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Aggressive Retsuko

Also known as Aggretsuko.

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Some offices have stereotypical dynamics: the chauvinistic pig of a boss who never does any real work; the employees whose goal is to suck up to the boss; the ones whose lives seem perfect; and the individuals who have all the actual work pushed onto them. Retsuko the red panda is in the last group, as she stays late most nights to make up the work her coworkers are too lazy to do themselves.

Her relief from the stress of her everyday life comes in the form of singing death metal at a local karaoke club. Night after night, Retsuko channels her grief into a microphone and considers the place to be her own personal sanctuary. But as she moves further away from her comfort zone and the ideas people have of her, she discovers that letting others into her world of death metal may not be such a bad thing.

Tags: Work , Office Lady , Metal Music , Anthropomorphism , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Female Protagonist , Office , Animals , Chibi , Primarily Animal Cast , Flash , Unrequited Love , Rock Music

Nijusseiki Denki Mokuroku: Eureka Evrika

Also known as Sparks of Tomorrow.

Studio: Kyoto Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Romance

The novel takes place in the summer of 1907, the 40th year of the Meiji era. 15-year-old Inako Momokawa lives in the Fushimi area of Kyoto, and is the second daughter of a sake brewer. Nothing she does ever comes out right, and she receives a scolding from her father every day. Her only relief is the trust she places in her prayers to the gods. One day while at Fushimi Inari shrine, she meets a freewheeling young man named Kihachi Sakamoto. He rejects the gods, and boasts of the incoming age of electricity.

The topic of marriage suddenly comes up in Inako's household. Her father is one-sidedly making all the decisions for her, and Inako is about to give up hope. It is then that Kihachi draws out Inako's true feelings of wanting to run away from her family. The only way to stop her marriage is to find an unusual book called the "Electricity Catalog." The book is a prediction book about electricity that Kihachi wrote when he was a child, but his older brother Seiroku took the book, and its current whereabouts are unknown. Inako and Kihachi together go in search of the book across Kyoto and Shiga prefectures.



Tags: Steampunk , Yandere , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Boys' Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Teen Cast , Environmental , Tragedy , Arranged Marriage , Heterosexual , Educational , Crossdressing , Artificial Intelligence , Urban , Philosophy , War , Slapstick , Metal Music , Band , Animals , Bisexual , Yuri

Detroit Metal City

Studio: Studio 4°C
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music

Led by phallus-waiving terrorist-from-hell Johannes Krauser II (guitar/vocals,) and given pulsing, throbbing life by indestructible drummer Camus and bassist Alexander Jagi, Detroit Metal City is the hottest ticket on the concert circuit! There's just one catch. That "hottest ticket" is just a meal ticket, and beneath the makeup, these ultimate head-bangers are hired doppelgangers who don't even LIKE what they do! Jaggi is actually Wada, who wants to play glam rock; Camus is Nishida, an anime fan with an appalling weakness for curry and NSFW videos; and Krauser is... oh the shame... street-singing Soichi Negishi, whose dreams of singing happy pop hits seem hopelessly doomed by the success of his rage-fueled alter ego! Worse, he can't even tell anyone who Krauser is. Not even the girl he likes, who HATES DMC! Will rage against the corporate machine consume Negishi's tortured soul? Is there life after death metal? What it's like to put your head in a jet engine and turn up the volume?



Tags: Band , Surreal Comedy , Parody , Metal Music , College , Urban , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Gender Bending , Rural , Drugs

Aggressive Retsuko Season 2

Also known as Aggretsuko: Season 2.

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Red panda Retsuko continues to work at her cyclic office job, with the occasional stress-venting via death metal karaoke on the side. With the company of her newfound friends Gori and Washimi, life is more enjoyable than ever before. But some new shake-ups to her status quo threaten to add more stress to her life. At the office, new employee Anai seems like a fine addition to the company. Yet when Retsuko is placed in charge of his training, she finds that beneath his steadfast dedication, he may pose a threat to the stability of the workplace. Meanwhile, at home, Retsuko's mother pays an abrupt visit, fully intent on having her daughter finally settle down and find a man. With this in mind, she sets Retsuko up for various marriage appointments, much to her chagrin.

Now, Retsuko finds all the more reasons to head to the karaoke bar and unleash her furious diatribes. However, knowing that this will not truly solve her problems, she decides to make a more spontaneous choice to avoid her issues. And so, Retsuko finds herself set upon another self-reflecting journey, coming to learn more about herself and love, with the ever cathartic support of death metal karaoke.

Tags: Work , Anthropomorphism , Female Protagonist , Animals , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Office , Metal Music , Office Lady , Chibi , Love Triangle , Coming of Age , Primarily Animal Cast , Musical Theater , Unrequited Love , Heterosexual , Interspecies , Flash

BASTARD!!: Ankoku no Hakaishin (ONA)

Also known as BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-.

