Acquired Taste: These are titles which may take a while to get used to. As such, you should watch several episodes before making up your mind. FLCL, Di Gi Charat, & Serial Experiments Lain are examples of such titles.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
| A Traveller's Diary | Rent | See Aru Tabibito no Nikki |
| Aquatic Language | Rent | See Mizu no Kotoba |
 Aru Tabibito no Nikki |
Rent | This anime by Kunio Kato shows the surreal journey of a stranger, traveling on a Dali-like pig with giant legs and leading us in to an unconscious mixture of nightmare and dream. |
| Ashwing League | Buy | See Haibane Renmei |
| C | ||
| Charcoal Feathers Federation | Buy | See Haibane Renmei |
| F | ||
| Fille Révolutionnaire Utena | Buy | See Shoujo Kakumei Utena |
| H | ||
 Haibane Renmei |
Buy | A girl dreams of falling from the sky and a black-winged bird trying to prevent this. She awakens inside an enormous translucent cocoon. From outside the cocoon she can hear the excited chatter of young women preparing for her "arrival". When she emerges, these girls name her "Rakka" (falling) because of her dream. And so a strange new life begins for this new-born Haibane (Grey Wings) together with her new friends, living in their house named "Old Home", in the city of Guri that is surrounded by a huge wall... |
| M | ||
 Mizu no Kotoba |
Rent |
Several people are spending their evening in a cafe. Two gossipping girls, two debating men, a bookworm and a boy who just broke up with his girlfriend. The cafe's waitress starts a chat with him, persuading him to take a look at certain easel, while other customers begin to notice unusual things. |
| P | ||
 Paprika |
Watch |
A beautiful therapist Chiba Atsuko and a genius scientist Tokita Kosaku work for a psycho-medical institute. They invent a headset called a 'DC-mini'. It is an epoch-making device that allows them to enter a patient’s dream and enables them to interact with the patient’s inner world in order to cure him. However, one day, a DC-mini device goes missing, and is perhaps stolen. Since then the dreams of those patients participating in the project are being attacked one by one, and something is going wrong. Chiba Atsuko begins to investigate the matter. When using a DC-mini, she becomes the Dream Detective Paprika, who can synchronize with other person’s dream to guide them through their trauma. She finds herself fighting against a dream terrorist who uses a DC-mini that is strong enough to destroy one’s personality. Who is the 'criminal', and what is he after? When the manipulated dream crosses with the reality, the story goes into inner world no one ever seen, and it comes to a surprising end.... |
| R | ||
| Revolutionary Girl Utena | Buy | See Shoujo Kakumei Utena |
| S | ||
 Shoujo Kakumei Utena |
Buy |
Once upon a time there was a princess grieving over the deaths of her mother and father. Before this princess appeared a prince traveling upon a white horse. |
| T | ||
| The Diary of Tortov Roddle | Rent | See Aru Tabibito no Nikki |
| Y | ||
 Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou |
Watch |
In a near future world, global warming has brought many changes and the once bustling big city life has found a quiet peace in the abandoned and submerged harbors of a new land. The change has brought about a small town stillness and peace to Japan that was never present in the old times. A very charming A7M2 robot named Alpha has been left to tend a cafe in a quiet eddy of this new world. And along with her friends, Alpha enjoys the little things in life and watches the passage of the seasons until her owner returns. |
 Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou - Quiet Country Café |
Watch | In a near future world, global warming has brought many changes and the once bustling big city life has found a quiet peace in the abandoned and submerged harbors of a new land. The change has brought about a small town stillness and peace to Japan that was never present in the old times. A very charming A7M2 robot named Alpha has been left to tend a café in a quiet eddy of this new world. And along with her friends, Alpha enjoys the little things in life and watches the passage of the seasons until her owner returns. |
| Yokohama Shopping Trip | Watch | See Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou |
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