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GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS

Also known as GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS.

Studio: SANZIGEN , Arc System Works , ABC Animation , newgin , Good Smile Film , Bushiroad Move
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

Sin Kiske, the forbidden child of a human and a magically crafted biological weapon called a Gear, lives in a world where magic has replaced science, and scars from the Gear rebellion remain. Attending his parents’ taboo-breaking wedding, he encounters a mysterious girl with deep hatred for Gears, and their fateful meeting threatens to upend the world once again.



Tags: Super Power , Full CGI , Post-Apocalyptic , Magic , Conspiracy , Family Life , Time Manipulation , Cosmic Horror , Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , Demons , Samurai , Transgender , Vore

Plunderer

Also known as Plunderer.

Studio: GEEKTOYS , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Fantasy , Romance

Every human inhabiting the world of Alcia is branded by a “Count” or a number written on their body. Depending on how each person lives their life, this Count either goes up or down. For Hina’s mother, her total drops to 0 and she’s pulled into the Abyss, never to be seen again. But her mother’s last words send Hina on a quest to find a legendary hero from the Waste War—the fabled Ace!



Tags: War , Post-Apocalyptic , Military , Tragedy , Magic , Fugitive , Time Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Heterosexual , Swordplay , Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , Lost Civilization , School , Tanned Skin , Isekai

Tears to Tiara

Also known as Tears to Tiara.

Studio: WHITE FOX , Sentai Filmworks , Dwango , Bushiroad , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Pony Canyon , Lantis , Movic , Good Smile Company
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

In a world resembling the middle-age. A girl, Riannon, is set to be sacrificed to appease a resurrected demon lord, Arawn. As her brother Arthur attempts to rescue her, Arawn defies those who resurrected him and frees Riannon from her captors, which leads to Riannon admiring him.

This eventually leads to a party of companions being assembled for adventure, with Arawn acting as the leader.

Tags: Magic , Elf , Mythology , War , Swordplay , Female Harem , Gore , Gods , Philosophy , Dragons , CGI , Dungeon , Zombie , Memory Manipulation

GRANBLUE FANTASY The Animation

Also known as Granblue Fantasy: The Animation.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Cygames , Aniplex , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

This is a world of the skies, where many islands drift in the sky. A boy named Gran and a speaking winged lizard named Vyrn lived in Zinkenstill, an island which yields mysteries. One day, they come across a girl named Lyria. Lyria had escaped from the Erste Empire, a military government that is trying to rule over this world using powerful military prowess. Gran and Lyria, in order to escape from the Empire, head out into the vast skies, holding the letter Gran's father left behind - which said, "I will be waiting at Estalucia, Island of the Astrals".

Note: The first two episodes premiered on January 21st as a special.

Tags: Magic , Ensemble Cast , Gods , Aviation , Guns , Ships

NEEDLESS

Also known as Needless.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

The year is 2130 and the world has been decimated by a devastating third world war, making the planet a dangerous, apocalyptic hellhole. There is, however, one hope: Adam Blade, a fake priest with big fists and a nasty disposition. He's the closest thing this world's got to a superhero, but like any superhero, he has a weakness. In Adam's case, it isn't Kryptonite; it's cuties in sexy little outfits, usually of the schoolgirl variety.



Tags: Super Power , Parody , Post-Apocalyptic , Seinen , Kuudere , Nudity , Robots

Dies irae

Also known as Dies irae.

Studio: Genco , A.C.G.T. , DMM pictures , Crunchyroll , My Theater D.D.
Status: Finished
Genres: Action

May 1, 1945. Berlin. As the Red Army raises the Soviet flag, a group of Nazi officers conduct a ritual using the slaughter in the city to bring back the LDO, supermen whose coming would bring the world's destruction. Their success remains unknown.

