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Chainsaw Man: Reze-hen

Also known as Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc.

Studio: MAPPA , Shueisha , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Romance , Supernatural

Denji became “Chainsaw Man”, a boy with a devil’s heart, and is now part of Special Division 4’s devil hunters. After a date with Makima, the woman of his dreams, Denji takes shelter from the rain. There he meets Reze, a girl who works in a café.



Tags: Demons , Monster Boy , Urban Fantasy , Monster Girl , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Urban , Heterosexual , Assassins , Henshin , Gore , Shapeshifting , Body Horror , Psychosexual , Coming of Age , Anti-Hero , Fake Relationship , Work , Shounen , Philosophy , Super Power , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Spearplay , Nudity , Surreal Comedy , Swimming , School , POV , Restaurant , CGI , Angels , Feet , Coastal

DEVILMAN crybaby

Also known as Devilman Crybaby.

Studio: Science SARU , Aniplex , Netflix , Dynamic Planning
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Psychological , Supernatural

The protagonist Akira Fudou learns from his best friend, Ryou Asuka, that an ancient race of demons has returned to take back the world from humans. Ryou tells Akira that the only way to defeat the demons is to incorporate their supernatural powers, and suggests that he unite with a demon himself. Akira succeeds in transforming into Devilman, who possesses both the powers of a demon and the soul of a human. The battle of Devilman and Akira Fudou begins.



Note: New Devilman project marking Go Nagai's 50th anniversary as a creator.

Tags: Demons , Tragedy , Body Horror , Psychosexual , Gore , Urban Fantasy , Gods , Shapeshifting , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Philosophy , Monster Boy , Unrequited Love , Curses , War , Angels , Henshin , Post-Apocalyptic , Anti-Hero , Mythology , Cannibalism , Coming of Age , Conspiracy , Revenge , Hip-hop Music , Athletics , Guns , Urban , Drugs , Meta , Masturbation , Public Sex , Heterosexual , Afterlife , Politics , Motorcycles , Shounen , Flash

Chainsaw Man

Also known as Chainsaw Man.

Studio: MAPPA , Shueisha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita.

One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as "Chainsaw Man" — a man with a devil's heart.



Tags: Demons , Monster Boy , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Gore , Tragedy , Shapeshifting , Body Horror , Anti-Hero , Psychosexual , Urban , Henshin , Shounen , Coming of Age , Monster Girl , Primarily Adult Cast , Anthropomorphism , Yakuza , Heterosexual , Guns , Found Family , Assassins , Crime , CGI , Cannibalism , Age Gap , Unrequited Love , Revenge , Homeless , Police , Amnesia , POV , Nudity , Zombie , Angels

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

Durarara!!

Also known as Durarara!!.

Studio: Aniplex , Brain's Base , Movic , Aniplex of America , ASCII Media Works , Hakuhodo DY Media Partners , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Supernatural

In Tokyo's downtown district of Ikebukuro, amidst many strange rumors and warnings of anonymous gangs and dangerous occupants, one urban legend stands out above the rest—the existence of a headless "Black Rider" who is said to be seen driving a jet-black motorcycle through the city streets.

Ryuugamine Mikado has always longed for the excitement of the city life, and an invitation from a childhood friend convinces him to move to Tokyo. Witnessing the Black Rider on his first day in the city, his wishes already seem to have been granted. But as supernatural events begin to occur, ordinary citizens like himself, along with Ikebukuro's most colorful inhabitants, are mixed up in the commotion breaking out in their city.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Gangs , Urban , Ensemble Cast , Dullahan , Delinquents , Achronological Order , Crime , Female Protagonist , Mythology , School , Male Protagonist , Motorcycles , Yandere , Orphan , Anti-Hero , Seinen , Otaku Culture , Amnesia , Swordplay , Incest , Heterosexual , Bullying , Suicide

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken

Also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Studio: APPP
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

Kujo Jotaro is a normal, popular Japanese high-schooler, until he thinks that he is possessed by a spirit, and locks himself in prison. After seeing his grandfather, Joseph Joestar, and fighting Joseph's friend Muhammad Abdul, Jotaro learns that the "Spirit" is actually Star Platinum, his Stand, or fighting energy given a semi-solid form. Later, his mother gains a Stand, and becomes sick. Jotaro learns that it is because the vampire Dio Brando has been revived 100 years after his defeat to Jonathan Joestar, Jotaro's great-great-grandfather. Jotaro decides to join Joseph and Abdul in a trip to Egypt to defeat Dio once and for all.


