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Devilman: Tanjou-hen

Also known as Devilman: The Birth.

Studio: Kodansha , Dynamic Planning , Oh! Production , Discotek , Manga Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Horror , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Akira is just another normal kid in modern-day Tokyo, until an old friend of his, Ryo, shows up and turns his world upside down. Akira learns that there is an upcoming war of demons on humanity and he has just been enlisted for a major tour of duty. But the only way to fight a demon is with their power, so Akira and Ryo risk a dangerous ceremony in an attempt to create humanity's only hope: the powerful Devilman.

Tags: Demons , Body Horror , Shapeshifting , Gore , Shounen , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Mythology , Anti-Hero , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Philosophy , Henshin , Cars , Guns , Drugs , Boys' Love , Suicide , School , Delinquents

Kenpuu Denki Berserk

Also known as Berserk.

Studio: OLM , VAP , Media Blasters , NYAV Post , Nippon Television Network , Hakusensha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Supernatural

Set during a time that very much resembles Europe during the Middle Ages, Berserk is a story of revenge set in the castle town of Midland. Recently, the town has seen the rise of a wicked king, who uses demonic minions to control and victimise his subjects.

However, when a lone soldier enters the town calling himself the Black Swordsman and armed to the teeth, many sense that the king's days of unchecked oppression are over. Soon, the Black Swordsman is plying his trade by hunting down the king's evil servants, giving no quarter, and preparing to exact his vengeance on the king.



Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Swordplay , War , Male Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Gore , Medieval , Military , Anti-Hero , Primarily Adult Cast , Found Family , Demons , Philosophy , Revenge , Politics , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Torture , Survival , Primarily Male Cast , Travel , Tsundere , Dystopian , Tomboy , Nudity , Tanned Skin , Coming of Age , Class Struggle , Curses , Fugitive , Archery , Female Protagonist , Skeleton , Rural

DEVILMAN crybaby

Also known as Devilman Crybaby.

Studio: Science SARU , Aniplex , Netflix , Dynamic Planning
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Psychological , Supernatural

The protagonist Akira Fudou learns from his best friend, Ryou Asuka, that an ancient race of demons has returned to take back the world from humans. Ryou tells Akira that the only way to defeat the demons is to incorporate their supernatural powers, and suggests that he unite with a demon himself. Akira succeeds in transforming into Devilman, who possesses both the powers of a demon and the soul of a human. The battle of Devilman and Akira Fudou begins.



Note: New Devilman project marking Go Nagai's 50th anniversary as a creator.

Tags: Demons , Tragedy , Body Horror , Psychosexual , Gore , Urban Fantasy , Gods , Shapeshifting , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Philosophy , Monster Boy , Unrequited Love , Curses , War , Angels , Henshin , Post-Apocalyptic , Anti-Hero , Mythology , Cannibalism , Coming of Age , Conspiracy , Revenge , Hip-hop Music , Athletics , Guns , Urban , Drugs , Meta , Masturbation , Public Sex , Heterosexual , Afterlife , Politics , Motorcycles , Shounen , Flash

Chainsaw Man

Also known as Chainsaw Man.

Studio: MAPPA , Shueisha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita.

One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as "Chainsaw Man" — a man with a devil's heart.



Tags: Demons , Monster Boy , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Gore , Tragedy , Shapeshifting , Body Horror , Anti-Hero , Psychosexual , Urban , Henshin , Shounen , Coming of Age , Monster Girl , Primarily Adult Cast , Anthropomorphism , Yakuza , Heterosexual , Guns , Found Family , Assassins , Crime , CGI , Cannibalism , Age Gap , Unrequited Love , Revenge , Homeless , Police , Amnesia , POV , Nudity , Zombie , Angels

Hokuto no Ken

Also known as Fist of the North Star.

Studio: Toei Animation , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

Nuclear war has devastated the planet, turning one fertile ground into a barren, inhospitable landscape on which mankind struggles desperately to stay alive. Society has collapsed and a fight for control wages between vicious dictators, super-powerful mutants, and biker gangs that terrorize the streets.

In a world so cruel and bleak, only the chosen one can restore civilization to its former self. Kenshiro - master of the Hokuto Shinken fighting technique; a martial art so awesomely brutal that only a single being can be entrusted with its full power!



Tags: Martial Arts , Post-Apocalyptic , Tragedy , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen , Heterosexual , Gore , Gangs , Cultivation , Revenge , Henshin , Motorcycles , Desert , Astronomy , Torture , Archery , Bar , Cannibalism , Nudity

Chainsaw Man: Reze-hen

Also known as Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc.

Studio: MAPPA , Shueisha , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Romance , Supernatural

Denji became “Chainsaw Man”, a boy with a devil’s heart, and is now part of Special Division 4’s devil hunters. After a date with Makima, the woman of his dreams, Denji takes shelter from the rain. There he meets Reze, a girl who works in a café.