Present day. Suwahara City. Ren Fujii spends his days at the hospital due to a violent fight with his best friend, Shirou. He tries to value what he has left to him, but he is haunted by Shirou's words: "Everyone who remains in this city eventually loses their minds." and a recurring dream of a guillotine, murderers, and the black clad knights pursuing them.



Includes episode 0.

Tags: Feet , Chuunibyou , Magic , Gods , Male Protagonist , Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Time Manipulation , Kaiju

Shingetsutan Tsukihime

Also known as Lunar Legend Tsukihime.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , TBS , Movic , Geneon Entertainment , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

Shiki Tohno sustained a life threatening injury as a child, and due to that incident he was sent away from the Tohno household and was given to a relative to be raised. Years later, when Shiki is in high school, the head of the Tohno household—his father—dies, and he is ordered to move back in by his sister Akiha, who is the new head of the household. However, Shiki holds a huge secret. Ever since that injury, he has been seeing lines on objects, and only with a special pair of glasses is he able to stop seeing them. Also he is unable to remember anything well from the time before his accident. The day he moves back to the Tohno household is the day he stumbles upon a woman named Arcueid Brunstud and decapitates her with one stab of his knife in a temporary fit of insanity. When she suddenly showed up beside him later alive and well, and ask him to be her bodyguard, Shiki's journey to unravel the mysteries of his past begins.



Tags: Vampire , Super Power , Adoption , Urban Fantasy , Amnesia , Gore , Nun , Maids , Heterosexual , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Reincarnation , Revenge , Female Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Twins , Kuudere

Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon

Also known as Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere.

Studio: Sunrise , Lantis , Sentai Filmworks , ASCII Media Works
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Sci-Fi

In the far future, humans abandon a devastated Earth and traveled to outer space. However, due to unknown phenomenon that prevents them from traveling into space, humanity returns to Earth only to find it inhospitable except for Japan.

To accomodate the entire human population, pocket dimensions are created around Japan to house in the populace. In order to find a way to return to outer space, the humans began reenacting human history according to the Holy book Testament. But in the year 1413 of the Testament Era, the nations of the pocket dimensions invade and conquer Japan, dividing the territory into feudal fiefdoms and forcing the original inhabitants of Japan to leave.

It is now the year 1648 of the Testament Era, the refugees of Japan now live in the city ship Musashi, where it constantly travels around Japan while being watched by the Testament Union, the authority that runs the re-enactment of history. However, rumors of an apocalypse and war begins to spread when the Testament stops revealing what happens next after 1648.

Taking advantage of this situation, Toori Aoi, head of Musashi Ariadust Academy's Supreme Federation and President of the student council, leads his fellow classmates to use this opportunity to regain their homeland.



Tags: Politics , Ensemble Cast , Anachronism , Super Robot , Female Harem , Dystopian , Kuudere , Historical , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri

BLEACH

Also known as Bleach.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , TV Tokyo , Dentsu , Viz Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Supernatural

Ichigo Kurosaki is a rather normal high school student apart from the fact he has the ability to see ghosts. This ability never impacted his life in a major way until the day he encounters the Shinigami Kuchiki Rukia, who saves him and his family's lives from a Hollow, a corrupt spirit that devours human souls.

Wounded during the fight against the Hollow, Rukia chooses the only option available to defeat the monster and passes her Shinigami powers to Ichigo. Now forced to act as a substitute until Rukia recovers, Ichigo hunts down the Hollows that plague his town.

Tags: Swordplay , Shounen , Super Power , Afterlife , Ghost , Male Protagonist , Exorcism , Urban Fantasy , Demons , Ensemble Cast , Memory Manipulation , Time Skip , School , Kuudere , Cannibalism , Royal Affairs , Rescue , Achronological Order , Anthropomorphism , Language Barrier , Ninja , Tanned Skin , Tomboy , Reincarnation , Kaiju , Centaur , Time Manipulation , Dissociative Identities , Spearplay , Fugitive , Clone , Disability , Tsundere , Guns , Vampire , Ojou-sama , Age Regression , Amnesia