Anime like Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut Ban

HUMAN LOST

Also known as HUMAN LOST.

Studio: POLYGON PICTURES , Funimation , Madman Entertainment , Manga Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

A 3D animated film adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s “No Longer Human” novel

The year is 2036. A revolution in medical treatment has conquered death by means of internal nanomachines and the “Shell System”, yet only the richest can afford to partake.Yozo Oba isn’t the richest. Troubled by strange dreams, he flippantly joins his friend’s biker gang on an ill-fated incursion to “The Inside”, where society’s elite lives. This instigates a journey of terrifying discovery that will change Yozo’s life forever.

Tags: Cyberpunk , Full CGI , Urban , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Classic Literature , Philosophy , Motorcycles , Drugs , Fugitive , Amnesia , Female Protagonist

Hashire Melos (1992)

Studio: Toei Video , Visual 80 , Rise Spirit , Dentsu , TV Asahi , Asahi Shimbun
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama

Melos is a good boy from Messina and has come to Syracuse, the magnificent city of temples, to buy a ritual sword for his sister's marriage ceremony. He meets a very talented sculptor and they become friends.

Later, the King's guards arrest Melos while he was having a walk in the castle's gardens and Syracuse's King, obsessed by the idea of assassins out to kill him, sentences him to death. Melos is desperate, but most of all he wants to be present at his sister's marriage, so he asks the King for three days to go to Messina for the celebration and then return to Syracuse where he will accept the death penalty. The King does not trust Melos, but, trying to demonstrate that nobody could trust him, asks him to find a volunteer substitute in case he breaks his promise. The sculptor accepts to be Melos' substitute in this case...



Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Foreign , Classic Literature , Historical , Politics , Male Protagonist , Desert , Swordplay , Mythology , Tragedy , Gore , Marriage , Nudity

BEM: BECOME HUMAN

Also known as BEM: Become Human.

Studio: Production I.G , flying DOG , Pony Canyon , ADK Emotions , KLOCKWORX , TV Tokyo , Glovision
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Supernatural

The story takes place 2 years after the events of the TV series and follows Sonia as she continues to try to track down the "humanoid monsters". Her search takes her to a drug company called Draco Chemical, where she meets a man named Belum Eyesburg who looks exactly like Bem. Meanwhile, Belo continues fighting on his own in an effort to let Bela live as an ordinary human girl. After encountering Sonia, Belum begins having nightmares that make him question his own identity, and his peaceful, ordinary life with his wife and family begins to collapse...



Tags: Gore , Shapeshifting , Youkai , Tragedy