Classic/Action/Action Drama Titles

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Classic: (Style) Older anime titles, from the 80's back. As a rule of thumb, a title should at least be 10-years old.

Action: (Genre) Lots of shooting, explosions, and the like. Contains subcategories of more specific types such as "Gun-Action", "Martial Arts", and "Swordplay"; see also: "Fighting".

Action Drama: (Genre) Much like "Action" (lots of shooting, explosions, and the like) except it has "Drama" thrown in as well.

Title Rating Synopsis
A

Akira
Rent In yet another post-apocalyptic future, a young biker becomes the subject of a bizarre project known only as "Akira," apparently designed to bestow unstoppable pychic powers on youths, intended to be exploited as living weapons. Directed and created by OTOMO Katsuhiro.
B

Baburugamu Kuraishisu
Rent

Chronicles the battles of the Knight Sabers, a female band of mercenaries who take jobs that inevitably lead to their fighting "boomers", androids designed with military purposes in mind. Can these girls manage their careers and thier lives as Knight Sabers? Will Geneon stop making bad business decisions?

Bubblegum Crisis Rent See Baburugamu Kuraishisu
Bubblegum Crisis Mega-Tokyo 2032 Rent See Baburugamu Kuraishisu
C

Cho Jiku Yosai Macross
Buy The year is 1999 and a giant, unmanned, alien spaceship crashes on South Atalia Island. Humanity attempts to come together under a U.N. banner in order to learn the secrets of this alien ship and to rebuild it. After ten years of wars and construction, the ship is completed and called SDF-1 Macross. The celebration to launch this massive space ship includes showing off the latest fighter/mecha units in Earth's forces, created thanks to the technology of the crashed ship.
D

Dirty Pair
Rent Kei and Yuri are top agents for the World Welfare and Works Association (3WA). When they get sent to a trouble spot, the bad guys aren't the only ones in trouble! Still, as the 3WA's super computer is quick to point out, the "Lovely Angels" always get their man, and the collateral damage that results is never really their fault.

Dirty Pair Affair of Nolandia (OAV)
Avoid

After a mysterious crash of a space plane, Kei and Yuri have been to assigned to protect a young girl named Missiny (Missnie). When the arrive at the planet Nolandia, they find that the girl is already missing. Deciding to get to the bottom of her disappearance, the pair find themselves on the planet's bizarre forest, where many strange creatures live including unicorns and floating jellyfish. But when mecha forces arrive to find the girl for themselves, Kei and Yuri are running out of time. Complicating matters are the strange illusisions they keep having. What happened to Missiny? Why is she so special? What is the secret of Nolandia?


Dirty Pair Flight 005 Conspiracy (OAV)
Rent

Code named "Lovely Angels" but known as "Dirty Pair" to the rest of the galaxy, Yuri & Kei are assigned to a mysterious case. A space liner flight DCL005 has exploded in space apparently killing all aboard. Yet none of the reported 300 passengers families have filed an insurance claim. In addition to this case, WWWA's main computer has also assigned them a second case involving a missing scientist and his missing family. Why would 3WA's computer link these two cases? What really happened to flight DCL005? And how much destruction will Yuri and Kei cause before making this "case closed?"

Dirty Pair: Project Eden Rent See Dirty Pair: The Movie

Dirty Pair: The Movie
Rent

Yuri and Kei bust thieves attempting to sell stolen Vizorium, a rare metal that is used in warp cores. In the process, one thief gets away and an orbiting station ringed around the planet is destroyed. Undaunted, the pair move to find out the cause of a dispute between the cities of Edia (the miners of Vizorium) and Uldas (creators of the mining technologies). It seems that monsters have begun to attack facilities and no one knows for sure who's behind the attacks.

E
End of Eva Rent See Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
End of Evangelion Rent See Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Evangelion, The End of Rent See Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
G
Galaxy Express 999 (TV) See Ginga Tetsudo 999
Ghost in the Shell Rent See Koukaku Kidoutai
Genre
Action Comedy(2) Comedy(7) Cyberpunk(5) Drama(7)
Parody(1) Romance(1) Romantic Comedy(1) Tragedy(1)
Setting
Sci-Fi(19)
Demographic
Shounen(3)
Style
Acquired Taste(1) Surreal(1) Weird(1)
Keywords
Adventure(7) Animals(1) Artificial Girls(1) Computers(1)
Dark(5) Depression(1) Epic(2) Fan Service(2)
Fighting(2) Gun-action(1) High School(2) Mecha(8)
Music(1) Police(2) Psychics(1) Sequel(5)
Spinoff(1) Spiritual(1) Supernatural(1) Violent(4)
War(1)
Type
Movie(7) OVA(6) TV(9)
Release Year
1997(1) 1995(1) 1990(1) 1989(3) 1988(3) 1987(2) 1986(3) 1985(2)
1984(1) 1983(1) 1982(1) 1981(1) 1980(2) 1979(3) 1978(1) 1975(1)
1974(1) 1972(1) 1971(1)
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