Music/Modern Titles

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Music: (Story/Location) If a title deals with music as significant element of the story, and / or the lead characters are musicians and this is significant for their role in the story, then use this keyword. Idol Project is a story about the pop business, Aquarian Age is a story about a rock band, Rahxephon is about using music to 'retune the world' - they all belong into this category.

Modern: (Setting) These are titles which have a modern feel to them; the story takes place in the present day (of the creation of this anime), give or take a few years.

Title Rating Synopsis
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.hack Rent See .hack//SIGN

.hack//SIGN
Rent It's the near future, and there is only one video game, called "The World." In the virtual reality of "The World", all sorts of people play. However, once a character named Tsukasa is unable to log out, and weird events start happening, "The World" starts to seem much more mysterious than anyone ever thought.
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Ajimu Beach Story Rent See Ajimu Kaigan Monogatari

Ajimu Kaigan Monogatari
Rent One morning as 17-year-old Nakaido Hirosuke arrives at the train station on his way to high school, he catches sight of a beautiful girl, Ajimu Yasuna, and immediately falls for her - but has a bad start to say the least. Yet over time the two of them get to know each other and become friends, but he can't confess his feelings and she is unsure of hers: Yasuna's heart still holds the memory of her friend who left her two years ago. And then another girl makes her move towards Hirosuke...

Aquarian Age
Rent The amateur rock band T. L. Signal (featuring slob guitar player Shingo, know-it-all keyboarder Junichi, and quiet harmonica player/singer/songwr­iter Kyouta facing his upcoming school exams), is suddenly given a chance to make studio recordings and given radio air time, raising their popularity index for the girls significantly. Difficult times for Kyouta's girlfriend and college student Yoriko, and things get worse when she learns there's her own fate she has to follow... for the Age of Aquarius is dawning, and each of those five groups who used to live in the shadows until now will soon claim domination over mankind. Which doesn't stop several of the main characters to pursue their showbiz careers...
Aquarian Age - Sign for Evolution Rent See Aquarian Age
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BECK
Buy Yukio (also known as Koyuki) is somewhat of a fourteen-year-old loser. He's not very popular, athletic or musically talented. In fact he is so lame that his favorite musician is a canned-mainstream-te­en-idol singer. But when he gets reconnected with his childhood friend, Izumi, and meets up with the hip Ryusuke, a musician with connections to the very popular American Band, Dying Breed, his life gets turned around. In learning about rock-n-roll music, he quickly aspires to learn the guitar and gain a spot in Ryusuke's new band - Beck.
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad Buy See BECK
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Canary--Put This Feeling Into Song Watch See Kanaria--Kono Omoi o Uta ni Nosete
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Detroit Metal City (live action)
Negishi Souichi leaves his family's farm in Oita Prefecture for the bright lights of Tokyo. There he swaps his taste in music from Swedish pop for the totally out-of-character death metal, taking on the role of vocalist in a metal band called 'Death Metal City' and adopting the stage name: Johannes Krauser II.

Detroit Metal City (TV)
Buy Having moved from a rural part of Japan to attend a college in Tokyo, a shy and reserved Sōichi Negishi somehow gets caught up in the indie music scene. He ends up joining a (Kiss-like) metal band named "Detroit Metal City," under the stage name of "Johannes Krauser II.". He quickly proves his worth as the lead singer and a songwriter, but whenever he dons the Krauser costume, he becomes a completely different person – a loud vulgar monster yelling insulting profanities beyond anyone's imagination. As the popularity of DMC begins to rise, Negishi begins to worry about the mean-spirited Krauser personality and how it might affect his off-stage chances at romance.
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Full Moon wo Sagashite
Buy A comedy-drama about a 12-year-old girl named Kouyama Mitsuki who wants to be a pop singer even though she has throat cancer. Her life undergoes a drastic change after she's visited by a pair of Shinigami Takuto and Meroko (soul Reapers) who tell her she's only got a year to live. All that makes the girl's determination to become a singer even stronger, and her attitude drives the two Shinigami to feel sorry for her, thus they turn the girl into her own 16 year old future self and compeat for her dream to become a singer.
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Gravitation (2000) Buy See Gravitation TV

Gravitation TV
Buy "Never resign yourself to fate, even if cry and anger. It's so powerful that you can't resist. Unfair but feel top pleasure. The law of 'LOVE'"
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Hack Sign Rent See .hack//SIGN
Genre
Action(2) Comedy(10) Drama(12) Mystery(2)
Romance(12) Romantic Comedy(2) Suspense(1)
Setting
Fantasy(1)
Demographic
All Ages(1) Children(1) Josei(1) Kid at heart(1)
Shoujo(2) Shounen(1)
Style
Acquired Taste(2) Artistic(1) Kawaii(1) Silly-funny(1)
Surreal(1) Weird(1)
Keywords
Adventure(1) College(1) Coming of Age(1) Competition(1)
Computers(1) Dating Sim Spinoff(1) Epic(1) Fan Service(1)
Fighting(1) Friendship(3) Harem(1) High School(4)
Live Action(3) Magic(1) Mahou Shoujo(1) Middle School(1)
Music Oriented(1) Sequel(2) Shinigami(1) Shounen Ai(1)
Slice of Life(3) Soul Mates(1) Supernatural(2) Swordplay(2)
Time Travel(1) Video-game inspired(2) Violent(1) Vulgar(1)
Type
Movie(1) OVA(4) TV(13)
Release Year
2008(4) 2007(2) 2006(3) 2005(1) 2004(1) 2003(3) 2002(7) 2001(1)
2000(1) 1996(1)
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