Supernatural/Action/Mystery Titles

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Supernatural: (Story/Location) Titles of this category are relating to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universe (especially God, or a god, demigod, spirit or devil), departing from what is usual or normal (especially so as to appear to transcend the laws of nature or attributed to an invisible agent, like a ghost or spirit). Contains subcategories of more specific types: "Angels", "Deities", "Shinigami", and "Vampires".

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".

Mystery: (Genre) The old "who-done-it" type titles should go here.

Title Rating Synopsis
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Dead Girls (OVA)
Rent It's the future of New York. Kate, Rose, Rachel, and Claire lead normal high school student lives by day and serve as bounty hunting vigilantes by night, using their unique advantage. Louise, a new transfer student, comes to school; she strongly wants to be friends with Kate. Also, something happens to "Red Garden", the last vestige of nature left in the city, and a place that is said to be haunted. What is the truth behind this and it's real purpose?

Death Note (live-action movie #1)
Rent Yagami Light is a brilliant college student who, one day, finds a notebook simply titled "Death Note." Inside of this book is a list of rules and details as for the use of the "Death Note." When he realizes the power he holds, he decides he's going to make over the world. He wants to make it into a better place by killing those who do others harm. He has been nicknamed by the police "Kira." L, a brilliant detective who lives in secrecy, rises from the shadows and puts his life on the line trying to capture Light. Both L and Light believe themselves on the side of Justice, and the two match wits trying to show exactly which of them is "good" and which of them is "evil."
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Interlude
Buy For a close-knit foursome of high school friends, life is all about sleeping in class, strawberry milk, and after-class karaoke. However, our unnamed main protagonist is troubled by nightmares of death and disaster. Only when he begins to realize that his memories of people and events are different from those of Tamaki Maiko (named "Tama-chan" by her friends, "Mai-chan" by herself), Chimu and Harusa, his three female friends, does he begin to wonder. Later, when the waking dreams start.... a short moment of him seeing something that noone else sees....an attractive young lady, who stares back at him in amazement from an empty subway station, does he begin to wonder about his sanity. That evening, the four encounter and follow a shadow with no person, only to encounter a gang of stumbling zombies. And then he wakes up that morning from yet another bad dream, but the threads of reality have become a bit too frayed, and he begins to see a way in which he can travel over to the reality of his nightmares.
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Monster
The Japanese Neurosurgeon Dr Kenzo Tenma had everything going for him in his position as lead surgeon of neurosurgery at a hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany. His genius as a surgeon had attracted, not only, the attention of the director of surgery at the hospital, but also an engagement to a beautiful Eva, the director's daughter. On one fateful dark evening, he defies the instructions of the director to abandon his current patient, a 12-year-old gunshot victim, to an almost certain death and refuses to performs surgery to save the life of the town mayor. He does what does what he thinks a true doctor should do and his young patient survives, the mayor dies, and in his decision, he has ignored the politics at the hospital, sacrificing all of his successes.

Mousou Dairinin
Buy An elementary school kid who has worked hard to earn the title of "shounen bat" or "little slugger", but there is someone who is now going around attacking (apparent) strangers on the street at night with a golden baseball bat and has somehow been tagged with the same nickname. Are these two events related? Two police detectives who are tasked to investigate the attacks find themselves entangeled with more strangeness that any normal person might expect to encounter.
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Paranoia Agent Buy See Mousou Dairinin
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Yakushiji Ryoko no Kaiki Jikenbo
Watch The story revolves around Ryouko Yakushiji, a 27-year-old multilingual investigator that graduated from Tokyo University's elite Department of Law, and the bizarre cases she faces while working for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Yakushiji not only has to deal with supernatural beings in her line of work, but also her rival Yukiko Muromachi, another equally talented and beautiful police investigator.
Yakushiji Ryoko's Case File Watch See Yakushiji Ryoko no Kaiki Jikenbo
インタールード (Japanese) Buy See Interlude
デスノート (Japanese) Rent See Death Note (live-action movie #1)
デッドガールズ (Japanese) Rent See Dead Girls (OVA)
薬師寺涼子の怪奇事件簿 Watch See Yakushiji Ryoko no Kaiki Jikenbo
Genre
Comedy(1) Drama(3) Horror(4) Suspense(2)
Setting
Fantasy(3) Modern(2) Sci-Fi(2)
Demographic
Style
Creepy(2) Surreal(1) Weird(1)
Keywords
Adventure(2) Dark(2) Fighting(1) Friendship(1)
Live Action(1) Mecha(1) Occult(1) Police(2)
Video-game inspired(1)
Type
Movie(1) OVA(1) TV(3)
Release Year
2008(1) 2006(2) 2004(3) 2003(1)

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