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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 , Pirates , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Anti-Hero , Nudity , Fugitive , Shounen , Cyborg , Episodic , American Football , Baseball , Rugby , Tanned Skin

Black Jack

Also known as Black Jack.

Studio: Animax , Tezuka Productions , Central Park Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

In the medical profession, there is a name spoken in hushed tones, of an unlicensed genius physician who can save lives—for a price. His name is Black Jack, and he is a dashing, moody figure, caped in black, a Harlock of medicine, a man who lives by no rules other than his own—and the Hippocratic Oath. A man who would defy the will of God himself in the name of preserving life.



Tags: Medicine , Episodic , Work , War , Foreign , Environmental , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Drugs , Seinen , Nudity , Rescue , Dissociative Identities , Found Family , Snowscape , Ghost

Riding Bean

Studio: Youmex , AnimEigo , AIC , Artmic
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Thriller

Bean Bandit and his partner Rally Vincent are couriers for hire - transporting clients and delivering goods in his custom sports car "Roadbuster" for a hefty price. But when they are hired to escort a kidnapped girl named Chelsea to her home, they don't realize they're being framed for kidnapping as their former clients Semmerling and Carrie plan their escape with Chelsea's father and the ransom money.



Tags: Crime , Urban , Anti-Hero , Fugitive , Cars , Guns , Foreign , Seinen , Police , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Nudity

SPACE ADVENTURE Cobra

Also known as Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , Discotek , Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

Cobra, a notorious space pirate, is enlisted by bounty hunter Jane to rescue her sister from the strange being known as Crystal Boy, but then finds himself drawn into a complex struggle over the fate of a mysterious wandering planet.



Tags: Pirates , Space , Guns , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Nudity

Black Jack Movie

Also known as Black Jack: The Movie.

Studio: Tezuka Productions , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Thriller

Jo Carol Brane attempts to hire Dr. Black Jack on a breed of superhumans that have the strength, intellectual, athletic, and artistic skills with great excel in different fields, only to later find out that they start deteriorating after some period of time and causing an untimely death. Jo needs Dr. Black Jack's help on finding a cure.



Tags: Medicine , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Drugs , Work

City Hunter

Studio: Sunrise , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mystery

Ryo Saeba works the streets of Tokyo as the City Hunter. He's a "sweeper" and with his sidekick Kaori Makimura, he keeps the city clean. People hire the City Hunter to solve their dangerous problems, which he does with a Colt Python. When Ryo's not working on a case, he's working on getting the ladies, and Kaori must keep him in check with her trusty 10 kg hammer.



Tags: Crime , Episodic , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Slapstick , Urban , Male Protagonist , Detective , Assassins , Shounen , Yakuza , Mafia , Cars , Nudity , Boxing , Gambling

REDLINE

Also known as Redline.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Anchor Bay Films
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Romance , Sci-Fi , Sports

Redline is about the biggest and most deadly racing tournament in the universe. Only held once every five years, everyone wants to stake their claim to fame, including JP, a reckless dare-devil driver oblivious to speed limits with his ultra-customized car - all the while, organized crime and militaristic governments want to leverage the race to their own ends. Amongst the other elite rival drivers in the tournament, JP falls for the alluring Sonoshee - but will she prove his undoing, or can a high speed romance survive a mass destruction race?



Tags: Cars , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Space , Aliens , Cyberpunk , Female Protagonist , Cyborg , Heterosexual , Crime , Military , Gambling , Robots , Politics , Anthropomorphism , Primarily Male Cast , Nudity

Afro Samurai

Also known as Afro Samurai.

Studio: GONZO , Dentsu , Funimation , Victor Entertainment , Pony Canyon , Fuji TV , Trilogy Future Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

After watching his father die in a duel against an unbeatable villian known only as 'Justice,' young Afro fixes his life on the study of swords and revenge. The tale of Afro Samurai is one of bloody hardship and pain. Along his solitary path of revenge for his murdered father, he sheds no tears & knows no love. Forever chased by powerful enemies in a lawless technology-speckled dystopia, he evades bullets and blade to reach his final prey: a man who will not die. But Afro will reach his quarry - even if it means painting a road of blood and brains from here to the bitter inevitable end.

Tags: Revenge , Swordplay , Gore , Samurai , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Travel , Assassins , Anachronism , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Battle Royale , Achronological Order , Primarily Male Cast , Orphan , Ghost , Cult , Artificial Intelligence , Nudity , Guns , Alternate Universe , Martial Arts

Kikou Ryouhei Merowlink

Studio: Sunrise , VAP , AUDIO PLANNING U
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Years after the Great War in Armored Trooper Votoms, Merowlink has decided to hunt down the general that tried to kill him and his squadron and take vengeance for his departed comrades. Merowlink has the unique talent of being an Armor Hunter — that is, without using mecha, he manages to take down enemy mecha by himself, with the aid of a giant mecha-killing gun and his trusty combat knife.

Tags: Military , Real Robot , Revenge , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Conspiracy , Dystopian , Space , War , Politics , Heterosexual , Gore , Gambling

BLOOD THE LAST VAMPIRE

Also known as Blood: The Last Vampire.

Studio: Production I.G , Aniplex , Manga Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Supernatural

Teropterids are evil beasts which pose as humans and live only to drink human blood. Fortunately for the human world there are groups dedicated to destroying them. A brooding and mysterious girl named Saya is the best teropterid slayer there is, and now, in 1960's Japan, she is sent to a U. S. army base which may be infested...



Tags: Vampire , Swordplay , Gore , Demons , Urban Fantasy , Female Protagonist , Body Horror , Historical , Foreign , School , Guns , Military , Nudity