Best Additional / Niche Movies & TV Shows

Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing

Kenichi Yamada, a single, 35-year-old businessman, has spent the majority of his adult life playing every MMORPG to hit the market. Tired of the constant cycle of repetitive, newbie-centric gameplay, he is immediately drawn in by the promise of a new game that, on top of being never-ending, offers up a "Hell Mode"—a difficulty level that makes it nigh impossible to level up but also promises uncapped growth potential. Upon selecting the newly released Summoner class, Kenichi finds himself reborn as Allen, an infant in a serf family, with nothing but his wits and old memories to guide him.

Stars: Hideo Ishikawa Makoto Koichi Marie Miyake Mayu Iizuka Mutsumi Tamura Sayaka Ohara Sayaka Senbongi Shoya Chiba Tasuku Hatanaka Tomokazu Sugita

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?

Stars: Ai Kayano Anna Nagase Aya Yamane Chikahiro Kobayashi Haruka Shiraishi Honoka Inoue Mai Nakahara Rina Hidaka Shizuka Itoh Tessyo Genda

Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle

Saku Chitose is a student at Fujishi High School, the most prestigious school in Fukui Prefecture. Outstanding in class, on the field, and in his social life, Saku attracts attention, good and bad. Naturally, he is surrounded by a circle of friends anyone would be happy to have. Now in the spring of his second year, with a new class, Saku is asked to help a shut-in classmate return to school life.

Stars: Chika Anzai Hina Youmiya Ikumi Hasegawa Manaka Iwami Masaya Miyazaki Rumi Okubo Shogo Sakata Yohei Azakami

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-

Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her somehow for saving him from his own despair, Subaru agrees to help the girl find something she's looking for.

Stars: Chinatsu Akasaki Inori Minase Kohei Amasaki Rie Murakawa Rie Takahashi Satomi Arai Takehito Koyasu Yuichi Nakamura Yumi Uchiyama Yusuke Kobayashi

Golden Kamuy

A Russo-Japanese War veteran partners with an Ainu girl to find a treasure stolen from her people, but they’re not the only ones pursuing the gold.

Stars: Akio Otsuka Chikahiro Kobayashi Haruka Shiraishi Jouji Nakata Kenjiro Tsuda Kentaro Ito Takayuki Sugo Tomokazu Sugita Toshihiko Seki Yoshimasa Hosoya

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes

After a life-changing incident, timid college student Koichi Haimawari accepts an offer from revered vigilante Knuckleduster to train as his protégé.

Stars: Ikumi Hasegawa Shuichiro Umeda Yasuhiro Mamiya

The Food Diary of Miss Maid

What's a maid to do when she finds herself suddenly stuck in Japan for a year? Eat, of course! Follow maid-in-training Suzume Tachibana as she tries all sorts of Japanese food, from sweets like taiyaki and melon bread to savory snacks like takoyaki and onigiri! Be warned, though—while Suzume sates her appetite through delicious treat after delicious treat, she might just end up whetting yours!

Stars: Chihiro Suno Daisuke Sakuma Hiromi Igarashi Kana Ichinose Maki Kawase Shizuka Ishigami

The Strongest Job Is Apparently Not a Hero or a Sage, but an Appraiser (Provisional)!

High schooler Hibiki is transported to a monster-filled fantasy world, where he possesses only non-combat skills. However, through key encounters, he discovers hidden powers and embarks on an epic adventure.

Stars: Hisako Kanemoto Kenta Miyake Lamalfa Michelle Tateyama Shizuka Itoh Yukina Shuto

Hell’s Paradise

For a chance at a pardon, a ninja assassin joins other condemned criminals on a journey to a mysterious island to retrieve an elixir of immortality.

Stars: Aoi Ichikawa Chiaki Kobayashi Daiki Yamashita Konomi Kohara Makoto Koichi Rie Takahashi Ryohei Kimura Tetsu Inada Yumiri Hanamori

One Piece

Years ago, the fearsome Pirate King, Gol D. Roger was executed leaving a huge pile of treasure and the famous "One Piece" behind. Whoever claims the "One Piece" will be named the new King of the Pirates. Monkey D. Luffy, a boy who consumed a "Devil Fruit," decides to follow in the footsteps of his idol, the pirate Shanks, and find the One Piece. It helps, of course, that his body has the properties of rubber and that he's surrounded by a bevy of skilled fighters and thieves to help him along the way. Luffy will do anything to get the One Piece and become King of the Pirates!

Stars: Akemi Okamura Cho Hiroaki Hirata Ikue Otani Kappei Yamaguchi Katsuhisa Houki Kazuki Yao Kazuya Nakai Mayumi Tanaka Yuriko Yamaguchi

X-Men

X-Men, still grieving over the death of Phoenix (Jean Grey), are investigating a case of a missing mutant girl in Northern Japan. This leads them to a mysterious virus that turns mutants into monsters. U-Men and the Inner Circle want it.

Stars: Aya Hisakawa Hideyuki Tanaka Kaori Yamagata Katsunosuke Hori Rikiya Koyama Toshiyuki Morikawa Yukari Tamura

Fate/strange Fake

In a Holy Grail War, Mages (Masters) and their Heroic Spirits (Servants) fight for the control of the Holy Grail—an omnipotent wish-granting device said to fulfill any desire. Years have passed since the end of the Fifth Holy Grail War in Japan. Now, signs portend the emergence of a new Holy Grail in the western American city of Snowfield. Sure enough, Masters and Servants begin to gather... A missing Servant class... Impossible Servant summonings... A nation shrouded in secrecy... And a city created as a battleground. In the face of such irregularities, the Holy Grail War is twisted and driven into the depth of madness. Let the curtain rise on a masquerade of humans and heroes, made to dance upon the stage of a false Holy Grail.

Stars: Daisuke Namikawa Junya Enoki Kana Hanazawa Lynn Maaya Uchida Showtaro Morikubo Shunsuke Sakuya Wataru Hatano Yoshitsugu Matsuoka Yuki Ono

Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring

When the Agent of Spring, Hinagiku Kayo, is abducted, spring itself vanishes—plunging the world into unending winter. Refusing to give up, her devoted guard, Sakura Himedaka, searches for her for years. When Hinagiku suddenly returns, the two set out to restore the lost season, face the past that tore them apart, and reclaim the warmth they refuse to lose again.

Stars: Hime Sawada Kana Hanazawa Ranko Baba Satoshi Hino Shogo Sakata Sumire Uesaka Taku Yashiro Yoshino Aoyama Yuka Nukui

JUJUTSU KAISEN

Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a curse to exorcise a curse, a life from which he could never turn back.