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Live Action Movies & Series Based on Popular Anime/Manga
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Bet there are a LOT of these you didn’t even know existed!
A considerable amount of em are actually pretty good too. If you are a fan of the manga/anime they are based on, give em a shot!


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Movie: Tokyo Ghoul ( 2017 )
A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a superpowered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but has become part ghoul and becomes a fugitive on the run.
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Movie: Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins ( 2012 )
A former assassin who has resolved to never kill again has his vow sorely tested.
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Movie: Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno ( 2014 )
Kenshin Himura goes up against pure evil Makoto Shishio who is attempting to overthrow the Meiji government. The fate of the country hangs in the balance as Kenshin Himura takes up the sword that he vowed to never draw again.
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Movie: Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends ( 2014 )
Shishio has set sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the Meiji government and return Japan to chaos, carrying Kaoru with him. In order to stop him in time, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
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Movie: Death Note ( 2006 )
A battle between the world's two greatest minds begins when Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals.
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TV Show: Death Note ( 2015 )
Light Yagami is an ordinary university student. One day, he receives a death note which changes his life. The death note awakens his warped sense of justice and genius. He becomes murderer Kira and punishes criminals. L is a well known private detective. L appears in front of Light Yagami. L defines Kira as evil and decides to catch Kira. Then N, who has a beautiful appearance but dangerous existence, appears.
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Movie: Death Note ( 2017 )
Light Turner, a bright student, stumbles across a mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the streets of criminals. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante finds himself pursued by a famous detective known only by the alias L.
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Movie: Death Note: L Change the World ( 2008 )
A spin-out sequel to the popular Japanese thriller. This time it focuses on the character "L."
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Movie: Death Note: The Last Name ( 2006 )
Picking up where the first one leaves off, Light joins the task force searching for Kira in an effort to avert suspicion from himself---and get rid of L.
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TV Show: Death Note: New Generation ( 2016 )
Death Note: New Generation is a live-action miniseries based on the manga series Death Note written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. It is a sequel to Death Note 2: The Last Name and a prequel to Death Note: Light Up the New World.The miniseries focuses on the three new lead characters of the film Death Note: Light Up the New World: Tsukuru Mishima, Ryuzaki, and Yuki Shien. Each episode provides backstory for one of the characters and bridges the 10-year gap between the previous films, which canonically took place in 2005-2006, and the new film taking place in 2016.
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Movie: Death Note: Light Up the New World ( 2016 )
An update to the "Death Note" series in which a mysterious notebook contains deadly powers.
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Movie: Blade of the Immortal ( 2017 )
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine - the 100th film by master director Takashi Miike.
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Movie: Casshern ( 2004 )
Live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name (Shinzo Ningen Casshân). Theme song by Utada Hikaru.
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Movie: Dororo ( 2007 )
In the year 3048, the wounded Lord Kagemitsu Daigo proposes a deal to rule the whole world to forty-eight demons in their sealed temple. In return, the demons ask forty-eight parts of the body of his unborn son. When the mutilated baby is born, his mother puts him in a basket in the river flow to save his life. The baby survives and becomes the demon slayer Hyakkimaru that slash demons to retrieve his body parts. During his journey, he meets the female thief Dororo, who was raised as a boy after the death of her parents by the evil Lord Daigo, in a small town and she befriends Hyakkimaru and joins him in his quest seeking revenge against the Daigo's clan.
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TV Show: GTO ( 2012 )
Through the introduction of his friend Danma Ryuji, Onizuka Eikichi, the former legendary bike gang member, visits Meishu Academy to tend to the trees in the garden as a part-time gardener. Learning that Yoshikawa Noboru, a student in teacher Fuyutsuki Azusa's class is being bullied by Uehara Kyoko and other classmates, Onizuka befriends and saves Yoshikawa. Seeing Onizuka's unprecedented but visceral, powerful response to problem solving, the school's president and principal, Sakurai Yoshiko, overrides resistance from her vice principal Uchiyamada Hiroshi and makes Onizuka a teacher. Onizuka goes on to tackle many issues as the teacher in charge of the most problematic class, Class 2-4.
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Movie: Ajin: Demi-Human ( 2017 )
A high school student discovers he is an Ajin, a demi-human being. He ends up a fugitive on the run because of his powers.
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Movie: Ghost in the Shell ( 2017 )
In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
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Movie: Alita: Battle Angel ( 2019 )
A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is.