Tags: Demons , Monster Boy , Urban Fantasy , Monster Girl , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Urban , Heterosexual , Assassins , Henshin , Gore , Shapeshifting , Body Horror , Psychosexual , Coming of Age , Anti-Hero , Fake Relationship , Work , Shounen , Philosophy , Super Power , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Spearplay , Nudity , Surreal Comedy , Swimming , School , POV , Restaurant , CGI , Angels , Feet , Coastal

Shin Seiki Evangelion Movie: Air / Magokoro wo, Kimi ni

Also known as Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion.

Studio: GAINAX , Production I.G , TV Tokyo , Toei Animation , Kadokawa Shoten , Movic , Sega Games , TV Tokyo Music , Selecta Visión
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mecha , Psychological , Sci-Fi

NERV faces a brutal attack from SEELE, but with Asuka in a coma, and Shinji in a nervous breakdown, things soon turn into the surreal. This movie provides a concurrent ending to the final two episodes of the show Neon Genesis Evangelion.



Tags: Philosophy , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Denpa , Meta , Male Protagonist , Gods , Body Horror , Psychosexual , Conspiracy , Super Robot , Gore , Primarily Teen Cast , Cosmic Horror , Afterlife , Kaiju , Mythology , Robots , Religion , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Mixed Media , Clone , Masturbation , Tsundere , Guns , Politics , Space , Kuudere , Boys' Love , Angels , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bisexual

Hokuto no Ken Movie

Also known as Fist of the North Star Movie.

Studio: Toei Animation , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

Following a cataclysmic nuclear war, the world teeters on the brink of complete destruction. Civilization is polarized into a degenerate society where opposing packs of marauding scavengers prey on helpless, homeless nomads. For those who are lucky enough to survive the constant brutality and danger, it is a bleak existence. Life an death blur into abstractions. The only hope left for mankind is to find a hero worthy of becoming the next "Fist of the North Star" - an enlightened warrior - who is capable of leading those with the will to survive out of this barrenness into a new world. But in this savage no-man's land of shifting loyalties and power-hungry demi-gods, heroes are in short supply.



Tags: Shounen , Post-Apocalyptic , Martial Arts , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Gore

Kyoushoku Soukou Guyver

Also known as Guyver: Out of Control.

Studio: Animate Film , Studio Live , Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Sci-Fi

The plot of this OVA is a rough adaptation of the first four chapters of the Guyver manga. It covers the same basic elements of these chapters; Genesis of the guyver, Fight with Vamore, Fight with Guyver 2 and the introduction of Guyver 3. Main differences are the exclusion of Tetsuro and his replacement by Mizuki, The replacement of Lisker with a female Agent "Valcuria", and thus a female Guyver 2. There is also a look at Sho's psychology of how he deals with his situation including a very harsh moment where his friends are assassinated in cold blood.

One night, high school student Sho Fukamachi discovers a mysterious metal object. Then in a blinding flash of light, Sho finds that he has accidentally fused with the Guyver, a mecha of mysterious alien design.

Now, to save his girlfriend, Mizuki Segawa, along with the entire world, Sho must become the Guyver to fight the Chronos Corporation and their biocreatures, called Zoanoids, who are hell-bent on world domination.

Tags: Super Power , Tokusatsu , Body Horror , Conspiracy , Gore , Henshin , Aliens , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Military , Heterosexual , Urban , Denpa , Nudity , Torture

HELLSING OVA

Also known as Hellsing Ultimate.

Studio: MADHOUSE , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Satelight , Funimation , StudioRF Inc. , Graphinica
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Supernatural

Hellsing, a secret organization of the British government, has long been battling supernatural threats to keep the people safe from creatures of the night. The current leader, Integra Wingates Hellsing controls her own personal army to eliminate the undead beings, but even her highly trained soldiers pale in comparison to her most trusted vampire exterminator, a man by the name of Alucard, who is actually a powerful vampire himself. Along with Integra's mysterious butler and Alucard's new vampire minion, Seras Victoria, The Hellsing Organization must face not only regular ghouls and vampires, but a rivaling secret organization from the Vatican, and Millennium, an enigmatic group of madmen spawned by a certain war over 50 years ago...
A bloody battle between monsters is about to begin, the dead are dancing, and all hell is singing...

Tags: Vampire , Gore , Seinen , War , Urban Fantasy , Foreign , Religion , Anti-Hero , Primarily Adult Cast , Military , Urban , Guns , Monster Girl , Body Horror , Noir , Cannibalism , Male Protagonist , Monster Boy , Butler , Female Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Tomboy , Slapstick , Age Regression , Nekomimi , Kemonomimi , Demons , Gender Bending , CGI , Chibi , Werewolf , Time Skip , Philosophy , Nudity , Super Power , Bisexual