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Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor

Also known as Mobile Police Patlabor.

Studio: Studio DEEN , Touhouku Shinsha , Maiden Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

In the future, rapidly advancing technology gives birth to giant robots known as "Labors," so named for their usefulness in heavy industry. However, this also gives rise to "Labor crimes," resulting the need for a new branch of law enforcement equipped with and dedicated to the policing of Labors. When Izumi Noa, a female police officer, becomes the newest recruit of Special Vehicles Division 2, she and her top of the line "Patrol Labor" (or "Patlabor") Alphonse are swept into a series of adventures featuring crazed construction workers, eco-terrorists, and sea monsters.



Tags: Police , Real Robot , Episodic , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Terrorism , Ensemble Cast , Conspiracy , Kaiju , Female Protagonist , Satire , Shounen

Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor ON TELEVISION

Also known as Patlabor the Mobile Police.

Studio: Touhouku Shinsha , Maiden Japan , Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

In the future, advanced robotics has created heavy robots ("labors") for use in a variety of functions: construction, fire-fighting, military, and more. However, though the robots are only machines, their operators are also only human - and humans sometimes turn to crime. Since a heavy labor unit can be a dangerous weapon, the police of the future are set to fight fire with fire, using advanced patrol labor units, "patlabors". This is the story of the Second Special Vehicles Division, a motley crew of patlabor policemen and -women doing their best to fight crime and live a normal life.



Tags: Police , Work , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Crime , Real Robot , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast

Bubblegum Crisis

Also known as Bubblegum Crisis.

Studio: AIC , Artmic , Youmex , AnimEigo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Sci-Fi

In the near future, Tokyo was left flattened as a result from a great earthquake. A new city, MegaTokyo, was then recreated due in no small part from the aid of a multi-million dollar company, Genom Corp. Genom created and mass-produced biomechanical creatures called Boomers to aid in the restoration of MegaTokyo. When the Boomers began to run out of control, the ADPolice at first tried to stop them, but they proved to be far more difficult to deal with than was first imagined. Under the ever looming Boomer threat, a group of four girls from varying degrees of society banded together. Calling themselves The Knight Sabers, they were the only ones with enough firepower and resourcefulness to defend the fledgling MegaTokyo from Genom and it's berserk Boomers.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Robots , Police , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Tokusatsu , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Motorcycles , Episodic , Tragedy , Tanned Skin , Guns , Revenge , Band , Idol , Orphan , Cars , Nudity , Gore , LGBTQ+ Themes , Super Power , Unrequited Love

Gunsmith Cats

Also known as Gunsmith Cats.

Studio: OLM , VAP , TBS , Kodansha , AnimEigo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

Rally Vincent knows her weapons well, while her partner Minne May Hopkins loves to play with explosives. The pair run a gun-shop illegally and one day Bill Collins of the ATF, blackmails Rally and Minnie May into working for the ATF. Little do they know, that they are getting involved in a mission larger than they could imagine.



Tags: Guns , Police , Urban , Noir , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Crime , Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , Conspiracy , Primarily Female Cast , Cars , Tomboy , Assassins , Politics , Episodic

Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01

Studio: AIC , Pony Canyon , AnimEigo , Artmic
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Sci-Fi

In the first test of a revolutionary personal battle-suit, the MADOX-01, Ace female test-pilot Elle Kusomoto smashes an attacking tank force and humiliates Lt. Kilgore, Japan's most-macho tank-jockey, in the process.

Kilgore swears he'll get even, and he gets his chance when the prototype MADOX literally falls off the back of a truck in the middle of Tokyo.

Meanwhile, the MADOX, which fell off the back of one truck, off a bridge, and into the back of another truck, has found its way into the hands of college student Koji Sujimoto. Intruiged by the MADOX, Koji makes the big mistake of fooling with it without reading the manual first, and soon finds himself locked in the suit and zooming around downtown Tokyo.

Tags: Real Robot , Politics , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Super Robot , Military , Surreal Comedy

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

Roujin Z

Also known as Roujin Z.

Studio: TV Asahi , Movic , Sony Music Entertainment , APPP , Kadokawa Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

The Z Project was intended to give the new generation a break from caring for the old. The original intention was to create a machine to care for them without any intervention. At first glance, it looked like an excellent plan, and many of the younger generation approved of its application. But when old Mr. Takazawa became the test subject for the Z-001 machine, Haruko questioned both the tactics of the hospital and the moral implications of the machine. This is just the beginning, as Haruko has not just the hospital, but the odds against her. But then, she discovers an odd quirk about the machine: it uses a biochip, and it eventually acquires a mind of its own!



Tags: Cyberpunk , Artificial Intelligence , Satire , Real Robot , Rehabilitation , Robots , Politics , Primarily Adult Cast , Military , Female Protagonist , Fugitive , Elderly Protagonist , Male Protagonist , College

Appleseed

Also known as Appleseed.

Studio: Bandai Visual , Touhouku Shinsha , TBS , Movic , Gainax , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Earth's last city, Olympus, rose from the ashes of global war on the backs of Bioroids, artificial clones who make up half the city's population. Under the guidance of a supercomputer, humanity's last survivors enjoy peace, but only on the surface. Human terrorists within the military seek a return to power and clash with the government's forces led by the legendary soldier, Deunan Knute, and her boyfriend who is 75% machine.



Tags: Police , Cyberpunk , Terrorism , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Robots , Seinen , Real Robot , Urban , Post-Apocalyptic , Artificial Intelligence , Philosophy , Guns

Angel Cop

Also known as Angel Cop.

Studio: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , D.A.S.T. Corporation , Studio 88 , Soei Shinsha , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

Sometime in the future, terrorism in Japan has become commonplace, and the police have become almost as brutal as criminals. One cop, known as Angel, is the best of the best, stopping at nothing in her fight for justice. Things get interesting for Angel Cop and her new partner when they begin investigating a series of murders in which the victims are other criminals, killed in very unpleasant ways. These criminals, a group of psychics that banded together to hunt down the lowest scum in the city, and bring them to justice. After a couple of encounters between the cops and the psychics, two of the psychics begin to think that maybe they're not the good guys after all, but the third prefers killing to morality. Augmented by cybernetics from a mysterious source, he heads out on a killing spree, with Angel as his first target. Even with help from the other two psychics and her newly cyborged partner (after an unfortunate accident), Angel is going to have her work cut out trying to find the rogue psychic and the organization behind him.

Tags: Terrorism , Cyberpunk , Conspiracy , Super Power , Guns , Urban , Police , Gore , Crime , Robots , Politics , Cyborg , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Torture , Male Protagonist , Nudity

Shin Cutey Honey

Also known as New Cutey Honey.

Studio: Toei Video , Dynamic Planning , Toei Animation , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Mahou Shoujo , Sci-Fi

The forces of evil were looking for trouble; they found Cutey! In a futuristic world were evil comes in all shapes and sizes, she is the ultimate weapon. She's Cutey Honey, a one woman S.W.A.T. team whose android chassis is capable of changing at will into a dazzling array of hard-hitting, curvaceous bodies, each with its own set of special skills, weapons and other impressive physical attributes. Go Nagai's legendary android super-hero is back and hitting the bad guys where it hurts most.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Fugitive , Demons , Swordplay , Superhero , Crossover , Nudity , Henshin , Monster Girl , Meta , Shounen , Cyberpunk , Magic , Robots , Gangs , Family Life , Cosplay , Age Gap , Episodic , Urban , Guns , Crime , Office Lady , Idol , Cyborg , Ninja , Drugs , Time Skip , Gender Bending , Bondage , Heterosexual