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• Weathering With You

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  So you've already seen Your Name (and if you haven't... go watch Your Name). Check out Makoto Shinkai's latest offering, a story about a girl who can control the weather (but maybe really shouldn't).

• A Silent Voice

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  This beautiful and heartfelt movie about a young man seeking redemption for the mistakes he made as a kid is one of Kyoto Animation's best works to date.

• In This Corner of the World

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  An adaption of a historical fiction series that chronicles a young woman's marriage and struggle to make ends meet in the Japanese countryside during WWII.

• Summer Wars

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  It's a rom-com about a guy who volunteers to be his crush's fake boyfriend at a family reunion... and has to team up with her to stop the AI apocalypse.

• Promare

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  Studio Trigger saves anime yet again, this time with a movie about pyrokinetic mutants battling their firefighter nemeses. (Oh, and the music's by Hiroyuki Sawano.)

• Tokyo Godfathers

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  My favorite Christmas movie! Seriously. It's a lovely and heartfelt (but certainly not saccharine) story about three homeless Tokyoites who find an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve.

• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

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  A sci-fi-infused story about living your life with no regrets (and also not irresponsibly screwing up the space-time continuum).

• Colorful

  the Motion Picture

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  A beautiful movie about second chances and, at the risk of sounding horribly cliché, making the most out of life.

• Sword of the Stranger

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  A dramatic historical tale involving a nameless samurai, an orphan kid, Chinese assassins, and a really cute dog. Plus it's by Studio Bones, so you know the action's good.

• My Hero Academia

  Two Heroes

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  An anime-original story following Deku and the gang's attempt to foil yet another dastardly villain's plot. Plus ultra!

• Wolf Children

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  A heartfelt and heartwarming story about a single mom and her two children. There's also a shapeshifting wolf involved.

• Evangelion. 1.11

  You Are (not) Alone

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  Get back to basics with THE classic mecha anime. (Or at least the movie adaption of THE classic mecha anime. You know what I mean.)