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Ibara no Ou: King of Thorn

Also known as King of Thorn.

Studio: Sunrise , TV Tokyo , Bandai Visual , Dentsu , Funimation , Enterbrain
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

Panic spreads worldwide as the Medousa Virus threatens to wipe out the human race. Kasumi is one of 160 people chosen to be cryogenically frozen while a cure is found. When she awakens to find the facility overrun with thorny vines and ravenous monsters, Kasumi and six others struggle to survive this labyrinthine nightmare. If they survive, how long do they have to live?



Tags: Survival , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Pandemic , Eco-Horror , Clone , Seinen , Twins , Tragedy , Achronological Order , Gore , Guns , Tanned Skin , Shapeshifting , Military , Ensemble Cast , CGI , Nudity , Suicide , Religion , Body Horror , Fairy Tale , Video Games , Parenthood

Download: Namu Amida Butsu wa Ai no Uta

Studio: MADHOUSE , NEC Avenue , Sofix
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Psychological , Sci-Fi

An exciting cyberpunk romp directed by Rintaro with veteran animator Kanada Yoshinori about a genius hacker and a gang of hot-rodders.

Tags: Cyberpunk , Software Development , Male Protagonist , Death Game , Motorcycles , Drugs

TIME DRIVER: Bokura ga Kaita Mirai

Also known as TIME DRIVER: Bokura ga Kaita Mirai.

Studio: Imagica
Status: Finished
Genres:

Yuuto Matsubara is a 27-year-old man who works in the sales department of a major toy maker, but he isn't able to pursue his dreams, and he feels hollow every day. He's even given up on love with his childhood sweetheart Ai. One day a "Time Driver" robot that runs on the power of dreams appears in front of him, and he is forced into the cockpit against his will. Inside is a 12-year-old version of himself.



Tags: Time Manipulation , Super Robot

Techno Police 21C

Also known as Techno Police.

Studio: Studio Nue , Artmic
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Sci-Fi

The plot consists of a chase of a hijacked MBT-99A tank, designed by the United States Air Force (which is odd, but will become the saviour of Eleanor, as she can be ejected before the tank explodes, like a fighter jet). The audience is expected to be enamored with this vehicle. At one scene when it looks like the tank is sure to get away, the background music turns into cocktail-lounge jazz and sparkly lights swirl around the tank. The tank carries six ATGM launchers (which Ken is somehow able to dislodge with minimal trouble, along with a piece of the turret, towards the end of the movie), three to each side of the turret, and a laser-based machine-gun-esque installment, in addition to its rifled main gun. The tank's treads are dual-mounted (the tread is split in half, making four sets of treads for the tank).

The employment of the laser, however, seems counter-productive to a machine-gun's mission, as it can only fire once every few seconds. If it can fire at higher rates, it does not do so, and tries to acquire a lock on its pursuer (Blader, in this case). This suggests a low ammunition capacity, unlike thousand-round-and-up machine-guns routinely mounted on modern tanks. It does not appear to have any effect on the road, either, which does not say much about its power.

Another tank involved is the MBT-90D, which are dispatched by the Army (or Air Force—the movie never makes it clear if it is a joint effort, although the general who arrives midway into the movie is shown riding in something resembling an ADATS) to take out the tank. Despite having at least a platoon of these, the MBT-99 still evades capture. The M-90Ds are armed with a three-barreled autocannon, the calibre of which may be around fifteen to twenty millimeters. The MBT-90D is equipped with three ATGM missile launchers, on the left side of the turret, and its main cannon is mounted on the front, instead of on a turret.

After the MBT-99's hijackers (who appear inside the tank after getting away from a recently-committed bank robbery), hired by a shadowy group, backed by a foreign nation seeking an edge in their military (the M-99 is presumably on its way to be tested at a separate base), are forced out by Ken and his team, Eleanor enters to study the tank, and it starts up on its own, having been programmed by the hijackers to head for a pier and drive off its end so as to rendezvous with an enemy submarine. The rest of the movie is made up of the chase through the city, resulting in the destruction of another bank (owned by the same corporation that built the first bank in the movie), and various collateral damage.

Tags: Robots , Police , Tokusatsu , Tanks , Work

Koukaku Kidoutai ARISE: ALTERNATIVE ARCHITECTURE

Also known as Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture.

Studio: Production I.G
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Psychological , Sci-Fi

A TV anime version of Ghost in the Shell: Arise.

Note: The first eight episodes are an edited version of the four movies while the last two are new content.

Tags: Police , Cyberpunk , Guns , Military , Cyborg , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Artificial Intelligence , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Male Cast , CGI , Heterosexual , Real Robot , Kuudere

Koukaku Kidoutai: Shin Gekijouban

Also known as Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie.

Studio: Production I.G
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Psychological , Sci-Fi

Set in a futuristic Japan after the end of a brutal world war, science has advanced by leaps and bounds giving humanity the choice to prolong life and reduce suffering with the use of sophisticated cybernetics. With all of humanity linked into one system of minds and personalities known as ghosts, the biggest threat to civilization is the cyber terrorists capable of hijacking people's bodies and memories. When a ghost-infecting virus known as Fire-Starter begins spreading through the system resulting in the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, Major Motoko Kusanagi and her elite team of special operatives are called in to track down its source. As they delve deeper and deeper into their investigation, they uncover traces of government corruption and a shadowy broker that bears an all-too-familiar face.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Guns , Orphan , Police , Artificial Intelligence , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Real Robot , Kuudere

Armitage III

Also known as Armitage III.

Studio: AIC , Pioneer LDC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

The year is 2046. Detective Ross Sylibus is transferred to Mars when a country singer on his flight is murdered. Making matters more complicated is that the singer is a "Third"—a robot that looks and feels like a human. Sylibus is partnered with Armitage—a beautiful female cop with a bad attitude. As they investigate the murder of the singer and other women on Mars, they uncover a conspiracy that can have them both killed by the Martian government.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Detective , Artificial Intelligence , Robots , Crime , Cyborg , Police , Conspiracy , Real Robot , Space , Fugitive , Terrorism , Philosophy , Survival , Female Protagonist , Urban , Politics , Guns , Male Protagonist , Tanned Skin , Nudity , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual