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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

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 , Marriage , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Police , Episodic , Fugitive , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Shounen , Restaurant , Detective , Nudity

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 , Nudity , Fugitive , Shounen , Cyborg , Episodic , American Football , Baseball , Rugby , Tanned Skin

Lupin III: Part II

Also known as Lupin the 3rd Part 2.

Studio: VAP , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Animax , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Mystery

Stealthy, smug, sharp, and silly. These words only begin to describe the greatest thief in the world, Lupin the Third. Ever at his side are the quick-draw sharpshooter Daisuke Jigen and the deadly, honor-bound swordsman Goemon Ishikawa

Besides the countless fabulous treasures and priceless gems he pursues across the world, Lupin’s target is the heart of one Fujiko Mine, a buxom beauty who’s just as often Lupin’s rival as she is his girlfriend. But getting away with the gold and the girl is rarely as simple as it first seems. The clever Fujiko is eager to run off with the treasure for herself. And the dogged Tokyo Police Inspector Zenigata has transferred to Interpol just to chase Lupin and his globe-trotting gang across any and all borders! What’s an international master criminal to do?



Tags: Fugitive , Episodic , Anti-Hero , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Crime , Police , Foreign , Detective , Ensemble Cast , Travel , Guns , Samurai , Meta , Crossdressing , Military , Language Barrier , Robots , Nudity

GOLDEN BOY: Sasurai no Obenkyou Yarou

Also known as GOLDEN BOY.

Studio: KSS , APPP , Discotek , Selecta Visión
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi

Kintarou Oe doesn't look like it, but he is a genius who completed all his university courses and then quit before graduating. He becomes a wandering student, going from place to place on his bicycle, seeking to learn what he can about life, the world, and women. He is willing and able to do any job he has to prove himself. His travels take him to a variety of locations and a variety of women, each who learns to love the hardworking guy, but not before he can run off.



Tags: Episodic , Work , Seinen , Satire , Male Protagonist , Travel , Cycling , Female Harem , Heterosexual , Nudity , Meta , Primarily Adult Cast , Tanned Skin , Motorcycles , Office Lady , Software Development , Swimming , Yakuza

Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo (TV)

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery

Kindaichi Hajime may look dumb, but he is one of the smartest you will ever see. He encounters mysteries after mysteries with his good friend, Miyuki, and he swears to solve them in the name of his grandfather, which was a great detective.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Police , Detective , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen , Episodic , Love Triangle

Space☆Dandy

Also known as Space Dandy.

Studio: bones
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi

The story of the anime revolves around Dandy, an alien-hunter. His job is to seek out new aliens never seen before, and receives a reward whenever he finds a new species. His mission is to find those new species faster than anyone else as he travels the galaxy. Together with the bucket-of-bolts robot QT and the dimwit alien Meow he picked up along the way, he comes into contact with new planets and their inhabitants..



Tags: Space , Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Aliens , Parody , Meta , Male Protagonist , Robots , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Achronological Order , Primarily Male Cast , Zombie , Surfing , Space Opera , Kaiju , Mixed Gender Harem , Yuri

Golgo 13 (TV)

Studio: TV Tokyo , Sotsu , Half H.P Studio , The Answer Studio , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Thriller

Golgo 13 has been called a Japanese counterpart to James Bond, except with a darker character, a much more hardcore attitude towards sex, and a complete lack of morality. Golgo 13 is described as a mystery man of undetermined origin, possibility being at least part Japanese, who takes any assignment for any employer (it has been said he has worked for the CIA and the KGB) as long as the right price is given and will always fulfill his contracts, even if he has two or more opposing contracts at the same time. He is an uncanny sharpshooter, with near 100% accuracy and capable of lethal trick shooting, and regularly uses a customized, scoped M-16 rifle in his assassinations. He also is a heavy smoker of cigars.



Tags: Noir , Assassins , Episodic , Guns , Politics , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Military

Golgo 13

Also known as Golgo 13: The Professional.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Discotek , Filmlink International , Shogakukan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama

After assassinating the son of business tycoon Leonard Dawson, Golgo 13 finds himself prey to the CIA and the U.S. Army, whom Dawson has personally hired to kill the assassin. As days pass by, Dawson slowly loses his sanity as he continues to plot every attempt to kill Golgo 13 even without caring about who hired the assassin to kill his son.



Tags: Foreign , Assassins , Noir , Guns , Urban , Revenge , Military , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , Seinen , Primarily Male Cast , CGI , Skeleton , Suicide , Stop Motion , Mixed Media

Cat's♥Eye (2025)

Also known as Cat's Eye (2025).

Studio: LIDENFILMS
Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Mystery , Romance

A new adaption of the manga of the same name by Tsukasa Houjou.

Cat’s Eye is a secretive trio of art thieves relentlessly pursued by Detective Toshio. Unbeknownst to him, the middle sister of the elusive thieves is none other than his girlfriend, Hitomi.



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