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Cyber City OEDO 808

Also known as Cyber City Oedo 808.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Central Park Media , Japan Home Video
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

It is the year 2808. Three convicts are recruited as members of the Cyber Police to keep major criminal activity in Oedo (formerly Tokyo) in check. In return, their life sentences will be reduced by a few years for every mission accomplished. However, to ensure that these convicts are doing their job, the police have secured special collars around their necks. If they attempt to remove their collars or fail to meet the time limit of their mission, the collars will self-destruct.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Crime , Police , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Vampire , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Cyborg , Death Game , Espionage , Guns , Space , Urban Fantasy , Detective , Super Power , Cars

Youjuu Toshi

Also known as Wicked City.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Japan Home Video , Discotek , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Ecchi , Horror , Supernatural

Beyond the boundaries of our ordinary existence lies a dreadful parallel world where demons dwell and humans dare not tread. For centuries, peace has existed between our world and theirs. To preserve that fragile balance and to ensure the survival of humankind, a new deal must be brokered, but dark and powerful forces lust to destroy the accord. When a militant group rises from the shadows, two elite agents are mobilized to counter the destructive forces and preserve the balance of our universe.



Tags: Demons , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Noir , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , Urban , Body Horror , Guns , Heterosexual , Shapeshifting , Male Protagonist , Gore , Female Protagonist , Tentacles

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

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

Makai Toshi Shinjuku

Also known as Demon City Shinjuku.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Japan Home Video , Discotek , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Horror , Romance , Supernatural

Ten Years ago, Genichirou Izayoi died trying to stop the sorcerer Rebi Ra, and as a result Shinjuku became a playground for demons. And now, the day approaches when Rebi Ra will complete his decade-long ritual to plunge the rest of the world into chaos! As Genichirou's son, it falls to Kyouya to venture into the heart of Shinjuku and put an end to the sorcerer his father couldn't beat. Can Kyouya exceed his father's legacy, or will the demons of Shinjuku create Hell on Earth?



Tags: Demons , Heterosexual , Urban , Urban Fantasy , Swordplay , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Gore , Female Protagonist , Martial Arts , Dystopian , Nudity

Darkside Blues

Studio: J.C.STAFF
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi

The Persona Century Corporation has purchased nearly every parcel of land on earth. Dissension is not tolerated within the corporation's borders and those who oppose Persona are dealt with swiftly. Of those few places not yet under Persona's control is the free town of Kabuki-cho, also known as "The Dark Side of Tokyo". Within the town, under the leadership of a woman named Mai, is a small resistance group called Messiah. Into this world steps a man who takes the sobriquet of Kabuki-cho: Darkside. Sealed up in another dimension eighteen years ago by Persona Century, Darkside now returns to aid Messiah using his unique mystic power of renewal.



Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Shoujo , Dystopian , Cyberpunk , Terrorism , Gore , Ensemble Cast , Super Power , Guns , Nudity , Body Horror , Politics , Religion

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

A.D. Police

Also known as A.D. Police: To Protect and Serve.

Studio: AIC , d-rights , The Right Stuf International
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Set a few years before Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, A.D. Police chronicles the tales of Mega-Tokyo's special police division designed to control rogue Boomers in the city. A.D. Police Officer Kenji Sasaki faces a major dilemna: he loses another partner to a rabid boomer. A day after he's sent off-duty, he receives a new partner in the form of German cop Hans Kleif. Funny thing is that Kenji sucker-punched Hans at a bar the night before. Not only does Kenji face the everyday task of controlling Boomers, he has to learn to adjust with his new partner.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Police , Male Protagonist , Artificial Intelligence , Memory Manipulation , Primarily Adult Cast