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DARKER THAN BLACK: Kuro no Keiyakusha

Also known as Darker than Black.

Studio: bones , Aniplex , Square Enix , Movic , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Myrica Music , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Sci-Fi

In Tokyo, an impenetrable field known as "Hell's Gate" appeared ten years ago. At the same time, psychics who wield paranormal powers at the cost of their conscience also emerged. Hei is one of the most powerful of these psychic agents, and along with his blind associate, Yin, works for one of the many rival agencies vying to unlock the mysteries of Hell's Gate.



Tags: Super Power , Anti-Hero , Crime , Noir , Urban , Assassins , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Terrorism , Urban Fantasy , Police , Espionage , Triads , Episodic , Kuudere , Gore , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Yakuza , Detective , Memory Manipulation , Mafia

Mnemosyne: Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi

Also known as RIN ~Daughters of Mnemosyne~.

Studio: Xebec , Genco , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Horror , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Rin Asogi is an immortal private detective with a thirst for vodka and a talent for attracting things that go bump in the night. In a series of nightmarish vignettes spanning sixty-five years, Rin's lush body is sadistically pierced, blown up, and mulched to a bloody pulp. The fiend behind her tortured existence is Apos, an eternal being obsessed with sacrificing Rin to Yggdrasil, the tree of all life. While Rin struggles to unravel the secrets of her endless agony, Apos lurks in the shadows, eager to tear into her ripe body and devour the memories of her countless lives. Rin's no stranger to the realm of the dead, but her next visit could last forever.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Cosmic Horror , Guns , Urban , Body Horror , Memory Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Amnesia , Gore , Time Skip , Torture , Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , Bisexual , Anti-Hero , Clone , Ero Guro , Detective , Large Breasts , Cyborg , Episodic , Dystopian , Virtual World , Age Gap , Cannibalism

Ergo Proxy

Also known as Ergo Proxy.

Studio: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Manglobe , WOWOW , Funimation , Sakura Create , Selecta Visión
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi

Something is wrong in the perfect domed city of Romdo. Between the sudden rash of murders and a virus affecting all AutoReivs-cyborg companions and workers who assist the people of Romdo - all is not right in their dome home. Detective Re-l Meyer begins to investigate, seeking answers to the weird occurrences that are happening more and more around her. But when she begins to uncover the truth, her world is turned upside down.

First, the strange immigrant Vincent Law goes missing and then a monster appears before her, shaking her to her core. But this monster is something more, something dangerous and sinister. With each question and mystery, she is led back to the creature. But what is it really? What purpose does it serve? A sign of the end or a sign of a new beginning? Whatever it is, it repeatedly brings her back to Vincent and soon, alongside his journey back to another dome world called, Mosk. As they make their way across scarred and deserted Earth, Re-l and Vincent will learn more about the monster and the "awakening"-which could be more of an ending than a beginning.



Note: Episode 1 received an advanced broadcast on channel WOWOW on February 5, 2006. The start date reflects the start of the regular series broadcasting.

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Philosophy , Dissociative Identities , Dystopian , Clone , Cyberpunk , Robots , Lost Civilization , Amnesia , Primarily Adult Cast , Conspiracy , Artificial Intelligence , Noir , Fugitive , Memory Manipulation , Travel , Female Protagonist , Found Family , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Angels , Denpa , Anti-Hero , Detective , Revenge , Pandemic , Heterosexual , Survival , Gods , Kuudere , Police , Guns , Coming of Age , Meta , Unrequited Love , Aviation

Gungrave

Also known as Gungrave.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

After a tragic scene with the murder of his friends, Brandon Heat follows his only friend Harry McDowel into Millennion, the largest mafia syndicate. While Harry McDowel is striving for power, Brandon is only staying in Millennion to see the girl he loves whose custody was gained by the leader of Millennion, Big Daddy. But as the years pass and Brandon proves loyal to Millennion, Brandon learns the true purpose and passion of Millennion, and that's when true conflict arises.



Tags: Crime , Mafia , Gangs , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Guns , Revenge , Primarily Adult Cast , Super Power , Primarily Male Cast , Zombie , Afterlife , Body Horror , Gore , Time Skip , Cyborg , Heterosexual , Age Gap

SKULL MAN

Also known as The Skull Man.

Studio: bones , diomedéa , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery

Otomo City: where freedom and justice have atrophied to the bone; where conspiracy rules the day and death stalks the night... Death in the form of the Skull Man, a literal Grim Reaper whose skeletal grin presages grisly mayhem and murder, even to the monstrous mutants that haunt the city's underworlds!

To investigate a bizarre slaying, journalist Minagami Hayato and photographer Kiriko Mamiya must stalk this ultimate predator, through a festering cadaver of a city where the corruption flows in rivers as deep and foul as the sins of the reigning elite, and unearth a secret so shocking that an entire city has been turned into a tomb to contain! In a nightmarish necropolis where nothing is as it seems, vengeance comes in the form of a living Death's-Head!



Tags: Religion , Anti-Hero , Dystopian , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Detective , Gore , Guns , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Police , Super Power , Seinen , Henshin , Tokusatsu , Motorcycles , Conspiracy , Shapeshifting , Military , Orphan

FLAG

Studio: Aniplex , The Answer Studio , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mecha

In the mountainous Asian country of Uddiyana a civil war rages. No end lay in sight for the war-torn nation until a lone photographer snapped an iconic image that would come to be known simply as "Flag." Hope arises as the many factions involved begin an approach to peace, rousing the call for a ceasefire behind the featured flag.

When an unknown guerilla sect steals this symbol of unity, a U.N. Special Development Command unit is dispatched using the latest in military technology, a transforming bipedal exoskeleton known as the HAVWC system. Recruited to document this mission is a war-time journalist, the author of the "Flag" photograph, Saeko Shirasu.

Witness the trials and triumphs of a peacekeeping taskforce behind the camera's view-finder as they take their first steps towards the recovery of the road to peace and discover the truth behind a struggle.



Tags: Military , Photography , Politics , Foreign , War , POV , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Real Robot , Meta

Witchblade

Also known as Witchblade.

Studio: GONZO , GDH , Funimation , SKY Perfect Well Think
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

Masane Amaha and her daughter Rihoko are on the run from a government child welfare agency that wants to take Rihoko away from her mother. They are caught and Rihoko is taken away. Meanwhile, Masane is attacked by an advanced weapon that can disguise itself as a human being. When faced with the danger, a strange light emits from her wrist and she transforms into a powerful being. She destroys the weapon and consequently becomes involved in a power struggle between powerful organizations, with her at the center of their attention. Because she holds the greatest power of them all, the legendary Witchblade.



Tags: Super Power , Family Life , Henshin , Parenthood , Amnesia , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , MILF , Tragedy , Natural Disaster , Ojou-sama

Chainsaw Man

Also known as Chainsaw Man.

Studio: MAPPA , Shueisha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita.

One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as "Chainsaw Man" — a man with a devil's heart.



Tags: Demons , Monster Boy , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Gore , Tragedy , Shapeshifting , Body Horror , Anti-Hero , Urban , Henshin , Psychosexual , Shounen , Coming of Age , Monster Girl , Primarily Adult Cast , Anthropomorphism , Heterosexual , Yakuza , Guns , Found Family , Assassins , Crime , CGI , Age Gap , Cannibalism , Homeless , Police , Revenge , Amnesia , POV , Nudity , Zombie , Angels

TEXHNOLYZE

Also known as Texhnolyze.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Group TAC , Funimation , Rondo Robe , Fuji TV , Pioneer LDC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

In a man-made underground society, descendants of a banished generation vie for control of the crumbling city of Lux. Ichise, an orphan turned prize fighter, loses a leg and an arm to satisfy an enraged fight promoter. On the brink of death he is taken in by a young woman doctor and used as a guinea pig for the next evolution of Texhnolyze. With his new limbs, Ichise is taken under the wing of Oonishi, a powerful leader of Organ, an organization with some hold on Lux. As Ichise is drawn deeper into a war for territorial control of the city, he learns of his possible future from the young girl prophet Ran, who guides him from the shadows in his darkest times. With the explosion of the warfare, Ichise must uncover the truth about Lux and fight for his survival as he realizes his destiny.



Tags: Dystopian , Cyberpunk , Philosophy , Noir , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Class Struggle , Survival , Mafia , Denpa , Post-Apocalyptic , Disability , Gangs , Crime , Male Protagonist , Cyborg , Guns , Terrorism , Amputation , Lost Civilization , Primarily Male Cast , Gore , Female Protagonist , War , Conspiracy , Cult , Suicide , Afterlife , Heterosexual , Drugs , Boxing

Kabukichou Sherlock

Also known as Case File nº221: Kabukicho.

Studio: Production I.G , DMM pictures , Mainichi Broadcasting System , KADOKAWA , Movic
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Psychological

The East Side of Shinjuku Ward … In the center of this chaotic neighborhood, the neon-lit Kabukicho district is expanding. Where light shines, there are also deep shadows. The curtain rises on this night stage where bizarre murders occurred! Is this suspense? No, comedy? An indistinguishable drama is about to begin….



Tags: Detective , Primarily Adult Cast , Police , Urban , Male Protagonist , Rakugo , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Crossdressing , Delinquents , Classic Literature , Bar , LGBTQ+ Themes