Studio: LIDENFILMS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Fantasy

In a postapocalyptic world of heavy metal fantasy, the only thing able to save humans from orcs, lizard men, and other monsters is something even MORE evil. Sealed within a 14-year-old boy, the chaotic wizard Dark Schneider is unleashed to fight four mighty generals and their plot to resurrect the evil god Anslasax.



Note: The first 13 episodes were released worldwide on Netflix on June 30, 2022, while the remaining 11 episodes released on September 15, 2022.

Tags: Magic , Heterosexual , Female Harem , Demons , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Anti-Hero , Post-Apocalyptic , Meta , Gore , Nudity , Revenge , Gods , Elf , Ninja , Age Regression , Martial Arts , Swordplay , Metal Music , Dragons , Bisexual , Vampire , CGI , Goblin , Anachronism , Age Gap

Aggressive Retsuko Season 3

Also known as Aggretsuko: Season 3.

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Retsuko’s rage rises another octave when she finds herself moonlighting with an underground idol group to pay off her debts.



Tags: Anthropomorphism , Female Protagonist , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Unrequited Love , Metal Music , Animals , Urban , Office Lady , Primarily Animal Cast , Idol , Chibi , Love Triangle , Flash , Gyaru , Heterosexual

BanG Dream! Ave Mujica

Also known as Ave Mujica - The Die is Cast -.

Studio: SANZIGEN
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Psychological

"Will you give me the rest of your life?"

After losing everything in a single night, Sakiko Togawa reaches out toward an even deeper abyss, one that will drag everyone around her down as well. Gathering the lives of girls burdened with their own troubles and desires, Sakiko raises the curtain on a perfect masquerade.

"Welcome to the world of Ave Mujica."

On a stage where sorrow, death, fear, love—even the solace of forgetting—are stripped away, will their masks be torn off and shatter into oblivion, or will they….



Tags: Band , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Dissociative Identities , Estranged Family , Metal Music , Full CGI , Yuri , Acting , Rock Music , Incest , Musical Theater , LGBTQ+ Themes , Disability , Ensemble Cast , Urban , Ojou-sama , Orphan , Anti-Hero , Adoption , Yandere , Kuudere , Tsundere

Aggressive Retsuko Season 4

Also known as Aggretsuko: Season 4.

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

The fourth season of Aggressive Retsuko.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Office Lady , Anthropomorphism , Female Protagonist , Urban , Animals , Chibi , Metal Music , Espionage , Primarily Animal Cast , Heterosexual , Interspecies , Konbini , Flash , Unrequited Love

Aggressive Retsuko

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

The show centers on Retsuko, a 25-year old red panda who works in her dream company's accounting department. But it turns out that she is forced to keep doing more and more impossible tasks by her superiors and co-workers. She doesn't talk back to them, but she still has to let off steam, so she ends up going to karaoke by herself and singing death metal.



Tags: Episodic , Work , Office Lady , Primarily Adult Cast , Animals , Chibi , Female Protagonist , Primarily Animal Cast , Office , Metal Music , Urban , Anthropomorphism , Satire , Flash

Aggressive Retsuko: We Wish You A Metal Christmas

Also known as Aggretsuko: We Wish You A Metal Christmas.

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Red panda Retsuko, worked to the bone, unleashes her frustration in the form of death metal. Lately, though, she's found another joy—getting the most likes possible on her Instagram posts. In fact, it is said that social media attention can release endorphins. As Christmas falls upon the city, Retsuko's hunger for validation only grows, pushing her to find new ways to embellish and sugarcoat her otherwise drab life for the internet to see.

Tags: Urban , Metal Music , Snowscape , Anthropomorphism , Work , Animals , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Animal Cast , Unrequited Love

Aggressive Retsuko Season 5

Also known as Aggretsuko: Season 5.

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

The fifth and final season of Aggressive Retsuko.

Tags: Anthropomorphism , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Chibi , Urban , Metal Music , Animals , Idol , Office Lady , Politics , Flash , Homeless , Primarily Animal Cast , Disability , Heterosexual , Interspecies , Video Games

BASTARD!!: Ankoku no Hakaishin

Also known as Bastard!!.

Studio: AIC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Fantasy

The characters in BASTARD!! have forsaken technology and have traded it in for magic and the occult arts. The story revolves around a group of five magicians who set out to rebuild their world after a rampaging God destroys it and tips it into chaos. Driven by their leader Dark Schneider, Gara, Arshes Nei, Abigail and Kall Su set out to conquer kingdoms in the hope of rebuilding them into utopias, with each of the magicians having their own personal agenda in doing so. However, Dark Schneider`s often reckless manner and short temper leads him to wreak havoc where ever he goes. He is trapped by a group of clerics in a baby boy, leaving the four without a leader.

Fifteen years later, the four still continue their quest but their motives have changed to despotic world domination, and it is up to Dark Schneider to show them the "error of their ways", when he is freed by the clerics who once imprisoned him, so that he may defend them against his former comrades. It has now become Dark Schneider`s responsibility to track down each one of his companions and set them on the right path again, but what seems to be the once reckless and amoral Dark Schneider has changed over his fifteen year imprisonment within the boy, Lucien Renlen.



