Ai Kayano — Actor (105)

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Yuyushiki (2013)
ゆゆ式 TMDB
actor: Minami Tsuda / Rumi Okubo …
other title: ゆゆ式
The daily school life of three girls, Yuzuko, Yukari, and Yui, who join their high school's Data Processing Club. The odd friendship between the three make for wacky humor in even the most mundane of events.

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'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess (2024)
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other title: Tis Time for "Torture," Princess
As the war between the Imperial Army and Hellhorde rages on, the Princess, despite being armed with her mythical sword Excalibur, is captured and imprisoned. What kind of torture does she face at the hands of the chief demon interrogator? Fluffy fresh-baked toast! Hot, steaming ramen! Oh, the humanity! Can the Princess withstand these tormenting treats and keep her kingdom’s secrets safe?

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Guilty Crown (2011)
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other title: ギルティクラウン
The story revolves around Shu Ouma, a high school boy who inadvertently obtains an ability called "The Power of the Kings" that enables him to draw out items called "Voids" from other people. He is then thrown into the conflict between a resistance group called Funeral Parlor which aims to restore Japan's independence from a quasi-governmental organization known as the GHQ. In the process, Shu has to deal with the burden his ability puts on his shoulders and the horrific mystery of his past.

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The Pet Girl of Sakurasou (2012)
さくら荘のペットな彼女 WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: さくら荘のペットな彼女 / Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo …
Sorata Kanda, a high school sophomore living in Sakurasou, the den of their academy's problem children, spends his days being dragged around by the strange residents, swearing he's going to escape Sakurasou one day.

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No Game No Life (2014)
ノーゲーム・ノーライフ IMDb TMDB
★ 8.6 7 ratings
other title: Sem Jogo, Sem Vida / No Game, No Life …
This is a surreal comedy that follows Sora and Shiro, shut-in NEET siblings and the online gamer duo behind the legendary username "Kuuhaku." They view the real world as just another lousy game; however, a strange e-mail challenging them to a chess match changes everything—the brother and sister are plunged into an otherworldly realm where they meet Tet, the God of Games. The mysterious god welcomes the two to Disboard, a world where all forms of conflict are settled through high-stake games. This system works thanks to a fundamental rule wherein each party must wager something they deem to be of equal value to the other party's wager. In this strange land where the very idea of humanity is reduced to child’s play, the indifferent genius gamer duo of Sora and Shiro have finally found a real reason to keep playing games: to unite the sixteen races of Disboard, defeat Tet, and become the gods of this new, gaming-is-everything world.

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Land of the Lustrous (2017)
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other title: Houseki no Kuni / Das Land der Juwelen …
In the mysterious future, crystalline organisms called Gems inhabit a world that has been destroyed by six meteors. Each Gem is assigned a role in order to fight against the Lunarians, a species who attacks them in order to shatter their bodies and use them as decorations. Phosphophyllite, also known as Phos, is a young and fragile Gem who dreams of helping their friends in the war effort. Instead, they are told to compile an encyclopedia because of their delicate condition. After begrudgingly embarking on this task, Phos meets Cinnabar, an intelligent gem who has been relegated to patrolling the isolated island at night because of the corrosive poison their body creates. After seeing how unhappy Cinnabar is, Phos decides to find a role that both of the rejected Gems can enjoy. Can Phos's seemingly mundane assignment lead both Phos and Cinnabar to the fulfillment they desire?

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ReLIFE (2016)
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★ 9.5 10 ratings
actor: Kensho Ono / Ai Kayano …
Arata Kaizaki (27) quit the job he landed after graduation in only three months. His life did not go well after that. Now his parents are threatening to stop sending money, and want him to come back to the country. He has no friend or girlfriend to share his troubles with...as he hits rock bottom a strange man named Ryou Yoake appears. He invites Arata to join a societal rehabilitation program for NEETs called ReLife. This program uses a mysterious drug to make him look younger, and sends him back to high school for a year...

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Sword Art Online (2012)
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★ 7.2 26 ratings
Reki Kawahara / Tomohiko Ito actor: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka / Haruka Tomatsu …
other title: ソードアート・オンライン
In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology called Nerve Gear. One day, players discover they cannot log out, as the game creator is holding them captive unless they reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they die in real life. Their struggle for survival starts now...

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No Game, No Life: Zero (2017)
ノーゲーム・ノーライフ ゼロ
★ 8.8 8 ratings
Atsuko Ishizuka actor: Yoko Hikasa / Ai Kayano …
other title: No Game No Life: Zero / No Game No Life Zero …
Six thousand years before Sora and Shiro were even a blink in the history of Disboard, war consumed the land, tearing apart the heavens, destroying stars, and even threatening to wipe out the human race. Amid the chaos and destruction, a young man named Riku leads humanity toward the tomorrow his heart believes in. One day, in the ruins of an Elf city, he meets Schwi, a female exiled "Ex Machina" android who asks him to teach her what it means to have a human heart.

