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Venus Senki

Also known as Venus Wars.

Studio: Shouchiku , Gakken , Triangle Staff , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

When an ice comet slammed into the planet Venus, terraforming its toxic atmosphere into one capable of sustaining human life, mankind’s dream of colonizing other worlds became a reality. Unfortunately for the colonists, Venus isn’t the paradise they’d dreamed of. As crops fail and competition for resources intensifies, hostilities grow until the two inhabited continents stand on the brink of war.

Reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capital of Aphrodia just as Ishtar attacks and only the intervention of Hiro Seno and his Battle Bike team saves her from certain death… but now Aphrodia is under Ishtar’s control and Sue, Hiro, and his teammates find themselves on the run! However, their unique skill at Battle Bike, which combines motorcycle racing with roller derby, may just prove to be the secret weapon Aphrodia needs to win the Venus Wars.



Tags: Space , Military , War , Motorcycles , Tanks , Fugitive , Male Protagonist , Politics , Female Protagonist

Dirty Pair (Movie)

Also known as Dirty Pair: Project Eden.

Studio: The Right Stuf International , Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

Agerna is a planet rich in Vizorium, the one mineral necessary to space travel. So when a series of mysterious attacks on mining operations has the governments of the world pointing fingers and blaming each other, the World Welfare & Works Association naturally sends in their top agents to investigate. But are the lovely angels up to the task of stopping a mad scientist bent on taking a long dormant alien race to its final evolutionary form? Throw in a thief who's hunting a bottle of World War II-vintage wine and it's a safe bet that nobody on the planet is safe. It's more chaos, more mayhem and even more destruction than ever before as the Dirty Pair take on their wildest case yet!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Space , Aliens , Primarily Adult Cast , Guns , Police

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

Project A-Ko

Also known as Project A-ko.

Studio: APPP , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

On a splendid morning, an effervescently cheerful teenaged schoolgirl named A-ko sets off for school with her delightfully ditzy friend, C-ko. The duo are students in a marvelous futuristic city, but A-ko is about to run afoul of the wealthy and powerful B-ko, a young lady used to getting everything she wants—and what she wants is C-ko! Also, a vast and powerful alien fleet is about to touch down in Graviton City, and they're after something, too. Fortunately for us, A-ko’s no ordinary schoolgirl—she’s got super powers of her own!



Tags: Super Power , Female Protagonist , Meta , Aliens , Robots , Primarily Female Cast , Parody , Ojou-sama , School , Revenge , Primarily Teen Cast , Delinquents , Nudity

Dirty Pair

Also known as Dirty Pair.

Studio: Sunrise , Studio Nue , The Right Stuf International
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

If you're in big trouble, call the World Welfare Work Association or WWWA for short. They will send out a team of highly trained and capable agents called Trouble Consultants who can solve your problems. But if the team they send you is the Dirty Pair, solving your problems could come at the cost of a lot of collateral damage.



Tags: Space , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Police , Tomboy , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Guns , Cyberpunk , Transgender , Nudity , Pirates , Animals

Cowboy Bebop

Also known as Cowboy Bebop.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Visual , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi

Enter a world in the distant future, where Bounty Hunters roam the solar system. Spike and Jet, bounty hunting partners, set out on journeys in an ever struggling effort to win bounty rewards to survive.

While traveling, they meet up with other very interesting people. Could Faye, the beautiful and ridiculously poor gambler, Edward, the computer genius, and Ein, the engineered dog be a good addition to the group?

Tags: Space , Crime , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Noir , Travel , Anti-Hero , Philosophy , Guns , Cyberpunk , Male Protagonist , Found Family , Terrorism , Female Protagonist , Cowboys , Martial Arts , Cyborg , Tomboy , Amnesia , Gambling , Heterosexual , Yakuza , Drugs , Police , Nudity , Tanned Skin , Cult , Circus , CGI

Seihou Bukyou Outlaw Star

Also known as Outlaw Star.

Studio: Sunrise , Sotsu , Victor Entertainment , Bandai Entertainment , Selecta Visión
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Gene Starwind is a jack-of-all-trades responsible for odd jobs and bounty hunting with his partner, Jim Hawking. Stuck on a rundown planet, he’s going nowhere fast. But when a bodyguard job goes sideways, he finds himself the proud owner of the Outlaw Star and on an adventure to find the mysterious Galactic Leyline. Facing pirates and dangers galore, can he survive the journey through space?



Tags: Space , Artificial Intelligence , Assassins , Aliens , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Pirates , Guns , Lost Civilization , Nekomimi , Space Opera , Tomboy , Magic , Nudity

Sengoku Majin Goushougun

Also known as GoShogun.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Ashi Productions , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Mecha , Sci-Fi

A meteor strikes the Earth and is found to emanate a powerful new energy called Beamler, which is used to power a battle robot, GoShogun, and a teleporting fortress, Good Thunder. The Docougar Crime Syndicate, lead by crime lord Neo Neros, try to steal the secret of the energy from the inventor of GoShogun, but he kills himself rather than let them acquire it. His son is targeted by Neo Neros next, but he is taken in by the crew aboard Good Thunder, who travel the world fighting NeoNeros's forces with GoShogun.



Tags: Super Robot , Ensemble Cast , Artificial Intelligence , Conspiracy , Adoption , Episodic , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Robots , War , Parody , Coming of Age , Meta

Toki no Tabibito: Time Stranger

Studio: Kadokawa Shoten , MADHOUSE , Project Team Argos
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Romance , Sci-Fi

Based on the novel trilogy of the same name by MAYUMURA Taku (眉村 卓), Time Stranger is the story of a bunch of teenagers getting transported back in time through Japan's history, and getting mixed up with samurai shenanigans.

Tags: Time Manipulation , War , Fugitive , Historical , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Cars , Samurai , Robots , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Royal Affairs , Swordplay , Memory Manipulation , American Football

Cyber City OEDO 808

Also known as Cyber City Oedo 808.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Central Park Media , Japan Home Video
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

It is the year 2808. Three convicts are recruited as members of the Cyber Police to keep major criminal activity in Oedo (formerly Tokyo) in check. In return, their life sentences will be reduced by a few years for every mission accomplished. However, to ensure that these convicts are doing their job, the police have secured special collars around their necks. If they attempt to remove their collars or fail to meet the time limit of their mission, the collars will self-destruct.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Crime , Police , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Vampire , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Cyborg , Death Game , Guns , Space , Urban Fantasy , Detective , Espionage , Super Power , Cars