Tags: Anti-Hero , Magic , Gore , Dragons , Nudity , Vampire , Elf , Heterosexual , Reincarnation , Tanned Skin , Meta , Age Gap , Gods , Shounen , Goblin , Ninja , Werewolf , Swordplay , Incest , Metal Music

BASTARD!!: Ankoku no Hakaishin - Jigoku no Chinkonka-hen

Also known as BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- Hell’s Requiem Arc.

Studio: LIDENFILMS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Fantasy

With the fall of Meta-llicana Castle and Dark Schneider, Kall-Su continues to terrorize Central Metallion Continent with the help of his Sorcerer Shogun.



Tags: Seinen , Magic , Gore , Male Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Gods , Ninja , War , Angels , Anti-Hero , Demons , Primarily Adult Cast , Reincarnation , Female Harem , Samurai , Nudity , Swordplay , Body Horror , Dissociative Identities , Dragons , Elf , Found Family , Heterosexual , Tanned Skin , Slapstick , Chibi , Vampire , Metal Music

Kachou Ouji

Also known as The Legend of Black Heaven.

Studio: AIC , APPP
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Music , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Ouji Tanaka has a wife, a child and a mundane job as a salary man in Tokyo's modern society. But life wasn't dull for him to begin with; 15 years ago, he was known as "Gabriel", leader of a short-lived heavy metal band called Black Heaven. Ouji's life gets a sudden change in direction when he is invited by a mysterious blonde woman named Layla to pick up his Gibson Flying V and once again display his "legendary" guitar skills, not knowing that his music generates power for a massive weapon in an intergalactic war.



Tags: Band , Family Life , Rock Music , Space , Male Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , War , Metal Music , Netorare , Rotoscoping , CGI , Nudity , Aliens

Haigakura

Also known as HAIGAKURA.

Studio: TYPHOON GRAPHICS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Nozomu wants to be a writer, but for now she's just trying to find the right story. Walking home from school one day she bumps into some guys, and even though it's an accident, they hassle her until she is saved by a mysterious man. His name is Ichiyou, and he is searching for Gods. Nozomu sends him along his way only to be approached by Tenkou, who is searching for his Master. Nozomu reunites Ichiyou and Tenkou; (and their abusive relationship), and gets a view of another world. The two men are on a journey to find the Gods. The world that was once supported by four evil Gods, has fallen to a crisis. Using song and dance, it is up to the kashikans to bring back the Gods which fled from their confinement…

Tags: Josei , Gods , Magic , Metal Music , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Achronological Order , Primarily Male Cast

Bananya: Fushigi na Nakamatachi

Also known as Bananya and the Curious Bunch.

Studio: Gathering
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

There are still many mysterious creatures in this universe that we don’t know about. On a distant planet, one mysterious species has come into existence. They are known as "Bananyas." What sort of planet do the Bananyas come from, and what sort of life do they lead? And what if they began to dream about coming to Earth someday?



Tags: Kids , Animals , Episodic , Chibi , Primarily Animal Cast , Coastal , Zombie , Robots , Ninja , Metal Music , Cowboys , Maids , Vampire , Food

Detroit Metal City: Birth of the Metal Devil

Also known as Detroit Metal City: Birth of the Metal Devil.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Romance

This is a special introductory episode of Detroit Metal City.

Tags: Parody , Band , Metal Music , Male Protagonist , Seinen

BanG Dream! Ave Mujica: prima aurora

Studio: NICHICALINE
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music

Tags: Band , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Rock Music , Primarily Teen Cast , Metal Music , Yuri , Full CGI , Musical Theater

Gokujou!! Mecha Mote Iinchou

Also known as The Best!! Extremely Cool Student Council President.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Mimi Kitagami is a kind, level-headed girl who aims to be the best, coolest student council president of her high school class. However, three trouble-making boys are always causing her grief — and she has a one-sided crush on one of the boys, Ushio Toujou.



Tags: School , Shoujo , Primarily Teen Cast , Makeup , Fashion , Ancient China , Mopeds , Advertisement , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle , Gyaru , Full CGI , Delinquents , Female Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Boys' Love , Matchmaking , Philosophy , Kingdom Management , Body Image , Crossdressing , Athletics , Teens' Love , Cars , Video Games , Gambling , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Tennis , Dissociative Identities , Metal Music , Tomboy , Football , Augmented Reality , Kemonomimi , CGI , Swimming , Mixed Media , Ghost , Conspiracy , Natural Disaster , Mountaineering , Agriculture , Photography , Age Gap , Autobiographical , Educational

Aggressive Girl

Also known as Aggressive Girl.

Studio: Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres:

Music video of OTMGirls feat. Aggretsuko performing the song 'Aggressive Girl'

Tags: Metal Music , Idol , Primarily Animal Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Adult Cast