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Emiri Kato has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings.
2013
Drama · Fantasy

Overlord
2015 · Series · Voice
Top 10%Netflix · Included

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
2017 · Series · Voice
Top 17%Crunchyroll · Included

Ben-To
2011 · Series · Voice
Top 19%Crunchyroll · Included

Puella Magi Madoka Magica
2011 · Series · Voice
Top 34%Netflix · Included

Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic
2017 · Movie · Voice
Top 34%Crunchyroll · Included

Log Horizon
2013 · Series · Voice
Top 62%Hulu · Included

as Kyubey (voice) · Voice
Prime Video · Rent
Madoka Kaname, an ordinary middle-schooler, along with her best friend Sayaka Miki, are offered the chance to have any wish they want granted by the mysterious Kyubey, and become magical girls and fight witches. However, fellow magical girl Homura Akemi seems intent on stopping Madoka from becoming a magical girl at any cost. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings is a retelling of the first half of the TV anime series.
Dir. Yukihiro Miyamoto, Akiyuki Shinbo · With Aoi Yuuki, Chiwa Saito, Eri Kitamura

as Kyubey (voice) · Voice
Prime Video · Rent
As the young girls have discovered the truth about the cruel fate of a magical girl, one magical girl after another is destroyed. Throughout it all, there is one magical girl who continues to fight alone - Homura Akemi. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal is a retelling of the second half of the TV anime series.
Dir. Yukihiro Miyamoto, Akiyuki Shinbo · With Aoi Yuuki, Chiwa Saito, Eri Kitamura

as Kyubey (voice) · Voice
Prime Video · Rent
Following Madoka's rewriting of the universe, sacrificing herself and her happy normal days to save all magical girls from the cruel fate that awaited them by wiping witches out of existence, the despair still manifest into creatures known as nightmares. Magical girl Homura Akemi continues to fight alone in the hope that she will be able to see Madoka smile again.
Dir. Yukihiro Miyamoto, Akiyuki Shinbo · With Aoi Yuuki, Chiwa Saito, Eri Kitamura

In the year 2138, virtual reality gaming is booming. Yggdrasil, a popular online game is quietly shut down one day. However, one player named Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image of a skeleton as "the most powerful wizard." The world continues to change, with non-player characters (NPCs) beginning to feel emotion. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary young man Momonga then strives to take over the new world the game has become.
With Satoshi Hino, Yumi Hara, Sumire Uesaka

Kobayashi lives alone in an apartment, until one day, Tohru appeared and they ended up living together. Tohru looks down on humans as inferior and foolish, but having been saved by Kobayashi-san, she does everything she can to repay the debt and help her with various things, although not everything goes according to plan. A mythical everyday life comedy about a hard working office lady living with a dragon girl.
With Mutsumi Tamura, Yuuki Kuwahara, Maria Naganawa

Every day an epic struggle rages in grocery stores across Japan - the battle for half-priced bento boxes! Once the discount stickers go on, ravenous brawlers start throwing punches in a knockdown, drag-out war over who gets to take home the cheap eats. When a young, broke high school student named Sato joins the Half-Priced Food Lovers Club, he proves to be a rising talent in the world of insane food fights. But does he have what it takes to become the king of clearance cuisine?
With Hiro Shimono, Mariya Ise, Emiri Kato

She has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time... Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader of Mitakihara middle school, is one of those who lives such a life. One day, she had a very magical encounter. She doesn't know if it happened by chance or by fate yet. This is a fateful encounter that can change her destiny. This is a beginning of the new story of the magical witch girls.
With Aoi Yuuki, Chiwa Saito, Eri Kitamura

Ciel learns of a "Aurora Society", that is rumored to be researching how to bring the dead back to life. Their next meeting is scheduled to be conducted on the ship Campania, voyaging across the Atlantic Ocean. Much to Ciel's dismay, Elizabeth "Lizzy" Midford, is taking the same ship, thus leaving him with no choice but to get aboard as well.
Dir. Noriyuki Abe · With Daisuke Ono, Maaya Sakamoto, Yukari Tamura

as Momoko Akatsutsumi / Hyper Blossom (voice) · Voice
Professor Utonium and his son Ken are studying the strange Chemical X. When a mochi cake falls into the formula, it changes into Chemical Z. Ken fires a ray of Chemical Z at a glacier in Tokyo Bay, however that causes strange lights to scatter, some of them aim at three normal girls, Momoko, Miyako, and Kaoru. This gives them the power to transform into superheroes, the Powerpuff Girls Z!
With Emiri Kato, Nami Miyahara, Machiko Kawana

One day, while playing the online game Elder Tales, 30,000 players suddenly find themselves trapped in another world. There, eight-year veteran gamer Shiroe also gets left behind. The trapped players are still alive, but they remain in combat with the monsters. The players don't understand what has happened to them, and they flee to Akiba, the largest city in Tokyo, where they are thrown into chaos. Once proud of his loner lifestyle, Shiroe forms a guild called Log Horizon with his old friend Naotsugu, female assassin Akatsuki and others.
With Takuma Terashima, Tomoaki Maeno, Emiri Kato

On her first day attending the all-girls Nanamori Middle School in Takaoka, Toyama Akaza Akari oversleeps, to be awakened by her one-year-senior childhood friends: the level-headed Funami Yui and the often self-centered Toshinou Kyouko. Planning on exciting club activities at school, Akari joins the club her older friends have set up. But as it turns out Kyouko and Yui simply took over the former room of the now defunct tea ceremony club for their own Amusement Club. In regard to what the club does, Kyouko explains: "We just hang out and do whatever we want!" This is not exactly what the helpful and energetic Akari had hoped for. Surprisingly a few days later Yoshikawa Chinatsu joins the club even though she mistook it for the former tea ceremony club. And so the four fun-loving girls could enjoy spending their spare time at the club were it not for the student council, in person of vice president Sugiura Ayano, who does her very best to shut down this unauthorized club.
With Shiori Mikami, Yuka Otsubo, Minami Tsuda

Kodaka Hasegawa has just transferred to St. Chronica's Academy and he's having a hard time making friends. With his naturally blond hair and fierce looking eyes, people constantly mistake him for a delinquent. One day, he runs into his bad-tempered loner of a classmate, Yozora, while she's talking to her imaginary friend, Tomo. Since neither of them have any friends, they decide to form a club and start recruiting some. Little by little, lonely classmates join their club to learn how to build friendships through cooking together, playing games, and other group activities. But, with so many misfits, will the club members really be able to get along?
With Ryohei Kimura, Kanae Itou, Marina Inoue

as Hideyoshi Kinoshita / Yuuko Kinoshita (voice) · Voice
Crunchyroll · Included
Advanced placement into a school of higher grade proof-reading is determined by the results of the Promotion Test strictly for class type. Ranging from A class with the best facilities anyone can offer all the way down to F Class which is composed of low dining tables, rotten tatami mats and other worn out facilities. Students can change classes by competing using the Examination Summons Battle system or ESB. Students summon characters with their equivalent test mark scores and use them to compete with other classes.
With Hiro Shimono, Hitomi Harada, Kaori Mizuhashi
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