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Dragon Half
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Mahou Senshi Louie
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Lighthearted fantasy with a slapstick sense of humor and potty jokes. Even when the protagonists succeed, it's not necessarily the way they wanted, and any moment of awesomeness is undercut by laughable incompetence or goofy misunderstandings. Rune Soldier takes itself seriously at times, but Dragon Half is one big running joke, similar to Rune Soldier's more comedic episodes.
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Marie no Kanaderu Ongaku
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Omoide Emanon
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Fantastical stories with a soft, contemplative side and dark undertones. Talk about human nature.
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Fullmetal Alchemist
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Pumpkin Scissors
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Action/Comedy with an antiwar theme. The heroes try to save everyone, but they can't always do so and everyone else thinks they're fools because of it. Both take place in the aftermath of a devastating war in which the main characters' countries won by committing horrible crimes, and some of the major characters are veterans.
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Hotori: Tada Saiwai wo Koinegau
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Metropolis
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Both movies alternate between being heartwarming and heartwrenching, putting difficult moral decisions in the hands of children. In both settings, robots are commonplace, and both movies deal with the ethics of creating and interacting with sentient robots - in Hotori, the main character is a robot created to resemble a couple's deceased child, while in Metropolis, several of the many robots that make up the city's slave underclass are clearly as intelligent as the humans around them, and robots that look like humans are illegal. Both also have slice-of-life aspects as their young characters explore the worlds around them. Though both movies feature very young major characters, they are not specifically aimed at that age range and might be too violent for some children.