Yoko Kanno

Yoko Kanno

Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子, Kanno Yōko, born March 18, 1963) is a Japanese composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks of anime films, television series, live-action films, video games, and advertisements. She was born in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop and its live-action adaptation, Darker than Black, Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Kids on the Slope, Genesis of Aquarion and Terror in Resonance, and has worked with the directors Hirokazu Kore-eda, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichirō Watanabe and Shōji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for pop artists Maaya Sakamoto and Kyōko Koizumi. She is also a keyboardist, and is the frontwoman for the Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno's compositions and soundtracks.

  • Popularity : 2.35
  • Known For : Sound
  • Birthday : 1963-03-18
  • Place of Birth : Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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Yoko Kanno Movies

  • 2004
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    Memories of Memories

    Memories of Memories

    6 2004 HD

    Memories (1995) making-of featurette, includes introductions to the creative genius behind the shows and looks at Otomo’s previous works, such...

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  • 2009
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    Macross Frontier Galaxy Tour Final in Budokan

    Macross Frontier Galaxy Tour Final in Budokan

    5 2009 HD

    In November 2008, a live concert of Macross Frontier's music was performed by May'n, Megumi Nakajima, and Yoko Kanno.

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  • 2008
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    Dimension Bomb

    Dimension Bomb

    1 2008 HD

    A lonely character, his pains, his happiness, the vociferations of his soul. A visual poetry running through one’s inner world, to finally get...

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  • 2010
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    Maaya Sakamoto 15th Anniversary Live "Gift" at Nippon Budokan

    Maaya Sakamoto 15th Anniversary Live "Gift" at Nippon Budokan

    8.5 2010 HD

    For her 15th debut anniversary and birthday, Sakamoto Maaya made an amazing concert in Budokan (Tokyo) with a selection of all her best songs! In...

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  • 2001
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    Seatbelts: Souvenir of Tokyo

    Seatbelts: Souvenir of Tokyo

    1 2001 HD

    The Seatbelts is a Japanese blues/jazz band led by composer and instrumentalist Yoko Kanno. The band performed the whole soundtrack of the anime...

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  • 2001
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    Future Blues

    Future Blues

    1 2001 HD

    Short film and live concert "Future Blues" by Katsu Nagaishi with music by Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts. First part of the DVD contains the live...

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  • 2009
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    Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist

    Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist

    1 2009 HD

    Everyone in Japan knows his work, yet few recognize his face. Chris Mosdell, British expatriate, pop lyricist, poet and visual artist, during his...

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  • 2001
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    Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

    Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

    7.7 2001 HD

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  • 2005
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    Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man

    Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man

    7.7 2005 HD

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  • 2004
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    Kamikaze Girls

    Kamikaze Girls

    7 2004 HD

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  • 2005
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    Ashura

    Ashura

    5.2 2005 HD

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  • 2007
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    Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis

    Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis

    3.3 2007 HD

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  • 2009
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    Macross Frontier: The False Songstress

    Macross Frontier: The False Songstress

    7.1 2009 HD

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  • 2011
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    Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell

    Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell

    7.1 2011 HD

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  • 2006
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    Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven

    Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven

    7.6 2006 HD

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  • 1996
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    Boku wa benkyo ga dekinai

    Boku wa benkyo ga dekinai

    1 1996 HD

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  • 1997
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    Noiseman Sound Insect

    Noiseman Sound Insect

    6.8 1997 HD

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  • 1995
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    Memories

    Memories

    7.4 1995 HD

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  • 2015
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    Our Little Sister

    Our Little Sister

    7.6 2015 HD

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  • 2017
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    Sangokushi 30th Anniversary Concert

    Sangokushi 30th Anniversary Concert

    1 2017 HD

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  • 1999
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    Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

    Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

    7.4 1999 HD

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  • 1999
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    Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

    Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

    7.4 1999 HD

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  • 2002
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    Tokyo.Sora

    Tokyo.Sora

    7.1 2002 HD

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  • 2001
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    Future Blues

    Future Blues

    1 2001 HD

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  • 1995
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    Macross Plus: The Movie

    Macross Plus: The Movie

    7.2 1995 HD

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  • 2000
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    Escaflowne: The Movie

    Escaflowne: The Movie

    6.7 2000 HD

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  • 2007
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    Genius Party

    Genius Party

    6.4 2007 HD

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  • 2006
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    Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

    Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

    7.412 2006 HD

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  • 2006
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    Honey and Clover

    Honey and Clover

    6.4 2006 HD

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  • 2004
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    Mind Game

    Mind Game

    7.5 2004 HD

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  • 1993
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    Please Save My Earth

    Please Save My Earth

    5.7 1993 HD

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  • 2002
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    Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light

    Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light

    5.8 2002 HD

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  • 2002
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    Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly

    Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly

    6 2002 HD

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  • 2013
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    Petal Dance

    Petal Dance

    6.4 2013 HD

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  • 1997
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    Happy Go Lucky

    Happy Go Lucky

    7.5 1997 HD

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  • 2002
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    Woman of Water

    Woman of Water

    6.5 2002 HD

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  • 2006
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    Su-ki-da

    Su-ki-da

    7.2 2006 HD

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  • 2007
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    Say Hello for Me

    Say Hello for Me

    6.6 2007 HD

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  • 2010
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    Surely Someday

    Surely Someday

    5.8 2010 HD

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  • 2012
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    Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None

    Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None

    6.1 2012 HD

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  • 2007
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    Baby Blue

    Baby Blue

    10 2007 HD

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  • 2014
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    The World of Kanako

    The World of Kanako

    6.4 2014 HD

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  • 2007
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    The Show Must Go On

    The Show Must Go On

    6.6 2007 HD

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  • 1998
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    Beautiful Sunday

    Beautiful Sunday

    7.7 1998 HD

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  • 2009
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    Ring of Gundam

    Ring of Gundam

    1 2009 HD

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    The series consists of four 3-episode chapters, each handled by a different director. The directors were given freedom in their stories, but they all...

