Dark: (Style) Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for this category.
Action Drama: (Genre) Much like "Action" (lots of shooting, explosions, and the like) except it has "Drama" thrown in as well.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
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 Alive - Saishu Shinka teki Shonen |
Taisuke Kanou is your average 16-year-old student. He has two close friends, Hirose and Megumi. Hirose has trouble with bullies, but Taisuke is always there to defend him, even though he just winds up getting beaten instead of Hirose. During class one day, Taisuke is hit by something unworldly and for that split second, he sees a vision of the universe. As he's walking home from school, he sees a girl fall and die if front of him, but his first thought is jealousy. He later finds out that the strange sensation that hit him is spreading throughout Japan. Those who are struck by it either commit suicide or "evolve," but the "evolved" usually have dark intentions for the rest of the world. (summary from ANN) |
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| A | ||
| A Traveller's Diary | Rent | See Aru Tabibito no Nikki |
 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. |
| Alive - Last Evolutionary Boy | See Alive - Saishu Shinka teki Shonen | |
| Alive - Saishū Shinka teki Shōnen | See Alive - Saishu Shinka teki Shonen | |
 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. |
| B | ||
 Bleach |
Buy |
Kurosaki Ichigo is not your ordinary 15 year old, because he has always had the ability to see and interact with those spirits and ghosts that remained behind and are hidden to ordinary people. And one fateful day, a female Shinigami (soul reaper) named Kuchiki Rukia appears before him as she is hunting for an evil spirit. During the confrontation with the daemon, both Ichigo and Rukia are seriously injured, and Rukia has to transfer her powers to Ichigo to assist him in defeating the evil Hollow. But in doing so, she loses all of her power and she now expects Ichigo to continue in her task of fighting and defeating those fallen spirits whom she calls Hollows, who exist only to devour other innocent souls. |
 Boukyaku no Senritsu |
Buy |
Over a hundred years have passed since humanity lost the war to a strange race of beasts that they call Monsters. The remaining survivors live in constant terror, fear and denial, as they are forced to offer their children in tribute to appease and feed the needs of their inhuman Monster conquerors. But not all of humanity has surrendered completely. A small group called the warriors of Melos still fight on, inspired only by a vision of a young lady known as the 'Melody of Oblivion', remembering an almost forgotten legend that if she is found and freed, then the monsters can be defeated. |
| D | ||
 Devilman Lady |
Fudo Jun is a beautiful supermodel who is idolized by many. She also has a dark secret that not even she knows about at first, for within her veins run the genes that hold the next step in the evolution of mankind. The same blood as the beastlike superhumans that terrorize the city. Unlike the rest of them, though, Jun has managed to hold a tenuous grip onto her humanity, and she is recruited by the mysterious Asuka Ran, member of a secret organization within the government, aimed at controlling, if not eliminating, these berserk destroyers of mankind. Jun, as Devilman Lady, must now exterminate her own kind, but how much longer can she keep her sanity in a situation she never chose in the first place? |
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| G | ||
| Gekijouban Kara no Kyoukai | Rent | See Kara no Kyoukai |
 Gosenzo San-E |
Buy |
Gen, looking exactly like Tenchi minus the ponytail, has just lost his mother. As such, his grandmother and head of the Hiraga clan has him move in with her and her mysterious maid Beth on their estate in rural Japan. Jennifer Collins is an American grad student researching the Hiraga clan curse that kills its family members at a young age, all except for Gen's grandmother. Add to the mix a teacher who looks very much like Gen's mother, the school nurse who "instructs" girls sexually, and the nurse's daughter who's Gen's classmate and embarrassed over her mother's actions and you've got an errie yet interesting story. What is Aqua Permanence? Does it provide long life? And why does Beth think Gen has it? |
| H | ||
 H2O: Footprints in the Sand |
Rent |
A boy, Hirose Takuma, was traumatized by the death of his mother during his childhood. To rehabilitate, he transfers to the school in his mother's hometown, where he meets three girls: |
| Hell Girl | Buy | See Jigoku Shoujo |
| Hell Girl - The Two Prisoners | Buy | See Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori |
| Hell Girl Second Cage | Buy | See Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori |
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