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Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea (2013)
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actor: Ai Kayano / Kana Hanazawa …
other title: 凪のあすから / Nagi no Asukara
Long ago, all humans lived beneath the sea. However, some people preferred the surface and abandoned living underwater permanently. As a consequence, they were stripped of their god-given protection called "Ena" which allowed them to breathe underwater. Over time, the rift between the denizens of the sea and of the surface widened, although contact between the two peoples still existed. This show follows the story of Hikari Sakishima and Manaka Mukaido, along with their childhood friends Chisaki Hiradaira and Kaname Isaki, who are forced to leave the sea and attend a school on the surface. There, the group also meets Tsumugu Kihara, a fellow student and fisherman who loves the sea. Hikari and his friends' lives are bound to change as they have to deal with the deep-seated hatred and discrimination between the people of sea and of the surface, the storms in their personal lives, as well as an impending tempest which may spell doom for all who dwell on the surface.

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Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma (2015)
食戟のソーマ IMDb TMDB Skybridge
★ 8.0 9 ratings
other title: 食戟のソーマ / Food Wars! …
Yukihira Souma's dream is to become a full-time chef in his father's restaurant and surpass his father's culinary skill. But just as Yukihira graduates from middle schools his father, Yukihira Jouichirou, closes down the restaurant to travel and cook around the world. Although downtrodden, Souma's fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichirou which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Souma survive?

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AnoHana: The Flower We Saw That Day (2011)
あの日見た花の名前を僕達はまだ知らない。 IMDb TMDB Skybridge
★ 8.6 9 ratings
actor: Miyu Irino / Mutsumi Tamura …
other title: AnoHana - Die Blume, die wir an jenem Tag sahen / Anohana: the Flower We Saw That Day …
When Yadomi Jinta was a child, he was a central piece in a group of close friends. In time, however, these childhood friends drifted apart, and when they became high school students, they had long ceased to think of each other as friends. One of the friends from that group, Honma Meiko, now has a wish she asks Jinta to fulfil. The problem is, she can't remember what her wish is anymore.

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Blue Spring Ride (2014)
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actor: Maaya Uchida / Yuki Kaji …
other title: Ao Haru Ride / A un passo da te …
At the end of her first year of high school, Futaba Yoshioka suddenly has a chance encounter with her first love, Kou Tanaka. Three years ago, he transferred schools before she was able to say how she felt about him. After meeting each other again, Futaba realizes that he has gone through many changes. He acts more cool and even had his last name changed to Mabuchi. Gradually the two rekindle their love while piecing together what had happened in the time that they were apart.

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Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend (2015)
冴えない彼女の育てかた TMDB
★ 8.6 7 ratings
other title: 冴えない彼女の育てかた / Saekano: Comment éduquer une petite amie ennuyeuse …
Tomoya Aki is an otaku who has a dream. His dream is to create the best visual novel game ever. The main heroine for this game and the inspiration for this dream is a background character named Megumi Kato who somehow stumbles into main character-esque traits in his eyes. To complete the game in time he has to call upon the aid of his anime loving professional friends who aren't so keen on the choice of his main heroine.

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Medaka Box (2012)
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actor: Aki Toyosaki / Yuki Ono …
other title: めだかボックス
Kurokami Medaka is an exceptional first year student at Hanokiwa Academy who got elected as president of the student council with a smashing 98% of the votes. Extremely intelligent, strong, and rich; she wants to help anyone in need. To do that, she introduces a suggestion box that allows any student to contact her. Later known as the Medaka Box, it will bring forth incredible challenges to Kurokami and her friends of the student council.

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Aldnoah.Zero (2014)
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★ 5.2 5 ratings
actor: Natsuki Hanae / Kensho Ono …
other title: アルドノア・ゼロ
In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission discovered a hypergate to Mars on the surface of the moon. Soon a war breaks out between Earth and Mars, and Martian soldiers begin to descend from the sky, riding steel giants, intent on exterminating humanity.

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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (2021)
無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~ WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
★ 8.7 30 ratings
other title: Mushoku Tensei Jobless Reincarnation / 無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~
When a 34-year-old underachiever gets run over by a truck, his story doesn't end there. Reincarnated in a new world as an infant, Rudy will seize every opportunity to live the life he's always wanted. Armed with new friends, some freshly acquired magical abilities, and the courage to do the things he's always dreamed of, he's embarking on an epic adventure—with all of his past experience intact!

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Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018)
さよならの朝に約束の花をかざろう
Mari Okada actor: Manaka Iwami / Miyuki Sawashiro …
other title: Maquia - Adorniamo il mattino degli addii con i fiori promessi / Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana o Kazarou …
Maquia is a member of a special race called the Iorph who can live for hundreds of years. However, Maquia has always felt lonely despite being surrounded by her people, as she was orphaned from a young age. She daydreams about the outside world, but dares not travel from her home due to the warnings of the clan's chief. One day the kingdom of Mezarte invades her homeland. They already have what is left of the giant dragons, the Renato, under their control, and now their king wishes to add the immortality to his bloodline. They ravage the Iorph homeland and kill most of its inhabitants. Caught in the midst of the attack, Maquia is carried off by one of the Renato. It soon dies, and she is left deserted in a forest, now truly alone save for the cries of a single baby off in the distance. Maquia finds the baby in a destroyed village and decides to raise him as her own, naming him Ariel. Although she knows nothing of the human world, how to raise a child that ages much faster than her.