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Golgo 13

Also known as Golgo 13: The Professional.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Discotek , Filmlink International , Shogakukan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama

After assassinating the son of business tycoon Leonard Dawson, Golgo 13 finds himself prey to the CIA and the U.S. Army, whom Dawson has personally hired to kill the assassin. As days pass by, Dawson slowly loses his sanity as he continues to plot every attempt to kill Golgo 13 even without caring about who hired the assassin to kill his son.



Tags: Foreign , Assassins , Noir , Guns , Urban , Revenge , Military , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , Seinen , Primarily Male Cast , CGI , Skeleton , Suicide , Stop Motion

Sengoku Majin Goushougun: Toki no ÉTRANGER

Also known as GoShogun: The Time Étranger.

Studio: Ashi Productions , Discotek , Tokuma Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

In Goshogun the Time Etranger, forty years after the events of the TV series, Remy Shimada, ex-pilot of the GoShogun, suffers a terrible accident while on her way to a meeting with her former robot-piloting comrades. While they rush to the hospital, Remy floats between life and death. She sees visions of her life when she was young, and stranger still, experiences a hallucination of being with her friends, all of them young again, in a mysterious city filled with hostile fanatics.

Far from being the reunion Remy hoped for, a ghastly letter arrives for each member of the team that predicts their gruesome deaths. Slated to die in two days, both in reality and in her dream, Remy struggles to find a way out of the City of Fate, relying on the memories of her friends to see her through, even as they surround her death bed in the waking world.



Tags: Philosophy , Survival , Female Protagonist , Police , Guns , Primarily Male Cast , Urban , Primarily Adult Cast , Cars , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Zombie , Gore , Motorcycles

Ginga Tetsudou 999 (Movie)

Also known as Galaxy Express 999 (Movie).

Studio: Toei Animation , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

After the death of his mother at the hands of the evil robot Count Mecha, young Tetsuro has become a delinquent street urchin who dreams only of revenge.
Tetsuro lives in a far future world in which humans have the choice to travel to another planet where they can exchange their bodies for immortal, robotic counterparts. His goal is to someday acquire (through theft) enough money to board the Galaxy Express 999, a train which is capable of traveling through space, and which will take him to the planet of robots.

One day, after escaping from the police, he meets the beautiful Maetel, who resembles his mother. She offers to take him on the Galaxy Express 999 to get a robotic body and to get revenge on Count Mecha. Along the journey, the two meet many varied people (including Captain Harlock and Queen Emeraldas), and Tetsuro learns what it means to be human.



Tags: Space Opera , Trains , Space , Revenge , Male Protagonist , Pirates , Robots , Orphan , Age Gap , Guns

Space☆Dandy 2

Also known as Space Dandy 2.

Studio: bones , BS Fuji , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Bandai Visual , flying DOG , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi

The second season of Space☆Dandy.

Space Dandy is a dandy guy, in space! This dreamy adventurer with a to-die-for pompadour travels across the galaxy in search of aliens no one has ever laid eyes on. Each new species he discovers earns him a hefty reward, but this dandy has to be quick on his feet because it's first come, first served! Accompanied by his sidekicks, a rundown robot named QT and Meow the cat-looking space alien, Dandy bravely explores unknown worlds inhabited by a variety of aliens. Join the best dressed alien hunter in all of space and time as he embarks on an adventure that ends at the edge of the universe!



Tags: Space , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Aliens , Parody , Achronological Order , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Musical Theater , Philosophy , Robots , Gods , Afterlife , Dancing , Heterosexual , Meta , Band

Venus Senki

Also known as Venus Wars.

Studio: Shouchiku , Gakken , Triangle Staff , Sentai Filmworks
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 , War , Motorcycles , Military , Tanks , Fugitive , Male Protagonist , Politics , Female Protagonist

Neo Heroic Fantasia: Arion

Also known as Neo Heroic Fantasia Arion.

Studio: Sunrise , Tokuma Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Supernatural

In a far-flung time when Gods and Men walk the earth together, the child Arion plays in the rolling hills of Thrace. His mother Demeter is troubled by both a curse - blindness - and by the secret of Arion's birth. A mysterious stranger spirits Arion away, and seeks to shape the growing young man into an assassin, a secret weapon to tilt the balance of the war between Zeus and Poseidon. But Arion won't be manipulated easily, nor will he submit quietly to the hands of adversaries like the tenacious Ares, the intelligent and fierce Athena, or the elegant and scheming Apollo. Only his tremendous strength, a forgotten weapon forged by Prometheus, and the love and loyalty of his allies can carry Arion forward. To discover the secret of his destiny, Arion will have to storm Mount Olympus- and face down Zeus himself!



Tags: Gods , Swordplay , Magic , Historical , Anti-Hero , Revenge , Male Protagonist , Mythology , Seinen , Nudity , Gender Bending , Love Triangle

Maps

Also known as Maps.

Studio: KSS , Tokyo Movie Shinsha , ADV Films
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

While looking for the legendary Mapman, the last surviving member of the Nomad Star tribe, Lipumira finds him in Tokyo. His name is Tokishima Gen and he is the only one who can retrieve one part of the star map hidden within the Earth. After retrieving the piece, Gen must make a decision to either follow Lipumira in her foolhardy search to find the remaining pieces of the star map or rather stay on Earth. He decides to leave Earth, only to find out that his girlfriend has beaten him to the spaceship since she wants to come along as well. Unfortunately, as Gen learns the secret of the star map, Lipumira's sisters appear, planning to stop her at any cost.



Tags: Aliens , Space , Ships

MIDNIGHT EYE: Gokuu

Also known as Midnight Eye Goku.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Discotek , Toei Video , Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

Furinji Goku is a detective who has an “eye of god”.

While he was investigating the murder case of his colleague when he had been an officer, he was pressured to stop it by the police executives. However, he continue investigating, and he lost his left eye. When he was about to be killed, a mysterious group helped him and transplant an artificial eye. The eye was a super technological device that connected to the whole computer network in the world, and enabled him to control any computers.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Cyborg , Seinen , Monster Girl , Detective , Super Power , Primarily Adult Cast , Robots , Male Protagonist , Urban , Guns , Assassins , Suicide , Nudity

MIDNIGHT EYE: Gokuu II

Also known as Midnight Eye Goku II.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Discotek , Toei Video , Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Goku, the lone wolf private detective is back, contracted by Ryoko, a mysterious, beautiful and very afraid woman, to find and save her brother, Ryu. Will Goku be able to protect Ryoko from her step father`s soldiers long enough to find her brother? Meanwhile Ryu, the unfortunate subject of a military experiment gone bad, leaves a trail of bodies behind him and has no intention of being found or saved by anyone. Will Goku have to kill the man he is supposed to save? Will even his omniscient cybernetic eye and sceptre be enough to help him defeat this indestructible killing machine?



Tags: Cyberpunk , Detective , Super Power , Cyborg , Robots , Augmented Reality , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Memory Manipulation , Gore , Nudity

Lupin III: Lupin vs Clone

Also known as Lupin III: The Secret of Mamo.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Lupin, the master thief/spy/Jack of all Trades, has been executed, but he is still alive, and not even Lupin himself knows how that is possible. While trying to figure out, however, he and his gang are thrust into a conspiracy involving clones, Lupin's un-trustworthy rival Fujiko, and a miniature madman's plot to take over the world.




Tags: Foreign , Guns , Clone , Anti-Hero , Fugitive , Police , Crime , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Swordplay , Seinen , Nudity , Samurai , Body Horror