Acquired Taste: (Style) These are titles which may take a while to get used to. As such, you should watch several episodes before making up your mind.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
| A Girl in Gaea | Rent | See Escaflowne: A Girl in Gaea |
 Ayashi no Ceres |
Rent | Twin brother and sister Aki and Aya Mikage are about to celebrate their 16th birthdays. Earlier on, Aya had visited a psychic and was told the fated day when the moon and stars of 16 would meet is coming, and that all hell and doom would break loose. Mysteriously their grandfather invites them over for a "birthday party" and gives them a gift which brings out new powers. Now suddenly the entire Mikage family wants Aya killed since "she will bring them nothing but harm." Aki is no longer allowed to see Aya. Along with that, an ancient legend of a Tennyo (girl from the heavens) is said to have come down to Earth and bathed in a river. A nearby fisherman spotted her and stole her hagoromo (feathered robe) that was hanging on a tree nearby. Without it she could not return to her home in the heavens, and was forced to marry the man and have his children. |
| B | ||
 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-te |
| Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad | Buy | See BECK |
 Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru |
Avoid |
This is a very taboo story about incest and love between twins. Yori`s attitude has changed. He and his twin sister, Iku, used to be inseparable as children, but lately Yori`s been different -- eager to be apart from Iku. Iku worries that he hates her, but the truth is far more scandalous. Now, Yori would risk losing everything to have his little sister. Iku loves her big brother enough that she would never risk losing him, and so she`ll do what it takes to keep them together... but Yori doesn`t want to have her that way -- as a sister dedicated to her twin. Can Iku ever love Yori not as a brother but as a man? |
| C | ||
| Ceres, Celestial Legend | Rent | See Ayashi no Ceres |
 Chou! Kuse ni Narisou |
Avoid | Ranma 1/2 wanna be |
| E | ||
 Elfen Lied |
Rent | Kouta has moved back to his childhood town to start his first year in college, and his female cousin, Yuka, has set him up to live in a big ten-room vacant house. Later on that night, the two encounter a naked girl with horns wandering on the beach. She appears to be very innocent and very helpless, so Kouta takes it upon himself to take her home to keep her safe, unaware that his guest has just escaped from an experimental lab and that both the police and military are searching for her, with orders to shoot on sight. |
| Elven Song | Rent | See Elfen Lied |
| Escaflowne the Movie | Rent | See Escaflowne: A Girl in Gaea |
 Escaflowne: A Girl in Gaea |
Rent | A girl named Hitomi is very depressed and drops out of her school clubs and off the track team. She feels alone and desperately wants to be left alone, so much so that she hurts her best friend in the process. Her feelings reach Folken, the leader of the Black Dragon clan on the planet Gaea and he summons her, seeing her as the Goddess of Wings. Unfortunately for him, she ends up with his brother Van and causes the legendary dragon armor Escaflowne to come to life. Trapped on this strange world, Hitomi must learn to let others in and help those around her to do the same. Is she the Goddess of Wings as fortold in prophecy? Will she be the cause of the destruction of Gaea? Will she ever go home again? |
| Escaflowne: The Movie | Rent | See Escaflowne: A Girl in Gaea |
| F | ||
| Fille Révolutionnaire Utena | Buy | See Shoujo Kakumei Utena |
| G | ||
 G-on Riders |
Rent |
In a near future time when alien attacks have become a common event, a secret (Japanese) organization called the GRA (GRAND RIFUREKUTO AMUDO, Grand Reflect Armor) has developed a very effective defense. Using a technology developed by Dr Sanada Mio, which she calls the 'G-On', certain young students wearing glasses (hence the "G" in the title) are able to harness their strong feelings and manifest those abilities and weapons that prove effective against the alien attacking units. The GRA has sponsored an elite high school to help identify and develop the students who have this ability in the hopes that they can defend not only Japan, but also the earth from the alien invaders. |
| G-on らいだーす (Japanese) | Rent | See G-on Riders |
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