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Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song

Also known as Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-.

Studio: Wit Studio , Aniplex of America , Aniplex
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Music , Sci-Fi , Thriller

An AI named Matsumoto appears before Vivy, the world’s first autonomous humanoid AI. Matsumoto’s mission is to rewrite history together with Vivy, in order to stop the war between AI and humans that will happen one century later.



Tags: Artificial Intelligence , Robots , Female Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Time Skip , Terrorism , Philosophy , Dystopian , Musical Theater , Cyberpunk , Primarily Female Cast , Kuudere , Memory Manipulation , Anthropomorphism , Idol , Conspiracy , Politics , Dissociative Identities , Rehabilitation , Primarily Adult Cast , Amnesia , Martial Arts , Suicide , Body Swapping , Nudity , Heterosexual , Marriage , Space , CGI , Gangs

Metropolis

Studio: MADHOUSE , Kadokawa Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi

In the great city of Metropolis, severe community structures and prejudice dominate a world where humans and robots live together. Unrest and violence increase with each new day.

Searching for the scientist Dr. Laughton, suspected to violate human rights by trading organs, the Japanese detective Shunsaku Ban and his nephew Kenichi arrive at Metropolis. In the scientist's laboratory, Kenichi discovers a girl without any memory of her past life. He decides to help her, so they run away together. His uncle follows him and penetrates the dark secrets of the city to find Duke Red, the man ruling from the shadows. Meanwhile, Kenichi desperately tries to protect the mysterious girl from the people hunting her. However, Duke Red and his adoptive son have their own deep reasons for chasing the girl. These reasons are connected to her true identity and the struggle for the domination of Metropolis...

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Tags: Robots , Dystopian , Artificial Intelligence , Fugitive , Urban , Detective , Politics , Cyberpunk , Police , Male Protagonist , Crime , Class Struggle , Terrorism , Kids , Foreign , CGI

Eve no Jikan: Are you enjoying the time of EVE?

Also known as Time of Eve.

Studio: Studio Rikka , Directions , Code , Trick Block
Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

The future, probably Japan. Robots have long been put into practical use, and androids have just come into use.

Influenced by the Robot Ethics Committee, it's become common sense for people to treat androids like household appliances. Their appearance - indistinguishable from humans except for the ring over each android's head - has led some people to empathize unnecessarily with androids. Known as "android-holics", such people have become a social problem.

Rikuo, a high school student, has been taught from childhood that androids are not to be viewed as humans, and has always used them as convenient tools. One day Rikuo discovers some strange data in the behavior records of his family's household android, Sammy.

Rikuo and his friend Masaki trace Sammy's movements, only to discover a mysterious café that features a house rule that "humans and robots are to be treated the same"...



Tags: Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Philosophy , Bar , Male Protagonist , Urban , Amnesia , Surreal Comedy , CGI , Found Family , Female Protagonist

Inuyashiki

Also known as INUYASHIKI LAST HERO.

Studio: MAPPA , Fuji TV , Kodansha , DMM pictures , Aniplex , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

Ichiro Inuyashiki is down on his luck. While only 58 years old, his geriatric looks often have him written off as a pathetic old man by the world around him and he's constantly ignored and disrespected by his family despite all that he's done to support them. On top of everything else, his doctor has revealed that he has cancer and it appears that he has little time left in this world. But just when it seems things couldn't get any worse, a blinding light in the night sky strikes the earth where Ichiro stands. He later wakes up to find himself unscathed, but he soon starts to notice that there's something…different about himself.



Tags: Tragedy , Super Power , Seinen , Cyborg , Elderly Protagonist , Male Protagonist , CGI , Robots , Anti-Hero , Urban , Crime , Gore , Terrorism , Body Horror , Philosophy , Superhero , Police , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Aliens , Yakuza , Surreal Comedy , Irrumatio

Robotics;Notes

Also known as Robotics;Notes.

Studio: Production I.G , Aniplex , Funimation , Fuji TV , MAGES.
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

2019, Divergence Ratio 1.048596 (Steins Gate worldline). The near future, where a device popularly called the PokeCom, packaged with PhoneDroid OS, spreads, bringing the Augmented Reality world close to existence.

Central Tanegashima High School's Robot Research Club is in danger of losing its club status. Kaito Yashio, one of only two members, is only obsessed with robot fighting games, showing no interest in the Robo Club even in this situation. The reckless, useless club head, Akiho Senomiya, aims to complete a giant robot, struggling hard to avoid losing the club's status.

Then, one day, Kaito discovers the A.R. annotation that becomes the Kimijima Report. Written in that report is the indictment of someone named Kou Kimijima's conspiracy involving the world.



