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City Hunter

Studio: Sunrise , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mystery

Ryo Saeba works the streets of Tokyo as the City Hunter. He's a "sweeper" and with his sidekick Kaori Makimura, he keeps the city clean. People hire the City Hunter to solve their dangerous problems, which he does with a Colt Python. When Ryo's not working on a case, he's working on getting the ladies, and Kaori must keep him in check with her trusty 10 kg hammer.



Tags: Episodic , Crime , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Slapstick , Urban , Male Protagonist , Detective , Assassins , Shounen , Yakuza , Mafia , Cars , Nudity , Boxing , Gambling

Cat's♥Eye

Also known as Cat's Eye.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , The Right Stuf International
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Mystery , Romance

The three Kisugi sisters —Rui, Hitomi and Ai— during the day run a small cafe called "Cat's Eye". To discover the whereabouts of their father, the artist Michael Heintz, who has disappeared, Hitomi and her sisters rob art galleries as the smart and mysterious thief "Cat's Eye" in the hope that his works can give them clues about his vanishing. The crucial point is that Hitomi has a relationship with Toshi, a police inspector who has sworn to catch "Cat's Eye" —and of course he has no idea about Hitomi's double life.



Tags: Crime , Heterosexual , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Police , Episodic , Fugitive , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Shounen , Restaurant , Detective , Marriage , Nudity

Lupin III

Also known as Lupin the 3rd.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy

Hard-boiled, cocky, classy and silly. These words only begin to describe the amazing master thief Lupin the Third. With the help of some quick gunplay by his partner Jigen, Lupin takes on the world in elaborate heists, classic car chases, and nasty explosions. Fujiko, a buxom redhead with a penchant for betrayal, always gets tangled up in Lupin's capers. The stoic but swift swordsman Goemon is just as inclined to kill Lupin as he is to help him. And Lupin can never seem to lose the relentless Tokyo Police Inspector Zenigata. What sort of trouble will this band of misfits get into next?



Tags: Seinen , Anti-Hero , Fugitive , Episodic , Crime , Male Protagonist , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Mafia , Detective , Cars , Police , Samurai , Travel , Crossdressing , Football , Yakuza , Prison

GUNSLINGER GIRL

Also known as Gunslinger Girl.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Marvelous Entertainment , Funimation , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

Officially, the Social Welfare Agency is a government sponsored corporation that's in the business of saving lives. In reality, it's an agency on the fringe of technology. They give terminal patients another shot at life using cybernetic implants. This conditioning process then shapes the patient into an efficient machine for handling all of the government's dirty work.



Tags: Guns , Assassins , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Terrorism , Cyborg , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Urban , Memory Manipulation , Seinen , Crime , Tragedy , Gore , Suicide , Tomboy , Mafia , Military , Tanned Skin , Episodic , Politics

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex - Uchikoma no Hibi

Also known as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Uchikomatic Days.

Studio: Production I.G , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Uchikomatic Days is a 5 minute short telling the story of the birth of the Uchikomas, the 'ugly duckling' second generation think-tanks that made substandard replacement models for the Tachikomas. The short features a music performance by the A.I. Tough Guy Uchikomas, a group of rising stars that will provide entertainment at the Harima City for Academic Research New Year's Eve Party.

This special feature is available on the Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. Solid State Society DVD.

Tags: Artificial Intelligence , Real Robot , Cyberpunk , Robots , Kuudere

Space Cobra

Also known as Space Adventure Cobra.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Fuji TV , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

Seeking reprieve from a painfully ordinary 9-to-5 existence, mild-mannered office worker Johnson visits the TM corporation, a company that sells virtual dreams. In Johnson's dream adventure, he's the notorious space pirate Cobra! Accompanied by his android partner Lady Armaroid, Cobra fights the lowlife scum of the Pirate Guild by day and saves sultry sirens of space by night.

After the journey is over, events unfold that bring reality into focus. His experience wasn't a dream at all - it was a reawakening of his buried past! With the most feared weapon in the universe, the Psycho Gun, Cobra sets out into the galaxy in pursuit of love, fortune and fame.



Tags: Aliens , Space , Robots , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Anti-Hero , Fugitive , Nudity , Shounen , Cyborg , Episodic , Baseball , American Football

Reporter Blues

Studio: NHK , Tokyo Movie Shinsha , RAI
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery

The intelligent Antoinette, known to her friends as Tony, moves to Paris where she takes a job as a reporter for the newspaper ""La Voix de Paris." Together with the photographer Alain and the artist Bricolage she solves unsolved crimes and often crosses the path of the crook Madame Lapin.

Tags: Historical , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Animals , Police , Work

Buddy Daddies

Also known as Buddy Daddies.

Studio: P.A.WORKS , Aniplex , ABC Animation , Nagoya Broadcasting Network , Nitroplus , TOKYO MX , BS11 , Movic
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

Assassins Kazuki Kurusu and Rei Suwa meet Miri, a girl looking for her father on Christmas Day. Kazuki, Rei, and Miri unexpectedly end up living together.

Follows Kazuki Kurusu, a criminal contractor/coordinator who lives with his best friend, Rei Suwa, a professional assassin who has been raised from childhood to be a contract killer. Kazuki is outgoing and loves gambling and women, while Rei is a man of few words who spends his off time playing video games. One day, the two buddies end up caring for Miri Unasaka, a four year old girl whose father is a mafia boss, after Miri accidentally wanders into a firefight in a hotel while looking for her father.

Tags: Family Life , Found Family , Adoption , Assassins , Crime , Male Protagonist , Work , Parenthood , Guns , Urban , Mafia , Espionage , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Surreal Comedy , School , Gore , Video Games , Time Skip