Random Anime Movies That Deserve Their Own TV Series (13 items)

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  (#12) Usogui

  The story of Usogui takes place in a world where gamblers risk their lives in deadly games, while a third-party organization known as the "Kagerou" referees the situation. Baku Madarame, who also goes by the name of Usogui (The Lie Eater), is out to control the Kagerou by out-gambling these maniacal gamblers in their own twisted game. Although the manga ran successfully for eight years, only one animated episode was made of Usogui, which was based on a later story arc. The series deserves a shot at a fully animated TV series, such as Kaiji and Kakegurui. 
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  (#7) Redline

  • Tadanobu Asano, Yū Aoi, Daisuke Gōri, Takeshi Aono, Takuya Kimura, Unshō Ishizuka, Kenyu Horiuchi, Kenta Miyake, Kōji Ishii, Kanji Tsuda, Chō, Tatsuya Gashuin, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Kōsei Hirota, Yoshinori Okada, Akemi, Shunichiro Miki, Ikki Todoroki, Akane Sakai

  Redline is a 2009 anime movie that puts a deadly twist on the Wacky Races formula. Old-school racer, JP, has qualified for the greatest and most dangerous racing competition in the universe: Redline. While he's thrilled to be competing with the galaxy's best racers, such as the alluring Sonoshee McLaren, this year's Redline will be even deadlier thanks to its latest setting in Robworld: a militarized planet filled with criminals eager to use the competition to their advantage. Redline is an imaginative and visually-thrilling movie that deserves to have more of its fascinating universe revealed. It would fit in beautifully with other racing greats like Initial D or IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix. 
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  (#4) Akira

  • Takeshi Kusao, Mami Koyama, Tesshō Genda, Taro Ishida, Kōichi Kitamura, Kōzō Shioya, Yōsuke Akimoto, Mitsuo Iwata, Kazumi Tanaka, Nozomu Sasaki, Hiroshi Ōtake, Yukimasa Kishino, Michihiro Ikemizu, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Kayoko Fujii, Mizuho Suzuki, Tarô Arakawa, Masato Hirano, Masayuki Katô, Masaaki Ōkura, Kazuhiro Kamifuji, Yuka Ohno, Masami Toyoshima, Fukue Itō

  Often considered one of the greatest animated movies of the 1980s, Akira is a cyberpunk anime about a troubled teen possessing dangerous god-like powers in a post-apocolyptic world. The movie takes place in the gang-infested streets of Neo Tokyo, where Kaneda Shoutarou leads "the Capsules" against an attack from their rivals "the Clowns." In the midst of battle, Kaneda's best friend, Tetsuo Shima, is taken in by the government after encountering a rogue esper on the streets and soon develops psychic powers of his own. Despite being directed by its original creator, Katsuhiro Otomo, the 1988 Akira movie left a lot of things out from its six-volume manga to fit a two-hour runtime. While both versions of Akira reach the same conclusion, the movie leaves out so many characters, backstories, and storylines behind. 
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  (#11) Red Ash: Magicicada

  Red Ash: Magicicada is a CG animated short that was released in 2017 by Studio 4°C. The 23-minute film is set in a futuristic world where the "Nanorace" - a race of humans who are superpowered by the nanomachines in their genes - are discriminated by the "Purerace" of normal human beings. To pay for an operation that would turn them into Purerace, a legendary hunter named Beck and his shy, but larger-than-life partner Tyger take up dangerous jobs in the old world. Everything changes, however, after their fateful encounter with a mysterious girl on the run named Call. Red Ash: Magicicada was originally launched as a Kickstarter project to coincide with the Kickstarter of the Red Ash video game by Level-5 Comcept. While the Red Ash Kickstarted failed to reach its goal, the anime movie was successfully funded and completed. Since there's more interest in a Red Ash anime than a video game, Level-5 Comcept should invest in an anime TV series that would expand upon the imaginative premise. 
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  (#1) Black Fox

  Black Fox is an original anime movie about a 16-year-old girl and her superheroic alter ego. Rikka Isurugi was a somewhat ordinary girl who was following in the footsteps of her scientific father and ninjitsu grandfather, until a paramilitary group raided Rikka's home and murdered her family over her father's research in drone technology. Months after the massacre, Rikka is now a private detective who dons her grandfather's fox mask at night to hunt the killers behind the attack. There's a Marvel superhero aura over Black Fox; opening itself up for more stories about its ninja-esque heroine and its equally entertaining cast of characters. 
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  (#8) Kase-san and Morning Glories

  Kase-san and Morning Glories is a 58-minute OVA based on the yuri manga series of the same name. The romantic slice-of-life movie revolves around the unlikely relationship between Yui Yamada, a timid high school girl, and Kase Tomoka, a popular and athletic tomboy. Kase-san and Morning Glories does a beautiful job of animating the early chapters of Kase-san, but there's so much more that's left on the table. The manga series not only covers Yui and Kase-san's relationship through high school, but has now expanded to their lives as college freshmen. 

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