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Koukaku Kidoutai: THE GHOST IN THE SHELL

Also known as THE GHOST IN THE SHELL.

Studio: Science SARU , Bandai Namco Filmworks , Kodansha , Science SARU , Production I.G , flying DOG , Dentsu , Kansai TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Psychological , Sci-Fi

The year is 2029. In near-future Japan, where the world has become highly information-intensive, with a vast corporate network covering the planet, electrons and light pulsing through it. But the nation-state and ethnic groups still survive.

Motoko Kusanagi, a full-body cyborg, leads an elite combat unit, including Batou. While commanding her team, Kusanagi envisions the creation of a specialized task force to preemptively strike against emerging threats. Meanwhile, Daisuke Aramaki of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who had been planning to establish a similar unit, recruited Kusanagi and her team. Together, they begin operations as Public Security Section 9—an offensive tactical unit known as “Shell Squad.” As they confront complex cybercrimes and international conspiracies, the existence of a mysterious, unidentified hacker known as The “Puppet Master” emerges on the horizon of their investigation.

What fate awaits Kusanagi? And what is the Puppet Master’s true objective? A new era of cyberpunk action begins.

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Tags: Cyberpunk , Philosophy , Cyborg , Artificial Intelligence , Robots , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Police , Urban , Conspiracy , Politics , Dystopian , Crime , Seinen , Guns , Anti-Hero , Gore , Bisexual , Gender Bending , LGBTQ+ Themes , Episodic , Heterosexual

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 , Anti-Hero , Philosophy , Tragedy , Travel , Found Family , Noir , Guns , Male Protagonist , Cyberpunk , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Terrorism , Martial Arts , Cyborg , Tomboy , Cowboys , Amnesia , Work , Gambling , Police , Yakuza , Drugs , Nudity , Cult , Tanned Skin , Circus , LGBTQ+ Themes , CGI

FLCL

Also known as FLCL.

Studio: GAINAX , Production I.G , Starchild Records , Funimation , GANSIS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Naota is a detached sixth grader afflicted by the pangs of puberty. He's fooling around with his brother's ex-girlfriend when a crazed girl on a motor scooter runs him over, brains him with a bass guitar, and moves into his house. This pink-haired girl, Haruko - who claims she's an alien - hurls Naota into the middle of a mega-corporation's secret agenda. Oh, and now giant battling robots shoot from his skull. Mix in mind-bending animation and tunes that echo through your cerebellum to top off the trip that will have you falling hard for FLCL.



Tags: Coming of Age , Surreal Comedy , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Age Gap , Meta , Female Protagonist , Philosophy , Robots , Primarily Teen Cast , Slapstick , Denpa , Love Triangle , Aliens , Parody , Mopeds , Heterosexual , Amnesia , Guns , Kaiju , Urban , Gods , Super Robot , Real Robot , Nudity , Body Horror , Episodic , Baseball , CGI , Mixed Media , Motorcycles , Cosmic Horror

GHOST IN THE SHELL: Koukaku Kidoutai

Also known as Ghost in the Shell.

Studio: Production I.G , Bandai Visual , Kodansha , Manga Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological , Sci-Fi

2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of “The Puppet Master,” a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together with her fellow agents from Section 9, Kusanagi embarks on a high-tech race against time to capture the omnipresent entity.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Artificial Intelligence , Philosophy , Urban , Cyborg , Robots , Seinen , Police , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Cosmic Horror , Noir , Dystopian , Crime , Guns , Espionage , Nudity , Gore , CGI

Gachiakuta

Also known as Gachiakuta.

Studio: bones , Avex Pictures , bones film , Kodansha , DMM.com , CBC TV , Dentsu , Com2uS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy

A boy lives in a floating town, where the poor scrape by and the rich live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. When he’s falsely accused of murder, though, his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment—exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash. Down on the surface, the cast-off waste of humanity has bred vicious monsters, and to travel the path to vengeance against those who cast him into Hell, a boy will have to become a warrior…



Tags: Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Shounen , Survival , Dystopian , Revenge , Post-Apocalyptic , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Class Struggle , Found Family , Surreal Comedy , Tragedy , Adoption , Kaiju , CGI , Urban , Shapeshifting , Guns , Robots , Hip-hop Music , Memory Manipulation , Body Horror , Female Harem , Criminal Organization , Primarily Male Cast

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Also known as Gurren Lagann.

Studio: GAINAX , Aniplex , Konami , Half H.P Studio , Bandai , Bandai Entertainment , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

In a far away future, mankind lives underground in huge caves, unknowing of a world above with a sky and stars.

In the small village of Jiha, Simon, a shy boy who works as a digger discovers a strange glowing object during excavation. The enterprising Kamina, a young man with a pair of rakish sunglasses and the passion of a firey sun, befriends Simon and forms a small band of brothers, the Gurren Brigade, to escape the village and break through the ceiling of the cave to reach the surface, which few believe exist.

The village elder won't hear of such foolishness and punishes the Brigade. However, when disaster strikes from the world above and the entire village is in jeopardy, it's up to Simon, Kamina, a girl with a big gun named Yoko, and the small yet sturdy robot, Lagann, to save the day.

The new friends journey to the world above and find that the surface is a harsh battlefield, and it's up to them to fight back against the rampaging Beastmen to turn the tide in the humans' favor! Pierce the heavens, Gurren Lagann!

