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GUNNM

Also known as Battle Angel Alita.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Animate , Movic , KSS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

Doc Ido, a doctor and mechanic who lives and works in the hellish, postapocalyptic "Scrapyard", finds the—miraculously preserved—remains of a female cyborg in a junk heap. After he revives and rebuilds her, the preternaturally strong, amnesiac "Gally" begins to forge a life for herself in a world where every day can bring a fight for life. Adapts the first two volumes of the "Battle Angel Alita" manga.

Tags: Cyberpunk , Dystopian , Cyborg , Tragedy , Guns , Post-Apocalyptic , Robots , Gore , Urban , Amnesia , Nudity , Female Protagonist , Crime , Fugitive , Body Horror , Shounen

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

COSMO POLICE Justy

Studio: Studio Pierrot
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

In the future humanity is spread throughout the galaxy. In their efforts to combat criminal espers the Cosmo Police are fortunate to have Justy on their side. However the esper criminals also know this and some of them are making plans for Cosmo Policeman Justy. As their leader says "There's only one way to kill the most powerful esper in the galaxy".



Tags: Space , Shounen , Super Power

Area 88

Also known as Area 88.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Romance

In a cruel twist of fate, talented young pilot Shin Kazama is tricked into serving as a mercenary for Area 88. A hell on Earth where men survive by gunning down anyone who stands in their way. To return home, Shin must sell his soul to the battlefield and pave the road back to Japan with the corpses of his fallen opponents.



Tags: Tragedy , Military , Aviation , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Foreign , Survival , Male Protagonist , Ojou-sama , Orphan

86: Eighty Six

Also known as 86 EIGHTY-SIX.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Aniplex , KADOKAWA , BANDAI SPIRITS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Called “Juggernaut,” these are the unmanned combat drones developed by the Republic of San Magnolia in answer to the attacks by the autonomous unmanned drones of the neighboring Empire of Giad, the “Legion”. But they’re only unmanned in name. In reality, they are piloted by the Eighty-sixers—those considered to be less than human and treated as mere tools.

Determined to achieve his own mysterious ends, Shin, the captain of Spearhead Squadron, which is comprised of Eighty-sixers, continues to fight a hopeless war on a battlefield where only death awaits him.



Tags: Class Struggle , War , Military , Tragedy , Dystopian , Survival , Ensemble Cast , Seinen , Politics , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Proxy Battle , Philosophy , Robots , Guns , Male Protagonist , Real Robot , Conspiracy , Primarily Teen Cast , Achronological Order , Memory Manipulation , Artificial Intelligence , CGI , Necromancy , Unrequited Love , Gore , Lost Civilization , Suicide , Travel , Kuudere , Super Power , POV , Body Horror , Nudity

Odin: Koushi Hansen Starlight

Also known as Odin: Photon Space Sailer Starlight.

Studio: Toei Animation , Central Park Media , Manga Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi

In the year 2099, mankind has colonized parts of the Solar System thanks to the evolution of space travel. To venture further beyond what man has accomplished, the space vessel Starlight is launched. After rescuing a mysterious girl from a wreckage near the asteroid fields, the crew of the Starlight plot a perilous journey towards the Canopus system in search of the planet known only as "Odin" - the possible key to all forms of life.



Tags: Travel , Space , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Robots , Aliens

Venus Senki

Also known as Venus Wars.

Studio: Shouchiku , Sentai Filmworks , Gakken , Kugatsusha , Bandai
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

When an ice comet slammed into the planet Venus, terraforming its toxic atmosphere into one capable of sustaining human life, mankind’s dream of colonizing other worlds became a reality. Unfortunately for the colonists, Venus isn’t the paradise they’d dreamed of. As crops fail and competition for resources intensifies, hostilities grow until the two inhabited continents stand on the brink of war.

Reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capital of Aphrodia just as Ishtar attacks and only the intervention of Hiro Seno and his Battle Bike team saves her from certain death… but now Aphrodia is under Ishtar’s control and Sue, Hiro, and his teammates find themselves on the run! However, their unique skill at Battle Bike, which combines motorcycle racing with roller derby, may just prove to be the secret weapon Aphrodia needs to win the Venus Wars.



Tags: Space , Military , War , Motorcycles , Tanks , Male Protagonist , Fugitive , Politics , Female Protagonist

Crusher Joe

Also known as Crusher Joe: The Movie.

Studio: Sunrise , Studio Nue , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

Crushers: intergalactic Jacks-of-All-Trades who will take on any assignment for the right price. Crusher Joe heads a small team of these outer space troubleshooters that includes the cyborg Talos, the beautiful Alfin, and the obligatory kid sidekick Ricky. A routine assignment escorting a cryogenically frozen heiress to a medical facility goes awry when the girl goes missing and Joe and his team are left holding the bag. It seems space pirates are trying to play the Crushers for patsies, but Joe doesn’t take kindly to the setup and tracks the pirates to their home world. The four heroes not only have to rescue their human cargo but take down the pirates in the process, which involves a heck of a lot of space dogfights, explosions, and good old-fashioned hand-to-hand combat.



Tags: Space , Conspiracy , Pirates , Robots , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , Guns , Nudity , Space Opera

Soukou Kihei Votoms: The Last Red Shoulder

Also known as Armored Trooper Votoms: The Last Red Shoulder.

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Released in 1985, this OVA tells a critical part of the story between the TV show's Uoodo and Kummen arcs. Although the TV series covered the Red Shoulders in some detail, we didn't get to see much of Chirico's time there or the people involved, and we get both of those here.



Tags: Military , Real Robot , Revenge , Guns , Male Protagonist , Nudity

Andromeda Stories

Also known as Andromeda Stories.

Studio: Toei Animation , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Sci-Fi

In the Andromeda galaxy there's a planet of a highly developed human civilisation. The gentle Prince Itaka and another kingdom's beautiful Princess Lilia are about to enter a love-marriage and take over the throne, when they discover a strange object on the nightsky. Later it lands on the planet, and an alien, mechanic civilization invades King Itaka's peaceful country making nearly everybody their slave. On a fateful night Queen Lilia gives birth to twins, and to avoid misfortune, the nanny Tarama takes one of the babies away, and entrusts it to the gladiator Balga. They still don't know, that the children were born with strong powers, and hold the key to the fight against the enemy that's searching to destroy every human civilisation on the planet...
Source: Terra e... LJ Community (http://community.livejournal.com/terra_e/)

Tags: Robots , Super Power , Shounen , Tragedy , Space , Age Gap , Incest