | N/A | |
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Based on the Japanese folktale of a young man who slept for three years.
| OVA | 1 | N/A |
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Second season of Dagashi Kashi.
| TV | 12 | 6.83 |
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Folktales from Japan. Each episode was composed of two stories. The focus of the anime was to showcase folktales from different prefectures. The original airing only reached 18 episodes (36 stories) b...read more.
| TV | 26 | N/A |
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A collection of three classic Japanese horror stories: "Yotsuya Kaidan", the story of a wife betrayed by her husband who seeks vengeance even in death. "Tenshu Monogatari", the story of forbidden love...read more.
| TV | 11 | 7.38 |
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The 1st arc of the Chiyotarou Kodomo Gekijou program that aired on TBS. Every episode is a different Japanese fairy tale told with shadow puppet animation.
| TV | 65 | N/A |
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Of the same kind of late 80s shows about old Japanese (sexy) tales. It is made of three short stories, introduced by a narrator. And there is a "live" action sequence at the beginning, that the narrat...read more.
| OVA | 1 | 4.87 |
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A direct sequel to Forest Fairy Five.
| TV | 12 | 4.68 |
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The horrible truths behind Japanese Fairy Tales from the ancient times are finally revealed! This title includes three episodes: "The Monkey and the Crab", "Click-Crack Mountain" and "Urashima and the...read more.
| OVA | 3 | 5.43 |
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An animated series of Japanese folktales with modern twists.
| OVA | 9 | N/A |
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An adaptation of an old Japanese folk tale also titled "Saru Kani Gassen." The story involves the two main characters: a crab and a monkey. Through the chance of luck, the crab finds a rice ball simul...read more.
| Movie | 1 | 5.29 |
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A series of short comedic parodies on Japanese folklore.
| TV | 12 | N/A |
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A series of folktales about the ocean.
| Movie | - | N/A |
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Animated adaptation of old Japanese folk tales with the modern twists by Keiko Sootome.
| Movie | 1 | N/A |
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Hello Kitty themed Japanese fables.
| OVA | 7 | N/A |
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A collection of four folk tales from Koshiji (from 2005, part of Nagaoka), Niigata prefecture (Echigo is the old name of Niigata). Episode 1: The Azuki Mochi and the Frog A mean old woman tells an azu...read more.
| OVA | 1 | N/A |
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The second season of Baka Mukashibanashi.
| OVA | 4 | N/A |
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TV | 13 | N/A | |
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The Alzano Empire is home to one of the most distinguished magic schools in the world: the Alzano Imperial Magic Academy. Here, ambitious young students undergo training to become competent magicians....read more.
| TV | 12 | 7.13 |
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Stop motion animation of an old Japanese fairy tale. A poor man trades a piece of straw for a more expensive item. In the course of his journey, he manages to finally exchange the last item for a vil...read more.
| Movie | 1 | 5.90 |
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CoroCoro Comic's Yarisugi!!! Itazura-kun, in honor of it's 3rd manga volume going on sale, received web shorts on CoroCoro Comic's official YouTube channel. Itazura-kun loves pranks and thinks about t...read more.
| ONA | 4 | N/A |
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In 2050 Riyadh, elder Asma's richly captivating storytelling transports her cherished grandchildren to fabled times where they learn that modern-day dilemmas are no match for the trials, tribulations...read more.
| TV | 13 | 6.04 |
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TV | - | N/A | |
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The war over control of a unified Japan, the Sengoku Era, is over and the Toyotomi army has won. Toyotomi has allowed his rival, Tokugawa, to live but since that final battle an evil ayakashi named Ya...read more.
| TV | 26 | 5.46 |
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OVA | 20 | N/A | |
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A fairytale and folklore parody anime focused on race horses. They take classic stories (like Momotarou or Cinderella) and put them in race horse situations with the narrator voicing the action in typ...read more.
| TV | 4 | N/A |
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OVA | 10 | N/A | |
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Shounen Ashibe follows the daily life of first-grader Ashibe Ashiya and his spotted seal pet Goma-chan. (Source: MAL News)
| TV | 32 | 6.11 |
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One year ago, Sagiri Izumi became step-siblings with Masamune Izumi. But the sudden death of their parents tears their new family apart, resulting in Sagiri becoming a shut-in which cut her off from h...read more.
| TV | 12 | 6.34 |
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Second season of Mukashi Keibanashi.
| TV | 4 | N/A |
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Several tales of old-time Tokyo from well known directors, mainly concentrating on the courtesans of the Yoshiwara and prostitutes in pre-modern Shinjuku but also on the merchants and the impoverished...read more.
| OVA | 5 | 4.90 |
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Ichirou Inuyashiki is a 58-year-old family man who is going through a difficult time in his life. Though his frequent back problems are painful, nothing hurts quite as much as the indifference and dis...read more.
| TV | 11 | 7.64 |
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The mysterious, yellow-masked Storyteller is a man whose true name and origin are both unknown. He appears at dusk where children gather and recites sinister tales based on Japanese urban legends, to...read more.
| TV | 13 | 7.00 |
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After Kanna Kamui's escapade to New York leads her to make a new friend named Chloe, Kanna invites her to Japan to go sightseeing. Following their reunion at the airport, Kanna—accompanied by Kobayash...read more.
| Special | 1 | 7.80 |
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Self-styled pessimist Tamahiko Shima lives alone in the mountains of Chiba after losing the use of his right hand in the same car accident that took his mother's life. Deemed incapable by his father a...read more.
| TV | 12 | 7.79 |
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Dreaming of becoming a hero and vanquishing the Demon King, Raul Chaser enters the Hero Training Program in pursuit of his ambition. However, when the Demon King is defeated and peace returns to the w...read more.
| TV | 12 | 6.81 |
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Late at night, in a clearing within a dark fog-filled forest, there sits a kamishibai storyboard. A visitor approaches, and suddenly, the fog recedes. A shape begins to take form beside the board—this...read more.
| TV | 13 | 6.20 |
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Third season of Shounen Ashibe: Go! Go! Goma-chan.
| TV | 32 | 5.73 |
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Second season of Shounen Ashibe: Go! Go! Goma-chan.
| TV | 32 | 5.94 |
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For the second time, the masked storyteller returns to tell children tales and legends of horror and woe, such as the tale of a ventriloquist's dummy, a locker that grants wishes, a capsule toy machin...read more.
| TV | 13 | 6.51 |
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A young boy silently sketches out the forms of the horrors that dwell in his mind. During this adventure into the occult and mysterious, he tells tales that involve dreams of a person with a muscular...read more.
| TV | 13 | 6.34 |
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Tatsuya Kimura is beginning to feel left behind. With his friends Ippo Makunouchi and Mamoru Takamura holding the championship belt in their respective weight classes, Kimura's inability to become Jap...read more.
| OVA | 1 | 8.24 |