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Shiguang Dailiren

Also known as Link Click.

Studio: BeDream , Studio LAN , bilibili , Aniplex , Sony Music Solutions
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

In a corner of a bustling city, there is a small shop called "Time Photo Studio" operating as usual. Although the entrance looks abandoned, it's actually run by two men with special abilities: Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang. In order to fulfil customers' requests, Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi work together and use their special abilities to enter photos. However, things don't go as planned...



Note: The final episode aired with a runtime of ~31 minutes.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Super Power , Body Swapping , Photography , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Urban Fantasy , Urban , Memory Manipulation , Natural Disaster , Episodic , Suicide , Family Life , Police , Martial Arts , College , Office Lady , Office , Basketball , School

Shiguang Dailiren Special

Also known as LINK CLICK Episode 5.5.

Studio: Studio LAN , bilibili , BeDream
Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural

Extra episode of Shiguang Dailiren, taking place between episode 5 and 6.

In order to marry Ouyang, the daughter of the master of martial arts, Siwen commissioned the Time Photo Studio to help him crack the master's unique martial arts.



Tags: Martial Arts , Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Body Swapping , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Photography

Summer Time Render

Also known as Summer Time Rendering.

Studio: OLM , Shueisha , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , MAGES. , Toy's Factory , TOKYO MX , Movic , BANDAI SPIRITS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

A sci-fi, summer story filled with suspense set on a small island with Shinpei Aijiro, whose childhood friend Ushio Kofune died. He returns to his hometown for the first time in two years for the funeral. Sou Hishigata, his best friend, suspects something's off with Ushio's death, and that someone can die next.

A sinister omen is heard as an entire family next door suddenly disappears the following day. Furthermore, Mio implicates a "shadow" three days before Ushio's death.



Tags: Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Time Loop , Primarily Teen Cast , Shapeshifting , Reincarnation , Super Power , Coastal , Mythology , Rural , Tragedy , Alternate Universe , Ensemble Cast , Body Swapping , Dissociative Identities , Cosmic Horror , Heterosexual , Survival , Gods , Religion , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Clone , Gore , Amnesia , Aliens , Body Horror , Unrequited Love , Guns , Ghost , Denpa , Tanned Skin , Love Triangle , Nudity , Age Regression

Fugou Keiji: Balance:UNLIMITED

Also known as The Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED.

Studio: CloverWorks , Aniplex of America , Dentsu , Fuji TV , Animax , Movic , Aniplex
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel, Fugou Keiji.

The story centers around millionaire Daisuke Kambe, the heir to one of the wealthiest families in Japan, who is assigned as a detective to the Modern Crime Prevention Task Force (aka MCPTF), at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Taking full advantage of his vast family wealth, he spares no expense in solving complex crimes, and has the tendency to evaluate everything including individual human lives in terms of their monetary value. Haru Katou, a detective with a compassionate heart who believes that money isn’t everything, is chosen as Kambe’s partner but is repulsed by his materialistic attitude. Having diametrically opposing personalities, witness how the two join forces to tackle seemingly unsolvable crimes and mysteries!



Note: Although Tsutsui's novel was published between 1975 and 1977, the anime plays out in the modern era.

Tags: Detective , Police , Crime , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Urban , Tragedy , Artificial Intelligence , Cars , Butler , Kuudere , Ships , Parody

Steins;Gate

Also known as Steins;Gate.

Studio: Frontier Works , Funimation , Media Factory , Movic , AT-X , WHITE FOX , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , Nitroplus
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

Self-proclaimed mad scientist Okabe Rintarou lives in a small room in Akihabara, where he invents "future gadgets" with fellow lab members Shiina Mayuri, his air-headed childhood friend, and Hashida Itaru, an otaku hacker. The three pass the time by tinkering with their latest creation, a "Phone Microwave" that can be controlled through text messages.

The lab members soon face a string of mysterious incidents that lead to a game-changing discovery: the Phone Microwave can send emails to the past and thus alter history. Adapted from the critically acclaimed visual novel by 5pb. and Nitroplus, Steins;Gate takes Okabe to the depths of scientific theory and human despair as he faces the dire consequences of changing the past.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Alternate Universe , Time Loop , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Urban , Dystopian , Primarily Adult Cast , Denpa , Philosophy , Dissociative Identities , Chuunibyou , Tsundere , Otaku Culture , Heterosexual , Kuudere , Ensemble Cast , Suicide , Femboy , Amnesia , Seinen , War , Gender Bending , Post-Apocalyptic , Maids , Trains , Shrine Maiden