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The Chocolate Panic Picture Show

Also known as The Chocolate Panic Picture Show.

Studio: Tezuka Productions , Tauros Film , TV Asahi Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological

Follow Manbo, Chinbo and Chonbo as they are flung into a strange, psychedelic world of madness they don't understand. See them cause chaos through their zany, unpredictable antics in this comical take on cultural imperialism.

Note: Gainax's first professional production, The Chocolate Panic Picture Show is a wacky musical OVA based on a manga by Fujiwara Kamui, serialised in Monthly Super Action and partly inspired by Jamie Uys's The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980).

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Dancing , Idol , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , No Dialogue

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 , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Delinquents , Primarily Male Cast , Body Horror , Anti-Hero , Conspiracy , Motorcycles , Urban Fantasy , Gangs , Military , Gore , Philosophy , Crime , Orphan , Politics , Aliens , Mythology , Nudity