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Honoo no Labyrinth

Also known as Labyrinth of Flames.

Studio: Bandai Visual , Studio Fantasia , Central Park Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi

Meet Galan, a Russian spastic geek who'd do anything to be a real, live samurai. But that`s just an impossible dream... or is it? When his friend Natsu, who is a successor of Japanese emigrants family, gives him the gift of an ancient sword, strange events unfold, and even stranger people drop out of the sky to attack. Now Galan must overcome his ineptitude and join a bunch of beautiful women in a wacky romp through a kingdom that time forgot. Hey, what could be better?



Tags: Yandere , Ninja , Samurai , Swordplay , Male Protagonist , Anachronism , Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , College

Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki Dai 1-ki

Also known as Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki.

Studio: AIC , Funimation , Pioneer LDC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Tenchi Masaki was a normal 17-year-old boy until the day he accidentally releases the space pirate, Ryoko from a cave she was sealed in 700 years ago as the people thought she was a demon. In a series of events, four other alien girls show up at the Masaki household as Tenchi learns much of his heritage he never knew about and deal with five alien girls who each have some sort of romantic interest in him.



Tags: Female Harem , Space , Urban Fantasy , Aliens , Police , Swordplay , Martial Arts , Ojou-sama , Incest , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Tsundere

Heppoko Jikken Animation Excel Saga

Also known as Excel Saga.

Studio: J.C. Staff , Victor Entertainment , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi

Excel Saga is a one-of-a kind work of art that can only be described as the ultimate parody of anime. From the opening credits - a rather odd spoof of Japanese pop videos - to the ending song featuring Menchi the dog singing/barking a plaintive ballad while a human interpreter translates for viewers, nothing is sacred in the world of Excel Saga.



Tags: Parody , Meta , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Tokusatsu , Kuudere , Animals , Robots , Henshin , Guns , Assassins , Shounen , Musical Theater , Amnesia

Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan

Also known as Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan.

Studio: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Hal Film Maker , Nomad , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Supernatural

In the future, a junior high student, Kusakabe Sakura, will offend God by inventing immortality so that women will stop aging after they turn twelve. Dokuro-chan is an angel from the future sent to kill him. However, Dokuro-chan thinks that Sakura can be spared, so her idea is to constantly occupy Sakura so that he will never be able to invent the technology. Sometimes the angel will go crazy and kill him with her bat, Excalibolg, but she can revive him easily. "Pi-piru-piru-piru-pi-piru-pi!"

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Gore , Assassins , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Angels , Parody , School , Bullying , Magic , Primarily Female Cast , Anti-Hero , Kuudere , Episodic

Sunabouzu

Also known as Desert Punk.

Studio: GONZO , GDH , Funimation , Pony Canyon , CBC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

The Great Kanto Desert is a miserable place. It’s also the home of hero-for-hire Desert Punk, the closest thing to a good guy the wasteland’s got. He’s known as the best man for any job, but his reputation is undone by his raging hormones when curvy Junko uses her double-D charms to double-cross him. With debt hanging over his head, Desert Punk sets out to salvage his name.



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Slapstick , Guns , Anti-Hero , Survival , Desert , Military , Artificial Intelligence , Terrorism , Shounen , Gangs , War , Conspiracy , Episodic , POV , Lost Civilization , Slavery

Tenchi Muyou! GXP

Also known as Tenchi Muyo! GXP.

Studio: VAP , Funimation , Nippon Television Network , AIC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Seina Yamada is unlucky... so unlucky that when he stumbles upon a recruiter looking for his senpai Tenchi he gets taken instead. Forced into the Galaxy Police, his luck begins to change. A natural to randomly jumping near pirates, he is assigned his own decoy to draw out pirates. His luck brings him into the lives of four women who have a habit of cancelling out his bad luck, turning it into good. Armed with this luck, they pilot the most powerful ships in the Tenchi Universe to defeat the Da Ruma pirates. Now the only uncertainty is whether the sexy Amane Kaunaq, a former model turned into a GP detective, sturdy Kiriko Masaki, who has known Seina for years, the mysterious Ryoko Balta, a former pirate named after the legendary one, or the child-like Neju Na Melmas, a powerful 2000 year-old priestess, will win Seina.



Tags: Space , Police , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Aliens , Female Harem , Polyamorous

NINKU

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Fuji TV , Yomiuri Advertising
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure

In the war, a group of warriors called Ninku fought against the Imperial Army and almost annihilated it. But in the end, the Ninku lost and got shattered. After the war, the imperial army established themselves as the defender of the people with the help of propaganda. They also managed to get the people to think the Ninku were the villains and had started the war. Fusuke looks like a child but he is the former captain of the first Ninku division. His mother was taken during the war and after the Ninku were defeated, he goes on a journey to find her. On his journey he meets Aicho and Touji, both also former Ninku captains, and together they fight against the imperial army that tries to kill the last remaining Ninkus.

The ninku is a clan of extinct ninjas who command esoteric and powerful techniques, hence a lot of other groups are constantly trying to steal their techniques to take over the country. Their primary target is Fusuke, a weird looking kid but one of the most powerful Ninku ninja. Fusuke, together with other Ninku ninja with different specialties must fight those threat that caused the downfall of the Ninku clan.



Tags: Shounen , Martial Arts , Super Power , Ninja , Military , War

NINKU (Movie)

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Media Blasters
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy

How much humiliation can four people and a penguin take?

Hard boiled Aito? Sexy bombshell Rihoko? Choji the red brief? Shining Fuusuke? Cutesy Hooter Hiroyuki? Oh, gimme a break! Who do these guys think they are? The Ninku?

Unfortunately for the real Aito, Choji, Rihoko, and Fuusuke, they do. But little did these imposters know when they stumbled on this sleepy little desert town, that there’d be a price to pay for being treated like the real Ninku, namely, having to fight the deadly Heaven & Earth brothers!

Fortunately for our phony friends, the real Aito, Choji, and Fuusuke step in, there’s nothing but trouble for the bad guys. Can the Ninku art of magic fighting beat the Heaven & Earth brothers deadly fighting style?



Tags: Historical , Shounen

NINKU: Knife no Bohyou

Studio: Studio Pierrot
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy

This was shown as part of the "Jump Super Anime Tour" of October 1994, prior to the Ninku TV series.

Tags: Shounen