Tags: Robots , Conspiracy , School Club , Video Games , Augmented Reality , Artificial Intelligence , Heterosexual , Hikikomori , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , School , Real Robot , Love Triangle , Otaku Culture , Tanned Skin , Mopeds

AI no Idenshi

Also known as The Gene of AI.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Nikkatsu , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Akita Shoten , Hero Garage , Bit Grooove Promotion
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

The future is here and a new species lives among people: humanoids. Similar to man, these robotic beings are highly sentient and suffer from unique ailments. Thankfully, Dr. Hikaru Sudou can help. He vows to treat the humanoids even by illegal means, causing him to lead a double life. But when strange diseases emerge as a result of this coexistence, ethical lines become blurred.



Tags: Urban , Medicine , Artificial Intelligence , Episodic , Philosophy , Cyborg , Primarily Adult Cast , Cyberpunk , Robots , Male Protagonist , Anthropomorphism , Memory Manipulation , Transgender , Agender , Shounen , Clone , Adoption , LGBTQ+ Themes , Augmented Reality

Koukaku Kidoutai: STAND ALONE COMPLEX

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

Studio: Production I.G , Kodansha , Trilogy Future Studio , Bandai Entertainment , Tokuma Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi

In the not so distant future, mankind has advanced to a state where complete body transplants from flesh to machine is possible. This allows for great increases in both physical and cybernetic prowess and blurring the lines between the two worlds. However, criminals can also make full use of such technology, leading to new and sometimes, very dangerous crimes. In response to such innovative new methods, the Japanese Government has established Section 9, an independently operating police unit which deals with such highly sensitive crimes.

Led by Daisuke Aramaki and Motoko Kusanagi, Section 9 deals with such crimes over the entire social spectrum, usually with success. However, when faced with a new A level hacker nicknamed “The Laughing Man”, the team is thrown into a dangerous cat and mouse game, following the hacker’s trail as it leaves its mark on Japan.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Police , Politics , Episodic , Robots , Philosophy , Crime , Artificial Intelligence , Cyborg , Work , Urban , Military , Detective , Seinen , Conspiracy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Dystopian , Memory Manipulation , Real Robot , Ensemble Cast , Guns , CGI , Kuudere , Body Swapping , Gore , Bisexual

LISTENERS

Also known as Listeners.

Studio: Slowcurve , MAPPA , Funimation , DMM pictures , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mecha , Music , Sci-Fi

In a post-apocalyptic future that has been torn apart by shadowy creatures known as the Earless, humanity's heroes are the Players, who pilot mecha known as Equipment to battle their inhuman enemies while earning fame and fortune to boot. Echo is a young tech-head who dreams of working amongst the Players and their Equipment, going so far as to build a makeshift mecha of his own, but he has long since resigned himself to life in the destitute scrap-heaps that cover so much of the world, now. That is, until he discovers an amnesiac named μ (or “Mu”) who has a mechanical port in her back that is the telltale sign of a Player. The pair become fast friends, and they vow to use their skills to fight for the world and defeat The Earless.



Tags: Robots , Post-Apocalyptic , Travel , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Musical Theater , Episodic , CGI

Plawres Sanshirou

Studio: Asatsu DK , Kaname Production , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mecha , Sci-Fi , Sports

Plawres is a wrestling game that the players make their robots, which are about 30 cm tall, fight in the ring. The main character, Sugata Sanshiro, is a plawres player. Using his plawrestler, Juohmaru, he beats strong rivals.



Tags: Wrestling , Robots , School , Shounen , Conspiracy , Martial Arts , Male Protagonist , Proxy Battle

Plastic Memories

Also known as Plastic Memories.

Studio: Doga Kobo , MAGES. , Hanabee Entertainment , Aniplex of America , Aniplex , Asahi Broadcasting Corporation , ASCII Media Works , AT-X , Bushiroad
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

This story takes place in a future not too far away when androids that look exactly like humans begin to spread across the world. The android production company SA Corp. produced Giftia, a new kind of android that has the most amount of emotion and human-like qualities out of any other model ever seen. However, due to problems in technology, the androids have a service life, and once they pass that, they... Well, it gets pretty bad. For this reason, SA Corp. creates a terminal service in order to retrieve Giftia that have gone past their service life. A new employee at the terminal service named Tsukasa Mizugaki forms a team with the Giftia Isla to retrieve the other androids, but...



Tags: Robots , Tragedy , Artificial Intelligence , Male Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Kuudere , Work , Amnesia , Urban , Tsundere , Coming of Age , Slapstick , Heterosexual , Female Harem