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  • 1970
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    7.8 1970 HD

    In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is...

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  • 1970
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    6.5 1970 HD

    When a girl named Ariyoshi Juna has a severe accident, her spirit turns to light and rises up out of her body into the night sky where she gets a...

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  • 1970
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    6.889 1970 HD

    In a future, decimated Earth after the discovery of a mysterious, alien spacecraft dubbed "Orphan". A group of researchers scour the planet for...

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  • 1970
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    7.6 1970 HD

    Ten years ago, a mysterious spatial anomaly now known as "Heaven's Gate" appeared in South America, shortly followed by the opening of "Hell's Gate"...

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  • 1970
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    7.763 1970 HD

    Two different students - a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent - form a friendship through their love for music.

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  • 1970
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    7.219 1970 HD

    35 years have passed since Lynn Minmay had brought peace between the Zentradi and the humans. Nekki Basara is a guitarist and a singer of the band...

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  • 1970
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    7.2 1970 HD

    The year is 2040 and the galaxy is flourishing with several colonies and advanced technology. AI is near perfection and the current top idol is the...

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  • 1970
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    7.8 1970 HD

    Taking place one year before the events of the original Macross series, Macross Zero chronicles the final days of the war between the U.N. Spacy and...

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  • 1970
    imgS2 E25

    7.2 1970 HD

    It is the Correct Century, two millenniums after a devastating conflict which left the world broken. Earth is now mostly uninhabitable, and thus a...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E26

    8.2 1970 HD

    High school student Hitomi is transported from Earth to the magical world of Gaea, where she meets boy prince Van Fanel, and is caught up in his...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E26

    8.2 1970 HD

    High school student Hitomi is transported from Earth to the magical world of Gaea, where she meets boy prince Van Fanel, and is caught up in his...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    In the 25th century, a spaceship carrying 300 people leaves the earth in search of a new world in the solar system, but an unexpected accident...

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  • 1970
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    8 1970 HD

    Uno Meiko is the daughter of parents who run a western style restaurant in Tokyo. She marries and moves to Osaka with her husband. Meiko experiences...

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  • 1970
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    6.7 1970 HD

    Set in the future, a giant fighting machine called the Aquarion is humanity's only effective weapon in the fight against the technologically advanced...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    6.587 1970 HD

    Long on style and perpetually short on cash, bounty hunters Spike, Jet and Faye trawl the solar system looking for jobs. But can they outrun Spike's...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E26

    8.5 1970 HD

    In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the...

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  • 1970
    imgS3 E26

    6.7 1970 HD

    Set in the future, a giant fighting machine called the Aquarion is humanity's only effective weapon in the fight against the technologically advanced...

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  • 1970
    imgS3 E26

    6.7 1970 HD

    Set in the future, a giant fighting machine called the Aquarion is humanity's only effective weapon in the fight against the technologically advanced...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E50

    8.2 1970 HD

    Naotora Ii is a woman given a male name, who succeeded as the head of the Ii family during the Warring States period when her father passed away....

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E26

    7.9 1970 HD

    Paradise—a legend, a myth, and a hopeless dream in a world that has become a wasteland. It is not meant for everyone, only the wolves thought...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E25

    7.7 1970 HD

    A human space colony fleet is trying to find a habitable planet near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The story focuses on three young adults and...

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  • 1970
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    7.5 1970 HD

    Space Dandy is a dandy in space! This dreamy adventurer with a to-die-for pompadour travels across the galaxy in search of aliens no one has ever...

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  • 1970
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    7.7 1970 HD

    Two inseparable friends move to Kyoto to chase their dreams of becoming maiko, but decide to pursue different passions while living under the same...

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  • 1970
    imgS2 E26

    8.193 1970 HD

    In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too...

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  • 1970
    imgS2 E12

    8.6 1970 HD

    World peace is at stake and secret agent Twilight must undergo his most difficult mission yet—pretend to be a family man. Posing as a loving...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E26

    7.746 1970 HD

    Every 10,000 years, teams from all over the universe are gathered by the mysterious Avatar to compete in the Great Race of Ōban, a race with much...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E26

    7.746 1970 HD

    Every 10,000 years, teams from all over the universe are gathered by the mysterious Avatar to compete in the Great Race of Ōban, a race with much...

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  • 1970
    imgS2 E25

    7.2 1970 HD

    It is the Correct Century, two millenniums after a devastating conflict which left the world broken. Earth is now mostly uninhabitable, and thus a...

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