Tags: Shounen , Super Power , Vampire , Primarily Male Cast , Body Horror , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Desert , Foreign , Gore , Travel , Nudity , Tragedy , Gambling , Poker , Time Manipulation , Cars , Tanned Skin , Motorcycles , LGBTQ+ Themes , Swordplay , Middle East

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Ougon no Kaze

Also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind.

Studio: david production , Warner Bros. Japan , ONE MUSIC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

Giorno Giovanna, a young man living in Naples, has the blood of DIO -- the eternal enemy of the Joestar clan -- running in his veins. Giorno becomes a delinquent due to being persecuted since childhood. However, he's led back onto the right path thanks to a gangster who saved him and taught him to believe in others. Bizarrely enough, this gang of people who didn't forget honor, gratitude, and respect made him reform. This is how Giorno came to admire gangsters. In the backstreets of Italy, Giorno causes trouble alongside his gang "Passione," and ends up being targeted...



Tags: Criminal Organization , Super Power , Mafia , Gangs , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Foreign , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Crime , Fugitive , Travel , Tragedy , Time Manipulation , Dissociative Identities , Urban , Guns , Gore , Drugs , Body Horror , Philosophy , Time Loop , Detective , Body Swapping , Police , Boys' Love , Cosmic Horror , Trains , Animals , Ghost , LGBTQ+ Themes , Disability , Zombie , Gender Bending

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken (2000)

Also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2000).

Studio: APPP
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

Kujo Jotaro is a normal, popular Japanese high-schooler, until he thinks that he is possessed by a spirit, and locks himself in prison. After seeing his grandfather, Joseph Joestar, and fighting Joseph's friend Muhammad Abdul, Jotaro learns that the "Spirit" is actually Star Platinum, his Stand, or fighting energy given a semi-solid form. Later, his mother gains a Stand, and becomes sick. Jotaro learns that it is because the vampire Dio Brando has been revived 100 years after his defeat to Jonathan Joestar, Jotaro's great-great-grandfather. Jotaro decides to join Joseph and Abdul in a trip to Egypt to defeat Dio once and for all.

Tags: Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Foreign , Revenge , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Gore , Male Protagonist , Travel , Desert , Vampire , Cars , Zombie , Tragedy , Nudity , Middle East

Baccano!

Also known as Baccano!.

Studio: Aniplex , Brain's Base , Aniplex of America , Sakura Create , Happinet Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Supernatural

During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling aide Ennis, are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixir. In addition, a war between the mafia groups is getting worse. On board the Advena Avis, in 1711, alchemists are about to learn the price of immortality.

Based on the award winning light novels of the same name, this anime adaptation follows several events that initially seem unrelated, both in time and place, but are part of a much bigger story—one of alchemy, survival and immortality. Merging these events together are the kindhearted would-be thieves, Isaac and Miria, connecting various people, all of them with their own hidden ambitions and agendas, and creating lifelong bonds and consequences for everyone involved.



Tags: Mafia , Ensemble Cast , Crime , Achronological Order , Alchemy , Historical , Trains , Urban Fantasy , Foreign , Noir , Primarily Adult Cast , Guns , Urban , Gore , Travel , Heterosexual , Torture , Anti-Hero , Demons , Surreal Comedy , Meta , Disability

Dungeon Meshi

Also known as Delicious in Dungeon.

Studio: TRIGGER , KADOKAWA , Ultra Super Pictures , Good Smile Company , Tencent
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions...and a member! They're eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they're sure to starve on the way! But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: "Let's eat the monsters!" Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons...none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands!



Note: A world premiere screening of Episode 1 was shown in the Studio TRIGGER panel at Anime Expo on July 1, 2023.

Tags: Dungeon , Food , Magic , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , Elf , Medieval , Environmental , Monster Girl , Dragons , Lost Civilization , Necromancy , Body Horror , Female Protagonist , Chimera , Male Protagonist , Found Family , Nekomimi , Tragedy , Curses , Anthropomorphism , Episodic , Kemonomimi , Shapeshifting , Politics , Ghost , Ninja , Nudity , Super Power , Asexual , Cannibalism , Zombie , Gore , Goblin