Tags: Super Robot , Coming of Age , Found Family , Male Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Space Opera , Tragedy , Travel , War , Aliens , Space , Philosophy , Time Skip , Politics , Heterosexual , Outdoor Activities , Anthropomorphism , Primarily Adult Cast , Henshin , Cosmic Horror , Desert , Class Struggle , Military , Mixed Media , Guns , Animals , Alternate Universe , Urban , Love Triangle , Suicide , Swordplay , Aviation , CGI

Dorohedoro

Also known as Dorohedoro.

Studio: MAPPA , Netflix , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery

The story revolves around Kaiman, who does not remember who he was before he was transfigured by a Magic user. This transformation left him with a reptile's head, and a desire to find out the truth about who he really is. Accompanied by Nikaido, his female companion, he tracks down Magic Users in "The Hole" and unceremoniously chomps down on their head, hoping to find out who it was that put him in this state. One by one, they witness this "second man" inside the head of Kaiman, and after pulling them back out of his mouth he asks them all a question... "What did the guy inside my head say?"

Tags: Dystopian , Monster Boy , Anthropomorphism , Magic , Amnesia , CGI , Full CGI , Gore , Surreal Comedy , Body Horror , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Curses , Anti-Hero , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Henshin , Primarily Adult Cast , Revenge , Found Family , Restaurant , Demons , Food , Body Swapping , Nudity , Female Protagonist , Tomboy , Class Struggle , Skeleton , Shapeshifting , Post-Apocalyptic , Zombie , Drugs , Gangs , Baseball , Heterosexual

PSYCHO-PASS

Also known as PSYCHO-PASS.

Studio: Production I.G , Fuji TV , Nitroplus , Sony Music Entertainment , KYORAKU , Toho , Funimation , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

Justice, and the enforcement of it, has changed. In the 22nd century, Japan enforces the Sibyl System, an objective means of determining the threat level of each citizen by examining their mental state for signs of criminal intent, known as their Psycho-Pass. Inspectors uphold the law by subjugating, often with lethal force, anyone harboring the slightest ill-will; alongside them are Enforcers, jaded Inspectors that have become latent criminals, granted relative freedom in exchange for carrying out the Inspectors' dirty work.

Into this world steps Akane Tsunemori, a young woman with an honest desire to uphold justice. However, as she works alongside veteran Enforcer Shinya Kougami, she soon learns that the Sibyl System's judgments are not as perfect as her fellow Inspectors assume. With everything she has known turned on its head, Akane wrestles with the question of what justice truly is, and whether it can be upheld through the use of a system that may already be corrupt.



Note: In the Summer 2014 season, Psycho-Pass was rebroadcast and re-edited to fit into an hour time-slot, ending up in 11 one-hour episodes. This edit included added scenes at the beginning and middle of the episodes, as well as fixing and improving animation.

Tags: Detective , Police , Dystopian , Crime , Cyberpunk , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Artificial Intelligence , Female Protagonist , Conspiracy , Revenge , Fugitive , Augmented Reality , Terrorism , Guns , Anti-Hero , Male Protagonist , Gore , Class Struggle , Robots , Body Horror , Tragedy , Politics , Nudity ,

Lazarus

Also known as LAZARUS.

Studio: Adult Swim , MAPPA , Sola Entertainment , Aniplex
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi , Thriller

The year is 2052 — an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity prevails across the globe. The reason for this: mankind has been freed from sickness and pain. Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Dr. Skinner has developed a miracle cure-all drug with no apparent drawbacks called Hapuna. Hapuna soon becomes ubiquitous… and essential. However, soon after Hapuna is officially introduced, Dr. Skinner vanishes.

Three years later, the world has moved on. But Dr. Skinner has returned — this time, as a harbinger of doom. Skinner announces that Hapuna has a short half-life. Everyone who has taken it will die approximately three years later. Death is coming for this sinful world — and coming soon.

As a response to this threat, a special task force of 5 agents is gathered from across the world to save humanity from Skinner’s plan. This group is called “Lazarus.” Can they find Skinner and develop a vaccine before time runs out?



Tags: Ensemble Cast , Crime , Medicine , Urban , Fugitive , Environmental , Drugs , Found Family , Anti-Hero , Parkour , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Philosophy , Cyberpunk , Espionage , Guns , Foreign , Homeless , LGBTQ+ Themes , Assassins , Military , Rescue , Death Game , Prison , Cult , Artificial Intelligence , Circus , Dissociative Identities , Bisexual , Gore , Yuri , Crossdressing

AKIRA

Also known as Akira.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Funimation , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Kodansha , Bandai Entertainment , Toho , Madman Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Horror , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

It's the year 2019, thirty-one years have passed since the start of World War III. A top-secret child with amazing powers of the mind breaks free from custody and accidentally gets a motorcycle gang involved in the project. This incident triggers psychic powers within one of the gang members, Tetsuo, and he is taken by the army to be experimented on. His mind has been altered and is now on the path of war, seeking revenge on the society that once called him weak.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Super Power , Urban , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Primarily Male Cast , Delinquents , Prophecy , Seinen , Urban Fantasy , Body Horror , Anti-Hero , Motorcycles , Conspiracy , Gangs , Gore , Military , Philosophy , Crime , Orphan , Guns , Politics , Aliens , Mythology , Human Experimentation , Nudity