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Movie: Attack on Titan Part 1 ( 2015 )
A teenage boy named Eren Jaeger must use his special gift to fight alongside with the military to defeat the titan race. Mankind is on the brink of extinction when these man-eating monsters terrorize everybody and set to destroy the last of human civilization left in the world.
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Movie: Attack on Titan II: End of the World ( 2015 )
A young boy name Eren Jaeger has to use his gift to know about the mystery of the Titans.
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TV Show: Attack on Titan: Smoke Signal of Fight Back ( 2015 )
The last remnants of humanity were forced to retreat behind the towering walls of a fortified city to escape the massive, man-eating Titans that roamed the land outside their fortress. But one day, the walls were breached. 10 months after the attack of the Titans, troops assembled to fight the Titans have been training daily. The people earnestly wish for the walls which were destroyed by the Titans to be repaired. In order to do this, the government has been covering the research expenses for the development of weapons against the Titans with precious tax money. Hange, the weapons leader, spends her time on independent Titan research for the purpose of finding the vulnerabilities of the Titans, which are many times bigger than humans. Many of the troops have lost their homes and families because of the emergence of the Titans. They vow to have a heroic counterattack on the Titans.
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Movie: Bakuman. ( 2015 )
Moritaka Mashiro, a junior high student, forgets his notebook in class. His classmate Akito Takagi, notes Mashiro's drawings in it and asks him to become a manga artist to his stories. Mashiro declines. Takagi incites Mashiro to meet with Miho Azuki, Mashiro's crush, and tells her the two plan to become mangakas (manga artists). In response, Azuki reveals her plans to be a seiyuu (voice actress). Mashiro proposes to her that they should both marry when Azuki becomes a voice actress for the anime adaptation of their manga. The two then start creating their manga, under the pen name Muto Ashirogi, in hopes of getting serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump.
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Movie: Azumi ( 2003 )
Raised to deal in cold blooded death, the teenage assassin girl Azumi must defeat three evil warlords while also battling her own heart.
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Movie: Blood: The Last Vampire ( 2009 )
A vampire named Saya, who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon in disguise.
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Movie: Bleach ( 2018 )
A Japanese teenager with the ability to see ghosts gains a soul reaper's powers and begins his duties as a substitute soul reaper.
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Movie: Dragonball Evolution ( 2009 )
The young warrior Son Goku sets out on a quest, racing against time and the vengeful King Piccolo, to collect a set of seven magical orbs that will grant their wielder unlimited power.
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Movie: Erased ( 2016 )
Struggling manga author Satoru Fujinuma is beset by his fear to express himself. However, he has a supernatural ability of being forced to prevent deaths and catastrophes by being sent back in time before the incident occurred, repeating time until the accident is prevented. One day, he gets involved in an accident that has him framed as a murderer. Desperate to save the victim, he sends himself back in time only to find himself as a grade-schooler one month before fellow classmate Kayo Hinazuki went missing. Satoru now embarks on a new quest: to save Kayo and solve the mystery behind her disappearance.
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TV Show: ERASED ( 2017 )
After finding his mom killed, Satoru's time-traveling ability takes him back 18 years for a chance to prevent her death and those of three classmates.
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Movie: Gantz: Perfect Answer ( 2011 )
Kato's (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) death changes Kurono's (Kazunari Ninomiya) view of life completely. He decides to keep fighting until he earns 100 points so that he can bring back Kato. GANTZ calls back several other unwilling participants that were allowed to leave after scoring 100 points. Before Kurono succeeds in resurrecting Kato, he unexpectedly comes back. GANTZ an...Read all
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Movie: Gantz ( 2011 )
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
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Movie: Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler ( 2009 )
Kaiji, a young gambler who is constantly in debt, enters a deadly gambling competition in order to wipe away his loans.
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Movie: Kaiji 2: Jinsei dakkai gêmu ( 2011 )
Kaiji erased all of his debts in the first movie. A year later, he's back in the same debt ridden situation. Kaiji then gets a chance to clear himself of his 200 million Yen debt, but he has only 2 weeks.
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Movie: Battle Royale ( 2000 )
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
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Movie: Battle Royale II ( 2003 )
Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students are sent to an island with one objective: kill international terrorist Shuya Nanahara.
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Movie: Speed Racer ( 2008 )
Young driver Speed Racer aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile.