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Studio: Kinema Citrus , Orange
Status: Finished

It is the year 2025, five years since devastating terrorist attacks put an end to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The UN has taken control of the former Olympic site on the edge of Tokyo Bay, placing it beyond Japan’s jurisdiction.

Hana Togetsu is a seventeen-year-old high school student who lives in the area. Not your typical teen, she belongs to a special unit run by the UN. Hana is sent on a mission as a transfer student to a public high school on Enoshima Island.

Her target: Shunichi Nanase, a boy in her class.

As Hana is about to make contact with her target, a middle-aged man appears at the school asking for Shunichi. The situation turns critical when the American military arrives at the school in pursuit of the man.

As the bloodshed escalates, another teenage girl begins to make her way to the island to break the deadlock.

Tags: Guns , Military , Tragedy , School , Female Protagonist , Assassins , Gore , CGI , Nudity

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Lycoris Recoil

Also known as Lycoris Recoil.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Aniplex , ABC Animation , BS11
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Slice of Life

“LycoReco” is a café with a traditional Japanese twist located in downtown Tokyo. But the delicious coffee and sugary sweets are not the only orders this café takes! From delivering packages short distances, to pick-ups and drop-offs on the lonely streets at night, to zombies and giant monster extermination…?! Whatever your problem, we're here to help! We will solve any kind of "trouble" you may have!

Waiting for you are the ever-smiling poster-girl and the cool, serious newcomer. A petite girl who never wants to work and a young woman approaching thirty who wants to get married. And the manager is a nice guy who’s obsessed with Japan!

Whatever your order is, leave it all up to us♪

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Crime , Guns , Assassins , Terrorism , Conspiracy , Urban , Found Family , Yuri , Work , Kuudere , Orphan , Espionage , Restaurant , Politics , LGBTQ+ Themes , Boys' Love , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Police , Bar , Parenthood

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AKIRA

Also known as Akira.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Funimation , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Kodansha , Bandai Entertainment , Toho , Madman Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Horror , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

It's the year 2019, thirty-one years have passed since the start of World War III. A top-secret child with amazing powers of the mind breaks free from custody and accidentally gets a motorcycle gang involved in the project. This incident triggers psychic powers within one of the gang members, Tetsuo, and he is taken by the army to be experimented on. His mind has been altered and is now on the path of war, seeking revenge on the society that once called him weak.

Tags: Cyberpunk , Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Super Power , Urban , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Delinquents , Body Horror , Urban Fantasy , Motorcycles , Anti-Hero , Conspiracy , Gangs , Military , Gore , Philosophy , Crime , Orphan , Politics , Mythology , Aliens , Nudity

Where to watch?

Hulu

Netflix

Tubi TV

Amazon Prime Video

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Kite Liberator

Also known as Kite Liberator.

Studio: Arms , Lantis , Media Blasters , Happinet Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

In the previous series "Kite", a killer -Sawa- suddenly disappears after she avenges her parents' death, and no one knows where she is.

Several years later, a figure dances airily on the dark side of a big city. She is an angel of death, killing her victim gracefully and disappearing.

Monaka is a normal high school student, though this quiet and modest life has a darker side. An angel of death is Monaka’s other persona.

Tags: Guns , Space , Crime , Assassins , Police , Noir , Work , Female Protagonist , Gore , Maids , Aliens , Nudity

Where to watch?

Crunchyroll

RetroCrush

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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

Where to watch?

Bilibili TV

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GHOST IN THE SHELL: Koukaku Kidoutai

Also known as Ghost in the Shell.

Studio: Production I.G , Bandai Visual , Kodansha , Manga Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological , Sci-Fi

2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of “The Puppet Master,” a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together with her fellow agents from Section 9, Kusanagi embarks on a high-tech race against time to capture the omnipresent entity.

Tags: Cyberpunk , Artificial Intelligence , Philosophy , Urban , Robots , Cyborg , Police , Primarily Male Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Noir , Dystopian , Crime , Guns , Espionage , Nudity , Gore , CGI

Where to watch?

Netflix

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MEZZO

Also known as Mezzo.

Studio: Arms , Sentai Filmworks , Happinet Pictures , Memory-Tech , Studio Pierrot
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Mikura, Kurokawa, and Harada are the 3 members of the Danger Service Agency (DSA). Mikura is the brawns of the group, Harada is the brains, and Kurokawa is just a bitter ex-cop that likes to think he's in charge. They'll take on any job as long as it involves lots of danger and, of course, money. If you want to live long enough to eat dinner, you better not cross them. Their biggest case, however, could prove to be finding out why someone wants Kurokawa assassinated.

Tags: Police , Guns , Martial Arts , Urban , Dystopian , Gangs , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Nudity , Gore , Revenge , Robots , Ghost , Aliens

Where to watch?

HIDIVE

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GUNSLINGER GIRL

Also known as Gunslinger Girl.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Marvelous Entertainment , Funimation , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

Officially, the Social Welfare Agency is a government sponsored corporation that's in the business of saving lives. In reality, it's an agency on the fringe of technology. They give terminal patients another shot at life using cybernetic implants. This conditioning process then shapes the patient into an efficient machine for handling all of the government's dirty work.

Tags: Guns , Assassins , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Terrorism , Cyborg , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Urban , Memory Manipulation , Seinen , Crime , Tragedy , Gore , Suicide , Tomboy , Mafia , Military , Tanned Skin , Episodic , Politics

Where to watch?

Crunchyroll

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Noir

Studio: Bee Train , Funimation , Victor Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery

Mireille Bouquet is a professional assassin, and a very good one at that. But when she follows up an e-mail from a young Japanese girl named Yumura Kirika, inviting her to take "a pilgrimage to the past", her life becomes even more dangerous than it already is. Now, with a haunting melody invoking the memory of an event long past, Mireille and Kirika decide to work together to find the truth about a thousand year old organization that has controlled both of their lives since before they were born. And the only clue in their search, the only thing Kirika remembers about herself, becomes their working codename: a name designating an ancient fate, of two maidens who reign over death--Noir.

Tags: Assassins , Guns , Noir , Foreign , Crime , Amnesia , Female Protagonist , Fugitive , Primarily Female Cast , Conspiracy , Revenge , Tragedy , Gangs , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Triads , Wrestling

Where to watch?

Crunchyroll

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Canaan

Studio: Lantis , P.A.WORKS , Pony Canyon , Magic Capsule , Sentai Filmworks , Bushiroad , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Oosawa Maria is a Japanese photographer currently working in Shanghai, China. Along with her partner Mino, she searches for potential newsworthy stories throughout the city. When strange events occur at a local festival, Maria and Mino immediately investigate. Quickly, the two are immersed in a battle between unknown masked men and a strange, white-haired woman. Just when Maria is about to be caught in the crossfire, an old friend by the name of Canaan appears and helps Maria escape. But a sinister plot over a deadly virus soon develops, and Canaan learns she must confront her past if she wants any chance at stopping the perpetrator and saving her friends.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Terrorism , Urban , Foreign , Assassins , Revenge , Politics , Super Power , Primarily Adult Cast , Guns , War , Ensemble Cast , Photography , LGBTQ+ Themes , Airsoft

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BAYONETTA Bloody Fate

Also known as Bayonetta: Bloody Fate.

Studio: GONZO , Q-Tec , Avex Entertainment , Sega Games , Toei Animation , Graphinica , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Supernatural

Based on the 2009 game, Bayonetta: Bloody Fate follows the story of the witch Bayonetta, as she defeats the blood-thirsty Angels and tries to remember her past from before the time she awoke, 20 years ago. Along her side are a mysterious little girl who keeps calling her "Mummy", a journalist that holds a personal grudge against Bayonetta and a unknown white-haired woman who seems to know more than she is willing to reveal about Bayonetta's time before her sleep.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Witch , Demons , Amnesia , Guns , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Super Power , Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , Video Games , Nudity , Bar , Motorcycles

Where to watch?

Amazon Prime Video

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